Quotes

1. "Love is a special gift you give every day you live." — Anonymous
2. "He can go for hours without saying a word; and she knows exactly what he's thinking. If you have experienced it, no explanation is necessary. If you haven't, no explanation is possible." — Anonymous
3. "All sunshine makes a desert." — Arabic proverb
4. "The only rose without a thorn is friendship." — Chinese proverb
5. "True friendship consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice." — Ben Jonson
6. "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." — Anaïs Nin
7. "Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through life in a similar state of shock." — Anonymous
8. "I get by with a little help from my friends." — John Lennon
9. "A friend is a present you give yourself." — Robert Louis Stevenson
10. "Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves." — James Barrie
11. "Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity." — Hippocrates, Precepts, Chapter 1
12. "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." — Martin Luther King, Jr.
13. "We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the fullest." — Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past
14. "There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved." — George Sand
15. "Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh." — W. H. Auden
16. "Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever." — June Masters Bacher
17. "The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved." — Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
18. "Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough." — Dinah Shore
19. "Love begets love." — Theodore Roethke
20. "What wound did ever heal but by degrees?" — Shakespeare's Othello, Act II, scene iii
21. "The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention." — Richard Moss, M.D.
22. "While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize." — John L. Mason, An Enemy Called Average
23. "Say what you have to say, not what you ought." — Henry David Thoreau
24. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." — Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin
25. "The hero reveals the possibilities of human nature; the celebrity reveals the possibilities of the media." — Daniel J. Boorstin, The Image
26. "Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them." — Sydney Smith
27. "When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves." — George Pataki
28. "Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children." — Charles R. Swindoll, The Strong Family
29. "Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies." — Leon Uris, Redemption
30. "Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue." — Roger C. Andersen, The Rotarian
31. "Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you." — H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Instruction Book
32. "There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he's absolutely free to choose." — William M. Bulger
33. "Having children makes you no more a parent that having a piano makes you a pianist." — Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point
34. "You can make your world so much larger simply by acknowledging everyone else's." — Jeanne Marie Laskas, Washington Post Magazine
35. "The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet." — Ann Landers
36. "Our strength often increases in proportion to the obstacles imposed on it." — Paul DeRapin
37. "The soul would have no rainbow had the eye no tear." — Anonymous
38. "Every step is an end and every step is a fresh beginning." — Goethe
39. "Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason." — Jerry Seinfeld, "Seinfeld," NBC
40. "Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby." — Ruth E. Renkel
41. "The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway." — Henry Boye
42. "Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what's already there." — Will Smith
43. "Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you are saying." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
44. "If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you have succeeded." — Maya Angelou
45. "If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead." — Gelett Burgess
46. "Anybody who knows everything should be told a thing or two." — Franklin P. Jones
47. "An unused life is an early death." — Goethe
48. "The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer." — Anonymous American WWII soldier
49. "I will lay down and bleed a while. Though I am wounded, I am not slain. I shall rise and fight again." — Anonymous, as related by Nancy Reagan
50. "My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me." — Benjamin Disraeli
51. "Don't let yesterday use up too much of today." — Anonymous
52. "it’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes." — Joseph Conrad
53. "Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved." — William Jennings Bryan
54. "Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected." — Stephen Jobs
55. "Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." — General George S. Patton
56. "Why is is when we talk to God we're said to be praying — but when God talks to us, we're schizophrenic?" — Lily Tomlin
57. "The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common." — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature
58. "Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in therein, to be content." — Helen Keller
59. "Happiness is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it." — Anonymous
60. "You only live once – but if you work it right, once is enough." — Joe E. Lewis
61. "Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then." — Katharine Hepburn
62. "it’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter." — Marlene Dietrich
63. "Death is not the last sleep. It is the final awakening." — Walter Scott, English novelist
64. "Brief is life but love is long." — Alfred, Lord Tennyson
65. "We are each of us angels with one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another." — Luciano de Crescenzo
66. "No time is ever wasted that makes two people better friends." — Anonymous
67. "We have been unyielding in our strategies and absolutely flexible in our expectations. We need to be unyielding in our expectations and absolutely flexible in our strategies." — Dr. Robert J. Garmston, Professor Emeritus, California State University at Sacramento
68. "The difference between the almost-right word and the right word is really a large matter — it’s the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning." — Mark Twain
69. "Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences." — William Strunk, Jr.
