Favorite Quotes

"I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist" --Tammy Faye Mesner

"There are 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

..."Nobody really cares if you're miserable so you might as well be happy" --Anonymous

"Kind words may be short...but their echoes are endless" --Mother Theresa

"No one has ever become poor by giving" --Anne Frank

"Life is like photography: you use the negative to develop" --Swami Beyondananda


"In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through but rather how many can get through to you" -- Mortimer Adler

"Books are still man's greatest invention, despite the nonsense so often published between their covers" --Martin Arnold


"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them" --Ray Bradbury


"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life" --Walt Disney


"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are" --e.e. cummings


"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none" --William Shakespeare


"Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go" --Bayard Taylor


"When one door closes another opens, but often we look so long, so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has been opened for us" --Helen Keller


"We must be willing to give up the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us" --Joseph Campbell


"All the darkness of the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle" --St Francis of Assisi


"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter" MLK Jr.

"If America taught me anything, it's that quitting is right up there with pissing in the Girl Scouts' lemonade jar" --Khaled Hosseini



"It's curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare" --Mark Twain


"Some think it's holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it's letting go" --Sylvia Robinson


"The day was, in a sense. like giving birth to a child--harrowing, sweaty, frightening, jubilant--requiring every ounce of your strength, but eventually, you did forget about it. You blocked all the bad parts out of your mind, and when you looked at your child, you understood how much it was worth it" --Candice Bushnell


"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live" --Henry David Thoreau





"Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains" --Emilie Cady



"Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not" --Ursula K. LeGuin



"Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for" --Marian Wright Edelman

"A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be" Rosalyn Carter



"Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky" --Anais Nin



"Family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about" --Trey Parker and Matt Stone

"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires" --Susan B. Anthony


"Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it" --Oprah Winfrey