Famous people quotes-Mystery

Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong

Love quotes-Sunshine after rain

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
- William Shakespeare

Inspirational quotes-Three great essentials

The three great essentials to achieving anything worthwhile are;
first, hard work,
second, stick-to-it-iveness,
and third, common sense.
- Thomas A. Edison

Thought for the day-Kind deed

The whole worth of a kind deed is in the love that inspires it.
- The Talmud

Deep thoughts-Perfect day

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden

Famous people quotes-Giving

You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Deep thoughts-Answers

In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
- Charles M. Schulz in his Peanuts cartoon

Happiness quotes-Inward disposition

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind, than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin

Steve Jobs quotes-Yardstick of quality

Be a yardstick of quality.
Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
- Steve Jobs

Humor quotes-South rising

"Whenever I hear Southerners talking about the South rising again, I start to feel like my lunch might do the same thing."
- Scott E. Roeben

Famous people quotes-Loving

Loving is the most unmitigated and courageous act I perform in a day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Thoughtful quotes-Celebrate

The more you praise and celebrate your life,
the more there is in life to celebrate.
- Oprah Winfrey

Thought for the day-Good advice

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Thought for the day-Waiting for the Storm

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West

Deep thoughts-Hot coal

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
- The Buddha

Political quotes-Right to be represented

"In democracy everyone has the right to be represented, even the jerks."
- Chris Patten, Former UK MP and Governor of Hong Kong.

Famous people quotes-Live next door

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
- Katherine Hepburn

Philosophical quotes-Beauty

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius

Motivational thoughts-Sunlight

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin

Deep thoughts-What you become

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
- Henry David Thoreau

Funny quotes-Judge a book

Never judge a book by its movie.
- JW Eagan

Sarcastic jokes-Military secrets

An intelligence officer with the Canadian armed forces has been arrested for passing Canadian military secrets to a terrorist group. I don't know what's more shocking, the fact that he did that or that Canada has military secrets.
- Jay Leno

Sexual quotes-Primal passions

The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and beget.
- William Osler

Famous people quotes-Moral qualities

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
- Confucius

Sarcastic quotes-Diplomacy

"In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known."
- Thomas Pickering

Positive quotes-Kindness

Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

Famous people quotes-Perpetual holiday

"A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell."
- George Bernard Shaw

Thoughts on Life-Dance

Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.

Deep thoughts-Miracles

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
- C.S. Lewis

Humor quotes-Nothing to do

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do;
the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
- Mary Wilson Little

Inspirational quotes-Spreading joy

It costs you nothing to make another happy - and you gain your true self through the act of spreading joy. Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
- Zig Ziglar

Deep thoughts-Reach

What is real is beyond all reach.
- Julian Green

Movie quotes-The past

My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you before you can move on.
- Forrest Gump

Positive quotes-Great Family

The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."

Deep thoughts-Giving of Love

The giving of love is an education in itself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Inspirational quotes-Simple

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
- Amelia Barr

Quotes-Wedlock

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.
-Byron, Hours of Idleness

Hilarious quotes-Sagging

"The Hooters Hotel and Casino here in Las Vegas isn't doing too well, I've heard. I guess you might say their business is sagging."
- Scott E. Roeben

Famous people quotes-Please

You know, you can't please all the people all the time... and last night, all those people were at my show.
- Mitch Hedberg

Famous people quotes-Point of view

Your point of view sets you up well in advance for how you view the events as they unfold.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Humor quotes-Easier

"Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done."
- Andy Rooney

Deep thoughts-Dreams or aspirations

Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
- Henry David Thoreau

Inspirational quotes-Self confidence

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson

Thought for the day-Raise our sails

The winds of grace are always blowing;
all we need to do is raise our sails.

Political quotes-Future wars

"There's a plan for the Pentagon to cut almost half a trillion dollars from the military. The Pentagon plans to pay for future wars by divorcing Kobe Bryant."
- Conan O'Brien

Famous people quotes-Death of fear

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
- Mark Twain

Sarcastic quotes-Dumped glitter

''A gay activist dumped glitter all over Newt Gingrich. He wants Newt to stop being against gay marriage. But Newt believes marriage is a sacred bond between a man and his wife and his mistress and the other woman he's seeing on the side.''
- Jay Leno

Deep thoughts-On the move

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
- Lao Tzu

Thoughts on Life-Surrender

I surrender to life as it is, not as it should be.
- Richard Carlson

Inspirational quotes-Willingness

Facing a difficulty requires a willingness of heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Sarcastic quotes-Christmas toy

I grew up in Scotland in the 1970s. There was not much money. The most popular Christmas toy was probably a potato.
- Craig Ferguson

