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Enthusiasm is contagious.
Start an epidemic.
( Seen on a Bumper Sticker )
by Millan
When a child asks you something,
answer him, for goodness’ sake.
But don’t make a production of it.
Children are children,
but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults,
and evasion simply muddles ‘em.
Harper Lee
While we have the gift of life,
it seems to me the only tragedy
is to allow part of us to die --
whether it is our spirit,
our creativity,
or our glorious uniqueness.
Gilda Radner
Surround yourself with only people who are
going to lift you higher.
Oprah Winfrey
Man's mind stretched to a new idea
never goes back to its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Do not go where the path may lead,
go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life has a practice of living you, if you
don’t live it.
Philip Larkin
We know the truth, not only by the reason,
but also by the heart.
Blaise Pascal
The worst bankrupt in the world is the
person who has lost his enthusiasm.
H. W. Arnold
Unthankfulness is theft.
Martin Luther
. . .if we wait for the moment when
everything,
absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
Ivan Turgenev
People only see what they are prepared to
see.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We cannot really love anybody with whom we
never laugh.
Agnes Repplier
Imagination is the highest kite one can
fly.
Lauren Bacall
A master can tell you what he expects of
you.
A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
Patricia Neal
Love yourself first and everything else
falls into line.
You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Lucille Ball
The trouble with being in the rat race is
that
even if you win, you’re still a rat.
Lily Tomlin
One can never consent to creep when one
feels an impulse to soar.
Helen Keller
You may be disappointed if you fail,
but you are doomed if you don’t try.
Beverly Sills
My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs
her own floors.
Bette Midler
"Stay" is a charming word in a
friend’s vocabulary.
Louisa May Alcott
It is best to learn as we go, not go as we
have learned.
Leslie Jeanne Sahler
He who angers you conquers you.
Elizabeth Kenny
Australian Nurse
We forgive to the extent that we love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is never too late to be what you might
have been.
George Eliot
Looking back, I have this to regret, that
too often
when I loved, I did not say so.
David Grayson
I learned that it is the weak who are
cruel,
and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.
Leo Rosten
WE CAN ONLY LEARN TO LOVE BY LOVING.
Iris Murdoch
To love and be loved is to feel the sun
from both sides.
David Viscott
A man is a success if he gets up in the
morning and gets to bed at night,
and in between he does what he wants to do.
Bob Dylan
We grow great by dreams. All big men are
dreamers.
They see things in the soft haze of a spring day
or in the red fire of a long winter's evening.
Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them;
nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light
which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come
true.
Woodrow Wilson
At sunrise everything is luminous but not
clear.
It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.
You can love completely without complete understanding.
Norman Maclean
(A River Runs Through It)
You will never find time for anything.
If you want the time, you must make it.
Charles Buxton
There are no short cuts to any place worth
going.
Source Unknown
The truth of the matter is that you always
know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
General H. Norman Schwarzkopf
If you’re going to be able to look back on
something and laugh about it,
you might as well laugh about it now.
Marie Osmond
When you come to the edge of all the light
you know,
and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown,
faith is knowing one of two things will happen:
There will be something solid to stand on,
or you will be taught how to fly.
Barbara J. Winter
Life isn’t a matter of milestones,
but of moments.
Rose Kennedy
Being considerate of others will take your
children further
in life than any college degree.
Marian Wright Edelman
The country clubs, the cars the boats, your
assets may be ample,
But the best inheritance you can leave your kids
Is to be a good example.
Barry Spilchuk
If you really want something
you can figure out how to make it happen.
Cher
My mother said I must always be intolerant
of ignorance
but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable
to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent
than college professors.
Maya Angelou
There are two ways of spreading light --
to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton
You have to find it.
No one else can find it for you.
Bjorn Borg
Knowing is not enough;
We must apply.
Willing is not enough;
We must do.
Goethe
Find the seed at the bottom of your heart
and bring forth a flower.
Shigenori Kameoka
As long as you’re going to be thinking
anyway,
THINK BIG.
Donald Trump
Find out what you like doing best
and get someone to pay you for doing it.
Katherine Whitehorn
Think it more satisfactory to live richly
than die rich.
Sir Thomas Browne
Now that I’m gone, I tell you;
Don’t smoke.
Whatever you do, don’t smoke.
Yul Brynner
Don’t hold grudges; it’s pointless.
Jealousy too is a non-cathartic, negative emotion.
Liz Smith
Treat your friends as you do your pictures,
and place them in their best light.
Jennie Jerome Churchill
He who is devoid of the power to forgive
is devoid of the power to love.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Common sense is instinct.
