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Beauty, truth, friendship, love, creation – these are the great values of life. We can’t prove them, or explain them, yet they are the most stable things in our lives.
-- Jesse Herman Holmes
Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the First or last time.
-- Betty Smith
Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
--Antonio Smith
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is said that if there were no darkness in the world, it would not be possible to see the light; if this is the case, starlight is all the more rich for its illumination of the night sky.
--Scott Fowler
Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good.
Politicians and diapers have one thing in common. They should both be changed regularly and for the same reason.
An optimist thinks that this is the best possible world. A pessimist fears that this is true.
Anything free is worth what you pay for it.
Indecision is the key to flexibility.
It hurts to be on the cutting edge.
The soul would have no rainbow, had the eye no tears.
--Unknown
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
--Albert Schweitzer
I think life is really hard sometimes. It's not easy to wake up every day and go through what you go through. But the beautiful moments that you share with people that you love, or even experience alone, are worth all of the pain and sorrow. Those moments should be cherished, and I think that's what music is all about - to remind people of the beautiful moments that are in everybody's life.
--Charlie Haden
The earth has music for those who listen.
--William Shakespeare
The things that count most in life are the things that can't be counted.
There is nothing more beautiful than a rainbow, but it takes bothrain and sunshine to make a rainbow. If life is to berounded and many-colored like the rainbow, both joy and sorrow must come to it. Those who have never known anything but prosperity and pleasure become hard and shallow, but those whose prosperity has been mixed with adversity become kind and gracious.
Life is a ladder. Every step we take is either up or down.
If life hands you a lemon, make lemonade.
With every right there is a responsibility. Just once, I wish someone would demand his responsibility.
To the preacher life's a sermon,
To the joker life's a jest,
To the miser life is money,
To the loafer life's a rest,
To the soldier life's a battle,
To the teacher life's a school.
Life's a great thing for the thinker
But a folly to the fool.
Life is just one long vacation
To the man who loves his work,
But it's constant dodging duty,
To the everlasting shirk.
Life is what we try to make it,
Life's a story ever new:
To the faithful, earnest worker
What, my friend, is life to you?
Luck is always against the man who depends on it.
Recipe for Happiness:
Take two heaping cups of patience
One heartful of love
Two handfuls of generosity
Dash of laughter
One headful of understanding
Sprinkle generosity with kindness
Add plenty of faith and mix well.
Spread over a period of a lifetime
Serve to everyone you meet.
Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap.
-- William Bennett
Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are... Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in my pillow, or stretch myself taught, or raise my hands to the sky and want, more than all the world, your return.
-- Mary Jean Iron