"74 Thoughts of The Day About Living"

"The greatest use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Alex K. --- Canada

"There is no sympathy for apathy."
--- Daniel Hubbard --- Submitted by Katie S. --- Virginia

"To explain myself to you is to explain myself to myself."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Brigid Moran --- Maryland

YOU

Why
Why today I saw a flower
Flower floating in my mind
Mind seeking truth
Truth I found in you.

Today
Today I saw a beauty
Beauty in my chaos
Chaos in my world
World I found with you.

Smile
Smile I left behind
Behind on the floor
Floor in the room
Room enough for you.

Love
Love is kind of crazy
Crazy enough to find
Find us together
Together me and you.

YOU.
--- Copyright © 2001 Darrell Gill
Wrote this for my ex-girlfriend. I hope she will find her way.

"To love and obey your parents is to gain success and wealth."
--- Copyright © 2002 Surjit Dorka

"I have come to believe that everyone is weird. Some just choose to hide it better than others. If someone tells you that you're weird, take it as a compliment. It simply means that you have a unique point of view and have the ability to see something in a way that most can't."
--- Written in 2002 by Chantal P., --- Cayman Islands

"The mortar of trust is honesty."
--- Copyright © 2001 Doug Comstock

"If a raging river was carrying you downstream and you knew that a dangerously high waterfall was just ahead, how hard would you swim to get out? Our lives are moving along swiftly. Look ahead for any dangers that are imminent. Work hard at getting out of the current. Changing lifestyle priorities, attitudes, and character is not an easy task. But no man knows how long he has, before reaching his waterfall."
--- Copyright © 2002 Scott Johnson

"The biggest challenge in life is to bring a dream to life."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Harsh Desai --- India

"Dreams are fragile things my friend - so quickly forgotten with the rising of the sun, so easily dispersed by the harsh light of day."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Yuanting S. --- Singapore

"If I set a good example, my children will learn from it, emulate it, and live by it."
--- Copyright © 2002 Sharon Pires

"Friends are like weight; you win some and you lose some."
--- Copyright © 2002 R. M. Nightengale

"Sometimes you have to take a step back and look at the person you were measuring everyone against."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Lisa Jean Day --- Illinois

"Although there's a common bond between conscience and character, remember that a strongly-motivated conscience can overpower poorly-developed character. And a man's character can only be changed, through 'doing the right thing' repetitively"
--- Copyright © 2002 Scott Johnson

"If you use the world and all it's fears, you'll find yourself in a world of tears!"
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by M. Tuffy --- Ireland

"Great help is best compared to a Notice Board. It has always had lot of people looking for something on it and doesn't expect anything back."
--- Copyright © 2002 Murugappan Ramanathan

"Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but is very rare because most people are strategists."
--- Anita Buckner --- Submitted by Cari T. --- Arkansas

"It is always best to remember sometimes it pays to forget."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Catherine Doherty --- Australia

"We have learnt how to fly in air like birds. We have learnt how to swim in water like fish. But we haven't learnt how to live on earth like human beings."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Muhammad Rahim Khan --- Pakistan

"Hell is the person you are, meeting the person you could have been."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Patrick Reading --- North Carolina

"I thought I was just planting a tree in the desert when I noticed we had created a forest."
--- Copyright © 2002 Brian Roscher

"Growing Old is Compulsory. Growing Wise is Optional."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Narayan Deshpande --- India

"When reason for change, change is the reason."
--- Copyright © 2002 Greg Bickerton and Tanya MacPhail

"When someone smiles, it makes me laugh. And when someone laughs, it makes another smile. So if you smile, it will make me laugh, which will make you laugh, which will make me smile."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by J.S. --- Canada

"Think before you do."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by D.D. --- Hawaii

"Love is action."
--- Dr. Laura --- Submitted by Jan Chandler --- Indiana

"Someone else's opinion of you does not have to become your reality."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by April Crochet --- Louisiana
I put this quote on my children's bathroom mirror so they would have to read it every day. I now have very positive, creative and successful children. I am blessed beyond belief.

"Never let the tail wag the dog."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Michael Gatti --- Florida
You're the one in control of your life!

"Life is love and love is life."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by I.M. --- Idaho

"No matter what the outcome, it was better to have been on the side of those who were for life, than those who were for death."
--- Albert Camus

"Nothing is interesting, if you are not interested."
--- Helen Macinness --- Submitted by Faryal Gohar --- Virginia

"Dreams are what make life tolerable."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Andrew Petersen --- Montana

"Holding your breath too long can kill you. Holding your feelings inside can too."
--- Written in 2002 by Jasmine R. --- Canada
I told this to my boyfriend when his mom died: It's true though, if you refuse to talk to anybody like he did, you're not helping yourself or anybody else.

