Thoughts Unsaid...!!

Positive Attitude..

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"The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity."
~Winston Churchill

"Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force."
~Tom Blandi

Positive thinking won't let you do anything but it will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
~Zig Ziglar

"Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open."
~Thomas Dewar

"A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change."
~Earl Nightingale

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind."
~William James

"I am convinced that attitude is the key to success or failure in almost any of life's endeavors. Your attitude-your perspective, your outlook, how you feel about yourself, how you feel about other people-determines you priorities, your actions, your values. Your attitude determines how you interact with other people and how you interact with yourself."
~Carolyn Warner

"Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes. "
~Charles Prestwich Scott

Make a game of finding something positive in every situation.Ninety-five percent of your emotions are determined by how you interpret events to yourself.
~Brian Tracy

"Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. "
~Charles Swindoll

"I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing...and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!"

~Lou Holtz

To respond is positive, to react is negative.
~Zig Ziglar

"I am a lucky man."
~Christopher Reeve

"I believe life is to be lived, not worked, enjoyed, not agonized, loved, not hated."
~Leland Bartlett

"Happiness is not by chance, but by choice."
~Jim Rohn

"Live with passion."
~Anthony Robbins

"A man without a smiling face must not open a shop."
~Chinese Proverb

"Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep the fire out of the one, and the frost out of the other."
~Joseph Addison

"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."
~Herm Albright

Success Quotes..

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"Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand."

~Bruce Barton

"Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that?s where you will find success."

~Thomas J. Watson

"The successful always has a number of projects planned, to which he looks forward. Anyone of them could change the course of his life overnight."

~Mark Caine

"There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning."

~Christopher Morley

"There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning."

~Christopher Morley

"Success doesn't come to you?you go to it."

~Marva Collins

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will."

~Vincent T. Lombardi

"When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success."
~Orison Swett Marden

Pity the man who inherits a million and isn't a millionaire. Here's what would be pitiful,if your income grew and you didn't.

~Author Unknown

"The great successful men of the world have used their imagination?they think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building."
~Robert Collier

"The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore."
~Dale Carnegie

Happiness Quotes

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Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

Aristotle

Happiness resides not in posessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
Democritus

People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
George Matthew Allen

In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
Albert Schweitzer

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
Aldous Huxley

There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
David Burns, Intimate Connections

Happiness consists in activity: such is the constitution of our nature;

it is a running stream, and not a stagnant pool.
John M. Good

Men spend their lives in anticipations,in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
Charles Caleb Colton

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Alice Meynell

Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
Epictetus

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Benjamin Franklin

There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
Epictetus

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
John Stuart Mills

You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
Robert F. Kennedy

Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
William Ellery Channing

There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Mahatma Ghandi

The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
Henry W. Longfellow

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
Douglas Jerrold

Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
J. Petit Senn

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Albert Camus

Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle

Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come,—as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
Thomas Fuller

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
George Santayana

No man is happy who does not think himself so.
Publilius Syrus

Our minds are as different as our faces: we are all traveling to one destination;

--happiness; but few are going by the same road.
Charles Caleb Colton

inspirational 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

Imagination

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The imagination exercises a powerful influence over every act of sense, thought, reason,
-- over every idea.
~Latin Proverb

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
~James Russel Lowell

Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
~Louisa May Alcott

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
~Albert Einstein

He who has imagination without learning, has wings and no feet.
~Joseph Joubert

Hope is the dream of a man awake.
~French Proverb

A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.
~Michel de Montaigne

Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.
~Albert Einstein

Where beams of imagination play,
The memory's soft figures melt away.
~Alexander Pope

Believe that you have it, and you have it.
~Latin Proverb

The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization.
~Henry Ward Beecher

Imagine every day to be the last of a life surrounded with hopes, cares, anger, and fear. The hours that come unexpectedly will be so much more the grateful.
~Horace

Imagination is the eye of the soul.
~Joseph Joubert

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
~Mark Twain

Christmas Quotes

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Christmas is a time when you get homesick - even when you're home.

~Carol Nelson

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.

~Roy L. Smith

I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.

~Charles Dickens

Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year - and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority.

~W.J. Cameron

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.

~Burton Hillis

One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly.

~Andy Rooney

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home!

~Charles Dickens

There has been only one Christmas - the rest are anniversaries.

~W.J. Cameron

'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale;
'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale;
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer
The poor man's heart through half the year.
~Walter Scott

Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves.

~Eric Sevareid

Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.

~Laura Ingalls Wilder

May Peace be your gift at Christmas and your blessing all year through!

~Author Unknown

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

~Charles Dickens

Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.

~Larry Wilde

Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

~Washington Irving

Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.

~Peg Bracken

Isn't it funny that at Christmas something in you gets so lonely for - I don't know what exactly, but it's something that you don't mind so much not having at other times.

~Kate L. Bosher

At Christmas, all roads lead home.

