Post 100 quotes that I like for whatever reason!

66. “You have to have a little risk in you to have success. People who are overly cautious probably don’t find out who they are, or what they can do.”

67.”My freedom to throw a punch stops at the tip of your nose.”

68.”Any certain moment in your life is greater when its shared.”

59. “Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each thinking about living each day in grief.” C.S. Lewis

60. “There has never been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.” Theodore Roosevelt

61. ”...Life ain’t always beautiful, but its a beautiful ride. The struggles make me stronger, the changes make me wise, and happiness has a way of taking its sweet time…” Gary Allen

62. “Dreams are the whispers that fill your head… they dance in the light of words unsaid… you build on them, on many a sleepless night… but tuck them away, come broad day light… you lock them away but they hold the key… to being who you truly should be….”

63. “Somehow I can’t believe that there are any heights that can’t be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four c’s. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and consistancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.” Walt Disney

64. “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, i’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over nad over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” Michael Jordan

65. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.” Henry David Thoreau

56. “Love is passion. Obsession. Someone you can’t live without. Someone you fall head over heels for. Find someone you can love like crazy, and will love you the same way back. Listen to your heart. No sense in life without this. To make the journey without falling deeply in love, you haven’t lived a life at all. You have to try, because if you haven’t tried, then you haven’t lived.” from the movie Meet Joe Black

57. “This is your life; and its ending one minute at a time.” Tyler Durden from the movie Fight Club

58. “It is a good idea to follow The First Law of Holes: if you’re in one, stop digging.” Denis Healy

50. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. so throw off the bow lines, sail away from the safe harbor. catch the tradeqinds in your sails. explore, dream, discover.” Mark Twain

51. “All of our dreams come true if we have the courage to pursue them!” Walt Disney

52. “You have to think big to be big.” Claude M Bristol

53. “If one advances confidently in the direction of one’s dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” Henry David Thoreau

54. “Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan “Press on” has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” Calvin Coolidge

55.”What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” Oliver Wendall

The following quotes do not actually count towards my goal of 100. But I think some of them are pretty funny so I am sharing! :) I really like the Barbie one!

I got this email from a friend and it SO made me laugh!

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If you’re not familiar with the work of Steven Wright, he’s the famous scientist who once said:

“I woke up one morning and all of my stuff had been stolen…and replaced by exact duplicates.”

His mind sees things differently than we do, to our amazement and amusement. Here are some more of his gems:

1- I’d kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.
2- Borrow money from pessimists – they don’t expect it back.
3- Half the people you know are below average.
4- 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
5- 42.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
6- A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.
7- A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
8- If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
9- All those who believe in psycho-kinesis, raise my hand.
10- The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
11- I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met.
12- OK, so what’s the speed of dark?
13- How do you tell when you’re out of invisible ink?
14- If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
15- Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
16- When everything is coming your way, you’re in the wrong lane.
17- Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.
18- Hard work pays off in the future, laziness pays off now.
19- I intend to live forever—so far, so good.
20- If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?
21- Eagles may soar, but weasels don’t get sucked into jet engines.
22- What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
23- My mechanic told me, “I couldn’t repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.”
24- Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?
25- If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
26- A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
27- Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.
28- The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread.
29- To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
30- The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.
31- The sooner you fall behind, the more time you’ll have to catch up.
32- The colder the x-ray table, the more of your body is required to be on it.
33- Everyone has a photographic memory, some just don’t have film!

“Love should never make a beggar out of anyone. i wouldnt want love if I had to beg for it, to barter or qualify for it. And I should despise it if anyone begged for my love. Love is something that must be given- it can’t be bought with words or pity or even reason.”

