Famous Quotes

"Whatever you are, be a good one."

"First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you."

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

"For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day.For poise, walk with the knowledge you’ll never walk alone....We leave you a tradition with a future.The tender loving care of human beings will never become obsolete.People even more than things have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed and redeemed and redeemed.Never throw out anybody.Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm.As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands: one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.Your “good old days” are still ahead of you, may you have many of them."

"Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present."

"Peace begins with a smile.."

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway."

"I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time."

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!"

"Well-behaved women seldom make history."

"You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love."

"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares."

"It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting."

"A person's a person, no matter how small."

"What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain."

"It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then."

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

"And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it."

"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one."

"So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be."