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Not really suited for a card, but I like:
"Whether you believe you can or believe you can't, you're right." -Henry Ford
Also...a lot of the quotes/sentiments that you all have posted (and lots of other good ones!) have been made into stamps by a company called River City Rubber Works. And they DO have an on-line catalogue !!
I've been starting a collection of my favorite quotes - I hope to paint them on the walls of my stamping room when I get it unpacked! Here's some of my favorites:
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. - Mother Teresa
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. - Albert Einstein
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. - Albert Einstein
Somewhere there is something incredible waiting to be known. - Carl Sagan
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. - e.e. cummings
May you live all the days of your life. - Jonathan Swift
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find they way. - Abraham Lincoln
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come. - Victor Hugo
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire. - William Yeats
Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for. - David Starr Jordan
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. - William Faulkner
The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit. - Nelson Henderson
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
What would attempt to do if you know you could not fail?
Those who have hope, have everything.
Remember, growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional.
From the moment you believe you can do something, you can.
And, here's a fun poem:
Hark! Dear friend: Vain to choose or grasp unduly, broken is the perfect ball. And there are so many pieces, no one ever finds them all. The wise as on they journey treasure every fragment clear, piece them as they may together, imagining the shattered sphere. Learning ever to be thankful, though their share of it is small. Happiness has many pieces. No one ever finds them all.
Hopefully, I haven't rambled too much - enjoy!
Billie
This is way crazy and way off the current mode in this topic. But I swear I saw this on a plaque in a Cracker Barrell restaurant.
Mothers of teenagers know why animals eat their young!
As a mother of 5 teens (and 3 pre-teens) I often think about this.
Kathy
A male neighbor told me that one yesterday, aimed at my daughter as a joke, I replied with.. and don't black widows eat their mate.. It was so funny and he had no response@@@
My favorite is by H. Jackson Brown, author of the Life's Little Instruction Books. I believe he wrote the quotes,which turned into books, for his son as he was going off to college.
Live your life as an exclamation not an explanation.
I too have been collecting quotes...not just for cards but for inspiration...Here are my favorites:
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
William Arthur Ward (1921-1994)
Educator
Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.
Robert Orben
Humorist
"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." -- Mother Teresa
"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you." -- Carl Sandburg
"Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders.
The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return
is enough to bury those that did not return." --- Colon Powell
Brig. Gen. James Seahorn, prisoner of war for six years in Vietnam: To be born free is an accident; to live free is a privilege; to die free is a responsibility.
"In the long run you hit only what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high."
Henry David Thoreau
Exhilaration is the feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and before you realize what's wrong with it. -- unknown
Never ever pass up the opportunity to use the bathroom. It may be your last chance for a "LONG TIME"...........
The best parachute folders are ones that jump themselves. - unknown
Just in case you forget.....
If God had a refrigerator,your picture would be on it.
If God had a wallet,your photo would be in it.
He sends you flowers,every spring & a sunrise
every morning.
When you want to talk he listens.
He could live anywhere in the universe & yet he chose your heart.
And that Christmas gift he sent you in Bethlehem?
Face it He's crazy about you!
God answers Knee- Mail.
--unknown
Inside every older person is a younger person - wondering what the hell
happened. ---unknown
Thre are two ways to reach the top of an oak tree - you
can climb it or sit on an acorn and wait. -- unknown
i know this is a poem and not a quote, but i love it.
To see a world in a grain of sand
and a heaven in a wild flower,
hold infinity in the palm of your hand
and eternity in an hour.
-William Blake
also, anything from ambrose bierce and dorothy parker
Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles
Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.
Admiration, n.: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
--ambrose bierce, devil's dictionary
Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.
Dear Mary: We all knew you had it in you.
Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), telegram to friend who had given birth
--dorothy parker
and of course, my tag line cracks me up for some reason.
