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2008 Quote Archives:
January Quotes:
| Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create that fact. -William James |
| We are what we believe we are. -Benjamin N. Cardozo |
| Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits. -Fulton J. Sheen |
| The words "I am …" are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you. -A.L. Kitselman |
| They can because they think they can. -Virgil |
| Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment. -Maxwell Maltz |
| The life each of us lives is the life within the limits of our own thinking. To have life more abundant, we must think in limitless terms of abundance. -Thomas Dreier |
| All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become. -Buddha |
| Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. -Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Change your thoughts and you change your world. -Norman Vincent Peale |
| The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not our circumstances. -Martha Washington |
| Optimism is an intellectual choice. -Diana Schneider |
| We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. -Kahlil Gibran |
| Life is a long line of opportunities. -John Wicker |
| There is a very real relationship, both quantitatively and qualitatively, between what you contribute and what you get out of this world. -Oscar Hammerstein II |
| It is easy enough to be pleasant, when life flows by like a song. But the man worthwhile is one who will smile, when everything goes dead wrong. -Ella Wheeler Wilcox |
| I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. -Helen Keller |
| Fake feeling good …. You're going to have to learn to fake cheerfulness. Believe it or not, eventually that effort will pay off; you'll actually start feeling happier. -Jean Bach |
| Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count. -Kin Hubbard |
| I can't say I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days. -Daniel Boone |
| The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. -Chinese proverb |
| The quality of our expectations determines the quality of our actions. -Andre' Godin |
| The real difference between men is energy. -Fuller |
| If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life? -Harvey Fierstein |
| Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. -Swami Sivananda |
| I don't want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance. -George Balanchine |
| Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. -Washington Irving |
| Never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed. -Sydney Smith |
| An once of action is worth a ton of theory. -Friedrich Engels |
| Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results. -Dennis Wholey |
| There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says "All right, have it your way." -C.S. Lewis |
February Quotes:
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If you can’t help it, don’t think about it. -Carmel Myers
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| You’ve got to think about “big things” while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction. -Alvin Toffler |
| "It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him." -- Sydney Smith |
| "I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." -- Albert Einstein |
| "Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness." -- Sigmund Freud |
| "I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better." -- George Bird Evans |
| "Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do." -- Dr. Benjamin Spock |
| "Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right." -- Henry Ford |
| "You can observe a lot by watching." -- Yogi Berra |
| "You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses." -- Ziggy |
| "It's nice to be important but it's more important to be nice." -- Trini Lopez |
| "We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves." -- Tom Robbins |
| "When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another." -- Helen Keller |
| "Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them." -- Orison Swett Marden |
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"We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes." -- Cybill Shepherd
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| "Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large." -- Gandhi |
| "You can chase a butterfly all over the field and never catch it. But if you sit quietly in the grass it will come and sit on your shoulder." -- Anonymous |
| Before you agree to do anything that might add even the smallest amount of stress to your life, ask yourself: What is my truest intention? Give yourself time to let a yes resound within you. When it's right, I guarantee that your entire body will feel it. --Oprah Winfrey |
| I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters. --Oprah Winfrey |
| In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield. --Warren Buffett |
| Price is what you pay. Value is what you get. --Warren Buffett |
| Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening. --Coco Chanel |
| Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence. --Vince Lombardi |
| There is more to life than increasing its speed. --Mohandas Gandhi |
| One reason a dog can be such a comfort when you're feeling blue is that he doesn't try to find out why. ~Author Unknown |
| When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical. -unknown |
| Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving. -Dale Carnegie |
| Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do. -Gerry Sikorski |
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I have spread my dreams beneath your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. -W.B. Yeats
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| Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. -Henry David Thoreau |
| You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself into one. -Henry D. Thoreau |
March Quotes:
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Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living. -Anais Nin
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| The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle. -Anais Nin |
| Dreams are necessary to life. -Anais Nin |
| To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. -Anatole France |
| Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. -Carl Jung |
| Some men see things as they are and say, "Why?" I dream of things that never were and say, "Why not? -George Bernard Shaw |
| Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. -Gloria Steinem |
| Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men. -Goethe |
| I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. -Henry David Thoreau |
