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Great Quotes

These are quotes that I think everyone should live by! I hope you enjoy them. If you don't agree, please tell me (seriously).

Fears are obstacles; obstacles can be overcome.
 
I'm just a nobody, tryin to tell everybody about somebody (Jesus) who can save anybody.
 
Let no evil talk pass your lips, say only the good things men need to hear, things that will really help them (Ephesians 4:29)
 
Lord I just don't understand this creature you call man.  He thinks he lives by his own hand but I know that there's no life away from You.
 
Our worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace; our best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace!
 
Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one so that when we finally meet the right person, we will know how to be grateful for that gift.

When the door of happiness closes, another opens, but often times we look so long at the closed door that we don't see the one which has been opened for us.

The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch and swing with, never say a word, and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you've every had.

It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.

Giving someone all your love is never an assurance that they'll love you back! Don't expect love in return; just wait for it to grow in their heart but if it doesn't, be content it grew in yours.

It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone, but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.

Don't go for looks; they can deceive. Don't go for wealth; even that fades away. Go for someone who makes you smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright. Find the one that makes your heart smile.

There are moments in life when you miss someone so much that you just want to pick them from your dreams and hug them for real!

Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do.

May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human, enough hope to make you happy.

Always put yourself in others' shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the other person, too.

The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.

Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried, for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.

The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past, you can't go on well in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.

When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die, you're the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying.
 
"There is only one sadness--that of not being saints." ~Leon Bloy
 
"To be a saint is to change and change often!" ~St. John Vianney

I believe friends are quiet angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly!

To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.

"There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." -Einstein

You can't do much about the length of your life, but you can do a lot about its depth and width!

**No one is ever worth your tears...the only one that is, will never make you cry.

People say true friends must always hold hands, but true friends don't need to hold hands because they know the other hand will always be there.

There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart...pursue those.

Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them" ~Mother Teresa

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle." ~Plato

Enthusiasm is contagous. You could start an epidemic!

"We fix our eyes, not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal."

People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel.

Take nothing with you but memories. Leave nothing behind but footprints.

"There are two ways of spreading light- to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." ~Edith Wharton

"Friendship is hard to explain; it is not something that is taught in school but if you have not yet learned what friend is, you haven't learned anything."

Real friends are those who, when you feel you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel you've dont a permanent job.

A coincidence is when God performs a miracle and decides to remain anonymous.

Lead your life so you won't be ashamed to sell the family perrot to the town gossip.

People gather bundles of sticks to build bridges they never cross.

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% of how you respond to it.

Life is like an onion; you peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep.

There are 2 things I have learned in life: There is a God and I'm not Him.

"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those, who in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality." ~Dante
 
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

Sometimes the majority only means that all the fools are on the same side.
 
Inspire me, Lord, with the horror of sin!
 
Sin: take you farther than you want to go, keeps you longer than you want to stay, and costs you more than you are willing to pay! ~Young Apostle "motto"