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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. -- Hugh Downs

Albert Einstein Quotes

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
Try not to be a person of success, but rather a person of virtue.
The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable receiving.
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
The significant problems we face can not be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the entire world.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious; it is the source of all true art and science.

Gandhi Quotes

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
An eye for an eye makes us all blind.
An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
Be the change that you want to see in the world.
Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
Where there is love there is life.
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
My life is my message.
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

Helen Keller Quotes

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
The highest result of education is tolerance.

Oscar Wilde Quotes

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
I can resist everything except temptation.
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
There is no sin except stupidity.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Funny Quotes

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain. -- Mark Twain
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either. -- Dick Cavett
You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. -- Dave Barry
I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet. -- Rodney Dangerfield
A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children. -- David Brenner
I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants. -- Whitney Brown
Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invaribly they are both disappointed. -- Albert Einstein
Tell a man there are 300 Billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch to be sure. -- Jarger
The more you think about things, the weirder they seem. Take this milk. Why do we drink *cow* milk?? Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said, "I think I'll drink whatever comes out of these things when I squeeze 'em!?" -- Bill Watterson (Calvin & Hobbes)

Love Quotes

"The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for love." -- Margaret Atwood
Love is the best medicine, and there is more than enough to go around once you open your heart. -- Julie Marie
Love the heart that hurts you, but never hurt the heart that loves you. -- Vipin Sharma
True love does not come by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. -- Jason Jordan
Love is fire. But whether it's gonna warm your heart or burn your house down you can never tell. -- Jason Jordan
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread. -- Mother Teresa
Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. -- Franklin P. Jones
True love never lives happily ever after - true love has no ending. -- K Knight
Where there is great love there are always miracles. -- Willa Cather
The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love. -- Mother Teresa
We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love. -- Mother Teresa
Love is a game that two can play and both can win. -- Actress Eva Gabor
The moment you have in your heart this extra-ordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstacy of it, you will discover that for you the world is tranformed. -- J. Krishnamuriti
Never let someone become your priority while allowing yourself to be his or her option.
Some people say you only fall in love once but every time I see you. I fall in love all over again.
No man is worth your tears-and the one that is, shouldn't make you cry.
The hardest thing to do is watch the one you love, love someone else.
It's hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone when your heart still does.
Loving someone deeply gives you strength; while being deeply loved gives you courage. -- Lao Tzu
I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I'm not.
When I saw you; I was afraid to meet you,
When I met you, I was afraid to hug you,
When I hugged you, I was afraid to love you,
Now I love you, and I'm afraid to lose you.
I ran up the door and closed the stairs said my pajamas and put on my prayers turned off the bed and jumped into the light all because you kissed me goodnight.
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get . . . Only with what you are expected to give. . . . Which is everything. -- Katharine Hepburn
LOVE: The irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. -- Mark Twain

Proverbs

It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness. -- Chinese Proverb
You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on. -- Heraclitus
After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. -- Italian Proverb
Unshared joy is an unlighted candle. -- Spanish Proverb
He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good. -- Yiddish Proverb
If you get up one more time than you fall, you will make it through. -- Chinese Proverb
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. -- Buddha
Borrowed brains have no value. -- Yiddish Proverb
Truth fears no trial. -- Proverb
Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours. -- Swedish Proverb
When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion. -- Ethopian proverb
Put off for one day, and ten days will pass. -- Korean proverb
Fear is only as deep as the mind allows. -- Japanese Proverb
Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. -- African proverb
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost;
When health is lost, something is lost;
When character is lost, all is lost! -- German Proverb
If you want happiness for an hour - take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day - go fishing.
If you want happiness for a year - inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime - help someone else. -- Chinese Proverb
If there is light in the soul,
There will be beauty in the person.
If there is beauty in the person,
There will be harmony in the house.
If there is harmony in the house,
There will be order in the nation.
If there is order in the nation,
There will be peace in the world. -- Chinese Proverb

Resolution Quotes

A year from now you may wish you had started today. -- Karen Lamb
Forget the resolutions. Forget control and discipline...too much work. Instead try experimenting. Go in search of something to fall in love with...something about yourself, your career, your spouse. -- Dale Dauten
Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future. -- Arnold H. Glasgow
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do. -- Epictetus
Practice is the best instruction of them all. -- Publilius Syrus
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It is as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer. Nolan Bushnell, Founder of Atari Computer
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit. -- Norman Vincent Peale
The most significant change in a person's life is a change of attitude. Right attitudes produce right actions. -- William J. Johnson
The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post. -- L. Thomas Holdcroft
I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today. -- William Allen White
Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it, it's only good for wallowing in. -- Katherine Mansfield
The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you. -- John E. Southard
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. -- Og Mandino
Instead of looking for a miracle in your life, look to see if you are the miracle in someone else's life. -- Nola Rohde Vollmer