Exceptional Quotes and Messages

Meaningful Quotes

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There's wit, realities, encouragement and certainly plenty of enthusiasm packed into these meaningful quotations.

Do you know what bring meaning into your life? Work achievements? Raising beautiful kids? Owning a dream house by the beach? Having a great love marriage? Working at a home business?

Let the wisdom of these meaningful quotes speak to you. May these great quotes bring more clarity and meaning into your life, letting you have a glimpse of what truly matters in life.

At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict, or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.

-- Barbara Bush

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

-- Helen Keller

Being vulnerable doesn't have to be threatening. Just have the courage to be sincere, open and honest. This opens the door to deeper communication all around. It creates self-empowerment and the kind of connections with others we all want in life. Speaking from the heart frees us from the secrets that burden us. These secrets are what make us sick or fearful. Speaking truth helps you get clarity on your real heart directives.

-- Sara Paddison

Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it with use.

-- Ruth Gordon

Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.

-- Grace Hansen

Each day is a new canvas to paint upon. Make sure your picture is full of life and happiness, and at the end of the day you don't look at it and wish you had painted something different.

-- Author Unknown

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

-- Groucho Marx

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

-- George Washington Carver

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- myth is more potent than history -- dreams are more powerful than facts -- hope always triumphs over experience -- laughter is the cure for grief -- love is stronger than death.

-- Robert Fulghum

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

-- Anaias Nin

If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.

-- Katharine Hepburn

If you want to know the past, to know what has caused you, look at yourself in the PRESENT, for that is the past's effect. If you want to know your future, then look at yourself in the PRESENT, for that is the cause of the future.

-- Majjhima Nikaya

It's never too late—in fiction or in life—to revise.

-- Nancy Thayer

Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.

-- Blaise Pascal

Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.

-- Ralph Marston

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.

-- Betty Smith

Mistakes are part of the dues that one pays for a full life.

-- Sophia Loren

Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.

-- Author Unknown

Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.

-- Ralph Blum

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.

-- Dale Carnegie

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

-- John Quincy Adams

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

-- Dalai Lama

The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.

-- Robert Louis Stevenson

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

-- Allan K. Chalmers

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.

-- Orlando A. Battista

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

-- Lady Dorothy Nevill

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

-- Alice Walker

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers, and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

-- Goethe

There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.

-- Phyllis Bottome

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

-- Faith Baldwin

To love what you do and feel that it matters—how could anything be more fun?

-- Katherine Graham

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

-- Fredrick Koeing

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, never give up then, for that is just the time that the tide will turn.

-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and arguments. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding.

-- Thich Nhat Hahn

Whoever I am and whatever I am doing, some kind Excellence is within my reach.

-- John W. Gardiner

You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

-- Mary Tyler Moore

Your children are not your children.

They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

They come through you but not from you,

and though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love, but not your thoughts.

For they have their own thoughts.

You may house their bodies but not their souls,

for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,

which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.

For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.

--Kahlil Gibran

Funny Quotes and Funny Thoughts

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A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

-- Robert Frost

A woman is like a tea bag - you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

-- Erica Jong

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

-- Gandhi

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

-- Winston Churchill

Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.

-- Wendell Johnson

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

-- Oscar Wilde

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

-- Margaret Mead

Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head.

-- Garrison Keillor

Buy land. They've stopped making it.

-- Mark Twain

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

-- George Burns

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.

-- Robert Frost

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

-- Mark Twain

Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

-- Josh Billings

Everyone told me to pass on Speed because it was a 'bus movie.

-- Sandra Bullock

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

-- Oscar Wilde

Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?

-- Roseanne Barr

For some strange reason, no matter where I go, the place is always called "here".

-- Ashleigh Brilliant

Having a baby changes the way you view your in-laws. I love it when they come to visit now. They can hold the baby and I can go out.

-- Matthew Broderick

He who laughs last probably didn't get the joke.

-- Author Unknown

He who laughs, lasts.

-- Mary Pettibone Poole

I am nobody. Nobody is perfect. Therefore I am perfect.

-- Author Unknown

I don't understand why Cupid was chosen to represent Valentine's Day. When I think about romance, the last thing on my mind is a short, chubby toddler coming at me with a weapon.

-- Author Unknown

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

-- Groucho Marx

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

-- Noel Coward

I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste.

-- David Bissonnett

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

-- Rita Rudner

I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.

-- Rodney Dangerfield.

I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they are the first to be rescued off of sinking ships.

-- Gilda Radner

If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?

-- Author Unknown

If you can remain calm, you don't have all the facts.

-- Author Unknown

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

-- George Bernard Shaw

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

-- Margaret Thatcher

If you rest, you rust.

