"QUOTES & HUMOUR FOR WOMEN"
"A laugh is a terrible weapon."
..... Kate O'Brien
"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get -- only with what you are expecting to give -- which is everything."
..... Katharine Hepburn
"If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love, then love will wholeheartedly respond to you."
..... Marianne Williamson
"Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all."
..... Toni Morrison
"I am suspicious of guilt in myself and other people: it is usually a way of not thinking, or of announcing one's own fine sensibilities the better to be rid of them fast."
..... Lillian Hellman
"It's like magic. When you live by yourself, all your annoying habits are gone!"
..... Merrill Markoe
"Why always, 'not yet?' Do flowers in spring say, 'not yet?'"
..... Norman Douglas
"Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy - if not less of it - doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do."
..... Terry McMillan
"Live in the past, but don't remember too much."
..... Roger Rosenblatt
"The follies a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity."
..... Helen Rowland
Never assume that you "know" human nature: "Man is always worse than most people suspect, but also generally better than most people dream."
..... Reinhold Niebuhr
"I loathe the expression 'What makes him tick' . . . A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm."
..... James Thurber
"You are all you will ever have for certain."
..... June Havoc
"Sedentary people are apt to have sluggish minds. A sluggish mind is apt to be reflected in flabbiness of body and in a dullness of expression that invites no interest and gets none."
..... Rose Kennedy
"Don't take anyone else's definition of success as your own. (This is easier said than done.)"
..... Jacqueline Briskin
"The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind."
..... Maya Angelou
"Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own necessary vegetation."
..... Gail Sheehy
"You must change in order to survive."
..... Pearl Bailey
"It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting you at every turn."
..... Sue Grafton
"Learn to depend upon yourself by doing things in accordance with your own way of thinking."
..... Grenville Kleiser
"Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry."
..... John Wesley
“Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.”
..... Anon.
"It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are – not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within—that you can begin to take control."
..... Oprah Winfrey
"It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness."
..... Thomas Jefferson
“Never tell a woman that you didn't realize she was pregnant unless you're certain that she is.”
..... Dave Barry
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them”
..... Mother Teresa
“It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone and a day to love someone - but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.”
..... Anon.
Courtesy of Bessie & Jolene