Random Quotes

"We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery."

H. G. Wells


The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast and you miss all you are traveling for.

Louis L'Amour


If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than
because he was he, and I was I.

Michel de Montaigne


The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheimn


"Like the body that is made up of different limbs and organs, all moral creatures must depend on each other to exist."
Hindu proverb

"This moment is the moment of reality, of union, of truth. Nothing needs to be done to it or to you for this to be so. Nothing needs to be avoided, transcended, or found for it to be so."

Da Avabhasa


"Each today, well-lived, makes yesterday a dream of happiness and each tomorrow a vision of hope. Look, therefore, to this one day, for it and it alone is life."

Sanskrit poem


"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment."

Henry David Thoreau

Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.

Stanislaw J. Lee


He who has health has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Arabian Proverb


"You will never stub your toe by standing still, but the
faster you go, the more chance you have of getting
somewhere!"

Charles Kettering, Inventor and Businessman


We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within
themselves.

Galileo Galilei


All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.

Samuel Butler


Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with.

Bob Wells


The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Albert Einstein


"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"

Albert Einstein


One cannot but be in awe when [one] contemplates
the mysteries of eternity, of life,
of the marvelous structure of reality.
It is enough if one tries to merely comprehend
a little of this mystery each day.
Never lose a holy curiosity.

~ Albert Einstein

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which
becomes a habit.


Peter Ustinov
(1921-, British Actor, Writer, Director)


"If you had a friend who talked to you, like you
sometimes talk to yourself, would you continue to hang
around with that person?"

Rob Bremer, Speaker


"Your life has to do with the agenda that has been set for you by you, by that part of you that we've come to call, in our language, your soul."

Neale Donald Walsch


"Our prayers are answered not when we are given what we ask, but when we are challenged to be what we can be."

Morris Adler


Physiologically, it simply doesn't matter whether your anger is justified
or not. The body doesn't make moral judgements about feelings; it just
responds.

The HeartMath Solution, Doc Childre and Howard Martin, (c) 1999,
Harper SanFrancisco

"The first step in handling anything is gaining the ability to face it."
~ L. Ron Hubbard


"My life is but a waving between my Lord and me, I cannot choose the colors He worketh steadily…The dark threads are as needful in the Weaver's skillful hand as the threads of gold and silver in the pattern He has planned."
~ Unknown


"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light."
~ Helen Keller


"Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life."
~ Elizabeth Goudge (1900-1984)


"I have a large seashell collection which I keep scattered all over the beaches of the world...Maybe you've seen it."
~ Steven Wright


"My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her."
~ George Washington (1732-1799)


Listen to the passion of your soul, set the wings of your spirit free; and let not a single song go unsung.
Sylvana Rossetti


Look lovingly upon the present, for it holds the only things that
are forever true.
A Course in Miracles

Keep these concepts in mind: You've failed many times, although
you don't remember. You fell down the first time you tried to walk. You
almost drowned the first time you tried to swim. .... Don't worry about
failure. My suggestion to each of you: Worry about the chances you miss
when you don't even try.

Sherman Finesilver
(American Judge)


"Beliefs separate. Loving thoughts unite."
Paul Ferrini


"As a holistic being you shatter the illusion of your separateness and reveal your connection to everything. This empowers you in a way that the ego-driven self could never contemplate."
Wayne Dyer

Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.
-- Evan Davis

A great man is always willing to be little...
Ralph Waldo Emerson


I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure
the darkness for it shows me the stars.
Og Mandino


"The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."
~~ Michelangelo ~~


It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural
reward of taking time to do anything well.
Joseph Ross


"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Physician and Poet


"If you had a friend who talked to you like you sometimes talk to yourself, would you continue to hang around with that person?"
-- Rob Bremer


We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers
connect us with our fellow men.
Herman Melville

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most
intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

Charles Darwin
(1809-1882, British Naturalist)


Let us move on, and step out boldly, though it be into the night, and
we can scarcely see the way.

-- Charles B. Newcomb

Faith is the belief in the unknown. Faith heals, faith creates
faith works with wonders, faith moves mountains, Faith is the
flashlight for God seeking...

Sivananda

By having a reference for life, we enter into a spiritual relation
with the world...By practicing reverence for life we become
good, deep and alive...

Albert Schweitzer

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an
understanding of ourselves."
CARL JUNO

Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation.

Think of continuing generations of our families,

think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn,

whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.

~ T. S. Eliot ~

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
Author: Havelock Ellis

Life is a romantic business, but you have to make the romance.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
(1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet)

"If we fail to nourish our souls, they wither, and without soul, life ceases to have meaning.... The creative process shrivels in the absence of continual dialogue with the soul. And creativity is what makes life worth living."

-- Marion Woodman

"I learned... that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic, striving, but it comes to us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness."

-- Brenda Ueland

"I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of quiet life stimulates the creative mind."

