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2007 Quote Archives:
January Quotes:
| Tension is who we think we should be. Relaxation is who we are. -Proverb |
| When in doubt, take a bath. -Mae West |
| Adopt the peace of nature. -Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. -Bertrand Russell |
| Take time to marvel at the wonders of life. -Gail Lundy |
| Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life. -Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Let there be more joy and laughter in your living. -Eileen Caddy |
| The essence of health is an inner kind of balance. -Andrew Weil, M.D. |
| Take time every day to do something ridiculous. -Philipa Walker |
| There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them. -Sylvia Plath |
| You have to take time to live. Living takes time. -Eleanor McMillen Brown |
| I loaf and invite my soul. -Walt Whitman |
| Rest is not a matter of doing absolutely nothing. Rest is repair. -Daniel W. Josselyn |
| Nothing is more sacred than your peace of mind. -Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time. -Abraham Lincoln |
| Give your soul some elbow room. -Denise Sharp |
| Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. -Mary Jean Irion |
| There comes a time when you roll up your sleeves and put yourself at the top of your commitment list. -Marian Wright Edelman |
| Be glad you had the moment. -Steve Shagan |
| Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way. -Walter Hagen |
| These are the magic years…and therefore magic days…and therefore magic moments. -Anonymous |
| Balance is beautiful. -Miyoki Ohno |
| Learn to pause… or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you. -Doug King |
| A balanced life --- I've heard of it! -Les Kurtz |
| Live a balanced life. Learn some and think some, and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. -Robert Fulghum |
| Things to do today: Inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale. Ahhhh! -Kobi Yamada |
| Always leave enough room in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, or even joyous. -Paul Hawken |
| Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at anytime and be yourself. -Hermann Hesse |
| What is this life, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare? -William Henry Davies |
| While you are upon the earth, enjoy the good things that are here. -John Selden |
| Simple pleasures… the last refuge of the complex. -Oscar Wilde |
February Quotes:
| There is in us something wiser than our head. -Schopenhauer |
| If one can say that one has built genuinely loving relationships with a spouse and children, then one has already succeeded in accomplishing more than most people accomplish in a lifetime. -Scott Peck |
| Four hugs a day are necessary for survival, Eight for maintenance, Twelve for growth. -Unknown |
| There is nothing like having grandchildren to restore your faith in heredity. -Doug Larson |
| No gift you give your mother can compare to the gift your mother gives you. -Unknown |
| We never know the love of a parent until we become parents ourselves. -Henry Ward Beecher |
| Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children. -Alex Haley |
| The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories. -Og Mandino |
| When you teach your son, you teach your son’s son. -The Talmud |
| Parents can plant magic in a child’s mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit. -Robert MacNeil |
| Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism. -Leo Buscaglia |
| We become a part of the people we love, and they become a part of us. -Unknown |
| One reason a dog can be such a comfort when you’re feeling blue is that he doesn’t try to find out why. -Lane Olinghouse |
| Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty; they merely move it from their faces into their hearts. -Martin Bauxbaum |
| Love and time: those are the only two things in all the world and all of life that cannot be bought, but only spent. -Gary Jennings |
| There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved. It is God’s finger on man’s shoulder. -Charles Morgan |
| Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love. -Thomas Szaz |
| Love is game that two can play and both win. -Eva Gabor |
| Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals. -Mahatma Gandhi |
| The opposite of love is not hate but is probably selfishness. -Chip Finch |
| True love is not a feeling by which we are overwhelmed. It is a committed, thoughtful decision. -Scott Peck |
| Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. -Franklin P. Jones |
| Love does not dominate; it cultivates. -Goethe |
| You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. -Kahlil Gibran |
