Famous (and not so famous) quotes

[TemptationEyes]

For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining, is to let it rain.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

[Texas Sunshine]

Helen Keller:
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

[waiting for lilacs]

 

     Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards." -- Unknown

[Space Cadette]

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

Barry LePatner

[waiting for lilacs]

 
    A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.
          Paul Bourget

[TemptationEyes]

oh..that's a good one ms. lilacs *s*

There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

~Edith Wharton

[Space Cadette]

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Peter McWilliams

[TemptationEyes]

One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full.  And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?"  So I drank the water.  No more problem. 

~Alexander Jodorowsky

[Space Cadette]

*laughs at TE's post*


Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

[waiting for lilacs]

 
   A smile starts on the lips, A grin spreads to the eyes, A chuckle comes from the belly; But a good laugh bursts forth from the soul, Overflows, and bubbles all around

                              Carolyn Birmingham 

[Space Cadette]

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Victor Hugo

[waiting for lilacs]

       You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

       Stephen King

[Space Cadette]

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.

Bertrand Russell

[waiting for lilacs]

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
 
Groucho Marx

[Space Cadette]

Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
 
Laurence J. Peter