31. “Let your soul stand ajar, always ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.” Emily Dickinson

32. “of all things which we have, next to the gods; our souls are them most divine and most truly our own.” Plato

33. “For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.” Ivan Panin

34. “It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and when we no longer know whoch way to go, we have begun our real journey.” Wendell Berry

35. “When you put yourself wholeheartedly into something, energy grows. It seems inexhaustible.” Helen De Rosis

36. “One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world’s end somewhere, and holds fast to the days, as to fortune or fame.” Willa Carter

37. “The world connects not by molecules. It connects through ideas, hopes, faces, dreams, actions, stories, and memories.” Barbie Sandord Greiff

38. “At the heart of each of us, whatever our imperfections, there exists a silent pulse of perfect rhythm, which is absolutely individual and unique, and yet which connects us to everything else.” George Leonard

39. ”...it is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.” Brother David Steindlrast

40. “Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.” Margaret Fuller

41. “Oh for the wonder that bubbles into my soul.” DH Lawrence

42. “If you pay attention at every moment, you form a new relationship to time. In some magical way, by slowing down, you become more efficient, productive, and energetic, focusing without distraction directly on the task in front of you. Not only do you become immersed in the moment, you become that moment.” Michael Ray

43. “In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.” Leonard Da Vinci

44. “Great ideas…come into the world as gently as doves…if we listen attentively, we shall hear, amid the uproar…a faint flutter of wings, the gently stirring of life and hope.” Albert Camus

45. “We are boundless creatures.” Kobi Yamada

46. “I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, sand diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.” Sir Isaac Newton

47. “Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.” Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

48. “When we face the worst that can happen in any situation, we grow. When circumstances are at their worst, we can find our best.” Elisabeth Hubler-Ross

13. “True love stories never have endings.” Richard Bach

14. “Beneath the makeup & behind the smile, I’m just a girl who wishes for the world.” Marilyn Monroe

15. “No man is worth your tears, and when you find the man who is, he’ll never make you cry.” Anonymous

16. “Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn’t permanent.” Jean Kerr

17. “Responsibility is the price fo freedom.” Elbert Hubbard

18. “Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.” Dr. Laura Schlessinger

19. “Sometimes things can go right only be first going wrong.” Edward Tenner

20. “THe trick is what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.” Carlos Castaneda

21. “We see things as we are not as they are.” Jennifer Stone

22. “I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.” JB Preistly

23. “The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.” Barbara Kingsolver

24. “Every day is my best day: this is my life. I’m not going to have this moment again.” Bernie Siegel

25. “Life is paradise for those who love many things with a passion.” Leo Buscagalia

26. “It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.” Charles H. Spurgeon

27. “Be careful if you make a woman cry, because God counts her tears. The woman came out of a man’s rib. Not from his feet to be walked on. Not from his head to be superior. But from the side to be equal, Under the arm to be protected, and next to the heart to be loved.”

28. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, the, is a habit.” Socrates

29. “Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not invite us to have them.” John Updike

30. “Once you have learned to love, you have learned to live.”

9. “Life is so much more complicated when you aren’t doing good” Thomas S. Monson

10. “When you are a Birthmother, you experience many losses, not just one big loss at the beginning. It is a string of losses; all tied together.” Joey Steele

11. “I have a conviction deep down in my heart that we are EXACTLY what we should be, each one of us… I have convinced myself that we all have those peculiar attributes, characteristics and abilities which are essential for us to possess in order that we may fulfill the full purpose of our creation here upon the earth…. ....that allotment which has come to us from God is a sacred allotment. It is something of which we should be proud, each one of us in our own right, and not wish that we had somebody else’s allotment. Our greatest success comes from being ourselves.” Henry Moyle

12. “A Birthmother puts the needs of her child above the wants of her heart.” Skye Hardwick

1. “I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn’t matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together.” Julia Roberts

2. “We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which may say something significant.” Alfred Eisenstaedt

3. “Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure.” Meister Eckhart

4. “In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.” Thomas Carlyle

5. “Excellence means when a man or a woman asks of himself more than others do.” Jose Ortega y Gasset

6. “The greatest wealth is to live content with little” Plato

7. “The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things” Epictetus

8. “Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods” Plato