| You can give without loving, but you can’t love without giving. -Unknown |
| Money buys everything except love, personality, freedom and immortality. -Unknown |
| Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. -C.S. Lewis |
| A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. -Nelson Mandela |
March Quotes:
| To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. -Charles Caleb Colton |
| No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. -Charles Dickens |
| Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries. -Corita Kent |
| Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given. -Deepak Chopra |
| The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work. -Oprah Winfrey |
| Memory feeds imagination. -Amy Tan |
| Price is what you pay. Value is what you get. -Warren Buffett |
| It's not having what you want. It's wanting what you've got. -Sheryl Crow |
| Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do. -Confucious |
| Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. -Maya Angelou |
| If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain. -Maya Angelou |
| March is the month of expectation. -Emily Dickinson |
| Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. -Victor Hugo |
| The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful. -E.E. Cummings |
| It's Spring Fever... you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so! -Mark Twain |
| Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. -Cicero |
| A very important part of the joy of living is the joy of giving. -William Buck |
| Anniversaries are the marks of the years--Prodding our reveries, Saying again and again, remember… -Calvin Miller |
| Appreciation is the memory of the heart. -Bill Beattie |
| Be happy. It is a way of being wise. -Colette |
| Blessed are those who have learned to laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be entertained. -John Powell |
| Care is a verb. -Clara Billings |
| Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them. -Richard L. Evans |
| One good heart attracts another. Each true friend deserves the other. -Shaker saying |
| Everybody needs a hug now and then. It changes your metabolism. -Leo Buscaglia |
| Friendship consists of forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives. -Alexandre Dumas the Younger |
| Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a tack; it should make you get up and do something about it. -Unknown |
| God gave us memories so that we might have roses in December. -J.M. Barrie |
| Happiness improves with practice. -Don Ward |
| I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel. -E.B. White |
| I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. -Emma Goldman |
April Quotes:
| If
you obey all the rules you miss all the fun. -Katharine
Hepburn |
| Imagination
is the highest kite you can fly. -Lauren Bacall |
| Imagination
is the preview of life’s coming attractions. -Larry
Eisenberg |
| Imagination:
The art of seeing things invisible. -Jonathan Swift |
| It's
a funny thing about life. If we refuse to accept anything
but the very best, we very often get it. -Somerset
Maugham |
| It
isn't the great big pleasures that count the most; it's
making a great deal out of the little ones. -Jean Webster |
| Love
can be divided endlessly and still not diminish. -Anne
Lindbergh |
| May
you have warm words on a cold evening, a full moon on
a dark night, and the road downhill all the way to your
door. -Irish Blessing |
| More
people succeed with great purpose rather than with great
talent. -Billy Sunday |
| My
friends are my estate. -Emily Dickinson |
| Never
postpone joy. -H. Jackson Brown |
| No
day ends if it makes a memory. -Jackie Erickson |
| No
symphony orchestra ever played music like a two-year-old
girl laughing with a puppy. -Bern Williams |
| Not
everything that can be counted counts, and not everything
that counts can be counted. -Albert Einstein |
| One
day at a time--this is enough. Live in the present and
make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.
-Ida Scott Taylor |
| People
who never get carried away should be. -Malcolm Forbes |
| Recall
as often as you wish; a happy memory never wears out.
-Libbie Fudim |
| Right
now is a good time. -Tote Yamada |
| The
mind determines what's possible. The heart surpasses it.
-Pilar Coolinta |
| Do
not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without
words? -Marcel Marceau |
| There
are souls in this world who have the gift of finding joy
everywhere---and leaving it behind them when they go.
-William Frederick Faber |
| There
is no such thing as wasted affection. -B.J. Marshall |
| Time
endears but cannot fade the memories that love has made.
