Quotations and Sayings 2
"You can feel the stars and the infinity of the sky since life, in spite of everything, is like a dream."
(Vincent Van Gogh)
"But is is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
(Oscar Wilde)
"Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. "
(Norman R. Augustine)
"Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
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(Winston Churchill)
"One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it."
(Knute Rockne)
"If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.."
(Thich Nhat Hanh)
"For every soul, there is a guardian watching it.
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(The Koran)
"Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. "
(Lauren Bacall)
"Every man contemplates an angel in his future self.
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(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
"An Angel can illumine the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision, and by bringing within his reach some truth which the Angel himself contemplates."
(St. Thomas Aquinas)
"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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(James Baldwin)
"I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't. "
(Lucille Ball)
"The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is. "
(Arnold Bennett)
"God assures us that his angels are always nearby, ready to help. This is what matters."
(Timothy Jones)
"To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour."
(William Blake)
"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."
(Oscar Wilde)
"He who finds a thought that enables him to obtain a slightly deeper glimpse into the eternal secrets of nature has been given great
grace."
(Albert Einstein)
"Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
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(Thomas Arnold Bennett)
"The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate
sanctum of the soul, which opens into that primal cosmic night that
was soul long before there was a conscious ego and will be soul far
beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach."
(Carl Jung)
"Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive."
(David S. Muzzey)
"Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment."
(Ralph Marston)
"Faith enables persons to be persons because it lets God be God."
(Carter Lindberg)
"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes."
(Hugh Downs)
"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."
(Martin Luther King, Jr.)
"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."
(William James)
"To see what is right and not do it is want of courage."
(Confucius)
"It is easy to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
"Better by far you should forget and smile, Than that you should remember and be sad."
(Christina Rossetti)
"For though we sleep or wake, or roam, or ride, Aye fleets the time, it will no man abide."
(Geoffrey Chaucer)
"Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force."
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
"There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us."
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
"We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."
(Plato)
"The Past is over for all of us... the Future is promised to none of us."
(Wayne Dyer)
"We can't all, and some of us don't. That's all there is to it.."
(Eeyore)
"The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."
(Eden Phillpotts)
"Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish."
(Ovid)
"Faith is reason grown courageous."
(Sherwood Eddy)
"Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. "
(Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks)
"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
(Mark Twain)
"How do you know so much about everything?" was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was "By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant."
(John Abbott)
"It is no use saying, "We are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary."
(Sir Winston Churchill)
"It is necessary for us to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself."
(Admiral Hyman G. Rickover)
"The next moment is as much beyond our grasp, and as much in God's care, as that a hundred years away. Care for the next minute is just as foolish as care for a day in the next thousand years. In neither can we do anything, in both God is doing everything."
(C.S. Lewis)
"If I have seen farther than other men, it is because I stand on the shoulders of giants."
(Isaac Newton)
"Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it."
(Chuang-tse)
"To believe with certainty, we must begin with doubting."
(Stanislaus I)
"Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right."
(John Donne)
"Do or do not. There is no try."
(Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back)
"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning."
(Louis L'Amour)
"Vision is the art of seeing things invisible."
(Jonathan Swift)
"Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. "
(James Stephens)
"The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."
(Chinese Proverb)
"Faith is spiritualized imagination."
(Henry Ward Beecher)
"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes."
(Francis Bacon)
"If we have our own why of life, we can bear almost any how."
(Friedrich Nietzsche)
"I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night."
(Bill Watterson)
"Some people always sigh in thanking God."
(Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
"Life is like riding a bicycle.
To keep your balance you must keep moving."
(Albert Einstein)
"Dreams are the touchstones of our character."
(Henry David Thoreau)
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
(Thomad Edison)
"In spite of all that has happened, I still believe that people are really good at heart."
(Anne Frank)
"A friend is someone who can see through you and still enjoys the show."
(The Farmer's Almanac)
"The impossible is often the untried."
(Jim Goodwin)
"Reality is the best possible cure for dreams."
(Roger Starr)
"Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming. (John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball)
"The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike someone who admires us, and to admire someone who dislikes us."
(Sydney J. Harris)
"The most valuable talent is that of never using two words when one will do."
