Some of it's funny, some of it's serious, but it is definitely worth reading!! If I find more than five by the same person, I will put them on a page by themselves. These are now in alphabetical order.
Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. --African Proverb
Far away, there in the sunshine, are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead. --Alcott, Louisa May
You'll have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself. --Alda, Alan
Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares that will not withdraw from us. We need hours of aimless wandering or spates of time sitting on park benches, observing the mysterious world of ants and the canopy of treetops. --Angelou, Maya
Everyone needs something to believe in. --Angels in the Outfield
Come to the edge, he said. They said: We are afraid. Come to the edge, he said. They came, he pushed them...and they flew. --Apollinaire, Guillaume
Aerodynamically the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. --Ash, Mary Kay
A religion that is small enough for our understanding would not be large enough for our needs. --Balfour, Alfred
You can love a person deeply and sincerely whom you do not like. You can like a person passionately whom you do not love. --Benson, Robert Hugh
Your hands have made me, and fashioned me, give me understanding that I may learn Your commandments. --The Bible, Psalm 119:73
If I take the wings of the dawn, if I settle at the farthest limits of the sea, even there Your hand shall guide me, and Your right hand shall hold me fast. --The Bible, Psalm 139:9-10
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend. --Camus, Albert
Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple. --Ceran, C.W.
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. --Chinese Proverb
To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice. --Confucius
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. --Curie, Marie
He is a good man, means well, and works hard. Unfortunately, he would not be able to get a clue if he went out into a field full of horny clues during clue mating season, smeared his naked body with clue musk, and danced the ritual clue mating dance. --Douglas, Ian
The smallest good deed is better than the grandest invention. --Duguet
What's the point of quitting when you're playing with a loser? --Eker, Jan
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us. --Emerson, Ralph Waldo
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success. --Emerson, Ralph Waldo
The woods were made for the hunters of dreams, the brooks for the fishes of song. --Foss, Sam Walter
Well done is better than well said. --Franklin, Benjamin
Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. --Frost, David
In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life: It goes on. --Frost, Robert
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. --Gibran, Kahil
If you treat an individual as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be. --Goethe
In her starry shade of dim and solitary loveliness, I learn the language of another world. --Gordan, George
May you see with the eyes of light in ever dark, may your mind walk free and unfettered amongst all, touching wisely and well, may you go in peace. But wait for me, beloved. --Greeno, Gayle "Mindspeaker's Call"
I am only one. But still, I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can still do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do. --Hale, Edward Everett
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul--the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. --Hill, Napoleon
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. --Hugo, Victor
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. --Jefferson, Thomas
Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time. --Kierkegaard, Soren
Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am 75 and not truly have lived. --King, Jr., Martin Luther
If a man is to be called a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well. --King, Jr., Martin Luther
Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day. --Koch, Sally
The worst thing in your life may contain seeds of the best. When you can see crisis as an opportunity, your life becomes not easier, but more satisfying. --Kogel, Joe
...the wise man looks into space and does not regard the small as too little, nor the great as too big; for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions. --Lao-tse
A true friend is one whoe overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes. --Larson, Doug
It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves. --Lewis, C.S.
I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled in dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. Man's chief purpose is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. --London, Jack
Too much sanity may be madness, and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be. --Man of La Mancha
We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere. --McGraw, Tim
The voice is the language of the body, but music is the language of the soul. --Nance, George
Dreams are nothing more than wishes and a wish is just a dream you wish to come true. --Nilsson, Harry
Everything starts as someone's daydream. --Niven, Larry
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. --Parton, Dolly
If a man does his best, what else is there? --Patton, General George S.
Give me an army of West Point graduates and I will win a battle...give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I will win a war. --Patton, General George S.
God has written his law in our hearts, by which we are taught and commanded to love and help and do good to one another. --Penn, William
What we see and what we seem is but a dream within a dream. --Poe, Edgar Allen
For tomorrow, I offer no answers. For yesterday, I hold no apologies. This moment is a gift. I will honor it with the integrity of living it. --Radmacker, Mary Anne
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. --Roosevelt, Eleanor
We went and sat in a certain beech-wood on a hill, a place of extraordinary beauty looking like an early Gothic cathedral, and with a glimpse of distant views in all directions. The morning was fresh and dewy, and I began to think that perhaps there might be happiness in human life. --Russell, Bertrand
We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever. --Sagan, Carl
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere. --Sagan, Carl
...We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the world. --Schreiner, Oliver
Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons and daughters of earth. We did not weave the web of life; we are merely a strand in it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves... --Chief Seattle
In a world where steel can overcome honor, history is written by the victor, studied by the defeated, and forgotten by the rebellious. --Shizue, Doji
Life is not a brief candle for me. It is a sort of splendid torch that I have got hold of for the moment. --Shaw, George Bernard
There's no thrill in easy sailing when the skies are clear and blue; there's no joy in merely doing things which any one can do. But there is some satisfaction that is mighty sweet to take, when you reach a destination that you thought you'd never make. --Spirella
If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend. --Stone Temple Pilots
It is a far, far better thing that I do than I have ever done. It is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known. --Tale of Two Cities, A
To keep a lamp burning, we must keep putting oil in it. --Mother Teresa
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered - forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish ulterior motives - be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win some false friends and true enemies - succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you - be honest anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight - build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they will be jealous - be happy anyway. The good you do today, people will forget tomorrow - do good anyway. Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough - give it your best anyway. You see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and the world anyway. --Mother Teresa
Smile...you should smile more often. You're beautiful when you smile. --Thomson, James
Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself. --Tolstoy, Leo
We had the sky, up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made, or only just happened... --Twain, Mark
I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man. --Tzu, Chuang
If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires. --Van Buren, Abigail
Today gives us a chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars. --Van Dyke, Henry
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? --Van Gogh, Vincent
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. --Wharton, Edith
Memory is the diary we all carry about with us. --Wilde, Oscar
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you. --Winnie the Pooh
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