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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why. -- Eddie Cantor

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Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day. -- W. Earl Hall

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I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble. -- Rudyard Kipling

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To live in hearts we leave behind Is not to die. -- Thomas Campbell

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The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation. -- Benjamin Disraeli

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A people without a history is like the wind over buffalo grass. -- American Indian Proverb

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The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart. -- Josiah G Holland

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Until we meet again, may the good Lord take a liking to you.-- Roy Rogers

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One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. -- A. A. Milne

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Ah, March! we know thou art Kind-hearted, spite of ugly looks and threats, And, out of sight, art nursing April's violets! -- Helen Hunt Jackson

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about. -- Charles Kingsley

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Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. -- Thomas H. Huxley

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Only fools and dead men don't change their minds. -- John H. Patterson

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A man doesn’t hit women -- ever. -- Mike Rawlings

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Our present addiction to pollsters and forecasters is a symptom of our chronic uncertainty about the future... We watch our experts read the entrails of statistical tables and graphs the way the ancients watched their soothsayers read the entrails of a chicken. -- Eric Hoffer

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Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire. -- William Butler Yeats

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Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. -- Maya Angelou

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We can never learn all that Nature has to teach us but we can always learn something new. -- Becky Jack Sheridan from The Jardin Encantado

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The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another. -- James Matthew Barrie

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Charity sees the need not the cause. -- German Proverb

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Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles. -- Pat Paulsen

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Don't be afraid of pressure. Remember that pressure is what turns a lump of coal into a diamond. -- Anonymous

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Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems. -- Anthony D'Angelo

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I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on. -- Beryl Pfizer

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Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day. -- W. Earl Hall

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Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty – they merely move it from their faces into their hearts. --  Martin Buxbaum

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Close your eyes and breathe in, concentrate on the breath and heartbeat, feel that? You are a living being capable of changing your life and possibly the lives around you, you do not merely exist, your actions affect you and others. Act with love. -- Hamza wolf

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Remember the Alamo -- The Texian Army

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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers often get lost.  -- W.S. Anglin

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To the people who love you, you are beautiful already. This is not because they’re blind to your shortcomings but because they so clearly see your soul. Your shortcomings then dim by comparison. The people who care about you are willing to let you be imperfect and beautiful, too. -- Victoria Moran

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Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you anywhere. -- Unknown

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You want to make a difference in your world?  Live a holy life.  Be faithful to your spouse. Pay your bills. Be the employee who does the work and doesn’t complain. Don’t speak one message and live another!  -- Max Lucado

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The saints are the sinners who keep on trying. -- Robert Louis Stevenson

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Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, "Why me?", then a voice answers "Nothing personal, your name just happened to come up." -- Charles M. Schulz

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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places. -- A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death. -- Harold Wilson

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Sometimes, mid-winter, the temperature climbs, the snow melts, the creek runs strong and singing, and the sun shines. It's what we call a 'false spring,' because although it sure feels like spring for a few days, it won't be long until chill and snow return. -- Country Girl (http://mayallseasonsbesweettothee.blogspot.com/2011/01/magical-false-spring.html)

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It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped. -- Hubert H. Humphrey

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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind. -- Richard Greenberg

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If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm. -- Frank Lane

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May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day. May songbirds serenade you every step along the way. May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue. And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through. – Irish Blessing

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I belong to a gym now. Well, let me rephrase that. I don’t belong there at all, but I go. -- Ted Alexandro

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If laughter is the best medicine, let's OD together. -- Michael P. Clutton

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Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I — not events — have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. — Groucho Marx

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It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context -- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese. -- Carl Sagan

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When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it. -- A.A. Milne

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Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day. -- A.A. Milne

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All power corrupts, but we need the electricity. -- Unknown

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Perhaps, if you weren't so busy regarding my shortcomings, you'd find that I do possess redeeming qualities, discreet as they may be.  I notice when the sky is blue.  I smile down at children.  I laugh at any innocent attempt at humor.  I quietly carry the burdens of others as though they were my own.  And I say 'I'm sorry' when you don't.  I am not without fault, but I am not without goodness either.  -- Richelle E. Goodrich

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Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. -- Mark Twain

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Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace. -- Robert J. Sawyer

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Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn.  -- John Wesley

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones. -- Stephanie Klein

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One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time. -- Nancy Astor

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To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. -- Louis B. Smedes

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That's the funny thing about havin' a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly. -- Greg Garcia

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Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. -- Margaret Lee Runbeck

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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you. -- William Arthur

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Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. -- Chinese proverb

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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness. -- Lois L. Kaufman

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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. -- Will Durant

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. -- Steve Jobs

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Nothing external to you has any power over you. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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As I get older I notice the years less and the seasons more. --  John Hubbard

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A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. -- Frank Lloyd Wright

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Ask yourself this question: "Will this matter a year from now?" -- Richard Carlson

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The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind. -- William James

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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap. -- William John Bennett

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Never harbor grudges; they sour your stomach and do no harm to anyone else. -- Robertson Davies

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Be a role model for the next generation by showing how to live life without fear. -- Barbara Hannah Grufferman   http://blog.aarp.org/2013/01/04/2013-make-this-the-year-to-embrace-your-age/?cmp=NLC-RSS-DAILY-BULLETIN-010813-E1

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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. -- Marcel Proust

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Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.  -- Les Brown

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Tomorrow night I’m giving a lecture on silence and invisibility. Don’t be surprised if I don’t show up. -- Jarod Kintz

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Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. -- W.T. Purkiser

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There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other. -- J. K. Rowling

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The gardening season officially begins on January  1st, and ends on December 31. --  Marie Huston