LAUGHTER

Take time to laugh - it is the music of the soul.
~ Author unknown

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
~ Victor Borge

What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.
~ Yiddish Proverb

A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.
~Puzant Kevork Thomajan

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
~Victor Hugo

Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.
~Arnold Glasow

LEADERSHIP

There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
~Gilbert K. Chesterton

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.
~John C. Maxwell

LIFE

Count the garden by the flowers,
never by the leaves that fall.
Count your life with smiles
and not the tears that roll
~Unknown

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is bliss, taste it.
Life is a dream, achieve it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it. **

~Mother Teresa

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is .
~Albert Einstein

Life if short; live it up.
~Khrushchev

You've got to sing like nobody's listening,
You've got to love like you'll never get hurt,
You've got to dance like nobody's watching.
You've got to live like it's Heaven on Earth
~Unknown

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
~Unknown

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It Goes On. *
~Robert Frost

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, in the tissue of every day and hour.
~Stephen Leacock

Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?
~Mary Manin Morrissey

LISTENING

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move towards. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
~Karl Menninger

Every person in this life has something to teach me -- and as soon as I accept that, I open myself to truly listening.
~Catherine Doucette

The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them.
~Ralph Nichols

Wisdom is the reward for a lifetime of listening ... when you'd have preferred to talk.
~D.J. Kaufman

The wise old owl lived in an oak;
The more he saw the less he spoke;
The less he spoke the more he heard:
Why can't we all be like that bird?
~Joseph F. Newton

It is the province of knowledge to speak And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. *
~Oliver Wendell Holmes

LONELINESS

People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
~Joseph F. Newton

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.
~Thomas Wolfe

Better be alone than in bad company.
~Thomas Fuller

LOVE

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. *
~Henry Drummond

A life's worth, in the end, isn't measured in hours, or dollars. It's measured by the amount of love exchanged along the way. *
~Douglas C. Means

Those that go searching for love, only manifest their own lovelessness. And the loveless never find love, only the loving find love. And they never have to seek for it. *
~D.H Lawrence

We can do no great things; only small things with great love. *
~Mother Theresa

LUCK

Luck is when opportunity knocks and you answer. **
~Anonymous

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
~William Shakespeare

I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
~Thomas Jefferson

Luck is not chance---
It's Toil---
Fortune's expensive smile
Is earned---
~Emily Dickinson