Top quotes by Robert Breault

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true. Votes: 15

You know you have found love when you can't find your way back. Votes: 11

If you can't forgive and forget, pick one. Votes: 10

To the artist, the Book of Genesis is an account of six days in which God suggested some really good ideas. Votes: 9

In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too. Votes: 9

Charisma is a fancy name given to the knack of giving people your full attention. Votes: 8

A toast once heard: "To my big sister, who never found her second Easter egg until I'd found my first." Votes: 7

Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes. Votes: 6

For lack of an occasional expression of love, a relationship strong at the seams can wear thin in the middle. Votes: 6

Sometimes two people need to step apart and make a space between that each might see the other anew, in a glance across a room or silhouetted against the moon. Votes: 6

Yes, I worry about the craziest things, but better me than someone less qualified. Votes: 6

In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out. In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in. Votes: 6

A holiday cocktail party is where some stranger will learn more about you in an hour than your spouse has learned in a lifetime. Votes: 6

The perfect family board game is one that can be played each time with fewer pieces. Votes: 5

A mom reads you like a book, and wherever she goes, people read you like a glowing book review. Votes: 5

Charisma is not so much getting people to like you as getting people to like themselves when you're around. Votes: 5

There is a public me and a private me, who, if they were separate people, probably wouldn't exchange Christmas cards. Votes: 4

The artist's talent sits uneasy as an object of public acclaim, having been so long an object of private despair. Votes: 3

A true sportsman is a hunter lost in the woods and out of ammo. Votes: 3

An art critic is someone who appreciates art, except for any particular piece of art. Votes: 3

An art critic is someone who hopes to see his ideas translated to canvas without having to learn how to paint. Votes: 3

There is no tomorrow. There is only a planet turning on its axis, and a creature given to optimistic fancies. Votes: 3

A lover's quarrel is always about every quarrel you ever had. Votes: 3

It is the first purpose of hope to make hopelessness bearable. Votes: 3

My quest for cosmic understanding is a book I have picked up and put down many times, always forgetting to insert a bookmark. Votes: 3

The trick to writing an aphorism is to place a period at the point where you're inclined to say, "in other words.... Votes: 3

You can think of a painter as a trio - the artist, his talent and his muse, the last two always on the lookout for a new brush man. Votes: 3

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar. Votes: 3

For the most part, we carnivores do not eat other carnivores. We prefer to eat our vegetarian friends. Votes: 3

Each day is an opportunity to travel back into tomorrow's past and change it. Votes: 3

You must question a code of ethics that never impedes your progress. Votes: 0

Sometimes, in a moral struggle, we discover the right thing to do - just as, on some cold day long ago, we discovered mittens pinned to our coat sleeve. Votes: 0

If you understand compound interest, you basically understand the universe. Votes: 0

We all have our limitations, but when we listen to our critics, we also have theirs. Votes: 0

Is it my imagination, or does shipping and handling settle a box of crackers more than it used to? Votes: 0

Where you find quality, you will find a craftsman, not a quality-control expert. Votes: 0

Do I rue a life wasted doing crosswords? Yes, but I do know the three-letter-word for regret. Votes: 0

Family life is a daily struggle to turn love into happiness. Votes: 0

Time is a figure eight, at its center the city of Deja Vu. Votes: 0

My health plan doesn't cover dental, so I enrolled my teeth as 32 dependents, each needing a complete physical once a year. Votes: 0

There is a tendency to see divine intervention in things that happen in the normal course of miracles. Votes: 0

If you allow people to treat you like a doormat, they will expect you to say WELCOME. Votes: 0

There are days in retirement that are the waking equivalent of a dreamless sleep, if you know what I mean. Votes: 0

For every "Drive Safely" sign, shouldn't there be a "Resume Normal Driving" sign? Votes: 0

Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest? Votes: 0

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. Votes: 0

As you wait for better days, don't forget to enjoy today, in case they've already started. Votes: 0

As a gardener, I'm among those who believe that much of the evidence of God's existence has been planted. Votes: 0

We labor to make a house a home, then every time we're expecting visitors, we rush to turn it back into a house. Votes: 0

The difference between education and know-how is that one you pay for, the other you charge for. Votes: 0

What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering. Votes: 0

If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same. Votes: 0

Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie - not perfect but who's complaining? Votes: 0

Life is a series of family photos in which you keep moving to the rear until finally you're a portrait in the background. Votes: 0

Life is a series of family photos in which eventually you stop showing up. Votes: 0

A man finds love and is satisfied. A woman finds love and insists on turning it into happiness. Votes: 0

Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way. Votes: 0

It is hard to resist a flatterer who gets it right. Votes: 0

Sometimes, to pursue a new idea, the artist must forfeit his deposit on an old idea. Votes: 0

A wise saying is something you keep picking up off the floor in front of your fridge Votes: 0

You always think you could have done more. That's why you need a friend - to tell you you did all you could. Votes: 0

Sometimes two people stay together for the sake of the kids - two kids who sat under a full moon and pledged to be forever true. Votes: 0

In every gardener there is a child who believes in The Seed Fairy. Votes: 0

Sign over the gates of hell: "Doesn't mean you're a bad person." Votes: 0

Most often, walking alone with my shadow is how I find my answer, the result of gathering together all agreeable parties. Votes: 0

There are times when two people need to step apart from one another, but there is no rule that says they have to turn and fire. Votes: 0

The trick to getting things done is to list things to do in doable order. Votes: 0

The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions. Votes: 0

As a gardener, I wonder if flowers really can't speak or just exercise unfailing good judgment in the matter. Votes: 0

A good marriage is each for the other and two against the world. Votes: 0

It finally happened. I got the GPS lady so confused, she said, "In one-quarter mile, make a legal stop and ask directions. Votes: 0

I would love to go back and travel the road not taken, if I knew at the end of it I'd find the same set of grandkids. Votes: 0

I guess I have never really doubted that we are all born to our guardian angel. Votes: 0

It comes down to whether you believe in seven miraculous escapes a week or one guardian angel. Votes: 0

The only creature on earth whose natural habitat is a zoo is the zookeeper. Votes: 0

In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families - that they are least two-thirds incontinent. Votes: 0

I don't know that there are real ghosts and goblins, But there are always more trick-or-treaters than neighborhood kids. Votes: 0

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie. Votes: 0

I don't know that there are haunted houses. I know that there are dark staircases and haunted people. Votes: 0

Eventually soulmates meet, for they have the same hiding place. Votes: 0

Somewhere between the honest truth and the deceptive lie is the deceptive truth and the honest lie. Votes: 0

If you knew that hope and despair were paths to the same destination, which would you choose? Votes: 0

Where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith. Votes: 0

I believe that there is an explanation for everything, so, yes, I believe in miracles. Votes: 0

I don't lie and cheat, but I don't always avoid actions that would be lying and cheating if someone else did them. Votes: 0

You can spend too much time wondering which of identical twins is the more alike. Votes: 0

Eventually, if you're lucky in life, you find someone with the same chemical imbalance you have. Votes: 0

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single happy delusion that it can be done without a stop-over. Votes: 0

As I may or may not say to the Lord on Judgment Day, "You ask a lot of questions for someone who has so much explaining to do" Votes: 0

There is in art the notion of less is more, which is to say, you don't torture a painting that has already confessed. Votes: 0

There is a lesson we learn early and harmlessly, or late and traumatically - that there are things we can break that our parents can't fix. Votes: 0

It is possible at any age to discover a lifelong desire you never knew you had. Votes: 0

One thing you learn in a long marriage is how many sneezes to wait before saying, "Bless you. Votes: 0

Among those born into chaos, some will imagine an order and become scientists; a few will recognize the chaos and become abstract artists; most others will turn to faith for understanding; and the rest will become lost souls. Votes: 0

We picture love as heart-shaped because we do not know the shape of the soul. Votes: 0

Happiness is having a dream you cannot let go of and a partner who would never ask you to. Votes: 0

When something is missing in your life, it usually turns out to be someone. Votes: 0

Once you find someone to share your ups and downs, downs are almost as good as ups. Votes: 0

If God had intended us to be alone, there would be more pleasure in massaging our own shoulders. Votes: 0

All any child needs is the protection of loving parents and an alternative source of information. Votes: 0

As a man, I've learned that there is nothing easier in married life than pleasing your wife with your cooking. Votes: 0

Massage is the only form of physical pleasure to which nature forgot to attach consequences. Votes: 0

Stored away in some brain cell is the image of a long-departed aunt you haven't thought of in 30 years. Stored away in another cell is the image of a pink pony stitched on your first set of baby pajamas. All it takes to get that aunt mounted on the back of that pony is to eat a hunk of meatloaf immediately before going to bed. Votes: 0

