"You will find as you look back upon your life
that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love."
~Henry Drummond~
~ Charo's Quotes of the Famous ~
"A slip of the foot, you may soon recover. But a slip of the tongue you may never get over."
~Benjamin Franklin~
"A woman's guess is more accurate than a man's certainty." ~Rudyard Kipling~
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely
players."
~William Shakespeare~
"Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all."
~St. Augustine~
"Common Sense is genius dressed in its working clothes." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson~
"Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount."
~Clare Booth Luce~
"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
~T. Roosevelt~
"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
courage to change the things I can,
and wisdom to know the difference."
~The Serenity Prayer~
"He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it."
~Dante~
"I do not regret the things I have done, but those I did not do!"
~Rory Cochrane~
"If you look toward the sunshine, you will never see the shadows."
~Hellen Keller~
"It is never to late to be what you might have been."
~George Eliot~
"Keep your face to the sunshine, and you cannot see the shadows."
~Helen Keller~
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy makin' other plans..."
~John Lennon~
"Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
~Gandhi~
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
~Eleanor Roosevelt~
"No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's
intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing."
~E.B. White~
"Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength."
~St. Francis de Sales~
"People only see what they are prepared to see."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
~Oscar Wilde~
"Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Others stay for awhile, leave footprints in our hearts, and we're never the same."
~Flavia Weedn~
"Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible."
~St. Francis of Assisi~
"Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are."
~Charles Augustin Sainte-Beauve~
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
~Eleanor Roosevelt~
"The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him
and is willing to trust him with his friendship."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~
"The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadow and storm."
~O.S. Marden~
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing."
~John Powell~
"The only way to have a friend is to be one"
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~
"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson~
"The ultimate measure of man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience,
but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
~Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.~
"The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear."
~Socrates~
"There is no remedy for love but to love more."
~Thoreau~
"There are no strangers, only friends we have yet to meet"
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~
"To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education."
~John Ruskin~
"Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end."
~John Boyle O'Reilly~
"True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary."
~Duc de la Rochefoucauld~
"You can blow out a candle, but you can't blow out a fire." ~Peter Gabriel~
"You can't escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."
~Abraham Lincoln~
"You live through the darkness with what you learned in the light."
~Hope MacDonald~
"You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived
are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love."
~Henry Drummond~
"What does not destroy me, makes me strong."
~Friedrich Nietzsche~
"What I aspired to be, and was not, Comforts me."
~R. Browning, Rabbi Ben Ezra~
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~
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