~Marjorie Holmes

Instead of being a time of unusual behavior, Christmas is perhaps the only time in the year when people can obey their natural impulses and express their true sentiments without feeling self-conscious and, perhaps, foolish. Christmas, in short, is about the only chance a man has to be himself.

~Francis C. Farley

It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.

~W.T. Ellis

For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home.

~W.J. Ronald Tucker

Even as an adult I find it difficult to sleep on Christmas Eve. Yuletide excitement is a potent caffeine, no matter your age.

~Carrie Latet

Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it.

~Richard Lamm

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love!

~Hamilton Wright Mabie

Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen. ~Author unknown

Christmas is forever, not for just one day,
for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away
like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf.
The good you do for others is good you do yourself...
~Norman Wesley Brooks

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

~G.K. Chesterton

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

~Alexander Smith

I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month. ~Harlan Miller

From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it. ~Katharine Whitehorn

Remember
This December,
That love weighs more than gold!
~Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

A Christmas candle is a lovely thing;
It makes no noise at all,
But softly gives itself away.
~Eva Logue

Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts.

~Janice Maeditere

Perhaps the best Yuletide decoration is being wreathed in smiles.

~Author Unknown

Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer.... Who'd have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously?

~Bill Watterson

Only in souls the Christ is brought to birth,
And there He lives and dies.
~Alfred Noyes

For the spirit of Christmas fulfils the greatest hunger of mankind.

~Loring A. Schuler

This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

~Taylor Caldwell

Tradition: sit with husband in a room lit only by tree lights and remember that our blessings outnumber the lights. Happy Christmas to all.

~Betsy Cañas Garmon

At Christmas play and make good cheer,
For Christmas comes but once a year
~Thomas Tusser

Christmas is for children. But it is for grown-ups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chill and hide-bound hearts.

~Lenora Mattingly Weber

Sing hey! Sing hey!
For Christmas Day;
Twine mistletoe and holly.
For a friendship glows
In winter snows,
And so let's all be jolly!
~Author Unknown

To perceive Christmas through its wrapping becomes more difficult with every year.

~E.B. White

Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money.

~Author Unknown

I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become... but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress. ~May Sarton

It is the Christmas time:
And up and down 'twixt heaven and earth,
In glorious grief and solemn mirth,
The shining angels climb.
~Dinah Maria Mulock

Fail not to call to mind, in the course of the twenty-fifth of this month, that the Divinest Heart that ever walked the earth was born on that day; and then smile and enjoy yourselves for the rest of it; for mirth is also of Heaven's making.

~Leigh Hunt

The perfect Christmas tree? All Christmas trees are perfect!

~Charles N. Barnard

Great little One! whose all-embracing birth
Lifts Earth to Heaven, stoops Heaven to Earth.
~Richard Crashaw

I do like Christmas on the whole.... In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year.

~E.M. Forster

At Christmas
A man is at his finest towards the finish of the year;
He is almost what he should be when the Christmas season's here;
Then he's thinking more of others than he's thought the months before,
And the laughter of his children is a joy worth toiling for.
He is less a selfish creature than at any other time;
When the Christmas spirit rules him he comes close to the sublime...
~Edgar Guest

Christmas is the season when you buy this year's gifts with next year's money.

~Author Unknown

The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.

~Samuel Johnson

As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is.

~Eric Sevareid

When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things - not the great occasions - give off the greatest glow of happiness.

~Bob Hope

[I]t is the one season of the year when we can lay aside all gnawing worry, indulge in sentiment without censure, assume the carefree faith of childhood, and just plain "have fun." Whether they call it Yuletide, Noel, Weinachten, or Christmas, people around the earth thirst for its refreshment as the desert traveller for the oasis.

~D.D. Monroe

Roses are reddish
Violets are bluish
If it weren't for Christmas
We'd all be Jewish.
~Benny Hill

May the spirit of Christmas bring you peace,
The gladness of Christmas give you hope,
The warmth of Christmas grant you love.
~Author Unknown

Christmas! The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given - when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes.

~Joan Winmill Brown

May you have the gladness of Christmas which is hope;
The spirit of Christmas which is peace;
The heart of Christmas which is love.
~Ada V. Hendricks

The best Christmas trees come very close to exceeding nature.

~Andy Rooney

What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace.

~Agnes M. Pahro

Be merry all, be merry all,
With holly dress the festive hall;
Prepare the song, the feast, the ball,
To welcome merry Christmas.
~William Robert Spencer

The Christmas season has come to mean the period when the public plays Santa Claus to the merchants.

~John Andrew Holmes

If "ifs" and "buts" were candy and nuts, wouldn't it be a Merry Christmas? ~Don Meredith

Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.

~Author Unknown

I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet
The words repeat
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The message of Christmas is that the visible material world is bound to the invisible spiritual world.

~Author Unknown

Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the few occasions on which men become entirely alive.

