-
Arthur Rubinstein: Life and love
“I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.” ~Arthur Rubinstein, quoted in “Tales of Golf and Sport”
-
Oscar Wilde: The Old, The Middle Aged and The Young
Image via Wikipedia “The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.” —Oscar Wilde.
-
Samuel Johnson: Remarriage
Image via Wikipedia “Remarriage: A triumph of hope over experience.” —Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784).
-
Charles Swindoll: Attitude
Image via Wikipedia “The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude – I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.” …~ Charles Swindoll Related articles by Zemanta Work-Life Balance and All the Joy…
-
Milton Berle: Laughter
Image via Wikipedia “Laughter is an instant vacation.” ~ Milton Berle.
-
Rudyard Kipling: Who, Why, What, When, How and Where
Cover via Amazon ‘I keep six honest serving men, they taught me all I know. Their names are Who, Why, What, When, How and Where.’ Rudyard Kipling Related articles by Zemanta Kipling’s poignant Jungle Book inscription comes to light (guardian.co.uk) The trick of being a man (annezelenka.com)
-
Victor Hugo: Idleness And Thought
Image via Wikipedia A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. –Victor Hugo, novelist and dramatist (1802-1885)
-
Martha Graham: Only One Of You
Image by cliff1066™ via Flickr ”There is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost.” ~ Martha Graham.
-
Mother Teresa: Kind echoes
“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.” ~ Mother Teresa
-
Clarence Budington Kelland: Watch him do it
He didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.” ~Clarence Budington Kelland, quoted in “Thanks Dad”
-
R H Delaney: Love
Image via Wikipedia “Love builds bridges where there are none.” ~R.H. Delaney, quoted in “Tough Times, Tough People”. Related articles by Zemanta Love & Fantasy – Just Fantastic! (linusfernandes.com)
-
Mark Victor Hansen: Inspire
“One of my goals is to inspire people to be all that they can be, and hopefully be a good example and teach some useful, interesting principles. Perhaps I can be the key that turns on the engine in their life, and then they can take their car where they want.” ~ Mark Victor Hansen.
-
Arnold Bennett: Change
Any change,even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. – Arnold Bennett
-
Pamela Vaull Starr: Reach high
“Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.” ~ Pamela Vaull Starr
-
Marie Louise de la Ramee: Cruel Familiarity
Image via Wikipedia “Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.” —Ouida [pen name of Marie Louise de la Ramee], novelist (1839-1908).
-
Edith Wharton: Little healing
Image by cliff1066™ via Flickr As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch. –Edith Wharton, novelist (1862-1937)
-
F. Scott Fitzgerald & Zelda Fitzgerald: On The Past
Image via Wikipedia It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory. F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940), U.S. author, and Zelda Fitzgerald (1900–1948), U.S. writer. First published in Esquire (New York, June 1934). “Show…
-
Sigmund Freud: Excremental
The excremental is all too intimately and inseparably bound up with the sexual: the position of the genitals—inter urinas et faeces—remains the decisive and unchangeable factor. One might say here, varying a well-known saying of the great Napoleon: “Anatomy is destiny.” Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), Austrian psychiatrist. repr. in Complete Works, Standard Edition, vol. 11, eds.…
-
Norman Vincent Peale: Go forward confidently
Image via Wikipedia “Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.” ~Norman Vincent Peale, quoted in “Loving Our Dogs”
-
Anne Lamott: Joy
“Joy is the best makeup.” ~ Anne Lamott
-
Unknown: Dogs and cats
“Dogs have owners, cats have staff.” ~Unknown, quoted in “Loving Our Cats”. Embed from Getty Images
-
Bono: More malleable than you think
“The world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape.” ~Bono.
-
Ben Jonson: Talking and speaking
Image via Wikipedia“ To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wiseman speaks.”~Ben Jonson, from Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Dad.
-
Unknown: Inch by inch, yard by yard
“Inch by inch, life’s a cinch; yard by yard, life is hard.” ~Anonymous, quoted in “Empty Nesters”. Related articles by Zemanta Inch by Inch…. (jer979.blogspot.com)
-
G. K. Chesterton: Granted gratitude
Image via Wikipedia “When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.” ~ G. K. Chesterton.
