"Stop and smell the breeze…"

Kiss the sound that pounds your senses

"Always be in love with someone, even if it is with yourself…"

A smile is a curve that can straighten out a lot of things

"Despite everything, I believe that people really are good at heart." Anne Frank

People are like stained-glass windows.
They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when the darkness sets in,
their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly."

Buddha

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
Winston Churchill

"The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."

Allan K. Chalmers

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."
Helen Keller

"Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;
And all good things are yours."
Swedish Proverb

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."

Anon

"Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up."
Anon

"Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well."

Josh Billings

"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."

Albert Einstein

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."
William James

My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends--
It gives a lovely light!
Edna St. Vincent Millay

"Live every day as if it were your last, because one of these days, it will be."
Jeremy Schwartz

"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages."

William Shakespeare

For some life lasts a short while, but the memories it holds last forever.
Laura Swenson

There’s a miracle of friendship that
dwells within the heart
And you don’t know how it happens
or where it gets its start
But the happiness it brings you
always gives a special lift
Any you realize that friendship
Is God’s most perfect gift.

Anon

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good thing, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow human being let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

Stephen Grellet

"Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality."
Frank Herbert

"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world."

Buddha

"Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open." Lord Thomas Dewar

"Thinking: The talking of the soul with itself."

Plato

"The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it."

Colin Wilson

"Hope" is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.

I've heard it in the chillest land
And on the strangest sea,
Yet never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.
Emily Dickinson

"Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good."
Vaclav Havel

"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."

William Jennings Bryan

"Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him."
Henry Miller

"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."
William Shakespeare

"You can never plan the future by the past."

Edmund Burke

"Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life."
Norton Juster

"Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you."
Anon

"They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel."

Carl W. Buechner

"I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is."
Vladimir Nabokov

"As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape."
John Lancaster Spalding

Rules for a better life: ONE. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully. >> >>TWO. Marry a man/woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their >>conversational skills will be as Important as any other. >> >>THREE. Don't believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all >>you want. >> >>FOUR. When you say, "I love you," mean it. >> >>FIVE W hen you say, "I'm sorry," look the person in the eye. >> >>SIX. Be engaged at least six months before you get married. >> >>SEVEN. Believe in love at first sight. >> >>EIGHT. Never laugh at anyone's dreams. People who don't have dreams >>don't have much. >> >>NINE. Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it's the >>only way to live life completely. >> >>TEN. In disagreements, fight fairly. No name calling. >> >>ELEVEN. Don't judge people by their relatives >> >>TWELVE. Talk slowly but think quickly. >> >>THIRTEEN. When someone asks you a question you don't want to >>answer, smile and ask, "Why do you want to know?" >> >>FOURTEEN. Remember that great love and great achievements involve >>great risk. >> >>FIFTEEN. Say "bless you" when you hear someone sneeze. >> >>SIXTEEN. When you lose, don't lose the lesson >> >>SEVENTEEN. Remember the three R's: Respect for self; Respect for >>others; and Responsibility for all your actions. >> >>EIGHTEEN. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship. >> >>NINETEEN. When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate >>step to correct it. >> >>TWENTY. Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in >>your voice. >> >>TWENTY-ONE. Spend some time alone.

Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)