Miscellanous Quotes Life " Everything happens according to the will of God. Have full faith in this. Then every place, every moment, every event of your life begins to feel like heaven and you are convinced that what is happenning is meant for you." "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow." -Anonymous "In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back." -Charlie Brown "And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." -Abraham Lincoln "Have the courage to live. Anyone can die." "A baby is God's opinion that life should go on." -Carl Sandburg "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." -Mark Twain "To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." -Ralph Waldo Emerson "When you were born you cried and the world rejoiced, live your life in such a manner, that when you die, you rejoice and the world cries." "Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." -Ralph Waldo Emerson Courage/Guts/Success "Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts." "Success is about hanging on when others give up." "To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will." "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals." "No guts, no glory. No pain, no gain." "You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them." -Michael Jordan "All things are difficult before they are easy." "Winners never quit and quitters never win." Happiness "Shared joy is double joy. Shared sorrow is half sorrow." -Swedish proverb "Recall it as often as you wish, a happy memory never wears out." -Libbie Fudim "Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have." Miscellaneous "A foolproof way to sculpt a cow is to take a big chunk of marble andchip away anything that doesn't look like a cow." - my friend Heidi sent it to me. I'm not sure where she got it. "Where there's pain, there's still feeling and where there's feeling, there's hope." -Tom Booker, The Horse Whisperer "One should not judge a man until he has walked a mile in his shoes." - Old Indian Proverb "Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." -Hellen Keller "It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice." "It takes 17 muscles to smile, and 47 muscles to frown. Conserve energy." "What you are is God's gift to you. What you become is your gift to God." "Sometimes no matter how much faith we have we lose people, but we never forget them. And sometimes it's those memories that give us the faith: to go on." "A dream is a wish your heart makes." "Stand up for what you believe in, even if your standing alone." "I'm not saying there won't be an Accident now, mind you. They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them." --Eeyore(Winnie-the-Pooh) Calvin: I'm a genius, but I'm a misunderstood genius. Hobbes: What's misunderstood about you? Calvin: Nobody thinks I'm a genius. -Calvin and Hobbes Back| Friendship Quotes| Love Quotes| Bible Verses |