70. "The wheel that squeaks the loudest... gets the grease." — John Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw)
71. "Do what you can to show you care about other people and you will make our world a better place." — Rosalynn Carter
72. "E pluribus unum."  "One composed of many." — Virgil
73. "Form ever follows function." — Louis Henri Sullivan
74. "Make sure the thing you're living for is worth dying for." — Charles Mayes
75. "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." — Louis D. Brandeis
76. "Perhaps once in a hundred years a person may be ruined by excessive praise, but surely once every minute someone dies inside for lack of it." — Cecil G. Osborne
77. "A person needs to be loved the most when he deserves to be loved the least." — Anonymous
78. "People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care." — Jacqueline Redondo, MD
79. "Querer ser libre es empezar a serlo." — Betances
80. "Prefiero morir de pie, que vivir de rodillas." — Albizu Campos
81. "Being in power is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't." — Margaret Thatcher
82. "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 bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." — Harry Emerson Fosdick
83. "The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life." — Muhammad Ali
84. "The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire." — Marshall Foch
85. "The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible — and achieve it, generation after generation." — Pearl S. Buck
86. "Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning." — Cardinal Newman
87. "Everyone is the age of his heart." — Guatemalan proverb
88. "Believe in yourself and there will come a day when others will have no choice but to believe with you." — Anonymous
89. "I don't believe in miracles. I rely on them." — Anonymous
90. "It isn't a mistake to have strong views. The mistake is to have nothing else." — Anthony Weston, A Rulebook for Arguments
91. "No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut." — Sam Rayburn
92. "You can make it, but it’s easier if you don't have to do it alone." — Betty Ford
93. "You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it." — Margaret Thatcher
94. "To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might just be the world." — Anonymous
95. "Sometimes the majority only means that all the fools are on the same side." — Michael W. Smith
96. "People gather bundles of sticks to build bridges they never cross." — Dovie Lowry
97. "Life is like an onion; you peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep." — Carl Sandburg
98. "Following the path of least resistance is what makes rivers and men crooked." — Anonymous
99. "Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic." — Anonymous
100. "Our children are our most precious gifts, and their safety and is priceless and paramount." — Tom Wyble
101. "When we forgive, we free ourselves from the bitter ties that bind us to the one who hurt us." — Claire Frazier-Yzaguirre
102. "Imagination is more important than knowledge." — Albert Einstein
103. "Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed." — Corita Kent
104. "You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them." — Michael Jordan
105. "It is important to recognize that our achievements not only speak well for us, they speak well for those persons and forces, seen, unseen, and unnoticed, that have been active in our lives." — Anne Wilson Schaef
106. "Growing is the reward of learning." — Malcolm X
107. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." — Aristotle
108. "The human mind is a miracle. Once it accepts a new idea or learns a new fact, it stretches forever and never goes back to its original dimension. It is limitless. No one has ever guessed its potential." — Leo Buscaglia
109. "If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun." — Katharine Hepburn
110. "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." — G. Randolph
111. "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has." — Margaret Mead
112. "Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face." — Carol Moseley-Braun
113. "The only queer people are those who don't love anybody." — Rita Mae Brown
114. "It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. it’s like disapproving of rain." — Francis Maude
115. In response to a reader who complained that a gay couple was moving in across the street and wanted to know what he could do to improve the quality of the neighborhood: "You could move." — Abigail Van Buren
116. "Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?" — Ernest Gaines
117. "You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight." — Barry Goldwater
118. "I was standing in the middle of Manhattan, and heard a man say 'They ought to take all these homos and put them on an island somewhere.' I said, 'Merry Christmas, Bozo, you're on it.'" — Jim David
119. "Measure wealth not by the things you have, but by the things you have for which you would not take money." — Anonymous