allie :): Favorite Quotes

These are just some of my favorite quotes, but sadly, I just have the quotes. Not who they came from or anything. Sorry there's so many!

"Greatness is not in where we stand, but what direction
we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind,
and sometimes against it-
but sail we must, and not drift, nor lie anchor."

"Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself:
I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.
I can choose which it shall be.
Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet.
I have just one day, today,
and I'm going to be happy in it."

"You can't buy happiness, but you can buy ice cream.
And that's kind of the same thing."


"It is not so important whether a young man
has been through the experience of a mission
as it is whether the mission
experience has been through him."

"Character is what you are willing to do when the
spotlight has been turned off, the applause has
died down, and no one is around
to give you credit."

"I don’t suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it."

"This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized
by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are
thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish
selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not
devote itself to making you happy."

"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day,
to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human
being can fight; and never stop fighting."

"I am not judged by the number of times I fail,
but by the number of times
I succeed; and the number of times I succeed
is in direct proportion
to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying."

"We're
all a little weird. And life's a little
weird. And when we find someone whose
weirdness is compatible with ours, we join
up in mutual weirdness and call it friendship."

"Take nothing but photographs
leave nothing but footprints
and kill nothing but time."

"We're so cool, even ice cubes are jealous."

"No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn
starting from scratch. We absolutely, positively have to find people who have
already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn,
so we don’t make the same mistakes they did."

"Perhaps the greatest charity comes
when we are kind to one another, when we
don’t judge or categorize someone else
when we simply give each other the
benefit of the doubt.
Charity is accepting someone’s  differences,
weaknesses, and shortcomings; having
patience with someone who has let us down
or resisting the impulse to become offended
when someone doesn’t handle things the way
we might have hoped. Charity is refusing to
take advantage of each other’s weaknesses
and being willing to forgive someone who
has hurt us. Charity is expecting the best
from each other."


"Even though we’ve changed and we’re all finding
our own place in the world we all know that when the tears
fall or the smile spreads across our face,
we’ll come to each other because no matter where this crazy
world takes us, nothing will ever change so much
to the point where we’re not all still friends."


"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common
denominator,
but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."