Cool Quotes
"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence." --Helen Keller
"It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it." --John Steinbeck
"One should count each day a separate life." --Seneca
"Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them." -- Brendan Francis
"It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was." --Anne Sexton
"The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile." --Bertrand Russell
"Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you." --Malcolm Cowley
"There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head." --Teddy Roosevelt
"Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." --Anna Freud
"True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful." --Paul Sweeney
"What you are afraid to do is a clear indicator of the next thing you need to do." --Anon.
"I wanted to be scared again . . . I wanted to feel unsure again. That's the only way I learn, the only way I feel challenged." --Connie Chung
"Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without." --Dr. James C. Dobson
"Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them." -- Alfred North Whitehead
"If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it." -- Mary Engelbreit
"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything." -- George Bernard Shaw
"You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted." -- Ruth E. Renkl
"If you can't accept losing, you can't win." --Vince Lombardi
“Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard think makes it impossible." --George C. Lorimer
"Life is either always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope." --Edith Wharton
"No one is happy all his life long." --Euripides
"I want to do it because I want to do it." --Amelia Earhart
"Every moment that I am centered in the future, I suffer a temporary loss of this life." --Hugh Prather
"Whatever you do, don't give up. Because all you can do once you've given up is bitch. I've known some great bitchers in my time. With some it's a passion, with others an art." --Molly Ivins
"I'm not happy. I'm cheerful. There's a difference. A happy woman has no cares at all. A cheerful woman has cares but has learned how to deal with them." --Beverly Sills
"The world belongs to the energetic." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
"My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate – that's my philosophy." --Thornton Wilder (from The Skin of Our Teeth)
"The squeaky wheel doesn't always get greased; it often gets replaced." --John Peers
"I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do. That is character! --Teddy Roosevelt
"From self alone expect applause." --Marion L. Burton
"She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not care to be herself." --Anais Nin
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can. ~Danny Kaye
I am somebody. I am me. I like being me. And I need nobody to make me somebody. ~Louis L'amour
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. ~ Montaigne
Little deeds of kindness, Little words of love, Help to make earth happy, Like the heaven above. ~ Julia Fletcher Carney
To acheive, you need thought...You have to know what you are doing and that's the real power. ~ Ayn Rand
...There is no end to what you can accomplish if you don't care who gets the credit. ~ Florence Luscomb
…Some of us just go along...until that marvelous day people stop intimidating us-or should I say we refuse to let them intimidate us? ~ Peggy Lee
To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever. ~ Anonymous
He that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast. ~ Proverbs 15:15
If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you'll get the best. Begin to live as you wish to live. ~Anonymous
For life is the mirror of king and slave. 'Tis just what you are and do; Then give the world the best you have, and the best will come back to you. ~ Madeline S. Bridges
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them. ~ Mark Twain
Walk away from it until you're stronger. All your problems will be there when you get back, but you'll be better able to cope. ~ Lady Bird Johnson
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain: if I can ease on life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain. ~ Emily Dickinson
As one goes through life one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move. ~ Katharine Hepburn
Don't be afraid of the space between our dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so. ~ Belva Davis
Your heart often knows things before your mind does. ~ Polly Adler
The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it: if you can't ignore it, top it: if you can't top it, laugh at it: if you can't laugh at it, it's probably deserved. ~Russell Lynes
Jump into the middle of thigs, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars. ~ Joan L. Curcio
Let us go singing as far as we go; the road will be less tedious. ~Virgil
Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-concious and anything self-concious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things. ~ Ray Bradbury
It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous, that you realize how much you love them. ~ Agatha Christie
Do not make yourself low; people will tread on your head. ~ Yiddish proverb
My crown is in my heart, not on my head;not deck'd with diamonds and Indian stones, nor to be seen: my crown is call'd content; a crown it is that seldom kings enjoy. ~ William Shakespeare
You carry away with you a reflection of me, a part of me. I dreamed you; I wished for your existence. You will always be a part of my life. If I love you, it must be because we shared, at some moment, the same imaginings, the same madness, the same stage. - Anais Nin (from Henry and June)
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning. - Ivy Baker Priest
Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You can't leave footprints in the sands of time by sitting on your butt. And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time? - unknown
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused - unknown
The Boys who make you cry aren't worth your tears, and the one who is won't make you cry. - unknown
The question is not what you look at but what you see - Henry David Thoreau
If you can’t be a good example, then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning - Catherine Arid
Relationships—of all kinds—are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold on to some of it, but most will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too posessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost.
