Quotes
Here are some of my favorite quotes...all are self-explanatory. I love it when you hear something for the first time and you have a "lightbulb moment" as Oprah would say. All of these quotes have done that for me...I hope upon reading them maybe some things will become clear to you as well :)
"The kindest word in all the world is the unkind word, unsaid" ~ Author Unknown
"I keep hoping somebody would do something---then I realized I am somebody" ~ Author Unknown
"Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier" ~ Kathleen Norris
"The future is that time when you'll wish you'd done what you aren't doing now" ~ Charles F. Kettering
"The oldest, shortest words -- "yes & no" -- are those which require the most thought" ~
Pythagoras
"You don't have to know how to sing; it's feeling as though you want to that makes the day successful" ~ Monica Crane
"There is nothing like sealing a letter to inspire a fresh thought" ~ Author Unknown
"When you get the feeling that you and God aren't as close together as before, make no mistake about who has moved away" ~ Author Unknown
"Usually parents who are lucky in the kind of children they have, have children who are lucky in the kind of parents they have" ~ Author Unknown
"Allow your friend to make mistakes and allow yourself the same freedom" ~ Author Unknown
"We may dwell on different shores, but in the end we are all in the same boat" ~ Author Unknown
"Your todays will be happier if you cease to dwell on what happened yesterday or on what may come tomorrow" ~ Author Unknown
"You can't be all things to all people and still be yourself" ~ Author Unknown
"An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding" ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
"Difficulties are stepping stones to success" ~ Author Unknown
"Friends are made by many acts -- and lost by only one" ~ Author Unknown
"The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none" ~ Thomas Carlyle
"The past cannot be changed, the future is still in your power" ~ Hugh White
"A minute of thought is worth more than an hour of talk" ~ Author Unknown
"Who gossips to you will gossip of you" ~ Turkish Proverb
"Temper gets you into trouble; pride keeps you there" ~ Author Unknown
"There's no traffic jam on the extra mile" ~ Author Unknown
"People are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be" ~ Abraham Lincoln
"What a big gap there is between advice and help" ~ Author Unknown
"Correction does much, but encouragement does more" ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"Triumph is just umph added to try" ~ Author Unknown
"A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner" ~ English Proverb
"Most of us know how to say nothing -- few of us know when" ~ Author Unknown
"The best you can give somebody is a chance" ~ Author Unknown
"A pessimist complains about the noise when opportunity knocks" ~ Author Unknown
"Don't ever slam a door; you may want to go back" ~ Author Unknown
"If you aim at nothing, you will hit nothing" ~ Author Unknown
"Children have more need of models than of critics" ~ Joseph Joubert
"Give without remembering, take without forgetting" ~ Elizabeth Bibesco
"Success is picking yourself up one more time than you fall down" ~ Author Unknown
"Good examples have twice the value of good advice" ~ Author Unknown
"The greatest remedy for anger is delay" ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"All people smile in the same language" ~ Author Unknown
"An apology is a good way to have the last word" ~ Author Unknown
"Remember: you never get a second chance to make a first impression" ~ Author Unknown
"One of life's hardest jobs is making those easy monthly payments" ~ Author Unknown
"Don't grow a wishbone where your backbone ought to be" ~ Clementine Paddleford
"Small things affect only small minds" ~ Author Unknown
"A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to" ~ Author Unknown
"It's easy for a parent to hear himself talking -- all he has to do is listen to his own children" ~ Author Unknown
"What we call "sin" in others, is just "experience" in us" ~ Author Unknown
"For every minute you are angry you lose 60 seconds of happiness" ~ Author Unknown
"Joy is not in things, it is in us" ~ Author Unknown
"When everything else fails, read the instructions" ~ Author Unknown
"Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell" ~ Shana Alexander
"Nothing takes longer than doing nothing" ~ Author Unknown
"Some people will do anything for money except work" ~ Author Unknown
"Tact: to hammer in a point without hitting a thumb" ~ Author Unknown
"Curiousity is what you have; nosiness is what they have" ~ Author Unknown
"Don't make the mistake of letting yesterday use up too much of today" ~ Author Unknown
"An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his mind" ~ Author Unknown
A lot of these quotes are listed as "Author Unknown", I've done some research and haven't been able to come up with an author, so if anyone knows of any that are missing or incorrect, please feel free to use the "contact me" button on the main page, and let me know, thanks :)
