Quotes Galore!

Truth,Trust and Lies:

"Truth is the best vindication against slander."
Abe Lincoln

"Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth."
Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water."
-Miguel de Cervantes

"To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful."
-Edward R. Murrow

"I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions."
- Ann Radcliffe

Life:

"If you want to be respected by others you must first show respect for yourself and others."
-Anonymous

"We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it."
Lyndon B. Johnson

"I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present."
W. Somerset Maugham

"Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition."
Sir William Osler

"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

"While there's life, there's hope."
Cicero

"If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live."
George E. Woodberry

"As we drive along this road called life, occasionally a gal will find herself a little lost. And when that happens, I guess she has to let go of the coulda, shoulda, woulda, buckle up and just keep going.”
-Sex and the City, Carrie Bradshaw

"Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So love the people who treat you right, forget about the ones who don't and believe that everything happens for a reason. IF you GET a chance, TAKE it. If it changes your life, LET it. Nobody said that it would be easy, they just promised it would be worth it!"

"Change is all a part of life. And those who look only to the past are certain to miss the present and future."

"Life is all about risks and it requires you to jump. Don't be a person who looks back and wonders who or what they could have had. Nobody waits forever."

"Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but by how we react to what happens, not by what life brings to us, but by the attitude we bring to life. A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes. It is a catalyst, a spark that creates extraordinary results."
-ANON

“To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing."
-- Unknown

Happiness:

"When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness."
Nicole Kidman

"Happiness isn't a destination, it's a journey."

"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."
-Carl Gustav Jung

"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity".

Love, relationships:

"The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them."
-Thomas Merton

"A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other...Maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever."- Dave Matthews Band

“Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies.”
-Sex and the City, Carrie Bradshaw

"Relationships:There are those that open you up to something new and exotic, those that are old and familiar, those that bring up lots of questions, those that bring you somewhere unexpected, those that bring you far from where you started, and those that bring you back. But the most exciting, challenging and significant relationship of all is the one you have with yourself. And if you can find someone to love the you you love, well, that's just fabulous"- Carrie, Sex and the City

"Give in to love, or live in fear."
Mimi Marquez, "Another Day", Rent

" Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you."
-Wayne Dyer

"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."
-INGRID BERGMAN

"If you love somebody let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't , they never were."
-Anonymous

Have You Ever Wondered?

I came across this in an e-mail that was sent to me many years ago, and I've held on to it because I find it very thought provoking. I feel that at least someone can relate to this and take something good away from it.

Have You Ever Wondered?

"Have you ever noticed that the worst way to miss someone is when they are right beside you and yet you can never have them... when the moment you can't feel them under your fingertips you miss them?

Have you ever wondered which hurts the most, saying something and wishing you had not, or saying nothing and wishing you had? I guess the most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish them; words shrink things that seemed timeless when they were in your head... to no more than living size when they are brought out. Don't be afraid to tell someone you love them. If you do, they might break your heart... but if you don't, you might break theirs.

Have you ever decided not to become a couple because you were so afraid of losing what you already had with that person? You're heart decides who it likes and who it doesn't. You can't tell your heart what to do. It does it on it's own- when you least suspect it, or even when you don't want to.

Have you ever wanted to love someone with everything you had, but that other person was too afraid to let you? Too many of us stay closed up because we are too afraid to care too much... for fear that the other person does not care as much, or at all.

Have you ever loved someone and they had absolutely no idea whatsoever? Or fell for your best-friend in the entire-world and then sat around and watched them fall for someone else?

Have you ever denied your feelings for someone because your fear of rejection was too hard to handle? We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing we feel grows stronger. Life is all about risks and it requires you to jump. Don't be a person who has to look back and wonder who and what they would have or could have had. Nobody waits forever."