Sexual quotes-Dumbest thing

"What's the dumbest thing ever? A p*rn star asking, 'What's my motivation?'"
- Scott E. Roeben

Beautiful quote-Family

What is our family? We touch our full hearts and see ourselves reflected whole in each other's eyes.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Famous people quotes-Conformity

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy

Philosophical quotes-Spiritual goal

You can, when you believe you can.
You know that you have fully experienced love
when you turn into love - that is the spiritual goal of life.
- Deepak Chopra

Thought for the day-Mental attitude

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
- Thomas Jefferson

Inspirational quotes-The change

We must become the change we want to see.
-Mahatma Gandhi

Hilarious quotes-When life ends

"What will my friends and loved ones say about me when my life ends and I'm laid to rest?
They'll probably say, 'Wow. He finally got laid.'"
- Scott E. Roeben

Inspirational quotes-Impossible to fail

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail.
- Dorthea Brande

Deep thoughts-Hear him crow

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
- George Eliot

Marriage quotes-Working partnerships

Many marriages are simply working partnerships between businessmen and housekeepers.
- Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Famous people quotes-Big stick

Speak softly, but carry a big stick.
- Teddy Roosevelt

Inspirational quotes-Opportunity in difficulty

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;
an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
- Winston Churchill

Humor quotes-Loser

"If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything."
- Bill Lyon

Humor quotes-For Sale signs

"What do you use to let people know you're selling 'For Sale' signs?"

- Scott E. Roeben

Sarcastic quotes-Newlyweds

Pity all newlyweds.  She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think:  How easy marriage is.  

- Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Thought for the day-Personally

Don't Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Daily quotes-Laugh at Life

Today is your day to laugh at life.
Laugh loud - laugh often.

Deep thoughts-Busy feet

Happiness walks on busy feet.

Funny quotes-A little bit unfaithful

You can't be a little bit unfaithful any more than you can be a little bit pregnant.
- Bruce Lansky

Thoughts on life-Never easy

Life is never easy for those who dream.
- Robert James Waller

Sexual quotes-Lost

Virginity can be lost by a thought.  
- St. Jerome

Sexual quotes-Joys in bed

Were kisses all the joys in bed,
One woman would another wed.
~William Shakespeare, Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music, IV

Proverbs-Fruit

Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage.
- Finnish Proverb

Famous people quotes-Different taste

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
- George Eliot

Safest thing

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.  

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

True trophy hunter

"The true trophy hunter is a self-disciplined perfectionist seeking a single animal, the ancient patriarch well past his prime that is often an outcast from his own kind... If successful, he will enshrine the trophy in a place of honor. This is a more noble and fitting end than dying on some lost and lonely ledge where the scavengers will pick his bones, and his magnificent horns will weather away and be lost forever."

- Elgin Gates, Trophy Hunter in Asia

Dream by day

All men dream: but not equally.
Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. 

- T.E. Lawrence

Positive quotes-Fight like hell

When I believe in something, I fight like hell for it.
- Steve McQueen

Thought for the day-Legacy

Let your life's work contain an element of service. Let it become a great legacy.

Love quotes-Two volumes

Are we not like two volumes of one book? 
- Marceline Desborde Valmore

Deep thoughts-Striving for perfection

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing
- Harriet Braiker

Famous people quotes-React to fear

People react to fear, not love - they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true. 

- Leonardo da Vinci

When you are angry

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

Freedom quotes-Name

Without freedom, no one really has a name.  
- Milton Acorda

Motivational thoughts-Need for change

If we don't change, we don't grow.
If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
- Gail Sheehy

Quotes on women-Backwards

Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels. 

- Faith Whittlesey

Famous people quotes-Not to live

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Depths of nature

Pay attention to rainbows, and snowflakes,
butterflies and the songs of birds,
the crash of storm-driven waves,
and the mirror-surface of a quiet pond.
Let the depths of nature become a part of your innermost being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Risk

The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
- Erica Jong

Famous people quotes-Bill of Rights

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse.
- Thomas Jefferson

Laugh at my dreams

She laughs at my dreams, but I dream about her laughter. 
-  The Click Five
 

Predator

"How, given the canine teeth and close-set eyes that declare the human animal to be a predator, had we come up with the notion that oat bran is more natural to eat than chicken?"
- Valerie Martin, The Great Divorce

Inspirational quotes-Level best

Any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day.