-- Helen Hayes

I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.

-- Zsa Zsa Gabor

It's better to live one day as a lion, than a hundred as a sheep.

-- Benito Mussollini

I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.

-- Marilyn Munroe

My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened.

-- Montaigne

My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing.

-- Jessica Alba

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

-- Erma Bombeck

Never make the same mistake twice or you'll never get around to all of them.

-- Author Unknown

Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.

-- Mark Twain

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

-- Rita Mae Brown

Reason to smile: Every seven minutes of every day someone in an aerobics class pulls a hamstring.

-- Author Unknown

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

-- Oscar Wilde

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.

-- Charles Bukowski

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

-- Somerset Maugham

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time.

-- Joe Girard

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

-- Henry Ward Beecher

The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you.

-- Issac Asimov

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

-- Helen Hayes (at 73)

The main thing is keeping the main thing the main thing.

-- German Proverb

The nicest thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive.

-- Kenneth Williams

The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post.

-- Thomas Holcroft

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

-- George Carlin

To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.

-- Helen Rowland

To solve the human equation, we need to add love, subtract hate, multiply good, and divide between truth and error.

-- Janet Coleman

Until I was 13, I thought my name was 'Shut Up.'

-- Joe Namath

When I was young I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then and I'm labeled senile.

-- George Burns

We don't stop playing because we grow old; We grow old because we stop playing.

-- George Bernard Shaw

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

-- Phyllis Diller

When everyone thinks alike, no one thinks very much.

-- Walter Lippmann

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So, what the hell, leap!

-- Cynthia Heimel

When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country.

-- Elayne Boosler

Whether women are better than men I cannot say—but I can say they are certainly no worse.

-- Golda Meir

Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable?

-- Carrie Snow

Wise men talk because they have something to say. Fools talk because they have to say something.

-- Plato

Woman are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

-- Oscar Wilde

Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can be myself.

-- Roseanne Barr

Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.

-- Elsa Schiaparelli

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

-- Author Unknown

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Famous Quotes by Famous Women

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Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got. There is no yesterday, no tomorrow, it's all the same .... day.

-- Janis Joplin

Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?

-- Mary Manin Morrissey

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

-- Erica Jong

Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

-- Dolly Parton

Hope is a thing with feathers

That perches in the soul;

And sings the tune without words

And never stops at all.

-- Emily Dickinson

I am Me. In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me. Everything that comes out of me is authentically mine, because I alone chose it -- I own everything about me: my body, my feelings, my mouth, my voice, all my actions, whether they be to others or myself. I own my fantasies, my dreams, my hopes, my fears. I own my triumphs and successes, all my failures and mistakes. Because I own all of me, I can become intimately acquainted with me. By so doing, I can love me and be friendly with all my parts. I know there are aspects about myself that puzzle me, and other aspects that I do not know -- but as long as I am friendly and loving to myself, I can courageously and hopefully look for solutions to the puzzles and ways to find out more about me. However I look and sound, whatever I say and do, and whatever I think and feel at a given moment in time is authentically me. If later some parts of how I looked, sounded, thought, and felt turn out to be unfitting, I can discard that which is unfitting, keep the rest, and invent something new for that which I discarded. I can see, hear, feel, think, say, and do. I have the tools to survive, to be close to others, to be productive, and to make sense and order out of the world of people and things outside of me. I own me, and therefore, I can engineer me. I am me, and I am Okay.

-- Virginia Satir

I am not afraid…I was born to do this.

-- Joan of Arc

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.

-- Nikki Giovanni

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

-- Tallulah Bankhead

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.

-- Peace Pilgrim

If you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain.

-- Dolly Parton

It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility.

-- Rachel Carson

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

-- Agnes Repplier

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.

-- J. K. Rowling

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in life has a purpose.

-- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

-- Dr. Joyce Brothers

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only what you are expecting to give — which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love and cannot help giving.

-- Katharine Hepburn

Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.

-- Louisa May Alcott

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Never let a problem to be solved become more important than the person to be loved.

-- Barbara Johnson<BR

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

-- Marianne Williamson

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.

-- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Words on Women Quotes by Famous Americans
Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

-- Peace Pilgrim

Sometimes questions are more important than answers.

-- Nancy Willard

Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.

-- Ingrid Bergman

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.

-- Jennifer Aniston

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

-- Barbara De Angelis

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

-- Maureen Dowd

To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.

-- Mary Stuart

The soul should always stand ajar. Ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

-- Emily Dickinson

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

-- Anna Quindlen

Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.

