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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

- Emerson

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

- Aesop

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

- Ancient Proverb

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.

- Anonymous

Everything happens for a reason.

- American Proverb

The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well!

- Ancis

Friendship is when people know all about you but like you anyway.

- Anonymous

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the number of moments that take our breath away.

- Anonymous

May your days be good and long upon the earth.

- Apache Blessing

There is nothing on this earth to be prized more than true friendship...

- Aquinas

This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes... rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you are in doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, love to complete your life

- Anonymous

May the sun bring you new energy by day may the moon softly restore you by night, may the rain wash away your worries, may the breeze blow new strength into your being, may you walk gently through the world and know its beauty all the days of your life.

- Apache Blessing

When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

- Marcus Aurelius

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

- Bruce Barton

Discover what you are.

- Henry Ward Beecher

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour. Happy Birthday.

- Blake

Gratitude is the fairest blossom
- Beecher

Behold this day for it is yours to make.

- Black Elk

May you always have enough happiness to keep you sweet enough trials to keep you strong; enough success to keep you eager; enough faith to give you courage; enough determination to make each day a good day.

- Blessing

Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

May good fortune be your constant companion.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!

- Robert Browning

May your life be crowded with unexpected joys.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

May your dreams defy the laws of gravity…

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach, when feeling out of sight...

- Browning

The best is yet to be!

- Robert Browning

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

- Buddha

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

- Leo Buscaglia

"There is no use trying," said Alice...
..."one can't believe impossible things." "I dare say you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

- Lewis Carroll

Believe there are no limits but the sky.

- Cervantes

Celebrate who you are. Happy Birthday!

- Sara Chatwin

A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.
Thank you.

- Chinese Proverb

Time ripens all things.

- Cervantes

I stood on tiptoe gazing into the distance, interminably gazing at the road that had taken you...
I miss you.

- Chi'in Chia's Wife

Remember what is important to you.

- Chinese Saying

Make some corner of the world distinctively yours.

- Chinese Saying

If you're going through hell, keep going...

- Churchill

Fool! Don't you see now that I could have posioned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you!

- Cleopatra VII

The standards were high and you met them.

- Chinese Saying

Never never never give up

- Churchill

The magic moment is that in which a "yes" or a "no" may change the whole of our existence…

- Coelho

Do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.

- Admiral Collingwood

Now is the time to live your ideal life.

- Cousineau

miracles are to come

- Cummings

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.

- Confucius

There isn't a particle of you that I don't know, remember, and want.

- Coward

When there are no words know that the silences are carrying the thoughts and prayers of all who love you.

- Dawn Dais

That was a memorable day for me, for it made great changes in me.
but it is the same way with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns and flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.

- Charles Dickens

We turn not older with years, but new every day.

- Emily Dickinson

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of things left unsaid...

- Dostoevsky

To the young at heart, everything is fun!

- Dickens

Dwell in possibility...

- Emily Dickinson.

The little things are infinitely the most important.

- Doyle

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

- Thomas Edison

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

- T.S. Eliot

Finish each day and be done with it.
You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

- Emerson

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

- Einstein

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

- George Eliot

Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail..

- Emerson

Scatter joy!

- Emerson

To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by healthy child, a garden patch… to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!

- Emerson

Hitch your wagon to a star...Birthday Wishes!

- Emerson

To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light...

- Emerson

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

- Emerson

Nothing is too wonderful to be true.

- Faraday

Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.
Thank you.

- Frankfurter

Gratitude is the heart's memory.

- French Proverb

Good clothes open all doors.

- Fuller

Keep in the sunlight.

- Franklin

The best way is alway through.

- Robert Frost

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it,
can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

- Galileo

Be the change you wish to see in the world.

- Gandhi

Dare to be remarkable.

- Jane Gentry

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, Begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.

- Goethe

The spirit never grows old. Happy Birthday.

- James Garfield

We should not let the grass grow on the path of friendship.

- Geoffrin

To know someone with whom you can feel there is understanding...
...in spite of distances or thoughts unexpressed...That can make this life a garden.

- Goethe

Nothing is worth more than this day.

- Goethe

At one glance I love you with a thousand hearts.

- Mihri Hatun

Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty.

- Anne Herbert

Who can leap the world's ties and sit with me among the white clouds?

- Han Shan

To enjoy the flavor of life take big bites.

- Robert Heinlein

Babies are such a nice way to start people.

- Don Herold

Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score then to that twenty, add a hundred more; a thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, to make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun!

- Robert Herrick

If I know what love is, it is because of you.

- Hesse

May the road rise to meet you, may the wind always be at your back,
may the sun shine warm upon your face, may the rains fall softly upon your fields...

- Irish Blessing

To look for an answer, a solution to the ever-puzzling riddles that confront us: that is our responsibility, our curse, and our blessing.

- Stuart M. Hess

Always have old memories, and young hopes.

- Houssaye

May your troubles be less, and your blessings be more and nothing but happiness come through your door!

- Irish Blessing

Wherever you are, It's your friends who make your world...

- William James

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

- Jung

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.

- Keller

Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks!

- Johnson

Listen to your heart above all other voices.

- Marta Kagan

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

- Keller

Dream of things that never were...

- John F. Kennedy

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

- Omar Khayyam

Sometimes when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.

- Lamartine

The only people for me are the mad ones the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.

- Jack Kerouac

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been!

- L'Engle

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

- Lao Tzu

Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your piece of mind. Look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true. Think only of the best, work only for the best, and expect only the best. Forget the mistakes of the past and press onto the greater achievements of the future. Give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others. Live in the faith that the whole world is on your side so long as you are true to the best that is in you!

