Quotes

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." . . . You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

-Eleanor Roosevelt

I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.

-Leo Rosten

When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: Either you will be given something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.

-Edward Teller

"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action."

-Benjamin Disraeli

"Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life."

-Burton Hills

"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 opened for us."

-Helen Keller

"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."

-Robert Byrne

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon--instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

-Dale Carnegie

The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.

-Daniel J. Boorstin

"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'"

-Erich Fromm

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

-Albert Einstein

"Insanity -- a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world."

-R. D. Lang

"The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?"

-Eugene Kennedy