Gems for Thought

“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by
the friends we choose.”

– Tennessee Williams

“There is nothing like a challenge to bring out the best in
man.”

– Sean Connery

“Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do.
Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of
little children.”

– Alex Haley

“Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work
hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.”

– Julie Andrews

“There comes a time in your life, when you walk away from all the drama and people who create it. You surround yourself with people who make you laugh. Forget the bad, and focus on the good. Love the people who treat you right, pray for the ones who don’t. Life is too short to be anything but happy. Falling down is a part of life, getting back up is living.”
– Unknown

“This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.”
– Captain J. A. Hadfield

“Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can
describe it only from the vantage point of distance.”
– Charles Lindbergh

“When you give your children knowledge, you are telling them what to think. When you give your children wisdom, you do not tell them what to know, or what is true, but, rather, how to get to their own truth.”
– Neale Donald Walsch

“If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together… there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart… I’ll always be with you.”
– Winnie the Pooh

“Instead of giving myself reasons why I can’t, I give myself
reasons why I can.”
– Unknown

“You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage – pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically – to say no to other things. And the way to do that is by having a bigger yes burning inside.”
– Stephen Covey

“You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your
best and still don’t win, at least you can be satisfied that
you’ve tried. If you don’t accept failure as a possibility,
you don’t set high goals, you don’t branch out, you don’t try
- you don’t take the risk.”

– Rosalynn Carter

“To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you’re overdoing it.”
– Josh Jenkins

“Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult
as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.”
– Baltasar Gracian

“There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great and no
tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.”
– O.S. Marden

“The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.”
– Wallace Wattles

“Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do.
Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of
little children.”
– Alex Haley

“Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.”
– Julia Child

“In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.”
– Warren Buffett

“Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their
shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them, and you have their shoes.”

– Frieda Norris

“This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.”
– Captain J. A. Hadfield

“You’re never too old to become younger.”
– Mae West

“There is but one success — to be able to spend your life in
your own way.”
– Christopher Morley

“A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.”
– George Washington

“Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is
never the result of selfishness.”
– Napoleon Hill

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
– Oscar Wilde

“A life without criticism is not worth living”

–Plato

“The highest result of education is tolerance”

– Helen keller

“He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not, remains a fool forever”

– Confucius

“There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light in small candle”

– Unknown

“Anyone can be polite a king, but it takes a gentleman to be polite to a beggar”

– Anon

“Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.”
– Martha Stewart

“A lot of life is dealing with your curse, dealing with the
cards you were given that aren’t so nice. Does it make you
into a monster, or can you temper it in some way, or accept it and go in some other direction?”
– Wes Craven

“No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore,
you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.”
– Barbara de Angelis

“Never be ashamed! There’s some who’ll hold it against you,
but they’re not worth bothering with.”
– J. K. Rowling

“The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from
harm until the end of your days.”
– Lao Tzu

“Every problem or difficulty you face contains the seed of an equal or greater advantage or benefit.”
– Napoleon Hill

“You have to decide if you’re going to wilt like a daisy or if
you’re just going to go forward and live the life that you’ve
been granted.”
– Kevin Costner

“To know what you want, to understand why you’re doing it, to dedicate every breath in your body to achieve… If you feel you have something to give, if you feel that your particular talent is worth developing, is worth caring for then there’s nothing you can`t achieve.”
– Kevin Spacey

“Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do
something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don’t use that ability as best we can.”
– Gracie Allen

“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of
principle, stand like a rock.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish
the rest.”

– Mark Twain