Laughter
"Time spent laughing is time spent with the gods." - Japanese proverb.
"The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed." --Chamfort
"Laugh and the world laughs with you; snore and you sleep alone." - Anthony Burgess
Life and death
"I'm beginning to realize that things don't turn out the way you want them to. And sometimes, when they don't, they can turn out just a little bit better." - Looking for Alibrandi by Melinda Marchetta
"I've learnt this much: it doesn't matter what it costs, it's worth paying the price. You can't live cheap and you can't live for nothing. Pay the price and be proud you've paid it, that's what I reckon." - Darkness, be my friend by John Marsden
"People try so hard to destroy themselves." - Take my word for it by John Marsden
"The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt."
"The soul is connected with the body during a man's life on earth in the way that a light is reflected in a mirror. Should the mirror be destroyed, the light will continue to shine." - The Baha'i faith by Perkins and Hainsworth
"Death cancels everything but truth." - Anon
"men shut their doors against a setting sun." - William Shakespeare
"Life doesn't come with erasers." - Ina Hughes
"Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead." - Anon
"Three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." - Robert Frost
"Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down." - Ray Bradbury
"Nothing comes from nothing." - Lucretius
"The living need charity more than the dead." - George Arnold
"The difficulty in life is the choice." - George Moore
"A closing mind is a dying mind." - Edna Ferber
"From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life." - Winston Churchill
"Service is the rent we pay for being. it is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time." - Marion Wright Edelman
"You live through the darkness with what you learned in the light." - Hope MacDonald
"Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavour ought to be to set off that spark in one another." - Kenny Ausubel
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." - Walter Bagehot
"You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizons. the more things you love, the more things you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about - the more you have left when anything happens." - Ethel Barrymore
"Life is no brief candle to me. it is a sort of splendid torch which i have got a hold of for the moment, and i want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations." - George Bernard Shaw
"Partir, c'est mourir un peu". (To leave is to die a little). French Proverb
"First I was dying to finish high school and start college.
And then I was dying to finish college and start working.
And then I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work.
And then I was dying to retire.
And now, I am dying.
And suddenly, I realize - I forgot to live" - Anon
"I believe that imagination is stronger than know, that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts, that hope always triumphs over experience, that laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death." Robert Fulghum.
"Live every day as if it were your last and then some day you'll be right." --Anonymous
"To those who do not count their life in years, but in how life has touched them in the past and how much it can hold in the future; Youth is forever."
--Anonymous
"The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right."
"You don't have to worry about me.. I might have been born yesterday...but I stayed up all night." --Anonymous
"Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it." -Robert Frost
"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around." --Leo Buscaglia
"The time is always right to do what is right." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"Some people think of the glass as half full. Some people think of the glass as half empty. I think of the glass as too big." - George Carlin
"It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness." -Chinese proverb
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow." - Helen Keller
"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well." - Diane Ackerman.
"There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life... to give as much meaning to one's life as possible is right to me." - Anais Nin
"We're all spokes in the wheel, going to the point, getting the ball rolling. Have you ever seen a wheel with one spoke? It's not a wheel. You got to come from different directions to get to the same point. And roll." - Ice Cube
"If you won't die for something, you live for nothing." - Martin Luther King Jr., Jack Dawson in Titanic
"A life lived in fear is a life half lived." - Strictly Ballroom
Love
"Love is not what we become, but what we already are."
"Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear;
"Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand. - Mother Theresa
"If love is only a will to possess, it is not love." - Thich Nhat Hanh
"Kindness in words creates confidence
"You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back." - Barbara De Angelis
"Truly loving means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood." - Karen Casey
"You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving." - Amy Carmichael
"Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile."
"It only hurts when it is love." - Trey Lorenz
"Never frown not even when you're sad because you never know when someone is falling in love with your smile."
"In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities." - Janos Arnay
"What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork." - Pearl Bailey
"cras amet qui numquam amavit quique amavit cras ame"
- John Fowles' book The Magus ("Let those love now, who never loved before; Let those who always loved now love the more.")
"Is there a cure for a broken heart? Only time can heal your broken heart, just as time can heal broken arms and legs."
"'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"Quien bien te quiere te hara llorar." (Whoever really loves you will make you cry.) Anonymous
"Plaisir d'amour ne dure qu'un moment, chagrin d'amour dure toute la vie." (The joys of love are but a moment long, the pain of love endures one's whole life long.)
"It isn't possible to love and to part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal." E.M. Forster, A Room With A View
"They love you, for you are what they want to be. They hate me because I show them what they are." [Quote from the movie "Nixon"]
"There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate
it where it does not." - La Rochefoucauld
"There is no remedy for love but to love more." - Thoreau
"Have you ever been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up this whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life... you give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you, or smile at you, and then your life isn't you own anymore. Love takes all hostages. It gets inside you. it eats you out and leaves you crying in the
darkness, so a simple phrase like "maybe we should just be friends" or "how very perceptive" turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate
love." - Neil Gaiman
"Never let a fool kiss you and never let a kiss fool you." - Anon
"Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays.