A blog is a message in a bottle, both in purpose and likely readership. Votes: 0

Metaphor for the night sky: a trillion asterisks and no explanations. Votes: 0

Beyond our most stubborn misperception lies often our fondest dream. Votes: 0

What is a mom but the sunshine of our days and the north star of our nights. Votes: 0

A successful artist is inspired by his muse, and his muse is inspired by the payment of a commission. Votes: 0

On a windswept hill by a billowing sea, my destiny sits and waits for me. Votes: 0

Man will have replicated his own intelligence not when he teaches a computer to reason but when he teaches a computer to have a nagging feeling in its circuits. Votes: 0

As you seek new opportunity, keep in mind that the sun does not usually reappear on the horizon where last seen. Votes: 0

There are couples a matchmaker would match every time - and couples who, for no rhyme or reason, rhyme. Votes: 0

Success is a tale of obstacles overcome, and for every obstacle overcome, an excuse not used. Votes: 0

Take no revenge that you have not pondered beneath a starry sky, or on a canyon overlook, or to the lapping of waves and the mewing of a distant gull. Votes: 0

Do not mistake probability for truth, for it is a notorious liar. Votes: 0

An old dog, even more than an old spouse, always feels like doing what you feel like doing. Votes: 0

Say what you want about aging, it's still the only way to have old friends. Votes: 0

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead. Votes: 0

It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it Votes: 0

What if, instead of a parallel universe, there's a perpendicular universe? Discuss. Votes: 0

I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime. Votes: 0

The road to success is not a path you find, but a trail you blaze. Votes: 0

There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly-lit front porch. Votes: 0

You start making progress in life when you realize that you don't always have to resume where you left off. Votes: 0

I suppose I will die never knowing what pumpkin pie tastes like when you have room for it. Votes: 0

Man is rated the highest animal, at least among all animals who returned the questionnaire. Votes: 0

There are people who live their whole lives on the default settings, never realizing you can customize. Votes: 0

Always carry with you a little reasonable doubt, should you meet someone who needs to be found innocent. Votes: 0

Seize every opportunity along the way, for how sad it would be if the road you chose became the road not taken. Votes: 0

I regret less the road not taken than my all-fired hurry along the road I took. Votes: 0

Road rage is the expression of the amateur sociopath in all of us, cured by running into a professional. Votes: 0

Try to discover The road to success And you'll seek but never find, But blaze your own path And the road to success Will trail right behind. Votes: 0

What you must accept as a parent is that you cannot always be there for your child without sometimes ruining everything. Votes: 0

Charisma is not just saying hello. It's dropping what you're doing to say hello. Votes: 0

One day, in your search for happiness, you discover a partner by your side, and you realize that your happiness has come to help you search. Votes: 0

The secret to happiness is to put the burden of proof on unhappiness. Votes: 0

Seeking happiness, I passed many travelers headed in the opposite direction, seeking happiness. Votes: 0

Life is short, God's way of encouraging a bit of focus. Votes: 0

Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be. Votes: 0

Everything we possess that is not necessary for life or happiness becomes a burden, and scarcely a day passes that we do not add to it. Votes: 0

More good has been accomplished by simple people seeking their own honest ends than by all the philanthropists in history. Votes: 0

What a unique treasure are the things we have learned to live without, for no thief can take them from us. Votes: 0

Sometimes love needs a rest from caring, and so bears for an intolerable few hours the guilt of not caring. Votes: 0

The world knows how to straighten out a spoiled child but never makes it up to a child deprived. Votes: 0

Happiness is life served up with a scoop of acceptance, a topping of tolerance and sprinkles of hope, although chocolate sprinkles also work. Votes: 0

According to science, the universe began as a swirl of gas that, as it cooled, spun off the Ten Commandments. Votes: 0

Corporations no longer try to fit square pegs into round holes; they just fit them into square cubicles. Votes: 0

Parenting is a stage of life's journey where the milestones come about every fifty feet. Votes: 0

It's not that I'm a Type-B personality. It's that I'm driven by a passionate, all-consuming desire to take it easy. Votes: 0

Words from the past: "It's a clever idea, Mr. Bell, but don't wire us, we'll wire you. Votes: 0

Most marriages can survive 'better or worse'. The tester is all the years of 'exactly the same'. Votes: 0

A vacation trip is one-third pleasure, fondly remembered, and two-thirds aggravation, entirely forgotten. Votes: 0

If you can wear the hard times of your life as furrows on your brow, you can wear the good times as a twinkle in your eye. Votes: 0

Through the blackest night, morning gently tiptoes, feeling its way to dawn. Votes: 0

A painting is what you make of it, besides which, 'Moon, Weeping' has a better ring to it than 'Paintbrush, Dripping. Votes: 0

You never have a friend all figured out. Just when you think you know what makes them tick, they tock. Votes: 0

Dare to turn life on its end, and you may find that topsy-turvy is a truer perspective than turvy-topsy. Votes: 0

Science can reconstruct Tyrannosaurus Rex from a fossilized bone and a fancied footprint, but it can't reconstruct God from the whole of creation. Votes: 0

To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness. Votes: 0

Before you pledge your undying love to someone, make them promise they won't die. Votes: 0

The most valuable lesson man has learned from his dog is to kick a few blades of grass over it and move on. Votes: 0

In the end, success is not about who you know, it's about you know who. Votes: 0

You can as easily love without trusting as you can hug without embracing. Votes: 0

There are more lines formed than things worth waiting for. Votes: 0

A blogger is an average person who happens to have a need to count his friends every half hour. Votes: 0

A blogger is constantly looking over his shoulder, for fear that he is not being followed. Votes: 0

A bottle of wine Still to be drunk, A bundle of thoughts Still to be thunk. Votes: 0

A cat, after being scolded, goes about its business. A dog slinks off into a corner and pretends to be doing a serious self-reappraisal. Votes: 0

A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to. Votes: 0

A commuter tie-up consists of you "” and people who for some reason won't use public transit. Votes: 0

A dog is much like a married man, obeying his master's voice for the sake of his master's touch. Votes: 0

A family is a bunch of people who keep confusing you with someone you were as a kid. Votes: 0

A good speech has a beginning, a middle and an end, the best example being, 'I love you.' Votes: 0

A man sometimes wins an argument, but a woman always wins a silence. Votes: 0

A mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don't even have. Votes: 0

A nod, a bow, and a tip of the lid to the person who coulda and shoulda and did. Votes: 0

A paranoid thinks that sinister forces are out to get him, not realizing that they are out to get everybody. Votes: 0

A parent's love is whole, no matter how many times divided. Votes: 0

A relationship becomes easier when you realize that you don't have to be the one at fault to be the one who's sorry. Votes: 0

A rule that cannot be bent will certainly be broken. Votes: 0

A senseless tragedy remains forever tragic, but it is up to us whether it remains forever senseless. Votes: 0

A true friend sees past your excuses to the real reason it's not your fault. Votes: 0

A watched child never learns. Votes: 0

Act always from a sense of common humanity, and let God judge if it be charity. Votes: 0

After 5,000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, what part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn't a pessimist understand? Votes: 0

After a lifetime of deep thought, I've decided that life is a distraction, but probably not from anything important. Votes: 0

After years of buying clothes I intend to diet into, I'll say this: the skeleton in my closet has some really nice outfits. Votes: 0

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, said Browning, and so it has - extended by the length of an artist's brush. Votes: 0

Ah, the things we would do if we could "” especially in the secure knowledge that we can't. Votes: 0

Ah, yes, my social life "” a series of encounters where we briefly debate who is in the greater rush. Votes: 0

Alas, by the time Fate caught up with my life, Chance had it all planned. Votes: 0

Alexandros of Antioch took a block of marble and chiseled away from it everything that was not his masterpiece, the Venus de Milo. If you will chisel away one fault from your character every day, you may discover - a) that you're actually a statue of Margaret Thatcher. b) that you're still just a block of marble. c) that there are pigeon droppings on your shoes. d) that you, too, are a hidden masterpiece. Votes: 0

All is illusion, although as long as there's an illusion that the kids need to be fed, all might as well be reality. Votes: 0

All my life I've wanted, just once, to say something clever without losing my train of thought Votes: 0

All your life you pretend to be someone else, and it turns out that you were someone else pretending to be you. Votes: 0

Always keep your home presentable, assuming you keep a home for purposes of presentation. Votes: 0

Always laugh off a slight insult, so that people will understand what it means when you're not laughing. Votes: 0

Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological. Votes: 0

Always when judging Who people are, Remember to footnote The words "So far. Votes: 0

Am I keeping my promises? Votes: 0

Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself? Votes: 0

Among creatures born into chaos, a majority will imagine an order, a minority will question the order, and the rest will be pronounced insane. Votes: 0

Among life's regrets is all the time wasted being early for everything. Votes: 0

Among the things that you, and you alone, are the absolute and final judge of is whether or not you are a success. Votes: 0

An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject. Votes: 0

An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it. Votes: 0

An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness. Votes: 0

Anything we tell our kids about life is a placemarker until they figure it out for themselves. Votes: 0

Are you an artist? Look about you. Is there a physical tool whose use you have mastered, a part of your body that responds utterly to your control? Is your motive esthetic? If so, you are an artist. If not, you are probably a writer. Votes: 0

Art is an attempt to understand, yielding pleasure in the attempt whether or not we understand. Votes: 0

As a friend, you first give your understanding, then you try to understand. Votes: 0

As a general guideline, never marry anyone that you can't picture helping you go to the bathroom. Votes: 0

As a job seeker, remember this: You only lack experience if they want it done the same old way. Votes: 0

As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent - that it does not have to be recognized by others. Votes: 0

As any artist can tell you, it is easier to reach perfection than to stop there. Votes: 0

As important as it is to keep picking yourself up and brushing yourself off, it's also important to stop tripping over your own two feet. Votes: 0

As important as shared memories is the silent agreement that certain things never happened. Votes: 0

As important in a trusting relationship as the truths you share are the lies you never have to tell. Votes: 0

As to the Seven Deadly Sins, I deplore Pride, Wrath, Lust, Envy and Greed. Gluttony and Sloth I pretty much plan my day around. Votes: 0

As you reach for understanding, you find that your ladder of facts isn't long enough, and you try to extend it by adding a rung of faith. Eventually you see that the task is hopeless, and you put away your ladder of facts and go get a ladder of faith. Votes: 0

At my age, you not only have bittersweet memories, you make bittersweet plans. Votes: 0

At some point you must decide if you want to succeed or just be someone who was never to blame for anything going wrong. Votes: 0

At the end of the day, Mother Nature has only one question for us: 'What life did you nurture today? Votes: 0

Basically we are all looking for someone who knows who we are and will break it to us gently. Votes: 0

Be careful of selfish motives. You can mistake them for principles and end up dying for them. Votes: 0

Be happy, and a reason will come along. Votes: 0

Be it human or animal, touch is a life-giving thing. Has anyone ever had a stroke or a heart attack while cozied up with a pet? I doubt it. Votes: 0

Be the master of your fate, be the captain of your soul, but do not hesitate, should the chance befall you, to be the slave of your heart. Votes: 0

Be thoughtful of others and you will not be shy, for they are incompatible addictions. Votes: 0

Being loved by all is little fun Unless you're also loved by one. Votes: 0

Better you don't search for who you are until you know who it is you want to find. Votes: 0

Blogs seem to have two magnetic poles, one attracting friends, the other repulsing relatives. Votes: 0

Conscience is less an inner voice than the memory of a mother's glance. Votes: 0

Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to command by law what He had ensured by love. Votes: 0

Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one. Votes: 0

Dancing is moving to the music without stepping on anyone's toes, pretty much the same as life. Votes: 0

Dare to be imperfect and one day there will tug at your sleeve a soulmate. Votes: 0

Death is just another stage of life, although the one you kind of hope comes last. Votes: 0

Despite the goings-on in Congress, I don't believe the USA is bordering on madness. I believe Mexico and Canada are. Votes: 0

Do not ask that your kids live up to your expectations. Let your kids be who they are, and your expectations will be in breathless pursuit. Votes: 0

Do not be someone looking for [insert]. Be [insert] looking for someone. Suggestions for [insert]: "”love "”friendship "”understanding "”appreciation "”tolerance "”a helping hand "”a leg up "”an answer Votes: 0

Do not be surprised when those who ignore the rules of grammar also ignore the law. After all, the law is just so much grammar. Votes: 0

Do not call any work menial until you have watched a proud person do it. Votes: 0

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, not forgetting to leave others be as you would have them leave you be. Votes: 0

Do what you must, And your friends will adjust. Votes: 0

Does a rose exist that I might behold it? Or do I exist that a rose might be beheld? Votes: 0

Does it seem sometimes that you are always the one to break an embarrassing silence "” and always by saying something more embarrassing than the silence? Votes: 0

Doing one fool thing after another is not so terrible when you consider the human proclivity to do several fool things at once. Votes: 0

Each day learn something new, and just as important, relearn something old. Votes: 0

Each day, awakening, are we asked to paint the sky blue? Need we coax the sun to rise or flowers to bloom? Need we teach birds to sing, or children to laugh, or lovers to kiss? No, though we think the world imperfect, it surrounds us each day with its perfections. We are asked only to appreciate them, and to show appreciation by living in peaceful harmony amidst them. The Creator does not ask that we create a perfect world; He asks that we celebrate it. Votes: 0

Each morning I gaze at the eastern horizon, and if the sun keeps its promise, I keep mine. Votes: 0

Either way, things are a lot better - either a lot better than they were or a lot better than they're going to be. Votes: 0

Even at times when I don't care, I know exactly what I would care about if I did. Votes: 0

Even if you think the Big Bang created the stars, don't you wonder who sent the flowers? Votes: 0

Eventually the person who tries to fix the problem will be blamed for causing it. Votes: 0

Eventually you come to realize that most people aren't looking for a fight but for someone to surrender to. Votes: 0

Eventually you realize that not all opposing viewpoints come from people who oppose you. Votes: 0

Eventually you realize that your whole life up to now has been preparation, and you begin to suspect that the rest might be preparation, too. Votes: 0

Eventually, time takes care of everything. The trouble with procrastination is that people give up on it too soon. Votes: 0

Ever get the feeling that sometime early in your life there must have been a briefing that you missed? Votes: 0

Ever wonder where you'd end up if you took your dog for a walk and never once pulled back on the leash? Votes: 0

Every day ask yourself, "What would I do today if I were a better person? Votes: 0

Every day I go forth to seek my identity, feeling greatly blessed by the things I don't find it in. Votes: 0

Every day is conquerable by its hours, and every hour by its minutes. Votes: 0

Every great artist raises art to a science, and every great scientist raises science to an art, hence we have Michelangelo's David and Einstein's Theory of Relativity. Votes: 0

Every great painting is left incomplete at the point where its completion is obvious. Votes: 0

Everything happens for the purpose of what you decide to do about it. Votes: 0

Fate, Chance, God's Will "” we all try to account for our lives somehow. What are the chances that two raindrops, flung from the heavens, will merge on a windowpane? Gotta be Fate. Votes: 0

Few are humble, for it takes a self-esteem few possess. Votes: 0

Few can accept happiness if it means change. We want the life we have now, only happier. Votes: 0

First God created time; then God created man that man might, in the course of time, perfect himself; then God decided that He'd better create eternity. Votes: 0

For centuries, man believed that the sun revolves around the earth. Centuries later, he still thinks that time moves clockwise. Votes: 0

For every person who atones, a hundred others find regret sufficient. Votes: 0

For every person you can trust, there was first a child who was trusted. Votes: 0

For some it is love undeniably. For others it is making it work, never actually knowing what it is. Votes: 0

From an aunt, long ago: "Death has come for me many times but finds me always in my lovely garden and leaves me there, I think, as an excuse to return. Votes: 0

Genius is a plodding intellect, incapable of dreaming up the obstacles that stop the rest of us. Votes: 0

Get involved. You don't want to look back on your life and realize that you successfully managed to stay out of it. Votes: 0

God answers first the prayers we should have prayed. Votes: 0

God is not only all-knowing but all-not-telling. Votes: 0

God left so many fingerprints at the scene of Creation that you wonder "” does He want to be found, or does He want to be stopped? Votes: 0

God sends the dawn that we might see the might-have-beens that still might be. Votes: 0

Grammar is not a set of arbitrary rules; it is a compact between people who wish to understand each other. Votes: 0

Hamlet at 70: "To sleep, perchance to dream. To awaken, perchance to go to the bathroom." Votes: 0

Having perfected our disguise, we spend our lives searching for someone we don't fool. Votes: 0

Here is the basic question: Are we marionettes, or are we creatures of free will who just happen to have a lot of jerky reflexes? Votes: 0

History is man's best guess as to what the past would look like if everything had happened in chronological order. Votes: 0

Hope is a walk through a flowering meadow. One does not require that it lead anywhere. Votes: 0