-
Edmund Hillary: The Mountain In Ourselves
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.” ~ Edmund Hillary, from Chicken Soup for the Soul: Runners
-
Kahlil Gibran: Sunshine, warmth, thunder, lightning
Image via Wikipedia “If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning.” ~ Kahlil Gibran; Chicken Soup for the Indian Spiritual Soul.
-
Ivy Baker Priest: Round world
“The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.” ~Ivy Baker Priest, quoted in “My Resolution” Related articles by Zemanta Economics Quote (linusfernandes.com) Godly Quote (linusfernandes.com) Patriotic Quote (linusfernandes.com) Just Quotes (linusfernandes.com) Copycat Quote (linusfernandes.com)
-
Amelia Earhart: Kindness
“No kind action ever stop with itself. One kind action leads to another. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.” ~ Amelia Earhart; A 2nd Helping of…
-
Piet Hein: On The Past
The past, — well, it’s just like / our Great-Aunt Laura, / who cannot or will not perceive / that though she is welcome, / and though we adore her, / yet now it is time to leave. -Piet Hein, poet and scientist (1905-1996).
-
Omar Khayyam: Hell, paradise and flowers
“Oh, threats of hell and hopes of paradise! / One thing at least is certain — this life flies; / One thing is certain, and the rest is lies; / The flower that once has blown forever dies.” —Omar Khayyam, poet, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer, and physician (1048-1131).
-
Paulo Coelho: Tears
Tears of joy, tears of sadness. Tears are words that need to be written, spoken, shared. – Paulo Coleho.
-
Carol Welch: Movement
“Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person’s physical, emotional, and mental states.” ~Carol Welch, quoted in “What I Learned from the Dog”.
-
Jefferson Carter: There’s no such thing as a stupid question
All the good questions have been asked. Am I my brother’s keeper? Are you my pork chop? What’s a guy gotta do to get a drink around here? I’ve been dreaming about my brother, who lived on Crete. I dragged him out of the surf, dead drunk, 150-pound carp, but hairier & muttering every pariah’s…
-
Louis D. Brandeis: Sin Of Neutrality
“Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.” —Louis D. Brandeis. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/96795389
-
Annie Gottlier: Hard and easy
“It’s so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to.” ~Annie Gottlier, quoted in “My Resolution”
-
Gwendolyn Brooks: Grief, loneliness and revenge
“Each to his grief, each tohis loneliness and fidgety revenge.” —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917), U.S. poet. Boy Breaking Glass (l. 13–14). . .Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.
-
Diane Wakoski: Disguised words
“Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.” —Diane Wakoski, poet (b. 1937).
-
Joseph Campbell: Privilege of a lifetime
“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.” ~Joseph Campbell, quoted in “The Golf Book“.
-
Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine: Amiability, happiness & success
How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success. -Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine, mystic (1782-1857).
-
Anatole France: Dictionary
“Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.” —Anatole France, novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate (1844-1924). http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/2628406
-
Lady Bird Johnson: Shyness
“The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.” ~Lady Bird Johnson, quoted in “My Resolution”.
-
Byron Pulsifer: Character
“Character is a commodity that cannot be bought, cannot be stolen, and cannot be borrowed from any other.” ~ Byron Pulsifer
-
Chicken soup for the soul: Indian fathers
” Every father should remember that one day his son will follow his example instead of his advice.” ~ From our forthcoming Chicken Soup for the Soul: Indian Fathers.
-
Unknown: Niceness and you
Image via Wikipedia “It’s nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice.” ~ Author Unknown Related articles by Zemanta A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother…
-
Samuel Butler: Morality
“Morality is the custom of one’s country and the current feeling of one’s peers. Cannibalism is moral in a cannibal country.” —Samuel Butler, writer (1835-1902).
-
Samuel Johnson: Poetry
Poetry, indeed, cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language…
-
Sophia Loren: Motherhood
“When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.” ~ Sophia Loren; Chicken Soup for the Soul: Indian Mothers.
