Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others....
William A. Ward
Thought Provoking Quotes
Having
a sharp tongue can cut your own throat.
If you want your dreams to come true, don't oversleep.
The smallest good deed is better than the grandest intention.
Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.
The
best vitamin for making friends.... B1.
The 10 commandments are not a multiple choice.
The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.
Minds are like parachutes... they function only when open.
Ideas won't work unless YOU do.
One thing you can't recycle is wasted time.
One who lacks the courage to start has already finished.
The heaviest thing to carry is a grudge.
Don't learn safety rules by accident.
Jumping to conclusions can be bad exercise.
A turtle makes progress when it sticks its head out.
One thing you can give and still keep... is your word.
A friend walks in when everyone else walks out.
Never fail to try - try and then say you failed. Every failure is a stepping
stone to success!!
The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a lifetime!
Inside me lives a skinny woman crying to get out. But I can usually shut her up with cookies.
Inside every older person is a younger person -- wondering what the hell happened....Cora Harvey Armstrong
The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy. Helen Hayes (at 73)
I refuse to think of them as chin hairs. I think of them as stray eyebrows.... Janette Barber
Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.... Lily Tomlin
A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who never owned a car.... Carrie Snow
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and you cry with your girlfriends.... Laurie Kuslansky
My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being, hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.... Erma Bombeck
Old age ain't no place for sissies.... Bette Davis
A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't.... Rhonda Hansome
The phrase "working mother" is redundant.... Jane Sellman
Every time I close the door on reality it comes in through the windows.... Jennifer Unlimited
Whatever women must do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.... Charlotte Whitton
Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart.... Caryn Leschen
I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.... Jennifer Unlimited
If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.... Catherine
When I was young, I was put in a school for mentally challenged kids for two years before they realized I actually had a hearing loss. And they called ME slow! ...Kathy Buckley
I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb .. and I'm also not blonde.... Dolly Parton
If high heels were so wonderful, men would still be wearing them.... Sue Grafton
I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on.... Roseanne Barr
When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country.... Elayne Boosler
Behind every successful man is a surprised woman.... Maryon Pearson
In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man- if you want anything done, ask a woman.... Margaret Thatcher
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.... Gloria Steinem
I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.... Zsa Zsa Gabor
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.... Leo Buscaglia
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.... Denis Waitley
We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee. Marian Wright Edelman
Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.... M. Scott Peck
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.... Cecil Beaton
If you want to stand out, don't be different; be outstanding. ...Meredith West
If there are things you don't like in the world you grew up in, make your own life different.... Dave Thomas
When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.... Charles Evans Hughes
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with. ...Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.... James Allen
Whatever good things we build end up building us.... Jim Rohn
I am somebody. I am me. I like being me. And I need nobody to make me somebody.... Louis L'Amour
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. ... Eleanor Roosevelt
We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.. .. Shakti Gawain
You can't choose your circumstances, but you can choose to overcome them.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.... Oscar Wilde
You can't possibly hit the ball if you're thinking about all the possible ways you can miss.... Unknown
In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.... Nora Ephron b. 1941 American Journalist
In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on woman....
Nancy Astor (1879-1964) British Politician
A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see the guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking a cigar and saying long-time-no-see. If he hadn’t broken your heart, you couldn’t have that glorious feeling of relief!... Pyllis Battelle b. 1922 American Journalist
Nothing is more revealing than movement.... Martha Graham (18941991) American choreographer
My creed is low, be sincere and don’t fuss.... Jane Addams (1860-1935) American Social Worker
Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.... Dodie Smith b. 1896 English playwright
When
choosing between two evils, I always like to try the
one I’ve never tried before....
Mae
West (1892-1980) American Actress
Here’s a rule I recommend. Never practice two vices at once.... Tallulah Bankhead (1903-1968) American Actress
Whether women are better than men I cannot say- but I can say they are certainly no worse.... Golda Meir (1898-1978) Israeli Stateswoman
Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now....
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) American Writer
Constant togetherness is fine – but only for Siamese twins.... Victoria Billings b. 1945 American journalist
It doesn’t matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don’t do it in the street and frighten the horses.... Mrs. Patrick Campbell (1865-1940) English Actress
“But it’s always interesting when one doesn’t see,” she added. “If you don’t see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way round.”... Agatha Christie (1891 – 1978) English mystery writer
The wave of the future is coming and there is no stopping it.... Anne Morrow Lindbergh b. 1906 American writer
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.... Ursula K. Le Guin b. 1929 American Writer
Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it.... Germaine Greer b. 2939 Australian writer
It is not true that life is one damn thing after another – it’s one damn thing over and over.... Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1952) American poet
It was so cold I almost got married.... Shelley Winters. B. 1922 American Actress
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.... Marie Curie (1867-1934) French scientist
Character
builds slowly, but it can be torn down with
incredible swiftness....
Faith
Baldwin (1893-1978) American writer.
Marriage removes the illusion, deeply imbedded previously, that somewhere there is a soul-mate.... Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907) German painter
Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.... Pamela Hansford Johnson (1912-1981) English Writer
No mockery in the world ever sounds to me as hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness…Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure.... Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855) English writer.
No man can be held throughout the day by what happens throughout the night.... Sally Stanford (1904-1982) American Madam
Do we really know anybody? Who does not wear one face to hide another?... Frances Marion (1886-1973) American Journalist
I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back.... Zsa Zsa Gabor. B 1923 Hungarian actress
No matter what your fight, don’t be ladylike! God Almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.... Mother Mary Jones (1830-1930) American Labor Organizer
Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents? Peg Bracken b. 1918 American humorist
In real love you want the other person’s good. In romantic love you want the other person.... Margaret Anderson (1893-1973) American publisher
The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.... Lily Tomlin b.1939 American Actress