| I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each others dreams, we can be together all the time. -Hobbes (of Calvin and ...) |
| You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. -James A. Froude |
| No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to flee and fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams. -Jesse Jackson |
| Imagine all the people living life in peace. 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 live as one. -John Lennon |
| If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. -Marcel Proust |
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. -Mark Twain
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| If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream. -Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again. -Mary Beth Danielson |
| Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams. -Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| There is nothing like a dream to create the future. -Victor Hugo |
| Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. -Virginia Woolf |
| We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same. -Anne Frank |
| Our ideals resemble the stars, which illuminate the night. No one will ever be able to touch them. But the men who, like the sailors on the ocean, take them for guides, will undoubtedly reach their goal. -Carl Schurz |
| First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. -Epictetus |
| I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen. -Frank Lloyd Wright |
| I long to accomplish a great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker. -Helen Keller |
| Arriving at one point is the starting point to another. -John Dewey |
| To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world -- that I am able to change it in positive ways. -Maxine Hong Kingston |
| To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action. -Michael Hanson |
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The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive. -Robert H. Schuller |
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If one does not know to which port is sailing, no wind is favorable. -Seneca
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April Quotes:
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The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose. Heda Bejar
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| The most beautiful action in the world is to love. The second most beautiful is to give. Bertha von Suttner |
| Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can. John Wesley |
| 'Twas her thinking of others made you think of her. Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator; but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. W.H. Auden |
| An idea is a feat of association. Robert Frost |
| And could I have but one wish this year, this only it would be: I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me. Edgar Guest |
| Anything one person can imagine, other people can make real. Jules Verne |
| Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself. André Gide |
| Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving. Make every day a holiday and celebrate just living! Amanda Bradley |
| Choose to live, work and succeed in the most powerful nation on earth: Imagination. Dan Zadra |
| Count your nights by stars, not shadows. Count your days by smiles, not tears. And on any birthday morning, Count your age by friends, not years. Unknown |
| Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought. Albert Szent-Györgi |
| Imagination is our wings. Michael Nolan |
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Each time we fit things together we are creating—whether it is to make a loaf of bread, a child, a day, a company, or a world. Corita Kent
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| Expressed affection is the best of all methods to use when you want to light a glow in someone's heart and to feel it in your own. Ruth Stafford Peale |
| For this I bless you most. You give much and know not that you give at all. Kahlil Gibran |
| Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer. Ed Cunningham |
| Giving never moves in a straight line—it always moves in circles. Robert H. Schuller |
| I can never understand why, when a idea pops out of my head, it cannot materialize immediately. Dame Anita Roddick |
| I think we're here for each other. Carol Burnett |
| Ideas come from everywhere. Be open to them. Alfred Hitchcock |
| If I had influence with the good fairy, I would ask that her gift to each child be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life. Rachel Carson |
| If you love someone, hurry up and show it. Rose Zadra |
| If you want to draw, you must shut your eyes and sing. Pablo Picasso |
| It is when we forget ourselves that we do things that are most likely to be remembered. Parker Sweetwater |
| Let us pause to warm both our hands before the fire of life. Walter Landor |
| Love is a great beautifier. Louisa May Alcott |
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Love is like fresh bread. It has to be re-made all the time, made new. Ursula K. LeGuin
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| Make one person happy each day and in forty years you will have made 14,600 human beings happy for a little time at least. Charley Willey |
May Quotes:
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May happiness touch your life today as warmly as you have touched the lives of others. Rebecca Forsythe
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| Let nothing dim the light that shines from within. Maya Angelou |
| Nothing is worth more than this day. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| One more good person on earth is better than an extra angel in heaven. proverb |
| Plead guilty and often to loving your family and friends. Dan Zadra |
| Creativity is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift to God. Bob Moawad |
| The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller |
| The affect of one good-hearted person is incalculable. Óscar Arias Sánchez |
| The good you do is not lost though you forget it. Jiri Masala |
| The only gift is a portion of thyself. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| There are people who take the heart out of you, and there are people who put it back. Elizabeth David |
| We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. Winston Churchill |
| When all is said and done, enjoying a good life is more important than keeping a great diary. Siegfried Sassoon |
| When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am older, I admire thoughtful people. Abraham Joshua Heschel |
| When it comes to doing good things for others, some people will stop at nothing. Dale E. Turner |
| Don't wait for inspiration—pursue it. Dan Zadra |