-Norma Howland |
| To
love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
-David Viscott |
| We
can do more than imagine, we can create. -Dan Zadra |
| We
do not remember days, we remember moments. -Cesare
Pavese |
| We
really need only five things on this earth. Some food,
some sun, some work, some fun and someone. -Beatrice
Nolan |
| What
comes from the heart, goes to the heart. -Samuel Taylor
Coleridge |
| What
is life for? It is for you. -Abraham Maslow |
| Why
not learn to enjoy the little things--there are so many
of them. -Anonymous |
May Quotes:
| Won't you come into my garden? I want my roses to see you. -Richard B. Sheridan |
| You never know when you’re making a memory. -Rickie Lee Jones |
| You see, when you're hunting for the glad things, you sort of forget the other kind. -Eleanor H. Porter |
| You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. -Colette |
| Laughter is free, legal, has no calories, no cholesterol, no preservatives, and is absolutely safe. -Dale Irvin |
| Joy is not in things, it is in us. -J. Holland |
| Joy enters the room. It settles on the windowsill, waiting to see whether it will be welcome here. -Kim Chernin |
| To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. -Henry David Thoreau |
| I believe every person has a heart, and if you can reach it, you can make a difference. -Uli Derickson |
| Each laugh makes you 10 years younger! -Proverb |
| Every once in a while, take the scenic route. -H. Jackson Brown, Jr. |
| Stressed turned around is Desserts. -Loretta LaRoche |
| There's no time like the pleasant. -Oliver Herford |
| Friends are kind to each other's hopes. They cherish each other's dreams. -Henry David Thoreau |
| Youth lasts much longer than young people think. -Comtesse Diane |
| Love will always find a way. -English proverb |
| Blessed are those who are too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night. -Leo Aikman |
| Joys divided are increased. -Josiah Gilbert Holland |
| The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. -Joseph Campbell |
| You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness. -Unknown |
| The joy that we give to others is the joy that comes back to us. -John Greenleaf Whittier |
| Memories will bring you love from the past, courage in the present, hope for the future. -Sascha |
| We remember best what we love most. -James Langdon |
| When I haven't any blue, I use red. -Pablo Picasso |
| It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me. -Ellen Glasgow |
| I have only to take up this or that to flood my soul with memories. -Dorothee DeLuzy |
| Happiness lies in wait. -Hector Bianciotti |
| Your imagination is the true magic carpet. -Norman Vincent Peale |
| A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. -Frank Capra |
| Stung by the splendor of a sudden thought. -Robert Browning |
| The dream is not up there in the sky or the stars. It's right here in your heart. -Dan Zadra |
June Quotes:
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Memories are our greatest inheritance.-Peter Hamill
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| The hours that make us happy make us wise. -John Masefield |
| We don't stop laughing because we grow old---we grow old because we stop laughing. -Michael Pritchard |
| All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| May you live all the days of your life. -Jonathan Swift |
| Savor life's tiny delights---a crackling fire, a glorious sunset, a hug from a child, a walk with a friend, a cup of soup, a kiss behind the ear. -John Anthony |
| Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. -Scott Adams |
| By the work one knows the workman. -Jean de la Fontaine |
| Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. -Pablo Picasso |
| Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons. -Ruth Ann Schabacker |
| Creativity is a power intensifying life. -Rita Mae Brown |
| Arrange whatever pieces come your way. -Virginia Woolf |
| Cherish yesterday. Dream tomorrow. Live like crazy today. -Anonymous |
| Every problem is an assignment from your soul. -Robin Norwood |
| Invent your world. Surround yourself with people, color, sounds, and work that nourish you. -Sark |
| The passion to make and make again. -Adrienne Rich |
| Stretch your mind and fly. -African proverb |
| What you will do matters. All you need is to do it. -Judy Grahn |
| Life is to be felt, not figured out. -Thomas Hardy |
| The heart can do anything. -Molière |
| Never frown, because you never know when someone is falling in love with your smile. -Carol O'Leary |
| The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up. -Anonymous |
| The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The meaning of life is giving your gift away. -David Viscott |
| Everything in life responds to the song of the heart. -E. Holmes |
| Wherever you go, go there with all your heart. -William James |
| Thank God for regular days. -Gloria Gaither |
| May I never miss a sunset or a rainbow because I am looking down. -Sara June Parker |
| What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose. -Henry Ward Beecher |
| All that is worth cherishing begins in the heart. -Suzanne Chapin |
| I have a heart with room for every joy. -P.J. Bailey |
July Quotes:
