“Very few of us are what we seem.” — Agatha Christie
“The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.” — Alexander Pope
“Find someone you can dream with. It can turn a wish into an adventure.” — Unknown
“Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.” — Bill Watterson
“An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance.” — David Lee Roth (various attributions)
“The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.” — Jacques Yves Cousteau
“Don’t let your struggle become your identity.” — Ralston Bowles
“When it comes to eating, you can sometimes help yourself more by helping yourself less.” — Richard Armour
“The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.” — Richard Bach
“The role of the writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.” — Anais Nin
“Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one.” — Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
“I live in my own little world, but it’s ok, they know me there. ” — Unknown
“Failure is a bruise…not a tattoo.” — Jon Sinclair
“When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.” — Ronald Reagan
“Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.” — Doug Larson
“I don’t recognize you – I’ve changed a lot.” — Oscar Wilde
“An apology is a good way to have the last word.” — Unknown
“Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.” — Frank Lloyd Wright
“The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.” — Mignon McLaughlin
“The past, the present and the future walked into a bar. It was tense.” — Lex Martin, Dearest Clementine
“Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.” — Hal Borland
“Remember how far you’ve come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.” — Rick Warren
“When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.” — William Blake
“You can’t be a rascal for 40 years and then cop a plea the last minute. God keeps better books than that.” — Wilson Mizner
“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You know, all that matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae.” — Paul Walker
“Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them and it will change your life.” — Amy Poehler
“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” — Winnie the Pooh
“To have a great idea, have a lot of them.” — Thomas Edison
“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.” — Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
“It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.” — Aeschylus
“By midlife you are a cranky snowflake of personal history, political opinions and experiential scars. No one will perfectly align with you.” — Michael Grady
“Don’t look for your dreams to come true; look to become true to your dreams.” — Michael Beckwith
“His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.” — Lois McMaster Bujold
“Explain your anger, don’t express it and you will immediately open the door to solutions instead of arguments.” — Unknown
“Don’t knock the weather. If it didn’t change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn’t start a conversation.” — Kim Hubbard [corrected attribution 11/24/15 ]
“Halfway isn’t all the way, but it’s better than no way.” — John Updike
“We assume others show love the same way we do and if they don’t, we worry it’s not there.” — Unknown
“You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.” — Arthur Miller
“Sometimes, you have to air your soul out to someone who isn’t legally bound to listen. That’s where friends come in handy, because clergymen judge you and bartenders require a two-drink minimum.” — Michael Grady