| Miscellaneous Quotes And I sat watching a flower, as it was withering... I was embarrased by it's honesty. -Unknown "Don't be afraid to go after what you want to do, and what you want to be. But don't be afraid to be willing to pay the price." --Lane Frost "Just because you miss him when the world is quiet and you feel alone doesn't mean you love him....you will miss anyone when you are lonely.... Its when your life is going great and you still feel the ache in your heart because he isn't there to see the genuine smile on your face and the happiness in your life." -Unknown "Quietly, I drown myself in dreams. To find it all, I've taken liberty to fall asleep, wanting everything. And it all comes down to what I never said; what has never been. Can I fall apart in your tired, willing arms? I lack the courage to admit that you were never wrong. Do I seem afraid when you turn around the other way? I can't bear to fathom my days during your absence. I want to tell you everything. " -Unknown "I don't need anyone to take advantage of my weaknesses or my strengths, I need someone who will appreciate me for everything that I am." -Unknown "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone" - Bill Cosby "Life is short -- kiss slowly, love deeply, and forgive quickly..forget the past, but remember what it taught you." -Unknown "Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it. " -Confucius "The best index to a person' character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back. " -Abigail Van Buren "Don't find fault. Find a remedy. " -Henry Ford "Deal with the faults of others as gently as your own. " -Chinese proverb "It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. " -Marcus Aurelius "The measure of a truly great man is the courtesy with which he treats lesser men. " -Unknown "Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality. " -Kahlil Gibran "Hate is like acid. It can damage the vessel in which it is stored as well as destroy the object on which it is poured. " -Ann Landers "Do something for somebody every day for which you do not get paid. " -Albert Schweitzer "Only a life lived in the service of others is worth living. " -Albert Einstein "He who has health has hope. And he who has hope has everything. " -Arabian proverb "The best sense of humour belongs to the man who can laugh at himself. " -Unknown "Life is good only when it is magical and musical, a perfect timing and consent, and when we do not anatomise it. You must treat the days respectfully...You must hear the bird's song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs. " -Ralph Waldo Emerson "One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself. " -Lucille Ball "There is not enough darkness in the whole world to extinguish the light of one small candle. " -Spanish proverb "Those things that hurt, instruct. " -Benjamin Franklin "Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakes. " -Carl Jung "Your goal is to find out who you are. " -Unknown "If you put a small value upon yourself you can be sure that the world will not raise your price. " -Unkown "Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the power of the mind. " -Marcel Proust "Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you a hundred virtues which the idle will never know. " -Charles Kingsley "I've shut the door on yesterday And thrown the key away - Tomorrow has no fears for me, Since I have found today. " -Vivian Y Laramore "Write in your heart that every day is the best day of the year. " -Ralph Waldo Emerson "Be yourself. Nobody is better qualified. " -Unknown "Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. " -Leonard Bernstein "Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake. " -Sir Francis Bacon "What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. " -Aristotle "Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's a day when you've had everything to do, and you've done it. " -Lord Acton :Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. " -Scott Adams "An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. " -Buddha "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 "Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. " -Buddha "It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways. " -Buddha "We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. " -Buddha "How do you love people? Just accept them. Complete acceptance is unconditional love. " -Andrew Matthews "Real love stories never have endings. " -Richard Bach "Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly." -Rose Franken "When you come right down to it, the secret of having it all is loving it all." -Dr. Joyce Brothers "God only makes happy endings. If it's not happy, then it's not the end!" "Life is filled with happiness, sadness, tears, smiles, laughter and other emotions but when life gets you down, just be strong about it and keep your head up high and have faith in all things in life. Always remember: God is at your side, always." -Unknown "Throughout life you will meet one person who is unlike any other. This person is one you could forever talk to. They understand you in a way that no one else does or ever could. This person is your soulmate, your best friend. Don't ever let them go, for they are your guardian angel sent from heaven up above." -Unknown "If it looks good, you'll see it; if it sounds good, you'll hear it; if it's priced right, you'll buy it; but if it's real, you'll feel it.� - Kid Rock �Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried.� - Shakespeare �Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.� -Laurence J. Peter �One of my problems is that I internalize everything. I can�t express anger; I grow a tumor instead.� -Woody Allen �Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.� -Sydney Smith �Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.� -H. Jackson Brown, Jr. �To measure the man, measure his heart.� -Malcolm Stevenson Forbes �A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.� -Ken Ke �Don�t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.� -Richard L. Evans |