(Thomas Jefferson)
"A mind that has been stretched will never return to it's original dimension"
(Einstein)
"If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are... "
(Cat Stevens)
"The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up."
(J.M. Power)
"Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are."
(Thomas Carlyle)
"I saw a star, I reached for it, I missed. So I accepted the sky."
(Scott Fortini)
"Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness."
(Gustave Le Bon)
"Never try to make anyone like yourself - you know, and God knows, that one of you is enough."
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions."
(Oliver Wendell Holmes)
"Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams."
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
"One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness."
(Josh Billings)
"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. "
(Harriet Beecher Stowe)
"The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf."
(
Shakti Gawain)
"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."
(Walt Disney)
"There is no truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world."
(Thomas Jefferson)
"When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive."
(Alan Paton)
"Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions."
(Edgar Cayce)
"The more a man knows, the more he forgives."
(Catherine the Great)
"Everything looks impossible for the people who never try anything."
(Jean-Louis Etienne)
"Shared joy is double joy and shared sorrow is half-sorrow."
(Swedish Proverb )
"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out."
(Art Linkletter)
"Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can? "
(The Artist Formerly Known As Prince)
"If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is something that could better be changed in ourselves."
(C.G. Jung)
"Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible."
(Mao Tse-tung)
"Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger."
(Chinese Proverb)
"As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead."
(Andre Norton)
"What's meant to be will always find a way."
(Trisha Yearwood)
"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly."
(Henri Bergson)
"God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame."
(Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
"In the strictest definition, an angel is a superior being living in the spirit world - standing between humans and God."
(John Ronner)
"Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there."
(Josh Billings)
"The angels see you as dazzling young diamonds which are being polished to perfection."
(Elsa Joy Bailey)
"Angels are inseparable friends, who bring strength and consolation to those who include them in their lives. In truth, angels are our best friends."
(Janice T. Connell)
"What we do not understand we do not possess."
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
"The greater the obstacle, the more the glory in overcoming it."
(Moliere)
"He who has fed a stranger may have fed an Angel."
(The Talmud)
"To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground."
(Stephen R. Covey)
"I couldn't wait for success...
so I went ahead without it."
(Jonathan Winters)
"There are times when silence has the loudest voice.
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(Leroy Brownlow)
"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."
(William Jones)
"Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
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(Orison Swett Marden)
"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."
(Robert Frost)
"Here is a test to see if your mission on earth is finished. If you are alive, it isn't."
(Francis Bacon)
"It is not length of life, but depth of life.""
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
"Angels belong to a uniquely different dimension of creation which we, limited to the natural order, can scarcely comprehend."
(Billy Graham)
"The virtue of angels is that they cannot deteriorate; their flaw is that they cannot improve. Man's flaw is that he can deteriorate; and his virtue is that he can improve."
(The Talmud)
"God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars."
(Elbert Hubbard)
"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."
(Epictetus)
"We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.
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(Abraham Maslow)
"Everyone must row with the oars he has."
(English Proverb)
"Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so."
(Lord Chesterfield)
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
(Teddy Roosevelt)
"Life can only be understood backwards,
but it must be lived forwards."
(Soren Kierkegaard)
"I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain."
(Joyce Cary)
"Keep your fears for yourself, but share your courage with others."
(Robert Louis Stevenson)
"Death--the last sleep?
No, it is the final awakening."
(Walter Scott)
"Science is organized knowledge.
Wisdom is organized life."
(Immanuel Kant )
"Truth comes out of error more easily than out of confusion."
(Francis Bacon)
"Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough."
(Seneca)
"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
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(Winston Churchill)
"Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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(Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."
(Helen Keller)
"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams."
(John Barrymore )
"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones."
(Phillip Brooks)
"One thing is clear: Angels are far more than projections of the divine mind or literary devices. They are real, personal beings, even if their corporeality is totally different from ours."
(Eileen Elias Freeman)
"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."
(E. E. Cummings)
"Angels are not merely forms of extraterrestrial intelligence. They are forms of extra-cosmic intelligence."
(Mortimer J. Adler)
"When you know and respect your Inner Nature, you know where you belong. You also know where you don't belong."
(The Tao of Pooh)