Favorite Quotes And Sayings For An Interesting Read

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“Change your thoughts and you change your world. ”
– Norman Vincent Peale

“There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. ”
– Phyllis Battome

“Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only ”
– Plautus

“The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune. ”
– Plutarch

“Change yourself and change your fortunes. ”
– Portuguese Proverb

“Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity; not a threat. ”
– Prince Phillip of England

“The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the grey head ”
– Proverbs 20:29

“A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man keeps himself under control. ”
– Proverbs 29:11

“The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy. ”
– Reverend Sean Parker Dennison (Special thanks to Richard Vine for the correction)

“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life. ”
– Richard Bach

“People often say that ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder,’ and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.”
– Salma Hayek

“You can’t do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth. ”
– Shira Tehrani

“We are like tea bags – we don’t know our own strength until we’re in hot water. ”
– Sister Busche

“Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed ”
– Storm Jameson

“Anger helps strengthen out a problem like a fan helps straighten out a pile of papers. ”
– Susan Mancotte

“When I hear somebody sigh, “Life is hard,” I am always tempted to ask, “Compared to what?” ”
– Sydney J. Harris

“Security is a kind of death. ”
– Tennessee Williams

“It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear. ”
– Terence

“It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong. ”
– Thomas Szasz

“A heart in love with beauty never grows old. ”
– Turkish Proverb

“Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible – the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family. ”
– Virginia Satir

“Beauty is not so much what you see as what you dream. ”
– Walloon Proverb

“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. ”
– William Ellery Channing

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. ”
– William Shakespeare

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