Quote Junkie

Some people collect stickers or stamps. I, however, collect quotes. Whenever I come across a quote I make sure to write it down. Maybe I'm just weird like that, but I like having a list of inspirational quotes to look at. The following is a growing list of quotes that I really like. Just to point out the obvious. Hope you enjoy these quotes as much as I do!

"Words are things and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think."
-George Gordon Byron

"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
-Abraham Lincoln

"Hi there. My name is Doug. My master made me this collar so I may talk. SQUIRREL! (dog looks away for several moments) Hi There."
-Doug from Up

"The most complicated task today is finding a way to live a simple life."
-W.A. Nance

"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead."
-Bertrand Russell

"To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted." -Bill Bryson

"Quit. Don't quit. Noodles. Don't noodles. You are too concerned with what was and what will be. There's a saying. Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the 'present'."
-Kung Fu Panda ‎

“All people dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their mind, wake in the morning to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous people, for they dream with open eyes, and make them come true.”
-D.H. Lawrence

“When I was five years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I told them 'happy'. They told em I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.”
-John Lennon

“I don't know exactly where ideas come from. It's just a matter of us figuring out how to receive the ideas waiting to be heard.”
-Jim Henson

"Just keep swimming."
-Dory from Finding Nemo

“Sometimes it takes a good fall to know where you really stand.”

"The happiest people don't have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything."

"Adventure is the pursuit of life."

"During my second year of nursing school our professor gave us a quiz. I breezed through the questions until I read the last one: "What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?" Surely this was a joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times, but how would I know her name? I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank. Before the class ended, one student asked if the last question would count toward our grade. "Absolutely," the professor said. "In your careers, you will meet many people. All are significant. They deserve your attention and care, even if all you do is smile and say hello." I've never forgotten that lesson. I also learned her name was Dorothy."
 -Joann C. Jones

"Don't let your past dictate who you are but let it be a part of who you will become."

"Do small things with great love."
-Mother Teresa

"Genius of any kind is the ability and willingness to leave the known world behind and explore new territory."
-Karla Mclaren

"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare." - -Mark Twain