Favorite Quotes

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened before us.
-Helen Keller


It doesn't matter if I'm right or not, only if I sound right.


It's not how far you fall, but how high you bounce.


To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
-Anna Louise Strong


You see things that are and say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were and say, "Why not?"
-George Bernard Shaw


Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
-Jonathan Kozol



If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.
-Walter Mondale


You start by saying no to requests. Then if you have to go to yes, OK. But if you start with yes, you can't go to no.
-Mildred Perlman


We do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.


Do not take life too seriously--you will never get out of it alive.
-Elbert Hubbard


Only a life lived for others is the life worth while.
-Albert Einstein


There's no guarantee that high IQ people produce better people or a better society. It is not the retarded kids of the world who produce the wars and destruction.
-Daniel Callahan


Many of our problems with anger occur when we choose between having a relationship and having a self.
-Harriet Goldhor Lerner


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