| You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life. Zig Ziglar |
| Life is an endlessly creative experience, and we are shaping ourselves at every moment by every decision we make. Kent Nerburn |
| The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless. Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| Creativity is our own true nature. Julia Cameron |
| My heart gives thanks for empty moments given to dreams, and for thoughtful people who help those dreams come true. William S. Braithwaite |
| A gift from the heart is a treasure forever. Unknown |
| Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done, and done right. Walt Disney |
| Gratitude is the memory of the heart. Jean Baptiste Massieu |
| I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul remembering my good friends. William Shakespeare |
| Every good thought or deed touches a chord that vibrates in eternity. Anonymous |
| Let memories be beauty in your life, like song and roses in the winter sun. Sascha |
| Some people make the world more special just by being in it. Kelly Ann Rothaus |
| Friendship is a great place. I'm glad we're here. Cat Davis |
| A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words. Unknown |
| Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this inner light. Albert Schweitzer |
June Quotes:
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Some people come into our lives, leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never the same again. Unknown
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| Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and we must set off that spark in one another. Kenny Ausubel |
| People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end. Arthur C. Benson |
| Whatever souls are made of, yours and mine are the same. Emily Brontë |
| I would look up and laugh, and love, and lift. Howard A. Wheeler |
| Measure your friends around the heart. proverb |
| A friend is someone who reaches for your hand... and touches your heart. Unknown |
| Who puts the coffee on for two. Who makes me laugh when I am blue. No matter what I have to do— my friend, there's always time for you. Unknown |
| Friendship glows in the dark. Cat Lane |
| If someone listens, or stretches out a hand, or whispers a kind word of encouragement, or attempts to understand, extraordinary things begin to happen. Loretta Girzartis |
| Life isn't a matter of milestones but of moments. Rose Kennedy |
| It is satisfying knowing that for a brief point in time you made a difference. Irene Natividad |
| Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust |
| Imagination is just your brain having fun! Unknown |
| Things you do for other people are usually some of the best things you do. Michael Nolan |
| Get ready! Ideas move very quickly when their time comes. Carolyn Heilburn |
| The genius is making a way out of no way. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. |
| Your heart has brought great joy to many. Those hearts can never forget you. Flavia Weeden |
| When you're down to nothing, remember that you really do have the power to make something out of nothing. Don Ward |
| Ah, life grows lovely where you are. Mathilde Blind |
| Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. J. M. Barrie |
| Creativity shows its colors serendipitously. You never know when it's going to arise or what will awaken the wonderful beast. Ken Vinton |
| The more you know, the more you can create. Julia Child |
| Realize how good you really are. Og Mandino |
| You have the power to make someone's day. Dan Zadra |
| All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew. Robert Frost |
| Your art is the only way to run away without leaving home. Twyla Tharp |
| Talk back to your internal critic. Robert J. McKain |
| Always be a "work in progress." Emily Lillan |
| We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released. Jean Houston |
July Quotes:
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Let us celebrate our memories. Meinrad Craighead
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| Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. Thomas Merton |
| Before I compose a piece, I walk around it several times, accompanied by myself. Erik Satie |
| There is always a second right answer. Roger von Oech |
| Everything is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Kobi Yamada |
| Those who aren't making mistakes probably aren't making anything Samuel Smiles |
| Trial and error is the secret sauce of the creative process. By finding out what doesn't work, we eventually discover what does. Dan Zadra |
| All we can ask in our lives is that perhaps we can make a little difference in someone else's. Lillian Davis |
| Treasure this day, and treasure yourself. Truly, neither will ever happen again. Ray Bradbury |
| We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives. Dan Zadra |
| When you care, people notice. Susane Berger |
| Goodwill is reciprocal. The good thoughts you send out to others will return to you multiplied. Grenville Kleiser |
| Some of the best things we can give each other are good memories. Patrick Ryan |
| Never squander an opportunity to tell someone you love or appreciate them. Kelly Ann Rothaus |
| Everything you can imagine is real. Pablo Picasso |
| What the heart gives away is never gone. It is kept in the hearts of others. Robin St. John |
| The best things you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories. Sydney J. Harris |
| The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. Aldo Leopold |
| Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters. Margaret Peters |
| Memories, important yesterdays, were once today's. Treasure and notice today. Gloria Gaither |
| May life's greatest gifts always be yours—happiness, memories, and dreams. Josie Bissett |
| Today's bright moments are tomorrow's fond memories. Unknown |
| Some gifts cannot be measured except by the heart. Unknown |
| Every little blessing is far too precious to ever forget to say 'thank you!' Laura Regis |
| Memories are perhaps the greatest gifts of all. Gloria Gaither |
| You have a unique message to deliver; a unique song to sing, a unique act of love to bestow. This message has been entrusted exclusively to the one and only you. John Powell, S.J. |
| There is something in every season, in every day, to celebrate with thanksgiving. Gloria Gaither |
| There's no perfection, but great satisfaction in shooting for it. Rosalyn Drexler |
| The work of your heart, the work of taking time, to listen, to help, is also your gift to the whole of the world. Jack Kornfield |
| When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy. Samuel Goldwyn |
| Artists say: "Stop, look, and see what is real." In our rushing world, no one has time for this. Langdon Gilkey |
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