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A Bit O' Wisdom
...just some o' my favorite quotes I've collected along life's journey.




May your day be filled with blessings,
like the sun that lights the sky
and may you always have the courage
to spread your wings and fly.
~author unknown


However long the night, the dawn will break.
~an African proverb


"What happiness there is when I awake
to find near me the gift of a Morning!
~Abbie Graham


"Just living is not enough" said the butterfly fairy,
one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower.
~Hans Christian Andersen


May you never forget what is worth remembering,
nor remember what is best forgotten.
~an Irish Blessing


In the depths of winter I finally learned
there was in me an invincible summer.
~Albert Camus


We have no right to ask, when sorrow comes...
Why did this happen to me?
...unless we ask the same question for every joy that comes our way.
~Philip S. Bernstein


If I create from the heart, nearly everything works;
if from the head, almost nothing.
~Marc Chagall


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


A musician must make music, an artist must paint,
a poet must write, if he is to be at peace with himself.
What a man can be, he must be.
~Abraham Maslow


Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame
by an encounter with another human being.
Each of us owes the deepest thanks
to those who have rekindled this inner light.
~Albert Schweitzer


All living creatures and all plants
derive their life from the sun.
If it were not for the sun,
there would be darkness and nothing could grow—the earth would be without life.
~Okute, TETON SIOUX


Dogs come when they're called,
cats take a message and get back to you.
~Mary Bly


When one door closes another door opens;
but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the
closed door that we do not see the ones which
have opened for us.
~Alexander Graham Bell


If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not have lived in vain.
If I can ease one life from aching,
Or cool one life from pain,
Or help one fainting robin into the nest again,
I shall not have lived in vain.
~Emily Dickinson


If you want your dreams to come true, don't sleep.
~Yiddish Proverb


A joyful heart is like the sunshine of God's love,
the hope of eternal happiness.
~Mother Teresa


If you love someone write their name in a circle not a heart.
A heart can be broken but a circle goes on forever.
~Author Unknown


Children are a lot like programming a computer,
just more difficult to delete installed information.
~Joe Matlock, from his book, 'Foster Home'


Although the world is full of suffering,
it is full also of the overcoming of it.
~Helen Keller


Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
Only through experience of trial and suffering
can the soul be strengthened,
vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
~Helen Keller


No clever arrangement
of bad eggs will make a good omelet.
~C.S. Lewis


It is good to be children sometimes,
and never better than at Christmas,
when its mighty founder was a child Himself.
~Charles Dickens


All I ask is for people
to wash their feet before they try to walk on me.
~Alanis Obomsawin, ABENAKI


Making the decision to have a child is momentous,
it is to decide forever to have your heart
go walking around outside your body.
~Elizabeth Stone


The writing of a poem
is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft.
You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.
~James Fenton, poet & professor


If you find that durable joy is fading in your heart,
you might do well to pay attention to
your passions, your purposes, and your pursuits.
~Thomas Kinkade


When a man is wrapped up in himself
he makes a pretty small package.
~John Ruskin


She taught me to love when all I wanted to do was hate;
she taught me to help others when all I wanted to do was help myself.
~Elizabeth Glaser, speaking of the death of her 7-year-old daughter Ariel from AIDS


Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk.
That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
~Ernest Hemingway


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








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