— Kaleel Jamison, "The Nibble Theory"
Each of us is composed of the sums he has not counted. - Thomas Wolfe
Can you imagine what the world would be like if we all could become what we might be? - Molly Cohran and Warren Murphy "World Without End"
If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and, if all else remained and he were annihilated the Universe would turn to a mighty stranger, I should not seen a part of it. - Bronte
Imagination is just intelligence having fun. - Unknown
"What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not." --St Augustine
"There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best." --Doris Lessing
"Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate." --Alexander Pope
"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin and Hobbes
The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues. - Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures.
"Fifteen religions at least. That's a lot of religions for one God." - The Virginian (Owen Wilder)
"I thought I had a great idea today, but it never really took off. In fact, it didn't even get on the runway. I guess you could say it exploded in the hangar." - Calvin and Hobbes
"I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind." -Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte
'How can I help it?' he blubbered. 'How can I help seeing what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four.' "Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane." - 1984 (George Orwell)
"Certain things should just stay as they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone." - Holden, 'Catcher in the Rye'
"We create our fate every day we live." --Henry Miller
"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If we only knew the real value of a day." --Joseph Farrell
"The work will teach you how to do it." --Estonian proverb
"I learn by going where I have to go." --Theodore Roethke
"It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck, even while waiting for it." --Baltasar Gracian
"The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it's the opposition." --Nick Seitz
'We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are
spiritual beings having a human experience.'
IMAGINE ... You may say I'm a Dreamer, But I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, And the World will be as one! --John Lennon
ATTITUDE: The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than success, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. It will make or break a company...a church...a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past...we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one thing we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you...we are in charge of our attitudes. --Charles Swindoll
Sometimes I wonder... Why Me? Why must I endure this hardship? What's in it for Me? Then I remember ... It's Not always about Me ... but, perhaps the effect I may have on others! --Mark Peltier-Robson
In the middle of difficulty lies Opportunity. --Albert Einstein
Who am I? - Rivers flow; the Sea sings. Oceans roar; Tides rise. Who am I? A small pebble on a giant Shore. Who am I to ask who I am? Isn't it enough to Be? --Judie Robson
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. --William Shakespeare
“I had such a love for him my heart couldn’t hold it. Every time I looked at him it flopped around like one of the fish he’d toss on the table after catch. And when he’d sweep me up like he liked to do and swing me around, I wouldn’t be dizzy from the spinning, but just from the smell of him.” --Nora Roberts
“People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it. Predicting the future is much too easy, anyway. You look at the people around you, the street you stand on, the visible air you breathe, and predict more of the same. To hell with more. I want better.” (Beyond 1984: The People Machines)
Have you ever noticed that the worst way to
miss someone is when they are right beside you and
yet you can never have them.....when the moment you
can't feel them under your fingertips you miss them?
Have you ever wondered which hurts the most; saying
something and wishing you had not, or saying nothing
and wishing you had? I guess the most important things
are the hardest things to say. Don't be afraid to tell
someone you love them. If you do, they might break
your heart ... but if you don't, you might break
theirs.
Have you ever decided not to become a couple because
you were so afraid person? Your heart decides who
it likes and who it doesn't. You can't tell your heart
what to do. It does it on its own ... when you least
suspect it, or even when you don't want it to.
Have you ever wanted to love someone with everything
you had, but that other person was too afraid to let
you? Too many of us stay walled because we are too
afraid to care too much...for fear that the other
person does not care as much, or at all.
Have you ever loved someone and they had absolutely
no idea whatsoever? Or fell for your best-friend in
the entire world, and then sat around and watched
him/her fall for someone else?
Have you ever denied your feelings for someone
because your fear of rejection was too hard to handle?
We tell lies when we are afraid....afraid of what we
don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid
of what will be found out about us. But every time we
tell a lie... the thing we fear grows stronger.
Life is all about risks and it requires you to
jump. Don't be a person who has to look back and
wonder what they would have, or could have had.
No one waits forever...
