Favorite Quotes or Sayings?

LOL: )

"If you want happiness for an hour – take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day – go fishing.
If you want happiness for a month – get married.
If you want happiness for a year – inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime – help someone else."
Chinese Proverb

"Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death."
Author: Unknown

"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"
--Abraham Lincoln

Some quotes on strength for you~~~>

"Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength."
Author: Henry Ward Beecher

"Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home."
Author: Henry Drummond

"The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right."
Author: William Safire

loved them, thanks

" God never gives us more than we can handle"... I think God has way too much confidence in me! : )

Spiritual quotes~

"Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier.
Be the living expression of God's kindness."

- Mother Teresa

Fight all error, but do it with good humor, patience, kindness, and love. Harshness will damage your own soul and spoil the best cause.

- St. John of Kanty

"Our true worth does not consist in what human beings think of us. What we really are consists in what God knows us to be."

- St. John Berchmans

In the twilight of life, God will not judge us on our earthly possessions and human successes, but on how well we have loved.

- Saint John of the Cross

MY FAVE:
"There is no labor where one loves, or if there is, the labor itself is loved."

- St Augustine

SOME GREAT ONES:
" Imagination is but another name for super intelligence."
Edgar Rice Burroghs

"What I mean by character is a firm, seasoned substance of soul. I mean qualities or acquirements as intelligence, thoughtfulness, conscientiousness, rightmindedness, patience, fortitude, long-suffering and unconquerable resolve."
Joshua Chamberlain

"I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma."
Eartha Kitt

"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts." Harry S. Truman

"We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself."
Lloyd Alexander

I beleieve that too... good one!

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
Edgar Allan Poe

" Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed."
Joseph Addison

"Seven days without laughter make one weak."
Joel Goodman

"Laughter is an instant vacation."
Milton Berle

""The future belongs to those who believe in the beautyof their dreams."
Eleanor Roosevelt

"The soul in sleep gives proof of its divine nature". Cicero

"The most precious things in speech are the pauses."
Author: Sir Ralph Richardson

"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."
Author: Kierkegaard

"Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech."
Author: Martin Fraquhar Tupper

SOME FUNNIER ONES: )
"Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it."
Author: Robert Frost

"Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care."
Author: William Safire

That's a great one, like "You reap what you sow" or "you get what you give", which all refer to karma!

I once saw this quote: "My Karma ran over your Dogma" GOTTA LOVE IT: )

"There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either."~Robert Graves

"Poetry is what gets lost in translation."~Robert Frost

"A poem begins with a lump in the throat.'~Robert Frost

MY FAVORITES:
"Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason."~Novalis

"God is the perfect poet."~Robert Browning

I like sarcasm too; )

"Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence."
- Ashleigh Brilliant

"I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception." LOL: )

"The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech."
- George Bernard Shaw

"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."
- Mark Twain

MY FAVE:
"He was happily married - but his wife wasn't."
- Victor Borge

“Excellence can be obtained if you:

...care more than others think is wise;

...risk more than others think is safe;

...dream more than others think is practical;

...expect more than others think is possible.”


“Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
~Leon Joseph Cardinal Suenens

“Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.”

“To dream of a person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.”

“You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.”
Mary Manin Morrissey