Favourite Quotes and Quotations

Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings. - Victor Hugo Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life. - Ralph Waldo Emerson The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts ... take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. - Marcus Aurelius Autumn to winter, winter into spring. Spring, into summer, summer into fall, - So rolls the changing year, and so we change; -Motion so swift, we know not that we move. - Dinah Mulock Craik To them that ask, where have you seen the Gods, or how do you know for certain there are Gods, that you are so devout in their worship? I answer: Neither have I ever seen my own soul, and yet I respect and honor it. - Marcus Aurelius

In honor of Dr Seuss' birthday:

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“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”

-Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You'll Go!

I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered.
But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalog: -
'No good in a bed, but fine against a wall.'
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

A friend of mine says that every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
- Woodrow Wilson

'Gossip is the Devil's radio.'

- George Harrison

"Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinion drowned your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."

-Steve Jobs

The reason grandparents and grandchildren
get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
~ Sam Levenson

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
- Alfred Adler

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
- Thomas Hardy

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
- Josh Billings

Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.
Alfred Austin

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
- Thomas Carlyle

“I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.”

- Chaim Potok, The Chosen