quotes about life and change

Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard at it. ~Author Unknown



A rolling stone gathers no moss. ~Publilius Syrus



I have often noticed that when chickens quit quarreling over their food they often find that there is enough for all of them. I wonder if it might not be the same with the human race. ~Don Marquis I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes. ~Yves Saint Laurent



Say "Yes" to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say "Yes" to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say "Yes" to dreams of love and freedom. It is the password to utopia. ~Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun, 1951



All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt! ~Charles Schulz



It is easier to mend neglect than to quicken love. ~Saint Jerome



Good decisions come from experience, and experience comes from bad decisions. ~Author Unknown



In golf, you keep your head down and follow through. In the vice presidency, you keep your head up and follow through. It's a big difference. ~Dan Quayle



It is good to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought. ~James Douglas, Down Shoe Lane



Too many people think only of their own profit. But business opportunity seldom knocks on the door of self-centered people. No customer ever goes to a store merely to please the storekeeper. ~Kazuo Inamori



Every morning I spend fifteen minutes filling my mind full of God; and so there's no room left for worry thoughts. ~Howard Chandler Christy



Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole. ~Author unknown, supposedly from a Washington Post reader submission word contest in which readers were asked to alter a word by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter and supply a new definition



What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a downy spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantiere



The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. ~Elisabeth Foley



I've had a wonderful evening - but this wasn't it. ~Groucho Marx



The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. ~Elbert Hubbard, The Note Book, 1927



In Mexico we have a word for sushi: bait. ~Jose Simons



My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground upon which I stand. ~Thich Nhat Hanh



Princes should have more to fear from historians than have ugly women from great painters. ~Antonio Perez, Aforismos



What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient. ~Bodie Thoene, Warsaw Requiem