-- Albert Einstein

Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about.
-- Solomon Short

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self. For, what we wish to believe, we readily believe. But, such expectations are often inconsistent with the real state of things.
-- Demosthenes

The ingenuity of self-deception is inexhaustible.
-- Hannah Moore

The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.
-- Pierre Charron

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that don't have brains enough to be honest.
-- Benjamin Franklin

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects and discovering the weaknesses of others.
-- William Hazlitt

All deception, in the course of life, is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice and falsehood passing from words into things.
-- Robert Southey

The people of the world, having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself.
-- Hitopadesa

"Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the
imagination has got the better of the judgment." (Bishop
William Warburton)

I am getting better and better every day in every way.

Jose Silva

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Helen Keller

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is
that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a
strong won't.

Henry Ward Beecher

By walking, I found out where I was going.
Author: Irving Layton

Life brings simple pleasures to us every day. It is up to us to
make them wonderful memories.

Cathy Allen

All high achievers plan their work and work their plan, for they are
keenly aware that "luck" is most often being prepared to take
advantage of a situation.

-- Unknown

I once saw a plaque which read:

"What I am is God's gift to me

What I become is my gift to God."



What will you do with your gift?

Because we all share this planet earth, we have to learn to live in harmony and peace with each other and with nature. That is not just a dream, but a necessity. We are dependent on each other in so many ways that we can no longer live in isolated communities and ignore what is happening outside those communities.

-His Holiness the Dalai Lama


When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness. Our enemies would dance with joy if only they knew how they were worrying us, lacerating us, and getting even with us! Our hate is not hurting them at all, but our hate is turning our own days and nights into a hellish turmoil.

Dale Carnegie

Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance.
~~~
At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done.
Then they begin to hope it can be done. Then they see it can be done. Then
it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.
-- Frances Hodgson Burnett

Quote of the Day & SparkPeople Translation

"May you live every day of your life."
- Jonathan Swift

We avoid the things that we're afraid of because we think there will be
dire consequences if we confront them. But the truly dire consequences in
our lives come from avoiding things that we need to learn about or discover.
Shakti Gawain


"Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your
fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done
you wrong." (Zoroaster)


Step into a new you each day. Reach out to greater health,
happiness, fitness, friendship, love and greater pride in yourself.
Mark Victor Hansen


Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing
can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller


Man has never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
Bernard Williams (1929-) English Philosopher


"All rivers run into the sea, but the sea does not overflow."
Chinese Proverb.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the
slave of your model.
-- Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890)


You are the person who has to decide.
Whether you'll do it or toss it aside;
You are the person who makes up your mind.
Whether you'll lead or will linger behind.
Whether you'll try for the goal that's afar.
Or just be contented to stay where you are."

~~ Edgar A. Guest ~~

"There are souls in this world which have the gift of
finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when
they go." (Frederick Faber)


Change is not merely necessary to life.
It is life.
Alvin Toffler


The greatest tragedy in life is people who have sight
but no vision.
Helen Keller


Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.
Johnny Cash


The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they
attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after
generation.
Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) American Writer


"Life is not a problem to be solved, nor a question to be
answered. Life is a mystery to be experienced.
Alan Watts, author and lecturer

Misti, sweetie, forgive me for this:

"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life."
Brooke Shields

Look deep enough. There's surely some wisdom in there somewhere.

That's a comment, but you can quote me.

Hey, Roger, try this one for a little more depth.

"I love California. I grew up in Phoenix."
Dan Quayle

"What is good about giving on your part is that you always receive
more than you give; the reaction is always stronger than the action."

Orison S. Marden

There are trees that seem to die at the end of autumn.
There are also the evergreens.
~Gilbert Maxwell


Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned.
~William Butler Yeates ~


October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again.
Hal Borland


There is a harmony
In autumn, and a lustre in its sky,
Which through the summer is not heard or seen,
As if it could not be, as if it had not been!
- Percy Bysshe Shelley


All things on earth point home in old October: sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.
- Thomas Wolfe


Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
- Albert Camus


Once more the liberal year laughs out
O'er richer stores than gems or gold:
Once more with harvest song and shout
Is nature's boldest triumph told.
- John Greenleaf Whittier


Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.
- Stanley Horowitz

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to your courage."
-- Barbara Winter


A person needs a little madness, or else
they never dare cut the rope and be free.
Nikos Kazantzakis


If I could wish for my life to be perfect, it would be tempting
but I would have to decline, for life would no longer teach me anything.
Allyson Jones


"Into every life a little rain must fall, but that's what makes the flowers grow."
~ Unknown


"Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it will elude you. But if you turn your attention to other things, it comes and softly sits on your shoulder."
~ Unknown


"Death is God's way of saying, 'Your table is ready.'"
~ Robin Williams


"Friendship cheers like a sunbeam; charms like a good story; inspires like a brave leader; binds like a golden chain; guides like a heavenly vision."
~ Newell Dwight Hillis


"Only choose in marriage a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man."
~ Joseph Joubert


"Good timber does not grow with ease,
the stronger the wind,
the stronger the trees"
W.H. Marriott


"Celebrate we will because life is short but sweet for certain."
- Dave Matthews Band