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sayings to live your life by

pichunter01 — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:54:17 +0000

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
~Author : J Donald Wlters Sayings

The race is not [always] to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.
~Author : Ecclesiastes 911 Quotes

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.
~Author : Robertson Davies Sayings

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
~Author : Charlie McCarthy Edgar Bergen Quotes

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.
~Author : George Smith Patton Jr Sayings

great life wisdom quotes

pichunter01 — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:53:13 +0000

A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
~Author : John Locke Quotes

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
~Author : Hal Borland Sayings

A good friend will fit you like ring to finger.
~Author : Venezuelan Proverb Quotes

Great ideas originate in the muscles.
~Author : Thomas Alva Edison Sayings

It’s hard to stay committed…to stay in touch with the goal without saying there’s something wrong with myself, my goal, the world.
~Author : Nancy Hogshead Quotes

meaningful life inspirational quotes

pichunter01 — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:51:16 +0000

The life of the law has not been logic but experience.
~Author : Oliver Wendell Holmes Sayings

When an American says that he loves his country, he … means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
~Author : Adlai Ewing Stevenson Quotes

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose.
~Author : Mark Twain Sayings

Why do you lead me a wild-goose chase
~Author : Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
~Author : Robert Louis Stephenson Sayings

sayings and quotes on smile

pichunter01 — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:42:21 +0000

A smile is a powerful weapon; you can even break ice with it.
~famous sayings on Smiles by Author Unknown

Peace begins with a smile.
~motivational quotations on Smiles by Mother Teresa

A chicken and an egg are lying in bed. The chicken is smoking a cigarette with a satisfied smile on its face and the egg is frowning and looking put out. The egg mutters to no one in particular, I guess we answered that question.
~wise smile sayings by Author Unknown

If you don’t start out the day with a smile, it’s not too late to start practicing for tomorrow.
~saying by Author Unknown

Great belief quotes and Wise belief sayings

pichunter01 — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:40:59 +0000

Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.
~famous sayings on Happiness by Robert S. Lynd

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
~motivational quotations on Happiness by Freya Stark, The Journey’s Echo

Having spent the better part of my life trying either to relive the past or experience the future before it arrives, I have come to believe that in between these two extremes is peace.
~wise belief sayings by Author Unknown

If you resist reading what you disagree with, how will you ever acquire deeper insights into what you believe? The things most worth reading are precisely those that challenge our convictions.
~saying by Author Unknown

Believing you know it all, will guarantee you learn nothing – and achieve even less.
~inspirational quote on Success by Nisandeh Neta

Happiness Sayings & Quotes

pichunter01 — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 07:28:40 +0000

Few are they who have never had the chance to achieve happiness, and fewer those who have never taken that chance. – Andre Maurois

It isn’t easy to be the person who sometimes has to try to preserve your happiness at the expense of your fun. – Margaret Culkin Banning

Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life. If I had to give a piece of advice to a young man about a place to live, I think I should say, ‘Sacrifice almost everything to live where you can be near your friends.’ I know I am very fortunate in that respect. [Letters to Arthur Greeves] – C. S. Lewis

We wait all these years to find someone who understands us, I thought, someone who accepts us as we are, someone with a wizard’s power to melt stone to sunlight, who can bring us happiness in spite of trials, who can face our dragons in the night, who can transform us into the soul we choose to be. Just yesterday I found that magical Someone is the face we see in the mirror: It’s us and our homemade masks. – Richard David Bach

Age Sayings & Quotes

pichunter01 — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 07:27:46 +0000

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again. – William James

I don’t believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates. – T. S. Eliot

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul. – Andre Maurois

We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into legs for terrestrial creatures; because the earth never froze entirely during an ice age; because a small and tenuous species, arising in Africa a quarter of a million years ago, has managed, so far, to survive by hook and by crook. We may yearn for a ‘higher’ answer-but none exists. – Stephen Jay Gould

retirement sayings & quotations

pichunter01 — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 07:26:55 +0000

The challenge of retirement is how to spend time without spending money
~retirement quotes by Author Unknown

Retirement is the ugliest word in the language
~famous quotes about Retirement by Ernest Hemingway

Don’t simply retire from something; have something to retire to
~retirement sayings by Harry Emerson Fosdick

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness
~retirement sayings by William Wordsworth

You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely
~inspirational sayings about Retirement quotes by Author Unknown

sayings live your life quotes

pichunter01 — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:29:57 +0000

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it. – Seneca

Hast thou attempted greatness? Then go on; Back-turning slackens resolution. – Robert Herrick

I don’t confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is-the higher achievement. – Lois McMaster Bujold

Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve. – Les Brown

Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it. – Amelia E. Barr

Self-Respect Sayings & Quotes

pichunter01 — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:07:28 +0000

Lots of real creeps have self-respect. They just have a creepy version of it. [A Savage Place] – Robert Parker

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honour, beneath which are shielded and defended a people’s safety and greatness. – Leroy Eldridge Cleaver

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough. – Gail Sheehy

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man’s self-respect is a sin. – Antoine De Saint-Exupery