Archives - August 2001 Quotes

There are two insults no human will endure.
The assertion that he has no sense of
humor and the doubly impertinent assertion
that he has never known trouble.
( authors: Sinclair Lewis )

The opposite of talking isn't listening.
The opposite of talking is waiting.
( authors: Fran Lebowicz )

If only we could have two lives:
the first in which to make one's mistakes,
which seem as if they have to be made;
and the second in which to profit by them.
( authors: DH Lawrence )

It is the mark of great people to treat trifles
as trifles and important matters as important.
( authors: Doris Lessing )

Well has it been said that there is no grief
like the grief which does not speak.
( author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow )

There must be a happy medium somewhere between
being totally informed and blissfully unaware.
( authors: Doug Larson )

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just
show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come.
You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.
( authors: Anne Lamott )

Love is a force. It is not a result; it is a cause.
It is not a product; it produces.
It is a power, like money or steam or electricity.
( authors: Anne Morrow Lindbergh )

Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character,
give him power.
( authors: Abraham Lincoln )

Even a paranoid can have enemies.
( authors: Henry Kissinger )

He who angers you conquers you.
( authors: Elizabeth Kenny )

People are like stained-glass windows.
They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty
is revealed only if there is a light from within.
( author: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross )

I discovered I always have choices and
sometimes it's only a choice of attitude.
( authors: Judith M Knowlton )

Luck is a dividend of sweat.
The more you sweat,
the luckier you get.
( authors: Ray Kroc )

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
( authors: Helen Keller )

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure
of darkness, and the word happy would lose its
meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far
better take things as they come along
with patience and equanimity.
( authors: Carol Gustav Jung )

Slow down, simplify and be kind.
( authors: Naomi Judd )

Common sense and a sense of humor are
the same thing, moving at different speeds.
A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
( authors: Clive James )

Some people are so fond of ill-luck
that they run half-way to meet it.
( authors: Douglas Jerrold )

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive?
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why
people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting
for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble
is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
( author: Erica Jong )

Adversity is the state in which
man mostly easily becomes
acquainted with himself, being
especially free of admirers then.
( authors: Samuel Johnson )

True happiness consists not in the multitude of
friends but in the worth and choice.
( authors: Ben Johnson )

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life
you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
( author: John Irving )

The first rule of holes: when
you're in one, stop digging.
( author: Molly Ivins )

Happiness is not a reward --
it is a consequence.
Suffering is not a punishment --
it is a result.
( authors: Robert Ingersoll )

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are
loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
( authors: Victor Hugo )

If you hate a person, you hate something in
him that is part of yourself. What isn't
part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
(authors: Herman Hesse )

I've found that every time you
stand up for something and open
your mouth, you alienate someone.
( authors: Woody Harrelson )