Enough of it is genius.
George Bernard Shaw
The supreme happiness in life is the
conviction that we are loved.
Victor Hugo
Persons thankful for little things are
certain to be
the ones with much to be thankful for.
Frank Clark
You don’t get harmony when everybody sings
the same note.
Doug Floyd
People with goals succeed because they know
where they’re going.
Earl Nightingale
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Sticker}
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us.
That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.
Emily Kimbrough
The measure of a man’s real character
is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
T.B. Macaulay
To think clearly without hurry or
confusion;
To love everybody sincerely;
To act in everything with the highest motives;
To trust God unhesitatingly.
Helen Keller
The more we give of anything,
the more we shall get back.
Grace Speare
A happy person is not a person in a certain
set of circumstances, but rather a person
with a certain set of attitudes.
Hugh Downs
The greatest weakness of most humans is
their hesitancy
to tell others how much they love them while they’re still alive.
O.A. Battista
Never part without loving words to think of
during your absence.
It may be that you will not meet again in this life.
Jean Paul Richter
There is a transcendent power in example.
We reform others unconciously when we walk uprightly.
Anne Sophie Swetchine
PLANT IMPOSSIBLE GARDENS.
Look forward to dreams. Cry
during movies.
Swing as high as you can on a swingset, by moonlight.
Cultivate moods.
Do it for love. Take lots of naps.
Take moonbaths.
Giggle with children.
Listen to old people.
Drive away fear. Play with everything.
Entertain your inner child.
Build a fort with blankets.
Get wet. Hug trees. Write love letters.
SARK
Animation
by Camilla
Snowflakes are one of nature’s
most fragile things,
but just look what they can do when they stick together.
Vista M. Kelly
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh,
at yourself.
Ethel Barrymore
Don’t get your knickers in a
knot.
Nothing is solved and it just makes you walk funny.
Kathryn Carpenter
No good deed goes unpunished.
Clare Boothe Luce
Failing to plan is planning to
fail.
Effie Jones
One can never consent to creep
when one feels an impulse to soar.
Helen Keller
Don’t be afraid your life will
end;
be afraid that it will never begin.
Grace Hansen
Practice random acts of
kindness and senseless acts of beauty.
Anne Herbert
Thank you,
Sharon!
Look twice before you leap.
Charlotte Bronte
To feel valued, to know, even
if only once in a while,
that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
Barbara Walters
Sticks and stones are hard on
bones
Aimed with angry art,
Words can sting like anything
But silence breaks the heart.
Suzanne Nichols
Silent gratitude isn’t much use
to anyone.
Gladys Browyn Stern
Beauty comes in all sizes, not
just size 5.
Roseanne
Love is a great beautifier.
Louisa May Alcott
Beauty’s where you find it.
Madonna
[ VOGUE ]
The only place you’ll find
success before work is in the dictionary.
May B. Smith
All my life I’ve wanted to be
somebody.
But I see now I should have been more specific.
Jane Wagner
by Camilla
What we do today, right now,
Will have an accumulated effect
on all our tomorrows.
Alexandra Stoddard
Since you get more joy
out of giving joy to others,
you should put a good deal of
thought into the happiness that you
are able to give.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Be yourself. Who else is better qualified?
Frank J. Giblin II
We still do not know one-thousandth of one
percent
of what nature has revealed to us.
Albert Einstein
We make a living by what we get,
but we make a life by what we give.
Sir Winston Churchill
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that
of a cannon,
but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
I have learned from experience that
the greater part of our happiness or misery
depends on our dispositions
and not on our circumstances.
Martha Washington
The one thing that doesn’t abide by
majority rule
is a person’s conscience.
Harper Lee
Learn to listen.
Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly.
Frank Tyger
Take heed: you do not find what you do not
seek.
English Proverb
Service is what life is all about.
Marian Wright Edelman
Follow your instincts.
That’s where true wisdom manifests itself.
Oprah Winfrey
Love and respect are the most important
aspects of parenting,
and of all relationships.
Jodie Foster
When you come to a roadblock, take a
detour.
Mary Kay Ash
Those who do not know how to weep with
their whole heart
don’t know how to laugh either.
Golda Meir
Adventure is worthwhile in itself.
Amelia Earhart
If you refuse to accept anything but the
best, you’ll get the best.
Begin to live as you wish to live.
Unknown
Love and you shall be loved.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most people live and die
with their music still unplayed.
They never dare to try.
Mary Kay Ash
Some people are moulded by their
admirations,
others by their hostilities.
