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Karen & Jocelyn's Quote Page
True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome.
True hope responds to the real world, to real life; it is an active effort.
I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
"Don't be afraid to be weak, don't be too proud to be strong... Don't care what people say, just follow your own way."
-- Enigma
"I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work the more of it I seem to have."
-- Coleman Cox
"The key to willpower is wantpower. People who want something bad enough can usually find the willpower to achieve it."
"We are a product of the choices we make, not the circumstances that we face."
-- Roger Crawford
"Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek."
-- Mario Andretti
"May the pain you have known and the conflict you have experienced give you the strength to walk through life facing each new situation with courage and optimism."
"After a while you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul. You learn that love doesn't mean leaning and company doesn't mean security. You begin to learn that kisses aren't contracts and presents aren't promises. You begin to accept your defeats with your head up and your eyes open, with the grace of an adult, not the grief of a child. You learn to build all your roads on today because tomorrow's ground is too uncertain for plans. After a while you learn that even sunshine burns if you get too much. So you plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. You learn that you really can endure, that you really are strong, and you really do have worth."
The question in life is not whether you get knocked down. You will. The question is, are you ready to get back up... And fight for what you believe in?
Life is difficult.
This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult--once we truly understand and accept it--then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.
"Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times."
"The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want."
-Ben Stein
"The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher."
-Thomas Henry Huxley,
"The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."
-Allan K. Chalmers
"Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results."
-James Allen
"Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions."
-Ben Stein
Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
"The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem."
-Theodore Rubin
"The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it."
-Alan Saporta
"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, Aphorisms and Reflections
"Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember."
-Virgil, Aenid
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."
"Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well."
-Josh Billings
"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself."
-Harvey Fierstein
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."
-Dale Carnegie
"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
"Beware how you take away hope from another human being."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."
-Johann von Goethe
"The harder you work, the luckier you get."
-McAlexander
"To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day."
-Sir Winston Churchill
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."
-Hellen Keller
"I can't escape the thought of you. Even in my dreams you are there. It's not fair how your gone, and how you're moving on so fast, while I am still living in the past."
Submitted by Danthuman
"It is better to dream about a love because that way you'll always be together. And that love will always be forever."
Submitted by Anonymous
How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox. One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse. There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.
"The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem."
-Theodore Rubin
"The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it."
-Alan Saporta
"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, Aphorisms and Reflections
"Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember."
-Virgil, Aenid
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."
-Anon.
"Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well."
-Josh Billings
"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself."
-Harvey Fierstein
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."
-Dale Carnegie
"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
"Beware how you take away hope from another human being."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."
-Johann von Goethe
"The harder you work, the luckier you get."
-McAlexander
"To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day."
-Sir Winston Churchill
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."
-Hellen Keller
"I can't escape the thought of you. Even in my dreams you are there. It's not fair how your gone, and how you're moving on so fast, while I am still living in the past."
Submitted by Danthuman
"It is better to dream about a love because that way you'll always be together. And that love will always be forever."
"If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were."
"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up."
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage."
-Lao-Tzu
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.
"The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it."
"As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape."
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."
"Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well."
"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself."
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."
"Beware how you take away hope from another human being."
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."
"Don't ever give up if you still want to try, don't ever wipe your tears if you still want to cry. Don't ever settle for an answer if you still want to know. Don't ever say you don't love him if you can't let him go."
"You hurt me more than I deserve, how can you be so cruel? I love you more than you deserve, why am I such a fool?"
"Love... Why does it hurt? Why does it ache? Maybe because we love too much and too deep that somteimes we forget to keep a little for ourselves...
"I wish I could see through your eyes so I would know what you like to see. I wish I knew your wishes, so I could give you everything you want. I wish I dreamed the same dreams you do, and together we could make them come true. I wish I knew what makes you happy, so I could make you the happiest person in the whole world."
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