Food for Thought: * There are three kinds of people: those who can count & those who can't. * Don't use a big word where a diminutive one will suffice. * I used up all my sick days, so I'm calling in dead. * Mental Floss prevents moral decay! * Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change ready. * Be nice to your kids . . . they'll be the ones choosing your nursing home. * Proofread carefully to see if you any words out. * There can't be a crisis today, my schedule is already full. * I'd explain it to you, but your brain would explode. * Did you ever stop to think . . . and forget to start again? * A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking. * I don't have a solution, but I admire the problem. * Don't be so open minded that your brains fall out. * If at first you DO succeed, try not to look astonished! * Diplomacy is the art of letting someone have your way. * It's not hard to meet expenses, they're everywhere.
"Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can." --Elsa Maxwell
"There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he may lose it." --Owen Meredith
"Doubt is not a pleasant state, but certainty is a ridiculous one." --Voltaire
"I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers." --Helen Keller
"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some." --Charles Dickens
"Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still." --Chinese proverb
"Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another." Madonna
"What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties."
--Katherine Mansfield
"Yard by yard it's very hard. But inch by inch, it's a cinch."
--Anon.
"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step."
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"If we take care of the inches, we will not have to worry about the miles." --Hartley Coleridge
"Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in."
--Katherine Mansfield
"Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"When it comes to your health, I recommend frequent doses of that rare commodity among Americans - common sense."
--Vincent Askey
"I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat."
--Harold Wilson
"Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be." --Clementine Paddleford
"If you do what you have always done, you'll get what you've always gotten." --Anon.
"A happy life is made up of little things . . . a gift sent, a letter written, a call made a recommendation given, transportation provided, a cake made, a book lent, a check sent." --Carol Holmes
"Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous." --Yehudi Menuhin
"It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music."
--Ursula K. Le Guin
"In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain." --George Szell
"I quote others only the better to express myself."
--Michel de Montaigne
"Next to being witty yourself, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit." --Christian N. Bovee
"When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple; take it and copy it." --Anatole France
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end
may also be only the beginning. --Ivy Baker Priest
People have to talk about something just to keep their good
voice boxes in working order, so they'll have good voice boxes
in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Kat Stratford: I hate the way you talk to me / And the way you cut your hair. / I hate the way you drive my car. / I hate it when you stare. / I hate your big dumb combat boots / And the way you read my mind. / I hate you so much it makes me sick -- / It even makes me rhyme. / I hate the way you're always right. / I hate it when you lie. / I hate it when you make me laugh -- / Even worse when you make me cry. / I hate it that you're not around / And the fact that you didn't call. / But mostly I hate the way / I don't hate you -- / Not even close, not even a little bit, not any at all.
I know that a life without love is no life at all.
--Ever After
You can't leave anything to Fate, boy. She's got a lot to do. Sometimes, you have to give her a hand.
--Every After
That's thirty minutes away. I'll be there in ten.-
Humperdink: "I would not say such things if I were you."
Buttercup: "Why? You cannot hurt me. Westley and I are joined by the bonds of love. And you cannot track that, not with a thousand bloodhounds. And you cannot break it, not with a thousand swords! And when I say that you are a coward, that is only because you are the slimiest weakling ever to crawl the earth!!"
- The Princess Bride
'It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great.'
"Soon you will see that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb."
-Dark Helmet
"Searching for a boy in high school is like searching for meaning in a Pauly Shore movie."
-Clueless
"I have not slept for fear I would wake and find this but a dream."
-Ever After
"They say every atom in our body was once part of a star, maybe i'm not leaving, maybe i'm just going home" Gatacca
Look, I guarantee that we'll have tough times.
I guarantee that at some point, one or both of us would want to get out of this thing. And I guarantee, that if I don't ask you to be mine, I'll regret it for the rest of my life, coz I know in my heart, you're the only one for me.
--runaway bride (a marriage proposal)
Warren: "Why don't you take these CD's and shove them up your ass?"
Lucas: "Becasue it would hurt a lot, Warren."- Empire Records
"Not that I condone fascism, or any ism for that matter. Isms in my opinion are not good. A person should not believe in an ism - he should believe in himself."-Ferris Bueler's Day Off
"This has GOT to be a nine-point-oh on my weird-shit-o-meter."-Men In Black
"Next time you talk to yourself, tell yourself you're single and end the conversation!"
--- While You Were Sleeping
"Never underestimate the power of denial!"
