Quotes

"Success doesn't come to you, you go to it."
-- Marva Collins



I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
--  Thomas Jefferson



Nothing is too small to know, and nothing is too big to attempt.
-- William Van Horne

"Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person we become."
-- Jim Rohn



Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.
-- M. F. K. Fisher


War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist.
-- M. F. K. Fisher
 


The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition.  -- William Van Horne



  
"It's better to be a pirate than to join the Navy." - Steve Jobs  






"Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can." - Danny Kaye


 
"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is." - Erich Fromm  



    
"God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages." - Jacques Deval

 
"Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath." - Solon

 
"Person to person, moment to moment, as we love, we change the world."
 - Samahria Lyte Kaufman



"I am open to receive with every breath I breathe." - Michael Sun


"We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts." 
- Madeleine L'Engle


 "Fitness - If it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body." 
- Cher


"People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have." 
- Anne Tyler

 
"We are advertis'd by our loving friends." 
- William Shakespeare 

    
"The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention." - Kevin Kelly


    
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." 
- Anais Nin

 
"True happiness... arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self."
 - Joseph Addison

  
"Working in the garden...gives me a profound feeling of inner peace." 
- Ruth Stout

    
"We go where our vision is." - Joseph Murphy

   
"Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable." 
- Georg W. Hegel


    
"Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows." 
- Sir William Osler



"The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes." 
- Frank Lloyd Wright


    
"Better to look weak and be strong than to look strong and be weak." 
- Laura Moncur


   
"Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one."
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.


"You create your opportunities by asking for them." 
- Patty Hansen 


    
"May I never miss a sunset or a rainbow because I am looking down."
- Sara June Parker