Angel's Craft
“QUOTES &
HUMOUR FOR WOMEN”
"The door of opportunity won't open unless you do some
pushing."
Anon.
"True affluence is not needing anything."
Gary Snyder
Always make sure that what you think you see is not just what
you want to see.
"Take care, your worship, those things over there are not
giants but windmills."
Miguel de Cervantes (from Don Quixote)
"Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at
the shadow"
"That white horse you see in the park could be a zebra synchronized
with the railings."
Ann Jellicoe (from The Knack)
"God help those who do not help themselves."
Follow your bliss. Find
where it is and don't be afraid to follow it."
Joseph Campbell
"Those see nothing but faults that seek for nothing
else."
If you would love and be loved, be ready to give your all.
"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."
"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."
"The ability to accept responsibility s the measure of the
man."
"It's like magic.
When you live by yourself, all your annoying habits are gone!"
"Procrastination is opportunity's assassin."
"If you want to do something, do it!"
"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."
"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."
"A man is more complex, infinitely more so, than his
thoughts."
"Be what you are.
This is the first step toward becoming better than you are."
Julius Charles Hare
"You are all you will ever have for certain."
"He that lives upon hope will die fasting."
Benjamin Franklin
"Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper."
"Hope is the most treacherous of human fancies."
James Fenimore Cooper
"The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest
navigators."
Edward Gibbon
"Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will
help create the fact."
"No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly
sincere in dealing with himself."
James Russell Lowell
"The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my
mind."
"Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny
them is to be an accomplice to one's own necessary vegetation."
"You must change in order to survive."
It isn't necessary for a politician to fool all the people all the
time. A majority on Election Day is enough.
"Learn to depend upon yourself by doing things in
accordance with your own way of thinking."
Grenville Kleiser
"Not seeing is half-believing."
Vita Sackville-West
"Wisely and slow: they stumble that run fast."
William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)
"Time flies, but you shouldn't."
Anon.
"I make the most of all that comes and the least of all
that goes."
"A person can grow only as much as his horizon
allows."
"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not
born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that this new world is
born."
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