On Marriage:
"People stay married because they want to, not because the doors
are locked."
- Paul Newman (1925-) from the film 'Winning'
"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always
with the same person."
- Germaine Greer
"To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup,
whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up."
- Ogden Nash
"My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our
marriage would have been wrecked."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
On Life
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
- Khalil Gibran
Life without a friend is death without a witness.
- Spanish Proverb
. . . no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning
yourself.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
--Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself."
--Doris Lessing
"The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes."
--Napoleon
"The less of routine, the more of life."
--A. B. Alcott
"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the
undertaker will be sorry."
--Mark Twain
"Lord grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish."
--Michelangelo
"No one from the beginning of time has had security."
--Eleanor Roosevelt
"I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid
to go straight at things."
--William J. Locke
"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything."
--Bishop W. C. Magee
First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace
to others.
-- Thomas A. Kempis
Reality is the leading cause of stress -- for those in touch with it.
-- Jane Wagner
"If you are afraid of your future, you don't have a present."
--James Petersen
"An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding."
--Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
"Competition can damage self-esteem, create anxiety, and lead to
cheating and hurt feelings. But so can romantic love."
--Mariah Burton Nelson
Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a
present.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only
decide how you're going to live. Now.
-- Joan Baez
"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is
not fish they are after."
-- Henry David Thoreau
"Once you exercise fear and make it your practice, once you try
resentment and make it your habit, once you employ aggression and make
it routine, those actions will dominate your destiny. No matter how
painfully you've been wronged, stand in love in the midst of a huge
temptation to be vengeful, prideful or hold back. The real nature of
love is that the person you think has betrayed you the most is
actually an agent of the divine offering you the opportunity for
grace."
-- Mary Manin Morrissey, Learning Enrichment Center
"People who truly love themselves do not become destructively
self-centered. They do not abuse others. They do not stop growing and
changing. People who love themselves well, learn to love others well
too. They continually grow into healthier people, learning that their
love was appropriately placed."
-- Melody Beattie, The Language of Letting Go
"As a man thinketh, so will he be."
-- Bible
"Never limit your view of life by any past experience."
--Ernest Holmes, The Science of Mind
"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the
friends we choose."
--Tehyi Hsieh
I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health,
love and abundance. Then whenever doubt, anxiety or fear try to call
me, they will keep getting a busy signal and soon they will forget the
number.
-- Edith Armstrong
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and
better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to
their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the
indefinite future.
-- Brian Tracy
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
-- General H. Norman Schwarzkopf
On Computers:
Don't mistake the information in your computer for knowledge:
"Information is just signs and numbers, while knowledge involves their
meaning. What we want is knowledge, but what we get is information."
--Heinz R. Pagels
"Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in
the world that just don't add up."
--James Magary
You must believe in yourself:
"Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they
will accomplish them."
--Warren Bennis
"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but
it comes from within. It is there all the time."
--Anna Freud
"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared
believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance."
--Bruce Barton
"A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to
go through the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain."
--Mildred W. Struven
"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I
can change."
--Carl Rogers
"I'll not listen to reason. Reason is always what someone else has got
to say."
--Elizabeth C. Gaskell
"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with
the rain."
--Dolly Parton
"Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible and suddenly
you are doing the impossible."
--Saint Francis of Assisi
"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it."
--Moliere
"If it's very painful to you to criticize your friends - you're
safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it -
that's the time to hold your tongue."
--Alice Duer Miller
"A great obstacle to happiness is the expectation of too great a
happiness."
--Fontenelle
"If the shoe fits, you're not allowing for growth."
--Robert N. Coons
"The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best
that you can become."
- Harold Taylor
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small
people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you,
too, can become great."
- Mark Twain
"If you can imagine it,
You can achieve it.
If you can dream it,
You can become it."
- William Arthur Ward
"Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still
be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement."
- Snoopy
A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong she is until
she gets into hot water:
--Eleanor Roosevelt
"Everybody has a special gift from GOD that you have to offer the
World."
--Jennifer Lopez
"Plant a seed of friendship, reap a bouquet of happiness."
--Lois L. Kaufman
One step at a time:
"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small steps."
--Henry Ford
"Little drops of water, little grains of sand/Make the mighty ocean,
and the pleasant land."
--Julia Carney
"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things
brought together."
--Vincent van Gogh
"It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our
preaching."
