Profundities
(noun, plural; deeply or intensely felt ideas or matters)

The next thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one. --Ralph Waldo Emerson




Love is a child's kiss


In Wisdom is much grief


A man soon learns how little he knows when a child begins to ask questions


Marriage is not something one tries on for size and decides to keep, it is rather something one decides with a promise and then bends every effort to keep. (Leon Kass)


In Beauty may I walk. (a Navajo prayer)


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)


A child does not have to be taught how to be happy or the ways of love. It is fear, hatred, & prejudice that have to be taught. And from the condition of the world we can see that unfortunately there are some very good teachers. (Javan)


The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him. (Stanislaw Jerszy Lec)


Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child. (Ron Wild)


The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched...but are felt in the heart. (Helen Keller)


In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and still they're beautiful. (Alice Walker)


The only disability in life is a bad attitude. (Scott Hamilton)


Time is too slow for those who wait,
too swift for those who fear,
too long for those who grieve,
too short for those who rejoice,
But for those who love,
Time is Eternity.


The quickest way for a parent to get a child's attention is to sit down and look comfortable. (Lane Olinghouse)


No dream is too high for those with their eyes in the sky. (Buzz Aldrin)


Earth laughs in flowers. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)


You are a very special person--become what you are. (Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu)


Having a child is like growing another heart. (Rosie O'Donnell)


none of us get enough naps, naps are essential for mental health. naps are productive-contrary to what we've been taught. (SARK)


When you come to the edge of all the light you have, and must take a step into the darkness of the unknown, believe that one of two things will happen to you: either there will be something solid for you to stand on, or, you will be taught how to fly. (Patrick Overton)


Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. (James Dean)


Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.(William Hazlitt)


You make each day a special day by just your being you. (Mr. Rogers)


Make a memory with your children,
Spend some time to show you care;
Toys and trinkets can't replace those
Precious moments that you share.
(Elaine Hardt)


It is never too late to be what you might have been. (George Eliot)


When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. (Harriet Beecher Stowe)


The little girl expects no declaration of tenderness from her doll. She loves it, and that's all. It is thus that we should love. (De Gourmont)


Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp. (Jean Dubuffet)


All debits in life are payed in full, no action goes unanswered, this is the law of Karma. (Siddhartha Guatama, The Buddha)


Keep your face always toward the sunshine and the shadows will fall behind you. (unknown)


To have ideas is to gather flowers. To think is to weave them into garlands. (Anne-Sophie Swetchine)


Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire. (William Butler Yeats)


It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown-as for children-the days are long with gathering of experience. (The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft [Modern Library])


Bloom where you're planted. (Mary Engelbreit)


The deepest American dream is not the hunger for money or fame; it is the dream of settling down, in peace and freedom and cooperation, in the promised land. (Scott Russell Sanders)


Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. (Semisonic)


Nothing but the heart can change the heart. (Carroll O'Connor)


And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor. (The Declaration of Independence)


We love because it is the only true adventure. (Nikki Giovanni)


If you can't have the best of everything, make the best of everything you have! (Anon)


If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it. (unknown)


Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. (Robert F. Kennedy)


Looking on the Bright Side of Life will Never Hurt Your Eyes


What does not destroy me, makes me strong. (Friedrich Nietzche)


Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. (Williams Childs)


You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. (Barbara De Angelis)









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