Famous people quotes-Great

Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain

Daily quotes-Starting point

The starting point of all achievement is desire.
- Napoleon Hill

Marriage quotes-Passionate friends

Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of becoming passionate friends.
- Harville Hendrix

Thought for the day-Proactive

Most of us love, to be sure. Yet far too often our love is passive. We must be proactive in our love in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson

Famous people quotes-Maxims and quotations

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
- George Eliot

Sex education at school

Now, if groups like Moral Majority have their way, there won't be any sex education at school, and our kids will be the dumbest in the world when it comes to sex. But our parents are sexually retarded too. Fear and primitive morals are creating a sexual pressure-cooker in this country and soon the top will blow. Only in the U.S. do we find children drawing a picture of a baby coming from the clouds or from under a cabbage leaf.
- Floyd Martinson

Dance in the rain

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass,
It's about learning to Dance in the Rain.
- Vivian Greene

The best time to buy stock

The best time to buy anything is last year.
- M Allen, Stock Market Timing

Philosophical quotes-illustrations

Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.
- Marsha Norman

Nearsighted

The best thing that can happen to a couple married for fifty years or more is that they both grow nearsighted together.
- Linda Fiterman

Deep thoughts-Full measure of a man

The full measure of a man is not to be found in the man himself, but in the colors and textures that come alive in others because of him.
- Albert Schweitzer

Famous people quotes-Stumbling on

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
- Jane Austen

Hilarious quotes-Outdoor type

"I'm the outdoor type. As soon as a woman mentions commitment, I'm out the door."
- Scott E. Roeben

Motivational thoughts-Tomorrow is ours

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
- Lyndon B. Johnson

Famous people quotes-Paradoxical

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
- George Eliot

Thought for the day-Experience

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
- Albert Camus

Deep thoughts-Happiness

Being angry harms your physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
- Zhuangzi

Torah

That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow.
That is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation.
- Talmud (Jewish Wisdom)

Sarcastic quotes-Terrible cook

"My girlfriend is a terrible cook. She thinks bouillabaisse is a place where Marines train."
- Scott E. Roeben

Famous people quotes-Guarantee

If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
- Clint Eastwood

Invincible host

Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller

Hilarious quotes-Marshmallow

"Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone."
- Tommy Cooper

Deep thoughts-In my dream

Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
- C.S. Lewis

Honorary position

In some countries being president is just an honorary position - like being a husband in Hollywood.
- Earl Wilson

Thought for the day-Between two evils

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.
- Mae West

Thoughts-The Empty Soap Box

One of the most memorable case studies on Japanese management was the case of the empty soap box, which happened in one of Japan's biggest cosmetics companies. The company received a complaint that a consumer had bought a soap box that was empty.

Immediately the authorities isolated the problem to the assembly line, which transported all the packaged boxes of soap to the delivery department. For some reason, one soap box went through the assembly line empty.

Management asked its engineers to solve the problem. Post-haste, the engineers worked hard to devise an X-ray machine with high- resolution monitors manned by two people to watch all the soap boxes that passed through the line to make sure they were not empty.

No doubt, they worked hard and they worked fast but they spent whoopee amount to do so. But when a workman was posed with the same problem, did not get into complications of X-rays, etc but instead came out with another solution.

He bought a strong industrial electric fan and pointed it at the assembly line. He switched the fan on, and as each soap box passed the fan, it simply blew the empty boxes out of the line.

Moral of the story: Always look for simple solutions. Devise the simplest possible solution that solves the problem. So, learn to focus on solutions not on problems. "If you look at what you do not have in life, you don't have anything; if you look at what you have in life, you have everything.

Motivational thoughts-Led

Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.
- Calvin & Hobbes

Sarcastic quotes-The music business

'The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.'
- Hunter S. Thompson

Deep thoughts-The luxury of giving

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
- George Eliot

Positive quotes-Fullness of life

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
- Melody Beattie

Famous people quotes-Absence

Absence makes the heart go yonder.
- Robert Byrne

Thought for the day-Judging

Hilarious quotes-Deal with the IRS

"Deal with the IRS? Frankly, I'd rather mistake two rectal thermometers for chopsticks."
- Scott E. Roeben

Really happy

One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer

Deep thoughts-Mirror of the soul

Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he.
- Publilius Syrus

Sarcastic quotes-Cursed

'Women are cursed, and men are the proof.'
- Rosanne Barr.

What a woman thinks of her husband

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
- H.L. Mencken, A Book of Burlesques, 1916

Humor quotes-Despair

If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.
- Robert Graves

Famous people quotes-Idleness

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Positive quotes-Hoped for

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not;
remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
- Epicurus

Hilarious quotes-Grandmother's motto

"My grandmother's motto is: I complain, therefore I am."
- Scott E. Roeben

Inspirational quotes-With courage

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Daily quotes-Discriminated

I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today. Why should unmarried women be discriminated against - unmarried men are not.
- Dinah Shore

Humor quotes-First man

"I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell my children that, they just about throw up."
- Barbara Bush

Sexual quotes-Professional baseball player

Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.
- Casey Stengel

Famous people quotes-Cruelty

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
- George Eliot

Inspirational quotes-Old and new friends

Be thankful for, and respectful of, old friends and new friends, good friends and great friends.
Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly.
Play as often as you can.
Work as smart as you are able.
Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Daily quote-Dreams

Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
- Edgar Cayce

Positive quotes-One

We all share unity with each other and with the one Creator Spirit. We are one.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Thought for the day-Worst enemy

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
- Helen Keller

Deep thoughts-Free of contamination

Forgiveness is the finishing of old business that allows us to experience the present, free of contamination from the past.
- Joan Borysenko

Famous people quotes-Three things

'I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.'
- Dorothy Parker

Positive quotes-Great future

There is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.
- Joel Osteen

Sarcastic quotes-Wishes

"The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead."
- Ann Landers.

Philosophical quotes-Taste of adversity

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
If we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
- Anne Bradstreet

Hilarious quotes-Wife swapping

"There's only one thing wrong with wife swapping. You get another wife."
- Scott E. Roeben

Inspirational quotes-Four C's

The secret of making dreams come true can be summarized in four C's. They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy;
and the greatest of these is Confidence.
- Walt Disney

Positive quotes-A thankful heart

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero

Thought for the day-Zip up

A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together.
- James H. Boren

Sarcastic quotes-Editor

An editor is a person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
- Elbert Hubbard

Famous quotes-Your country

My fellow Americans,
ask not what your country can do for you;
ask what you can do for your country.
- John F. Kennedy

Movie quotes-Four questions of value

There are only four questions of value in life.

What is sacred?
Of what is the spirit made?
What is worth living for?
and what is worth dying for?

The answer to each is the same: only love.
- Johnny Depp as Don Juan in the movie Don Juan De Marco