Clutch it, and it darts away." - Dorothy Parker
"Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls." - Mother Theresa
"If you judge people you have no time to love them." - Mother Theresa
"Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. Love is content with the present, it hopes for the future, and it does not brood over the past. It's the day-in, day-out chronicle of irritations, problems, compromises, small disappointments, big victories and working toward common goals. If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in you life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough." - Ann Landers
"You've gotta dance like nobody's watching and love like it's never gonna hurt." - Anon
Miscellaneous
"Let your children go if you want to keep them." - Malcolm Forbes
"Loneliness is the most terrible poverty." - Mother Theresa
"Tears are the rinse water of an unhappy heart." - Raynor Schein
"One certainty we all accept is the condition of being uncertain and insecure." - Doris Lessing
"Measure a thousand times and cut once." - Turkish Proverb
"If you wait until you can do everything for everybody, instead of doing something for somebody, you'll end up not doing anything for anybody." - Malcolm Bane
"A house is not a home" - Polly Adler
"The paper burns but the words fly away." - Ben Joseph Akiba
"Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement." - Jim Hornung
"She was of course only too good for him; but nobody minds having what is too good for them." - Jane Austen
"Sanity is a cosy lie." - Susan Sontag
"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page." - St. Augustine
"A painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen." - Paul Valery.
"If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all." David Livingstone
"On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux."
(It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. )
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Worry never robs tomorrow of it's sorrow; it only saps today of it's strength" -- A.J. Cronin
"I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart." --Jerome K. Jerome
"Where there is music there can be no evil." - Miguel de Cervantes
The Past
"Waste not fresh tears over old griefs." - Euripides.
Personality
"It is easy to be brave from a safe distance." - Aesop
"Our inventions mirror our secret wishes." - Lawrence Dunhill
"One must first learn to live oneself before one blames others." - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everthing, and the calue of nothing." - Oscar Wilde
"Cruelty, ever proceeds from a vile mind and often from a cowardly heart." - George Eliot
"All that we are not stares back at what we are." - Auden
"nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even i have trouble doing it." - Tallulah Bankhead
"We must learn our limits. we are all something but none of us are everything." - Blaise Pascal.
"I always take my diary with me when i travel; one should always have something sensational to read on the train." - Oscar Wilde.
"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. " --Anais Nin
"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself." Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
"If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours." - Anon
"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own."
--Benjamin Disraeli
"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." -Mother Theresa
"My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there." --Indira Gandhi
"If you want to feel rich,just count all of the things you have that money can't buy." --Anonymous
"Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others." --Anonymous
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but when you look in the mirror, you are the beholder" ~ Mary Higgins Clark (from the book Weep No More My Lady)
Relationships among people
"You can fool some of the people all the time and all the people some of the time, but you can't fool all people all the time." - Abraham Lincoln.
"Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own." - Jonathan Swift.
"We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us." - Samuel Johnson.
"Sometimes you have to grow farther apart to grow closer together." - Unknown
"We live very close together. So, our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you don't help them, at least don't hurt them." - Dalai Lama
"If I try to be like him, who will be like me?" - Yiddish Proverb
"Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery." - Joyce Brothers
Truth
"Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid." - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"Never be ashamed of what you are. I am not ashamed of what you are." - Jackie Mason.
"Least said, soonest mended." - Proverb
"If you would convince others, seem open to conviction youself." - Earl of Chesterfield.
"You'll never find yourself until you face the truth" -- Pearl Bailey
"If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything." - Mark Twain.
"Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true." - Richard Bach
"If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." - Anatole France
"Trust no one. Only those who you trust can betray you." - Robert Goodkind
"You know how you blow bubbles and they're all pretty and beautiful and have rainbows in them and all kind of stuff like that? And then they burst and there's just an oily slick lying limply on the ground? That's the way life is sometimes..." - The Great Gatsby by John Marsden
"I know deep down I will never get over it... i will never fall in love again." - Looking for Alibrandi by Melinda Marchetta
when little fears grow great, great love grows there."
- William Shakespeare
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness
Kindness in giving creates love." - Lao Tzu
"That is the way it is with a wound. The wound begins to close in on itself, to protect what is hurting so much. And once it is closed, you no longer see what is underneath, what started the pain." - 'Joy Luck Club' by Amy Tan
"We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget." - Joan Didion
"When people talk to us about others they are usually dull, when they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting." - Oscar Wilde
"That is the best - to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny." -Gloria Vanderbilt
"Truth never damages a cause that is just." - Mohandas K. Gandhi
