Another Onsalught of the Lovely Texts My Phone Sends Me

1. "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves."  - Thomas A. Edison
2. "You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep spring from coming." - Pablo Neruda
3. "Courage is fear holding on a minute longer." General George S. Patton
4. "After about three lessons, the voice teacher said 'Don't take lessons. Do it your way.'" - Johnny Cash
5. "Every one of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves." - Princess Diana
6. "Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!" - Jane Austen
7. "The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness." - The Dalai Lama
8. "I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got." - Walter Cronkite
9. "Better to live one year as a tiger, than a hundred as a sheep." - Madonna
10. "One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them." - Ira Gershwin
11. "I'm hoping that someday some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him." - Hank Aaron
12. "If we stopped trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time." - Edith Wharton
13. "My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here." - Jim Henson
14. "Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it." - Cicero
15. "Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." - Marcel Proust
16. "Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night." - Marian Wright Edelman
17. "If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough." - Mario Andretti
18. "I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine." - Bruce Lee
19. "The true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good." - Ann Landers
20. "If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance." - George Bernard Shaw
21. "There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it." - Pearl Bailey
22. "You can't win unless you learn how to lose." - Kareem Abdul-Jabaar
23. "Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it." - Buddha
24. "As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." - John F. Kennedy
25. "Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly." - Langston Hughes
26. "You cannot depend on  your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." - Mark Twain
27. "Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive." - Anais Nin
28. "There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
29. "Happiness is good health and a bad memory." - Ingrid Bergman
30. "To be without some of the things you want is an indispensible part of happiness." - Bertrand Russell
31. "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." - Thomas Jefferson
32. "Always do the right thing. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." - Mark Twain
33. "There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it." - Oscar Wilde
34. "When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world." - George Washington Carver
35. "You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed." - Frederick Douglass
36. "Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life." - William Congreve
37. "Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes." - Goethe
38. "Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom." - Albert Einstein
39. "Lost time is never found again." - Benjamin Franklin
40. "Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler." - Henry David Thoreau
41. "Do not fear mistakes. There are none." - Miles Davis
42. "You are only as good as the team you have behind you." - Jim Palmer
43. "I must govern the clock, not be governed by it." - Golda Meir
44. "We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men." - Herman Melville
45. "Do not seek to follow the footsteps of the men of old. Seek what they sought." - Basho
46. "Be careful what you set your heart on, for it will surely be yours." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
47. "If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment." - Georgia O'Keefe
48. "The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters." - Gloria Steinem
49. "If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking." - George Patton
50. "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." - William Shakespeare
51. "If there is no struggle, there is no progress." - Frederick Douglass
52. "Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly." - Robert Schuller
53. "What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
54. "Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life beautiful." - Joshua J. Marine
55. "Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness." - Seneca
56. "When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil." - Max Lerner
57. "A real friend is the one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." - Walter Winchell
58. "Anger is never without reason, but seldom a good one." - Benjamin Franklin
59. "Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
60. "Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it." - Ella Williams
61. "The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves." - Helen Keller
62. "I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird." - Paul McCartney
63. "It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich." - Henry Ward Beecher
64. "When we see men of contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves." - Confucius
65. "What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you." - Oprah Winfrey
66. "An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh." - Will Rogers
67. "Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence." - Robert Frost
68. "Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be stong to live, as well as to think." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
69. "Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time." - Steven Wright
70. "If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work." - Kahlil Gibran
71. "He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know." - Lao-tzu
72. "Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted  was once eccentric." - Bertrand Russell