Quotes

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. -- Bruce Barton

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. -- Martin Luther King Jr.

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. -- Thomas Jefferson

Be a fountain, not a drain. -- Rex Hudler, quoted in 'Sports Illustrated'

There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow. -- Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, 1862

We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic. -- Susan Jeffers

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much. -- Mother Teresa

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. -- Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, 1843

In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world. -- Henry David Thoreau

The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy. -- Florence Shinn

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Slight not what's near, while aiming at what's far. -- Euripides, 'Rhesus'

The body says what words cannot. -- Martha Graham

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now? -- Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Altered Egos, 1993

You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. -- Albert Schweitzer

Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves. -- J. G. C. Brainard

I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me instead of looking within myself to see what was there. -- Belle Livingstone

Truth is what stands the test of experience. -- Albert Einstein

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. -- Chinese Proverb

Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny. -- Carl Schurz

Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives. -- Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999

Desire, ask, believe, receive. -- Stella Terrill Mann

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. -- Mark Twain

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. -- Carl Jung

Partake of some of life's sweet pleasures. And yes, get comfortable with yourself. -- Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

Out of the strain of the Doing, Into the peace of the Done. -- Julia Louise Woodruff, 'Harvest Home,' Sunday at Home, 1910

Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat. -- Emily Dickinson, Poems, Second Series, 1891

Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you. -- William Blake

Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you. -- Madame de Tencin

She had learned the self-deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel. -- Faith Sullivan, The Cape Ann, 1988

No matter how much pressure you feel at work, if you could find ways to relax for at least five minutes every hour, you'd be more productive. -- Dr. Joyce Brothers

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender. -- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. -- Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi

Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart. -- Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. -- Woodrow Wilson

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. -- Robert Fripp

Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love. -- Socrates

Envy can be a positive motivator. Let it inspire you to work harder for what you want. -- Robert Bringle, quoted in Redbook

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me. -- Simone de Beauvoir

The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt. -- Thomas Merton