Start a book of quotes that inspire me

“You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
- Christopher Columbus

“Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting”
- Elizabeth Bibesco

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present.”
- B. Olatunji

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
- Confucious

“Many of life’s failures are people who had not realized how close they were to success when they gave up.”
- Thomas A Edison

“Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys it.” – Eliza Tabor

The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be. -Fred G. Gosman

~ Never fear shadows…. that always means there is a light shining somewhere. ~
share this One liners saying Jonathan Santos

Passionate love is a quenchless thirst.
Kahlil Gibran.

People love others not for who they are,
but for how they make them feel.
Irwin Federman.

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

A successful man is one who can build a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.

David Brinkley
1920 — 2003

Success in life comes not from having the right cards, but from playing bad ones properly.

Joshua Dool

Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently.

Henry Ford
1863 — 1947

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

Love is not blind – it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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

Lao Tzu

I’d like to run away
From you,
But if you didn’t come
And find me …
I would die.
~ by Shirley Bassey ~

I love you – those three words have my life in them.
~ by Alexandrea to Nicholas III ~

Other men said they have seen angels,
But I have seen thee
And thou art enough.
~ by G. Moore ~

When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
~ by Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) ~

Seduce my mind and you can have my body,
Find my soul and I’m yours forever.
~ by Anonymous ~

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates (469 BC – 399 BC), in Plato, Dialogues, Apology

Oh what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practice to deceive!
Sir Walter Scott (1771 – 1832), Marmion, Canto vi. Stanza 17.

Eye contact is the best accessory.
Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005

Eye contact is the best accessory…...oh how true that is.

I found this today thanks to Wildlywealthy, who has as a goal to live by this quote. I hope they don’t mind that I stole it. :}

In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip. ~Daniel L. Reardon

A couple more I found…...

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn’t see the clouds at all – he’s walking on them. ~Leonard Louis Levinson

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser – in case you thought optimism was dead. ~Robert Brault

Now to go and have a positive day…..even though I have to work on a Saturday…....

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.
~Henry Beecher, Life Thoughts, 1858

Earth laughs in flowers.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson,