quotes to ponder...

i thought i'd show some quotes that i loved - for one reason or another....i hope you will find one that you love... if you find a quote that you like, click it, for more info., or to go to the site for more quotes to ponder...

Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.
Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.
Martha Washington (1732 - 1802)

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
Austin Phelps

Charity sees the need not the cause.
German Proverb

Be gentle with the young.
Juvenal (55 AD - 127 AD)

Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)

Kindness, no matter how small, is never wasted.
Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC

Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.
Lawana Blackwell

The wise man carries his possessions within him.
Bias

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)

Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
Albert Einstein

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
Socrates

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
Martin Luther King Jr

Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt

The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
Hazrat Inayat Khan

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)

When you drink the water, remember the spring.
Chinese Proverb

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten-thousand stars how not to dance...
E. E. Cummings

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
Anouk Aimee