-- Oprah Winfrey

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

-- Anne Frank

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

-- Julia Roberts

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

-- Pearl Bailey

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.

-- Barbara De Angelis

Character Quotes

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A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

-- Dale Carnegie

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

-- Helen Keller

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.

-- Author Unknown

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.

-- J. C. Watts

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

-- Theodore Roosevelt

Character is simply habit long continued.

-- Plutarch

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

-- Joan Didion

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

-- Jim Rohn

Character, not circumstance, makes the person.

-- Booker T. Washington

I have no regrets in my life. I think that everything happens to you for a reason. The hard times that you go through build character, making you a much stronger person.

-- Rita Mero

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands

-- Anne Frank

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

-- Elmer G. Letterman

Sow a thought, and you reap an act; Sow an act, and you reap a habit; Sow a habit, and you reap a character; Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.

-- Charles Reade

Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

-- Abigail Van Buren

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

-- Leonardo da Vinci

The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.

-- Isabelle Eberhardt

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

-- Thomas Babington Macaulay

The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.

-- John W. Holt, Jr.

The way a man plays a game shows some of his character. The way he loses shows all of it.

-- Author Unknown

Watch your thoughts, for they become words.

Watch your words, for they become actions.

Watch your actions, for they become habits.

Watch your habits, for they become character.

Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.

-- Author Unknown

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

-- James A. Froude

Love Quotes and Love Quotation

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Love Quotes and Love Quotations

A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself - to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart.

-- Leo F. Buscaglia

A smile is the lighting system of the face, the cooling system of the head and the heating system of the heart.

-- Author Unknown

Above all things I believe in love. Love is like oxygen. Love is a many-splendored thing. Love lifts us up where we belong. All you need is love!

-- From the movie Moulin Rouge

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

-- Leo Tolstoy

And here is my heart which beats only for you.

-- Paul Verlaine

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet...

-- Plato

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.

-- Lao Tzu

Believe in the importance of love, for it is the strength an beauty that brings music to our souls.

-- Author Unknown

But to see her was to love her,

Love but her, and love forever.

-- Robert Burns

Dance as though no one is watching you. Love as though you have never been hurt before. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth.

-- Author Unknown

Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?

-- Oscar Hammerstein

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

-- Erica Jong

Don’t frown because you never know who might be falling in love with your smile.

-- Anonymous

Don't hug me, it only makes me want to never let go.

-- Allison Mosher

Falling in love with someone isn't always going to be easy... Anger... tears... laughter.. It's when you want to be together despite it all. That's when you truly love another. I'm sure of it.

-- Author Unknown

For all that you are and all that you do, and for the many ways you make my heart sing.

-- Leland Thomas

Goodnight! Goodnight!

Parting is such sweet sorrow

That I shall say goodnight til it be morrow.

-- William Shakespeare

I am so glad that you are here... It helps me realize how beautiful my world is.

-- Goethe

I believe in a kind of love that brings sailors home from the sea. Made up of seconds and years and the nospace between hands on skin. I cannot believe how much goes on. I can't even cut out enough red hearts to keep up.

-- Sarah Mimnaugh

I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together.

-- Julia Roberts

I have learned not to worry about love;

But to honor its coming with all my heart.

-- Alice Walker

I have you. A lover and a friend. You are everything I need. You are the sun, the air I breathe. Without you, life wouldn't be the same. Please don't ever go away. And if you go, then don't forget to take me with you.

-- Basia

I love her and that's the beginning of everything.

-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

-- Ray Croft

I think we dream so we don't have to be away from one another. If we're in each other's dreams, we'll always be together.

-- Hobbes

I'm not supposed to love you, I'm not supposed to care, I'm not supposed to live my life wishing you were there. I'm not supposed to wonder where you are or what you do...I'm sorry I can't help myself, I'm in love with you.

-- Author Unknown

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain;

If I can ease one life the aching,

Or cool one pain,

Or help one fainting robin Into his nest again,

I shall not live in vain.

-- Emily Dickinson

If I could give you one gift, I would give you the ability to see yourself as I see you, so you could see how truly special you are.

-- Author Unknown

If I never met you, I wouldn't like you. If I didn't like you, I wouldn't love you. If I didn't love you, I wouldn't miss you. But I did, I do, and I will.

-- Author Unknown

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

-- Anonymous

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

-- Maya Angelou

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

-- Mother Teresa

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.

-- Janos Arany

In love, there is always one who kisses & one who offers the cheek.

-- French proverb

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

-- Mignon McLaughlin

In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.

-- Hans Nouwens

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

-- Maya Angelou

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.

-- Oscar Wilde

Let love be the sweet elixir that awakens your spirit and moves your soul to dance.

