Some More Quotes to ponder

"One is not born a woman, one becomes one."   Simone de Beauvoir "A lady is one who never shows her underwear unintentionally."   Lillian Day Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain Kahlil Gibran-The Prophet "Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly"   anonymous "To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what they have already achieved, but at what they aspire to do.   Kahlil Gibran-The Prophet "Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, just as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire"  La Rochefoucauld "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; while loving someone deeply gives you courage"   Lao Tzu "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer"  Henry David Thoreau  "If we fill our hours with regrets over the failures and disappointments ofyesterday and worries over the problems of tomorrow, we have no time to be thankful for the laughter and sunshine, love and joy of today"   Lillian Hart   "If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it "  John Irving "Nothing is so strong as gentleness; nothing is so gentle as real strength"   St. Francis de Sales. "Our lives are books, written in our own blood on the tattered pages of time"  Ryan K. Miller "Some men see things as they are and say why? I dream things that never were and say 'Why not?'"  Robert Kennedy "The giving of love is an education in itself"  Eleanor Roosevelt  "The greatest gift that you can give another person is your attention. The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread"  Mother Teresa   "The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself "   Washington Allston   "The only real failure in life is one not learned from" anonymous "The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream"  Harry Kemp "The same fence that shuts others out, also shuts you in" anonymous "To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe." Marilyn vos Savant "True courage is not the absence of fear; rather it is the taking of action in spite of the fear " anonymous "What lies behind us and what lies between us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." Oliver Wendell Homes "When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us" Alexander Graham Bell   "When the doors of perception are cleansed everything appears as it truly is - infinite"  William Blake "When you get in a tight place and everything goes against you, until it seems as if you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time when the tide will turn"   Harriet Beecher Stowe(Uncle Tom's Cabin) "Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, and you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing."   Vince Lombardi "Wisdom is only granted to those who find it themselves" anonymous "Worry is like a rocking chair: It gives you something to do, but doesn't get you anywhere. You can be upset because rosebushes have thorns or you can rejoice because thorn bushes have roses" Author Unknown  "You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth"  Shira Tehrani   "You can't live life by standing on the sidelines. You must join in the game. Play hard play fast and play to win!! You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly" anonymous "You never find yourself until you face the truth"  Pearl Bailey "Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts: for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts"  Marcus Aurelius    "For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation." Rainer Maria Rilke