Quotes

[Andy M.]

A response I received to one of my posts recently made me think of this quote.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.
— ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

 

[PrincessFiona60]

Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.

Kathleen Winsor

 

[JoAnn L.]

My mother was the making of me. She was so true, so sure of me and I felt that I had someone to live for, someone I must not disappoint.~ Thomas Edison

 

[PrincessFiona60]

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

Ursula K. Le Guin

 

[taxlady]

A response I received to one of my posts recently made me think of this quote.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.
— ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

I love that one Andy.

 

[taxlady]

Coffee does not judge me. It embraces me and warms me and fills me with caffeinated love.

My DH, Stirling

 

[PrincessFiona60]

I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.

Michael Crichton

 

[tinlizzie]

"...the end of one journey is the beginning of another."

Margaret Atwood - The Year of the Flood

 

[PrincessFiona60]

I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.

Anne Tyler

 

[taxlady]

Instructions for Life by The Dalai Lama

• Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
• When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
• Follow the three R’s:

- Respect for self,
- Respect for others and
- Responsibility for all your actions.
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• Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
• Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
• Don’t let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
• When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
• Spend some time alone every day.
• Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.
• Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
• Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time.
• A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
• In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don’t bring up the past.
• Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
• Be gentle with the earth.
• Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.
• Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
• Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
• If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
• If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

 

[simonbaker]

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know

 

[tinlizzie]

He who knows he has enough is rich. - from a fortune cookie

 

[PrincessFiona60]

The men who cannot laugh at themselves frighten me even more than those who laugh at everything.

Anne Perry

 

[simonbaker]

New beginings are often disguised as painful endings.

 

[PrincessFiona60]

By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.

William Shakespeare

 

[JoAnn L.]

"I owe all that I am to her earnest, modest and sincere piety." Ulysses S. Grant~ about his mother Hannah Simpson Grant.

 

[PrincessFiona60]

Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

Will Rogers

 

[taxlady]

The best teachers are those who show you were to look, but don't tell you what to see.

-- Alexandra K. Trenfor

 

[Zhizara]

I like that one TL. I had a few good mentors who taught me that way. i'll always be grateful to them for that kind of lesson.

 

[taxlady]

Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

Will Rogers

C & P ed to my personal quotes file. That's a good one.