- Christian D. Larson

What? You too? I thought I was the only one!

- C.S. Lewis

Whatever you are, be a good one.

- Abraham Lincoln

Dream your dreams with open eyes and make them come true.

- Lawrence

It's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years.

- Lincoln

Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!

- Longfellow

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

- Lowell

You are pure potential.

- Martin De Maat

Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.

- Cadet Maxim

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

- Martin Luther

Barn's burnt down, now I can see the moon.

- Masahide

I am still learning...

- Michelangelo

Some people walk in the rain... others just get wet...

- Roger Miller

Peace begins with a smile.

- Mother Teresa

May your life be like a wildflower...growing freely in the beauty and joy of each day.

- Native American Proverb

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

- Henry Miller

You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.

- Nash

Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

- Niebuhr

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

- Nietzsche

Life should not only be lived, it should be celebrated!

- Osho

We do not remember the days, we remember the moments.

- Pavese

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

- Anais Nin

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

- Paige

It takes a long time to become young.
Happy Birthday.

- Picasso

Love generously Praise loudly Live fully.

- Porter

Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. laugh. choose with no regret. continue to learn. appreciate your friends. do what you love. live as if this is all there is.

- Radmacher

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Thank you.

- Proust


Begin each day as if it were on purpose.

- Radmacher


Whom we love best, to them we can say the least...

- John Ray


The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

- Eleanor Roosevelt


The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

- Eleanor Roosevelt


Ever so many happy returns of the day! Happy Birthday!

- Franklin Delano Roosevelt


You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face... do the thing you think you cannot do.

- Eleanor Roosevelt


Yesterday is history, tomorrow is mystery... today is a gift.

- Eleanor Roosevelt


Do one thing every day that scares you.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Today, well lived, every yesterday a memory of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.

- Sanskrit Proverb

Each day comes bearing its own gifts...untie the ribbons! Happy Birthday!

- Ruth Ann Schabacker

Do what you can where you are with what you have.

- Theodore Roosevelt

The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms...

- George Santayana

Thank you for being.

- Seneca Greeting

Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?

- William Shakespeare

Evermore thanks.

- Shakespeare


Though the body moves, the soul may stay behind...

- Shikibu

The course of true love never did run smooth...

- William Shakespeare

Go for long walks, indulge in hot baths, question your assumptions, be kind to yourself, live for the moment, loosen up, scream, curse the world, count your blessings, just let go, just be.

- Carol Shields

Dance as though no one is watching you, love as though you have never been hurt before, sing as though no one can hear you, live as though heaven is on earth.

- Souza

Happiness is a journey, not a destination.
For a long time it seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. This perspective has helped me to see there is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way. So treasure every moment you have and remember that time waits for no one.

- Souza

May you live all the days of your life...Happy Birthday!

- Jonathan Swift

In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.

- Thoreau

Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; love more, and all good things will be yours.

- Swedish Proverb

Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, "Grow, grow."

- The Talmud


Do not be too moral. You might cheat yourself out of much life. aim high above morality. Be not simply good. Be good for something.

- Thoreau

To all the days here and after, may they be filled with fond memories, happiness and laughter!

- Toast


Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you're imagined.

- Thoreau


Age is a question of mind over matter, if you don't mind, it doesn't matter!
Happy Birthday!

- Unknown

This too shall pass.

- Unknown


Life does not put things in front of you that you are unable to handle.

- Unknown

Your friendship is a special gift, generously given, happily accepted, and deeply appreciated!

- Unknown

Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.

- Unknown

To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.

- Unknown

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

- Unknown

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?

- Unknown

Be yourself. There is something that you can do better than any other. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that.

- Unknown

Peace. It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart.

- Unknown

I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of stars makes me dream.

- Van Gogh

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

- Unknown

Be glad of life, because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars; to be satisfied with your possessions; to despise nothing in the world except falsehood and meanness, and to fear nothing except cowardice; to be governed by your admirations rather than by your disgusts; to covet nothing that is your neighbor's except his kindness of heat and gentleness of manners; to think seldom of your enemies, often of your friends…and to spend as much time as you can, with body and with spirit. These are little guideposts on the footpath to peace.

- Henry van Dyke

Hello, babies. Welcome to earth.

- Kurt Vonnegut

If you are going to doubt something, doubt your limits.

- Don Ward

The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual - namely to you. Happy birthday!

- Walt Whitman

Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult

- Whitton

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!

- West

This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun and the animals. despite riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning god, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss what ever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great peom...

- Walt Whitman

Pleasure is the only thing to live for. nothing ages like happiness.
Happy birthday!

- Oscar Wilde

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

- Oscar Wilde

Walk in the rain, smell flowers, stop along the way. build sandcastles, go on field trips, find out how things work, tell stories, say the magic words, trust the universe.

- Bruce Williamson

Leap and the net will appear.

- Zen saying

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

- Marianne Williamson

You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and acheivement. You are here to enrich the world.

- Wilson

If you can walk, you can dance. If you can talk, you can sing!

- Zimbabwe Proverb

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

- Leonard da Vinci



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posted by: m. diane
on: Mar 2, 07 5:20 pm

:)

thanks for bringing sunshine into my life with these quotes.

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posted by: H. Gordon Havens
on: May 13, 05 1:49 pm

You have the ear of a poet. Thanks for a bouquet of beautiful quotations, the best I've enjoyed in quite awhile.

"By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent." --RALPH WALDO EMERSON, US essayist, 1803—82

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