Thursday Thirteen - Quotes

1. "Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of being." Johann Wolfang von Goethe
2. "And the day came when the risk it took to remain closed in a bud became more painful than the risk it took to bloom." Anais Nin
3. "There are only two ways to live your life.  One is as though nothing is a miracle, the other is as though everything is a miracle." Albert Einstein
4. "Hope begins in the dark the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come.  You wait and watch and work, you don't give up."  Anne Lamott
5. "Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible." St. Francis of Assisi
6. "I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do. " Helen Keller
7. "Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." William James
8. "Between two evils, I pick the one I never tried before." Mae West
9. "What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?" W. Clement Stone
10. "Love is being stupid together." Paul Valery
11. "I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.  Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass." Maya Angelou
12. "Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another." George Eliot
13. "Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body." Sir Richard Steele