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		Click on a quote to preview and customize it. Pick a Category. Select "All" to show all quotes (this is the default). Art and Music A musician must make music, an artist must paint. A poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language. ~ Henri Matisse Art is a jealous mistress. ~ Emerson Art is Long, Life is Short. ~ Hippocrates Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. ~ Frank Zappa Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. ~ Albert Einstein No artist is ahead of his time, he is his time. It is just that the others are behind the time. The fact that no one understands you doesn't make you an artist. The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates. ~ T. S. Eliot Those who hear not the music, think the dancers mad. What one can be, one must be. When words fail, I let the music speak. Business and Education->Business Inspirations A problem is a chance for you to do your best. ~ Duke Ellington Dance like nobody's watching. Laugh like no one is listening. Love like you can't be hurt. Live life like it's heaven on Earth. Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson Don't wait for your ship to come in; swim out to it. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Half the fun is getting there. Hold on to your dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me. ~ Emerson It is never too late to be what you might have been. ~ George Eliot Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him. ~ Emerson Live the life you have imagined. ~ Thoreau Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. ~ Emerson Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. ~ Emerson Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. ~ Emerson Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. ~ Aristotle Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Success automatically happens when your Passion also becomes your Profession. Success is not the key to happiness; Happiness is the key to success. The last temptation is the greatest reason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason. ~ T. S. Eliot The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another. ~ George Eliot This is not the end, but it is the road. ~ Martin Luther Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great. ~ Emerson We cannot change the direction of the wind... but we can adjust our sails. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. ~ Emerson Whatever you are by nature, keep to it. Never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed. Business and Education->Educational Inspirations A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there. ~ Charles R. Darwin All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten. As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. ~ Albert Einstein As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school. Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. ~ Charles W. Eliot Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it. Education is not a form of entertainment, but a means of empowering people to take control of their lives. Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. ~ Robert Frost Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't. Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one ~ Malcolm Forbes Five out of four people have trouble with fractions. Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day; Teach a man to fish, and he'll eat for a lifetime. Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot. I am always ready to learn, but I do not always like being taught. ~ Sir Winston Churchill I don't believe in mathematics. ~ Albert Einstein If you understand what you're doing, you're not learning anything. ~ Abraham Lincoln If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past. Imagination is more important than knowledge. ~ Albert Einstein In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you. Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. ~ Abigail Adams Mathematicians don't crack jokes, they crack codes. Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. Mathematics is written for mathematicians. ~ Nicholaus Copernicus Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them. No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. ~ Albert Einstein Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. ~ Albert Einstein Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. Reading unlocks doors. Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars. ~ JFK The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values. The important thing is not to stop questioning. ~ Albert Einstein The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. ~ Mark Twain The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. ~ Albert Einstein The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind. There are two types of education... One should teach us how to make a living, and the other how to live. ~ John Adams Tis the good reader that makes the good book. ~ Emerson To repeat what others have said, requires education, to challenge it, requires brains. To teach is to touch a life. A caring teacher touches the lives of many. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing towards it. The process is not yet finished, but it is going on. This is not the end, but it is the road. ~ Martin Luther We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. ~ Albert Einstein You can't learn anything with your mouth open. Business and Education->Good for Business Early to bed, early to rise, Work like hell and advertise. ~ Ted Turner Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. ~ Albert Schweitzer It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. ~ Moliere It's a poor workman who blames his tools. It's easier to do a job right than explain why you didn't. Just do what you do best. May the favor of the Lord our God rest upon us; establish the work of our hands for us - yes, establish the work of our hands. ~ Psalm 90:17 Never settle for anything less than your best. Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. Our success is measured by your satisfaction. Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. ~ Aristotle Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted. Success is not the key to happiness; Happiness is the key to success. The purpose of a business is to create and keep customers. The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility. ~ Einstein Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving. ~ Colossians 3:23-24 Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops. Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. Your wife called, she said you can buy anything you want. Business and Education->Motivation Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. ~ Emerson Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability. Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. ~ Will Rogers Every artist was first an amateur. ~ Emerson Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things. Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing. ~ Albert Schweitzer I never criticize a player until they are first convinced of my unconditional confidence in their abilities. If not now, when? If what you're working for really matters, you'll give it all you've got. If you don't climb the mountain, you can't see the view. If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground. ~ Emerson It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end. I've always felt it was not up to anyone else to make me give my best. Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it. Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching. Let your natural inclination be road sign that will take you to your destiny. Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. Nobody motivates today's workers. If it doesn't come from within, it doesn't come. Fun helps remove the barriers that allow people to motivate themselves. Nothing is as real as a dream. People prefer to follow those who help them, not those who intimidate them. Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit. Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing. The ancestor of every action is a thought. ~ Emerson The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person. The greater thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are going. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. ~ Emerson The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it, duties need not obscure it, because the dream is within you, no one can take it away. There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do. They build too low who build beneath the skies. This time like all times is a very good one if we but know what to do with it. ~ Emerson To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. We must walk toward goals instead of running away from our problems. What we see depends mainly on what we look for. You are what you think. You are what you go for. You are what you do. Business and Education->Professions (Optometrist's Office) If you don't see what you're looking for you've come to the right place. A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectation. A pediatrician is a man known to have very little patients. A picture may be worth a thousand words, but it uses up a thousand times more memory. A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. Accountant: anyone who can add the same column of figures five times in a row and come up with five different tax deductions. Accountants are top dollar! Accountants work their assets off! Acupuncture: a jab well done! Amazing electrician: Wired for excellence! An accountant is a well-balanced person! Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice. B-Gauze I care! Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~ Mark Twain Be true to your teeth and they won't be false to you. Dentist: A prestidigitator who, putting metal in one's mouth, pulls coins out of one's pockets. Dentist: medical professional who helps you put your money where your mouth is. Dentists get to the root of the problem. Dentists put teeth into their work. Everything in excess is opposed to nature. ~ Hippocrates Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach. ~ Einstein For there was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently. ~ Shakespeare God heals and the Doctor takes the fee. ~ Benjamin Franklin He cures most in whom most have faith. He who dares to teach must never cease to learn. How unfair! Only one health, and so many diseases. Hygienists brighten the world one smile at a time! If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. ~ Albert Einstein Ignore your teeth and they'll go away. It takes a lot of patients to be a successful doctor. It's probably just a rash. I'm an accountant... not a magician! Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence. Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease. ~ Hippocrates Old accountants never die, they just lose their balance. Old cardiac surgeons never die, they just get bypassed. OLD DENTISTS never die, they just get down in the mouth OLD DENTISTS never die, they just lose their pull. Old doctors never die, they just lose their patients. Old electricians never die, they just lose contact. Orthodontists straighten things out! Plastic Surgeons can help you pick your nose! Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty. The best interest of the patient is the only interest to be considered. The colder the X-ray table, the more of your body is required on it. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. ~ Einstein The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done to-day. ~ Abraham Lincoln The life so short, the craft so long to learn. ~ Hippocrates The mark of a true doctor is usually illegible. The mediocre teacher tells, The good teacher explains, The superior teacher demonstrates, The great teacher inspires. The miserable have no other medicine but only hope. ~ Shakespeare The practice of medicine is not only a science; it is an art. It deals with the very process of life. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate ditches. ~ C.S. Lewis The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. The Whole Tooth, And Nothing But the Tooth! There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting. ~ David Letterman TOOTHACHE: The pain that drives you to extraction. You blend gentleness with skill. You are a physician with a heart as well as a head. You can pay people to teach, but you can't pay them to care. You don't have to brush your teeth - just the ones you want to keep. Young and old, large and small, We treat them well and love them all. You're a dentist that makes a good impression! Business and Education->Success A person's probability of success is directly proportional to the belief and execution of their abilities. Any system or blueprint for success is better than none at all. ~ Brian Tracy Be a great listener. Ask questions and listen intently to the answers. ~ Brian Tracy Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results. ~ Brian Tracy Even if at first you do succeed, you still have to work hard to stay there. Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy! ~ Brian Tracy Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear. ~ Brian Tracy Hope is the companion of power and the mother of success, for those of us who hope strongest have within us the gift of miracles. I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. ~ Bill Cosby I love deadlines. I especially love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. ~ General George S. Patton If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me. ~ Emerson Imagine no limitations; decide what's right and desirable before you decide what's possible. ~ Brian Tracy Individual commitment to a group effort, that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. It is amazing what can be accomplished when nobody cares about who gets the credit. It's not the load that breaks you down; It's the way you carry it. Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. Listen a hundred times, Ponder a thousand times, Speak once. Look for the good in every person and every situation. You'll almost always find it. ~ Brian Tracy My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil. ~ Paul Getty Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. ~ Emerson Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map. Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments. Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good that we oft may win, By fearing to attempt. ~ Shakespeare People don't plan to fail; They just fail to plan. ~ Zig Zigler People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. People with goals succeed, because they know where they're going. Plan your work, Then work your plan. ~ Zig Zigler Private victories precede public victories. Production is not the application of tools to materials, but logic to work. Recipe for success: Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing. Refuse to compromise what you know to be right for anyone or anything. ~ Brian Tracy Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. ~ Emerson Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted. Success consists of getting up just one more time than you've fallen down. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. ~ General George Patton Success is not a destination that you ever reach. Success is the quality of your journey. Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things. ~ T. S. Eliot Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. ~ Booker T. Washington Success... it's what you do with what you've got. The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers. ~ Brian Tracy The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves. ~ Brian Tracy The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work. The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious. The only honest measure of your success is what you are doing compared to your true potential. The road to success is always under construction. The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces. The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of you life. If you don't, life controls you. ~ Anthony Robbins The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them. ~ Einstein There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure. ~ Colin Powell Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out. Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears. ~ Brian Tracy Truth is what stands the test of experience. ~ Einstein Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value. ~ Einstein Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words. ~ Brian Tracy When you are in any contest you should work as if there were - to the very last minute a chance to lose it. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance. ~ Emerson Worry is a sustained form of fear caused by indecision. ~ Brian Tracy Famous Quotes A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. ~ Emerson All things pass... Patience attains all it strives for. ~ Mother Teresa Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. ~ Mark Twain An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. ~ Benjamin Franklin Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. ~ Albert Einstein Do not wait for leaders. Do it alone, person to person. ~ Mother Teresa Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. ~ Mark Twain Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler. ~ Albert Einstein Genius is one percent inspiration, and ninety-nine percent perspiration. ~ Thomas Edison God's Word, contained in the Bible, has furnished all necessary rules to direct our conduct. ~ Noah Webster Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. ~ Albert Einstein He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. ~ Leonardo da Vinci How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. ~ Thoreau I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world. ~ Mother Teresa I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to men. All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to us through this book. ~ Abraham Lincoln I do not pray for success. I ask for faithfulness. ~ Mother Teresa I have come to realize more and more that the greatest disease and the greatest suffering is to be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, to be shunned by everybody, to be just nobody to no one. ~ Mother Teresa I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. ~ Mother Teresa I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. ~ Duke Ellington If passion drives, let reason hold the reins. ~ Benjamin Franklin If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. ~ Mother Teresa If you judge people, you have no time to love them. ~ Mother Teresa If you tell the truth, you do not have to remember anything. ~ Mark Twain Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. ~ Albert Einstein It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt. ~ Mark Twain It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving. ~ Mother Teresa Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. ~ Mother Teresa Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you too, can become great. ~ Mark Twain Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. ~ Mother Teresa Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around. ~ Thoreau Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. ~ Mother Teresa Never worry about numbers, help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you. ~ Mother Teresa People with great minds talk about ideas. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt People with small minds talk about people. People with average minds talk about events. Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. ~ Albert Einstein Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. ~ Albert Einstein The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. ~ Abraham Lincoln The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are. ~ C.S. Lewis The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. ~ Albert Einstein Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower Through our scientific genius, we have made this world a neighborhood; now through our moral and spiritual development, we must make of it a brotherhood. ~ Martin Luther King Jr. To err is human; To forgive, divine. ~ Benjamin Franklin To have courage for whatever comes in life; everything lies in that. ~ Mother Teresa To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. ~ Albert Einstein What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight it's the size of the fight in the dog. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. ~ Indira Gandhi Home and Family->Babies and Children A daughter is love in a bright pink bow, a bundle of happiness all aglow. A precious new baby has come from above, to live in your hearts to fill you with love. A sweet little treasure sent from above, a coo and a smile wrapped up in love. A wee bit of heaven drifted down from above, a handful of happiness, a heart full of love. Babies are angels whose wings grow shorter as their legs grow longer. Before you were conceived I wanted you. Before you were born I loved you. Before you were here an hour I would die for you. This is the miracle of life. Childhood, whose very happiness is love. Children are an heritage of the Lord. ~ Psalm 127:3 Diapers and bottles and bibs, oh my! Everything in life I share except of course my teddy bear. Future Allstar I am blessed and I am loved. I see the moon, and the moon sees me, God bless the moon, and God bless me. Let the children come to me - for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. ~ Matthew 19:14 My precious masterpiece from God. Once upon a time. One generation plants the trees; another gets the shade. One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste. Our little blessing. Some say my smile is like Daddy's, some say my eyes are like Mommy's. But most of all, I hope they say my heart is like Jesus'. Ten little tiny fingers that always want to play, that never stop exploring the wonder of today. Ten little fingers that from the very start will reach out for tomorrow yet always hold your heart. There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children; One is roots, the other, wings. To hug and to hold from this day forward. Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it. ~ Proverbs 22:6 Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are. Up above the world so high, like a diamond in the sky. Two little hands, two little feet... A brand new baby is oh so sweet When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become. When the first baby laughed for the first time the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of the fairies. Where ever you go, what ever you do, be happy and know that I love you. You are special, you are dear. How blessed we are to have you here. You look a little like your Mother, a little like your Father and a whole lot like a miracle to me. Your children are not your children they are the sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. ~ Kahlil Gibran You're the end of the rainbow, my pot of gold. You're daddy's little girl to have and hold. A precious gem is what you are. You're mommy's bright and shining star. You're the treasure I cherish, so sparkling and bright. You were touched by the holy and beautiful light. Like angels that sing a heavenly thing, and you're our little girl. Home and Family->Beautiful Thoughts A thing of beauty is a joy forever. ~ John Keats A thing of beauty is a joy forever: Its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness. ~ John Keats As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. ~ Emerson Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt Beauty is in the eye of its beholder. Beauty is not caused... It is. ~ Emily Dickinson Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. ~ Edgar Allen Poe Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. ~ Emerson Champagne is the only wine a woman can drink and still remain beautiful. ~ Mme.de Pompadour Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me? ~ Oscar Hammerstein Far away in the sunshine are my highest inspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead. ~ Louisa May Alcott How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward. ~ Spanish Proverb I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple. ~ Albert Einstein Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift. ~ Albert Einstein La vie est belle... profiter de chaque moment. (Life is beautiful... enjoy each moment) Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. Man makes holy what he believes, as he makes beautiful what he loves. My soul can find no staircase to heaven unless it be through earth's loveliness. ~ Michelangelo No smile is as beautiful as the one that struggles through tears. People are like stained glass windows - the true beauty can be seen only when there is light from within. The darker the night, the brighter the windows. Practice random beauty and senseless acts of love. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt ~ Helen Keller The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. ~ Helen Keller The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt The ideals that have lighted my way and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty and Truth. ~ Albert Einstein Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful. ~ Emerson Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. ~ Emerson To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed, such seems your beauty still. ~ Shakespeare What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis, order, and for its essence, unity. When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. You are to gather up the joys and sorrows, the struggles, the beauty, love, dreams and hopes of every hour that they may be consecrated at the altar of daily life. Home and Family->Family A rich child often sits in a poor mother's lap. Always have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. Be always thankful for FAMILY, and FRIENDS. Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ, God forgave you. ~ Ephesians 4:32 Because I'm the MOM that's why. Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father. Children are likely to live up to what you believe in them. Children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. Cooking and Cleaning can wait till tomorrow, For babies grow up we've learned to our sorrow, So quiet down cobwebs, dust go to sleep I'm rocking my baby and babies don't keep. Everything I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. ~ Abraham Lincoln Family is the most important thing in the world. ~ Princess Di Having someone to love is family... Having somewhere to go is home... Having both is a blessing. I am blessed and I am loved. It is a wise father that knows his own child. ~ Shakespeare Live your life in the manner that you would like your kids to live theirs. Mothers hold each moment in their hearts. Parents can tell but never teach, unless they practice what they preach Some family trees bear an enormous crop of nuts. The best thing to spend on children is time. Together we are strong. When our relationships are born in the heart of God, they bring out the best in us, for they are nurtured by love. Where there is love in the heart there is joy in the home. Home and Family->Friends A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found such an one hath found a treasure. A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. A friend in need is a friend indeed. A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud. ~ Emerson A friend is another I. ~ Aristotle A friend is one who sees through you and still enjoys the view. A friend is the first person to come in when the last person walks out. A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. A friend loves at all times. ~ Proverbs 17:17 A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world. A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad. A man who has friends must himself be a friend. ~ Proverbs 18:24 A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. ~ Emerson A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. ~ Leo Buscaglia A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart. Hold a true friend with both of your hands Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most. ~ American Proverb Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there? Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say. Friends are God's way of taking care of us. Friends are kisses blown to us by angels. Friends are lights in winters; the older the friend, the brighter the light. Friends are relatives you make for yourself. Friends are seldom found; They are made. Friends... They are kind to each other's hopes; They cherish each other's dreams. ~ Thoreau Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, By the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. Friendship is a horizon - which expands whenever we approach it. Friendship is a single soul living in two bodies. ~ Aristotle Friendship is a special kind of love. Friendship is the golden thread that ties all hearts together. Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words. Friendship is the union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond there of virtue. ~ William Penn Friendship without self interest is one of the rare and beautiful things in life. Good friends are good for your health. Good friends must not always be together; It is the feeling of oneness when distant that proves a lasting friendship. He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. ~ Emerson I get by with a little help from my friends. ~ John Lennon I have been, and always shall be, your friend. I went outside to find a friend, but could not find one there. I went outside to BE a friend, and friends were everywhere. In prosperity our friends know us; In adversity we know our friends. It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help. ~ Epicurus It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. ~ Emerson It takes a long time to grow an old friend. It's so much more friendly with two. ~ A.A. Milne Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and you cry with your girlfriends. Love comes from blindness; Friendship from knowledge. Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice. Make new friends; cherish the old. Much of the vitality in a friendship lies in the honoring of differences, not simply in the enjoyment of similarities. Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time. Only your real friends tell you when your face is dirty Real friends are those who, when you feel you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel you've done a permanent job. The best mirror is an old friend. The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends. The friendship which is to be practiced or expected by common mortals, must take its rise from mutual pleasure, and must end when the power ceases of delighting each other. ~ Samuel Johnson The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover. The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. ~ Mark Twain The language of friendship is not words but meanings. ~ Thoreau The most beautiful discovery that true friends can make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. The only true gift is a portion of thyself. ~ Emerson The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. ~ Emerson The road to a friend's house is never long. The secret to friendship is being a good listener. Those truly linked don't need correspondence. When they meet again after many years apart, their friendship is as true as ever. True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade. What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. ~ Aristotle When you're looking for a friend don't look for perfection, just look for friendship. Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. ~ Aristotle Home and Family->Guest Room "Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary. A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world. A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. ~ Leo Buscaglia Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Friends are relatives you make for yourself. Friends... They are kind to each other's hopes; They cherish each other's dreams. ~ Thoreau Friendship is a special kind of love. Friendship is the union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond there of virtue. ~ William Penn Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path. ~ Emerson I am blessed and I am loved. I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. ~ Emerson Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends. Oh bed! Oh bed! Oh delicious bed! That heaven on earth to the weary head. One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time. Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique. The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover. The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. ~ Emerson The road to a friend's house is never long. We are glad you are here. We have been friends together In sunshine and in shade. Welcome - we're glad to have you as our guest and hope you have a good night's rest. Tomorrow you again may roam, but while you're here just feel at home. Welcome lords and ladies from wherever you may roam, This house however humble, is the castle we call home. Welcome. Home and Family->Home A friend loves at all times. ~ Proverbs 17:17 A good laugh is sunshine in the house. A home is built of peace and love, And not of wood or stone. A place where understanding lives, And memories are sown. (Your family name) Sowing Memories Since XXXX. A well-spent day brings happy sleep. ~ Leonardo da Vinci As for Me and My House We will serve the Lord. ~ Joshua 24:15 Be silly. Be honest. Be kind. ~ Emerson Be still, and know that I am God. ~ Psalm 46:10 Céad Míle Fáilte Irish saying translated: "A hundred thousand welcomes" Crafts Are Cheaper Than Therapy. Dance like nobody's watching. Laugh like no one is listening. Love like you can't be hurt. Live life like it's heaven on Earth. Do Small things with Great Love. Don't count your years... make your years count. Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson Don't just live the length of your life, live the width of it as well. Gathering Room Give us this day our daily bread. ~ Matthew 6:11 God rest your love upon this door bless this home forever more. Happy Are Those Who Dwell In Thy House. Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. ~ Charles Dickens Having someone to love is family... Having somewhere to go is home... Having both is a blessing. He abidith in faith, hope, and love - the greatest of these being love. ~ 1 Cor 13:13 He who forgives first, wins. Home is where the heart is. Home is where there's one to love us. Home Sweet Home. Home Sweet Home... Where Ivy Grows, Roses Bloom, And Sunlight Fills My Favorite Room. I am blessed and I am loved. I have a dream today. ~ Martin Luther King Jr. If life gives you scraps... make quilts! If you can imagine it, you can achieve it, if you can dream it, you can become it. If you pause to reflect, you will have time to count your blessings. In our home let love abide, and bless all those who step inside. It will all come out in the wash. It's a Wonderful Life. Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. ~ Mother Teresa La vie est belle... profiter de chaque moment. (Life is beautiful... enjoy each moment) Leave room in your garden for the angels to dance. Let there be Peace and Let it begin with me. Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. Life is too short to drink bad wine. Live Life One Day At A Time And Make It A Masterpiece! Live well, laugh often, love much. Love is a fruit in season at all times. Love is the mother of everything. Love makes our house a home. L'amour est meilleur que le vin. (Love is better than wine) May all who enter as guests... leave as friends. May you have warm words on a cold evening, a full moon on a dark night, and the road downhill all the way to your door. May your neighbors respect you, trouble neglect you, the angels protect you, and heaven Accept you. Memories are precious when shared with those we love. My house is filled with the things that I love. Oh bed! Oh bed! Oh delicious bed! That heaven on earth to the weary head. Peace to All Who Enter. Reach for the Stars, Dare to Dream, Believe in yourself. Sweet is the smile of home. The earth laughs in flowers. The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. ~ Emerson The sun at home warms better than the sun elsewhere. There's No Place Like Home This above all; to thine own self be true. ~ William Shakespeare Vive Bene, Spesso L'amore,Di Risata Molto. (Live Well, Laugh Often, Love Much) Vivre, aimer, rire... le boneheur quoi! (To live, love, laugh... is happiness!) We cannot change yesterday. We can only make the most of today, and look with hope toward tomorrow. We do not remember days, We remember moments. We shall drink no wine before its time... It's time! Welcome Friends. We're glad to have you as our guest. And hope you have a good night's rest. Tomorrow you again may roam. But while you're here just feel at home. Where there is love in the heart there is joy in the home. Home and Family->Kitchen and Dining Room A cup of coffee shared with a friend is happiness tasted and time well spent. A guardian angel in your kitchen, Watches over what you're fixin'! A messy kitchen is a happy kitchen, and this kitchen is delirious! All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt! And there you shall eat before the Lord your God, and you shall rejoice in all to which you have put your hand, you and your households, in which the Lord your God has blessed you. ~ Deuteronomy 12:7 Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon. Better a dry crust with peace and quiet, than a house full of feasting with strife! Bless us O Lord and these thy gifts, which we are about to receive from thy bounty through Christ our Lord. Amen Chocolate, men, coffee - some things are better rich. Coffee and love taste best when hot. Coffee is best sweetened by good company. Coffee tastes better with a friend. Come gather at our table. Comfort's in my coffee cup. Cooking is like love, It should be entered into with abandon or not at all. Every cook makes his own sauce. Félicitez Dieu, dont toutes les bénédictions coulent (Thank God, from whom all blessings come) Food should be prepared with butter and love. For your convenience, we recommend courteous, efficient self-service. Give Us Lord, a bit o' sun, a bit o' work, and a bit o' fun; Give us all in the struggle and sputter, our daily bread and a bit o' butter. Give us this day our daily bread. ~ Matthew 6:11 God of goodness, bless our food, keep us in a pleasant mood. I feast on wine and bread, and feasts they are ~ Michelangelo I live on good soup, not on fine words. ~ Moliere I love cooking with wine, sometimes I even put it in the food. Kiss the cook!!! Kissing doesn't last, good cookin' does. Lord bless this kitchen and those who labor in it. Mom's Cafe Open 24 hours! Mom's Kitchen: Love served here. Never eat more than you can lift. No matter where I serve my guests, they seem to like my kitchen the best! Sage advice improves with thyme. Thank you Lord, for this our food and that we are together. Amen The kitchen is the heart of the home. The Queen doesn't cook! There are four basic food groups, milk chocolate, dark chocolate, white chocolate, and chocolate truffles. Too many cooks spoil the food. Two choices for Dinner Tonight: take it OR leave it! Warm kitchen, warm friends. Home and Family->Pets A Dog looks up to a man, A cat looks down on a man, but a patient horse looks a man in the eye and sees him as an equal. A horse carries a certain goodness, an inner light from which beauty flows. A horse in the wind - a perfect symphony. A horse is an angel without wings. A house is not a home without a dog. A kitten is a rosebud in the garden of the animal kingdom. A little horseplay... the way best to enjoy a summer day! A spoiled rotten cat lives here. A spoiled rotten dog lives here. All animals are equal, though some animals are more equal than others. ~ George Orwell And on the seventh day ... God went riding! Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, Predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to. Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. ~ George Eliot Bread may feed my body, but my horse feeds my soul. Cats know not how to pardon. Dogs are people too. Dogs have owners, Cats have staff. Drumming hooves, quiet ground... nature's song of joy. Even a cat is a lion in her own lair. Give a horse what he needs and he will give you his heart in return. Horse... If God made anything more beautiful he kept it for himself! Horses give us the wings we lack. How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven. I live in a house but my home is in the stable. If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat. ~ Mark Twain If you want the best seat in the house... move the cat. If you want the best seat in the house... move the dog. In a perfect world, every dog would have a home and every home would have a dog. In dog years I'm dead. In training horses, one trains himself. Lord help me be the person my cat thinks I am! Lord help me be the person my dog thinks I am! Money might buy you a fine dog, but only love will make its tail wag. My cat's not spoiled... I'm just well trained! My dog's not spoiled... I'm just well trained! Never ride faster than your guardian angel can fly! Never trust a dog to watch your food. No heaven can heaven be, if a horse isn't there to welcome me. O, for a morning in May... filled with the beauty of horses, soft with light of heaven. Of all creature God made at the Creation, there is none more excellent, or so much to be respected as a horse. Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet. Outside of a dog a book is man's best friend; Inside of a dog its too dark to read. Poverty is another word for owning a horse. Riding is for those people who see not a horse but a spirit next to them. The affections of a good animal is the highest honor bestowed upon human kind. The delicate and exquisite horse is itself a work of art. The dog was created specially for children. He is the god of frolic. The more people I meet the more I like my dog. The smallest feline is a masterpiece. ~ Da Vinci The trouble with cats is that they have no tact. The Way to Heaven is on Horseback. There are no ordinary cats. There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man. ~ Sir Winston Churchill Time spent with cats is never wasted. To err is human, to forgive, canine. When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her. Wipe your paws. Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. International Proverbs A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~ Chinese Proverb A journey of a thousand miles begins with a broken fan belt and a leaky tire. ~ American Proverb A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance. ~ American Proverb A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. ~ Chinese Proverb A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. ~ Spanish proverb Away is good, but home is best. ~ Swedish proverb Before enlightenment chop wood and carry water. After enlightenment chop wood and carry water. ~ Ancient Chinese Proverb Begin to weave and God will give you the thread. ~ German Proverb By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible. ~ Italian Proverb Cut your losses and let your profits run. ~ Proverb Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from a friend's forehead. ~ Chinese Proverb First secure an independent income, then practice virtue. ~ Greek Proverb Have a vision not clouded by fear. ~ Cherokee Proverb He that plants thorns must never expect to gather roses. ~ English Proverb He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. ~ Chinese proverb He who begins many things finishes but a few. ~ Italian Proverb He who is ashamed of asking is ashamed of learning. ~ Danish Proverb He who is outside the door already has a good part of his journey behind him. ~ Dutch proverb Hope for the best but prepare for the worst. ~ English Proverb How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward. ~ Spanish Proverb If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man. ~ Chinese Proverb It is not enough to aim, you must hit. ~ Italian Proverb Like cold water to a weary soul, so is good news from a distant land. ~ Jewish Proverb Love can turn the cottage into a golden palace. ~ German Proverb Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it. ~ Swedish Proverb Love teaches even asses to dance. ~ French Proverb Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose. ~ Turkish proverb Never ask more or less of yourself than your best. ~ Proverb One should keep old roads and old friends. ~ Dutch saying Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~ Swedish Proverb Strong legs are needed to carry good days. ~ Icelandic saying Talk doesn't cook rice. ~ Chinese proverb The feet go to that place that the heart goes. ~ Afghan Proverb The most beautiful music of all is the music of what happens. ~ Irish proverb The torch of love is lit in the kitchen. ~ French Proverb There is no need to fasten a bell to a fool. ~ Danish Proverb To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. ~ Chinese Proverb When I rest, I rust. ~ German Proverb When you don't know where you're going, every road will take you there. ~ Yiddish Proverb Yesterday is a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore to this day. ~ Sanskrit Proverb You must howl with the wolves you are with. ~ Old Danish saying You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~ Irish proverb Love and Marriage->Beautiful Thoughts A thing of beauty is a joy forever. ~ John Keats A thing of beauty is a joy forever: Its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness. ~ John Keats As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. ~ Emerson Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt Beauty is in the eye of its beholder. Beauty is not caused... It is. ~ Emily Dickinson Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. ~ Edgar Allen Poe Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. ~ Emerson Champagne is the only wine a woman can drink and still remain beautiful. ~ Mme.de Pompadour Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me? ~ Oscar Hammerstein Far away in the sunshine are my highest inspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead. ~ Louisa May Alcott How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward. ~ Spanish Proverb I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple. ~ Albert Einstein Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift. ~ Albert Einstein La vie est belle... profiter de chaque moment. (Life is beautiful... enjoy each moment) Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. Man makes holy what he believes, as he makes beautiful what he loves. My soul can find no staircase to heaven unless it be through earth's loveliness. ~ Michelangelo No smile is as beautiful as the one that struggles through tears. People are like stained glass windows - the true beauty can be seen only when there is light from within. The darker the night, the brighter the windows. Practice random beauty and senseless acts of love. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt ~ Helen Keller The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. ~ Helen Keller The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt The ideals that have lighted my way and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty and Truth. ~ Albert Einstein Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful. ~ Emerson Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. ~ Emerson To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed, such seems your beauty still. ~ Shakespeare What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis, order, and for its essence, unity. When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. You are to gather up the joys and sorrows, the struggles, the beauty, love, dreams and hopes of every hour that they may be consecrated at the altar of daily life. Love and Marriage->Love A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway A good love is delicious you can't get enough too soon A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous A soft answer has often been the means of breaking a hard heart Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt! All of us need more love than we deserve All you need is love ~ John Lennon And now these things remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love ~ 1 Corinthians 13 As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet ~ Plato Be humble and give more honor to others than to yourselves ~ Philippians 2:3 Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me? ~ Oscar Hammerstein Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense Falling in love is like being struck by lightning. You can no more make it strike you than you can avoid it Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter, and notice what happens God's grace is the oil that fills the lamp of love Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love ~ Albert Einstein Happy is he who dares courageously to defend what he loves Harmony is as precious as fragrant anointing oil, as refreshing as dew ~ Psalm 133:1 Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it ~ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved I am jealous of the perfumed air of night that from this garden climbs to kiss thy lips ~ Longfellow I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. ~ Mother Teresa I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved I love you not as something private and personal, which is my own, but as something universal and worthy of love which I have found ~ Thoreau I love you oot only for what you are but for what I am when I am with you I tell you, the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people ~ Vincent van Gogh I will love you my whole life, you and no other If I know what love is, it is because of you If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question? ~ Lily Tomlin If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving If you have it - love, you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have If you judge people, you have no time to love them. ~ Mother Teresa If you love something, set it free; if it comes backs it's yours, if it doesn't, it never was If you love the good that you see in another, you make it your own If you would be loved, love and be lovable In jealousy there is more of self-love than love In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done. It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving. ~ Mother Teresa Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. ~ Mother Teresa Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. Let the burden never be so heavy; love makes it light Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction Life in abundance comes only through great love Life is to be fortified by many friendships - to love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existence Like a windstorm Punishing the oak trees, Love shakes my heart Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so Love and you shall be loved ~ Emerson Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies Love comes from blindness; Friendship from knowledge. Love conquers all Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache ~ Mae West Love conquers all, and let us yield to it Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it Love decreases when it ceases to increase Love demands all and has a right to it ~ Beethoven Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile Love enables you to put your deepest feelings and fears in the palm of you partner's hand, knowing they will be handled with care Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble and attempts what is above its strength Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything ~ Katherine Hepburn Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination ~ Voltaire Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. ~ Mother Teresa Love is a little blind. When we love someone dearly, we unconsciously overlook many thoughts Love is a symbol of eternity; it wipes out all sense of time Love is a tender plant; when properly nourished, it becomes sturdy and enduring Love is always bestowed as a gift freely, willingly, and without expectation Love is always present, it is just a matter of feeling it or not Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired ~ Robert Frost Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses Love is being stupid together Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice. Love is eternal - the aspect may change, but not the essence Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life Love is like a butterfly, hold it too tight, it'll crush, hold it too loose, it'll fly Love is like a mirror, when you love another you become his mirror and he becomes yours and reflecting each other's love you see infinity Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties Love is like the truth, sometimes it prevails, sometimes it hurts Love is love's reward Love is not blind - it simply enables one to see things others fail to see Love is not something you feel. It's something you do Love is space and time measured by the heart Love is the greatest refreshment in life ~ Pablo Picasso Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend ~ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Love is the only passion which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else Love is the strange bewilderment which overtakes one person on account of another person Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence Love is very patient and kind ~ 1Corinthians 13:4 Love is, above all, the gift of oneself Love like a lamp needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low Love makes all hard hearts gentle Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it. ~ Swedish Proverb Love NEVER fails ~ I Corinthians 13:8 Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy Love rules without a sword Love binds without a cord Love sought is good, but given unsought is better ~ Shakespeare Love spends his all, and still hath store Love thrives in the face of all life's hazards, save one - neglect Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock Love without return is like a question without an answer Love your neighbor as yourself ~ Jesus