FAMOUS WORDS TO INSPIRE

Carol Burnett (1933 - )
Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.


E.E. Cummings (1894 - 1962)
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

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.

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.


Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Be careful what you set your heart on, for it will surely be yours.

A great man is always willing to be little.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

All diseases run into one, old age.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.


Debbie Harry (1945 - )
The issues of humanity and what is fair treatment and good treatment of a fellow human being should not really be based on a personal sense of right and wrong or judgment.

Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it.

Something that's written out is okay, but it's not always a clear indication of what a person means.

You always fall for the rascal or the guy who's got a little bit of the devil in him. You can't help it.


Daphne du Maurier (1907 - 1989)
Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.


Mark Twain (1871 - 1910)
Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one.

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you: the one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you.

Man is the only animal that blushes, or needs to.

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.


Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.


Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983)
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.