Elizabeth Bowen
Sometimes it takes years to really grasp
what has happened to your life.
Wilma Rudolph
You must learn to be still in the midst of
activity,
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
Indira Ghandi
I was always looking outside myself for
strength and confidence but it comes from within.
It is there all the time.
Anna Freud
To live is so startling it leaves little
time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson
Far away there in the sunshine are my
highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Louisa May Alcott
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
Anne Frank
A closed mind is a dying mind.
Edna Ferber
Don’t confuse being stimulating with being
blunt.
Barbara Walters
We don’t see things as they are,
we see them as we are.
Anais Nin
I was taught that the way of progress is
neither swift nor easy.
Marie Curie
I wasn’t afraid to fail.
Something good always comes out of failure.
Anne Baxter
Keep your face to the sunshine and you
cannot see the shadows.
Helen Keller
What you dislike in another take care to
correct in yourself.
Thomas Sprat
It is an ironic habit of human beings to
run faster when we have lost our way.
Rollo May
Our greatest glory is not in never failing
but in rising up every time we fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't be anyone's slogan ~
for you are poetry.
Sandra Bullock in 28 Days
{ Writer's credit: Susannah Grant }
Every passing moment is a chance to turn it
all around.
Penelope Cruz in Vanilla Sky
{ Writer's credit: Cameron Crowe }
What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle
Each day of our lives we make deposits in
the memory banks of our children.
Charles R. Swindoll
Laughter is inner jogging.
Norman Cousins
It's the most unhappy people who most fear
change.
Mignon McLaughlin
It is common sense to take a method and try
it.
If it fails, admit it frankly and try another.
But above all, try something.
Former US President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Life has taught us that love does not
consist in gazing at each other
but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Let go of your attachment to being right,
and suddenly your mind is more open.
You're able to benefit from the unique
viewpoints of others, without being crippled
by your own judgment.
Ralph Marston
The difference between fiction and reality?
Fiction has to make sense.
Tom Clancy
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain
cells.
Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.
Dr. Seuss
You cannot depend on your eyes
when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain
The place to be happy is here,
the time to be happy is now.
Robert Ingersoll
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Confucius
By necessity, by proclivity, and by
delight, we all quote.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
by Millan
Stop a moment, cease your work, and look
around you.
Thomas Carlyle
Climb the mountains and get their good
tidings.
John Muir
Laughter is the shortest distance between
two people.
Victor Borge
The first sign of a nervous breakdown
is when you start thinking your work is terribly important.
Milo Bloom
It's never too late to have a happy
childhood.
Tom Robbins
One of the symptoms of an approaching
nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
Bertrand Russell
The best things in life aren’t things.
Art Buchwald
You see things and say 'Why?';
but I dream things that never were and I say 'Why not?' "
George Bernard Shaw
(1856-1950)
British Playwright
It is never too late to give up your
prejudices.
Henry David Thoreau
(Walden)
Within this realm of choicelessness,
we do choose how we live.
Joseph Epstein
The greatest good you can do for another
is not just share your riches,
but reveal to them their own.
Benjamin Disraeli
If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be.
Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau
Life is about not knowing, having to
change,
taking the moment and making the best of it,
without knowing what's going to happen next.
Delicious ambiguity.
Gilda Radner
Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you
do.
Gerry Sikorski
We need 4 hugs a day for survival.
We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance.
We need 12 hugs a day for growth.
Virginia Satir
The big question is whether you are going
to be able to
say a hearty yes to your adventure.
Joseph Campbell
Learn by practice.
Martha Graham
You don’t just stumble into the future.
You create your own future.
Roger Smith
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
William Makepeace Thackeray
We need to listen to one another.
Chaim Potok
You’ve got to say, "I think that if I
keep working at this and
want it badly enough I can have it." It’s called perseverance.
Lee J. Iacocca
Just don’t give up trying to do what you
really want to do.
Where there’s love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.
Ella Fitzgerald
My favorite quote is "Life is too
short to be little," written by Disraeli.
Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and
forget.
We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year’s
time,
will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to
worthwhile
actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring
undertakings.
Andre Maurois
Exuberance is beauty.
William Blake
All kids are gifted;
some just open their packages earlier than others.
Michael Carr
One who makes no mistakes never makes
anything.
Source Unknown
Confidence, like art, never comes from
having all the answers;
it comes from being open to all the questions.
Earl Gray Stevens
Yesterday is history,
tomorrow is a mystery,
and today is a gift;
that’s why they call it the present.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Pursue worthy aims.
SOLON
Never give up on anybody.
