• I was always taught to respect my elders, but it keeps getting harder to find one!
• Give yourself permission to go out and play. You will never again, for the rest of your life, be as young as you are today.
• Those who love deeply never grow old. --Sir Arthur wing Pinero

• And life is what we make it. Always has been. Always will be. --Grandma Moses
• Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. --Picasso

• Happiness is not a station to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. --Margaret Lee Runbeck
• The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. --Mark Twain
• Happy days roll onward leading up to golden years. – Alfred Lord Tennyson
• A good laugh is sunshine in a house. – Philip James Bailey
• There is nothing more beautiful than the cheerfulness in an old face. – Jean Paul Richter
• It is a happy talent to know how to play.
• Make a dark day seem bright, find the one that makes your heart smile.
• When the door of happiness closes, another opens; but often times we look so long at the closed door that we don't see the one which has been opened for us.
• The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.
• May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human and enough hope to make you happy.
• Laughter is the closest distance between two people." --Victor Borges
• Among those whom I admire, I can find no common denominator. But among those whom I love I can; all of them make me laugh. --W.H.Auden
• When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling.
• Live your life so at the end, you're the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying.
• Happiness is not so much in having as sharing.
• We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. --Norman MacEwan
• The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. --Mark Twain
• Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. --Sir James Barrie
• The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. --Robert Green Ingersoll

• Do not despise small beginnings, for the Lord rejoices to see the work begin. -- Jechariah 4:10

• If you have a garden and library, you have everything you need. --Cicero
• A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever. – Martin Tupper

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• A child fills a place in your heart you never knew was empty.

• Any change, any loss, does not make us victims. Others can shake you, surprise you, disappoint you, but they can't prevent you from acting, from taking the situation you're presented with and moving on. No matter where you are in life, no matter what your situation, you can always do something. You always have a choice and the choice can be power. --Blaine Lee

• Expect trouble as an uinevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, "I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me. --Ann Landers
• I love the man that can smile in trouble, then can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. --Thomas Payne
• Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it. – Jean Paul Richter
• Resolved, to live with all my might while I do live. – Jonathan Edwards
• Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you the test first, and then the lesson afterward. In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. --Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929-1968
• If you are going through hell, keep going. -- Sir Winston Churchill 1874 - 1965
• When you stumble, make it part of the dance. T
• There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction. -- John F. Kennedy
• What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
• You miss 100% of the shots you never take. --Wayne Gretsky
• The lightning and the thunder they go and they come but the stars and the stillness are always at home.
• Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, "I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me." --Ann Landers
• And maybe just remind the few, if ill of us they speak, that we are all that stands between the monsters and the weak. --Michael Marks
• I love the man that can smile in trouble, then can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. --Thomas Payne
• I will embrace today's difficult tasks, take off my coat, and make dust in the world. --Og Mandino
• When one has not had a good father, one must create one. --Albert Camus
• Be kinder than necessary for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.
• A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
• Detours happen. Remember your destinaton.
• To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable. --Helen Keller
• The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past; you can't go forward in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.
• Courage is the mastery of fear not the absence of it. --Mark Twain
• I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship. --Louisa May Alcott
• When it is dark enough, men see the stars. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

• What is enough? You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough. --William Blake

• Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody. – Henry David Thoreau
• The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some sort of mental illness.
• Think of your three best friends. If they are ok then it's you. --Rita Mae Brown
• A friend loves at all times. --Proverbs 17:27
  

• You start the longest journey by placing one foot in front of the other.
• The tallest mountains have been conquered by men who literally inched their way to the summits.
• Whatever your goal, it will yield to the same approach; one step at a time. --Michael Gore
• Set your course by the stars not by the lights of every passing ship. --General O. Bradley
• You are never too old to set a new goal or to dream a new dream. --C.S. Lewis

• Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. --Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821
• He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. -- H. H. Munro (Saki) -- 1870-1916
• I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it. -- Groucho Marx 1895 - 1977
• Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd. --William Congreve 1670-1729
• Float like a butterfly; sting like a bee. --Mohamed Ali
• The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for the good men to do nothing. --Edmund Burke 1729-1797
• Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats. --Henry Louis Mencken 1880-1956
• He would make a lovely corpse. --Charles Dickens 1812-1870
• I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it is nothing trivial. --Irvin S. Cobb
• I worship the quicksand he walks in. --Art Buchwald
• I am not afraid. I was born to do this. --Joan of Arc
• What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls a butterfly. --Richard Bach
• Fear God, and your enemies will fear you. --Benjamin Franklin
• You can't say civilization isn't advancing; in every war they kill you in a new way. --Will Rogers

