Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. - Anonymous

 

 

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small. - Lao Tzu

 

 

 

Throughout education, from the first day to the last, there should be a sense of intellectual adventure. - Bertrund Russell

 

 

Women buy stuff at sales for the same reason men climb mountains - because they’re there. - Stephen King

 

 

Spring is nature's way of saying, Let's party! - Robin Williams

 

 

From the earth we were formed. To the earth we return. And in betwee, we garden. - Nelson Eddy

 

 

 

Fall seven times, stand up eight. - Japanese Proverb

 

 

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. - J. Robert Oppenheimer

 

 

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. - Maya Angelou

 

 

Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance? - Phyllis Diller

 

 

Two things define you. Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything - Unknown

 

 

 

Women...can't live with 'em...can't shoot 'em. - Steven Wright

 

 

 

Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often. - Anonymous

 

 

 

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. - William Makepeace Thackeray

 

 

 

The difference in winning and losing is most often, not quitting. - Walt Disney

 

 

 

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming. - Helen Keller

 

 

A single rose can be my garden...a single friend, my world. - Leo Buscaglia

 

 

 

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest. - Henry David Thoreau

 

 

 

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. - Mark Twain

 

 

 

Earth laughs in flowers. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

 

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

 

 

A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled. - Emily Dickinson

 

 

 

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary. - Dorothy Canfield Fisher

 

 

 

A happy family is but an earlier heaven. - George Bernard Shaw

 

 

 

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. - George Washington Carver

 

 

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please. - Epictetus

 

 

 

On the other hand, you have different fingers.

 

 

 

God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers. - Jewish Proverb

 

 

 

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. - Honoré de Balzac

 

 

 

There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true. - Sir Winston Churchill

 

 

Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind. - Bernard M. Baruch

 

 

On a tombstone: I TOLD YOU I WAS SICK!

 

 

Successful people are simply those with successful habits. - Brian Tracy

 

 

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. - Albert Schweitzer

 

 

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success. - Dr. Joyce Brothers

 

 

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to leave the world a better place, to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, this is to have succeeded. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. - Aristotle

 

 

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. - William Faulkner

 

 

Those who believe they can do something and those who believe they can't are both right. - Henry Ford

 

 

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

 

 

Everyone who wills, can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone. - Mahatma Gandhi

 

 

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition - they somehow already know what you truly want to become. - Steve Jobs

 

 

Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning. - C. S. Lewis

 

 

Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway. - Mother Teresa

 

 

 

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that. - G. H. Hardy

 

 

 

When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

 

No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child. - Abraham Lincoln (attributed)

 

 

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it. - Abraham Lincoln

 

 

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. - Henry Adams

 

 

Energy and persistence conquer all things. - Benjamin Franklin

 

 

Climbing is akin to love. It's hard to explain; we endure pain for the joy that comes with discovering ourselves and the planet. - Cory Richards

 

 

Don't sweat the small stuff... and it's all small stuff. - Richard Carlson

 

 

Beware the barrenness of a busy life. - Socrates

 

 

There is more to life than increasing its speed. - Mahatma Gandhi

 

 

He who sows hurry reaps indigestion. - Robert Louis Stevenson

 

 

For food that stays our hunger, For rest that brings us ease, For homes where memories linger, We give our thanks for these. - Anonymous

 

 

In a world where so many are hungry, may we eat this food with humble hearts; in a world where so many are lonely, May we share this friendship with joyful hearts. - Anonymous

 

 

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. - Anonymous

 

 

I should like to see any kind of a man, distinguishable from a gorilla, that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr

 

 

A room without books is like a body without a soul. - Unknown

 

 

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love. - George Eliot

 

 

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. - Unknown

 

 

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. - George Bernard Shaw

 

 

If black boxes survive air crashes why don’t they make the whole plane out of the stuff? - George Carlin

 

 

 

If black boxes survive air crashes why don’t they make the whole plane out of the stuff? - George Carlin

 

 

 

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. - Terry Pratchett

 

 

In a world where so many are hungry, may we eat this food with humble hearts; in a world where so many are lonely, May we share this friendship with joyful hearts. - Anonymous

 

 

The most adorable bride of today will be someone's mother-in-law in the future. - Annonymous

 

 

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

 

When you have to start compromising yourself or your morals for the people around you, its time to change the people around you. - Annonymous

 

 

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward. - Amelia Earhart

 

 

We receive this food in gratitude to all beings Who have helped to bring it to our table, And vow to respond in turn to those in need With wisdom and compassion. - Buddhist Blessing

 

 

Act like a fool, be treated as one.

 

 

If you truly desire happiness, seek and learn how to serve. - Albert Schweitzer

 

 

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. - Thomas Jefferson

 

 

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop

 

 

You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity, by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.

 

 

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it. - Anonymous

 

 

No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. - Mark Twain

 

 

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. - Voltaire

 

 

If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed. - Mark Twain

 

 

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress. - John Adams

 

 

Even if you win the rat race, you are still a rat. - Lily Tomlin

 

 

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

 

 

When we step on the battlefield, I will be The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off. - LtG. Hal Moore

 

 

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand. - Colin Powell

 

 

Don't try to manage people; You manage things; You lead people. - Grace Hopper