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Spread your love everywhere you go. -Mother Teresa
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| Life is a great big canvas and you should throw all the paint on it you can. -Danny Kaye |
| Person to person, moment to moment, as we love, we change the world. -Samahria Lyte Kaufman |
| Works of art are made of concept, material…and feeling. -Kenneth Martin |
| More of me comes out when I improvise. -Edward Hopper |
| Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway. -Emory Austin |
| The proper use of imagination is to give beauty to the world. -Lin Yutang |
| Be yourself. No one can do that better than you, and no one can ever tell you you're doing it wrong. -James Leo Herlihy |
| Fun is fundamental. -Doug Hall |
| The next time your mind wanders, follow it around for a while. -Jessica Masterson |
| Anything can happen. That's the beauty of creating. -Ernie Harwell |
| Never lose your sense of wonder. -Joe Batten |
| Some days you just have to create your own sunshine. -Sam Sundquist |
| People ought to do what they want to do, what else are they alive for? -James Baldwin |
| Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun. -Mary Lou Cook |
Whatever comes from the heart carries the heat and color of its birthplace. -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Joys are our wings. -Jean Paul Richter |
| I have found that if you love life, life will love you right back. And if you love people, they will love you back. -Arthur Rubinstein |
| I like it, I do it. That's my code. -Alan Denlon |
| Let there be more joy and laughter in your living. -Eileen Caddy |
| Design must seduce, shape, and perhaps more importantly, evoke emotional response. -April Greiman |
| The artist brings something to the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else. -John Updike |
| Live a balance life. Learn some and think some, and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. -Robert Fulghum |
| Scatter joy. -Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work. -Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
| I dream my painting and then I paint my dream. -Vincent van Gogh |
| My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. -Ernest Hemingway |
| There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to become a butterfly. -Buckminster Fuller |
| I am not lost, I am exploring. -Jana Stanfield |
| You are not only good to yourself, but the cause of goodness in others. -Socrates |
| Make visible what, without you, might perhaps have never been seen. -Robert Bresson |
August Quotes:
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Good art is not what it looks like, but what it does to us. -Roy Azdak
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| What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? -Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| In love, one and one are one. -Jean-Paul Sartre |
| To be a power in the world, be yourself. -Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| To see a World in a grain of sand, And Heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour. -William Blake |
| Do few things but do them well, simple joys are holy. -St. Francis of Assisi |
| Every day is a once-in-a-lifetime day. -Anonymous |
| Families are like fudge…mostly sweet, with a few nuts. -Anonymous |
| Living on Earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around the sun every year. -Anonymous |
| Let's face it. Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once. -Gloria Portman |
| There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day. -Alexander Woolcott |
| Make rest and refreshment a necessity, not a luxury. -Dan Zadra |
| The human heart yearns for the beautiful. -Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| You, whose day it is, get out your rainbow colors and make it beautiful. -Traditional Nootka song |
| Each day comes to me with both hands full of possibilities. -Helen Keller |
| Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. -Leonardo da Vinci |
| From every scrap you make a blanket. -Rose Chernin |
| The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be. -Laura Wilson |
| Giving is the highest expression of our power. -Vivian Greene |
| Only the heart speaks to the heart. I needed to tell you my story as I need to hear yours, so that we may share our secrets and trust our hearts. -Judy Collins |
| Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy. -Gretta Brooker Palmer |
| Happiness isn't something you experience, it's something you remember. -Oscar Levant |
| The world is grand, awfully big and astonishingly beautiful, frequently thrilling. -Dorothy Kilgallen |
| Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day without suspecting our abode until we drive away. -Emily Dickinson |
| No one has ever become poor by giving. -Anne Frank |
| I like to go to Marshall Field's in Chicago just to see how many things there are in the world that I do not want. -Mother Mary Madeleva |
I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment. -Lucy Stone
Remember the feeling as a child when you woke up and morning smiled? It's time you felt like that again. -Taj Mahal |
| The world connects not by molecules. It connects through ideas, hopes, faces, dreams, actions, stories, and memories. -Barrie Sandord Greiff |