~Robert Lynd

Mankind is a great, an immense family. This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.

~Pope John XXIII

I love the Christmas-tide, and yet,
I notice this, each year I live;
I always like the gifts I get,
But how I love the gifts I give!
~Carolyn Wells

'Tis blessed to bestow, and yet,
Could we bestow the gifts we get,
And keep the ones we give away,
How happy were our Christmas day!
~Carolyn Wells

There are no strangers on Christmas Eve.

~Mildred Cram and Adele Comandini

There is a remarkable breakdown of taste and intelligence at Christmastime. Mature, responsible grown men wear neckties made of holly leaves and drink alcoholic beverages with raw egg yolks and cottage cheese in them.

~P.J. O'Rourke

Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

~Calvin Coolidge

No matter how carefully you stored the lights last year, they will be snarled again this Christmas.

~Robert Kirby

Except the Christ be born again tonight
In dreams of all men, saints and sons of shame,
The world will never see his kingdom bright.
~Vachel Lindsay

Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance - each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.

~Deborah Whipp

When Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow, we hear sweet voices ringing from lands of long ago, and etched on vacant places are half-forgotten faces of friends we used to cherish, and loves we used to know.

~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that - as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.

~Charles Dickens

At Christmas-tide the open hand
Scatters its bounty o'er sea and land,
And none are left to grieve alone,
For Love is heaven and claims its own.
~Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. ~Erma Bombeck

The one thing women don't want to find in their stockings on Christmas morning is their husband.

~Joan Rivers

The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.

~Jay Leno

The earth has grown old with its burden of care,
But at Christmas it always is young....
~Phillips Brooks

Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.

~Kin Hubbard

The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other.

~Johnny Carson

Let Christmas not become a thing
Merely of merchant's trafficking,
Of tinsel, bell and holly wreath
And surface pleasure, but beneath
The childish glamour, let us find
Nourishment for soul and mind.
Let us follow kinder ways
Through our teeming human maze,
And help the age of peace to come
From a Dreamer's martyrdom.
~Madeline Morse

Have yourself a merry little Christmas, make the Yuletide gay.

~Ralph Blane

It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.

~Charles Dickens

Three phrases that sum up Christmas are: Peace on Earth, Goodwill to Men, and Batteries not Included.

~Author Unknown

I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.

~Bernard Manning

Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year.

~P.J. O'Rourke

Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.

~Kin Hubbard

Keep your Christmas-heart open all the year round.

~Jessica Archmint

Wouldn't life be worth the living
Wouldn't dreams be coming true
If we kept the Christmas spirit
All the whole year through?
~Author Unknown

The universal joy of Christmas is certainly wonderful. We ring the bells when princes are born, or toll a mournful dirge when great men pass away. Nations have their red-letter days, their carnivals and festivals, but once in the year and only once, the whole world stands still to celebrate the advent of a life.

~Author Unknown

We ring the bells and we raise the strain
We hang up garlands everywhere
And bid the tapers twinkle fair,
And feast and frolic - and then we go
Back to the same old lives again.
~Susan Coolidge

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.

~Dick Gregory

Christmas is a time to open our hearts to God and his gifts. Just like the rest of the year. ~Author Unknown

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas,
Just like the ones I used to know,
Where the tree tops glisten
And children listen
To hear sleigh bells in the snow...
~Irving Berlin

Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart... filled it, too, with melody that would last forever.

~Bess Streeter Aldrich

Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.

~Johnny Carson

Whatever else be lost among the years,
Let us keep Christmas still a shining thing;
Whatever doubts assail us, or what fears,
Let us hold close one day, remembering
Its poignant meaning for the hearts of men.
Let us get back our childlike faith again.
~Grace Noll Crowell

O Christmas Sun! What holy task is thine!
To fold a world in the embrace of God!
~Guy Wetmore Carryl

Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends.

~Margaret Thatcher

Love came down at Christmas,
Love all lovely, Love Divine;
Love was born at Christmas;
Star and angels gave the sign.
~Christina Rossetti

Christmas - that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance - a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved.

~Augusta E. Rundel

Santa is very jolly because he knows where all the bad girls live.

~Dennis Miller

It is the most human and kindly of seasons, as fully penetrated and irradiated with the feeling of human brotherhood, which is the essential spirit of Christianity, as the month of June with sunshine and the balmy breath of roses.

~George William Curtis

'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, - not even a mouse:
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St Nicholas soon would be there....
~Clement Clarke Moore

People can't concentrate properly on blowing other people to pieces if their minds are poisoned by thoughts suitable to the twenty-fifth of December.

~Ogden Nash

Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.

~Oren Arnold

Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love.

~Lucinda Franks

Oh! lovely voices of the sky
Which hymned the Saviour's birth,
Are ye not singing still on high,
Ye that sang, "Peace on earth"?
~Felicia Hemans

Which Christmas is the most vivid to me? It's always the next Christmas.