How do you achieve success? Well, for one thing, you don't define it before you achieve it. Votes: 0

How do you tell an optimist that he or she has lived a happy life by mistake? Votes: 0

How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it. Votes: 0

How we long to remove the clutter from our lives not realizing that the clutter is our lives. Votes: 0

I am a private person, but I will reveal this about myself: if you start massaging my shoulders, don't expect me to tell you to stop. Votes: 0

I am never five minutes into stripping the clutter from my life before I start running into the clutter that is my life. Votes: 0

I am not certain of the hereafter. Frankly, I'm not all that certain of the here. Votes: 0

I am not your dog, but if every time you saw me, you gave me a backrub, I would run to greet you, too. Votes: 0

I am told to just be myself, but as much as I have practiced the impression, I am still no good at it. Votes: 0

I believe in a real, physical world. I figure if the world existed only in my mind, it would pay more attention to me. Votes: 0

I believe in animal rights, and high among them is the right to the gentle stroke of a human hand. Votes: 0

I complain that the years fly past, but then I look in a mirror and see that very few of them actually got past. Votes: 0

I count myself lucky, having long ago won a lottery paid to me in seven sunrises a week for life. Votes: 0

I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me. Votes: 0

I don't believe you really know God if you do not recognize His sense of humor. Votes: 0

I don't hate anyone. The only people I know well enough to hate, I love. Votes: 0

I don't think most people want to be unhappy. It's just something they've gotten good at. Votes: 0

I enjoy many silent moments with my cat, a conversation always resumed exactly where left off. Votes: 0

I find in old age that it's possible to revisit the past, the one requirement being that you come as you are. Votes: 0

I guess, when you get down to it, a loving touch compensates for an unskilled hand about everywhere except in an airplane cockpit. Votes: 0

I have fancied myself a rebel, but at every critical moment of my life, I have been exactly the child my parents raised. Votes: 0

I have never considered it my business to disabuse someone of a belief that makes life tolerable for them. Votes: 0

I have never met anyone who wanted to save the world without my financial support. Votes: 0

I hope some day to meet God, because I want to thank Him for the flowers. Votes: 0

I identify more with people who ask each day for divine guidance than people equipped with a divine guidance system. Votes: 0

I like friends who, when you tell them you need a moment alone, know enough not to stray too far. Votes: 0

I look back on the time I've wasted, and I'm just glad I wasted it while I still had the chance. Votes: 0

I look into the faces of people struggling with their own lives, and I do not see strangers. Votes: 0

I nod to a passing stranger, and the stranger nods back, and two human beings go off, feeling a little less anonymous. Votes: 0

I refuse to be burdened by vague worries. If something wants to worry me, it will have to make itself clear. Votes: 0

I respect more the person who struggles with his faith than the person who is confident in his skepticism. Votes: 0

I say to my child, I will explain to you as much of life as I can, but you must remember that there is a part of life for which you are the explanation. Votes: 0

I sit in my garden, gazing upon a beauty that cannot gaze upon itself. And I find sufficient purpose for my day. Votes: 0

I tell my child, if I seem obsessed to always know where you've been, it is because my DNA will be found at the scene. Votes: 0

I was once a skeptic but was converted by the two missionaries on either side of my nose. Votes: 0

I've concluded, after many years, that my mind works by process of elimination. Problem is, it hasn't eliminated anything yet. Votes: 0

If a language is corruptible, then a constitution written in that language is corruptible. Votes: 0

If a rabbit defined intelligence the way man does, then the most intelligent animal would be a rabbit, followed by the animal most willing to obey the commands of a rabbit. Votes: 0

If an artist has talent, he needs no other critic. Votes: 0

If animals could talk, the world would lose its best listeners. Votes: 0

If Creation were a crime, would not God be the prime suspect? Votes: 0

If God had intended me to make excuses for who I am, He would have given me better excuses. Votes: 0

If God had wanted to be a big secret, He would not have created babbling brooks and whispering pines. Votes: 0

If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I consider it the lesser chaos. Votes: 0

If I had it to do again, I would less often judge myself and more often ask for a jury. Votes: 0

If I had it to do again, I'd ask more questions and interrupt fewer answers. Votes: 0

If I had my life to live over, I'd have fewer meetings and more rendezvous. Votes: 0

If I were Opportunity, I wouldn't just knock, you'd have to sign. Votes: 0

If indeed the death of a child is part of a larger plan, you wonder if God ever considered a smaller plan. Votes: 0

If it doesn't work horizontally as prose... it probably won't work any better vertically pretending to be poetry. Votes: 0

If man were relieved of all superstition, and all prejudice, and had replaced these with a keen sensitivity to his real environment, and moreover had achieved a level of communication so simplified that one syllable could express his every thought, then he would have achieved the level of intelligence already achieved by his dog. Votes: 0

If there be no God, then what is truth but the average of all lies. Votes: 0

If there's anything better than a God-given talent, it's a God-given day job. Votes: 0

If we would listen to our kids, we'd discover that they are largely self-explanatory. Votes: 0

If we would see others as they see themselves, our shyness would soon become compassion. Votes: 0

If you aren't sure who you are, you might as well work on who you want to be. Votes: 0

If you can't explain something in a few words, try fewer. Votes: 0

If you could eavesdrop on everything said about you, you'd spend most of your time waiting for the subject to come up. Votes: 0

If you could travel back in time to the present moment, what would you do differently? Votes: 0

If you don't decide what your life is about, it defaults to what you spend your days doing. Votes: 0

If you don't watch out, putting on your unhappiness in the morning can become as instinctive as putting on your clothes. Votes: 0

If you feel you are down on your luck, check the level of your effort. Votes: 0

If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been. Votes: 0

If you haven't time to respond to a tug at your pants leg, your schedule is too crowded. Votes: 0

If you keep rephrasing the question, it gradually becomes the answer. Votes: 0

If you listed all the reasons for your faith, and all the things that make you cry, it would be essentially the same list. Votes: 0

If you ruled out partial successes, there would be no progress at all. Votes: 0

If you teach your children nothing else, teach them the Golden Rule and "righty-tighty, lefty-loosey. Votes: 0

If you think that someone is out to steal everything you have, you're either paranoid or a member of the middle class. Votes: 0

If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden. Votes: 0

I'm discovering that everybody is a closet quotesmith. Just give them a chance. Votes: 0

I'm right-handed, whereas the fellow in my mirror is left-handed Votes: 0

I'm right-handed, whereas the fellow in my mirror is left-handed. I start shaving from the left; he starts from the right. Differences only in perception, but religious wars have been fought over such. Votes: 0

In a dark moment I ask, "How can anyone bring a child into this world?" And the answer rings clear, "Because there is no other world, and because the child has no other way into it." Votes: 0

In a houseful of toddlers and pets, you can start out having a bad day, but you keep getting detoured. Votes: 0

In a soulmate we find not company but a completed solitude. Votes: 0

In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn't have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order. Votes: 0

In comparing religious belief to science, I try to remember that science is belief also. Votes: 0

In many areas of understanding, none so much as in our understanding of God, we bump up against a simplicity so profound that we must assign complexities to it to comprehend it at all. It is mindful of how we paste decals to a sliding glass door to keep from bumping our nose against it. Votes: 0

In nature we see where God has been. In our fellow man, we see where He is still at work. Votes: 0

In sinners and repenters you have the original division of labor. Votes: 0

In the best of relationships you have two people who cannot think of anything that was not part of the deal. Votes: 0

In the end the reason for anything is inseparable from the reason for everything. Votes: 0

In the end there doesn't have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to. Votes: 0

In the end you don't so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are. Votes: 0

In the end you regret less the things you believed that weren't true than the things that never came true because you didn't believe. Votes: 0

In the end, no thought is unthinkable, no problem unshrinkable, no two strangers unlinkable. Votes: 0

In the end, who among us does not choose to be a little less right to be a little less lonely. Votes: 0

In the great artist you see daring bound by discipline and discipline stretched by daring. Votes: 0

In the realist, you have the sorry sight of the five senses deprived of their imagination. Votes: 0

In the time it takes you to understand a 14-year-old, he turns 15. Votes: 0

In this, the late afternoon of my life, I wonder: am I casting a longer shadow or is my shadow casting a shorter me? Votes: 0

Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful. Votes: 0

It can be said of optimism that while sometimes mistaken, it is never sadly mistaken. Votes: 0

It finally happened - a lawsuit for wrongful doing unto others as you would have them do unto you. Votes: 0

It helps if you don't see it as traffic but rather as thousands of individuals resolved to press on another day. Votes: 0

It is a perversely human perception that animals in their native habitat are running wild. Votes: 0

