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Happiness sometimes sneaks in through a door you did not know you left open.
Success - all it takes is all you've got.
I dreamed of a wedding of elaborate elegance...
A church filled with flowers, and friends, and beautiful music...
I asked him what kind of wedding he wished for...
He said one that would make me his wife.
God did not take Eve from Adam's head, to be above him,
or from his feet, to be below him,
but from his rib, to be near his heart and walk beside him.
When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.
There is no 'I' in 'team'.
Today is a gift, that's why it's called the present.
Some minds are like concrete - all mixed up and permanently set.
Keep your eye on the ball
Keep your shoulder to the wheel
Keep your nose to the grindstone
Now try to work in that position.
Pray like it's your last day
Forgive and ask forgiveness as if it's your last minute,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Dance and sing like nobody's looking.
There are no problems, just challenges.
I can't promise you tomorrow, but I promise you'll never regret today.
Dream like you're going to live forever;
Live like you're going to die today.
If you don't know where you're going, then any road will take you there.
I cannot be everything to everyone... I just hope that I am something to someone.
Love me and I'll love you back. Hate me and I'll still love you. You can either accept my love, or you can try to make me hate you - impossible! I dare you to prove otherwise.
A friend is someone who helps you move. A real friend is someone who helps you move a body.
*Smile* 'Cause you never know who could be falling in love with your smile.
To the world you're just one person, but to one person you're the world.
You know it's love when you can't fall asleep because the reality is better than your dreams.
I have not lost my mind - it's backed up on disk somewhere.
My karma ran over your dogma.
The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
You can't change the past, but you can a ruin a perfectly good present worrying about the future.
Flexible people don't get bent out of shape.
Friends are God's way of taking care of us.
Don't burn bridges that you might want back someday.
You can give without loving, but you can't love without giving.
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
After saying your prayers at night, you have to get up the next day and do something to try to make them come true.
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
If Columbus had turned back, no one would have blamed him.
No one would have remembered him, either.
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
If you don't like someone, walk a mile in their shoes,
'cause you will be a mile away from them and have their shoes!
Rap is to music as art is to an Etch-A-Sketch!
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
You have to become the kind of person you want to be with.
When a pessimist has nothing to worry about, he worries about why he has nothing to worry about.
God loves me the way that I am, but He loves me too much to leave me like this.
We crucify today with two thieves - the thief of yesterday and the thief of tomorrow.
Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shut off the burglar alarm - it was gone!
Real love stories never have endings.
If you don't climb the mountain, you can't see the view.
Faith makes things possible, not easy.
I would like to have kids someday but I have to have a date first.
Don't weep because it's over, smile because it happened.
It is better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all.
Love is not necessary to life, but it's what makes life worth living.
Every little girl is a princess, but sometimes that little girl needs to be reminded.
Love is a well you drink from often but only fall into once.
It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone - but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.
No guy is worth your tears, but the one who is won't make you cry.
Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
Opportunity merely knocks - temptation kicks the door in!
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
Any idiot can get through a crisis. It's the day-to-day living that wears you out.
Reach down and lift others up. It's the best exercise you can get.
The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television.
Your companions are like the buttons on an elevator.
They will either take you up or they will take you down.
The only thing more obnoxious than a wise guy is a wise guy who turns out to be right.
If you live your life out of memory, you live out of your history. That's what once was. If you live life out of your imagination, you live out of your potential. That's what can be.
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men, and the love of little children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who has left the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who has never lacked appreciation of Earth's beauty or failed to express it; who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had; whose life was an inspiration; whose memory a benediction.
Creativity is not a spectator sport.
We are only young once, but we can be immature indefinitely.
Dear Lord...
Please put your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth.
Love may not make the world go around, but it sure makes the trip worthwhile.
If you want to be well-liked, never lie about yourself - and be careful when telling the truth about others.
Love is 3/4 dream and 1/4 reality. Problems usually arise when you fall in love with the dream and not the reality. You find love when you fall in love with both.
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
Life advice:
Love always with passion
Live always with compassion
and no matter what,
always remember to appreciate the beauty around you.
Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.
The world is run by 'C' students.
It's not that I can't live without you, it's just that I don't even want to try.
The hardest thing in the world is spending every day close to someone you'll never be close to.
I never stopped loving you, I just stopped letting it show.
You do not love someone because they are beautiful; they are beautiful because you love them.
Don't live in the past... you have already been there.
Enemies are made, not born.
Where there's a will, there's a relative.
Easy Street is always under construction.
Don't worry about what's ahead. Just go as far as you can go - from there you can see farther.
Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.
If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.
