I have been a quote lover for a long, long time. Thanks to many of you out there who have shared a lot of these with me throughout the years. They have had a great impact on me. My only hope is that I can LIVE the messages that many of these quotes so beautifully express, and perhaps, by sharing them with you, you can too. If we leave it as just words on paper (or on a screen) what good are we doing? Best wishes.... Enjoy... Kim
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. -Ovid
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth�c Tame the dragon and the gift is yours. -Noela Evans
Time is a created thing. To say, �gI don�ft have time�h is like saying, �gI don�ft want to.�h -Lao-Tzu
The unexamined life is not worth living. -Socrates
I am happy and content because I think I am. -Lesage
To live with change, to optimize change, you need principals that don�ft change. -Stephen Covey
Some people grumble that roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses. -Alphonse Karr
Life itself can�ft give you joy, unless you really will it. Life just gives you time and space, it�fs up to you to fill it. -unknown
We would do well to learn to ask how rather than whether someone is smart. -Nelson Goodman
There are few misfortunes in this world you cannot turn into personal triumphs if you have the iron will and necessary skills.
-Nelson Mandela
A civilization flourishes when people plant trees under whose shade they will never sit. -Greek Proverb
Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
~George Washington
Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if 9 out of 10 bring you nothing, one alone may repay you. -C.A. Tencin
A moment�fs insight is sometimes worth a life�fs experience.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. -Goethe
It�fs when you give of yourself that you truly give. -Kahlil Gibran
Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps if you are not willing to do the work. -unknown
No one ever works out and regrets it. You never go for a run and then when you�fre finished, wish you would have just stayed home. You never climb a mountain, get to the top, and say, �gI should have just been content to stay where I was.�h
-unknown (found on a Nike postcard years ago)
Our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves. -Wilhelm von Humboldt
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -Elbert Hubbard
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
True religion is the life we live, not the creed we profess.
-J.F. Wright
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one�fs courage.
-Anais Nin
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I ---
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
-Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. -Abraham Lincoln
Slow down and enjoy life. It�fs not only the scenery you miss by going too fast ? you also miss the sense of where you are going and why. -Eddie Cantor
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet. -James Oppenheim
Do not wait. The time will never be �gjust right�h. Start where you stand and work with whatever tools you way have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.
-Napoleon Hill
To give any less than your best, is to sacrifice a gift.
-Steve Prefontaine
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
-Peter Drucker
Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.
-Chinese Proverb
We cannot discover new oceans until we have the courage to lose sight of the shore. -Muriel Chen
You miss 100% of the shots you never take. -Wayne Gretzky
A person is a product of his own thoughts. Believe big and grow big. -David Schwartz
The only time we waste, is the time we spend thinking we are alone.
-Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet In Heaven (thanks to Markus)
It�fs easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is much better at the top. -Arnold Bennet (thanks to Nancy)
It is not our life�fs work to discover ourselves, rather it is our life�fs work to create ourselves. -George Bernard Shaw
(thanks to Dad)
Recognize that you have the courage within you to fulfill the purpose of your birth. Summon forth the power of your inner courage and live the life of your dreams.
-Gurumayi Chidvilasananda (thanks to Nancy)
Everything works out in the end. If it hasn�ft worked out, it�fs not the end. -unknown (thanks to Nancy)
The miracle is this ? the more we share, the more we have.
-Leonard Nimoy (thanks to Nancy)
Do one thing everyday that scares you. -Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness is a journey, not a destination.
For a long time, it seemed to me that life was about to begin ? real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. This perspective has helped me to see there is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way. So treasure every moment you have and remember that time waits for no one. -Souza
We don�ft see things as they are, we see them as we are.
-Anais Nin
It is always better to ask questions than to make an assumption, because assumptions set us up for suffering.
-Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements
I will is more important than IQ. -Marva Collins, teacher
It is wonderful to have a terrific mind, but it�fs been my experience that having outstanding intelligence is a very small part of the total package that leads to success and happiness. Discipline, hard work, perseverance, and generosity of spirit are, in the final analysis, far more important.
-Rafe Esquith, LA teacher, There Are No Shortcuts
Although it will undoubtedly be difficult to bring about genuine peace and harmony, clearly it can be done. The potential is there. And its foundation is a sense of responsibility on the part of each of us as individuals toward all others.
-Dalai Lama, Ethics for the New Millennium
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Feel free to email me your favorite quotes and/or feelings on any of the above ? thanks for reading!
NEW QUOTES!!!!
The rewards of the journey far outweigh the risk of leaving the harbor.
-unknown
Thanks to Jenny for this awesome quote - I love it! And my sister actually quoted this one to me (its Jenny's favorite, so we've all gotten used to seeing it in her emails) when I left for Japan - so it means a lot to me.
