quotes4thought

Quote #314

2010-06-10T15:22:00.001-04:00

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
-Mark Twain

Quote #313

2010-06-09T00:36:00.003-04:00

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
-George William Curtis

Quote #314

2010-06-09T00:36:00.001-04:00

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
-George William Curtis

Quote #312

2010-06-07T21:38:00.003-04:00

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

Quote #311

2010-06-07T17:11:00.002-04:00

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
-Napoleon Bonaparte

Quote #310

2009-10-09T11:45:00.004-04:00

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.
-Mary S. Almanac

Quote #309

2009-10-09T11:45:00.001-04:00

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.
-Karen Kaiser Clark

Quote #308

2009-10-09T11:44:00.003-04:00

Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.
-Irene Porter

Quote #307

2009-10-09T11:44:00.001-04:00

It doesn't work to leap a twenty-foot chasm in two ten-foot jumps.
-American proverb

Quote #306

2009-10-08T11:19:00.000-04:00

Sometimes our hearts get tangled and our souls a little off-kilter.
-Sera Christann

Quote #305

2009-10-08T10:19:00.000-04:00

Not everything has to mean something.
-Philippos

Quote #304

2009-10-08T09:18:00.000-04:00

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
-Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Quote #303

2009-10-08T08:18:00.000-04:00

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
-Thomas Jefferson

Quote #302

2009-10-08T07:17:00.000-04:00

In life you find that one of the most desirable qualities you can find in a person is flexibility. The ability to change with changing times, to face adversity with the same attitude one would have in facing victory.
-Unknown

Quote #301

2009-10-08T06:15:00.000-04:00

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
-William James

Quote #300

2009-10-07T18:53:00.000-04:00

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
-Thomas Fuller

Quote #299

2009-10-07T17:52:00.000-04:00

Life is a challenge, and I’m staying in the game to win.
-Robert M. Hensel

Quote #298

2009-10-07T16:51:00.000-04:00

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends and where the other begins?
-Edgar Allan Poe

Quote #297

2009-10-07T15:48:00.000-04:00

Life is half spent before we know what it is.
-George Herbert

Quote #296

2009-10-07T14:48:00.000-04:00

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. -Mark Twain

Quote #295

2009-10-07T13:47:00.000-04:00

Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
-Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Quote #293

2009-10-07T11:46:00.000-04:00

There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Jung

Quote #292

2009-10-07T10:45:00.000-04:00

Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.
-Vanilla Sky

Quote #291

2009-10-07T09:44:00.001-04:00

Life's like a novel with the end ripped out.
-Danny Orton

Quote #294

2009-10-07T00:46:00.000-04:00

Is not this the true romantic feeling - not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.
-Thomas Wolfe

Quote #290

2009-10-06T15:15:00.000-04:00

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
-Anton Chekhov

Quote #288

2009-10-06T14:34:00.000-04:00

Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.
-J. D. Salinger

Quote #289

2009-10-06T14:14:00.000-04:00

The wine of life keeps oozing drop by drop. The leaves of life keep falling one by one.
-Omar Khyyam

Quote #287

2009-10-06T12:12:00.000-04:00

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
-Albert Einstein

Quote #285

2009-10-06T10:10:00.000-04:00

is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
-Anais Nin

Quote #284

2009-10-06T09:09:00.000-04:00

The way we live our days, is the way we live our lives.
-Annie Dillard

Quote #283

2009-10-06T08:08:00.000-04:00

It's just so uninteresting to live without love. Life has not risk. Love just seems to make life not just livable, but a gallant, gallant event.
-Toni Morrison

Quote #282

2009-10-06T07:08:00.000-04:00

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
-Charles Darwin

Quote #281

2009-10-06T06:07:00.002-04:00

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
-Socrates

Quote #280

2009-10-05T12:05:00.001-04:00

Beginnings are often scary, endings are often sad, but it's the middle that counts. You should remember that when you find yourself at the beginning.
-Steven Rogers

Quote #279

2009-10-05T12:04:00.002-04:00

What is this life if, full of care, have no time to stand and stare?
-W. H. Davies

