QUOTES TO PONDER

Cate sometimes joins me at work and always finds something to keep her occupied. This past weekend she decided to pull her favorite quotes from a book of quotes in my office. Enjoy!

Quotes To Ponder

By Cate Alumkal

If plan “a” doesn’t work don’t worry because the alphabet has 25 more letters.

~Unknown

It’s not the load you carry that breaks you down it’s how you choose to carry it.

~C.S Lewis

The purpose of life is a purpose.

~Robert Byrne

Making a million friends is not a miracle…the miracle is to make such a friend who will stand with you when millions stand against.

~Unknown

Fall seven times stand up eight.

~Japanese Proverb

Courage is found in unlikely places.

J.R.R Tolkien

Shoot for the moon because even if you miss you will land among the stars.

~Les Brown

Life is not measured by the breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away.

~Unknown

At the end of the game pawns and kings go back in the same box.

~Italian Proverb

The best things in life are not things.

~Ginny Moore

Believe you can and your halfway there.

~Theodore Roosevelt 

Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice saying I will try again

        tomorrow.

~Mary Anne Radmacker

You don’t get any harmony if everyone sings the same note.

~Doug Lloyd

It always seems impossible until it is done.

~Nelson Mandela

A stumble may prevent a fall.

~English Proverb

Kindness, like a boomerang always comes back.

~Unknown

Sometimes rejection is just redirection.

~Travis Smiley

Don’t cry because something is over smile because it happened.

~Dr. Seuss

Normal is a setting on a washing machine.

~Unknown

Even the darkest hour is only sixty minutes.

~Morris Mandel

Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you always know they are there.

~Unknown

When life gives you lemons make orange juice.

~Unknown

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

~Dalai Lama

If you’re lucky enough to be different, don’t ever change.

~Taylor Swift

Don’t tell me the sky is the limit when there are footprints on the moon.

~Paul Brandt

The best things in life are not things.

~Ginny Moore

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

~Paul Valery

Not all those who wander are lost.

J.R.R Tolkien

Be yourself everyone else is already taken.

~Oscar Wilde

Fate doesn’t decide- you do.

~Dominic

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

~Stephen Grellet

Give me a firm place to stand, and I will move the earth.

~Archimedes

Everything you can imagine is real.

~Pablo Picasso

Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.

~Claude Bernard

To be loved, be lovable.

~Ovid

Whatever you are be a good one.

~Abraham Lincoln

Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.

~Shreya

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hold on.

~Thomas Jefferson

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going to.

~Beverly Sills

When it is dark be the one who turns on the light.

~Unknown

Fortune favors the bold.

~Virgil

Kindness is difficult to give away because it keeps on coming back.

~Marcel Proust

By perseverance the snail reached the arc.

~Charles Spurgeon

Learn as if you were to live forever, live as if you were to die tomorrow.

~Mahatma Ghandi

I’ve learned that life is like a book. Sometimes we must close a chapter and begin the next one.

~Unknown

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

~Martin Luther King Jr.

Among life’s quests, there seems but worthy one: To do men good.

~Gamaliel Bailey

We didn’t all come over on the same ship, but were all in the same boat.

~Bernard Baruch

Let us always meet each other with a genuine smile.

~Mother Teresa

No man is an island entire of itself.

~John Danne

To be able to look back upon one’s life in satisfaction is to live twice.

~Kahlil Gibran

If the wind will not serve, take the oars.

~Latin Proverb

For kindness begets kindness evermore.

~Sophocles

Kind words do not cost much yet they accomplice much.

~Blaise Pascal

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth.

~Martin H. Fischer

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of that single candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

~Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai-Teachings of Buddha

Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven.

~Victor Hugo

Your best takes your time.

~Unknown

The man who moves a mountain must start by moving small stones.

~Chinese Proverb

Paradise on earth is where I am.

~Voltaire

Be kind whenever it is possible. It is always possible.

~Dalai Lama

‘Tis always morning somewhere in the world.

~Richard Henry Hengist Horne

Be the change you want to see in the world.

~Mahatma Gandhi

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

~Johnathan Swift

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
~Jimmy Johnson

If you fight fire with fire the world will go up in smoke.

~Lemony Snicket

Even the toughest dogs are afraid of vacuums.

~Unknown

Most of these quotes are from a book called “365 Days of Wonder” written by R.J Palacio.

In the book see page March 18^th

J.R.R stands for John Ronald Reuel (J.R.R Tolkien)