I love quotes, and I wanted to share a few (or more) with everyone.



People so seldom say I love you and then it's either too late or love goes so when I tell you I love you it doesn't mean I know you'll never go only that I wish you didn't have to..

~Laurence Craig-Green~


Your life will be no better than the plans you make, And the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, and destiny.
~Alfred Armand Montapert~


People don't fail because they intend to fail, they fail because they fail to do what they intend to do
~Anonymous~


This is the true joy of life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of nature instead of being a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy
~George Bernard Shaw~

Take away love, and our earth is a tomb
~Robert Browning, Fra Lippo Lippi, 1863~


It may seem that the whole world is against you. Yet it is all the more reason to look up, to look ahead, to find something you can grab onto
~R.S. Morton Jr.~


May the world hug you today
with it's warmth and love
And whisper a joyful tune in you heart
And may the wind carry a voice that tells you
there is a friend
Sitting in another part of the world
Right now
Wishing you well
~Snaked it off an e-card ;-)~


Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can
~Danny Kaye~


It is as close as the harvest moon in the evening sky, as distant as a dream on wakening; near as a rainbow, and so remote you could walk forever and never reach it
~Author Unknown~


I will love you always, and in all ways
~me~


Friendship is a single soul, dwelling in two bodies
~Aristotle~


If you are walking on egg shells, don't hop
~Blue Thunder~ (movie)


I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend he rest of my life
~Charles F. Ketting~


Your happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice
~Ben Johnson~


Energy plus talent and you are a king, energy and no talent and you are still a prince, talent and no energy and you are a pauper
~Jeffery Archer~


Today, well lived, makes yesterday a dream of happiness, and tomorrow a vision of hope.
~Anonymous~


Love and friendship are the greatest things in life.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
~Earl Wilson~


Don't hurry, don't worry, and don't forget to smell the flowers.
~T.Rice~


Since time began, today has been the friend of man.
~Anonymous~


Today gives us a chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.
~Henry Van Dyke~


He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare.
~Emerson~


Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time, like the dew on the tip of a leaf.
~Rabindranath Tagore~


Not where we stand, but in what direction we are moving.
~Goethe~


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


A kiss is a rosy dot over the "I"of loving.
~Cyrano De Bergerac~


The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
~Walter Bagehot~


Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
~Anonymous~


Pretty much all the truth telling done in the world is done by children.
~Anonymous~


Absence is to love what wind is to fire, it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
~Comte de Bussy - Rabutin~


Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out alive.
~Bugs Bunny~


Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance.
~Confucius~


He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
~Old Chinese saying~


I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerent, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
~Kahil Gibran~


No child ever came out of his mother's womb with a gun in his hand
~Edward James Olmos~



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My thanks to Meg, Kanga, and Delilah who provided some of these quotes for me. :-)