Charles W. Eliot

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”

Patricia Neal

A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

Ben Kingsley

Never trust anyone that doesn’t smoke pot or listen to Bob Dylan…Never trust anyone who doesn’t like the beach. And never, ever, EVER, trust ANYONE who says they don’t like dogs. You meet someone who doesn’t like dogs, you alert the authorities immediately and you sure as SHIT don’t marry them.

Native American Quotes

Our first teacher is our own heart.

A good chief gives, he does not take.

White men have too many chiefs.

There is no death, only a change of worlds.

We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.

Those that lie down with dogs, get up with fleas.

A brave man dies but once, a coward many times.

Life is not separate from death. It only looks that way.

They are not dead who live in the hearts they leave behind.

Don't be afraid to cry. It will free your mind of sorrowful thoughts.

Most of us do not look as handsome to others as we do to ourselves.

Poverty is a noose that strangles humility and breeds disrespect for God and man

Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand.

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

Oscar Wilde

Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women like to be a man's last romance.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

Margaret Fuller

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

Helen Keller

So much has been given to me;
I have no time to ponder over that which
has been denied.

Unknown

Sympathy is two heart tugging at the same load.

Mary Webb

If you stop to be kind,
you must swerve often from the path.

Albert Einstein

“Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.”

Chinese Proverb

Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.

Zig Ziglar

You never know when one act, or one word
of encouragement can change a life forever.

Buddha

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

W. M. Lewis

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.

Anonymous

It is not what you achieve in live,but what you contribute.

Dale Carnegie

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

Leo Buscaglia

“The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.”

Nido Qubein

When a goal matters enough to a person,
that person will find a way to accomplish
what at first seemed impossible.

ee cummings

“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.”

Richard Bach

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

Mary Anne Radmacher

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.

Dale Carnegie

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.
If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it.
Go out and get busy.

Albert Einstein

Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road,
to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

Nelson Mandela

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains,
but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

Sue Monk Kidd

The truth might set you free, but first it will shatter the safe, sweet world you live in.

Lao-tzu

Manifest plainness,
Embrace simplicity,
Reduce selfishness
Have few desires.

Rumi

Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.

Swedish Provert

Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I need it most.

Lao Tzu

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

Muhammad Ali

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

Vincent Van Gogh

I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Picasso

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Mae West

A man's kiss is his signature.

Anais Nin

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

Michel de Montaigne

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

Mark Victor Hansen

Once you decide what you truly want out of life,
the Universe begins to move to supply the "how."
...Just believe that it will happen,
that you deserve abundance in your life and
the "hows" will be revealed to you.

Melody Beattie

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Carl W. Buechner

They may forget what you said,
but they will never forget how you made them feel.

Aesop

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Kahlil Gibran

To understand the heart and mind of a person,
look not at what he has already achieved,
but at what he aspires to.

Bob Proctor

Set a goal to achieve something that is so big, so exhilarating
that it excites you and scares you at the same time.
It must be a goal that is so appealing,
so much in line with your spiritual core,
that you can't get it out of your mind.
If you do not get chills when you set a goal,
you're not setting big enough goals.

Princess Diana

Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.

Don't call me an icon. I'm just a mother trying to help.

Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.

HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it.

Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children.

I adore him... I have never been so happy. I have real love.

I am all about caring. I have always been like that.

I am not a political figure, nor do I want to be one; but I come with my heart.

I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box.

I don't go by the rule book... I lead from the heart, not the head.

I don't want expensive gifts; I don't want to be bought. I have everything I want. I just want someone to be there for me, to make me feel safe and secure.

I felt compelled to perform - to do my engagements and not let people down. And they supported me, although they weren't aware how much it carried me through.

I have a woman's instinct and it's always a good one.

I knew what my job was; it was to go out and meet the people and love them.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am.

I live for my sons. I would be lost without them.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people's hands, people used to be shocked because they'd never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work.

I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that.

I understand people's suffering, people's pain, more than you will ever know yourself.

I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams.

I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and feel that I am needed. I want to do, not just to be.

I wear my heart on my sleeve.

I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.

I wish all the mothers, fathers and children out there realize how much I need them and how much I value their support.

I'd like people to think of me as someone who cares about them.

I'd like to be a queen in people's hearts but I don't see myself being queen of this country.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Life is just a journey.

Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.

Only do what your heart tells you.

People think at the end of the day that a man is the only answer to fulfillment. Actually a job is better for me.

People think that at the end of the day a man is the only answer. Actually, a fulfilling job is better for me.

So many people supported me through my public life and I will never forget them.

The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey.

The people that I care about are the people out there on the street. I can identify with them.

There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.

They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?

This boy is dead now, I knew it before taking him in my arms, I can remember his face, his suffering, his voice.

What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?

Thomas Fuller

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.-

Shakti Gawain

The most powerful thing you can do to change the world is to change your own beliefs about the nature of life, people, reality, to something more positive... and begin to act accordingly.

Friedrich Nietzsche

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

Mother Teresa

"There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation than for bread."

T.S. Elliott

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

Frederick Buechner

The vocation for you is the one in which your deep gladness and the world's deep need meet.

Anne Lamont

Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life. It has given me me.

Vincent Van Gogh

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.
I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

Muhammad Ali

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Albert Einstein

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Princess Diana

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

T.S. Elliott

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Muhammad Ali

If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

Mae West

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

Picasso

My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

Lao Tzu

Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.

Norman Cousins

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies within us while we live.

Bob Dylan

When you ain't got nothin', you got nothin' to lose.

Buddha

Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

Mother Teresa

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

Johnny Depp

France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Picasso

The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

T.S. Elliott

Only those who will risk going too far

Can possibly find out how far one can go

Princess Diana

Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.

Thomas a Kempis

Love flies, runs, and rejoices; it is free and nothing can hold it back.

Andrew Carnegie

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.

George Eliot

We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.

Oliver Metz

"Love is something even the most perfect assemblage of words can't describe. So please stop scaling or putting it into numbers. It doesn't work".

Friedrich Nietzsche

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Bono

Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will. Slavery was one of them and the people who best served that age were the ones who called it as it was — which was ungodly and inhuman. Ben Franklin called it what it was when he became president of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society.

Mother Teresa

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

Katherine Hepburn

Life is hard, after all it kills you.

Muhammad Ali

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

Jean Paul Sartre

A man is not what he wishes himself to be, a man is what his actions prove him to be.

Pierre Trudeau

The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we find greatness.

Berthold Auerbach

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Leopold Stokowski

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

Arthur Schopenhauer

All truth goes through three steps.

First, it is ridiculed.

Second, it is violently opposed.

Finally, it is accepted as self-evident.

(1788-1860)

Picasso

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

Princess Diana

You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable.

Henry Moore

There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it.

T.S. Elliott

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

Francois Delsarte

The artist, a traveller on this earth, leaves behind imperishable traces of his being.

Michelangelo

I heard an angel cry within the stone, so I carved until I set him free.

George Carlin

Scientists announced today that they have discovered a cure for apathy. However, they claim no one has shown the slightest interest in it.

Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.

People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think.

Barbara's Collected Quotes

“The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.”

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