Har Borland – trees and grass
“Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.” ~Har Borland
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Fried Green Tomatoes – friends
“You just remind me of what’s really important in life, friends, best friends.” ~Fried Green Tomatoes
Robert J. Hastings – true joy of life
“Sooner or later we must realize there is no station, no one place to arrive at once and for all. The true joy of life …
Dennis Prager – happy and grateful
“All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to complain, but it’s truer to …
Rupert Brooke – lovely grass
“Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.” ~Rupert Brooke
Peter Max – canvas
“I never know what I’m going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I’m just the middleman.” ~Peter Max
Alan King – nature’s way
“Marriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.” ~Alan King
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy – like gold
“If you want to be happy, be.” ~Leo Tolstoy “Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from …
Judy Garland – into my heart
“For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.” ~Judy Garland
Charles Stanley – loving arms
“He wants you all to Himself to put His loving, divine arms around you.” ~Charles Stanley
Nathaniel Hawthorne – inspire love
“Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.” ~Nathaniel Hawthorne
Leibniz – propositions
“It is a good thing to proceed in order and to establish propositions. This is the way to gain ground and to progress with certainty.” …
Sir Thomas Browne – pebbles
“Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.” ~Sir Thomas Browne
Luisa Sigea – fire
“Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.” ~Luisa Sigea
Edmund Waller – wpser
“Stronger by weakness wiser men become.” ~Edmund Waller, 17th cent English poet
Gordon Livingston – logic
“It is difficult to remove by logic, an idea not placed there by logic in the first place.” ~Gordon Livingston
Bauers – prelude to victory
“I have a friend who once said that what we think of as disaster and calamity is often God’s prelude to a mighty victory. After …
Bern Williams – talent
“Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.” ~Bern Williams
Orison Swett Marden – child of drudgery
“Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.” ~Orison Swett Marden
Mary Heaton Vorse – writing
“The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.” ~Mary Heaton Vorse
Louise Berliawsky – strength
“True strength is delicate.” ~Louise Berliawsky
John Updike – art
“What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.” ~John Updike
John Ruskin Quotes
“A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.” ~John Ruskin, 1819-1900, English Author/Poet/Artist Popular search terms:thought …
Ryan Stevenson – perfection
“Perfection is no exaggeration.” ~Ryan Stevenson
Nolan Bushnell – shower
“Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something …
Cornelius Tacitus – frankness and generosity
“He had a certain frankness and generosity, qualities indeed, which turn to a man’s ruin unless tempered with discretion.” ~Cornelius Tacitus
Oliver Cromwell – stop
“He who stops being better, stops being good.” ~Oliver Cromwell
John Irving – writer
“The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn’t behave that way …
Bill Keane – hugs
“They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything” ~Bill Keane
Anne Dillard – courage
“You can’t test courage cautiously.” ~Anne Dillard
George Burns – something you love
“I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.” ~George Burns
Vincent Cassel – You
“The only person standing in your way is you.” ~Vincent Cassel
Love Quotes
“Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.” ~Peter Ustinov “Love is metaphysical gravity.” ~R. Buckminster Fuller “Love is …
Francie Larrieu Smith – goal
“The most important thing about motivation is goal setting. You should always have a goal.” ~Francie Larrieu Smith on Motivation
David Ulin – language
“We possess books we read, animating the waiting stillness of their language, but they possess us also, filling us with thoughts and observations, asking us …
Alice Roosevelt Longworth – youth
“The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.” ~Alice Roosevelt Longworth
James Gordon – willpower
“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
Thought for Today – Timeless Beauty
“Learn to go beyond words into silence, sit with your innermost self and experience the nourishing, timeless beauty of peace.” ~Thought for Today-UK
"A mind with thoughts and ideas is like a search engine on a computer. But, You must type them in order to get results." – Eric Longoria
“A mind with thoughts and ideas is like a search engine on a computer. But, You must type them in order to get results.” – …
Emily Hilburn Sell – force
“Love is a force that connects us to every strand of the universe, an unconditional state that characterizes human nature, a form of knowledge that …