“The greatest use of a life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.” – Unknown
“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away.” – Unknown
“We are not human beings on a Spiritual journey. We are Spiritual Beings on a human journey.” – Unknown
“Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.” – Samuel Butler
“All that is made seems planless to the darkened mind, because there are more plans than it looked for…There seems no plan because it is all plan: there seems no centre because it is all centre.” -George MacDonald
“An unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” – Henry David Thoreau
“He not busy being born is busy dying.” – Bob Dylan
“When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, that is when you command the attention of the world.” – George Washington Carver
“Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.” – William Jennings Bryan
“Whatever you are, be a good one.” – Abraham Lincoln
“The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.” – Vince Lombardi
“If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.” – Martin Luther King
“May you live all the days of your life!” – Jonathan Swift
“Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us.” – Earl Nightingale
“Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.” – Tom Blandi
“Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The possibilities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.” – Katherine Anne Porter
“Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.” – Thomas Jefferson
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – Martin Luther King
“Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.” – John F. Kennedy
“Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.” – Sidney Madwed
“Our talents are the gift that God gives to us… What we make of our talents is our gift back to God.” – Leo Buscaglia
“Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake” – Henry David Thoreau
- “A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- “All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.” – Orison Swett Marden
- “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
- “Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.” – Jessamyn West
- “I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.” – Peter Nivio Zarlenga
- “I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.” – Duane Michals
- “I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.” – Ursula K. Le Guin
- “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.” – Theodor Geisel
- “I never did very well in math – I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn’t meant my answers literally.” – Calvin Trillin
- “I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.” – Pablo Picasso
- “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” – Michelangelo
- “If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.” – George S. Patton
- “Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.” – Simone Weil
- “Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led – “Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.” – L. Frank Baum
- “Imagination rules the world.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
- “Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.” – Carl Sagan
- “It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.” – Paul Gauguin
- “It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.” – Lewis Carroll
- “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “Live out of your imagination, not your history.” – Stephen Covey
1. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas Edison
2. “Hitch your wagon to a star.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. “If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn’t call it genius.” – Michelangelo
4. “I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much.” – Mother Teresa
5. “If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.” – Thomas Edison
6. “All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
7. “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” – Dr. Seuss
8. “Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts.” – Winston Churchill
9. “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” – Henry David Thoreau
10. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Eleanor Roosevelt
11. “Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.” – Goethe
12. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
13. “Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared.” – Eddie Rickenbacker
14. “Quit now, you’ll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you’ll be halfway there.” – David Zucker
15. “There are only 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
- “If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.” – Henny Youngman
- “Lose an hour in the morning, and you will be all day hunting for it.” – Richard Whately
- “The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.” – Jean Kerr, Please Don’t Eat the Daisies, 1957
- “I’d like mornings better if they started later.” – Unknown
- “For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?” – Thornton Wilder
- “Through the blackest night, morning gently tiptoes, feeling its way to dawn.” – Robert Brault
- “Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.” – Elbert Hubbard
- “The older generation thought nothing of getting up at five every morning – and the younger generation doesn’t think much of it either.” – John J. Welsh
- “If people were meant to pop out of bed, we’d all sleep in toasters.” – Unknown
- “Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.” – Jean Giraudoux
- “The sun is but a morning star.” – Henry David Thoreau, Walden
- “There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast.” – Unknown
- “There is no hope for a civilization which starts each day to the sound of an alarm clock.” – Unknown
- “I can see the orange haze on the horizon as the morning exhales a yawn, and seems to be ready to rise.” – Jeb Dickerson
- “I have a “carpe diem” mug and, truthfully, at six in the morning the words do not make me want to seize the day. They make me want to slap a dead poet.” – Joanne Sherman
- “Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.” – Josh Billings
- “The plans that I made when horizontal are working out now that I’m vertical.” – Betsy Cañas Garmon
- “Luxury is an ancient notion. There was once a Chinese mandarin who had himself wakened three times every morning simply for the pleasure of being told it was not yet time to get up.” – Argosy
- “One key to success is to have lunch at the time of day most people have breakfast.” – Robert Brault
- “The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.” – Thomas Jefferson
- “I’ll tell you how the sun rose a ribbon at a time.” – Emily Dickinson
- “To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.” – Ambrose Bierce
- “No human being believes that any other human being has a right to be in bed when he himself is up.” – Robert Lynd
- “Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.” – William Feather
- “Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience – unless they are still up.” – Ellen Goodman
- “I don’t think jogging is healthy, especially morning jogging. If morning joggers knew how tempting they looked to morning motorists, they would stay home and do sit-ups.” – Rita Rudner
“Sometimes i want to shout to the whole world how lucky i am to have you as my friend but sometimes i want to hush…afraid that somebody might take you away from me.” – Unknown
“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.”- Bernard Meltzer
“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”- Aristotle
“The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.” – Lois L. Kaufman
“Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.” – Swedish proverb
“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.” – Aristotle
“A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.” – Homer
“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.” – Czech Proverb
- “What is a friend? A single soul in two bodies.” – Aristotle
- “The friendship that can cease has never been real.” – Saint Jerome
- “I count myselt in nothing else so happy
As in a soul rememb’ring my good friends.” – William Shakespeare
- “I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man’s milk and restorative cordial.” – Thomas Jefferson
- “Sir, more than kisses, letters, mingle souls;
For, thus friends absent speak.” – John Donne
- “Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend
Unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end.” – John Boyle O’Reilly
- “Friends have all things in common.” – Plato
- “Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.” – Artistotle
- “My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” – Henry Ford
- “What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. They are but trifles, to be sure but, scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.” – Unknown
- “No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.” – George Eliot
- “It is a sweet thing, friendship, a dear balm,
A happy and auspicious bird of calm…” – Shelly
- “The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.” – Wilson Mizner
- “The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.” – Thomas Jefferson
- “One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.” – Francoise Sagan
- “Friendship is always a sweet responsibilty, never an oppourtunity.” – Kahil Gibran
- “There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.” – Bejamin Disraeli
- “I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.” – Walt Whitman
- “True friendship is never serene.” – Marquise de Sevigne
- “When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.” – Anatole Broyard
- “Friends are born, not made.” – Henry Adams
- “This communicating of a man’s self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joy, and cutteth griefs in half.” – Francis Bacon
- “Life is partly what we make it, and partly what is made by the friends whom we choose.” – Tehyi Hsieh
- “There is no hope of joy except in human relations.” – Antoine de Sainte-Exupery
- “The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man’s success in life.” – Edward Everett Hale
- “Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
- “The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?” – Henry David Thoreau
- “Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter.” – James Fenimore Cooper
- “Friendship without self interest is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.” – James Francis Byrnes