• Death is not extuinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. --Rabindranath Tagore
• Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. – Martin Luther
• Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come." -- Rabindranath Tagore
• I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being. --Hafiz
• Any change, any loss, does not make us victims. Others can shake you, surprise you, disappoint you, but they can't prevent you from acting, from taking the situation your presented with and moving on. No matter where you are in life, no matter what your situation, you can always do something. You always have a choice and the choice can be power. --Blaine Lee
• Do your best. Work for the best. Expect the best. A sunbeam to warm you, a moonbeam to charm you, a sheltering angel, so nothing can harm you. --Irish Blessing
• He who plants a tree plants a hope. --Luch Larcom
  

• Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. -- Mae West
• You sound reasonable … time to up my medication.
• People never grow up; they just learn how to act in public.
• I like rice! Rice is great if you're hungry and want 2000 of something. --Mitch Hedberg
• Start every day off with a smile and get it over with. --W.C.Fields
• Forget love … I'd rather fall in chocolate! Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get me.
• 2+2=5 for very large values of 2 I
• f I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? --Abraham Lincoln
• Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet. --Roger Miller
• Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children. --Miriam Robbins
• Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. --Martin Mull

• John Kennedy once said to an assembled group of scholars in the White House, "I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."
• Worry looks around. Sorry looks back. Faith looks up.
• He didn't tell me how to live; he lived and let me watch him do it. --Clarence Budington Kelland
• There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. --Albert Einstein 1879-1955
• Your spark can become a flame and change everything. --E.D. Nixon

• What's the earth with all its art, verse, music worth compared with love found, gained, and kept? --Robert Browning

• A tree depends upon the root; a man depends upon the heart. – Chinese Proverb
• Learning is weightless, a treasure you can carry easily. --Chinese Proverb
  

• There is no time like Spring, when life’s alive in everything. – Christina Rosetti
• Life is checkered with shade and sunshine. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold; when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. --Charles Dickens
• Winter is the time for comfort … It is the time for home. --Dame Edith Sitwell
• To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven. --Ecclesiastes 3:1

• There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of owerwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love." --Washington Irving
• There are moments in life when you miss someone so much that you just want to pick them from your dreams and hug them for real!
• Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either. --Golda Meir

• Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. --Emerson
• Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
• Success is to stand in the presence of God unashamed.

• Banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. --Thomas Jefferson 1802
• I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. --Thomas Jefferson
• It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world. --Thomas Jefferson
• My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. --Thomas Jefferson
• No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. -- Thomas Jefferson
• The democracy will cease to exist wjen you take away from those who are willing to work amd give to those who would not. --Thomas Jefferson
• The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government. --Thomas Jefferson
• The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. --Thomas Jefferson
• When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become corrupt as Europe. --Thomas Jefferson

• Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion. – Leigh Huntington

• Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. --Dr. Benjamin Spock

• Listen closely, truth is quiet. We can't all and some of us don't. That's all there is to it. --Eeyore
• Four things come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past, the neglected opportunity. --Omar Uidn Al-Halif
• And life is what we make it. Always has been. Always will be. --Grandma Moses

• I will embrace today's difficult tasks, take off my coat, and make dust in the world. --Og Mandino
• Better to wear out than to rust out. --Bishop Richard Cumberland
• To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. --Bishop Richard Cumberland
• My work is a game, a very serious game. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may find you always employed. --St. John Honeywood O,
• How full of briers is this working-day world! --William Shakespeare
• in As You Like It Our greatest weariness comes from work not done. --Eric Hoffer
• Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow. --Don Herold
• Man is born to work and prosper and not to rest and rust. --Vijey Christopher
• Work is love made visible. --Kahil Gibran
• The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that outlasts it. --William James
• Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life. --Confucious

• Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. –Theodore Roosevelt
• Most people search high and wide for the keys to success. If they only knew, the key to their dreams lies within. -- George Washington Carver
• Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be. --Karen Ravn
• I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. --Douglas Adams
• Who I really am keeps surprising me. --Nikki Giovanni
• There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. --Howard Thurman
• Life shoud NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, champagne in one hand, strawberries in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "Woo Hoo -- What a ride!"
• He has achieved much who as lived well, laughed often, and loved much. --Mrs. A.J. Stanley

• There is no more intrepid explorer than a kitten. ~Jules Champfleury
• Kittens believe that all nature is occupied with their diversion. ~F.A. Paradis de Moncrif
• Who would believe such pleasure from a wee ball o' fur? ~Irish Saying
• If I tried to tell you how much I love my cats, you wouldn't believe me – unless your heart is also meow-shaped and covered in stray fur. ~Lexie Saige
• It is impossible to keep a straight face in the presence of one or more kittens. ~Cynthia E. Varnado
• No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat, and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch. (Leo Dworken)
• The smallest feline is a masterpiece. (Leonardo da Vinci)