Helen's quotes

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"Count your age by friends, not years Count your life by smiles, not tears."
— John Lennon

tags: happiness, timelessness, wisdom
375 people liked it

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."
— Donna Roberts

tags: friendship
1,473 people liked it

"There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate."
— Charles Dickens

tags: chocolate, friendship
2,106 people liked it

"Don't wake up one day wishing you'd tried."
— Edwin McCain

tags: inspirational
86 people liked it

"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."
— William Shakespeare

869 people liked it

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars."
— Les Brown

tags: inspirational
409 people liked it

"It is often in the darkest
skies that we see the
brightest stars."
— Richard Evans

tags: hope
46 people liked it

"Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible."
— Carl Gustav Jung

38 people liked it

"Loneliness is not measured by the number of people in the room with you."
— Amy Paschal, American Poet

2 people liked it

"The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold."
— Kahlil Gibrán

tags: dreams, quotes
26 people liked it

"Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal."
— Mother Teresa

57 people liked it

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: dreams, love, reality, sleep
10,871 people liked it

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, those-who-matter
18,916 people liked it

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough"
— Mae West

tags: humor, life
9,246 people liked it

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: books, classic, humor
5,716 people liked it

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: accomplishment, be-yourself, conformity, individuality, world
7,172 people liked it

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
— Laozi

tags: courage, deeply-loved, love, strength
3,737 people liked it

"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why we call it 'The Present'."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: inspirational
5,417 people liked it

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."
— Elbert Hubbard

tags: friend, friendship, knowledge, love
6,764 people liked it

"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading
2,382 people liked it

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: opportunity, optimism, pessimism
1,775 people liked it

"Happiness is a warm puppy."
— Charles M. Schulz

tags: animals, dogs, happiness, humor, puppies
1,151 people liked it

"'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all."
— Alfred Lord Tennyson (In Memoriam)

tags: love
2,320 people liked it

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success
1,923 people liked it

"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

tags: inspirational
2,331 people liked it

"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: life
2,001 people liked it

"The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."
— Robert Frost

tags: choice, poetry
1,627 people liked it

"We love the things we love for what they are."
— Robert Frost

tags: love, poetry
1,111 people liked it

"It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not."
— André Gide

tags: life, love
3,182 people liked it

"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt."
— Charles M. Schulz

tags: chocolate, food, humor
3,027 people liked it

"A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe."
— Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, fire, star, universe
423 people liked it

"There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.....the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope."
— Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)

tags: hope, inspirational, wisdom
832 people liked it

"Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like."
— Lemony Snicket

tags: fate, humor
1,093 people liked it

"Books may well be the only true magic."
— Alice Hoffman

tags: books
360 people liked it

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. "
— C.S. Lewis

tags: friendship, inspirational
654 people liked it

"I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light."
— Helen Keller

tags: friendship
1,161 people liked it

"One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving."
— Paulo Coelho

tags: love
590 people liked it

"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."
— Albert Camus

tags: happiness, meaning-of-life
862 people liked it

""The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.""
— Norman Vincent Peale (The Power of Positive Thinking)

31 people liked it

"What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness."
— John Steinbeck (Travels with Charley: In Search of America)

tags: life, summer, winter
40 people liked it

"cold as winter, strong as stone;
she faced the darkness all alone.
a silver goddess; a reflection.
a mirage; a recollection.
no return; no turning back.
the past is gone; the future, black.
serpents gather in their nest,
and she stands above the rest.
shadows hunt; she hunts the shadow.
the moon is risen; she stands below.
she views her world through the eyes of others.
black and white; there are no colors,
as she looks down upon a shattered youth.
a shattered mirror shows a shattered truth."
— nikolas ravena

tags: mirror, shattered
10 people liked it

"I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show. "
— Andrew Wyeth

2 people liked it

"The only place where success comes before work is in a dictionary."
— VIDAL SASSOON

5 people liked it

"Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone's life forever."
— Margaret Cho

8 people liked it

"Dreams are extremely important. You can't do it unless you imagine it."
— George Lucas

8 people liked it

"If you have nothing in life but a good friend, you're rich."
— Michelle Kwan

tags: friend, life
8 people liked it

"It is our choices, Harry, that show us who we truly are, far more than our abilities."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)

tags: choices
3,126 people liked it

"Winning isn't everything--but wanting to win is."
— Vince Lombardi

tags: sports, victory, winning
32 people liked it

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that
something else is more important than fear."
— Meg Cabot

tags: courage, fear, inspirational
162 people liked it