- Booker T. Washington

Sexual quotes-Lover

It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.
- Marge Piercy

Thought for the day-Opinions

Recall a recent time when someone was strongly critical of your opinions (perhaps your political or religious beliefs). Now, put yourself in their shoes - with compassion. Try to understand and appreciate their point-of-view, not to change your own opinions, but to celebrate all our human differences - in peace.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Famous people quotes-Until its done

It always seems impossible until its done.
- Nelson Mandela

This good life

Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
- Garrison Keillor

Deep thoughts-Dreamer

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
- Oscar Wilde

Inspirational quotes-Small jobs

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves .
- Dale Carnegie

Humor quotes-In herds

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
- Charles Mackay

Funny thoughts-Ignorance

"Don't condemn people for their ignorance. Use it against them."
- Scott E. Roeben

Same sensation

"When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first."
- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), Winner Take Nothing

Inspirational thoughts-The other side

A Mother was reading a magazine and her cute little daughter every now and then distracted her. To keep her busy, she tore one page on which was printed the map of the world. She tore it into pieces and asked her to go to her room and put them together to make the map again.

She was sure her daughter would take a lot more time and probably whole of the day to get it done. But the little one came back within minutes with a perfect map.

When she asked how she could do it so quickly, she said, "Oh Mom, there is a man's face on the other side of the paper. I made the face perfect to get the map right." She ran outside to play leaving the mother surprised.

Moral :

Perhaps there is always the other side to whatever you experience in this world. This story indirectly teaches a lesson. Whenever we come across a challenge or a puzzling situation, look at the other side. You'll be surprised to see an easy way to tackle the problem.

Thought for the day-No substitute

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for granted relationship.
- Iris Murdoch

Positive quotes-Plant trees

Plant trees for your great-grandchildren -for future generations.
Create the legacy of a better world.
Leave this world a better place than you found it.
Literally planting trees for your great-grandchildren is a wonderful idea,but far more important...
use this symbolism - this imagery - to represent the kind of legacy you want to leave to future generations.
Find your balance and stand with it.
Find your song and sing it out.
Find your cadence and let it appear like a dance.
Find the questions that only you know how to ask and
The answers that you are content to not know.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Inspirational quotes-Sail away

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

Hilarious quotes-What I do

My wife doesn't care what I do when I'm away, as long as I don't have a good time.
- Leo Trevino

Thoughts-Liberty

I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery.

Sexual quotes-Moral equivalent

An erection at will is the moral equivalent of a valid credit card.
- Alex comfort

Deep thoughts-Sheer mystery

The world is incomprehensible.
We won't ever understand it;
we won't ever unravel its secrets.
Thus we must treat the world as it is:
a sheer mystery.
- Carlos Castaneda

Peace in your heart

Pray for world peace, and always hold peace toward all in your own heart.

Daily quotes-Enthusiasm

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hilarious quotes-Black and whilte

For those of you watching in black and white, Spurs are in the all-yellow strip.
- John Motson - BBC TV football commentator.

Let us be kind

The way is long and lonely,
And human hearts are asking for this blessing only
That we be kind.
We cannot know the grief that men may borrow,
We cannot see the souls storm-swept by sorrow,
But love can shine upon the way to-day, to-morrow
Let us be kind.
- W. Lomax Childress

An ideal world

"All animals will not only be not shot, they will be protected - not only from people but as much as possible from each other. Prey will be separated from predator, and there will be no overpopulation or starvation because all will be controlled by sterilization or implant."
- Amory, founder of The Fund For Animals, describing his ideal world, in Sierra, June 1992.

Thought for the day-Without working

What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.

Humor quotes-Art of love

I am skilled at the art of love. I just wish I had a bigger paintbrush.
- Scott E. Roeben

Daily quotes-Try

No one knows what he can do until he tries.
- Publilius Syrus

Other people's approval

Many people allow their need for other people's approval to control their lives. They spend their lives worrying about what others think of them.
- Rick Warren

Thought for the day-Obstacles

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Henry Ford

Heaven on Earth

Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain

Famous people quotes-Cured

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
- Bill Clinton

Deep thoughts-Transparent freedom

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
- Simone de Beauvoir

Simple thoughts-Happy

Whoever is happy will make others happy, too.
- Anne Frank

Daily quotes-Staying up all night

Staying up all night is a waste of sleeping, and a waste of sleeping is a waste of dreaming, and dreaming is important because the more dreams you have, the better chance you have of one coming true.
- Tony Arata

History repeats itself

"Women with pasts interest men... they hope history will repeat itself."
- Mae West.