Motivational Quotes..

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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

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
George S. Patton

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
St. Clement of Alexandra

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

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Thornton Wilder

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
Johann Gottfried Von Herder

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore,
is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
Voltaire

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Benjamin Disraeli

You cannot plough a field by
turning it over in your mind.
Author Unknown

The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
William B. Sprague

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson

Fortune favors the brave.
Publius Terence

He who hesitates is lost.
Proverb

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.: -Dick Werthimer
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.: -Dorothy Parker
It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.: -Edna St. Vincent Millay



The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.: -Robert Heinlein
Life is just a bowl of pits.: -Rodney Dangerfield
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.: -Samuel Butler
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.: -Sir Winston Churchill
The unexamined life is not worth living.: -Socrates


Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.: -Thornton Wilder
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.: -Truman Capote
Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.: -Wally 'Famous' Amos

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.: -Ben Stein
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.: -Brendan Gill
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.: -Christopher Morley
Life is just one damned thing after another.: -Elbert Hubbard
Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.: -Fran Lebowitz
Life is something that everyone should try at least once.: -Henry J. Tillman
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.: -Isaac Asimov
Life is a long lesson in humility.: -James M. Barrie
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.: -John Lennon
The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.: -Kirby Larson
The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.: -Norman Thomas
Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.: -Oliver Wendell Holmes
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.: -Oscar Wilde
Life is a zoo in a jungle.: -Peter De Vries
Life is a sexually transmitted disease.: -R. D. Laing

Great One Liners.....

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A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.

99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.

A pat on the back is only a few centimeters from a kick in the butt.

According to my calculations, the problem doesn't exist.

Always remember you are unique, just like everyone else.

As I said before, I never repeat myself.

As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in public schools.

Assumption is the mother of all screw-ups.

Some people are alive only because it’s illegal to kill them..

Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder..

Bury me upside down so the world can kiss my ass..

Regular naps prevent old age.. especially if you take them while driving..

Having one child makes you a parent; having two makes you a referee.

Marriage is a relationship in which one person is always right and the other is the husband!

They said we should all pay our tax with a smile. I tried- but they wanted cash.

Don't feel bad. A lot of people have no talent.

You can't buy love. . But you pay heavily for it.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

Don't confuse me with facts, my mind's already made up!

They call our language the mother tongue because the father seldom gets to speak.

Saving is the best thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.

DON'T STEAL! - The government hates competition

Hardware: The parts of a computer system that can be kicked.

Death is life's way of telling you you're fired.

Guests and fish start to stink after two days.

Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.

Married men live longer than single men do, but married men are a lot more willing to die.

We are born naked, wet and hungry. Then things get worse.

42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.

To err is human, to blame it on somebody else shows management potential.

Couldn't afford to fix my brakes, so I made my horn louder.

Democracy is three wolves and a sheep voting what to have for lunch.

What Famous Persons Say..

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Inspirational Quotes....

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“Preach! Write! Act! Do any thing, save to lie down and die!”

“Yesterday's success formula is often today's obsolete dogma ... We must continually challenge the past so that we can renew ourselves each day.”

“Great works are performed, not by strength, but perseverance: yonder palace was raised by single stones, yet you see its height and spaciousness. He that shall walk with vigour three hours a day will pass in seven years a space equal to the circumference of the globe.” [read business fable]

“Know whence you came. If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go.”

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

“Always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember: others may hate you. Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. ... Only if you have been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.”

“The world is full of people giving good advice to others, but I have thought we should all be better off if we would advise ourselves more, and others less. If I could take the good advice I am capable of giving, I should have no occasion to accept it from others.”

“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”

“What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.”

“We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.”

“Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.”

“The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is or has been is but the twilight of the dawn.”

“We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is.”

“You never reach the promised land. You can march towards it.”

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”“We are here to add what we can to, not to get what we can from, Life.”

“Whenever you fall, pick up something.”

“Every step you take, is a step away from where you used to be.”

“When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and your discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.”

Quotes on Relationships..

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Man is a knot into which relationships are tied. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras, 1942, translated from French by Lewis Galantière

Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need. ~Margaret Mead

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb

Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand. ~Emily Kimbrough

There's one sad truth in life I've found
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. ~Dinah Craik, A Life for a Life, 1859

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting? ~Stephen Levine

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade. ~Leo Buscaglia

Sticks and stones are hard on bones
Aimed with angry art,
Words can sting like anything
But silence breaks the heart.
~Phyllis McGinley, "Ballade of Lost Objects," 1954

Assumptions are the termites of relationships. ~Henry Winkler

I like her because she smiles at me and means it. ~Anonymous

Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings. ~Miles Franklin

In the end, who among us does not choose to be a little less right to be a little less lonely. ~Robert Brault,

You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you. ~Frederick Buechner

Present your family and friends with their eulogies now - they won't be able to hear how much you love them and appreciate them from inside the coffin. ~Anonymous

Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh!" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you." ~A.A. Milne

I felt it shelter to speak to you. ~Emily Dickinson

Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough. ~Dinah Shore

Lust is easy. Love is hard. Like is most important. ~Carl Reiner

Basically, the only thing we need is a hand that rests on our own, that wishes it well, that sometimes guides us. ~Hector Bianciotti, Sans La Misericorde du Christ

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~Marcel Proust

When something is missing in your life, it usually turns out to be someone. ~Robert Brault,

To know when to go away and when to come closer is the key to any lasting relationship. ~Doménico Cieri Estrada

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same. ~Flavia Weedn, Forever

No road is long with good company. ~Turkish Proverb

If fame were based on kindness instead of popularity, on understanding and not on worldwide attention, you would be the biggest celebrity on earth. And to my heart, you already are. ~Anonymous

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. ~Oprah Winfrey

Good company upon the road is the shortest cut. ~Author Unknown

There are times when two people need to step apart from one another, but there is no rule that says they have to turn and fire. ~Robert Brault

Soul-mates are people who bring out the best in you. They are not perfect but are always perfect for you. ~Author Unknown

People change and forget to tell each other. ~Lillian Hellman

In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year, the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other. ~Linda Ellerbee, Move On: Adventures in the Real World

Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers. ~Mary Tyler Moore

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky. ~Rainer Maria Rilke

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with. ~Wayne W. Dyer

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. ~From the movie Annie

Friendship Quotes..

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A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad. ~Arnold H. Glasgow

Yesterday brought the beginning, tomorrow brings the end, and somewhere in the middle we became the best of friends. ~Author Unknown

A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. ~Donna Roberts

Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things. ~Author Unknown

Soul-mates are people who bring out the best in you. They are not perfect but are always perfect for you. ~Author Unknown

If you're alone, I'll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I'll be your shoulder. If you want a hug, I'll be your pillow. If you need to be happy, I'll be your smile. But anytime you need a friend, I'll just be me. ~Author Unknown

A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. ~Grace Pulpit

There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship. ~Author Unknown

The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had. ~Author Unknown

A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked. ~Author Unknown

Friends are kisses blown to us by angels. ~Author Unknown

It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. ~Marlene Dietrich

A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart. ~Attributed to Heather Pryor

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. ~Aristotle

I like her because she smiles at me and means it. ~Anonymous

Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand. ~Emily Kimbrough

Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh!" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you." ~A.A. Milne

Hold a true friend with both your hands. ~Nigerian Proverb

Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same. ~Flavia Weedn

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. ~Oprah Winfrey

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. ~Lois Wyse

A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself. ~Frances Ward Weller

A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should. ~Author Unknown

Friends are relatives you make for yourself. ~Eustache Deschamps

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job. ~Laurence J. Peter

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. ~Douglas Pagels

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. ~Leo Buscaglia

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. ~Sicilian Proverb

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. ~Elisabeth Foley

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. ~Henri Nouwen

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. ~Albert Schweitzer

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. ~Dave Tyson Gentry

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. ~Virginia Woolf

The language of friendship is not words but meanings. ~Henry David Thoreau

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind. ~Toni Morrison, Beloved

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. ~Plautus

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. ~George MacDonald

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. ~Margaret Lee Runbeck, Answer Without Ceasing

Yes we are [friends] and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often. I don't want to lose this happy space where I have found someone who is smart and easy and doesn't bother to check her diary when we arrange to meet. ~Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body, 1992

It takes a long time to grow an old friend. ~John Leonard

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. ~William Blake

A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. ~William Penn

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. ~Katherine Mansfield

We have been friends together
In sunshine and in shade.
~Caroline Sheridan Norton

Friends are the sailors who guide your rickety boat safely across the dangerous waters of life. ~Sare and Cate

The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away. ~Barbara Kingsolver

There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul. ~Edith Wharton

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar. ~Robert Brault

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. ~Anäis Nin

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Friendship is one mind in two bodies. ~Menclus

In my friend, I find a second self. ~Isabel Norton

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away. ~Dinah Craik

I felt it shelter to speak to you. ~Emily Dickinson

No road is long with good company. ~Turkish Proverb

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~Marcel Proust

On the subject of quotes and proverbs.....

