Quotes - Amy (amybookworm) (Charlotte, NC) Showing 1-26 of 26

#1

“Do your best and let God do the rest.”
― Ben Carson

tags: best, god, inspirational

440 likes

#2

“Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.”
― Ben Carson

tags: giving, happiness

438 likes

#3

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

177581 likes

#4

“Who, being loved, is poor?”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: love

3239 likes

#5

“Some things are more precious because they don't last long.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

2523 likes

#6

“May you live every day of your life.”
― Jonathan Swift

tags: inspirational, life, philosophy, wisdom

10327 likes

#7

“When you learn, teach, when you get, give.”
― Maya Angelou

1201 likes

#8

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: learning, mentoring, parenting, teacher

3437 likes

#9

“What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

tags: love-of-learning, mentoring, teacher

1277 likes

#10

“[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.”
― Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider

tags: childhood, education, learning, teaching

2019 likes

#11

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: good, writing

19428 likes

#12

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

tags: reading, writing

13094 likes

#13

“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
― Anton Chekhov

tags: broken-glass, glass, moon, moonshine, show-don-t-tell, writing

5987 likes

#14

“Happiness is a warm puppy.”
― Charles M. Schulz

tags: animals, dogs, happiness, humor, puppies

6766 likes

#15

“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”
― Mark Twain

tags: happiness

2789 likes

#16

“Happiness [is] only real when shared”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

tags: family, happiness, inspirational, love, marriage

3928 likes

#17

“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: happiness

3444 likes

#18

“Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.”
― Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca

tags: happiness

1379 likes

#19

“Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: contentment, goals, happiness, life, satisfaction

1166 likes

#20

“Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: happiness

600 likes

#21

“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
― Linda Grayson

tags: chocolate, friendship

16488 likes

#22

“How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em.”
― Shel Silverstein

5212 likes

#23

“Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

tags: friendship

7672 likes

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