A best friend is like a four leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to
have.
~Author Unknown
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another:
"What! You, too? Thought I was the only one.
~ C.S. Lewis
We have no right to ask when sorrow comes, "Why did this happen
to me?" unless we ask the same question for every moment of
happiness that comes our way.
~Author Unknown
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win
by fearing to attempt.~William Shakespeare
You can avoid having ulcers by adapting to the situation:
If you fall in the mud puddle, check your pockets for fish.
~Author Unknown
Hearing is one of the body's five senses, but listening is an art.
~Frank Tyger
I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some
humor in it.
~Frank A. Clark
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let
go.
~William Feather
"God, please don't let anything happen today that I can't
handle."
-Sara Matson
If you're alone, I'll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I'll be
your shoulder. If you want a hug, I'll be your pillow. If you need to be
happy, I'll be your smile. But anytime you need a friend, I'll just be
me.
~Author Unknown
What art offers is space -- a certain breathing room for the spirit.
~John Updike
I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more
important than what I can see.
~Duane
Michals
The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and
success.
~David Sarnoff
Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take
between two deep breaths.
~Etty Hillesum
Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our
hearts.
~Janice Maeditere
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy
of love!
~Hamilton Wright Mabie
Cats come and go without ever leaving.
~Martha Curtis
Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring
their friends.
~Walt Disney
Cats as a class, have never completely got over the snootiness caused
by that fact that in Ancient Egypt they were worshipped as gods.
~P.G. Wodehouse
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all
the others.
~Cicero
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
~John Lubbock
‘If you’re lucky enough to find success, learn to accept praise
warily. Those who accept and believe praise too readily – or worse,
those who seek it inevitably suffer in their work.’
~Danny Elfman via The Toymaker
Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the
end.
Hope is but the dream of those who wake.
~Matthew Prior
Follow your passion, and success will follow you.
~Arthur Buddhold
Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will
come.
~Chinese Proverb
Childhood is that wonderful time of life when all you need to do to
lose weight is take a bath.
~Author Unknown
Never think that god’s delays are god’s denial. hold on; hold
fast; hold out. Patience is genius.
~Conte de Buffon
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the
formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody.
~Herbert B. Swope
If someone wanted to paint a portrait of my mother, he would have
been wise to paint her at her desk. Where she was happiest.
~Mary Gordon
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
~ Orison Swett Marden
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift...
~Albert Einstein
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is
anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
~E.W. Howe
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then
burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all
be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
~Albert Schweitzer
The bad news is that time flies. The good news is you're the
pilot.
– Michael Alshuler.
In labors of love, every day is payday.
~Gaines Brewster
Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
~John Lubbock
Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you -- not
because they are nice, but because you are.
~Author Unknown
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
~Oscar Wilde
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Focus not on the commotion around you, but on the opportunity ahead
of you.
~Arnold Palmer
It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're
not.
~Author Unknown
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dream.
~Eleanor Roosevelt
Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.
~Seneca
"I love deadlines.
I love the whooshing
sound they make
as they fly by."
~ Douglas Adams
"The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of
everything.
"
~Author Unknown
Happiness is not having what you want. It's wanting what you have.
(Unknown).
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way
things turn out. -- Art Linkletter
Whatever you are… be a good one.
~ Abraham Lincoln
"Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity,
or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on
and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live."
~ Mae Jemison
"Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection
is demoralizing."
~ Harriet Braiker
"We don’t stop playing because we grow old, we grow old
because we stop playing"
~George Bernard Shaw
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
~John Barrymore
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon. -Winnie the Pooh
"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to
be a butterfly. "
~Buckminster Fuller
"All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an
artist once he grows up."
~Pablo Picasso
The cure for boredom is curiosity.
There is no cure for curiosity.
~Ellen Parr
Credendo Vides
By believing, one sees.
"There is nothing more truly artistic than to love others."
-VanGough
"The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is
laughter ."
~ Mark Twain
"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody
else up."
~ Mark Twain
"Every artist was first an amateur."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Where there is a will, there is a way."
~Irish Proverb
"Correction does much, but encouragement does more."
~Johann von Goethe
"A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built
for."
~William Shedd
"Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through
its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there."
~Josh Billings
"I couldn't wait for success... so I went ahead without
it."
~Jonathan Winters
"The beginning is the most important part of the work."
~Plato, The Republic
"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we
give."
~Sir Winston Churchill
"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to
be a butterfly. "
~Buckminster Fuller
"All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an
artist once he grows up."
~Pablo Picasso
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by
the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do...Sail away
from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
- Mark Twain
"What I find is that you can do almost anything
or go almost anywhere, if you're not in a hurry."
- Paul Theroux
"A single day is enough to make us a little larger."
~ Paul Klee
One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the
facts get
in the way of your imagination.
~Sam Levenson
No one has ever become poor by giving."
-- Anne Frank
All that matters is what we do for each other."
-- Lewis Carroll
Drag your thoughts away from your troubles...
by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
- Mark Twain
"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for
kindness."
- Seneca
"Happiness comes through doors that you didn't even know that
you left open!"
-Unknown
"To the world you may be one person,
but to one person you may be the world. "
To love and be loved, is to feel the sun from both sides.
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck
out.
~ James Bryant Conant
Slow and steady wins the race.
~ Aesop
"Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition,
there are still untapped
possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born."
~Dr. Dale Turner
"Rivers know this: There is no hurry, we shall get there some
day."
~ Winnie the Pooh
"We can do anything we want to as long as we stick to it long
enough."
– Helen Keller"
Inch by inch, everything's a cinch!"
"Home is the wallpaper above the bed, the family dinner table,
the church bells in the morning,
the bruised shins of the playground, the small fears that come with
dusk, the streets and squares and monuments and shops that
constitute one's first universe.
~ Henry Anatole Grunwald
"I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I
die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.
~ Charles Dickens
"You have a calling which exists only for you and which
only you can fulfill."
~Dr. Naomi Stephan
"The greatest classrooms of this nation or any nation are not in
any school or university. They're around the dinner tables in the
homes.
~ Richard Berendzen
Anything worth while certainly takes a while.
~ Mr. Rogers
Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
~ Lady Bird Johnson
"Don’t listen to people that complain."
~Patricia U. Case
"Worry about it tomorrow."
~Patricia U. Case
"Some people will walk an extra mile to not believe in
something"
~Tammy C. Johnson