-- Author Unknown

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

--Kahlil Gibran

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

-- Dr. Joyce Brothers

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.

-- William Shakespeare

Love demands all and has a right to it.

-- Beethoven

Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

-- Franklin P. Jones

Love doesn't sit there like a stone. It has to be made like bread; remade all the time,...made new.

-- Le Guin

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

-- Elbert Hubbard

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get--only with what you are expecting to give--which is everything.

-- Katharine Hepburn

Love is a fan club with only two fans.

-- Anonymous

Love is a path to the heart that knows its own way.

-- Lamar Cole

Love is taking a few steps backward (maybe even more)...to give way to the happiness of the person you love.

-- Author Unknown

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

-- Emanuel Swedenborg

Love is a never ending feeling.

-- Adeil Prince

Love is a sign from the heavens that you are here for a reason.

-- J. Ghetto

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.

-- Eurpides

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

-- Helen Keller

Love is like an eternal flame, once it is lit, it will continue to burn for all time.

-- Kamila

Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part in the process.

-- Henry Beyle Stendahl

Love is like seaweed; even if you have pushed it away, you will not prevent its coming back.

-- Nigerian Proverb

Love is like the sun coming out of the clouds and warming your soul.

-- Author Unknown

Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.

-- Kay Knudsen

Love is not something you look for,

Love is something you become.

-- Langley

Love is smiling on the inside and out.

-- Jennifer Williams

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

-- Robert A Heinlein

Love is the blueprint for happiness.

-- Lamar Cole

Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

-- Erich Fromm

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much perfoms much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

-- Vincent Van Gogh

Love wasn't put in your heart to stay. Love isn't love until you give it away.

-- Michael W.

Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance.

-- Oscar Wilde

Never let a problem to be solved become more important than the person to be loved.

-- Barbara Johnson

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

-- Zelda Fitzgerald

Once in awhile, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.

-- Author Unknown

Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself.

-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

See 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.

-- Gretchen Kemp

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

-- Saint Augustine

So, fall asleep love, loved by me....for I know love, I am loved by thee.

-- Robert Browning

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

-- Thomas Merton

The first duty of love is to listen.

-- Paul Tillich

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.

-- J. Krishnamurti

The most beautiful things in the world are not seen nor touched. They are felt with the heart.

-- Helen Keller

The word love can be explained in thousands of ways, but the only word that comes to my mind is you.

-- Author Unknown

The world is filled with reasons why I love you.

-- Author Unknown

This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life.

-- Author Unknown

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

-- Samuel Butler

True love is like a pair of socks you gotta have two and they've gotta match.

-- Author Unknown

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

-- Sam Keen

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

-- Tom Robbins

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

-- Helen Keller

What we need to know about loving is no great mystery. We all know what constitutes loving behavior; we need but act upon it, not continually question it. Over-analysis often confuses the issue and in the end brings us no closer to insight. We sometimes become too busy classifying, separating, and examining, to remember that love is easy. It's we who make it complicated.

-- Leo Buscaglia

When you smiled you had my undivided attention. When you laughed you had my urge to laugh with you. When you cried you had my urge to hold you. When you said you loved me, you had my heart forever.

-- Author Unknown

You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.

-- Keith Sweat

You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, your simple presence can make others happy.

-- Author Unknown

You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.

-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.

-- Barbara De Angelis

Family Quotes and Quotes on Family

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Family Quotes and Quotes on Family

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

-- Ogden Nash

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

-- John Bowring

A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.

-- Helen Keller

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.

-- George Moore

At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable.

-- Mark V. Olsen and Will Sheffer

Bringing up a family should be an adventure, not an anxious discipline in which everybody is constantly graded for performance.

-- Milton R. Saperstein

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.

-- Jane Howard

Families are like fudge... mostly sweet with a few nuts.

-- Author Unknown

Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.

-- Brad Henry

Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.

-- Evan Esar

Family faces are magic mirrors looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future.

-- Gail Lumet Buckley

Family is just accident.... They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are.

-- Marsha Norman

Family life is full of major and minor crises -- the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce -- and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It's difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul.

-- Thomas Moore

Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back.

-- Mignon McLaughlin

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible -- the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.

-- Virginia Satir:

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

-- George Burns

Home is the place where boys and girls first learn how to limit their wishes, abide by rules, and consider the rights and needs of others.

-- Sidonie Gruenberg

I know why families were created with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.

-- Anais Nin

I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that there's always somebody there, somebody that's family.

-- Trey Parker

Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.

-- Francis Bacon

In each family a story is playing itself out, and each family's story embodies its hope and despair.