Funny thing about kindness. The more it's used, the more you have of it.
The Bible has a word to describe "safe" sex. It's called marriage.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.
When criticized, consider the source.
Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish one's growth without destroying one's roots.
What is this weren't a hypothetical question?
The first person who has to believe in you is you.
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other.
Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
Sometimes you get shown the light
In the strangest of places
If you look at it right
The horns are only there to hold up the halo.
If you weather the storm, you'll reach the port.
What isn't tried won't work.
Do it. Do it right. Do it right now.
Silent and listen are spelled with the same letters!
Someone once said that good leaders take a little more than their share of the blame and a little less than their share of the credit.
What we can easily see is only a small percentage of what is possible. Imagination is having the vision to see what is just below the surface; to picture that which is essential, but invisible to the eye.
The imagination equips us to see a reality we have yet to create.
Success is not purchased at any one time, but on the installment plan.
Don't use a big word when a diminutive one will suffice.
A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An expiremental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
You cannot do a kindness too soon, because you never know how soon it will be too late.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
When you find a dream inside your heart don't ever let it go...
For dreams are the tiny seed from which tomorrow's grown.
The greatest risk is not taking one.
You may not know all the answers, but you probably won't be asked all the questions, either.
Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
If you want to avoid traffic, get on the road to success.
Habit starts out as a thread. As new threads are added, it becomes a rope we cannot break.
Bad habits are like a comfortable bed... easy to get into, but hard to get out of.
Whatever your cross, whatever your pain,
There will always be sunshine after the rain,
Perhaps you may stumble, perhaps even fall,
But God is always there to help you through it all.
Don't wish upon a star... reach for one!
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
Worry doesn't help tomorrow's troubles, but it does ruin today's happiness.
There are two ways to reach the top of an oak tree - you climb it or sit on an acorn and wait.
Some people are so indecisive that their favorite color is plaid.
Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lesson after.
If you want to feel rich, just count the things money can't buy.
Words are the most powerful drug used by mankind.
The right word spoken at the right time sometimes achieves miracles.
Studies show that 92.34% of all statistics are fabricated.
We live in a world where lemonade is made from artificial flavoring and furniture polish is made from real lemons.
The best substitute for experience is being sixteen years old.
A coincidence is when God chooses to remain anonymous.
Amateurs practice until they get it right.
Professionals practice until they can't get it wrong.
Don't point a finger, lend a hand.
No sense being pessimistic. It wouldn't work anyway.
If you have a lot of troubles you want to forget for several hours, simply wear a pair of brand new, tight shoes to a reception where there are no chairs.
Learn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly.
Some roads are not meant to be traveled alone.
If it was going to be easy to raise kids, it never would have started with something called labor.
Don't let success go to your head or failure go to your heart.
Never let yesterday use up too much of today.
It's not important who you are but Whose you are.
An open mind is good, so is an open window; but you put a screen on it to keep the bugs out.
When God buries the hatchet, He doesn't leave the handle above the ground.
A teacher should know more than he teaches, and if he knows more than he teaches, he will teach more than he knows.
The reason most people fail instead of succeed is that they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.
Never be afraid to try something new. Remember - amateurs built the ark; professionals built the Titanic.
Backbone beats wishbone every time.
Life is easier than you think.
All you have to do is:
Accept the impossible,
Do without the indispensable,
Bear the intolerable, and
Be able to smile at anything.
You can't risk what you don't have and you can't have what you won't risk for.
Not what we gain, but what we give measures the worth of the life we live.
People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.
If you don't like what you're getting, change what you're doing.
May today there be peace within you.
May you trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
Love grows best when watered daily with kind words.
Some people make the future; most wait for the future to make them.
Much wisdom can be crowded into but four words:
In God we trust. This too shall pass. Live and let live. Still waters run deep. Bad news travels fast. Love laughs at locksmiths. Nothing succeeds like success. Charity begins at home. Politics make strange bedfellows. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Man proposes, God disposes. Let sleeping dogs life.
To dream anything that you want to dream -
that is the beauty of the human mind.
To do anything that you want to do -
that is the strength of the human will.
To trust yourself to test your limits -
that is the courage to succeed.
Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.
If I dwell on what I don't want, I'll get more of it.
Fear and God do not occupy the same space.
I'd rather be in Paris.
My other home is in Paris.
He's the kind of guy who lights up a room just by flicking a switch.
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that crushes it.
The darkest hour is only sixty minutes.
Words don't break bones, but they can break hearts.
It is the artist's calculated risk... like the candle you can burn for so long... you can cause it to burn brighter, but it will also burn faster... still, I'd rather do that than flicker dimly in a corner.
