Saturday, July 05, 2008

quotes I like right now

"I am thankful for the mess to clean after a party because it means I have been surrounded by friends." — Nancie J. Carmody

"Every day may not be good, but there's something good in every day." — Anonymous

"What flatterers say, try to make true." — German Proverb

"At every party there are two kinds of people — those who want to go home and those who don’t. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other." — Ann Landers

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet." — James Oppenheim

"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials." — Lin Yutang

"Forgo your anger for a moment and save yourself a hundred days of trouble." — Chinese proverb

"You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving." — Anonymous

"If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?" — Dogen

"One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it." — Sidney Howard

"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves." — Victor Frankl

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

"The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live." — Flora Whittemore

"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit." — Aristotle

"To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever." — Henry Drummond

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." — Henry David Thoreau

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