-- St. Francis of Assisi
"Enjoy yourself. These are the 'good old days' you're going to miss
in the years ahead."
--Anon.
"Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already
dead."
--Lily Langtry
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living
things, man will not himself find peace.
-- Albert Schweitzer
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
--Victor Hugo
"I never pray on a golf course. Actually, the Lord answers my prayers
everywhere except on the course."
--Billy Graham
"Faith always has as a companion joy in The Holy Spirit."
--Martin Luther (1546)
"Success is a journey, not a destination."
--Ben Sweetland
"Nothing is interesting if you're not interested."
--Helen MacInness
"Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your
friends that you know how to tell the truth."
--Ed Howe
Don't look to the world for security:
"Your real security is yourself. You know you can do it, and they
can't ever take that away from you."
--Mae West
"There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity."
--General Douglas MacArthur
"The way to be safe is never to be secure."
--Benjamin Franklin
Be hopeful especially when things look grim:
"If you can't change your fate, change your attitude."
--Amy Tan
"And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope."
--Job, 11:18
"No hope, no action."
--Peter Levi
"God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right,
even though I think it is hopeless."
--Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
Never underestimate a person's desire to be praised:
"The deepest principle of Human Nature is the craving to be
appreciated."
--William James
"He who refuses praise the first time that it is offered does so
because he would hear it a second time."
--Duc de la Rochefoucald
"Man lives by praise; most of us would rather be hurt by flattery than
helped by criticism."
--Laurence J. Peter
On Children:
The heart of a child is the most precious of God's creation. Never
break it. At all costs, never break it.
--Joseph L. Whitten, Byline Magazine, May 1998
Times change. Not too many years ago minding one's children didn't
mean obeying them.
--Unknown
--Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to
decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your
body.
--Elizabeth Stone
On Contentment
The contented person is never poor, the discontented is never rich.
"Truth is such a rare thing, it is delightful to tell it."
~ Emily Dickinson
"Every Soul is a flower blossoming in nature"
~ Unknown ~
"God hugs you. You are encircled by the arms of the mystery of
God."
-- Hildegarde of Bingen
On Discipline
The goal of God's discipline is restoration - never condemnation.
--Quest Study Bible
On Ambition:
Ambition will only work for you if you have an unending supply of
it.
"There is no point at which you can say, `Well, I'm successful now. I
might as well take a nap.'"
--Carrie Fisher
"If ambition doesn't hurt you, you haven't got it."
--Kathleen Norris
"The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being
a success."
--Irving Berlin
The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to
others.
-- Anonymous
"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."
--Beverly Sills
Don't confuse stumbling with falling:
"I made a mistake today. I made a mistake yesterday. I think it's ...
very important to ignore the negative."
--Jerry Rubin
"Entrepreneurs average 3.8 failures before final success. What sets
the successful ones apart is their amazing persistence."
--Lisa M. Amos
"Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."
--Winston Churchill
"There is no failure except in no longer trying."
--Elbert Hubbard
"The impossible is often the untried."
--Jim Goodwin
"I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I
have no respect."
--Edward Gibbon
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
--Seneca
"If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the
situation he has prepared for."
--Florence Shinn
"Life is the sum of all your choices."
--Albert Camus
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to
go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens,
nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it
should be.
-- Anne Frank
"If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good
chance of being a prophet."
--Isaac Bashevis Singer
"On the human chessboard, all moves are possible."
--Miriam Schiff
"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived
the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well."
--Diane Ackerman
Don't get mired in details when it's wisdom you're after:
"The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions."
--John A. Simone Jr.
"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."
--William James
"We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be
wise with other men's wisdom."
--Michel de Montaigne
If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it
long ago.
-- William Hazlitt
Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
-- Bernard Berenson
Do your best - to the limits of your ability:
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
--Theodore Roosevelt
"The great law of culture: Let each become all that he was created
capable of being."
--Thomas Carlyle
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell
others how much they love them while they're still alive.
-- O. A. Battista
A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
-- Edward Lytton
When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the
only companion we will have from birth to death -- ourselves.
-- Eda LeShan
Try not to become a man of success, but rather to become a man of
value.
-- Albert Einstein
"Most people are alive in an earlier time, but you must be alive in
our own time."
--Marshall McLuhan
Thank You Roslyn for the
Quotes above!
"Enthusiasm is a telescope that yanks the misty,
distant future into the
radiant, tangible present."
--Anonymous