Hilarious quotes-Marriage license

I'm the only man who has a marriage license made out "To Whom It My Concern ".
- Mickey Rooney

Positive quotes-Excellence

Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
- Colin L. Powell

Translated into art

The emotions that good hunters need to cultivate are love and service more than courage. The sentiments of the hunt then become translated into art.
- James Swan, In Defense of Hunting

Secret of a good life

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.
- Norman Thomas

Steve Jobs quotes-Innovation

"Innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem. It's ad hoc meetings of six people called by someone who thinks he has figured out the coolest new thing ever and who wants to know what other people think of his idea."

"And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We're always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important."

- Steve Jobs , Interview with Fortune magazine, 2000

Equal with men

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
- Timothy Leary

Thought for the day-Set it free

If you love something, set it free;
if it comes backs it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach

Fixed recipe

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.
- George Eliot

Movie quotes-Ultimate insult

“Take this quarter, go downtown, and have a rat gnaw that thing off your face! Good day to you, madam.”
- Uncle Buck

Thoughts-The rosebud

A new minister was walking with an older, more seasoned minister in the garden one day.

Feeling a bit insecure about what God had for him to do, he was asking the older preacher for some advice.

The older preacher walked up to a rosebush and handed the young preacher a rosebud and told him to open it without tearing off any petals.

The young preacher looked in disbelief at the older preacher and was trying to figure out what a rosebud could possibly have to do with his wanting to know the will of God for his life and ministry.

But because of his great respect for the older preacher, he proceeded to try to unfold the rose, while keeping every petal intact. It wasn't long before he realized how impossible this was to do.

Noticing the younger preacher's inability to unfold the rosebud without tearing it, the older preacher began to recite the following poem...


It is only a tiny rosebud,
A flower of God's design;
But I cannot unfold the petals
With these clumsy hands of mine."

The secret of unfolding flowers
Is not known to such as I.
GOD opens this flower so easily,
But in my hands they die."

If I cannot unfold a rosebud,
This flower of God's design,
Then how can I have the wisdom
To unfold this life of mine?"

So I'll trust in God for leading
Each moment of my day.
I will look to God for guidance
In each step along the way."

The path that lies before me,
Only my Lord and Savior knows.
I'll trust God to unfold the moments,
Just as He unfolds the rose."

Famous people quotes-Repent

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
- Socrates

Architects of the future

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Funny thoughts-Roadkill

"Sometimes I feel a little like roadkill in a world full of crows."
- Scott E. Roeben

Peace

When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.
- Peace Pilgrim

Paucity of human pleasures

"It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them."
- Samuel Johnson (1709-84), Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson.

Sexual quotes-Pursuit

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
- Pliny the Younger, Letters

Heroic transformation

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell

Famous people quotes-A charming woman

A charming woman doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself.
- Loretta Young, American Actress

Motivational thoughts-Example

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer

Thought for the day-One father

"One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters."

Famous people quotes-All the learning

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.
- George Eliot

Positive quotes-Puppies

Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over.
- Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course, 1997

Sexual quotes-In the street

It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the street and frighten the horses.
- Mrs. Patrick Campbell

Love quotes-Only game

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.
-Thomas Carlyle

No words

"Friendship needs no words..."
- Dag Hammarskjold.

Divorce and remarriage

I don't understand couples who divorce and remarry. That's like pouring milk on a bowl of cereal, tasting it, and saying, "This milk is sour. Well, I'll put it back in the refrigerator - maybe it will be okay tomorrow."
- Larry Miller

Famous people quotes-Evil

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
- George Eliot

Daily quotes-Pace of nature

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Marriage quotes-Opposites

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
- George Bernard Shaw

Humor quotes-Painting wildlife

"I enjoy painting wildlife. But the rabbits leave hair on my paint rollers."
- Scott E. Roeben

Motivational thoughts-Stand tall

Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.

Lessons of History

Those who do not learn the lessons of history are bound to repeat them.
- Santyana

Famous people quotes-Present moment

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
- Abraham Maslow

Thought for the day-Balance life

Balance activity with serenity, wealth with simplicity, persistence with innovation, community with solitude, familiarity with adventure, constancy with change, leading with following.

Motivational thoughts-Open to new lessons

Never stop being open to new life lessons.
All in the dark we grope along,
And if we go amiss
We learn at least which path is wrong,
And there is gain in this.
We do not always win the race
By only running right;
We have to tread the mountain's base
Before we reach its height.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Sarcastic quotes-What do women want?