Quote #278

2009-10-05T12:03:00.002-04:00

An attitude of allowing life and people to be their unpredictable selves, while maintaining a positive inner attitude that has security either way, can bring every-increasing rates of success, personally and professionally.
-Doc Childre

Quote #286

2009-10-05T11:11:00.000-04:00

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
-Booker T. Washington

Quote #277

2009-10-05T10:20:00.000-04:00

Life is a handful of short stories, pretending to be a novel
-Unknown

Quote #276

2009-10-05T09:19:00.001-04:00

Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
-Joshua J. Marine

Quote #275

2009-10-05T08:16:00.000-04:00

Living with the Universal Laws doesn't mean you should give up having the full range of emotions or should only strive to have positive thoughts. The gift of being in this physical world is to be able to experience everything. Just do it with more purpose and control.
-Unknown

Quote #274

2009-10-05T07:15:00.000-04:00

There'll be two dates on your tombstone/ And all your friends will read 'em/ But all that's gonna matter is that little dash between 'em...
-Kevin Welch

Quote #273

2009-10-05T06:14:00.001-04:00

There is an Indian Belief that everyone is in a house of four rooms: A physical, a mental, an emotional and a spiritual. Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time, but unless we go into every room everyday, even if only to keep it aired, we are not complete.
-Rumer Godden

Quote #272

2009-10-05T05:13:00.000-04:00

When you find yourself stressed, ask yourself one question: Will this matter in 5 years from now? If yes, then do something about the situation. If no, then let it go.
-Catherine Pulsifer

Quote #271

2009-10-05T04:12:00.000-04:00

Life is a pure flame,and we live by an invisible sun within us.
-Sir Thomas Brown

Quote #270

2009-10-03T13:52:00.005-04:00

Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today.
-Og Mandino

Quote #269

2009-10-03T13:52:00.003-04:00

You don’t have to get it right, you just have to get it going.
-Mike Litman

Quote #268

2009-10-03T13:52:00.001-04:00

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-Robert Frost

Quote #267

2009-10-03T13:51:00.002-04:00

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you plan to stop peddling.
-Claude Pepper

Quote #266

2009-10-03T08:52:00.000-04:00

If you want to be successful, it's just this simple: Know what you're doing. Love what you're doing. And believe in what you're doing.
-Will Rogers

Quote #265

2009-10-03T07:51:00.000-04:00

I slept and dreamt that life was Joy. I woke and saw that life was Duty. I acted, and behold, Duty was Joy." '
-Rabinranath Tagore

Quote #264

2009-10-03T06:50:00.000-04:00

Past thoughts = Current reality ,,Change your current thoughts to create a new reality.
-Unknown

Quote #263

2009-10-03T05:50:00.000-04:00

Always remember: Life is for enjoying.
-Abraham Lincoln

Quote #262

2009-10-03T04:49:00.000-04:00

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
-Mark Caine

Quote #261

2009-10-02T17:12:00.002-04:00

You are the same today that you are going to be five years from now except for two things: the people with whom you associate and the books you read.
-Charles Jones

Quote #260

2009-10-02T08:04:00.000-04:00

Life is like a library owned by the author.In it are a few books which he wrote himself,but most of them were written for him.
-Harry Emerson Fosdick

Quote #259

2009-10-02T07:03:00.000-04:00

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-George Bernard Shaw

Quote #258

2009-10-02T06:02:00.001-04:00

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
-Buddha

Quote #257

2009-10-02T05:56:00.000-04:00

Our life's a stage, a comedy: either learn to play and take it lightly, or bear its troubles patiently.
-Palladas

Quote #256

2009-10-02T03:54:00.000-04:00

The more doors you open, the more you will allow The Universe the opportunity to bring something to youand in ways you could never have imagined.
-Unknown

Quote #255

2009-10-01T09:11:00.001-04:00

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.
-Huey Newton

Quote #253

2009-10-01T09:10:00.006-04:00

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. --William Ellery Channing

Quote #254

2009-10-01T09:10:00.005-04:00

Our life is frittered away by details... Simplify, simplify.
-Henry David Thoreau

