A smile is a curve that sets everything straight. — Phyllis Diller

 The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.  — William James

The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves. — Garth Henrichs

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.  — Ben Sweetland

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak. — Michael Garrett Marino

The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours. — Arthur Lacey

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. — Jean Anouilh

There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream. — Anonymous

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live. — Flora Whittemore

It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. — Abraham Lincoln

We never know the worth of water ‘til the well is dry. -Thomas Fuller

A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. — Victor Hugo

There are two good things in life; freedom of thought and freedom of action. — William Somerset Maugham

There are times when silence has the loudest voice — Leroy Brownlow

Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important. — Janet Lane

We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals. — Immanuel Kent

I’m just one stomach flu away from my goal weight. — Emily Blunt in The Devil Wears Prada

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased. — Katharine Hepburn

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. — Nelson Mandela

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.  — Henry J. Kaiser

Youth is something very new: Twenty years ago no one mentioned it. — Coco Chanel

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. — Josh Billings

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. — Joseph Wood Krutch

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. — Doug Larson

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only a page. — St. Augustine

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. — Carl G. Jung

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. — Kahlil Gibran

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor. — Eric Hoffer

I recommend to you to take care of the minutes, for hours will take care of themselves — Philip Dormer Stanhope

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. — G.B. Stern

How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward. — Spanish proverb

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. — Berthold Auerbach

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me. — Isaac Newton

Promises are like the full moon: if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. — German proverb

It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving. — Mother Theresa

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. - Buddha

Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.  — Mother Teresa

Vision without execution is daydreaming.  —Bill Gates

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time. (Norman Cousins)

Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things.  — Benjamin Franklin

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.  — Marlene Dietrich

The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time. — Abraham Lincoln

Believe. No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit. (Helen Keller)

The truth is what drives our judicial system. If people don’t come forward and tell the truth, we have no hope of making the judicial system work.— PATRICK J. FITZGERALD, the prosecutor in the Libby case.

With hurricanes , tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance? — Jay Leno

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses. — William Arthur Ward

There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear. — Frank Tyger

When we go for a walk, angels whisper to us.  —Proverb

Eliminate physical clutter. More importantly, eliminate spiritual clutter. — D.H. Mondfleur

The great thing about being older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.—Madeleine L'Engle

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.—Abraham Lincoln

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory—Albert Schweitzer(1875 - 1965)

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. —Helen Keller

Happiness depends upon ourselves.—Aristotle

 

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. —Carl Jung

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. —Dale Carnegie

The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends. —Cicero

A lie has speed, but truth has endurance. — Edgar J. Mohn

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. — John Powell

So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter. — Gordon W. Allport

Forget love - I'd rather fall in chocolate! — Sandra J. Dykes

There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear. — Frank Tyger

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
-Carl Jung

Hope is grief's best music. -Anonymous

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. -William Feather

Dreams are illustrations...from the book your soul is writing about you.  -Marsha Norman

Some persons are very decisive when it comes to avoiding decisions. -Brendan Francis

As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do.  -Zachary Scott

Don't ever become a pessimist ... A pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun-and neither can stop the march of events. (Robert A. Heinlein)

May you have warm words on a cool evening, a full moon on a dark night, and a smooth road all the way to your door. -Irish toast

You can take no credit for beauty at 16. But if you are beautiful at 60, it will be your soul's own doing. -Marie Stopes

The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.
-Mark Twain

Quality never goes out of style. —Levi Strauss

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different. —Kurt Vonnegut

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. — Anne Lamott

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything. — Kurt Vonnegut

Maturity is the ability to live in peace with that which we cannot change.—Old Vaquero Saying

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.— Anais Nin

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center. —Kurt Vonnegut

I'd rather not sing than sing quiet. — Janis Joplin

Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. — George Eliot, Scenes of Clerical Life Real Simple

I learned very early in my life never to take counsel of my fears. —George Patton

You have brains in your head, and feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. —Dr. Seuss

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out? (Renι Descartes)

Worry is nothing less than the misuse of your imagination.
—Ed Foreman

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. — Jim Rohn

The happiest miser on earth is the man who saves up every friend he can make. —Robert E. Sherwood

A man can only do what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.—Albert Schweitzer

I do the very best I know how—the very best I know I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. —Abraham Lincoln

Nothing is impossible. We just don't know how to do it yet.
—Old Vaquero Saying

No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap — Carrie Snow

Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent. — Langston Coleman

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. — Confucius

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. — Kurt Vonnegut

Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive. — Carolyn Wells

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. (Winston Churchill)

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. (Helen Keller)

An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out. (George Jean Nathan)

An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist expects his nightmares to. (Laurence J. Peter)

In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip. (Daniel L. Reardon)

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute. (Gil Stern)

Put all your eggs in one basket and – watch that basket. — Mark Twain

How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)

People try to rain on your parade, because they have no parade of their own. (Jeffrey Gitomer)

I am thankful for the mess to clean after a party because it means I have been surrounded by friends. — Nancie J. Carmody

There isn't a pessimistic note in the New Testament after the resurrection.    (Andrew W. Blackwood, Jr.)

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. — Mark Twain

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. — Ayn Rand

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best. — Margaret Thatcher

I am thankful for the mess to clean after a party because it means I have been surrounded by friends. — Nancie  J. Carmody

Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. — Voltaire

Minds, like parachutes, only work when open. — Anonymous

You can't have everything. Where would you put it? — Steven Wright

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them — Brendan Francis

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.  — Margaret Thatcher

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. — Leopold Stokowski

The more one worries, the older one gets; the more one laughs, the younger one feels. — Chinese proverb

Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life. — Simone Weil

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes. — Sally Field

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations — Faith Baldwin

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. — Abraham Lincoln

A bargain is something you can't use at a price you can't resist. — Franklin P. Jones

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. — Jim Rohn

Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons. — Ruth Ann Schabacker

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. — Sophia Loren

A woman’s health is her capital. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. — John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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