| The little things? The little moments? They aren't little. -John Zabat-Zinn |
| We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be. -Gladys Taber |
September Quotes:
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In each of us are places where we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them. -Dr. Joyce Brothers
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| The greatest gift that you give yourself is a little bit of your own attention. -Anthony J. D'Angelo |
| Appreciate the small things in life, then all of life will be appreciated. -Kathy Brooks |
| I say to the moment: Stay now! You are so beautiful! -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. -Rumi |
| I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives. -Tracy Chapman |
| You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. -Maya Angelou |
| Do things to make your day precious. -Bernie Siegel |
| Life, even in the hardest times, is full of moments to savor. They will not come this way again, not in this way. -Paula Rinehart |
| The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. -Friedrich Nietzsche |
| I have come to understand that every day is something to cherish. -Kerri Strug |
| Christmas tree baubles only become valuable when they are veterans, fetched down every year from the attic, a little more worse for wear each year but worth their weight in memories. -Peter Gray |
| Creativity, not destruction, should be the yardstick of greatness. -Fela Anikulapo Kuti |
| There is no “must” in art because it is free. -Wassily Kandinsky |
| There are no mistakes. What happens during the process of making something is sacred and organic. -Vicki Noble |
| I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music. -Joan Miro |
| Art is neither a profession nor a hobby. Art is a Way of being. -Frederick Franck |
| Remember to leave space in your relationships so the angels have room to play. -Unknown |
| More good has been launched by more people from kitchen tables than any other platforms in the land. -Jim Hightower |
| If you're surrounded by people you love, you must be home. -Dan Zadra |
| You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. -Jack London |
| The manner in which it is given is worth more than the gift. -Pierre Corneille |
| The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing. -Mignon McLaughlin |
| I tell you, the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people. -Vincent van Gogh |
| I would like to paint the way a bird sings. -Claude Monet |
| Beauty, truth, friendship, love, creation---these are the great values of life. We can't prove them, or explain them, yet they are the most stable things in our lives. -Jesse Herman Holmes |
| I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment. -Marc Chagall |
| Beauty is whatever gives joy. -Hugh Nibley |
| Beauty does not exist to be ignored, rather it is a reflection of the soul that invites our participation. -Linda Saccoccio |
| When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it. -Sigmund Freud |
October Quotes:
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I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back. -Maya Angelou
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| A laugh is a smile that bursts. -Mary H. Waldrip |
| A very important part of the joy of living is the joy of giving. -William Buck |
| Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do. -Gerry Sikorski |
| Blessed are those who have learned to laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be entertained. -John Powell |
| Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. -Max Eastman |
| Everybody needs a hug now and then. It changes your metabolism. -Leo Buscaglia |
| Follow your bliss. -Joseph Campbell |
| For the sake of making a living we forget to live. -Margaret Fuller |
| Happiness enters our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open. -John Barrymore |
| Happiness improves with practice. -Don Ward |
| Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to do whatever it takes to make them come true. -Leon J. Suenens |
| Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on. -Henry Burton |
| He who laughs, lasts. -Mary Pettibone Poole |
| I know that money won't buy me happiness, but I just need to find out for myself. -Michael Nolan |
| If you laugh a lot, when you get older your wrinkles will be in the right places. -Andrew Mason |
| If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun. -Katharine Hepburn |
| If you really want to be happy, no one can stop you. -Sister Mary Tricky |
| If you're already walking on thin ice, why not dance? -Gil Atkinson |
| It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis. -Margaret Bonano |
| It's kind of fun to do the impossible. -Walt Disney |
| Laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is. In fact, a good time to laugh is any time you can. -Linda Ellerbee |
| Life isn't just the front page---it's the comics, too. -Jim Althoff |
| May happiness touch your life today as warmly as you have touched the lives of others. -Rebecca Forsythe |
| No symphony orchestra ever played music like a two-year-old girl laughing with a puppy. -Bern Williams |
| Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. -Brenda Gill |