Quote #253

2009-10-01T09:10:00.003-04:00

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. --William Ellery Channing

Quote #252

2009-10-01T09:09:00.005-04:00

I've learned that even when you think you have no more to give, when a friend cries out to you you will find the strength to help.
-Unknown

Quote #251

2009-10-01T09:09:00.002-04:00

he only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
-Robert Schuller

Quote #250

2009-09-26T17:47:00.000-04:00

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Quote #249

2009-09-26T16:46:00.000-04:00

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
-Bernard Meltzer

Quote #248

2009-09-26T15:46:00.000-04:00

Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
-Jane Austen

Quote #247

2009-09-26T15:45:00.000-04:00

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-Samuel Butler

Quote #246

2009-09-26T14:44:00.000-04:00

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
-Clifton Fadiman

Quote #245

2009-09-26T13:43:00.000-04:00

One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends is that three out of four murders are committed by people who know the victim.
-George Carlin

Quote #244

2009-09-26T12:43:00.000-04:00

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.
-Albert Camus

Quote #243

2009-09-26T11:42:00.001-04:00

There must be more to life than having everything.
-Maurice Sendak

Quote #242

2009-09-26T11:41:00.000-04:00

Life is like a cobweb, not an organization chart.
-Ross Perot

Quote #241

2009-09-26T10:41:00.000-04:00

I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it.
-Jack Handey

Quote #240

2009-09-26T09:40:00.000-04:00

Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves.
-Hubert Humphrey

Quote #239

2009-09-26T08:39:00.000-04:00

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
-Albert Einstein

Quote #238

2009-09-26T07:38:00.000-04:00

There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
-Theodore Rubin

Quote #237

2009-09-26T06:37:00.001-04:00

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.
-Henry J. Tillman

Quote #236

2009-09-26T05:35:00.000-04:00

On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.
-Buddha

Quote #235

2009-09-25T10:23:00.001-04:00

Trouble is part of your life - if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
-Dinah Shore

Quote #234

2009-09-25T10:22:00.003-04:00

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
-Muhammed Ali

Quote #233

2009-09-25T10:22:00.001-04:00

I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.
-Charles Schulz

Quote #232

2009-09-25T10:21:00.003-04:00

Life is but a connection of short lasting good moments tied together by long lasting misery.
-Wietse Wiels

Quote #231

2009-09-25T10:21:00.000-04:00

If I had my life to live over again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.
-Tallulah Bankhead

Quote #230

2009-09-25T08:32:00.000-04:00

I have lived in the world just long enough to look carefully the second time into those things that I am most certain of the first time.
-Josh Billings

Quote #229

2009-09-25T08:01:00.000-04:00

Experience is a terrible teacher who sends horrific bills.
-Unknown.

Quote #228

2009-09-25T07:30:00.000-04:00

Life is like a game of poker: If you don't put any in the pot, there won't be any to take out. ----Moms Mabley

Quote #227

2009-09-25T07:00:00.000-04:00

The cost of living's going up, and the chance of living’s going down.
-Flip Wilson

Quote #226

2009-09-25T06:30:00.001-04:00

I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.
-Ashleigh Brilliant

Quote #225

2009-09-25T06:00:00.001-04:00

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. -Mark Twain

Quote #224

2009-09-25T06:00:00.000-04:00

In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.
-Kathy Norris

Quote #223

2009-09-25T05:30:00.000-04:00

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't. ----Richard Bach

Quote #222

2009-09-25T05:00:00.000-04:00

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-Oscar Wilde

Quote #221

2009-09-25T04:30:00.000-04:00

You live and you learn or you don't live long.
-Robert A. Heinlein

Quote #220

2009-09-24T12:50:00.002-04:00

Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.
-Kahlil Gibran

Quote #219

2009-09-24T12:49:00.001-04:00

Life's more amusing than we thought.
-Andrew Lang

Quote #218

2009-09-24T12:48:00.003-04:00

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
-Leo Buscaglia

Quote #217

2009-09-24T12:48:00.001-04:00

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
-Mark Twain