Quotes by Charles Dickens...

Quotes by Charles Dickens

"Reflect upon your blessings, of which every man has plenty,

not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."

"No one is useless in this world who lightens

the burden of it for anyone else."

"A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self."

"Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that

never tires, and a touch that never hurts."

"There are dark shadows on the earth,

but its lights are stronger in the contrast."

"I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free."

"Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes, and prism

are all very good words for the lips."

"Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man!

Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!"

"It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the

eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away."

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

"Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat

to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china."

"Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing

of friendship; and pass the rosy wine."

Beauty Quotes...

Beauty Quotes

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all ye know on earth,

and all ye need to know."

- John Keats

"Beauty is not in the face. Beauty is a light in the heart."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Beauty is not caused. It is."

- Emily Dickinson

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases;

it will never pass into nothingness."

- John Keats

"Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."

- Franz Kafka

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,

we must carry it with us or we find it not."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it."

- Confucius

"People are like stained-glass windows.

They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,

but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty

is revealed only if there is a light from within."

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"That which is striking and beautiful is not always good,

but that which is good is always beautiful."

- Ninon de L'Enclos

"No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions,

it will not look ugly."

- Oscar Wilde

"When you have only two pennies left in the world,

buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other."

- A Chinese Proverb

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

and it may be necessary from time to time to give

a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye."

- Miss Piggy

Uniqueness and Self-Awareness Quotes...

Self-Realization and Uniqueness Quotes

"I am the only person in the world I should

like to know thoroughly."

- Oscar Wilde

"Without knowing what I am and why I am here,

life is impossible."

- Leo Tolstoy

"The deep root of failure in our lives is to think,

'Oh how useless and powerless I am.' It is essential

to think strongly and forcefully, 'I can do it,'

without boasting or fretting."

- Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama

"When I let go of what I am,

I become what I might be."

- Lao Tzu

"It's in the struggle itself that you define yourself."

- Pat Buchanan

"You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you

can do it even better than you think you can."

- Jimmy Carter

"You must begin to think of yourself as becoming

the person you want to be."

- David Viscott

"Never be unmindful of your own dignity."

- John Brown

"The more you praise and celebrate your life,

the more there is in life to celebrate."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Today you are YOU, that is truer than true.

There is no one alive who is Youer than You."

- Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss)

Dog Quotes...

Dog Quotes

"Whoever said you can't buy happiness

forgot about puppies."

- Gene Hill

"To his dog, every man is Napoleon;

hence the constant popularity of dogs."

- Aldous Huxley

"No one appreciates the very special genius of

your conversation as the dog does."

- Christopher Morley

"In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance,

everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a

cat that will ignore him."

- Dereke Bruce

"When a man's best friend is his dog,

that dog has a problem."

- Edward Abbey

"A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance,

and to turn around three times before lying down."

- Robert Benchley

"Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go

with you in the car, in case the need should arise for

them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear."

- Dave Barry

"Ever consider what dogs must think of us? I mean,

here we come back from a grocery store with the most

amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must

think we're the greatest hunters on earth!"

- Anne Tyler

"No animal should ever jump up on the dining room

furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold

his own in the conversation."

- Fran Lebowitz

"If I have any beliefs about immortality,

it is that certain dogs I have known will go

to heaven, and very, very few persons."

- James Thurber

Quotes on How to Treat Others...

Quotes on How to Treat Others

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak,

but their echoes are truly endless."

- Mother Teresa

"It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy

to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to

relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone

unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is

where our love for each other must start."

- Mother Teresa

"Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.

And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them."

- The Dalai Lama

"The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others."

- Homer

"The weak can never forgive.

Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"To err is human, to forgive divine."

- Alexander Pope

"Do right. Do your best.

Treat others as you want to be treated."

- Lou Holtz

"Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to

you - not because they are nice, but because you are."

- Author Unknown

"Whoever one is, and wherever one is,

one is always in the wrong if one is rude."

- Maurice Baring

"A little consideration, a little thought for others,

makes all the difference."

- A. A. Milne, 'Winnie The Pooh'

"Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he

doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be,

remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo."

- A. A. Milne, 'Winnie The Pooh'