The quotes that have and continue to teach and inspire me. Authors are listed if known. I’ll add more as I stumble them.
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Courage is the judgment that something else is more important than fear. The brave may not live forever, but the cautious don’t live at all.
-Meg Cabot
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. –Dorothy Parker
“Draw a circle, not a heart, around the one you love because a heart can break but a circle goes on forever.”
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
-Voltaire
“Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.”
-Mark Twain
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
-Elizabeth Foley
“It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.”
- Epicurus
“Some people care too much. I think it’s called love.”
-Winnie the Pooh
Thought without action is a daydream; action without thought is a nightmare.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nothing will work unless you do.
-Maya Angelou
“Be a decent human being. Live your life with passion. Smile. A lot. Don’t rely on others to make things better when you can do it now. Always move forward and never regret. If you follow your heart through life and do what is best for yourself and others, you will truly be living the good life.”
-Preston Saks
Never lie, steal, cheat, or drink. But if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love. If you must steal, steal away from bad company. If you must cheat, cheat death. And if you must drink, drink in the moments that take your breath away.
-Hitch
Dance as though no one is watching
Love as though you’ve never been hurt
Sing as though no one can hear you
Live as though heaven is earth.
-Souza
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
-Mohandas Gandhi
To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.
-Lao Zi
If you do not change your direction, you may end up where you are heading.
-Lao Tzu
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.
-Lao Tzu
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
-Lao Tzu
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
-Lao Tzu
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
-Confucius
“To truly take a risk, you must jump in not head first, but heart first. That is why love is a risk. Your heart is the first to feel the effects, and the last to recover from them.”
-Amy Nutter
“No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.”
-Francois Mocuriac
“For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge you’ll never walk alone. People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed and redeemed and redeemed. Never throw out anybody. Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm.”
“What you are will show in what you do.”
-Thomas A. Edison
We don’t know who we are until we see what we can do.
-Martha Grimes
It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
-Goethe
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
-Thomas Carlyle
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
-Lao Tzu
“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breaths away.”
“If you can go to bed each night knowing you did something truly valuable, you’re a lucky guy. If you can’t, it’s not bedtime yet.”
-Dane Jensen
Be yourself; everyone else is taken.
-Oscar Wilde
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
-Oscar Wilde
It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.
-Oscar Wilde
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
-Oscar Wilde
She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.
-Oscar Wilde
Who, being loved, is poor?
-Oscar Wilde
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
-Oscar Wilde
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
-Oscar Wilde
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
-Oscar Wilde
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
-Oscar Wilde
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
-Oscar Wilde
You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
-Dr. Seuss
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
-Dr. Seuss
