Living Life ~

"I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one's inner life. And that too is a deed."
– Etty Hillesum

"What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers."
– Matina Horner

"Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing."
– Socrates

"There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do."
– Freya Stark

Taking risks

"Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash."
– George S. Patton

Your Inner Voice

"It is wisdom to believe the heart."
– George Santayana

"None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone."
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We arrive at the truth, not by the reason only, but also by the heart."
– Blaise Pascal

"No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings." - William Blake

"To thine own self be true." - author unknown

"Only from the heart can you touch the sky." - Rumi

"Make the most of yourself... for that is all there is of you." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust (a favorite)

"If you pray for rain, be prepared to deal with some mud." - unknown

"If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters." - Abigail Van Buren (Dear Abby)

Hope

"Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence."
– Lin Yutang

"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 been opened for us."
– Helen Keller

Success

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."
– Sir Winston Churchill

"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."
– Thomas Jefferson

"Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it.…Success is shy — it won't come out while you're watching."
– Tennessee Williams

"Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success."
– Swami Sivananda Saraswati

"Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny."
– Don Sutton

"Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision."
– Peter Drucker

"If no one ever took risks, Michelangelo would have painted on the Sistine floor."
– Neil Simon

"Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do the best."
– Marva Collins

Life's Challenges ~

"No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched."
– George Jean Nathan

"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment."
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A person who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
– Albert Einstein

"Ruin and recovering are both from within."
– Epictetus

"We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same."
– Carlos Castaneda

"Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, they never get around to do what they want to do."
– Kathleen Winsor

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
– Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"When you get into a tight place and it seems that you can't go on, hold on — for that's just the place and the time that the tide will turn."
– Harriet Beecher Stowe

All About Love ~

Mom Quotes

Our Precious Daughters...

Our Little Boys...

Motivation/Believe in Yourself!

"Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozey, and don't be afraid to hit the ball."
– Billie Jean King

"Your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be."
– Raymond Charles Barker

"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits."
– Thomas A. Edison

"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."
– Vincent van Gogh

"Believe that you can do it, under any circumstances. Because if you believe you can, then you really will. That belief just keeps you searching for the answers, then pretty soon you get it."
– Wally "Famous" Amos

"Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win the race!"
– Charles Dickens

"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit."
– e. e. cummings

Friendship Quotes

Family Quotes

A little quote crazy...

I have always loved to collect quotes. The challenge has always been how to collect them and where to put them so I could share them with others if I so desired. Creating another blog was an easy solution!