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When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly. - Michel de Montaigne

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. - Amos Bronson Alcott

The maxims of men disclose their hearts. - French Proverb

To select well among old things, is almost equal to inventing new ones. - Nicholas Charles Trublet

I have gathered a posie of other men's flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is my own. - Michel de Montaigne

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind. - William R. Alger

What gems of painting or statuary are in the world of art, or what flowers are in the world of nature, are gems of thought to the cultivated and the thinking. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Stealing someone else's words frequently spares the embarrassment of eating your own. - Peter Anderson

A short saying oft contains much wisdom. - Sophocles

It often happens that the quotations constitute the most valuable part of a book. - Vicesimus Knox

A collection of rare thoughts is nothing less than a cabinet of intellectual gems.- William B. Sprague

It is delightful to transport one's self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before us. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Great truths are portions of the soul of man;
Great souls are portions of eternity. - James Russell Lowell

Good sayings are like pearls strung together. - Chinese Proverb

A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. - Arabic Proverb

Proverbs are the cream of a nation's thought. - Unknown

There is not less wit, not less invention, in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that book. - Pierre Boyle

A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will. - Joseph Joubert

It is delightful to transport one's self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before us, and to what glorious height we have at last reached. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Time is of of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh today as when they first passed through their authors' minds ages ago. - Samuel Smiles

Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom. - Joseph Joubert

Human success is a quotation from overhead. - Charles H. Parkhurst

A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has been educated during all this time. - Bernard de Bovier de Fontenelle

A proverb is the child of experience. - Old Saying

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations. - Sir J. Mackintosh

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind, than in the one where they sprung up. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound maxims and truthful apothegms. It will impress on your own mind a thousand valuable suggestions, and teach your children a thousand lessons of truth and duty. Such a book is a casket of jewels for your housebold. - Tryon Edwards

Our life

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Our life is a tough puzzle,
Life is a big mystery,
Always be attentive,
before it becomes History...!
Have positive thoughts like the colorful flowers,
Try to be relaxed in your sad hours,
Always keep the smiles,
And leave the tears..
Think of joys,
And forget the tears...
Hold the laughter,
And leave the pain..
Till life serves you,
with a lot of happiness again...!!
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Certain farewells can be harder than others....

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Certain farewells can be harder than others.

When we are to part with friends and know in our hearts that somewhere in the future that we will meet again, the farewell can be bittersweet.

But if we are to part for an uncertain period of time from a loved one, the farewell will take on a different dimension.

As one unknown author aptly says, "The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected."

That's because the heart so much refuses to let go, and that's what makes it so much harder to let go. The long days of absence of a loved one simply makes the heart squeezes in pain and the tears to fall uncontrollably.

If you're looking for some inspirational farewell quotes to put into your farewell speech or cards, do read about these farewell quotes.

A sunbeam to warm you,
A moonbeam to charm you,
A sheltering angel, so nothing can harm you.
-- Irish Blessing

Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.
-- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, translated from French

Can miles truly separate you from friends.... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
-- Richard Bach

Don't be dismayed at goodbyes, a farewell is necessary before you can meet again and meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.
-- Richard Bach

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
-- Dr. Seuss

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.
-- Tryon Edwards

Goodbyes are not forever.
Goodbyes are not the end.
They simply mean I'll miss you
Until we meet again!
-- Author Unknown

Happy trails to you, until we meet again.
Some trails are happy ones,
Others are blue.
It's the way you ride the trail that counts,
Here's a happy one for you.
-- Dale Evans

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
-- Gilda Radner

Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.
-- Jean Paul Richter

May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day.
May songbirds serenade you every step along the way.
May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue.
And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.
~Irish Blessing

May the road rise up to meet you,
May the wind be ever at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face
and the rain fall softly on your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the hollow of his hand.
-- Irish Blessing

May you always have work for your hands to do.
May your pockets hold always a coin or two.
May the sun shine bright on your windowpane.
May the rainbow be certain to follow each rain.
May the hand of a friend always be near you.
And may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.
~Irish Blessing

Missing someone gets easier every day because even though it's one day further from the last time you saw each other, it's one day closer to the next time you will.
-- Author Unknown

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
-- Robert Southey

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
-- George Eliot

People so seldom say I love you
And then it's either too late or love goes.
So when I tell you I love you,
It doesn't mean I know you'll never go,
Only that I wish you didn't have to.
-- Author Unknown

Some people come into our lives
and leave footprints on our hearts
and we are never ever the same.
-- Flavia Weedn

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.
-- Alan Alda

When there are lines upon my face from a lifetime of smiles,
When the time comes to embrace for one long last while,
We can laugh about how time really flies,
We won't say goodbye 'cause true love never dies,You'll always be beautiful in my eyes.
-- Joshua Kadison, Beautiful In My Eyes

Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos.
-- Charles M. Schulz

Why does it take a minute to say hello and forever to say goodbye?
-- Author Unknown

You and I will meet again,
When we're least expecting it,
One day in some far off place,
I will recognize your face,
I won't say goodbye my friend,
For you and I will meet again.
-- Tom Petty

You know that you are in love when the hardest thing to do is say good-bye,
-- Author Unknown

~ TOUCHING LOVE QUOTES ~

2009-05-21T00:44:00.000+05:30

Love, like a river, will cut a new path whenever it meets an obstacle.
- Crystal Middlemas -

Love is like a mustard seed;planted by God and watered by men .
- Muda Saint Michael -