It is a rare woman who can overcome her desire to remain pretty and allow herself to become beautiful. Votes: 0

It is a shame to see in the work of an artist the limitations of his critics. Votes: 0

It is easy to mistake being ready for a wedding with being ready for marriage. Votes: 0

It is not happiness until you capture it and store it out of the reach of time. Votes: 0

It is not necessary to be strong in every place if in the place you are vulnerable, you are loved. Votes: 0

It is not only possible to be the person you pretend to be, but there is less effort involved. Votes: 0

It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background. Votes: 0

It is sad when two people turn from the paths they're traveling, and their paths go on to cross without them. Votes: 0

It is seeing ourselves in others that often prompts the remark, 'There's something about that person I don't trust. Votes: 0

It is still possible to have friendly discourse in America, as long as you don't bring up any subject. Votes: 0

It is the abiding faith of mortals that mortality is a temporary condition. Votes: 0

It is the fancy of every mortal that being cradled in the arms of mortality is a safe place for the time being. Votes: 0

It is usually the case that people who know you better than you know yourself think you're a pretty good person. Votes: 0

It is when there is nothing you can say or do to help that a friend needs you the most. Votes: 0

It pleases me to take amateur photographs of my garden, and it pleases my garden to make my photographs look professional. Votes: 0

It's hard to make up your bed while you're still sleeping in it. Hard to make up your mind for the same reason. Votes: 0

It's my luck that every time I feel I completely comprehend God's plan, I don't have a pencil with me. Votes: 0

It's a nasty divorce when they can't agree on how to divvy up the His and Hers towels. Votes: 0

It's a safe bet that someone who tells you you need to calm down has never actually seen you when you needed to calm down. Votes: 0

It's annoying to be disapproved of by people who know only half the story, especially when you're not sure which half they know. Votes: 0

It's curious the way we get nostalgic for some hoped-for thing that never happened, as if something that never happened were in the past. Votes: 0

It's getting harder and harder to worry needlessly. Votes: 0

It's hard, sometimes, when nothing's stopping you, to know what's stopping you. Votes: 0

It's like this. Father Time keeps pitching the years at us. We swing and miss at a few. We hit a few out of the park. We try not to take any called strikes. Votes: 0

It's not that perfection cannot be achieved. It's that it's so hard to stop there. Votes: 0

It's sad when two people who could never part without a kiss come to the point where they never part and so never kiss. Votes: 0

It's still possible to be a cockeyed optimist these days - you just have to be a little more cockeyed. Votes: 0

I've been looking over the list of spring chores I made up last fall, and darned if they aren't fall chores, after all. Votes: 0

I've learned never to be surprised if what must inevitably happen happens right now. Votes: 0

I've lived enough of my life story to know this- Fate writes the book, but you make the movie. Votes: 0

Just as important as having a list of priorities is every once in a while starting from the bottom. Votes: 0

Just once it might be instructive to pretend you're accepting an award for failure, just to see who you would thank. Votes: 0

Know thyself, especially thyself after a couple of drinks. Votes: 0

Know thyself, or at least keep renewing the acquaintance. Votes: 0

Learn to listen. It's amazing the ideas that pop into your head while people are saying them into your ear. Votes: 0

Learning is a lifetime process, but there comes a time when we must stop adding and start updating. Votes: 0

Leash: n, a means by which animals, formerly running wild, are prevented from running tame, also. Votes: 0

Lend, by your imperfections, self-esteem to others, and you will be invited everywhere. Votes: 0

Life becomes easier when learn to accept the apology you never got. Votes: 0

Life is a brief opportunity to do something prehumously. Votes: 0

Life is a process by which a few desperate longings morph into a thousand meaningless wants. Votes: 0

Life is a series of tasks that you absolutely must get done before they don't matter any more. Votes: 0

Life is a vale of tears in which there are moments you just can't stop giggling. Votes: 0

Life is like sailing. You can use any wind to go in any direction. Votes: 0

Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius. Votes: 0

Life is not fair, nor has it ever been, but the morning seems determined to dawn until it is. Votes: 0

Life is too short to hold a grudge, also too long. Votes: 0

Life never tires of testing the proposition that life must go on. Votes: 0

Life starts out as partly destiny and partly free will, but then you have kids, and it's all destiny. Votes: 0

Looking back on a happy life, one realizes that one was not happy all the time. Votes: 0

Looking back on our lives, we invariably find that the person we pretended to be is the person we became. Votes: 0

Looking back you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life- and it was you. It is not too late to find that person again. Votes: 0

Looking back, you realize that everything would have explained itself if you had only stopped interrupting. Votes: 0

Love is a condition where the world seems to be standing still, and it's you who are spinning on your axis. Votes: 0

Love is at first a set of delusions, which, as time goes by, are discarded like training wheels, and you love truly. Votes: 0

Love is given to us as a time, but to keep it always, we must make it a place. Votes: 0

Love is not about grand intentions. It is about small attentions. Votes: 0

Love is the greatest touch-up artist of all. Votes: 0

Love may be blind, but if you've ever known a blind person, they still know where everything is. Votes: 0

Love may be blind, but this I'll state - it's eagle-eyed compared to hate. Votes: 0

Love thy neighbor, and if it requires that you bend your understanding of the truth, the Truth will understand. Votes: 0

Lovers needn't always agree, anymore than poetry need always rhyme. Votes: 0

Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress. Votes: 0

Man is the only animal who enjoys the consolation of believing in a next life; all other animals enjoy the consolation of not worrying about it. Votes: 0

Man, in his sensitivity, does not give names to animals he intends to eat but goes on giving names to children he intends to send to war. Votes: 0

Marriage is nature's way of ensuring that a woman picks up some mothering experience before she has her first child. Votes: 0

Material success is always tempered by the recollection that there was some kind of happiness that was supposed to come with it. Votes: 0

Mom - the person most likely to write an autobiography and never mention herself. Votes: 0

Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with. Votes: 0

Most often the person you would die for would settle for dinner and a movie. Votes: 0

Most people would rather defend to the death your right to say it than listen to it. Votes: 0

My eyesight's gone, my reflexes are shot, and I can't stay awake, but thank God I can still drive. Votes: 0

Name the season's first hurricane Zelda and fool Mother Nature into calling it a year. Votes: 0

Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of light. All other impossibilities are optional. Votes: 0

Never act until you have clearly answered the question: "What happens if I do nothing?" Votes: 0

Never ask, "What reason do I have to be happy?" Instead ask, "To what purpose can I attach my happiness? Votes: 0

Never mind the odds against you. If you doubled your effort, what would the odds against you do "” send for reinforcements? Votes: 0

Never point a finger where you never lent a hand. Votes: 0

Never use the passing years as an excuse for old age. Votes: 0

No man is so idle that he cannot rouse himself just enough to get in the way of a busy person. Votes: 0

No matter how reclusive we tend to be, we picture the after-life as a community of souls. It is one thing to seek privacy in this life; it is another to face eternity alone. Votes: 0

No matter how you hurry, you will notice at the end of the day that you traveled at the speed of time. Votes: 0

No matter what it is, if you aren't happy striving for it, you won't be happy achieving it. Votes: 0

No matter what you do in life, a part of you still sits at a curbside, still hearing the drumbeat of a distant parade, still waiting for it to turn the corner. Votes: 0

No one complains of being a prisoner of love who has ever been a prisoner of loneliness. Votes: 0

Nothing in life means anything unless someone cares, and the whole trick is to keep being that someone. Votes: 0

Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them. Votes: 0

Now and then it's good to list all the things you regularly do for which there was once a good reason. Votes: 0

Nowadays you envy a manic-depressive. Half the time he's happy, the other half he's right. Votes: 0

O, how much simpler things would be If eyes could paint or brush could see. Votes: 0

Occasionally ask, "What is the connection between what I want most in life and anything I plan to do today? Votes: 0

Of course I doubt. I do not practice a certainty. I practice a faith. Votes: 0

Of what use to get what you want if you must become someone else to get it. Votes: 0

Often it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams, assuming you don't drown in the metaphor. Votes: 0

Often what we take for a kindness is just someone acting in their capacity as a human being. Votes: 0

Often, what seems an impossible climb is just a staircase without the steps drawn in. Votes: 0

Oh, the things that go through my mind that I never say. Oh, the things I say that never go through my mind. Votes: 0

On the sixth day, God created the artist, realizing no doubt that He had far from exhausted the uses of color. Votes: 0

Once a man has won a woman's love, the love is his forever. He can only lose the woman. Votes: 0

Once an absurdity is accepted as truth, it will seem truer the more absurd it is shown to be. Votes: 0

