cleaned out my e-mail, so ...
it's time for (and there are actually some really really good ones this time)
*sorry for the repeats, as I'm sure there are a few*
(my new favorite quote EVER!)
Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life. -- Ann Landers
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. -- Agatha Christie (also an awesome quote!)
(the bolded part was my yearbook quote...)
I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can you can't do any better. -- Harry S. Truman
Not the owner of many possessions will you be right to call happy: he more rightly deserves the name of happy who knows how to use the Gods' gifts wisely and to put up with rough poverty, and who fears dishonor more than death. -- Horace
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. -- Chinese proverb
Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity. -- Paul Goodman
I'm not happy, I'm cheerful. There's a difference. A happy woman has no cares at all. A cheerful woman has cares but has learned how to deal with them. -- Beverly Sills
The best portion of a good man's life is the little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. -- William Wordsworth
The abundant life does not come to those who have had a lot of obstacles removed from their path by others. It develops from within and is rooted in strong mental and moral fiber. -- William Mather Lewis
For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge that you'll never walk alone. -- Audrey Hepburn
In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes. -- John Ruskin (good advice!)
Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much. -- Erastus Wiman
You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims. -- Harriet Woods
Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. -- Henry Ford
The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker. -- Helen Keller
I find that it is not the circumstances in which we are placed, but the spirit in which we face them, that constitutes our comfort. -- Elizabeth T. King
A hero is a man who does what he can. -- Roman Rollard
Most of us miss out on life's big prizes. The Pulitzer. The Nobel. Oscars. Tonys. Emmys. But we're all eligible for life's small pleasures. A pat on the back. A kiss behind the ear. A four-pound bass. A full moon. An empty parking space. A crackling fire. A great meal. A glorious sunset. Hot soup. Cold beer. -- Anonymous
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. -- Helen Keller
Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others. -- David Seabury
We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and that at the eleventh hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the
worst before it happens. -- Brooks Atkinson
The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. -- Charles Du Bos
Life is not holding a good hand; Life is playing a poor hand well. -- Danish proverb
Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. -- Harold B. Melchart
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. -- Jack London
Every man stamps his value on himself... man is made great or small by his own will. -- J.C.F. von Schiller
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. -- Robert Frost
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him. -- John Steinbeck
One's true happiness depends more upon one's own judgment of one's self, on a consciousness of rectitude in action and intention, and in the approbation of those few who judge impartially, than upon the applause of the unthinking undiscerning multitude, who are apt to cry Hosanna today, and tomorrow, Crucify him. -- Benjamin Franklin
So, then, to every man his chance -- to every man, regardless of his birth, his shining golden opportunity -- to every man his right to live, to work, to be himself, to become whatever his manhood and his vision can combine to make him -- this, seeker, is the promise of America. -- Thomas Wolfe
To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing. -- Janet Erskine Stuart
A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught! -- Thomas A. Kempis
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for? -- Robert Browning
Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being
decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long continued process. -- Phillips Brooks
Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fibre of a character, but strengthen it. Every conquered temptation
represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. -- James Buckham
There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. -- James Truslow Adams
You are not happy because you are well. You are well because you are happy. You are not depressed because trouble has come to you, but trouble has come to you because you are depressed. You can change your thoughts and feelings, and then the outer things will come to
correspond, and indeed there is no other way of working. -- Emmet Fox
There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lie happiness. -- Gelett Burgess
For me it is sufficient to have a corner by my hearth, a book and a friend, and a nap undisturbed by creditors or grief. -- Fernandez de Andrada
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. -- Robert Brault
Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable. -- Anon.
Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation. -- William H. Sheldon
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled. -- Dr. Benjamin Spock
Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth, and a clear conscience will overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way to usefulness and high achievement. -- Grover Cleveland
There is a sense of exhilaration that comes from facing head-on the hard truths and saying, "We will never give up. We will never capitulate. It might take a long time, but we will find a way to prevail."
-- Jim Collins
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him. -- Epictetus
Virtue means doing the right thing, in relation to the right person, at the right time, to the right extent, in the right manner, and for the right purpose. Thus, to give money away is quite a simple task, but for the act to be virtuous, the donor must give to the right person, for the right purpose, in the right amount, in the right manner, and at the right time. -- Aristotle
From long familiarity, we know what honor is. It is what enables the individual to do right in the face of complacency and cowardice. It is what enables the soldier to die alone, the political prisoner to
resist, the singer to sing her song, hardly appreciated, on a side street. -- Mark Helprin
Genuine security arises from actual, first-hand knowledge that one is both capable and worthy of achieving happiness (through conscious, responsible action) and, once having attained it, that he deserves it. -- Michael J. Hurd
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. -- Horace
Being defeated is often only a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. -- Marilyn vos Savant
If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances. -- Julia Sorel
It is better to wear out one's shoes than one's sheets. -- Genoese Proverb
If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice how he acts when he loses money. -- New England Proverb
The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie. -- Ann Landers
Wisdom comes alone through suffering. -- Aeschylus
*whew* and I'm spent.