Laura's Quotation Journal

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."   Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Nobody, but nobody, can make it alone."   Maya Angelou

"Choose the thoughts you allow to remain in your mind.   When you find a thought that is good and constructive, dwell on it, nourish it, and send it out stronger than when it came in."   Isabel M. Hickey

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than one's fear."   Ambrose Redmoon

"We come to feel as we behave."   Paul Pearsall

"If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves."   Thomas Edison

"As you travel through life, whatever your goal, Keep your eye on the doughnut and not on the hole."   Dr. Eliot E. Foltz

"I have spent most of my life worrying about things that have never happened."   Mark Twain

"There are only two ways to live your life.   One is as though nothing is a miracle.   The other is as if everything is.   I believe in the latter."   Albert Einstein

"There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm."   Willa Cather

"Nothing is as far away as one minute ago."   Jim Bishop

 

"Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right."   Henry Ford



"I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship."   Louisa May Alcott


"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."   Dolly Parton

"Your holiest moments, most sacred moments, are often the ones that are most painful."   Oprah Winfrey

"Don't be afraid your life will end.   Be afraid that it will never begin."   Grace Hansen

"It is not important--the influence you have over others.   What is important is to change the character inside yourself."   Nelson Mandella



"He who lives without discipline dies without honor."   Icelandic proverb

"Love is like a virus.   It can happen to anybody at any time."   Maya Angelou

"Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity."   Oprah Winfrey

"The thing you have to be prepared for is that other people don't always dream your dream."   Linda Ronstadt

"You've got to get up every morning with a smile on your face
And show the world all the love in your heart
Then people gonna treat you better, You're gonna find, yes you will, That you're beautiful as you feel."   Carole King

"I touch the future.   I teach."   Christa McAuliffe

"Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning."   Psalm 30:5

"Joy is not in things; it is in us."   Richard Wagner

"Joy is prayer; joy is strength; joy is love; joy is the net of love by which you can catch souls."   Mother Teresa

"Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city."   Hebrew saying

"We make a living by what we get.   We make a life by what we give."   Winston Churchill

"Trust one who has gone through it."   Virgil, The Aeneid

"If, on my death bed, I don't think of it as something that altered my life and changed it for the better, then it's not worth obsessing about now."   Laura's friend

"You must do the thing you think you cannot do."   Eleanor Roosevelt

"Everybody has the capacity for greatness, not fame, because greatness is related to serving others."   Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"You are not your buttocks."   Kaz Cooke

 

"Courage is important.   Determination is important.   Forgiveness is important."   Eunice Shriver Kennedy

"It is better to light a candle than to curse darkness."   Anonymous

"Dealing With The Stuff That Makes Life Tough:  The 10 Things That Stress Girls Out and How To Cope With Them'', ©Jill Zimmerman Rutledge, M.S.W., LCSW, Contemporary Books/McGraw-Hill, 2004

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