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few of my favorites quotes...
"Promise
me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe,
and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."
(Christopher Robin to Pooh)
— A. A. Milne
"A
friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing
it back to you when you have forgotten the words."
-- Unknown
"Genius
is the recovery of childhood at will."
-- Arthur Rimbaud
"True
worth is in being, not seeming…"
--Alice Cary, writer
"Often
the most loving thing we can do when a friend is in pain is to share
the pain -- to be there even when we have nothing to offer except
our presence and even when being there is painful to ourselves."
-- M. Scott Peck
"New,
strange, uncharacteristic, uncharted experience, coming at the needed
moment, is sometimes as necessary in a person's life as a plow in
a field."
-- Katherine Butler Hathaway
"I'm
not looking for a lighter load. I'm looking for broader shoulders."
-- Michael J. Fox, on how he deals with Parkinson's disease, 1999.
"Courage
doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the
end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow.""
-- Mary Anne Radmacher
"Begin
each day as if it were on purpose."
-- Mary Anne Radmacher
"You
don't take a photograph, you make it."
-- Ansel Adams
"Remember
this, that very little is needed to make a happy life."
-- Marcus Aurelius
"When
I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask,
'Compared to what?'"
-- Sydney Harris
"You're
never too old to become younger."
-- Mae West
"Just
living is not enough…One must have sunshine, freedom, and
a little flower."
--Hans Christian Anderson
"Sometimes
I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click
the shutter."
-- Ansel Adams
"The
greatest gift is a portion of thyself."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Out
yonder there was this huge world … which stands before us
like a great eternal riddle…"
-- Albert Einstein
"Happiness
is not having what you want. It's wanting what you have."
-- Unknown
"Those
who wish to sing always find a song."
-- Swedish Proverb
"Nature's great book is written in Mathematical symbols."
-- Galileo
"Life
is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching
mathematics."
-- Siméon Poisson
"The
moving finger writes; and having writ, moves on…"
-- Omar Khayyam
"Life
is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."
-- Helen Keller
"Wheresoever
you go, go with all your heart."
-- Confucious
"There
are many different ways of being human."
-- Carl Sagan
"I
ask no questions. I just have fun!"
-- Bugs Bunny
"The
sun shines not on us, but in us."
-- John Muir
"That
we breathe, that we showed up on this planet, that we communicate,
is a miracle."
-- Dr. Wayne Dyer
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