Yesterday's Quotes

Yesterday's Quotes


" Life is like a landscape.
You live in the midst of it,
but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance."

" The most pleasant and useful persons are
those who leave some of the problems of the universe
for God to worry about"

" All human wisdom is summed up in two words:
wait and hope."

Alexandre Dumas

"Each day the world is born anew
for him who takes it rightly."

James Russell Lowell

"There are two tragedies of life.
One is not to get your heart's desire.
The other is to get it."

George Bernard Shaw

" Do not hold onto your yesterdays,
for the tomorrows that you are searching for
will never come"

" For peace of mind,
resign as general manager of the universe."

~~Anonymous~~

" The good things in life are like the birth of a child.."
Ninety percent waiting.

~~James Michener(b1907)American writer

" If you don't run your life someone else will."

~~John Atkinson~~

" His mother should have thrown him away
and kept the stork."

~~Mark Twain~~

" There's nothing wrong with you
that reincarnation won't cure."

~~Jack E. Leonard~~

" What we need is a cup of understanding,
a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience."

~~St. Francis de Sales~~

" If you keep doing what you've always done,
you'll keep getting what you've always gotten."

~~Anonymous~~

" Forgiveness does not change the past,
but it does enlarge the future."

~~Paul Boese~~

" Blessed are the flexible ,
for they shall not be bent out of shape."

~~Anonymous~~

" Life consists not in holding good cards,
but in playing those you hold well."

~~Josh Billings~~

" Joy increases as you give it
and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.
In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy
greater than you ever believed possible."

~~Norman Vincent Peale~~

" Every oak tree started out
as a couple of nuts that stood their ground."

~Anonymous~~

" I never lose an oportunity of urging a practical
beginning however small, for it is wonderful
how often the mustard seed germinates and roots itself."

~~Florence Nightingale~~

" The most beautiful action in the world is to love.
The second most beautiful is to give."

~~Bertha von Suttner~~

" The power that makes the grass grow, fruit ripen,
and guides the bird in flight is in all of us."

~~Anzia Yezierska~~

" Remember,there's no such thing as a small act of kindness.
Every act creates a ripple with no logical end."

~~Scott Adams~~

" Experience is a hard teacher
because she gives the test first,
the lesson afterward."

~~Vernon Law~~

" Worrying is like a rocking chair;
it gives you something to do,
but it doesn't get you anywhere."

~~Unknown~~

" Tis folly only, and defect of sense
Turns trifles into THINGS OF CONSEQUENCE."

~~Martial (40-103) Roman writer

" Even if you can't control the world around you,
you are still the master of your own soul."

~~David L Weatherford~~
From a 5th Portion of Chicken Soup For the Soul

" A true family is not always one's own flesh and blood.
It's a matter of the heart."

~~Shirley Barksdale~~

" Trust that if you take care of yourself on the inside,
your potential for happiness will be so much greater."

~~Trisha Yearwood ~~

" Mix a little foolishness with your prudence:
It's good to be silly at the right moment."

~~Horace, Roman poet and satirist ~~

" People are a lot like icebergs;
there's always so much more under the surface."

~~Andy Entwistle ~~
Chicken Soup For the Soul

"Man can live for about forty days without food,
and about three days without water,
about eight minutes without air
... but only for one second without hope."

- Hal Lindsey -

" Words like Nature, half reveal/
And half conceal the soul within."

~~Alfred,Lord Tennyson, English poet~~

" Words are, of course,
the most powerful drug used by mankind."

~~Rudyard Kipling, English author~~

" Anger or hatred is like a fisherman's hook.
It is very important for us to ensure
that we are not caught by it."

~~Dalai Lama~~

" It's not the honors and not the titles
and not the power that is of ultimate importance.
It's what resides inside."

~~Fred Rogers~~

" The future enters into us,
in order to transform us,
long before it happens."

~~Rainer Maria Rilke~~

" Be who you are and say what you feel
because those who mind don't matter
and those who matter don't mind."

~~Dr. Suess~~

" All receive advice. Only the wise profit from it."

~~Syrus~~

" There is only one corner of the universe,
you can be certain of improving,
and that's your own self."

~Aldous Huxley~

" No one grows old by living,
only by losing interest in living."

~~~Marie Beyron Ray~~

" We must learn to live together as brothers
or perish together as fools."

~~~Martin Luther King, Jr.~~

" The weak can never forgive.
Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

~~~Mohandas Gandhi~~

" It's hard to make New Year's resolutions
when you're already perfectly behaved."

~~~Judith Martin~~

" A man does not have to be an angel
in order to be a saint ."

~~~Albert Schweitzer~~

" I've learned that reality is what it is,
not what I would like it to be ."

~~~Sally P.Karioth,Ph.D.,R.N.

" Humilty is the solid foundation of all virtues."
~~Confucius~~

" A leader takes people where they want to go.
A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go , but ought to be."

~~Rosalynn Carter~~

" If we did all the things we are capable of doing,
we would literally astound ourselves."

~~Thomas Edison~~

" In our era, the road to holiness,
necessarily passes through the world of action"."

~~Dag Hammarskjold~~

" Life can only be understood backwards,
but must be lived forwards."."

~~Soren Kierkegard~~

" Good resolutions are simply checks
that men draw on a bank where they have no account."

~~Oscar Wilde~~

" It's also very helpful to realize that this very body,
that we have, that's sitting right here right now...
with its aches and pleasures...
is exactly what we need to be
FULLY HUMAN,fully awake ,fully alive."

~~Pema Chodron,Tibetan buddhist nun,teacher,and author~~

" Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature,
with which she indicates how much she loves us."

~~Johann W. Von Goethe~~
(1749-1832)German poet and playwright

" The value of a life is best measured
by the moments spent giving of one's self...
sharing wisdom, inspiring hope,
wiping tears and touching hearts."

~~David L Weatherford~~

" You are what you decide to be,,
not who other people decide for you to be."

~~Cynthia Hammond~~
From Chicken Soup for the College Soul

" A rose, bent by the wind and pricked by thorns,
yet has its heart turned upwards."

~~HUNA (c.216-297 a.d.)~~
Babylonian writer

" Blessed is he who carries within himself a god,
an ideal, and obeys it."

~~Louis Pasteur~~

" Those who cannot remember the past
are condemned to repeat it."

~~George Santayana~~

" If you don't have the time to do something right,"
where are you going to find the time to fix it."

~~Stephen King~~(submitted by ivyb2000)

" To prolong life, worry less."

~~Chinese proverb~~

" The big secret in life is that -
there is no big secret..
Whatever your goal, you can get there if you are willing to work."

~~Oprah~~

" Tell me, I'll forget. Show me , I may remember.-
But involve me, and I'll understand."

~~Chinese proverb~~

" It isn't life that weighs us down-
it's the way we carry it."

~~Elizabeth Potier~~

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