--- American Beauty
"i DO HAVE A TEST TODAY, THAT WASN'T BULLSHiT. iT'S ON EUROPEAN SOCiALiSM. i MEAN, REALLY, WHAT'S THE POiNT? i'M NOT EUROPEAN. i DON'T PLAN ON BEING EUROPEAN. SO, WHO GiVES A CRAP IF THEY'RE SOCiALiSTS? THEY COULD BE FASCiST ANARCHiSTS, iT STiLL WOULDN'T CHANGE THE FACT THAT i DON'T OWN A CAR."
-FERRiS BUELLER, FERRiS BUELLER'S DAY OFF
"I'm not supposed to love you, I'm not supposed to care, I'm not supposed to live my life wishing you were there, I'm not supposed to wonder where you are and what you do, I'm sorry I can't help I fell in love with you."
"Often we walk away from our dreams afraid that we might fail, but even worse afraid that we might succeed." ~ Finding Forrester
Live For Today, Not For Tomorrow. For What Is Tomorrow? Only Another Today."
"I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you... If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
We are crazy. But being crazy together is fine. – Ray Bradbury
"The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow."
--H. G. Wells
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask ‘where have I gone wrong?’ Then a voice says to me. ‘This is going to take more than one night.’ –Charlie Brown
"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." --Dorothy Nevill
"It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life." --Randall Jarrell
"Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur." --Muriel Spark
"It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish." --S. I. Hayakawa
"When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself."
--Louis Nizer
"To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward." --Margaret Fairless Barber
"Trust in Allah, but tie your camel." --Arabian proverb
"Our entire life--consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are."
--Jean Anouilh
"Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination." --Barbara Grizutti Harrison
"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come close to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge." --Albert Einstein
"The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning." --Ivy Baker Priest
"You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty." --Sacha Guitry
"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong." --Ella Fitzgerald
"Let me listen to me and not to them." --Gertrude Stein
"The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind." --Eric Hoffer
"Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got."
--Art Buchwald
"Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other, everything to gain." --Diane De Pottiers
"Better by far you should forget and smile, than that you should remember and be sad." --Christina Rosetti
"You know what they call the guy who finishes last in medical school? They call him Doctor!" --Abe Lemons
"My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and go to bed at night. In between I occupy myself as best I can." --Cary Grant
"I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely." --Kim Basinger
"If you can't be thankful for what you receive, be thankful for what you escape." --Anon.
"Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided."
--Alphonse Karr
"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
--George Eliot
"The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it." --Chinese proverb
"Change occurs when one becomes what she is, not when she tries to become what she is not."
--Ruth P. Freedman
"Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections."
--Saint Francis de Sales
"When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity."
--John F. Kennedy
"Sainthood is acceptable only in saints."
--Pamela Hansford Johnson
"With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Success comes before work only in the dictionary."
--Anon.
"Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun."
--Don Marquis
"Adventure is worthwhile in itself."
--Amelia Earhart
"Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another." --Condorcet
"All serious daring starts from within."
--Eudora Welty
"Never raise your hand to your children – it leaves your midsection unprotected."
--Robert Orben
"Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way around."
--David Lodge
"Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will."
--Jawaharlal Nehru
"Perhaps I am stronger than I think."
--Thomas Merton
"Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can – and surely will at times – fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk." --Dr. Joyce Brothers
"Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be."
--Grandma Moses
"We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open."
--Shakti Gawain
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
--Anais Nin
"…the completion of an important project has every right to be dignified by a natural grieving process. Something that required the best of you has ended. You will miss it.
--Anne W. Schaef
"You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty." --Sacha Guitry
"Dying is easy. Comedy is difficult."
--Edmund Gwenn, actor, on his deathbed
"Many live by their wits but few by their wit."
--Laurence Peter
"When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep." --Ursula K. LeGuin
"He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them."
--Lao-tzu
"When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before." --Clifton Fadiman
"An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?"
--Michel de Saint-Pierre
"Never face facts; if you do you'll never get up in the morning." --Marlo Thomas
"Booze may not be the answer, but it helps you to forget the question." -- Lt. Henry Mon, USAF, circa 1961
"Growing up is never easy. You hold on to things that were. You wonder what's to come. But that night, I think we knew it was time to let go of what had been, and look ahead to what would be. Other days. New days. Days to come. The thing is, we didn't have to hate each other for getting older. We just had to forgive ourselves... for growing up." -the Wonder Years
"I guess the difference is, when I sleep with someone for the first time, I don't want it to be for just any reason. I want it to be for every reason." Dawson
"Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold."
--Maurice Setter
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