| People are more fun than anybody. -Dorothy Parker |
| Sometimes happiness just happens. -Robert Half |
| There is no happiness, but there are moments of happiness. -Spanish proverb |
| Things are beautiful if you love them. -Jean Anouilh |
| Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. -Ralph Waldo Emerson |
November Quotes:
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You don't stop playing because you are old; you grow old because you stop playing. -Unknown
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| You grow up the day you have your first real laugh--at yourself. -Ethel Barrymore |
| Anything worth taking seriously is worth making fun of. -Tom Lehrer |
| Joy is not in things, it is in us. -J. Holland |
| Hold out your hands to feel the luxury of the sunbeams. -Helen Keller |
| Happy are they who look for the good in all people, for they shall find it. -Loren Robertson |
| A bird does not sing because it has an answer---it sings because it has a song. -Proverb |
| The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out his nose. -Garrison Keillor |
| I would rather have 30 minutes of "wonderful" than a lifetime of nothing special. -Julia Roberts |
| Joys divided are increased. -Josiah Gilbert Holland |
| You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness. -Unknown |
| Let memories be beauty in your life, like song and roses in the winter sun. -Sascha |
| Happiness lies in wait. -Hector Bianciotti |
| The hours that make us happy make us wise. -John Masefield |
| We don't stop laughing because we grow old---we grow old because we stop laughing. -Michael Pritchard |
| Everything is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. -Kobi Yamada |
| Some people add so much beauty to being human. -Kobi Yamada |
| Laughter is an essential amino acid. -Patch Adams |
| Laughter is life's shock absorber. -Carrie Wells |
| I have a heart with room for every joy. -P.J. Bailey |
| The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. -Bertrand Russell |
| Let there be more joy and laughter in your living. -Eileen Caddy |
| If you woke up this morning, it's time to celebrate! -Joe Takash |
| Everyone can afford to give away a smile. -Anonymous |
| You are richer today if you have laughed, given or forgiven. -Unknown |
| Look back and smile on perils past. -Sir Walter Scott |
| You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play. -Warren Beatty |
| Having a wonderful time. Wish I were here. -Carrie Fisher |
| "Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours.' -Yogi Berra |
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Happiness is the best facelift. -Diana Krall, quoting Joni Mitchell
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December Quotes:
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A great time to relax is when you don't have time for it. -Sydney J. Harris
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| For fast-acting relief try slowing down. -Lily Tomlin |
| Forever remember that the business of life is not merely about business, but about life. -B.C. Forbes |
| How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. -Annie Dillard |
| I asked for all things, that I might enjoy life. I was given life, that I might enjoy all things. -Unknown |
| In fact, you cannot lead the Simple Life; it must take you gently by the hand. -Janet Ashbee |
| Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up. -Pearl S. Buck |
| Less is more. -Robert Browning |
| Let us pause to warm both our hands before the fire of life. -Walter Landor |
| Look closely. The beautiful may be small. -Emmanuel Kant |
| The principle business of life is to enjoy it. -Samuel Butler |
| There is more to life than simply increasing its speed. -Mahatma Gandhi |
| There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it. -Mary Little |
| There is no such thing as a crash course in serenity. -Shirley MacLaine |
| We all need time to be alone; to think, to dream, to wonder. -Billie Roark |
| Where there is too much, something is missing. -Hasidic Saying |
| The time to laugh is when you don't have time for it. -Argus Poster |
| Because the world is not going anywhere there is no need to hurry. -Alan Watts |
| Because of our routines we forget that life is an ongoing adventure. -Maya Angelou |
| Out of chaos comes the dance of balance. -Denise Kester |
| How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then to rest afterward. -Spanish proverb |
| Hold out your hands to feel the luxury of the sunbeams. -Helen Keller |
| Never put off till tomorrow what can be enjoyed today. -Josh Billings |
| Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. -Proverb |
| No one has time; we have to make time. -Jim Rohn |
| Good friends are good for your health. -Irwin Sarason |
| When you start to look like your passport picture---you know you need a vacation. -Falon James |
| I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all. -Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| Be glad of life because it gives us the chance to love, work, play and to look up at the stars. -Henry Van Dyke |
| Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today, because if you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow. -James Michener |
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