Friday, August 09, 2013

Quotes on Life

Posted by Christoph




Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.  ~Thomas à Kempis, Imitation of Christ, c.1420


You've got a lot of choices.  If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice.  ~Steven D. Woodhull (U.S. geologist, 1976-)



What saves a man is to take a step.  Then another step.  It is always the same step, but you have to take it.  ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939


Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other.  ~Henry David Thoreau


Remember, if you’re headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns!  ~Allison Gappa Bottke


See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little. ~Pope John XXIII  


Give thanks for what you are now, and keep fighting for what you want to be tomorrow. ~Fernanda Miramontes-Landeros


Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall.  Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day.  Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down.  And this is all life really means.  ~Robert Louis Stevenson


If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it. ~Toni Morrison 


Tough and funny and a little bit kind:  that is as near to perfection as a human being can be.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.  ~Theodore Roosevelt


Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped.  ~African Proverb
  

If only I may grow:  firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.  ~Dag Hammarskjold


It's better to fight for something than against something.  ~Author Unknown


Love the weak by fighting the bully. Every man should be fighting some kind of injustice at all times. Find a cause you can get behind. ~ Sammy Adebiyi  


The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.  ~Thomas Edison


God is good, but never dance in a small boat.  ~Irish Saying 

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