Thursday, September 15, 2011

~Quotes~

«I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: which is: Try to please everybody.» — Herbert B. Swope

«If one does not know to which port is sailing, no wind is favorable.» — Seneca


«Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.» — Howard Thurman

«It's not that some people have willpower and some don't... It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.» — James Gordon


«I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love...I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.» — Elbert Hubbard


«The mind thinks thoughts that we don't plan. It's not as if we say, 'At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred.» — Sharon Salzberg

«When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.» — Helen Keller


«What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.» — Norman Vincent Peale


«...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run. - Grandpa Chet» — Wendelin Van Draanen


«Pain and suffering are the soil of strength and courage.» — Lurlene McDaniel


«An interesting journey never follows a straight path» — Marjan van den Belt


«There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.» — Robert Louis Stevenson


«Answered prayer is the interchange of love between the Father and His child.» — Andrew Murray


«Change occurs when one becomes what he is, not when he tries to become what he is not.» — Arnold Beisser


«There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.» — G.K. Chesterton


«Choose your love. Love your choice.» — Thomas S. Monson


«They say: 'If a man knew himself, he would know all mankind.' I say: 'If a man loved mankind, he would know something of himself.» — Gibran Khalil Gibran


«If it takes you apart, that's not love. Love puts you back together.» — Catherine Ryan Hyde


«If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it's yours. If it does not come back, it was never meant to be.» — Rachel Thompson


Leadership is a quality some are born with and others earn; but not all those who are born with it use it, mostly because they haven’t earned it.


If you want someone to value you, you have to value yourself first.


There is a point when successful habit sustains you and it no longer feels like effort.


Make life your friend. Don’t fight it. Make peace with it. Be grateful for it.


Have bigger goals than just hitting goals.


Trying to feel better about yourself, doesn’t make yourself better.


Fear is in FAiluER.


"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young." ~Henry Ford


Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. ~Abraham Lincoln

2 comments:

  1. What the heck are those black and white pictures? The first one looks like....a jacked up zebra...EH?


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  2. It's a flower and birds -more like a design than anything actual.

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