Thoughtful Sayings
Find thoughtful sayings that reflect life in this compilation. Words to express appreciation, to share with that someone special, and sayings to make you smile. Sometimes when people are going through challenging times it is hard to read a book, but reading a quote is fast and it can have a lasting impact. It is the goal of this website to provide words that are inspirational and motivating. We hope you enjoy them and will visit with us again.
"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it." Somerset Maugham
"Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom." Christian Nestell Bovee
"A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down." Arnold H. Glasow
"The first duty of love is to listen." Paul Tillich
"Shine, even if the sun doesn't." Cindy Francis
"A baby is God's opinion that life should go on." Carl Sandburg
"The key to success is letting the relationships in your life grow to the highest levels they possibility can . . . not putting yourself first in life and remembering that the more you give away, the more you have." Christopher Reeve
"Don't carry a grudge. While you're out carrying the grudge the other guy's out dancing." Buddy Hackett
"We were not sent into this world to do anyting into which we cannot put our hearts." John Ruskin
"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves." Victor Hugo
"Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble." Frank Tyger
"The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled, the more I gain." Susan B. Anthony
"Whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up." Ogden Nash
"The more effort you put out, the luckier you'll get." Cindy Francis
"Time, indeed, is a sacred gift, and each day is a little life." John Lubbock
"Hens that cackle much lay few eggs." Estonian Saying
"What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life." Bertrand Russell
"We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry." E. B. White
"Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one." Laurence J. Peter
"Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait." Henry Wadsworth Longfell
"Envy shoots at others and wounds itself." English Saying
"The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." Marcel Proust
"Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same." Flavia
"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him." Aldous Huxley
"Think before you speak and look before you leap." Irish Saying
"A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles." William Hazlitt
"Let us not hurry so in our pace of living that we lost sight of the art of living." Francis Bacon
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