Quotes for many situations
66Intro
Every day we wake up to life. Friends Family Passion Love Death etc etc. Which is why ive gone and searched for quotes for you to see, and remember. Write it on a piece of paper or your hand...look at it all day when you need a boost. Share it with family and friends...
Lets start with mine....
Going forward is easier than going backwards in all aspects of life. Whether it be walking or running,or talking and sharing.Never look back, even the fondest memories can cause pain. Smile, and take a step forward;today-Asheliz2
Love
We all love somebody-whether it be our parents or Devon,that guy next door,or maybe you just love the world,or a special posession.,No matter what or who its still love.Heres some quotes....
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
~ Mother Teresa
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.
~ Henry Drummond
The best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts,
Of kindness and of love.
~ William Wordsworth
Love is a thing, well, its kind of like quicksand:
The more you are in it, the deeper you sink.
And when it hits you, you've just got to fall.
~ UB40
Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion
that each include the other,
each is enriched by the other.
~ Felix Adler
and my favorite...
They do not love that do not show their love.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.
Life
Life is the one thing you can never escape,so try to live through it the best you can.
Don't sacrifice your life to work and ideals.
The most important things in life are human relations.
I found that out too late.
- Katharinde Susannah Prichard Australian Author
Life is not a static thing.
The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums,
and those in cemeteries.
- Everett McKinley Dirksen
Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, 'I am with you kid Let's go!'
- Maya Angelou
The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes,
flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you.
Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes,
certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Powell Davies:
Life is just a chance to grow a soul.
~" Life is the art of drawing without and eraser."
- Jon Christian
~" Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled at the surface, but paddle like the devil underneath."
- London Daily Express
~" It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me, since I never retreat."
- Fiorello H. La Guardia~" It's a long walk back to Eden, sweetheart, so don't sweat the small stuff."
- Stephen King's "Insomnia
Death
Where there is life there is death right?
Do not take thought for your persons or your properties,
but first and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul.
I tell you that the virtue is not given by money, but that from vitue
come money and every other good of man, public as well as private...
The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in
avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.
- Socrates
For life in the present there is no death. Death is not an event in life.
It is not a fact in the world.
- Wittgenstein
I only remember two kisses - the first and the last.
The first, with my love and the last, with death.
The first brought happiness and the last relief!
- Srijit Prabhakaran
I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't luckily have to bother about that.
- Agatha Christie, "An Autobiography"
To the well-organised mind, death is but the next great adventure.
This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds.To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of a dance. A lifetime is a flash of lightning in the sky. Rushing by,like a torrent down a steep mountain.
100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased.
Family
Just some things to keep in mind before you strangle them at christmas=) just kidding...you wouldnt do that
I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford, "Identity Crisis," M*A*S*H
The family is a haven in a heartless world. ~Attributed to Christopher Lasch
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation. ~Margaret Mead
Families are like fudge - mostly sweet with a few nuts. ~Author Unknown
I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford, "Identity Crisis," M*A*S*H
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
The family is a haven in a heartless world. ~Attributed to Christopher Lasch
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation. ~Margaret Mead
Families are like fudge - mostly sweet with a few nuts. ~Author Unknown
If you don't believe in ghosts, you've never been to a family reunion. ~Ashleigh Brilliant
We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies. ~Shirley Abbott
Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space. ~Evan Esar
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. ~Ogden Nash
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them. ~Desmond Tutu
An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. ~Spanish Proverb
Blood's thicker than water, and when one's in trouble
Best to seek out a relative's open arms.
~Author Unknown
Friends
The people you can always count on...no matter what
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
* Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
* Aristotle
Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
* Albert Camus
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
* Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
* Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way
to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can make more friends in two months by
becoming interested in other people than you can
in two years by trying to get other people
interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends
of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
(1809-1865)
A simple friend opens a conversation with a full
news bulletin on his life.real friend says, What's
new with you?
- Unknown
A simple friend doesn't know your parents' first
names. A real friend has their phone numbers in
his address book
- Unknown
Friends are God's way of taking care of us. If
you should die before me, ask if you could bring a
friend.
- Stone Temple Pilots
If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I
wouldn't jump with them, I'd be at the bottom to
catch them. Everyone hears what you say. Friends
listen to what you say. Best friends listen to
what you don't say. We all take different paths in
life, but no matter where we go, we take a little
of each other everywhere.
- Tim McGraw
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.
Before him, I may think aloud
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to
spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him
everywhere.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of
nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
If you were somebody else, would you want to be
friends with you?
- Unknown
Are we going to be friends forever? Asked Piglet.
Even longer, Pooh answered.
- A. A. Milne
Thats what ive got
These are a select handful of quotes i have found and loved...if you think i need to add more or have an idea for another catagory let me know...ill add it
