inspirational quotes about life lessons

Without geography, you're nowhere. ~Author Unknown



God made man stronger but not necessarily more intelligent. He gave women intuition and femininity. And, used properly, that combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met. ~Farrah Fawcett



The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too. ~Samuel Butler, Notebooks, 1912



Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death. ~Heraclitus, Eustathius ad Iliad



Music is what life sounds like. ~Eric Olson



There is nothing that gives more assurance than a mask. ~Colette



When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again. ~Hugo L. Black



Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food. ~Austin O'Malley



We can do no great things, only small things with great love. ~Mother Teresa



Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat. ~Mark Twain



Sometimes I imagine a get-together where I introduce my family to my blogger friends and my blogger friends introduce my family to me. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood. ~John Burroughs



If I were a cat, what would make me purr? A pair of really comfortable blue jeans, and massages. ~Cinnamon Stomberger



Adolescence is perhaps nature's way of preparing parents to welcome the empty nest. ~Karen Savage and Patricia Adams, The Good Stepmother



Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation. ~Margaret Mead



Women have had the power of naming stolen from us. ~Mary Daly



Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



Flowers and butterflies drift in color, illuminating spring. ~Author Unknown



Journalists aren't supposed to praise things. It's a violation of work rules almost as serious as buying drinks with our own money or absolving the CIA of something. ~P.J. O'Rourke



Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. ~Andre Gide