Once you become the mommy or daddy in your child's world, it is the only world in which you exist, no matter how much you fancy there is a separate world of your own. Votes: 0

One can only imagine how effective justice might be if admissible in a court of law. Votes: 0

One day you just say "To heck with it," and you go looking for trouble, and you find happiness. Votes: 0

One is more apt to become wise by doing fool things than by reading wise sayings. Votes: 0

One key to success is to have lunch at the time of day most people have breakfast. Votes: 0

One learns to ignore criticism by first learning to ignore applause. Votes: 0

One must look hard through history to find when a clear understanding of the truth moved anyone to fire the first shot. Votes: 0

One of life's regrets is that you didn't always tell the truth, and now it's too late, because the truth has changed. Votes: 0

One of the great logical puzzles is how a woman is always like her mother but never like her sister. Votes: 0

One's dream is defeated not by unsolvable problems, but by all the more-or-less satisfactory solutions that kill it forever. Votes: 0

Opportunity is a parade. Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the distance. Votes: 0

Optimist: Someone who figures that taking a step backwards after taking a step forwards is not a disaster. It's a cha-cha. Votes: 0

Optimist: someone who isn't sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the play. Votes: 0

Our destiny hides among our free choices, disguised as the free-est of all. Votes: 0

Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don't understand. Votes: 0

Overheard in a Washington D.C. church confessional: "Bless me Father, for sins have been committed." Votes: 0

Parenthood is the passing of a baton, followed by a lifelong disagreement as to who dropped it. Votes: 0

People are resilient. After all, every person born has recovered from nine months on life support. Votes: 0

People ask how I think up my thoughts. Mostly I think them up while reading Paul Simon's lyrics. Votes: 0

Perception is a clash of mind and eye, the eye believing what it sees, the mind seeing what it believes. Votes: 0

Perchance God will pity a race that sought the better angels of its nature and found only its lesser demons. Votes: 0

Perhaps God gives us a physical body so that every time we change our mind, we won't be someone else. Votes: 0

Perhaps I have lived my life to excess, but know what "” if I had it to do over again, I would overdo it again. Votes: 0

Perhaps we are given a mom that we might take into death the memory of a lullaby. Votes: 0

Politicians don't lie, they misspeak. And they don't steal, they mispocket. Votes: 0

Present yourself always As who you would be, And that is the person The world will see. Votes: 0

Psychologists now recognize that the need in some people to have a dozen cats is really a sublimated desire to have two dozen cats. Votes: 0

Question reality, especially if it contradicts the evidence of your hopes and dreams. Votes: 0

Recalling days of sadness, memories haunt me. Recalling days of happiness, I haunt my memories. Votes: 0

Retirement is having nothing to do and someone always keeping you from it. Votes: 0

See yourself always as cause, and perhaps a better world will be found among your effects. Votes: 0

Seems like nothing ever brings you back to reality that makes you want to stay there. Votes: 0

Shall I redirect my life's journey because down some side road might be some trifle I'm entitled to? Votes: 0

Since the majority is always wrong, might we try one election day where all the losers take office? Votes: 0

Skepticism is a religion very rich in evangelists but very short on saviors. Votes: 0

So I said to myself, "There but for the grace of God go I," only to realize I was looking in a mirror and had seriously overestimated the grace of God. Votes: 0

So often our greatest triumph is a willing surrender. Votes: 0

So often the end of a love affair is death by a thousand cuts, so often its survival is life by a thousand stitches. Votes: 0

So often the shortest distance to happiness is the length of an about-face. Votes: 0

Some day man will travel at the speed of light, of small interest to those of us still trying to catch up to the speed of time. Votes: 0

Some forgive and forget, more forgive and remember, most forgive and remind. Votes: 0

Some have been to the mountain. I have been to my knees by the side of my bed. Votes: 0

Some say that true love is a mirage; seek it anyway, for all else is surely desert. Votes: 0

Someday a computer will give a wrong answer to spare someone's feelings, and man will have invented artificial intelligence. Votes: 0

Sometimes an answer not yet blowin' in the wind is stirring in the breeze. Votes: 0

Sometimes fate brings two people together by causing one to misinterpret a smile. Votes: 0

Sometimes I imagine a get-together where I introduce my family to my blogger friends and my blogger friends introduce my family to me. Votes: 0

Sometimes I sit up late with my thoughts, reluctant to fall asleep and leave my thoughts alone by themselves. Votes: 0

Sometimes I think my life would make a great TV movie. It even has the part where they say, "Stand by. We are experiencing temporary difficulties. Votes: 0

Sometimes I wonder "” if I were drop-dead handsome, and every woman I met actually dropped dead, would I ever get tired of it? Votes: 0

Sometimes in life we blow things out of proportion because proportion is so dull. Votes: 0

Sometimes in life you have an appointment with destiny, and sometimes you just have to get destiny to squeeze you in. Votes: 0

Sometimes in tragedy we find our life's purpose - the eye sheds a tear to find its focus. Votes: 0

Sometimes it is the person closest to us who must travel the furthest distance to be our friend. Votes: 0

Sometimes it's worth getting lost to see who will come looking for us. Votes: 0

Sometimes the answer to our prayers is to become the answer to someone else's prayers. Votes: 0

Sometimes the best way to forgive is to let the other person forget. Votes: 0

Sometimes the shortest distance between two points is a winding path walked arm in arm. Votes: 0

Sometimes to do the right thing, we must keep a promise we never made. Votes: 0

Sometimes we don't find the thing that will make us happy because we can't give up the thing that was supposed to. Votes: 0

Sometimes we give up a dream to play a larger role in someone else's dream. Votes: 0

Sometimes you believe a thing that isn't true because in the world you wish to live in, it would be true. Votes: 0

Sometimes, as practice for trying to convince myself that God exists, I try to convince my shadow that the sun exists. Votes: 0

Sometimes, perhaps, we are allowed to get lost that we may find the right person to ask directions of. Votes: 0

Stay out of the court of self-judgment, for there is no presumption of innocence. Votes: 0

Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits Votes: 0

That portion of reality that can be composed within a frame can be understood. Votes: 0

The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions. Votes: 0

The artist gazes upon a reality and creates his own impression. The viewer gazes upon the impression and creates his own reality. Votes: 0

The artist uses the talent he has, wishing he had more talent. The talent uses the artist it has, wishing it had more artist. Votes: 0

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead In fact maybe there is a lesson there for how we should approach the future...with fourteen parts optimism - anticipating what could go right and the benefits - and one part pessimism - anticipating what could go wrong so we can avoid them. Votes: 0

The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity. Votes: 0

The best solution seldom requires that someone be right and someone else be wrong. Votes: 0

The best things in life are not only free, but the line is shorter. Votes: 0

The best way to dispel negative thoughts is to require that they have a purpose. Votes: 0

The brain forgets much, but the lower back remembers everything. Votes: 0

The choice so often these days is to believe something that seems insane or go insane. Votes: 0

The clash between child and adult is never as stubborn as when the child within us confronts the adult in our child. Votes: 0

The difference between friends and pets is that friends we allow into our company, pets we allow into our solitude. Votes: 0

The easiest way to meet people is to just look like someone who is willing to listen. Votes: 0

The experience I gained at age 21 would be useful if I were ever 21 again. But I'm 71 and new at it and keep making age 71 mistakes. Votes: 0

The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. Votes: 0

The first goal of writing is to have one's words read successfully. Votes: 0

The first step toward telling the truth is to tell the whole lie. Votes: 0

The great enemy of achievement is a schedule already full. Votes: 0

The greatest gift we give to someone who loves us is simply to be happy. Votes: 0

The happiest memories are of moments that ended when they should have. Votes: 0

The hardest thing about reality is returning to it after an hour inside your child's mind. Votes: 0

The hardest thing to accept as a parent is that you cannot apply the bandage before the bruise. Votes: 0

The hardest thing to learn in the game of love is when to fold a winning hand. Votes: 0

The human species is made up of seven billion subspecies each consisting of one specimen. Votes: 0

The imagination is a palette of bright colors. You can use it to touch up memories "” or you can use it to paint dreams. Votes: 0

The key to enjoying the moment is to always carry a list of "Things I Gotta Do That Can Wait. Votes: 0

The last I heard from my destiny, it wanted me to make a legal U-Turn at my next opportunity. Votes: 0

The lesson of Good Friday is to never lose hope "” or at least give it 48 hours. Votes: 0

The Lord gives us friends to push us to our potential "” and enemies to push us beyond it. Votes: 0

The mind, as you age, Is an artist, it seems. Monet paints your mem'ries, Picasso your dreams. Votes: 0