Sigmund Freud once said, "What do women want?"
The only thing I have learned in fifty-two years is that women want men to stop asking dumb questions like that.
- Bill Cosby

Deep thoughts-Esthetic superiority

"Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one."
- Edward Abbey, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Worth living for

If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace.
- Hamilton Fish

Thought for the day-Master of Emotions

If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.
- Og Mandino

Famous people quotes-Dream things

You see things; and you say, 'Why?'
But I dream things that never were;
and I say, 'Why not?'
- George Bernard Shaw

Inspirational quotes-Diligence

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
- Samuel Johnson

Famous people quotes-Wear to bed

Be careful what you wear to bed at night, you never know who you'll meet in your dreams.
- Tom Bradley

In love with a dimple

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
- Stephen Leacock, Literary Lapses, 1910

Ironic life

"Life can be ironic. Come to find out, the only thing I'm allergic to is allergy medicine."
- Scott E. Roeben

Blessings of life

As we join hands in fellowship around this bountiful table, we give thanks for the blessings of this food and the love of these friends as a symbol of our gratitude for all the manifold blessings of this life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Thought for the day-Habits

We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden

Sexual quotes-Excite

Its avowed purpose is to excite sexual desire, which, I should have thought, is unnecessary in the case of the young, inconvenient in the case of the middle aged, and unseemly in the old.
- Malcolm Muggeridge, on p*rnography, Tread Softly For You Tread On My Jokes, 1966

Deep thoughts-Walk with nature

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
- John Muir

Famous people quotes-Deny freedom

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
- Abraham Lincoln

Motivational thoughts-Total commitment

A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance.
- Tom Flores

Reproduction of mankind

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.
- Martin Luther

Wordy evidence

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot

Thought for the day-A place to be yourself

If your home is not a place where you can truly kick-back and be yourself - both physically and emotionally - consider making some changes in your way of life.

Famous people quotes-Popular idea of health

"One knows so well the popular idea of health. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), A Woman of No Importance, act 1.

Marriage quotes-Long evenings

A fellow ought to save a few of the long evenings he spends with his girl till after they're married.
- Kin Hubbard

Funny quotes-Taxi drivers

"If practice makes perfect, how do you explain taxi drivers?"
- Scott E. Roeben

Daily quotes-A reason

When a man brings his wife flowers for no reason - there is a reason.
- Molly McGee

Good act

Because of some good act to beast or man - the world is better that I lived to-day.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Thought for the day-Beyond

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Positive quotes-Rising of the sun

With every rising of the sun, think of your life as just begun.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Dreams come true

Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true
- Lyman Frank Baum

Inspirational quotes-Excel yourself

Always seek to excel yourself. Put yourself in competition with yourself each day. Each morning look back upon your work of yesterday and then try to beat it .
- Charles M. Sheldon

Famous people quotes-Good shot

"No, I'm not a good shot, but I shoot often."
- Teddy Roosevelt

Positive quotes-Follow your heart

Choose to follow your heart always.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Daily quotes-That fleeting moment

The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment,
when you are between asleep and awake,
when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy,
when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul
that the dream is reality, and it really happened.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Easy divorces

Easy divorces have just about put arguing out of business.
- Red Skelton

Sport

"When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity."
- Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Man and Superman

Motivational thoughts-Results

Sometimes you get the results you wanted, sometimes you don't.
What matters is that you did your best.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Humor quotes-Inventor

"I used to be an inventor. In fact, who do you think up with the inflatable voodoo doll?"
- Scott E. Roeben

Inquisitive

One shouldn't be too inquisitive in life, either about God's secrets or one's wife.
- Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

Sexual quotes-Disprove

To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it.
- Cary Grant

Inspirational quotes-The price of success

The price of success is hard work,
dedication to the job at hand,
and the determination that whether we win or lose,
we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
- Vince Lombardi

Better after worse

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
- Doug Larson

Hilarious quotes-Shower curtain

"I swam 400 laps today. And that wasn't easy. Half the time the shower curtain was in the way."
- Scott E. Roeben

Forced to love you

Flatter me, and I may not believe you.
Criticize me, and I may not like you.
Ignore me, and I may not forgive you.
Encourage me, and I will not forget you.
Love me and I may be forced to love you.
- William Arthur Ward

Famous people quotes-In act

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
- William Shakespeare

Positive quotes-Excellence

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
- Booker T. Washington

Marriage quotes-Poetry and prose

Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
- Beverley Nichols

Humor quotes-Women's liberation

I have always considered myself an expert on women's liberation. In the last fifteen years, I have given two their freedom myself.
- Lewis Grizzard

Strong convictions

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
- Louisa May Alcott

Learn from one another

We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Famous people quotes-Myth

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy

Reality of tomorrow

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
- Robert H. Goddard

Melting pot

"If New York is a melting pot, that must mean Los Angeles is a crock pot."
- Scott E. Roeben

Deadlines

They don't call them DEADlines for nothing - keep breathing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Inspirational quotes-Candle

Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out.
- Katherine Dunham

Quote on love-Risk

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