Words People Say ...

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” Eleanor Roosevelt

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”  Toni Morrison


"Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power." Shirley MacLaine


“Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.” Bernice Johnson Reagon


“An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer.” Sarah Ban Brathnach


"Use your heart to love somebody ... and if your heart is big enough - use it to love everybody!" Stevie Wonder


"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?" Vincent Van Gogh


“Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.” Les Brown


“If you are not getting as much from life as you want to, then examine the state of your enthusiasm.” Norman Vincent Peale


“The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.” Oprah Winfrey


“Live with passion.” Anthony Robbins


"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." Dr. Seuss

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." Mae West


"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

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." Ralph Waldo Emerson


"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square hole. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do." Apple Computer, Inc.


"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." Oscar Wilde


"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure aroundyou. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” by Marianne Williamson

"Then I observed that most people are motivated to success because they envy their neighbors. But this, too, is meaningless--like chasing the wind."  Ecclesiastes 4:4

"Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honest, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things."  Philippians 4:8


"Before you speak, think - is it necessary?  Is it true?  Is it kind?  Will it hurt anyone?  Will it improve on the silence?"  Sri Sathya Sai Baba


"We read to know that we are not alone." C.S. Lewis


"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." Anaïs Nin


"It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not." André Gide


"It is never too late to be what you might have been." George Eliot 
 
"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


"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." Martin Luther King Jr.
 
"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer


“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”  Dalai Lama


"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile." Mother Teresa


"I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people." John Henry Newman


"Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You." Dr. Seuss (Happy Birthday to You!)


"Be the change that you wish to see in the world." Mahatma Gandhi


"Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results." Rita Mae Brown (Sudden Death)


"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." Dr. Seuss


"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one." C.S. Lewis


"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."  Oscar Wilde


"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde


"Women are like teabags; you never know how strong they are until they're put in hot water." Eleanor Roosevelt


"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." Maya Angelou


"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything." Malcolm X


"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow." Mark Twain


"A day without sunshine is like, you know, night." Steve Martin


"That which does not kill us makes us stronger." Friedrich Nietzsche


"Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away." Robert Maynard Hutchins


"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." Douglas Adams


"If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals." J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)


"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." Thomas A. Edison


"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." Theodore Roosevelt


"People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.
For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."
Mother Teresa


“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” Booker T. Washington


"Don't be yourself - be someone a little nicer. " Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." Groucho Marx (The Essential Groucho)


"Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love." Mother Teresa


"God, grant me the serenity To accept the things I cannot change, The courage to change the things I can, And the wisdom to know the difference."  Reinhold Niebuhr, Serenity Prayer