List 100 quotes I like

”`Keep your temper,’ said the Caterpillar.

`Is that all?’ said Alice, swallowing down her anger as well as she could.

`No,’ said the Caterpillar.

Alice thought she might as well wait, as she had nothing else to do, and perhaps after all it might tell her something worth hearing. For some minutes it puffed away without speaking, but at last it unfolded its arms, took the hookah out of its mouth again, and said, `So you think you’re changed, do you?’

`I’m afraid I am, sir,’ said Alice; `I can’t remember things as I used—and I don’t keep the same size for ten minutes together!’”

”`Who are you?’ said the Caterpillar.

This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, `I-I hardly know, sir, just at present- at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.’

`What do you mean by that?’ said the Caterpillar sternly. `Explain yourself!’

`I can’t explain myself, I’m afraid, sir’ said Alice, `because I’m not myself, you see.’

`I don’t see,’ said the Caterpillar.

`I’m afraid I can’t put it more clearly,’ Alice replied very politely, `for I can’t understand it myself to begin with; and being so many different sizes in a day is very confusing.’ “

(Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland)

22. You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

23. A shy failure is nobler than an immodest success.

24. We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

25. I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

26. When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

27. Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

28. An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.

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

13. Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.
Mac McCleary

14. Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.
Lord Chesterfield

15. Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that.
Michael Leunig

16. Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.
Emily Kimbrough

17.I felt it shelter to speak to you.
Emily Dickinson

18. Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust

19. Sometimes I wish I were a little kid again, skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts.
Author Unknown

“Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.” – Mark Twain

“The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.” – Mark Twain

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
George Bernard Shaw

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.
Ivy Baker Priest

If you’re going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.
Garrison Keillor

When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something’s suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.
Barbara Bloom

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.
Max Lerner, The Unfinished Country, 1950

“The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.”
- H.T. Leslie

I read a letter I wrote to myself a year ago. My expectations didn’t come true, but I’m doing the best I can with what I have.

Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.
(Muhammad Ali)