"An expert at anything was once a beginner."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Sarah A. --- Arizona

"People would not call me a genius if they only knew how hard I worked."
--- Michelangelo --- Submitted by C. Field --- North Carolina

I loved my friend,
He went away from me,
There's nothing more to say.
I loved my friend
He went away from me
There's nothing more to say
The poem ends
Soft as it began
Soft as it began
Soft as it began
Soft as it began soft,
I loved my friend.
--- Langston Hughes --- Submitted by Ramona Zuill --- Washington

"No teaching can ever express Truth's sentiment because Truth is a presence - and teachings, no matter how sublime, are always a pathway from the past."
--- Guy Finley --- Submitted by Roel Corpus --- Oregon

"You are but one person in a world of billions. So where exactly do you stand?"
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by R.T. --- Texas

"You want a certain type of partner; you gotta reach a certain point yourself."
--- Written in 2001 by Terri R. --- Tennessee

"The tingling sensation all over your body, the smile on your face, the excitement in your voice and the slow intense, almost painful, spreading of warmth from your heart to the rest of your body; all, are caused by only one thing, a true feeling of being deeply loved."
--- Copyright © 2002 Amira Basel

"It is only when we control all our disabilities, we then become the humans we always thought we were."
--- Copyright © 2001 Daniel A. Saliba

"Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous --- there's really nothing to lose."
--- Jewel Kilcher --- Submitted by M.B. --- Pennsylvania

"What we see depends mainly on what we look for."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Anand Datwani --- United Arab Emirates

"It's better to light a match, than curse the dark."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Leon Juncaj

Never wound a heart that loves you
It causes endless pain
For wounded hearts are like roses
That may never bloom again
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Aditi Gill --- Israel

"A problem is still a problem, no matter how much you grumble, so solve it."
--- Copyright © 2001 Mohd Bashir

"When times get rough, just remember that somewhere in the world, there is someone having a tougher time in life. Just remember!!"
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Nicole P. --- Washington

"Before you learn how to win, you have to learn how to lose. You see seldom is someone born a winner. It is a habit, which is learned through repetition and hard work. It's pretty much safe to say nobody wins them all, so before we can triumph and overcome, we have to fail and endure. I can't promise you, if you work hard, you will ultimately be a winner but I can promise you if you don't try or don't care you will be a failure."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by O.C. --- Ohio

"You are the universe; everything you want, ask of yourself."
--- Rumi --- Submitted by Simon Heighwaya
United Kingdom

"Dignity is reflection of good thoughts and honesty within one's own self."
--- Written in 2002 by VKK --- India

"Love and time --- those are the only two things in all the world and all of life that cannot be bought, but only spent."
--- Gary Jennings --- Submitted by Sharon Ogden --- Kentucky

" Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is guilty in not providing universal free education, and it must answer for the night it produces. If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness."
--- Victor Hugo (Monseigneur Bienvenu - Les Miserables)
--- Submitted by Anna Marie Jimenez --- Cavite, Philippines

"When you learn to live with the mistakes that you have made, only then, will you be able to forgive yourself and move on."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Jess L. --- New Jersey

"Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will."
--- Jawaharlal Nehru --- Submitted by Hannah C. --- Texas

"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them."
--- James Baldwin --- Submitted by Chen Fawn Meng --- Malaysia

"Poetry is a beautiful thing. It doesn't matter if it rhymes.It doesn't matter if it makes sense or not. Words that flow from your heart and your mind, out to your hand and onto paper are beautiful works of art. As soon as you write a work of art, you are a poet."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Bethann G. --- Pennsylvania

"A mother is only as happy as her saddest child."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Sharen Fadale --- New York

"If you believe love comes in life through your eyes, then a blind person can never fall in love."
--- Copyright © 1999 Mansoor Baig
After falling in love, I learned that love doesn't care to come in your life through your eyes, sometimes you fall in love without seeing the person you are in love with.

"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."
--- E. E. Cummings --- Submitted by J.B. --- Washington

"I am not afraid of the dark; I am afraid of the monsters in the dark."
--- My nephew Luke --- Submitted by Cindy Kilpatrick --- Maine

"If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable."
--- Seneca --- Submitted by C.K. --- QLD, Australia

"Few live; most exist."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Andy Verity --- United Kingdom

"I cannot make you feel special, I can only remind you that you are special."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Chrissy M. --- Virginia

"There is more to life than having everything."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Mahesh B. --- India

"There are two sins in life; to be poor and to look poor. Avoid one."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Joyal Mehta --- India

"When everything is working to a rhythm, why is it so hard to observe the maestro?"
--- Written by Tarek M.M. --- Egypt

"Some acquaintances sweep into and out of your life like a storm. The true friends are those who, like the sunshine, wait behind the clouds for a chance to shine through."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Leslie H. --- Kentucky

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