Christ Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much Love: Two minds without a single thought Many waters cannot quench love, rivers cannot wash it away ~ Song of Solomon 8:7 May he kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is better than wine ~ Song of Solomon 1:2 May they who love you be like the sun when it rises in its strength ~ Judges 5:31 May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite. ~ Shakespeare Never frown, even when you are sad, because you never know who is falling in love with your smile No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine; do not become intoxicated Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit Put love first Respect is what we owe; Love is what we give Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May. And Summer's lease hath all too short a date ~ Shakespeare So long as we love we serve Speaking the truth in love ~ Ephesians 4:15 Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are That Love is all there is, is all we know of Love The best way to love is to love like you have never been hurt The course of true love never did run smooth ~ Shakespeare The deepest truth blooms only from the deepest love The greatest thing you ever learn is just to love and be loved in return ~ Nat King Cole The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of ~ Pascal The heart that loves is always young. The hearts that love will know never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still The Kiss - Something made of nothing, tasting very sweet The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life The love we give away is the only love we keep The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed The only gift is a portion of thyself ~ Emerson The only love worthy of a name is unconditional The only measure of your worth and your deeds will be the love you leave behind when you're gone The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself The torch of love is lit in the kitchen. ~ French Proverb The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others, but ourselves as well There is no greater invitation to love than loving first ~ St. Augustine There is no remedy for love but to love more ~ Thoreau There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved They do not love that do not show their love This is my beloved and this is my friend. ~ Song of Solomon 5:16 This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess Those who give love gather love Those who love deeply never grow old Thou art to me a delicious torment ~ Emerson Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all ~ Lord Tennyson To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides To love at all is to be vulnerable ~ CS Lewis To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is divine To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind To love is to know the sacrifices which eternity exacts from life To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven To love means not to impose your own powers on your fellow man but offer him your help. And if he refuses it, to be proud that he can do it on his own strength To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world. Until I truly loved, I was alone We all need friends with whom we can speak of our deepest concerns, and who do not fear to speak the truth in love to us We can only learn to love by loving We don't love to be loved; we love to love What force is more potent than love ~ Igor Stravinsky What we love we shall grow to resemble When our relationships are born in the heart of God, they bring out the best in us, for they are nurtured by love. When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace ~ Jimi Hendrix When we can't have what we love we must love what we have Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love ~ Gandhi Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl. No superior alternative has yet been found ~ Churchill Where love is, there is no lack Where love reigns the impossible may be attained Where there is great love, there are always miracles While faith makes all things possible, it is love that makes all things easy Who, being loved, is poor? ~ Oscar Wilde Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great You are my friend, my love, my forever valentine You call it madness, but I call it love You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride, you have ravished my heart with a glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace. ~ Song of Solomon 4:9 You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love Love and Marriage->Marriage A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust. A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love. A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendships, all the enjoyment of sense and reason - and indeed all the sweets of life. A man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and the two become one flesh. ~ Genesis 2:24 A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence. A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, and always with the same person. A wife of noble character is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come. ~ Proverbs 31:25 An excellent wife, who can find? For her worth is far above jewels. ~ Proverbs 31:10 Glorify the Lord with me and let us praise His name together. ~ Psalm 34:3 Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be ~ Robert Browning Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry. How beautiful you are, my darling, How beautiful you are! Your eyes are like doves. ~ Song of Solomon 1:15 I am blessed and I am loved. I am my beloved's, and his desire is for me. ~ Song of Solomon 7:10 I do. I tell you I love you every day for fear that tomorrow isn't another. I will love you my whole life, you and no other If ever two were one then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee; If ever wife were happy in a man, Compare with me, ye women, if you can. If I know what love is, it is because of you In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic, a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts, an enabler rather than a reformer. It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. Let the wife make the husband glad to come home and sorry to leave ~ Martin Luther Let the wife of your youth be your companion: be bathed in her love, and her love will continually wrap around you. ~ Proverbs 5:18, 19 Looking back on all that we've shared and all that is yet to come. I realize that nothing life may offer me could make me happier than a future filled with loving you. Love can turn the cottage into a golden palace. ~ German Proverb Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Love me without fear. Trust me without questioning, Need me without demanding, Want me without restrictions, Accept me without change, Desire me without inhibitions. Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife. Marriage is like a pair of shears, oft times working in opposite directions, but punishing anyone that comes between them. Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up. Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal. Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets. Marriage is the beautiful blending of two lives, two loves, two hearts. It's the wonderful, mystical moment when a beautiful love story starts. Marriage should be a duet. When one sings, the other claps. My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite. ~ Shakespeare My love for you is a journey; starting at forever, and ending at never. No man or woman knows what perfect love is, until they have been married a quarter of a century. ~ Mark Twain Our lives so intertwined that when some passion stirs your heart, I feel the quake in mine. Paradise is always where love dwells. Rise up, my love, my fair one, And come away. ~ Song of Solomon 2:10 Seeing eye to eye in marriage often requires the bigger person to bend a bit. The cure for love is marriage, and the cure for marriage is love again. The more you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes. The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart. There's this place in me where your fingerprints still rest, your kisses still linger, and your whispers softly echo. It's the place where a part of you will forever be a part of me. This is my beloved and this is my friend. ~ Song of Solomon 5:16 To keep your marriage brimming with love in the marriage cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up. ~ Ogden Nash Two human loves make one divine. Walk through life in dreams out of love of the hand that leads us. We need not think alike to love alike. We've grown to be one soul - two parts. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. ~ Matthew 19:6 When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. ~ When Harry met Sally You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride, you have ravished my heart with a glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace. ~ Song of Solomon 4:9 You shall welcome your husband's affections. ~ Genesis 3:16 You were united to your wife by the Lord. In God's wise plan when you married, the two of you became one person in His sight. ~ Malachi 2:15 You're nothing short of my everything. Spiritual->Character A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think. ~ Emerson A man is what he thinks about all day long. ~ Emerson A ship in the harbor is safe, but that's not what ships were made for. Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well ~ Voltaire Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Character is higher than intellect. Character is like a fence - It cannot be strengthened by whitewash. Character is much easier kept than recovered. Character is produced in solitude; personality in the stream of life. Character: The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs. Courage isn't the absence of fear; it's the dealing with it. Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of little children tends towards the formation of character. Following the path of least resistance is what makes rivers and men crooked. Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. ~ Muhammad Ali I have always thought the actions of men, the best interpreters of their thoughts. In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock. ~ Thomas Jefferson It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him. ~ Steinbeck Judge your natural character by what you do in your dreams. ~ Emerson Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is for you. ~ Emerson Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. ~ Emerson Nearly all men can stand adversity. But if you want to test a man's character, give him power. ~ Abraham Lincoln One man with courage makes a majority. ~ Thomas Jefferson Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. ~ Helen Keller People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character. The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence. ~ Emerson The best index to a man's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. ~ Emerson The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves. The only way you can truly control how you're seen is by being honest all the time. There is at least one important work to be done that will not be done unless you do it. To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours. ~ Mark Twain To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. ~ Emerson Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. ~ Emerson What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say. ~ Emerson Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanor; Honorable himself, and in his judgment of others; Faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man.... Such a man is a true gentleman. ~ Emerson Wisdom is knowing what to do next; Virtue is doing it. Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. Spiritual->Hope A candle loses nothing of its light by lighting another candle. A coincidence is when God performs a miracle, and decides to remain anonymous. A Dream is a wish the heart makes. A joyful heart is good medicine. A person is only as big as the dream they dare to live. A ship should not sail on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope. A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour. A window of opportunity will not open itself. A winner never quits, and a quitter never wins. All seasons are beautiful for him who carries happiness within. All sunshine all the time sometimes results in a desert. Always face the sunshine, and the shadows will fall behind. Be careful what you set your heart upon, for you will surely have it. ~ Emerson Be Nice! Boldness has genius in it; If you can dream it, do it. Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid. Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. Come what may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day. ~ Shakespeare Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true. ~ Emerson Don't curse darkness; light a candle. Don't hurry Don't worry. Don't look back. Don't run through life so fast that you forget not only where you've been, but also where you're going. Life is not a race, but a journey to be savored each step of the way. Dreams are the touchstones of our character. ~ Thoreau Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good. ~ Emerson Everything you can imagine is real. ~ Pablo Picasso Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. Failure is not when you fall down; It's when you don't get up. Fall seven times, stand up eight. Find those things in life that bring you happiness. Never let them go. For everything you have missed, you have gained something else. ~ Emerson For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. ~ Jeremiah 29:11 Four things come not back: The spoken word, The spent arrow, The past life, and the neglected opportunity. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. ~ Henry David Thoreau Go to sleep in peace. God is awake. Goodness is the only investment that cannot fail. Great heights are only reached by overcoming great obstacles. ~ Churchill Happiest are those who bring happiness to others. Happiness is a path, not a destination. Happiness is as a butterfly, which when pursued is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne Happy is he who can laugh at himself, for he will never run short of entertainment. He who cannot dance puts the blame on the floor. Hope is a waking dream. ~ Aristotle Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all. ~ Emily Dickinson I always wanted to be a procrastinator, but never got around to it. I am blessed and I am loved. I choose happiness now. I do not know the meaning of life, but to live it, is to give life meaning. I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to. I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. ~ Thomas Jefferson I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. ~ Albert Einstein I tell you, the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people ~ Vincent van Gogh If at first you don't succeed, try, try again... If I could put it into words I wouldn't have danced it. ~ Isadora Duncan If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me. ~ Emerson If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done. If life gives you scraps... make quilts! If one life shines, the life next to it will catch the light. If the shoe fits, buy it in every color. If you always live like you've always lived, If you always think like you've always thought, If you always do what you've always done, You will always get what you always got. If you can laugh at it, you can live with it. If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude and don't complain. ~ Maya Angelou If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past. In the long run, we only hit what we aim at. ~ Thoreau Insist on yourself; never imitate... Every great man is unique. ~ Emerson I've learned that when you're worried, give your troubles to God. He will be up all night anyway. Keep good intentions from dying by executing them. Laughter is the music of the heart. Learn from yesterday. Live for today. Hope for tomorrow. Learn to listen carefully; Opportunity often knocks softly. Learn what it is that steals your joy. Find a way to remove it from your life. Let it go. Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him. ~ Emerson Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning. ~ Winston Churchill Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen. Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. Life is what happens to you when you're busy making other plans. ~ John Lennon Life itself is not the destination... it is the journey. Life well spent is long. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries. Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any. ~ Emerson May you live all the days of your life. Measure twice, cut once. Move On My heart is free. My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope. No man is rich enough to buy back his past. Not all who wander are lost. ~ J.R.R. Tolkein Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. ~ Emerson Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. ~ Emerson Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. ~ Emerson Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. ~ George Eliot Nothing ventured, Nothing gained. ~ Shakespeare One day at a time. One who does not look ahead remains behind. One will never find time unless he makes it. Opportunities always look bigger going than coming. Opportunities multiply as they are seized. Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. ~ Thomas Edison People stumble, not on mountains, but on small stones. People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. People, like pins, are useless when they lose their head. Reality leaves a lot to the imagination. ~ John Lennon Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; It is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. Scars are medals on the chest of heroes; heroes are those who wear these medals without showing them off. Some people dream of success, while others wake up and work hard at it. Sometimes the roof must fall for us to see the sky again. Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. ~ St. Francis of Assisi Success always occurs in private and failure in full public view. Success comes in cans; Failure comes in cant's. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much. ~ John Wayne The ancestor of every action is a thought. ~ Emerson The best climber in the world is the one who's having the most fun. The best way out of difficulty is through it... The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. The earth laughs in flowers. The easiest way to solve a problem is to pick an easy one. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt The future comes one day at a time. The future is not some place we are going, but one we create. The paths are not found but made, and the activity of making them changes both the maker and the destination. The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; It is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; It is in yourself alone. The heart is happiest when it beats for others. The heavens are as deep as our aspirations are high. ~ Thoreau The more important things are those which are hidden; The least important are those which can be seen. The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but no vision. ~ Helen Keller The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. The rest of your life begins right here and now! The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. ~ Emerson The time to be happy is now. The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. The world belongs to the energetic. ~ Emerson The years teach much which the days never knew. ~ Emerson There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant. ~ Emerson There is always one unexpected little moment in life when a door opens to let the future in. There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever. ~ Mahatma Gandhi There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. ~ Louis L'Amour Things are only impossible until they're not. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream.... not only plan, but also believe. To dream of the person you would like to be is a waste of the person that you are. To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Turn your face to the sun. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. ~ Emerson We do what we must, and call it by the best names. ~ Emerson Well begun is half done. ~ Aristotle Well done is better than well said. ~ Benjamin Franklin What a Mighty God We Serve. When one door closes, another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones that are open for us. ~ Alexander Graham Bell When the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change, then we change. When your dreams turn to dust, it's time to vacuum Where there is no vision, the people perish. Who you are speaks so loudly I cannot hear what you say. ~ Emerson Why worry when you can pray. Wisdom has two parts; Having a lot to say. Not saying it. Worry gives a small thing a big shadow. Worry, the interest paid by those who borrow trouble. ~ George Washington You can not have harmony without noise. You can't depend on your eyes, when your imagination is out of focus. ~ Mark Twain You don't get harmony when everyone sings the same note. You haven't truly lost until you quit trying. You may delay, but time will not. ~ Benjamin Franklin Spiritual->Inspirations A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. All things pass... Patience attains all it strives for. ~ Mother Teresa Be a living expression of God's kindness. Begin to weave and God will give you the thread. ~ German Proverb Being kind is more important than being right. Commit your works to the Lord, and your plans WILL succeed. Deal with the faults of others as gently as your own. Do not wait for leaders. Do it alone, person to person. ~ Mother Teresa Don't pray to escape trouble. Don't pray to be comfortable in your emotions. Pray to do the will of God in every situation, nothing else is worth praying for. Everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted. ~ Jesus Christ Faith is daring the soul to go beyond what the eyes can see. Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation. Faith is not believing that God can, it's knowing He will. Faith is the refusal to panic. Friends are God's way of taking care of us. If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend. ~ Stone Temple Pilots God always answers in the deeps, never in the shallows of our soul. God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair. ~ Shakespeare God doesn't want someone whose act is together; He wants someone whose act is over! God enters by a private door into every individual ~ Emerson God gave us memories that we might have roses in December. God grades on the cross, not the curve. God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight. ~ Reggie White God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage. God's answers are wiser than our prayers. God's Word, contained in the Bible, has furnished all necessary rules to direct our conduct. ~ Noah Webster God's work done God's way will never lack God's supplies. Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. ~ Charles Dickens He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery. ~ Anne Frank He who kneels before God, can stand before anyone. He who sits in the heavens shall laugh. Hope is the companion of power and the mother of success, for those of us who hope strongest have within us the gift of miracles. How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in. ~ Oscar Wilde I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world. ~ Mother Teresa I believe in Christ like I believe in the sun, not just because I see it, but because by it, I can see everything else. ~ C.S. Lewis I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to men. All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to us through this book. ~ Abraham Lincoln I come that you might have life, and have it more ABUNDANTLY. ~ Jesus Christ I do not pray for success. I ask for faithfulness. ~ Mother Teresa I have come to realize more and more that the greatest disease and the greatest suffering is to be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, to be shunned by everybody, to be just nobody to no one. ~ Mother Teresa I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. ~ Mother Teresa I know God won't give me more than I can handle I just wish He didn't trust me so much. I want to know God's thoughts... the rest are details. ~ Albert Einstein If God does not exist, one will lose nothing by believing in him, while if he does exist, one will lose everything by not believing. ~ Blaise Pascal If the truth sets you free, then it is error that binds you. If you begin to live life looking for the God that is all around you, every moment becomes a prayer. If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. ~ Mother Teresa If you judge people, you have no time to love them. ~ Mother Teresa If you're going through hell, keep going. ~ Churchill In the Midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you. It is impossible rightly to govern the world without God and the Bible. It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving. ~ Mother Teresa It's hard to follow God closely when your eyes are focused on everyone else around you. Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. ~ Mother Teresa Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. ~ Mother Teresa Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. Let go, and let God. Live as though Christ died yesterday, rose from the grave today and is coming back tomorrow. Live innocently; God is watching. Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around. ~ Thoreau Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. ~ Mother Teresa Man gets and forgets, God gives and forgives. Man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for. ~ Robert Browning My job is to take care of the possible and trust God with the impossible. Never worry about numbers, help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you. ~ Mother Teresa Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. ~ Gandhi Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. ~ Gandhi Preach the Gospel at all times - if necessary, use words. Reason is God's crowning gift to man. ~ Sophocles Sin is an increasing desire for a decreasing satisfaction. Sometimes the Lord calms the storm, sometimes He lets the storm rage and calms His child... Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith looks up. The Bible is the cornerstone of Liberty. The brightest love shines from up above. The cold world needs warm-hearted Christians. The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring. The depth of your belief and the strength of your conviction determines the power of your personality. The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand. The Lord is my rock and my strength. The majesty of God in itself goes beyond the capacity of human understanding and cannot be comprehended by it. We must adore its loftiness rather than investigate it, so that we do not remain overwhelmed by so great a splendor. The safest place to be is within the will of God. The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind. The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us. The Ten Commandments aren't prefaced with "If you're in the mood". The winds of God are always blowing, but you must set the sails. To have courage for whatever comes in life; everything lies in that. ~ Mother Teresa To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world. We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do. ~ Oswald Chambers We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another. We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God. We live by believing and not by seeing. ~ 2 Corinthians 5:7 We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival. ~ Churchill We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking only to learn that it is God shaking them. What a Mighty God We Serve. When God measures a man he puts the tape around the heart instead of the head. When the solution is simple, God is answering. ~ Albert Einstein When we forgive, we free ourselves from the bitter ties that bind us to the one who hurt us. When we lose God it is not God that is lost. Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life. With God all things are possible. You can do anything you set your mind to, as long as it is in God's will. You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. ~ Indira Gandhi Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe. Spiritual->Prayers Poems and Blessings Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me, and just be my friend. God be on your road every way you go. God, give me sympathy and sense, and help me keep my courage high. God, give me calm and confidence, and please, a twinkle in my eye. God, grant me the serenity to accept the things which I cannot change, the courage to change those I can, and the Wisdom to know the difference. How many are your works, O Lord! In wisdom you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures. There is the sea, vast and spacious, teeming with creatures beyond number - living things both large and small Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done. Look not for the beauty or fairness of skin. Look for the heart that is loyal within. For beauty may die and skin may grow old; but the heart that is loyal will never grow old. Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish. ~ Michelangelo Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always perseveres. Love never fails. May the sun bring you new energies by day. May the moon softly restore you by night. May the rain wash away any worries you may have. May gentle breezes refresh your soul and all the days of your life. May you walk gently through the world and know its beauty. May the sun shine always on your face. May those who love you, love you.....and those who don't, may God turn their heart, and if he can not turn their heart, may he turn their ankle so you will know them by their limp. May you have warm words on a cold evening, a full moon on a dark night, and the road downhill all the way to your door. Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, and Summer's lease hath all too short a date ~ Shakespeare The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make His face shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord turn His face toward you and give you peace. ~ Numbers 6:24-26 Time is too slow for those who wait; Too swift for those who fear; Too long for those who grieve; Too short for those who rejoice; But for those who love, time is eternity. Where ever you go, what ever you do, be blessed and know that I love you. You are precious, You are dear, How blessed we are to have you here. Spiritual->Proverbs and Psalms A fool always loses his temper, but a wise man holds it back. ~ Proverbs 29:11 A fool despises his father's instruction; but he who regards correction and reproof is prudent. ~ Proverbs 15:5 A friend loves at all times. ~ Proverbs 17:17 A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. ~ Proverbs 15:1 A man's discretion makes him slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook a transgression. ~ Proverbs 19:11 A merry heart does good like medicine. ~ Proverbs 17:22 A truly wise person uses few words; a person with understanding is even-tempered. ~ Proverbs 17:27 A wise person is hungry for truth, while the fool feeds on trash. ~ Proverbs 15:14 All the days of the oppressed are wretched, but the cheerful heart has a continual feast. ~ Proverbs 15:15 An excellent wife, who can find? For her worth is far above jewels. ~ Proverbs 31:10 Be still, and know that I am God. ~ Psalm 46:10 Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised ~ Proverbs 31:30 Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart. ~ Psalm 37:4 He who guards his lips guards his life, but the one who speaks rashly will come to ruin. ~ Proverbs 13:3 He who ignores discipline comes to poverty and shame, but whoever heeds correction is honored. ~ Proverbs 13:18 He who refuses instruction despises his own soul; but he who hears correction and reproof gets understanding. ~ Proverbs 15:32 He who walks with wise men will be wise. ~ Proverbs 13:20 I love all who love me. Those who search for me will surely find me. ~ Proverbs 8:17 I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the Lord. ~ Psalm 27:6 It is to a man's honor to avoid strife, but every fool is quick to quarrel. ~ Proverbs 20:3 Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. ~ Psalm 150:6 Many daughters have done well, but you excel them all. ~ Proverbs 31:29 Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones. ~ Proverbs 16:24 Reckless words pierce like a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing. ~ Proverbs 12:18 Starting a quarrel is like breaching a dam so drop the matter before a dispute breaks out. ~ Proverbs 17:14 Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in him. ~ Psalm 34:8 Teach your children to choose the right path, and when they are older, they will remain upon it. ~ Proverbs 22:6 The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain. ~ Proverbs 31:11 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. ~ Psalm 23:1 There is surely a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off. ~ Proverbs 23:18 Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it. ~ Proverbs 22:6 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, lean not on your own understanding. acknowledge Him in all your ways and He will direct your path. ~ Proverbs 3:5,6 Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge; but he who hates reproof is brutish. ~ Proverbs 12:1 Whoever pursues godliness and unfailing love will find life, godliness, and honor. ~ Proverbs 21:21 Wisdom is a tree of life to those who embrace her; happy are those who hold her tightly. ~ Proverbs 3:18 Without wood, a fire goes out; without gossip, a quarrel dies down. ~ Proverbs 26:20 Spiritual->Scriptures A friend loves at all times. ~ Proverbs 17:17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness, and assurance forever. ~ Isaiah 32:17 And there you shall eat before the Lord your God, and you shall rejoice in all to which you have put your hand, you and your households, in which the Lord your God has blessed you. ~ Deuteronomy 12:7 And we know all things work together for good. ~ Romans 8:28 As for me and my house we will serve the Lord. ~ Joshua 24:15 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God ~ Philippians 4:6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God and the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. ~ Philippians 4:6 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. ~ Hebrews 13:2 Be not overcome with evil, but overcome evil with good. ~ Romans 12:21 Be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. ~ John 16:33 Be still, and know that I am God. ~ Psalm 46:10 Behold, children are a blessing from the Lord. The fruit of the womb is a reward. Like the arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are the children of one's youth. ~ Psalm 127 Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers. ~ 3 John 1:2 But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. ~ Philippians 4:19 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. ~ Matthew 6:33 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. ~ Galatians 5:22-23 Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart. ~ Psalm 37:4 Delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart. Cast all your cares on Him for He cares for you. ~ I Peter 5:7 Do justice, Love Mercy and Walk Humbly with your God. ~ Micah 6:8 Do not be eager in your heart to be angry, for anger resides in the bosom of fools. ~ Ecclesiastes 7:9 Don't let the sun go down on your anger. ~ Ephesians 4:26 Every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. ~ Philippians 2:11 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. ~ John 3:16 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. ~ Jeremiah 29:11 For if a man think himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another. ~ Galatians 6:3-4 For me to live is Christ; to die is to gain. ~ Philippians 1:21 For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and lose his own soul. ~ Matthew 16:26 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. ~ Matthew 6:19-21 Give thanks to the Lord for he is good! His faithful love endures forever. ~ Chronicles 16:34 Give us this day our daily bread. ~ Matthew 6:11 God blesses those whose hearts are pure, for they will see God. ~ Matthew 5:8 God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity but of power love and self discipline. ~ 2 Timothy 1:7 Greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world. ~ I John 4:4 He abidith in faith, hope, and love - the greatest of these being love. ~ 1 Cor 13:13 He washed away our sins and gave us a new life through the Holy Spirit. ~ Titus 3:5 Humble yourselves before God. Resist the Devil and he will flee from you. ~ James 4:7 I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. ~ John 14:6 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. ~ Philippians 4:13 I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. My command is this Love each other as I have loved you. ~ John 15 I know my redeemer lives and that in the end he will stand upon the earth. ~ Job 19:25 I love all who love me. Those who search for me will surely find me. ~ Proverbs 8:17 I will be with you always, even until the end of the world. ~ Matthew 28:20 I will joy in the God of my salvation. ~ Hab 3:18 I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the Lord. ~ Psalm 27:6 I will walk among you I will be your God and you will be my people. ~ Leviticus 26:12 If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not keep a tight rein on his tongue, he deceives himself and his religion is worthless. If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and remain in his love. ~ John 15 In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will direct your paths. ~ Proverbs 3:6 In him our hearts rejoice for we are trusting in His holy name. ~ Psalm 33:21 It is more blessed to give than to receive. ~ Acts 20:35 Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. ~ Psalm 150:6 Let the children come to me - for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. ~ Matthew 19:14 Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. ~ Matthew 5:16 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. ~ 1 Corinthians 13:6 Love one another as I have loved you. ~ John 13:34 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. Cast thy burden on the Lord and he shall sustain thee. ~ Ps. 55:22 May the Lord bring you into an even deeper understanding of the love of God and of the patience that comes from Christ. ~ 2 Thessalonians 3:5 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid. ~ John 14:27 Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. ~ 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in him. ~ Psalm 34:8 The kingdom of God is within you. ~ Luke 17:21 The light in the eyes of him whose heart is joyful, rejoices the heart of others. ~ Proverbs 15:30 The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make His face shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord turn His face toward you and give you peace. ~ Numbers 6:24-26 The Lord foils the plans of the nations; he thwarts the purposes of the peoples. But the plans of the Lord stand firm forever, the purposes of his heart through all generations. ~ Psalm 33:10,11 The Lord is close to the brokenhearted he rescues those who are crushed in spirit. ~ Psalm 34:18 The Lord is my light and my salvation? Whom shall I fear? ~ Psalm 27:1 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. ~ Psalm 23:1 The Lord watches over those who fear him those who rely on his unfailing love. ~ Psalm 33:18 Therefore, I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven - for she loved much. But he who has been forgiven little loves little. ~ Luke 7:47 This is the day the Lord has made let us rejoice and be glad in it. ~ Psalm 118:24 This world is not our home we are looking forward to our city in heaven which is yet to come. ~ Hebrews 13:14 Those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. ~ Isaiah 40:31 Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it. ~ Proverbs 22:6 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, lean not on your own understanding, acknowledge Him in all your ways and He will direct your path. ~ Proverbs 3:5,6 Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their work. ~ Ecclesiastes 4:9 Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. ~ Psalm 27:14 We live by believing and not by seeing. ~ 2 Corinthians 5:7 Whatever is pure, right, lovely, honorable, of good repute, excellent and worthy of praise - think on THESE things. ~ Philippians 4:8 Whatever things are true, just, pure, lovely... if there be any praise, think on these things. ~ Philippians 4:8 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. ~ 1 Corinthians 13:11 Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. ~ Psalm 139:7-8 Where two or three gather because they are mine, I am there among them. ~ Matthew 18:20 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. ~ Romans 8:37 You do well to believe in God. Satan also believes... and trembles. ~ James 2:19 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. ~ Matthew 22:37 Sports Baseball is dull only to dull minds. ~ Red Barber Baseball teaches that errors are part of the game. Early to bed, Early to rise, Fish all day, Make up lies. Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. ~ Babe Ruth Fish or cut bait. Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day; Teach a man to fish, and he'll be in a boat drinking all day. Golf is a game in which you yell Fore, shoot six, and write down five. Golf is deceptively simple, yet endlessly complicated. Golf is good for the soul. You get so mad at yourself you forget to hate your enemies. ~ Will Rogers Hitting is 50% above the shoulders. ~ Ted Williams If a man can beat you, walk him. ~ Satchel Paige If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead. ~ Erma Bombeck If I can't be seen, I'm on the green. If you can't accept losing, you can't win. If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt. ~ Dean Martin If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball. It's not a fish until it's on the bank. It's not whether you win or lose - but whether I win or lose. Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game. ~ Michael Jordan Little Surfer Girl. Never trouble the water you intend to fish. Sports Do Not Build Character... They Reveal It. Surfs Up! Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships. ~ Michael Jordan The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity. The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team. ~ John Wooden The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not. ~ Charles Barkley The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love. The race goes not always to the swift... but to those who keep on running. There is no I in TEAM. We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball. ~ Bobby Knight You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possible be - in baseball and in life. The Golden Years A joyful heart is good medicine. Age merely shows what children we remain. And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years. ~ Abraham Lincoln Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. As a white candle In a holy place, So is the beauty of an aged face. Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt Counting time is not as important as making time count. Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be ~ Robert Browning Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done. It is better to add life to your years, than to add years to your life. Life is a journey, not a destination. Old age ain't no place for sissies. Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. The heart that loves is always young. Time flies when you're having fun. You are to gather up the joys and sorrows, the struggles, the beauty, love, dreams and hopes of every hour that they may be consecrated at the altar of daily life. You don't stop laughing because you grow old; You grow old because you stop laughing. Youth is a gift of nature; Age is a work of art. Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. The Master Artists A man paints with his brains and not with his hands ~ Michelangelo A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art ~ Cezanne Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well ~ Voltaire Art is in harmony parallel with nature. ~ Cezanne Art is the elimination of the unnecessary ~ Picasso Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life ~ Picasso Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law ~ Voltaire Choose only one master - Nature ~ Rembrandt Colour is my day-long obsession, joy and torment ~ Monet Common sense is not so common ~ Voltaire Creativity takes courage ~ Matisse Don't be an art critic, but paint, there lies salvation ~ Cezanne Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do ~ Voltaire Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love ~ Monet Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe ~ Voltaire For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return ~ Da Vinci God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well ~ Voltaire Great art picks up where nature ends ~ Chagall Great things are done by a series of small things brought together ~ Van Gogh How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be? ~ Van Gogh How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted ~ Voltaire I am still learning ~ Michelangelo I don't say everything, but I paint everything ~ Picasso I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream ~ Van Gogh I feast on wine and bread, and feasts they are ~ Michelangelo I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for ~ Georgia O'Keeffe I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do ~ Da Vinci I live on good soup, not on fine words. ~ Moliere I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers ~ Monet I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free ~ Michelangelo I tell you, the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people ~ Vincent van Gogh I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say 'he feels deeply, he feels tenderly' ~ Van Gogh I wish they would only take me as I am ~ Van Gogh If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all ~ Michelangelo In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time ~ Da Vinci Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind ~ Da Vinci It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things ~ Da Vinci It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. ~ Moliere It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it ~ Voltaire Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it ~ Da Vinci Life well spent is long. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish. ~ Michelangelo Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination ~ Voltaire Love is something eternal, the aspect may change, but not the essence ~ Van Gogh Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well ~ Van Gogh Man is free at the moment he wishes to be ~ Voltaire Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active ~ Da Vinci My soul can find no staircase to heaven unless it be through earth's loveliness. ~ Michelangelo Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument ~ Voltaire Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking ~ Voltaire Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence ~ Da Vinci Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two ~ Moliere One great use of words is to hide our thoughts ~ Voltaire Painting is just another way of keeping a diary ~ Picasso Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God ~ Rembrandt Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time ~ Voltaire Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master ~ Da Vinci Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication ~ Da Vinci Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare ~ Voltaire Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility ~ Picasso The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease ~ Voltaire The awareness of our own strength makes us modest ~ Cezanne The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out ~ Voltaire The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it, The strokes come like speech ~ Van Gogh The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark ~ Michelangelo The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting ~ Van Gogh The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection ~ Michelangelo There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun ~ Picasso Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too ~ Voltaire To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd ~ Voltaire We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature ~ Voltaire What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy ~ Voltaire When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art ~ Cezanne Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art ~ Da Vinci Who sows virtue reaps honor ~ Da Vinci Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake? ~ Da Vinci You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat ~ Renoir You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand ~ Da Vinci Words of Wisdom A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing ~ George Bernard Shaw A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both ~ Eisenhower A sharp tongue sometimes cuts its own throat A temper displayed in public is indecent exposure A truly great person is the one who gives you a chance. All things in moderation Anger is the wind that blows out the lamp of mind. Anyone can make mistakes Fools insist on repeating them As the island of our knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance Be careful what rut you choose; You may be in it the rest of your life Be the change you want to see in the world ~ Gandhi Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish ~ Albert Einstein Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet ~ Emerson Does thou love life? Then do not squander time; For that's the stuff life is made of ~ Benjamin Franklin Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity Fear expects the worst in a situation; Faith expects the best. Fear is False Evidence Appearing Real Fear not death; for the sooner we die, the longer shall we be immortal ~ Benjamin Franklin Flexible people don't get bent out of shape God enters by a private door into every individual ~ Emerson Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices in what he has ~ Epictetus He who angers you, controls you He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because of fear Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress Hurt people hurt people I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him ~ Booker T. Washington If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut ~ Albert Einstein If passion drives, let reason hold the reins. ~ Benjamin Franklin If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all ~ Thumper (from Bambi) If you don't ask, you don't get ~ Gandhi If you don't control your mind, someone else will If you don't like being lonely, try not being right all the time If you harbor bitterness, happiness will find somewhere else to dock If you tell the truth, you do not have to remember anything. ~ Mark Twain In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends ~ Martin Luther King Jr. It is a strong man who can afford to be gentle. It is with words as with sunbeams, the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn It takes a strong person to give in Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. ~ Mother Teresa Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever ~ Gandhi Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. ~ Will Rogers Live your life in the manner that you would like your kids to live theirs. Men who believe in eternal life seldom fear death in this life ~ Churchill Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand ~ Mark Twain My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind ~ Albert Einstein Never take action when you are angry No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit ~ Helen Keller One must be poor to know the luxury of giving Pain is inevitable; misery, a choice Patience is bitter but its fruit is sweet People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages ~ Benjamin Franklin Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side Relationships can take years to build, yet only moments to destroy. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. ~ Albert Einstein Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God The more arguments you win, the fewer friends you have The only gift is a portion of thyself ~ Emerson The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right time, but also to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment The really great man is the man who makes every man feel great. To be proud of virtue is to poison yourself with the antidote ~ Benjamin Franklin Unless life is lived for others, it is not worthwhile ~ Mother Teresa We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; We are spiritual beings having a human experience We are what we repeatedly do Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit ~ Aristotle We must train ourselves not to see the world only through our own eyes We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it ~ Abraham Lincoln Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows ~ Michael Landon Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love ~ Gandhi Who you are speaks so loudly I cannot hear what you say. ~ Emerson Wisdom is knowing what path to take... Integrity is taking it Work as if you were to live a hundred years, Pray as if you were to die tomorrow. ~ Benjamin Franklin Worry doesn't improve the future; It only ruins the present Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due Worry is the darkroom in which 'negatives' are developed You are to gather up the joys and sorrows, the struggles, the beauty, love, dreams and hopes of every hour that they may be consecrated at the altar of daily life. You can tell how big a person is by what it takes to discourage him