The more side roads you stop to explore, the less likely that life will pass you by. Votes: 0

The most fundamental winning formula is to bet on human decency and be patient. Votes: 0

The older I get, the less time I want to spend with the part of the human race that didn't marry me. Votes: 0

The older you get, the fewer things it seems too late to do. Votes: 0

The painter needs all the talent of the poet, plus hand-eye coordination. Votes: 0

The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter his rhyme. Votes: 0

The people in your life who don't need an invitation still like to get one. Votes: 0

The problem with putting off things you've always wanted to do is that eventually you run out of always. Votes: 0

The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay. Votes: 0

The road to success is wherever people need another road. Votes: 0

The search for happiness is unlike any other search, for we search last in the likeliest places. Votes: 0

The Seven Deadly Sins are a litany of victimless crimes, compiled to distract attention from the bloody felonies of the righteous. Votes: 0

The shy and the extroverted have this in common "” that they both fancy they are the center of attention. Votes: 0

The strongest marriage is between two who seek the same God, the strongest friendship between two who flee the same devil. Votes: 0

The thing about a friendly smile is not just that it makes people like you but that it makes them like themselves. Votes: 0

The thing about family disasters is that you never have to wait long before the next one puts the previous one into perspective. Votes: 0

The toughest test of good judgment is to know when to withhold your better judgment. Votes: 0

The trick to getting ahead is to give it the same effort you give to getting even. Votes: 0

The trick to liking who you are is not to hate too much the person it turned out you weren't. Votes: 0

The trick to playing second fiddle is to play it like second Stradivarius. Votes: 0

The trouble with 'a place for everything and everything in its place' is that there's always more everything than places. Votes: 0

The trouble with always leaving yourself a way out is that you always take it. Votes: 0

The trouble with having a body is that people know it's where you hang out and you don't get any privacy. Votes: 0

The trouble with having a stubbornness contest with your kids is that they have your stubbornness gene. Votes: 0

The trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher. Votes: 0

The trouble with not being into social networking is that people think you're anti-social when you're only anti-networking. Votes: 0

The trouble with selfish motives is that they harden into principles, and you end up sending your kids to war for them. Votes: 0

The ultimate folly is to think that something crucial to your welfare is being taken care of for you. Votes: 0

The verdict is still out on my life, the judge having not yet instructed the jury, both of whom are me. Votes: 0

The wedding is where two people become one. The marriage is where they decide which one. Votes: 0

The willingness to share does not make one charitable; it makes one free. Votes: 0

The world is as many times new as there are children in our lives. Votes: 0

There are days when I'm alone with my thoughts, which is to say, not alone enough. Votes: 0

There are days when you need someone who just wants to be your sunshine and not the air you breathe. Votes: 0

There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate. Votes: 0

There are many experts on how things have been done up to now. If you think something could use a little improvement, you are the expert. Votes: 0

There are many things I do for amusement, but for happiness I like to gather up my memories and go for a walk in the rain. Votes: 0

There are memories I choose not to live with, but we hang out at the same bar. Votes: 0

There are more martyrs to nonsense than truth, truth preferring missionaries. Votes: 0

There are secrets I will take to the grave and others I'd feel safer having cremated. Votes: 0

There are subjects in which I wish to become knowledgeable, and subjects in which I wish to remain wise. Votes: 0

There are things I have wanted so long that I would only consent to have them if I could keep wanting them. Votes: 0

There are three dimensions of time, two of which contain happier days. Votes: 0

There are times when you seek your solitude, and your solitude just wants to be left alone. Votes: 0

There are truths of which I have an inkling, but of most I have only a pencilling Votes: 0

There comes a morning in life when you wake up a new person; that is to say, you wake up the same person but you realize it's your own fault. Votes: 0

There comes a point in a relationship when you realize that you trust someone enough to let them keep their secrets. Votes: 0

There comes a time when a man and woman realize that their separate schemes can be better achieved as a conspiracy. Votes: 0

There have been days when I sought respite from my life, only to find myself calling every hour to check on it. Votes: 0

There is a language of love, which is to say, a truth that does not tell all and a lie that does not deceive. Votes: 0

There is a limit to how much you can change to be liked for who you really are. Votes: 0

There is a logical explanation for everything, often mistaken for the reason it happened. Votes: 0

There is a purpose to our lives that each day tugs at our sleeve as an annoying distraction. Votes: 0

There is a strong chance that siblings who turn out well were hassled by the same parents. Votes: 0

There is a time early in life when there seem to be countless reasons for happiness, and then you discover your mom is making them up. Votes: 0

There is a what-the-hell moment in life when you feel you have been pre-punished for every sin you'll ever commit. Votes: 0

There is always a perfectly good excuse, always a reason not to. The hardest freedom to win is the freedom from one's excuses. Votes: 0

There is always sufficient reason for despair, but there is never sufficient purpose. Votes: 0

There is always, in the fine arts, a physical interface between the artist's esthetic vision and the material result he seeks. The interface may be the application of brush to canvas, chisel to marble, bow to string... It may be the control of voice in song or the control of body in dance. It is the mastery of the interface that comprises the artistry; it is what constitutes the 'art' in fine art. Votes: 0

There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child - and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own. Votes: 0

There is an ongoing battle between conscience and self-interest in which, at some point, we have to take sides. Votes: 0

There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct. Votes: 0

There is in every artist's studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist's discipline prevailed against his imagination. Votes: 0

There is in every truth a wise saying, and in every contradiction, two wise sayings. Votes: 0

There is never an embarrassing silence that can't be turned into a regrettable conversation. Votes: 0

There is no actual law that says that a person of inner beauty cannot also maintain an appearance. Votes: 0

There is no daily chore so trivial that it cannot be made important by skipping it two days running. Votes: 0

There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment. Votes: 0

There is no expert on what happiness is but many on what it might have been. Votes: 0

There is no harder thing to give up than the thing that was supposed to make you happy. Votes: 0

There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses. Votes: 0

There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude. Votes: 0

There is nothing in this world you cannot accomplish if you are willing to forfeit your deposit. Votes: 0

There is nothing more essential to getting a project off the ground than the underestimate. Votes: 0

There is part of us that stands in quiet witness to what we do, taking notes, waiting for a solitary moment to bring up the subject. Votes: 0

There was never a wise saying that couldn't be made wiser by adding the words, "and vice-versa. Votes: 0

There would be a lot more optimists if it weren't for the rise-and-shine requierement. Votes: 0

There's a lot of not caring that goes under the name of minding your own business. Votes: 0

There's nothing like self-improvement to get your friends to like you for who you were. Votes: 0

Things happen in everyday life that make you consider living your life just every other day. Votes: 0

Those who avoid the tough choices of life, live a life they never chose. Votes: 0

Though confined to our destiny, we do get to pick the color scheme. Votes: 0

Though the barriers of life seem formidable, we find when we challenge them that they have no will. Votes: 0

Though we often wonder why God does what he does, we can be sure he does it on better information. Votes: 0

Though you lose all hope, there is still hope, and it loves to surprise. Votes: 0

Through faith we learn to believe the evidence of our eyes. Votes: 0

Through sources, we have obtained the following alien assessment of the human species: The male wants to be valued for what he pretends to be. The female wants to be overvalued for what she truly is. Votes: 0

Time brings an end to everything. We should not mistake for a tragedy what is no more than the passage of time. Votes: 0

To a small child, the perfect granddad is unafraid of big dogs and fierce storms but absolutely terrified of the word "boo." Votes: 0

To accept on faith is the basic requirement for getting on with life. Votes: 0

To accept reality is only to encourage it. Votes: 0

To be happy, you must fancy that everything you have is a gift, and you the chosen, though you worked your tail off for every bit of it. Votes: 0

To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid. Votes: 0

To find someone who will love you through success and failure is to discover how little life has to do with either. Votes: 0

To have success, you can't let failure stop you. To have great success, you can't let success stop you. Votes: 0

To help someone in need is not charity it is proper etiquette. Votes: 0

To hurt someone you know will forgive you is the unkindiest thing of all. Votes: 0

To stretch the truth is to tell a lie. Votes: 0

To the student I would say, "Life is principally multiple choice, but at the end there's a tough essay question. Votes: 0

To trade a childhood wonder for a plausible explanation - is there a worst trade one makes in life? Votes: 0

To truly forgive is to allow the other person to forget. Votes: 0

Today, befriend a stranger, or if you feel up to more of a challenge, befriend a loved one. Votes: 0

Today's Multiple Choice Thought There is no place where a loving touch so completely compensates for an unskilled hand as in: a. the bedroom b. the nursery c. the garden Votes: 0

