Life in General Page 2

Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.  Hasidic saying
 
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.  Dan Stanford
 
Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.  Warren Buffet
 
Life is not a race, but a journey to be savored each step of the way.  Unknown
 
To do carefully and constantly and kindly many little things is not a little thing.  Author Unknown
 
The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot.  Michael Altshuler
 
Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!  David O. McKay
 
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her. But once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.  Voltaire
 
Let's choose today to quench our thirst for the 'good life' we think others lead by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives. We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts.  Sarah Ban Breathnach, Author
 
When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.  William Arthur Ward
 
Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for it to kill your enemy.  Nelson Mandela
 
Reach and Strain! Growth comes from setting your goals high and reaching for the stars!  Spencer W. Kimball
 
I will waste not even a precious second today in anger or hate or jealousy or selfishness. I know that the seeds I sow I will harvest, because every action, good or bad, is always followed by an equal reaction. I will plant only good seeds this day.  Og Mandino
 
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.  Ben Stein, Professor and Writer
 
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
 
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.  Henry Van Dyke
 
The heart can do anything.  Moliere
 
Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.  Schabacker
 
Find your eternity in each moment.  Thoreau
 
Everyday holds the possibility of a miracle.  Elizabeth David
 
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.  Jimmy Dean
 
Art is never necessary. It is merely indispensable.  New York Times Art Critic
 
Begin at the beginning, the King said gravely, and go on till you come to the end: then stop.  Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)
 
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.  Buckminster Fuller
 
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.  Calvin Coolidge
 
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.  William Arthur Ward, Pastor and Author
 
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.  John F. Kennedy
 
I don't usually eat breakfast. I prefer to be asleep during the hours that it is served.  John Grisham, The Last Juror
 
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.  Groucho Marx
 
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.  Edmund Spenser
 
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.  Immanuel Kant
 
As you grow older, you'll discover that you have two hands: One for helping yourself, the second for helping others.  Attributed to Audrey Hepburn
 
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.  Danny Thomas
 
Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.  David Lloyd George
 
Buy land, they're not making it anymore.  Mark Twain

Wherever we are and whatever we are doing, it is possible to learn something that can enrich our lives and the lives of others...No one's education is ever complete.  Sir John Templeton
 
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.  Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.  Mark Twain
 
To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.  Eva Young
 
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.  Helen Keller
 
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.  Henry David Thoreau
 
I sense that I am alive at a time of important change, and I feel a responsibility to make sure that the change comes out well. I plant my acorns knowing that I will never live to harvest the oaks.  Danny Hillis
 
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it.  Edith Wharton
 
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.  Theodore Roosevelt
 
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.  Marshall McLuhan
 
The Universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.  Philpotts
 
Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.  Erma Bombeck
 
A quotation at the right moment is like bread in famine.  The Talmud
 
Life itself is the proper binge.  Julia Childs
 
No day is so bad it can’t be fixed with a nap.  Carrie Snow
 
Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.  Corita Kent
 
Once in a lifetime one should be allowed to have as much sweetness as one can possibly want and hold.  Judith Obrey
 
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.  Helen Keller
 
Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.  Rose Kennedy
 
Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.  Charles Dickens
 
A smile is the shortest distance between two people.  Author Unknown.
 
We do not remember days, we remember moments.  Cesare Pavese
 
Too much of a good thing is simply wonderful!  Author Unknown
 
Life is a paradise for those who love many things with a passion.  Leo Buscaglia
 
I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.  Laura Ingalls Wilder
 
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.  Richard Bach
 
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.  H Jackson Brown Jr.
 
Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.  Anonymous
 
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.  Albert Einstein
 
There is no such thing in anyone’s life as an unimportant day.  Alexander Woollcott
 
I know well that happiness is in the little things.  John Ruskin
 
One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.  Iris Murdoch
 
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.  HenryWard Beecher
 
Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.  MarshaNorman
 
Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.  Daniel Feller
 
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.  Langston Hughes
 
More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.  Amy Grant
 
I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Author
 
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.  Benjamin Disraeli, Former British Prime Minister
 
Courage is being scared to death -- but saddling up anyway.  John Wayne
 
It is a very funny thing about life - if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.  W. Somerset Maugham, Author
 
If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.  Oprah Winfrey
 
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.  Anais Nin, Author
 
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.  Richard Bach, Writer
 
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read.  Mark Twain
 
Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.  May Sarton, Poet
 
Be a fountain, not a drain.  Rex Hudler, Baseball
 
I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.  Helen Keller
 
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.  Albert Einstein
 
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.  George Bernard Shaw, Writer
 
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.  Demosthenes
 
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.  Napoleon Hill, Author and Speaker
 
No exercise is better for the human heart than reaching down and lifting another up.  John Andrew Holmes
 
An optimist is the human personification of spring.  Susan J Bissonette
 
It is new fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions.  Voltaire
 
A mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you, than you see in yourself, and helps bring it out of you.  Bob Proctor, Author and Speaker.
 
Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people.  Henry Miller
 
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.  Dorothy Parker
 
Each day is a new canvas to paint upon. Make sure your picture is full of life and happiness, and at the end of the day you don't look at it and wish you had painted something different.  Unknown
 
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island...and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.  Walt Disney
 
You gotta dance like nobody's watching, dream like you will live forever, live like you're going to die tomorrow and love like it's never going to hurt.  Meme Grifsters
 
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and, keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to know what really matters most.  Stephen Covey
 
When the student is ready, the master appears.  Buddhist Proverb
 
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, Journalist
 
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.  Benjamin Franklin
 
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.  Mark Twain
 
The world is like a mirror; frown at it, and it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles, too.  Herbert Samuels
 
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.  Robert Louis Stevenson

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