Favourite quotes? (For Mom)

[lifejoy]

I'm working on a very mustachian Christmas present: I'm making a magazine for my mom! Full of recipes, photos, articles, fun facts, and... Quotes!

This is where you come in. Please share your favourites, with source. And thanks for the help!

[lifejoy]

This one makes the cut for sure:

“My uncle Alex Vonnegut, a Harvard-educated life insurance salesman who lived at 5033 North Pennsylvania Street, taught me something very important.

He said that when things were really going well we should be sure to NOTICE it. He was talking about simple occasions, not great victories: maybe drinking lemonade on a hot afternoon in the shade, or smelling the aroma of a nearby bakery; or fishing, and not caring if we catch anything or not, or hearing somebody all alone playing a piano really well in the house next door.

Uncle Alex urged me to say this out loud during such epiphanies: "If this isn't nice, what is?”

- Kurt Vonnegut

[MandyM]

"Freedom lies in being bold" Robert Frost (this is my FIRE quote)

[lifejoy]

"Freedom lies in being bold" Robert Frost (this is my FIRE quote)

Nice one!!

[Bracken_Joy]

Another Robert Frost: "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
Walt Whitman: "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough."
Thoreau: "Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”
John Muir: "Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul."

Love your gift idea =)

[GoldenGrove]

Great gift idea! First quote that came to my mind is from Madeleine L'Engle: "But unless we are creators, we are not fully alive."

[hunniebun]

That is a great idea for a gift! Oce of my favorites
Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more, and all good things will be yours - Swedish Proverb

[TravelJunkyQC]

I love your gift idea!
Here is one of my favourites:

"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about."
~ Charles Kingsley

[Le Poisson]

I had a teacher who quoted Shakespeare thusly: "All's well that ends well." When things are going poorly, it gives me something to look forward to. Sort of a this too shall pass.

Then my all time favourite taken from The Ladder of St. Augustine (Longfellow):

We have not wings, we cannot soar;
      But we have feet to scale and climb
By slow degrees, by more and more,
      The cloudy summits of our time.

...

The distant mountains, that uprear
      Their solid bastions to the skies,
Are crossed by pathways, that appear
      As we to higher levels rise.

The heights by great men reached and kept
      Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
      Were toiling upward in the night.

[lifejoy]

I love your gift idea!
Here is one of my favourites:

"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about."
~ Charles Kingsley

Beautiful, I love it!

[radram]

"Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand"  - Homer (Simpson)

Maybe not for your book, but still one of my favorites.

Radram

[Jeremy E.]

"We make ourselves rich by making our wants few." -Thoreau
"The secret to getting ahead, is getting started." -Mark Twain
"Wealth mainly depends on two things, hard work and moderation. In other words, do not waste time or money, and use both." -Benjamin Franklin

[lifejoy]

Very nice! Thanks!


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[butterfly7]

Some of my favourites:

“‎Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.”
Chico Xavier

“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
Haruki Murakami

[Frankies Girl]

Imagination is more important than knowledge - Albert Einstein

We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
- Ursula K. Le Guin


Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. - Dr. Seuss


We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. - Ray Bradbury

And I love this idea! :)