Today's Parenting Tip: Treat a difficult child the way you would your boss at work. Praise his achievements, ignore his tantrums and resist the urge to sit him down and explain to him how his brain is not yet fully developed. Votes: 0

Toss your dashed hopes not into a trash bin but into a drawer where you are likely to rummage some bright morning. Votes: 0

Turn your love into promises, that when you doubt your love, you may simply ask, "Am I keeping my promises?" Votes: 0

Two people can have a middling day, but one rounds up and the other rounds down. Votes: 0

Two things are owed to truthfulness: lasting marriages and short friendships. Votes: 0

U.S. Internal Revenue Service: an agency modeled after the revenue raising concepts of the 19th century economist, Jesse James. Votes: 0

Usually the woman has an appointment with destiny, and the man just happens to be there. Votes: 0

Usually, when you can't overcome the obstacles in your path, it's not your path. Votes: 0

We all know the part of us that needs to be harnessed. It takes someone else to know the part of us that needs to be set free. Votes: 0

We all know them "” the unstructured person whose every action seems aimless and the totally organized person whose every action defeats some purpose. Votes: 0

We are each a dozen people who were all the same child. Votes: 0

We are each of us born into the arms of mortality, the Lord recognizing our need to be held. Votes: 0

We are each the star of our own situation comedy, and, with luck, the screwball friend in somebody else's. Votes: 0

We are Godseekers all, though some be churchgoing believers and others pilgrims to an unknown shrine. Votes: 0

We are kept from our goal, not by obstacles, but by a clear path to a lesser goal. Votes: 0

We are known to our friends by a look in our eyes that we never see in a mirror. Votes: 0

We are, many of us, a planet orbiting somebody's sun, unconscious of a lonely moon, orbiting our planet. Votes: 0

We envy others, for we see their lives in broad outline, while forced to live ours in every detail. Votes: 0

We find things where we look for them, which is why I never look for a golf ball out of bounds. Votes: 0

We find things where we look for them. Votes: 0

We gain no easier advantage than by relentlessly pursuing our goal while others pursue an advantage. Votes: 0

We have a choice every day "” to act on yesterday's good intentions or get an early start on tomorrow's regrets. Votes: 0

We lack resolve and blame fate, mistaking the drift for the tides. Votes: 0

We never give up wanting things for ourselves, but there comes a day when what we want for ourselves is someone else's happiness. Votes: 0

We realize we can't have everything, and so begins the mad dash to have everything else. Votes: 0

Wealth and wisdom are seldom combined, for the person who achieves one no longer desires the other. Votes: 0

What a blessing to be alone with your thoughts when so many are alone with their inability to think. Votes: 0

What a snapshot is to your life, your life is to eternity, so wouldn't it be nice if eternity captured you smiling? Votes: 0

What are memories but dreams of a better past. Votes: 0

What do we ask of friendship except to be taken for what we pretend to be - and without having to pretend. Votes: 0

What good is love if you never ask anything of it? Votes: 0

What happens if I do nothing? Votes: 0

What if man were required to educate his children without the help of talking animals. Votes: 0

What is certainty but the refuge of those whose faith is not strong enough to entertain doubt. Votes: 0

What is it that we all believe in that we cannot see or hear or feel or taste or smell "” this invisible thing that heals all sorrows, reveals all lies and renews all hope? What is it that has always been and always will be, from whose bosom we all came and to which we will all return? Most call it Time. A few realize that it is God. Votes: 0

What is reality but the dreamworld of a limited imagination. Votes: 0

What is the fire in our belly but the eternal flame of a thousand ancestors. Votes: 0

What to do with your one life? The same thing you would do if you had two lives, and this were the second. Votes: 0

What we find in a soulmate is not something wild to tame but something wild to run with. Votes: 0

What we have earned by the sweat of our brow, we defend with pride. What we have gained by the accident of birth, we guard with prejudice. Votes: 0

What we seek in the end is not unconditional love but a love for which we, uniquely in all the world, meet all the conditions. Votes: 0

What you discover about life's shell game is that it's hardest to follow the pea when you're the pea. Votes: 0

What you discover about people you try not to offend is that you can offend them without trying. Votes: 0

What you discover in a democracy is that it is difficult to build a house when each nail has an opinion. Votes: 0

What you don't realize as a kid is that if your parents are always going to be there for you, they aren't going to be somewhere else doing exciting and glamorous things. Votes: 0

Whatever you put aside to seek happiness, remember where you put it. Votes: 0

When compiling his great dictionary, the young Noah Webster travels to the Himalayas, where he climbs to the cave of the world's wises man. 'O, great sage,' he says, 'tell me the meaning of life.' The sage sits Noah at his feet and, with great solemnity, commences to unfold the meaning of life. When finished, he places a hand on the young man's shoulder and says, 'Do you have any other questions, my son?' Noah flips a page in his notebook and says, 'You wouldn't know the meaning of lift, would you?' Votes: 0

When I am gone, my love, do not look for me in the places we used to go to together. Look for me in the places we always planned to go to together. Votes: 0

When it seems that something can't be done, start it, and see if the rest of it can be done. Votes: 0

When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars. Votes: 0

When there is hell to pay, it is usually cheaper to pay it than to finance an endless purgatory. Votes: 0

When you have brought up kids, there are memories you store directly in your tear ducts. Votes: 0

Where the loser saw barriers, the winner saw hurdles. Votes: 0

Wherever a mom goes, a prayer has been already there. Votes: 0

While I find that I can keep my nose out of other people's business, I do have a curiosity as to their non-business activities. Votes: 0

While I occasionally enjoy a bout of nostalgia, I would generally rather dream forward than backward. Votes: 0

Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying to be any of them. Votes: 0

Whoever dreamed up Scrabble had an exaggerated idea of how many 7-letter words have five i's. Votes: 0

Why be saddled with this thing called life expectancy? Of what relevance to an individual is such a statistic? Am I to concern myself with an allotment of days I never had and was never promised? Must I check off each day of my life as if I am subtracting from this imaginary hoard? No, on the contrary, I will add each day of my life to my treasure of days lived. And with each day, my treasure will grow, not diminish. Votes: 0

Why try to be someone you're not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required. Votes: 0

Why try to explain miracles to your kids when you can just have them plant a garden. Votes: 0

Without faith there is no truth, for that is all the truth is or ever was. Votes: 0

Worse than telling a lie is spending the rest of your life staying true to a lie. Votes: 0

Yes, I believe in guardian angels, because otherwise I must believe that life is a string of death-defying miracles - and I don't believe in miracles. Votes: 0

Yes, to be a good parent, you have to sacrifice, but this is not a requirement of parenting, it is a requirement of being good at something. Votes: 0

You can accept a falling out that changes your plans, but it's hard to accept a betrayal that changes your memories. Votes: 0

You can accept reality, or you can persist in your purpose until reality accepts you. Votes: 0

You can awaken each day to obligations you never chose "” or you can decide now to choose them. Votes: 0

You can be happy with someone who likes you despite your faults - until you meet someone who likes your faults. Votes: 0

You can be sad recalling sad times, but if you really want to be sad, recall happy times. Votes: 0

You can bear your troubles or shrug them off. They're your shoulders. Votes: 0

You can hope for a miracle in your life, or you realize that your life is the miracle. Votes: 0

You can't postpone sorrow, so why would you postpone happiness? Votes: 0

You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest. Votes: 0

You don't realize how little accuracy there is in network TV reporting until they cover a story in your hometown. Votes: 0

You don't want to get to the end of life's journey and discover you never left the interstate. Votes: 0

You get to an age when there are really just two reasons to get up in the morning "” for goodness sake and for heaven's sake. Votes: 0

You live long enough in a world spinning on its axis, you learn to spin in the same direction. Votes: 0

You never get people's fuller attention than when you're listening to them. Votes: 0

You spend 90% of your adult life hoping for a long rest and the last 10% trying to convince the Lord that you're actually not that tired. Votes: 0

You spend the first two-thirds of your life asking to be left alone and the last third not having to ask. Votes: 0

You will find that if you really try to be a father, your child will meet you halfway. Votes: 0

You will not find a soulmate in the quiet of your room. You must go to a noisy place and look in the quiet corners. Votes: 0

Your clothes smell heavily of clothing. Your den is filled with low-hanging palls of fresh air. The only rattle in your car is the sound of toll change in the ashtray. The absence of telltale tobacco stains on your shirt collar tells the tale - you've licked the smoking habit. Votes: 0

You're never too old. Unfortunately, you're always too young to know it. Votes: 0