Although this may not become a popular thread...

I love to read inspirational quotes everyday and I was thinking this would be a good thread to start where everyone can share a quote they like, or even wrote



Let me start..

"Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force."
-Tom Blandi

"The ultimate measure of a person is not where they stand in moments of comfort and convenience, but where the stand in times of challenge and controversy."
-Martin Luther King, Jr

"Someday everything will all make perfect sense. So for now, laugh at the confusion, smile through the tears, and keep reminding yourself that everything happens for a reason"
-unknown

 

Here's a couple..

Every desire for good and happiness is for each person a very great and insidious Love. (...) Love is the desire to possess what is good for ever. -Plato, Symposium, XXIV

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination. -Tommy Lasorda

Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it will elude you. But if you turn your attention to other things, it comes and softly sits on your shoulder. - L. Richard Lessor

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. - Alexander Graham Bell

 

Sometimes we must get hurt in order to grow, we must fail in order to know that sometimes our visions clear only after our eyes are wasted away with tears
-unknown

 

"Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got." --- Janis Joplin

 

" Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."
- Henry Ford

" I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
- Thomas Edison

" I wept because i had no shoes, until i saw a man who had no feet"
- Persian saying

" Aim at the sun and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if you had aimed at an object on a level with yourself.''
- F. Hawes

 

If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it.
Happy moments, praise God.
Difficult moments, seek God.
Quiet moments, worship God.
Painful moments, trust God.
Every moment, thank God.

 

F##K You pay me! Goodfellas

 

"You have the power to hurt yourself or to benefit yourself. If you do not choose to be happy no one can make you happy. Do not blame God for that! And if you choose to be happy, no one can make you unhappy. It is we who make of life what it is."
- Paramahansa Yogananda


"The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives."
- Louise Hay


"Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows."
- Michael Landon

"Evertyhing will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end."
- Unknown (that's one of my favorites!)

 

right off my siggy


"For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.'"

 

Hind Sight is 20/20

When the cat's away, the mice shall play.... lol