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
- George Sand -

You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.
- David Levesque -

Love is strong yet delicate. It can be broken.To truly love is to understand this. To be in love is to respect this.
- Stephen Packer -

If asked why I love her I would say
It’s the sway in her hips,
the thickness in her thighs.
It’s the lust in her lips,
the love in her eyes.
It’s the softness of her skin,
the silk in her hair.
It’s the twist in her walk;
it’s the sweetness in her talk.
It’s the way she loves me
that makes me love her each day.
That is what I would say.
- Justin Hutchins -

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it.
For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it.
For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
~Ivan Panin ~

Love is so powerful because
being loved cause one to love oneself.
nothing contribute to the self image
more than being loved by another.
when the words”i love you” is expressed
to you for d 1st time,
your world blossoms,
your heart glows with inspiration..

●๋•ღ♥ Broken Heart ღ♥●๋•

2009-05-21T00:26:00.000+05:30

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

Giving up doesn’t always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.
~Author Unknown

God is closest to those with broken hearts.
~Jewish Saying

Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.
~Lamartine

When love is lost, do not bow your head in sadness; instead keep your head up high and gaze into heaven for that is where your broken heart has been sent to heal.
~Author Unknown

The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.
~Gwyneth Paltrow

I don’t know why they call it heartbreak. It feels like every other part of my body is broken too.
~Missy Altijd

Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it’s better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together.
~Author Unknown

Love is like a puzzle. When you’re in love, all the pieces fit but when your heart gets broken, it takes a while to get everything back together.
~Author Unknown

You flew off with the wings of my heart and left me flightless.
~Stelle Atwater

Maybe part of loving is learning to let go.
~Author Unknown

I prithee send me back my heart,
Since I cannot have thine;
For if from yours you will not part,
Why, then, shouldst thou have mine?
~John Suckling

As soon as forever is through, I’ll be over you.
~Toto

Let your tears come. Let them water your soul.
~Eileen Mayhew

It’s so curious: one can resist tears and ‘behave’ very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer… and everything collapses.
~Colette

The heart is the only broken instrument that works.
~T.E. Kalem

Sometimes I wish I were a little kid again, skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts.
~Author Unknown

God can heal a broken heart, but He has to have all the pieces.
~Author Unknown

What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.
~Richard Wilbur

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
~Jean de La Fontaine

If we must part forever,
Give me but one kind word to think upon,
And please myself with, while my heart’s breaking.
~Thomas Otway

Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.
~Rosa Parks

With what a deep devotedness of woe
I wept thy absence - o’er and o’er again
Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain,
And memory, like a drop that, night and day,
Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away!
~Thomas Moore

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
~Edna St. Vincent Millay

ღ• нєαятρяιηтѕ ღ•

2009-05-21T00:20:00.000+05:30

<--Heartprints-->

Whatever our hands touch -
We leave fingerprints!
On walls, on furniture
On doorknobs, dishes, books.
There’s no escape.
As we touch we leave our identity.
Wherever I go today
Help me leave heartprints!
Heartprints of compassion
Of understanding and love.
Heartprints of kindness
And genuine concern.
May my heart touch a lonely neighbor
Or a runaway daughter
Or an anxious mother
Or perhaps an aged grandfather.
Send me out today
To leave heartprints.
And if someone should say,
“I felt your touch,”
May they also sense the love
that is deep within my heart.

Don't ask me,, why...?

2009-03-14T22:44:00.000+05:30

Don't ask me why we're ___?__…
The best relations don't need reasons
They just need one single promise:
The promise to stand by in all seasons
Don't ask me when we made that promise…
It really doesn't need to be spoken
You know it in your heart, and I know it in mine
That this is never going to be broken
Don't ask me what's not good about you…
We're all different and make our own mistakes
I wouldn't want to change you, but id you want to change
I'll give you the help that it takes
Don't ask me why I want you around me…
Cuz I myself am not too certain
Is it just because of the habit of you,
Or because you're a whole lot of fun!?

Don't ask me why I need you to be with me…
Cuz yet again, I'm not sure
To be a mirror and show me my faults,
Or to encourage, motivate, and reassure!?
Don't ask me when's the best time I spent with you…
Special people make all times special
And the kind of person you are,
Just by being a part, you make life beautiful!
Don't ask me what's great about you…
It would be impossible to choose one
But it would be one of these two -
Your honesty, or your heart full of compassion
Don't ask me what's kept us together for so long…
I don't think it has to do with you or me
I really believe this is God's plan
And that you're a part of my DESTINY!
Don't ask me why I scream at you when I do…
It's a reason I'm reluctant to give
You don't do things all that wrong;
It's just that I know you'd forgive
Don't ask me why I'm not all sugary sweet with you…
Even you know you'd find it odd!
Don't you always expect (and in heart of heart, want)
Me to check thy erring with a rod!
Don't ask me what the future holds…
You know it and I know it too…
We're always going to be as we are
Wherever we are, whatever we do
Don't ask me why I wrote these verses
Cuz the only reason is that you asked me to be sweet
But you really have to know this -
Even when I'm not saying it, I mean it!
Don't ask me why I'm writing this last verse -
It's a silly reason - to make the count thirteen!
Yea, it's been that long since we're knowing each other
And what a brilliant experience it's been!!

