"Words of Wisdom"
 

Anyone else "collect" quotes? Thought I'd start this thread so we can share some of our favorite inspirational sayings...

Here's one of my best:

"Life's a banquet, but most poor fools are starving to death!"

--Auntie Mame

Great idea, Nut!

"No one arrives from being talented alone.
God provides talent; work transforms talent into genius."

--Anna Pavlova
(famous ballerina - the original "Dying Swan")

Another "pearl" ...
 

When Wayne Gretsky, the ice hockey legend, was asked about the secret to his success, he said:

"Skate to where the puck is going, not to where it is"

I believe in God’s master plan in lives. He moves people in and out of each other’s lives and each leaves his mark on the other. You find you are made up of bits and pieces of all who have ever touched your life and you are more because of it, and you would be less if they had not touched you. Pray that you accept the bits and pieces in humility and wonder. Never question and never regret.

I have pages and pages of quotes on my computer but here are some of my favorite. I will add more later.


"Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done." - Vincent van Gogh

"If you want to win anything-a race, your self, your life-you have to go a little berserk." - George Sheehan

"From a tiny spark may burst a mighty flame" - Dante

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves - James M Barrie

"Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great, make you feel that you too can become great." - Mark Twain

"Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it." - Tallulah Bankhead

"Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, "This is the real me," and when you have found that attitude, follow it." - William James

I will add more later!

"Why, sometimes I've believed as many as 6 impossible things before breakfast!"

--Queen of Hearts, Alice in Wonderland

An Angel says, "Never borrow from the future. If you worry about what may happen tomorrow and it doesn't happen, you have worried in vain. Even if it does happen, you have to worry twice."

I get pretty impatient with people who are able-bodied but are somehow paralyzed for other reasons- Christopher Reeve


I read this one and just went. . . wow.

"We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot. "

--Eleanor Roosevelt

"Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in."

--Katherine Mansfield