who said that?

[Snowy]

ok I post a quote..next person names who said it then posts a new quote...then that person names the person and posts another one...etc.


"Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content."

 

[Snowy]

bumps this thread

 

[brinny]

Helen Keller

"If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it."

 

[~ Gig ~]

Mary Engelbreit

"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.'

 

[brinny]

Henry Miller (That's profound!)

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

 

[Snowy]

Franklin P. Adams


"The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it."

 

[brinny]

Doug Larson

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

 

[~ Gig ~]

Theodore Isaac Rubin

"We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace."

 

[brinny]

William Ewart Gladstone

Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.

 

[Kuwanyauma]

William Golding

"Life is too important to be taken seriously."

 

[brinny]

Oscar Wilde

No more fiendish punishment could be devised, were such a thing physically possible, than that one should be turned loose in society and remain absolutely unnoticed.

 

[~ Gig ~]

William James

No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos.

 

[brinny]

D.H. Lawrence

We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.

 

[Snowy]

Julius Charles Hare


If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

 

[brinny]

Epictetus

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.

 

[justabitofhelp]

Eve Babitz

Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out alive

 

[brinny]

Elbert Hubbard

You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand.

 

[Snowy]

Samuel Johnson


Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations that they become the only things that we can focus on. What we forget is that God's love and beauty are all around us, every day, if only we would take the time to look up and see them.

 

[brinny]

Matthias

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

 

[~ Gig ~]

Sydney J Harris


"Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead"