Morning Quotes...

Morning Quotes

"An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day."
- Henry David Thoreau
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"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege
it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."
- Marcus Aurelius
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"Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must
run faster than the fastest Lion or it will be killed. Every morning
a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it
will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion
or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you' better be running."
- Author Unknown
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"It's completely usual for me to get up in the morning,
take a look around, and laugh out loud."
- Barbara Kingsolver
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"The moment when first you wake up in the morning is the
most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary
or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that absolutely
anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always
doesn't, matters not one jot. The possibility is always there."
- Monica Baldwin
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"The breeze at dawn has secrets to
tell you. Don't go back to sleep."
- Rumi
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"How beautiful, how buoyant, and glad is morning!"
- L. E. Landon
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"Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed;
this incomparably fine, incomparably tightly woven tissue of
pure prediction fits us perfectly. The happiness of the next
twenty-four hours depends on our ability,
on waking, to pick it up."
- Walter Benjamin
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"Morning prospective: imagination.
Evening retrospective: memory."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"If you're going to do something tonight that you'll
be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late."
- Henny Youngman
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"Angels in the early morning may be
seen the dews among.
Stooping, plucking, smiling, flying.
Do the buds to them belong?"
- Emily Dickinson

Fun and Funny Quotes...

Fun and Funny Quotes by Famous People

"Be thankful we're not getting all the
government we're paying for."
- Will Rogers
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"I can't understand why I flunked American history.
When I was a kid there was so little of it."
- George Burns
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"The simplest toy, one that even the youngest child
can operate, is called a grandparent."
- Sam Levenson
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"I don't care what is written about me
as long as it isn't true."
- Katherine Hepburn
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"For fast acting relief, try slowing down."
- Lily Tomlin
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"More than ever before, Americans are
suffering from back problems - back taxes,
back rent, back auto payments."
- Robert Orben
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"You can make a lot of money in this game.
Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich
that neither of their husbands work."
- Lee Trevino
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"By all means marry. If you get a good wife,
you'll become happy; if you get a bad one,
you'll become a philosopher."
- Socrates
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"The person who writes for fools is always
sure of a large audience."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Drawing on my fine command of
the language, I said nothing."
- Robert Benchley
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"Coffee isn't my cup of tea."
- Samuel Goldwyn
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"I failed to make the chess team
because of my height."
- Woody Allen
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"At my age, flowers scare me."
- George Burns

Quotes About Children...

Quotes and a Verse About Children

"Jesus said, 'Let the little children come to Me,
and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven
belongs to such as these.'"
- Matthew 19:14
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"Children require guidance and sympathy
far more than instruction."
- Annie Sullivan
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"It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally,
and politely, put parents in their place."
- Colette
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"A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Becoming responsible adults is no longer a matter
of whether children hang up their pajamas or put dirty
towels in the hamper, but whether they care about themselves
and others - and whether they see everyday chores as
related to how we treat this planet."
- Eda Leshan
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"A child can always teach an adult three things:
to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something,
and to know how to demand with all his might
that which he desires."
- Paulo Coelho, The Fifth Mountain
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"Children are our most valuable natural resource."
- Herbert Hoover
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"There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to
give our children. One is roots; the other, wings."
- Hodding Carter
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"Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up
children; now I have six children and no theories."
- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
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"To nourish children and raise them against odds
is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix
bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons."
- Marilyn French
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"Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious,
sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites,
quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow,
especially about trifles, they'll do anything to avoid pain
but they enjoy inflicting it: little men already."
- Jean de La Bruyère, Les Caractères, 1688
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"Human beings are the only creatures that allow
their children to come back home."
- Bill Cosby
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"Bitter are the tears of a child; Sweeten them.
Deep are the thoughts of a child: Quiet them.
Sharp is the grief of a child; Take it from him.
Soft is the heart of a child: Do not harden it."
- Pamela Glenconner

Simplicity Quotes...

Simplicity Quotes

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
- Leonardo da Vinci
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"Manifest plainness; Embrace simplicity;
Reduce selfishness; Have few desires."
- Lao Tzu
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"Most of the critical things in life, which become the
starting point for human destiny, are little things."
- R. Smith
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"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the
unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."
- Hans Hofmann
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"Simplicity is the nature of great souls."
- Albert Einstein
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"I adore simple pleasures. They are
the last refuge of the complex."
- Oscar Wilde
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"If one's life is simple, contentment has to come.
Simplicity is extremely important for happiness.
Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what you have,
is very vital: satisfaction with just enough food, clothing,
and shelter to protect yourself from the elements."
- Dalai Lama
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"Everything should be made as simple
as possible, but not simpler."
- Albert Einstein
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"Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say let your
affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or
a thousand instead of a million count half a dozen,
and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail."
- Henry David Thoreau
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"To find the universal elements enough;
to find the air and water exhilarating; to be refreshed
by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by
the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower
in the spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life."
- John Burroughs
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"Who is rich? He who rejoices in his portion."
- The Talmud
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"Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category
of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache."
- Philip Wylie
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"Live simply that others may simply live."
- Elizabeth Seaton

Quotes on Generosity...

Quotes on Generosity

"Give, and it will be given to you. They will pour into
your lap a good measure - pressed down, shaken together,
and running over. For by your standard of measure it will be
measured to you in return."
- Luke 6:38, NLT
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"Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable
ways it can change someone else's life forever."
- Margaret Cho
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"She gives most who gives with joy."
- Mother Teresa
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"If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one."
- Mother Teresa
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"Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting,
but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is
a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a
few drops on yourself."
- Og Mandino
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"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
what we have done for others and the world remains
and is immortal."
- Albert Pike
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"You have not lived today until you have done something
for someone who can never repay you."
- John Bunyon
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"Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared."
- Buddha
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"The best way to find yourself is to lose
yourself in the service of others."
- Ghandi
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"I expect to pass through this world but once;
any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness
that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now;
let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass
this way again."
- Etienne de Grellet
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"Real generosity is doing something nice for
someone who will never find out."
- Frank A. Clark
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"Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as you ever can."
- John Wesley

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Short, Funny Quotes...

Short, Funny Quotes

"People who say they sleep like a baby
usually don't have one."
- Leo J. Burke
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"I am fond of children - except boys."
- Lewis Carroll
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"When I was a boy, the Dead Sea was only sick."
- George Burns
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"I can resist everything except temptation."
- Oscar Wilde
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"We could certainly slow the ageing process down if it
had to work its way through Congress."
- Will Rogers
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"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately
it kills all its pupils."
- Louis Hector Berlioz
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"Money can't buy you happiness, but it does bring
you a more pleasant form of misery."
- Spike Milligan
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"No, I don't have a solution, but I certainly
admire the problem."
- Ashleigh Brilliant
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"If you can't be a good example, then you'll
just have to be a horrible warning."
- Catherine Aird
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"Committee - a group of men who keep
minutes and waste hours."
- Milton Berle
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"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound
they make as they fly by."
- Douglas Adam
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"If I were invited to a dinner party with
my characters, I wouldn’t show up."
- Dr Seuss

Helen Keller quotes...

Helen Keller Quotes

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through
experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened,
ambition inspired, and success achieved.”


"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."


"To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more
welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug."


"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty
to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."


"We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no
remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings."


"What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us."


"Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it,
we can never do anything wise in this world."


"True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification,
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."


"All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming."


"Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and
your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties."


"Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye."


"What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me."


"Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light."


"One can never consent to creep when
one feels an impulse to soar."

Funny Quotes by Famous Celebrities...

Funny Quotes by Famous Celebrities

"I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally."
- W. C. Fields
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"When I was young I was called a rugged individualist.
When I was in my fifties I was considered eccentric.
Here I am doing and saying the same things I did
then and I'm labeled senile."
- George Burns
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"If your parents never had children,
chances are you won't either."
- Dick Cavett
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"Did you ever walk in a room and forget why you
walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives."
- Sue Murphy
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"When a man steals your wife there is no
better revenge than to let him keep her."
- Sacha Guitry
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"Why don't they make the whole plane
out of that black box stuff."
- Steven Wright
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"I don't want to achieve immortality through my
work, I want to achieve it through not dying."
- Woody Allen
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"It's not enough to succeed. Others must fail."
- Gore Vidal
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"A bore is a man who, when you
ask him how he is, tells you."
- B. L. Taylor
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"You cannot have everything. I mean,
where would you put it?"
- Steven Wright
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"Marry me and I'll never look at another horse!"
- Groucho Marx
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