If you open your mind too much, your brain will fall out.
Preach the gospel at all times. Use words if necessary.
Life is not numbered by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
Listen to your heart when your mind is not clear, but listen to your mind when your heart is broken.
Some mistakes are too much fun to make only once!
Living on Earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around the sun every year.
If Wal-Mart is lowering prices every day, how come nothing is free, yet?
Good leaders guide the willing and persuade the stubborn.
The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right traveling companion.
English is German spoken with a French accent and a vocabulary from all over the world.
The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
Preach the gospel at all times. Use words if necessary.
Love is like war - easy to begin but hard to stop.
A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
A stitch in time would have confused Einstein.
Fear is nature's way of testing you to see if you are serious about your goals.
If you think my hands are full, you should see my heart!
I didn't fight my way to the top of the food chain to eat vegetables.
Life is too short to spend it with people who annoy you.
Be an organ donor; donate your heart to God.
If you can't win, make the fellow ahead of you break the record.
You know the world's gone mad when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the USA of arrogance, and the Germans don't want to go to war.
An effective way to deal with predators is to taste terrible.
If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it.
I am not a human being having a spiritual experience; I am a spiritual being having a human experience.
The door to opportunity is marked "push."
Find reasons to do the important things, instead of reasons not to do them.
Risk, experiment, and don't forget to have some fun while you are at it.
I may always be late, but I'm worth the wait!
To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out for another is to risk involvement.
To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self.
To place your ideas, your dreams, before a crowd is to risk their loss.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To live is to risk dying.
To hope is to risk failure.
But risks must be taken.
Because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
If you risk nothing and do nothing, you dull your spirit.
You may avoid suffering and sorrow,
But you cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love, and live.
Chained by your attitude, you are a slave.
You have forfeited your freedom.
Only if you risk are you free.
Knowing the truth and living the truth are two different things.
I have the body of a god. Unfortunately, it’s Buddha.
Live your life the way you want,
Laugh when you can, and
Love every single day of your life.
Some pursue happiness - others create it.
A good friend will come and bail you out of jail... but a true friend will be sitting next to you saying “Damn, that was fun!”
Maybe there isn’t such a thing as the perfect girl or perfect guy. Just two people that are perfect for each other.
Well done is better than well said.
Anyone can hit bottom - but can you bounce back?
Don't be afraid to go on an occasional wild goose chase.
That's what wild geese are for.
Why do we teach music
Not because we expect you to major in music. Not because we expect you to play and sing all your life. Not so you can relax. But... so you will be human. So you will recognize beauty. So you will be sensitive. So you will have something to cling to. So you will have more love, more compassion, more gentleness, more good, in short, more life. Of what value will it be to make a prosperous living unless you know how to live?
That is why we teach.
Love hurts when you break up with someone. It hurts even more when someone breaks up with you but it hurts the most when the person you love has no idea how you feel.
There's one thing I won't do, die for you. Dying is like giving up. I'd fight until I couldn't fight anymore beacuse I love you too much to give up.
Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for oneself.
A dream is a wish your heart makes -- when you're fast asleep.
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into the nest.
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
There's no free tuition in the school of experience.
I've seen Elvis. He was sitting next to Bigfoot on the UFO.
When life gives you lemons, keep 'em, because hey, free lemons. :-)
If a kiss was a snowflake, I'd send you a blizzard.
Love is the doorway through which the human soul passes from selfishness to service and from solitude to kinship with all mankind.
When you come to the edge of all that you know, you must believe one of two things: there will be earth upon which to stand, or you will be given wings to fly.
Men love with their eyes; women love with their ears.
Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.
Women are like apples on trees. The best ones are at the top of the tree. The men don't want to reach for the good ones because they are afraid of falling and getting hurt. Instead, they just get the rotten apples from the ground that aren't as good, but easy. So the apples at the top think something is wrong with them, when in reality, THEY'RE the amazing ones. They just have to wait for the right man to come along, the one who's brave enough to climb all the way to the top of the tree.
Work is the price you pay for money.
Look backward with gratitude and forward with confidence.
Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.
I just wanted to hold your hand; I didn't mean to hold you back.
We can choose to see life as a series of trials and tribulations, or we can choose to see life as an accumulation of treasures.
Men are from Mars, but women are from the imagination of a giant galactic cockroach tripping on LSD.
It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
Any time is the right time to let someone know how much you care.
Don't tell God how big your storm is; tell the storm how big your God is.
Be grateful for the doors of opportunity - and for friends who oil the hinges.
If you haven't got all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want.
Life is tough. It's tougher if you're stupid.
Some leaders are born women.
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