Hubert H. Humphrey
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
LAO-TZU
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
Aldous Huxley
Do not save your loving speeches
For your friends till they are dead;
Do not write them on their tombstones,
Speak them rather now instead.
Anna Cummins
Never let the fear of striking out get in
your way.
George Herman ("Babe") Ruth
Always hold your head up,
but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.
Max L. Forman
Becoming a star may not be in your destiny,
but being the best that you can be is a goal
you can set for yourselves.
Bryan Lindsay
Accustom children to a true notion of
things.
George Shelley
HayFever by Millan
There’s good in everybody.
Boost.
Don’t knock.
Warren G. Harding
Hitch your wagon to a star.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Behold the turtle.
He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out.
James Bryant Conant
Some people walk in the rain,
others just get wet.
Roger Miller
{ And some
people sing and dance. }
We boil at different degrees.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Living is like licking honey off a thorn.
Unknown
What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
William Shakespeare
Look not down but up!
Robert Browning
The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost
The ideals which have always shown before
me
and filled me with the joy of living
are goodness, beauty and truth.
Albert Einstein
The secret of success is consistency of
purpose.
Benjamin Disraeli
When you are required to exhibit strength,
it comes.
Joseph Campbell
Desire nothing for yourself,
which you do not desire for others.
Spinoza
It is not of so much consequence what you
say,
as how you say it.
Alexandra Smith
HAKUNA MATATA
(it means . . . No Worries)
Timon & Pumbaa
Disney's The Lion King
I got a simple rule about everybody.
If you don’t treat me right – shame on you.
Louis Armstrong
When you are content to be simply yourself
and
don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
Lao-Tzu
You can’t depend on your judgment when
your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain
by Millan
The day a person becomes a cynic
is the day he loses his youth.
Marvin D. Levy
Intelligence without ambition is a bird
without wings.
C. Archie Danielson
Control your emotion or it will control
you.
Samurai maxim
Yes, risk taking is inherently
failure-prone.
Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.
Tim McMahon
Nothing is so strong as gentleness,
and nothing is so gentle as real strength.
Ralph W. Sockman
Give sorrow words.
Shakespeare
Let us not look back in anger or forward in
fear
but around in awareness.
James Thurber
by Millan
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Augustine
All serious daring starts from within.
Eudora Welty
Nothing great was ever achieved without
enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever is worth doing at all is worth
doing well.
Lord Chesterfield
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Monkey by Millan
Nobody ever died of laughter.
Max Beerbohm
Hear the meaning within the word.
William Shakespeare
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
Henry David Thoreau
Always do right.
This will gratify some -- and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain
You can if you think you can.
George Reeves
Sixth Grade Teacher of Norman Vincent Peale
Action is eloquence.
William Shakespeare
Beware, as long as you live,
of judging people by appearances.
Jean de la Fontaine
It is a wonderful seasoning of all
enjoyments
to think of those we love.
Moliere
Happiness is the sense that one matters.
Sarah Trimmer
The great mind knows the power of
gentleness.
Robert Browning
No gift is too small to give,
nor too simple to receive,
if it's chosen with thoughtfulness
and given with love.
Unknown
I'll tell you how the sun rose -
one ribbon at a time.
Emily Dickinson
A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
Leonardo Da Vinci
Whatever you do, put romance and enthusiasm
into the life of our children.
Margaret Ramsey MacDonald
Always laugh when you can.
It is cheap medicine.
Lord Byron
You have given me a gift such as I never
even dreamt of finding in this life.
Franz Kafka
There is always, always, always
something to be thankful for.
Source Unknown
With every deed you are sowing a seed,
though the harvest you may not see.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Remember to Live.
GOETHE
I've learned that when someone is looking
sad,
or says something bad happened, never say,
"What's the matter?" or "What's wrong?"
Always say:
"Do you want to talk about it?
I'm here for you."
- Age 14
From Live and Learn and Pass it On
VOL. IV
We never listen when we are eager to speak.
Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Ask yourself this question:
"Will this matter a year from now?"
Richard Carlson Ph.D., Author
"Don't Sweat the Small Stuff"
Do all the good you can,
by all the means you can,
in all the ways you can,
as long as ever you can.
John Wesley
I
hear them say ‘you’ll never change things’
and
no matter what you do it’s still the same...
But
it’s not the world that I’m trying to change.
I do
this so
this world will know
that
it will not change me.”
American Country-Western Singer
Other
Quotes About 'Change' Garth's Website
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 to 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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Here's to the crazy
ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the
square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules,
and they have no respect for the
status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them.
But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things.
They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy
ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can
change the world, are the ones who do.
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