Are we LUV each other or are we NOT
you told me once but i forgot
so tell me now and tell me true
so i can say im here for you
and if i die before you do
i'll go to heaven and wait to you
id give the angels back their wings
and risk the lost of everything
just to show my luv is true
and have a person, just like you.
...............................

quotes...

2009-03-02T20:17:00.000+05:30

"The beauty of life does not depend on how happy you are;
But on how happy others can be because of you..."
"Smile ... it makes people wonder what u are thinking..."
And spread the SMILE…

“The sun, though it passes through dirty places,
yet remains as pure as before.”
- Francis Bacon

“Many of life’s failures are men who did not realize how
close they were to success, when they gave up.”

Faith brings totality in you.
It pulls together all the loose
ends of your consciousness.
It integrates your
whole personality.
Doubt scatters you.
Doubt destroys you.

In Sight of The Day

"Adulthood is defined by the willingness to accept full responsibility for where you are at in life; no longer blaming others or circumstances. "
-Joe Westbrook

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience,
but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
-Martin Luther King Jr.

"Every human action, whether it has become positive or negative, must depend
on motivation."
-Dalai Lama

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out.
It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another
human being. We should all be thankful for those people
who rekindle the inner spirit....
-Albert Schweitzer.

Everyone needs to be loved...
especially when they do not deserve it.

You can't change the past,
but you can ruin the present
By worrying over the future !

Thank God for what you have,
TRUST GOD for what you need.

If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday
and the worries of tomorrow,
you have no today to be thankful for.

Harsh words break no bones
but they do break hearts.
To get out of a difficulty,
one usually must go through it.
We take for granted the things
that we should be giving thanks for.

small funda...

2009-03-02T19:29:00.000+05:30

A story tells that

two friends

were walking

through the desert

During some point of the

Journey they had an

Argument, and one friend

Slapped the other one

In the face.

The one who got slapped

was hurt, but without

saying anything,

wrote in the sand:

TODAY MY BEST FRIEND

SLAPPED ME IN THE FACE .

They kept on walking

until they found an oasis,

where they decided

to take a bath.

The one who had been

slapped got stuck in the

mire and started drowning,

but the friend saved him.

After he recovered from

the near drowning,

he wrote on a stone:

TODAY MY BEST FRIEND

SAVED MY LIFE.

The friend who had slapped

and saved his best friend

asked him, "After I hurt you,

you wrote in the sand and now,

you write on a stone, why?"

The other friend replied

"When someone hurts us

we should write it down

in sand where winds of

forgiveness can erase it away.

But, when someone does

something good for us,

we must engrave it in stone

where no wind

can ever erase it."

LEARN TO WRITE

YOUR HURTS IN

THE SAND AND TO

CARVE YOUR

BENEFITS IN STONE!!!

They say it takes a

minute to find a special

person, an hour to

appreciate them, a day

to love them, but then

an entire life

to forget them.

For "U"

2009-02-19T19:58:00.001+05:30

I wouldnt say I cant live without U coz everyone gets on with life with time. Nor would I say U r the only one I ever loved coz then I would be lying. But I would surely say I never even dreamt that I would ever come across someone like 'U'. Come what may, I'll remember U all my life. U'll always be somewhere in my thoughts. . .

Life..........UNsimplified

2009-02-19T19:48:00.000+05:30

Life has no guarantees:

Part of Growing is Learning;
Part of Hapiness is Tears;
Part of Loving is Hurting;
&
Part of ME...

Will Always Be With YOU...

Changes....

2009-02-19T19:42:00.001+05:30

"Friends Forever" U promised,
"Together till the end",
We did everything with each other,
U were my BEST Friend.

When I was sad, U were by my side,
When I was scared, U felt my fear,
"U" were my best support,
If I needed U, U were there.

U were the greatest friend,
U always knew what to say,
U made everything seem better,
As long as we had each other....
Everything was okay.

But somewhere along the line,
We slowly came apart,
I was here, U were there,
It tore a hole in my heart.

Things were changing,
Our cheerful music reversed its tune,
It was like having salt without pepper,
A sun without its moon.

Suddenly U were miles apart,
Two different people with nothing the same,
It was as if we hadnt been friends,
Although we knew deep in our hearts....
Neither of us was to blame.

U had made many new friends,
And luckily so had I,
But that didnt change the hurt,
The loss of our friendship made me cry.

As we grow, things must change,
But they dont always have to and,
Even though it is different now,
U will always be MY FRIEND....