"There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are
different from the things we do."

-- Freya Madeline Stark

 

"I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without
realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is
traditional to wear clothes."

-- Erma Bombeck

 

"Don't duck the most difficult problems. That just ensures that
the hardest part will be left when you are most tired. Get the
big one done; it's downhill from then on."

-- Norman Vincent Peale

"The best index to a person's character is how he treats people
who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't
fight back."

-- Abigail Van Buren

 

"If you cannot be a poet, be the poem."

-- David Carradine

 

"If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful
bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this: Expect
trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold
your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, I will be
bigger than you. You cannot defeat me."

-- Ann Landers

 

"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone
monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others."

-- Pericles

"Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means
that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections."

-- Author Unknown

 

"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless
garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving
and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that
nothing else can bring."

-- Oscar Wilde

"Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable
for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower
season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in
fruits."

-- Samuel Butler

 

"I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy
today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead,
tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and
I'm going to be happy in it."

-- Groucho Marx

 

"Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back."

-- Babe Ruth

 

"Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a
prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the
insecurities, let the nice things come out."

-- Barbara Walters

 

"Follow your enthusiasm. It's something I've always believed
in. Find those parts of your life you enjoy the most. Do what
you enjoy doing."

-- Jim Henson

 

"Honor your talents and act like a woman--a smart woman--who
knows how to jump over business obstacles, even in heels."

--Nancy Clark