Deborah > Deborah's Quotes

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
― Albert Einstein

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
― E.E. Cummings

“Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”
― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

“Reality continues to ruin my life.”
― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain

“The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.”
― Rita Mae Brown

“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”
― Herbert Bayard Swope

“A person's a person, no matter how small.”
― Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who!

“I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.”
― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
― Mark Twain

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
― George Carlin

“For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge you’ll never walk alone.
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We leave you a tradition with a future.
The tender loving care of human beings will never become obsolete.
People even more than things have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed and redeemed and redeemed.
Never throw out anybody.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm.
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands: one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

Your “good old days” are still ahead of you, may you have many of them.”
― Sam Levenson, In One Era & Out the Other

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
― Aristotle

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
― Mark Twain

“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm 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.”
― Henri Nouwen, Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life | Fiftieth Anniversary Edition

“There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”
― Oscar Levant

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“Peace begins with a smile..”
― Mother Teresa

“Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering 'it will be happier'...”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson

“A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need advice.”
― Bill Cosby

“Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice.”
― Bill Cosby