Quotes

The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done. ~ Arnold Palmer

Champions aren´t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them: a desire, a dream, a vision. ~ Muhammad Ali

It is not joy that makes us grateful. It is gratitude that makes us joyful. ~ David Rast

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. ~ Will Smith

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference. ~ Jane Goodall

Love Messages and Thoughts

Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."

In my wildest dreams, you always play the hero. In my darkest hour of night, you rescue me, you save my life.

What I do and what I dream include you.

I just want to be two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

Somewhere there's someone who dreams of your smile.

Love Messages and Thoughts

He who tries to forget a woman, never loved her.  

Be nice to someone for no reason. You never know when you're going to need someone to be nice to you for no reason.

Let go of the love that has let go of you.

If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.

Love Messages and Thoughts

You can't make the same mistake twice. The second time you make it, it's no longer a mistake, it's a choice.

Sometimes you forgive people simply because you still want them in your life.

Being single does not mean no one wants you...it just means that God is busy writing your love story...

Before you talk, listen. Before you react, think. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try.

It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone and a day to love someone. But it takes a lifetime to forget someone.

Love Quotes

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person. ~ Margaret Anderson

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd but in an oblivious crowd. ~ Louis Aragon

Love is the river of life in the world. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

Oh love is real enough, you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy, and that is life. ~ Jean Anouilh Ardele

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. ~ Gilbert Chesterton

Quotes

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. ~ Harvey Fierstein

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. ~ John Powell

All of us at certain moments in our lives need to take advice and to receive help from other people. ~ Alexis Carell

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell a man is wise by his questions. ~ Mahfouz Naguib

Quotes

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. ~ Lao Tzu

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ~ Confucius

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. ~ John Burrough

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail. ~ Napoleon Hill

The purpose of life is a life of purpose. ~ Robert Byrne

Love Quotes | Valentine's Day Messages & Quotes

It's scary that someone can walk out of your life as quickly as they walked into it.

We can't be together but we will never be apart, for no matter what life brings us, you are always in my heart.

Love is when the other persons happiness means more than your own.

And sometimes, the most loving thing you can do for someone is to let him go.

Be contagious with happiness by smiling at the unknowing hearts that may not feel it otherwise.

Holding you makes my day, kissing you makes my week, loving you makes my life.

A beautiful smile never goes out of style.

Every man is afraid of something. Thats how u know he's in love with u, when he's afraid of losing u.

Falling in love, like jumping off a building. Your brain tells you, "Not a good idea" while your heart tells you, "You can fly!"

Real women are attracted to heart over looks and money.

~random sources~

Valentine's Messages | Valentine's Quotations | Love Quotes

It is easier to love than to be loved. Accept love: it will not wait at your doorstep forever.

Love, I've come to understand is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. -Nicholas Sparks

Everyday I look at you constantly, just to make sure you're not just a dream.

It sucks when you love someone you can't have, and have someone you can't love.

I always fall in love everyday...but with a same person.

A woman's heart should be so close to God that a man should have to chase Him to find her.

Any woman that thinks the way to a man's heart is through his stomach is aiming just a little too high.

I couldn't leave you even if I tried, your heart beats inside of me, like a star in the darkest night.

Life goes on. I will be strong. I'm gonna be okay. Even without you.

Be with someone who knows what they have when they have you.

~random sources~

Mother's Day Inspirational Quotes & Funny Quotes (Part 2)

There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. Chinese Proverb

Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you. Jill Bennett

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers. Harriet Beecher Stowe

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. Honore de Balzac

Anyone who doesn't miss the past never had a mother. Gregory Nunn

Men are what their mothers made them. Ralph Waldo Emerson

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement. Florida Scott-Maxwell

All mothers are working mothers.

Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love. Mildred B. Vermont

An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest. Spanish Proverb

Mother's Day Inspirational Quotes & Funny Quotes (Part 1)

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. Aristotle

No gift to your mother can ever equal her gift to you - life.

God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. Jewish Proverb

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age. William Feather

Mother - that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries. T. DeWitt Talmage

And remember that behind every successful woman......is a basket of dirty laundry.

If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family. Lawrence Housman

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. Abraham Lincoln

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

Woman in the home has not yet lost her dignity, in spite of Mother's Day, with its offensive implication that our love needs an annual nudging, like our enthusiasm for the battle of Bunker Hill. John Erskine

Funny Quotes (Part 1)

A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary.

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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always certain of themselves, but wiser people are so full of doubts!

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The termites eat up everything in the house except the worries of the house owner.

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Great minds have purposes while others have wishes.

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Good humor is not a trait of character but it is an art that requires practice.

Top 20 Things Oprah Knows for Sure (Part 4)

16. Every day brings a chance to start over.

17. Being a mother is the hardest job on earth. Women everywhere must declare it so.

18. Doubt means don't. Don't move. Don't answer. Don't rush forward.

19. When you don't know what to do, get still. The answer will come.

20. "Trouble don't last always." (A line from a Negro spiritual, which calls to mind another favorite: This, too, shall pass.)

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Source: Oprah.com

Top 20 Things Oprah Knows for Sure (Part 3)

11. Trust your instincts. Intuition doesn't lie.

12. Love yourself and then learn to extend that love to others in every encounter.

13. Let passion drive your profession.

14. Find a way to get paid for doing what you love. Then every paycheck will be a bonus.

15. Love doesn't hurt. It feels really good.

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Source: Oprah.com

Top 20 Things Oprah Knows for Sure (Part 2)

6. What you believe has more power than what you dream or wish or hope for. You become what you believe.

7. If the only prayer you ever say is thank you, that will be enough. (From the German theologian and humanist Meister Eckhart.)

8. The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.

9. Failure is a signpost to turn you in another direction.

10. If you make a choice that goes against what everyone else thinks, the world will not fall apart.

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Source: Oprah.com

Top 20 Things Oprah Knows for Sure (Part 1)

1. What you put out comes back all the time, no matter what. (This is my creed.)

2. You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script.

3. Whatever someone did to you in the past has no power over the present. Only you give it power.

4. When people show you who they are, believe them the first time. (A lesson from Maya Angelou.)

5. Worrying is wasted time. Use the same energy for doing something about whatever worries you.

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Source: Oprah.com

Jokes

A doctor and an engineer fall in love with the same pretty nurse. The engineer has to attend a seminar. “I’ll be away for a week,” the engineer tells the nurse, “and I have a present for you but don’t open it until I leave.”

When she unwrapped the gift, she found seven apples with a note: “An apple a day keeps the doctor away.”

Valentine's Day Quotations (Part 3)

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love.
- Leo Tolstoy


I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way
than this: where I does not exist nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.
- Pablo Neruda, "Love Sonnet XVII"


Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
- Dorothy Parker


Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
- Zora Neale Hurston


I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
- Alice Walker

Valentine's Day Quotations (Part 2)

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
-Helen Keller


Love has no desire but to fulfill itself.
But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires;
To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.
To know the pain of too much tenderness.
To be wounded by your own understanding of love;
And to bleed willingly and joyfully.
- Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet


Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery


Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin


Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Valentine's Day Quotations (Part 1)

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning


Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
- Aristotle


My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet


Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzu


Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
- Henry Ward Beecher