-- Auguste Napier

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

-- Alex Haley

In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm.

-- Isaac Rosenfeld

In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.

-- Eva Burrows

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

-- Elizabeth II

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

-- Elbert Hubbard

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.

-- Anthony Brandt

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

-- George Santayana

The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

-- Dodie Smith

The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.

-- Erma Bombeck

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.

-- Ring Lardner

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works is the family.

-- Lee Iacocca

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

-- Barbara Bush

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

-- Thomas Jefferson

We cannot destroy kindred: our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.

-- Marquise de Sévigné

What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

-- George Eliot

When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.

-- Joyce Brothers

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

-- Desmond Tutu

Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.

-- Jim Rohn

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Inspiring Poems For Women

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Here's a collection of beautiful inspirational poems especially handpicked for women.

May these sometimes inspiring, sometimes poignant, sometimes funny, sometimes touching poems soothe and comfort you.

May these poems move you in ways that stir your heart and make you feel alive.

As saying goes, "Live, Laugh, Love".

Here's one of my favorite poems...

Mind is the master power that molds and makes,

And we are Mind, and evermore we take

The tool of thought, and shaping what we will,

Bring forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills,

We think in secret, and it comes to pass -

Our world is but our looking glass.

-- James Allen

This short and inspiring poem contains a world of wisdom within its few short sentences. It serves as a powerful reminder or idea that we are what our thoughts made of. What we consistently and persist in thinking, be it good or bad, sooner or later our thoughts will manifest into reality.

It's a wake-up call for me to learn to watch my own thinking instead of letting aimlessness always taking over. By redirecting my negative thoughts to more pleasant thoughts, I would usually experience quite a quick shift in my emotions too. I hope that this poem would encourage you in cultivating courageous, good and beautiful thoughts, just as it inspires me.

I've handpicked a collection of poems that I feel are inspiring, uplifting or simply evoke a certain emotion. That's the power of a poem, to strike a chord with us, to make us feel something...

Besides modern poems, some of these poems were written by poets more than a hundred years or several decades ago, so they do contain the somewhat old-fashioned language of using the masculine gender to represent all people. But because I feel that these poems are so inspiring and speak so eloquently, that I've decided to include them in my collection anyway. Luckily for us women, we are used to reading ourselves back in. :)

Inspirational Quotes and Inspiring Quotes

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A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!

-- Thomas A. Kempis

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
-- Mark Twain

Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.
-- Mary Kay Ash

All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.

-- Henry David Thoreau

Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

-- Oscar Wilde

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

-- Marian Anderson

Beauty, truth, friendship, love, creation – these are the great values of life. We can't prove them, or explain them, yet they are the most stable things in our lives.

-- Jesse Herman Holmes

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

-- Phillips Brooks

Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.

-- Mary Kay Ash

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.

-- Dr. Dale Turner

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

-- Voltaire

Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.

-- David Seabury

Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes a difference.

-- Nolan Bushnell

Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. 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

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

-- Will Rogers

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

-- Margaret B. Runbeck

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.

-- Leon J. Suenes

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

-- Golda Meir

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

-- Agatha Christie

I think the key is for women not to set any limits.

-- Martina Navratilova

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

-- Louisa May Alcott

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

-- Martha Washington

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

-- Margaret Fuller

If you have made mistakes...there is always another chance for you...you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

-- Mary Pickford

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.

-- Glenn Clark

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.

-- Jonathan Winters

In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes.

-- John Ruskin

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

-- James Anthony Froude

It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly.

-- Mabel Newcomber

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

-- Seneca

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

-- George Bernard Shaw

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point.

-- Harold B. Melchart

Many of our fears are tissue paper thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.

-- Brendan Francis

No pleasure philosophy, no sensuality, no place nor power, no material success can for a moment give such inner satisfaction as the sense of living for good purposes, for maintenance of integrity, for the preservation of self-approval.

-- Minot Simons

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

-- Mary Shelley

Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.

-- Ralph Blum

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

-- Oscar Wilde

Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.

-- Julie Andrews

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many—not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

-- Charles Dickens

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration.

-- Evan Esar

The abundant life does not come to those who have had a lot of obstacles removed from their path by others. It develops from within and is rooted in strong mental and moral fiber.

-- William Mather Lewis

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

-- Aristotle

The best portion of a good man's life is the little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

-- William Wordsworth

The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.

-- Elbert Hubbard

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.

-- Mark Twain

The three great essentials to achieving anything worthwhile are; first, hard work, second, stick-to-it-iveness, and third, common sense.

-- Thomas Edison

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live now.

-- Joan Baez

You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.

-- Ethel Barrymore

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