Sheesh.

Here are a FEW of my favorites:

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

“What we are is God’s gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.” – Eleanor Powell

“Life is far too important to be taken seriously.” – Oscar Wilde

“If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.” – Eleanora Duse

“The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” – Bertrand Russell

This is a great idea for a gift – your mom will love it.

Every time we remember to say “thank you,” we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

God has two dwellings: one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.

Izaak Walton

Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

– Calvin Coolidge

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.

Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

– Lao Tzu

Life is like a novel with the end ripped out.

– Rascal Flatts (in “Stand”)

Cynics always say no. Saying yes leads to knowledge. So for as long as you have the strength to, say yes.

– Stephen Colbert

Whatever you do, don’t wake up at 65 years old and think about what you should have done with your life.

– George Clooney, quoting his father

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

– Robert Frost

Much of life is not about getting answers.

It is identifying current questions.

Once you get the question right, the answers always come.

Moderation in all things.

– Buddha

The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.

– Syndey J. Harris

Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.

– Sophacles

Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time.

– Norman Ford

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.

– Doug Larson

‘Tis wisdom sometimes to seem a fool.

– Thomas Fuller

It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.

– Peter Ustinov

The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.

– Samuel McChord Crothers

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

– Thomas Carlyle

If you tell the truth you only have to remember one story.

– Sister Lucille, Tim Russert’s 7th grade teacher

Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.

– Benjamin Franklin

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

– William Wadsworth

The truth is more important than the facts.

– Frank Lloyd Wright

You don’t stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

– Michael Pritchard

Wisdom is divided into two parts: (a) having a great deal to say, and (b) not saying it.

Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.

– Lord Chesterfield in a Letter to his son

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

– Matthew McConaughey

You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again… So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. Once descends, ones sees no longer but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what ones saw higher up. When one can longer see, one can at least know.

– Rene Daumal, Mount Analogue

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

– HL Mencken

Remember who you are.

Remember who you represent.

Remember where you are from.

Remember where you are headed.

Strive to be more than “just average.” Average is the best of the worst and the worst of the best.

– Jim Click, Sr.

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

Rights without power are unenforceable.

Power without rights is inexcusable.

– Grant M. Bright

People who matter do not judge and people who judge do not matter.

Wisdom is what’s left after we’ve run out of personal opinions.

– Cullen Hightower

Great truths are sometimes so enveloping and exist in such plain view as to be invisible.

– E.O. Wilson

Learn from the mistakes of others. Life is too short to make them all yourself.

– Sam Levenson

Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity.

– Covey

Ride the horse in the direction that it’s going.

– Werner Erhard

Wisdom is higher than a fool can reach.

– Phyllis Wheatly

Don’t expect acorns to turn into redwoods.

– Jim Cathcart

This, too, shall pass.

– Wise men of the King of Siam, when asked for a proverb that would fit any occasion

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced – even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.

– John Keats

May you live all the days of your life.

– Jonathan Swift

There are two things to aim at in life: first to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

– Logan Pearsall Smith

The best way to get even is to forget…

Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein.

Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death…

God wants spiritual fruit, not religious nuts…

Some folks wear their halos much too tight…

Some marriages are made in heaven, but they ALL have to be maintained on earth…

Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, and faith looks up…

Standing in the middle of the road is dangerous. You will get knocked down by the traffic from both ways.

Words are windows to the heart.

A skeptic is a person who when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it’s a forgery.

It isn’t difficult to make a mountain out of a molehill, just add a little dirt.

A successful marriage isn’t finding the right person it’s being the right person.

The mighty oak tree was once a little nut that held its ground.

Too many people offer God prayers, with claw marks all over them.

The tongue must be heavy indeed, because so few people can hold it.

To forgive is to set the prisoner free, and then discover the prisoner was you.

You have to wonder about humans, they think God is dead and Elvis is alive!

It’s all right to sit on your pity pot every now and again. Just be sure to flush when you are done.

You’ll notice that a turtle only makes progress when it sticks out its neck…

If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher.

You are richer today if you have laughed, given or forgiven.

We have met the enemy and he is us.

– Walt Kelly (in the cartoon strip “Pogo”)

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

– Bert Lantz

If there is light in the soul,

There will be beauty in the person.

If there is beauty in the person,

There will be harmony in the house.

If there is harmony in the house,

There will be order in the nation.

If there is order in the nation,

There will be peace in the world.

– Chinese Proverb

Meditation is thinking so hard that you feel it in your heart and see it clearly with your eyes of understanding.

Watch your thoughts, for they become words.

Choose your words, for they become actions.

Understand your actions, for they become habits.

Study your habits, for they will become your character.

Develop your character, for it becomes your destiny.

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

– B.B. King

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