quotes

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“The best way out is always through.”
~Robert Frost

“Let the last of anything not be the end, but the beginning of new things to come.”

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
~Abraham Lincoln

The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
~Bertrand Russell British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970)

“Every decision is a link in the chain of our destiny.”
~Winston Churchill

“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, either way you’re right.” 

~Henry Ford

“The past is history, the future’s a mystery, and this moment is a gift…that’s why this moment is called ‘the present’.” 

“Just when the caterpillar thought the world was coming to an end…it became a butterfly.”

~Anonymous

“Life is not about finding yourself; Life is about creating yourself.” 

~George Bernard Shaw

“My life is my teaching.”

~Ghandi

“Be the change you wish to see in the world.”

~Ghandi

“What is to give light must endure burning.”

~Victory Frankl

“A ship is safe in it’s harbor; but that is not what ships are for.”

“The opposite of love is not hate; the opposite of love is fear.  Fear is simply the absence of love.  Like a shadow, fear is but an illusion; only love is real, only love matters.  In every moment we can choose to live from fear, or we can choose to live from love.    Life is a precious, sacred gift given to us to learn how and why to choose only love.”

~Missy’s modge-podge

“Not all who wander are lost…”

J.R.R. Tolkein

“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.”

~Anonymous

“If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.”

~Buddha

“I am only one but still, I am one.  I cannot do everything but still, I can do something.  I will not refuse to do the something I can do.

~Helen Keller

“Being powerful is like being a lady; if you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.”

~Margaret Thatcher

“You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing for them.”

~Malcolm Forbes

“I cried because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet.”

“It’s impossible to walk a mile in someone else’s shoes until you take your own shoes off first.”

~Debra Harris

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”

~Martin Luther King, Jr.

“We all live under the same sky, but we don’t have the same horizon.”

~Konrad Adenauer

“Whoever is careless with truth in small matters, cannot be trusted in important affairs.”

~Albert Einstein

“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

~Albert Einstein

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

~Albert Einstein

“What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.”

~Theodore Roethke

“When you know you know nothing, you’re on your way to wisdom.”

~Zen saying

“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”

~Edmund Burke

“Few of us can do great things, but all of us can do small things with great love.”

~Mother Teresa

“Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.”

~Marian Wright Edelman

“Integrity has no need of rules.”

~Albert Camus

“What you focus energy on,  you energize.”

“This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a might one…the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.”

~George Bernard Shaw

“Relationships are the mirrors in which we discover ourselves.”

“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 frightens us most.  We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and famous?’  Actually, who are you not to be?  Your are a child of God.  Your playing small does not serve the world.  There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won’t feel insecure around you.  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 all of us. And when 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.”

~A Return to Love by Marianne Williamson

“Sometimes we turn to God when our foundations are shaking, only to realize it’s God that’s shaking them…”

“A diamond is created under intense heat and pressure.”

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

~Helen Keller

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

~Helen Keller

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

~Helen Keller

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched … but are felt in the heart.

~Helen Keller

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.

~Helen Keller

“Happiness is the journey, not the destination.” 

“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.”

~the Serenity Prayer