Quotes For You

  If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. - Anne Bradstreet, 'Meditations Divine and Moral,' 1655 In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, when birds do sing... sweet lovers love the spring. - William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act V, sc. 3 [Spring is] when life's alive in everything. - Christina Rossetti An optimist is the human personification of spring. - Susan J. Bissonette Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. - Victor Hugo To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. - George Santayana I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. - John Locke Change your thoughts and you change your world. - Norman Vincent Peale Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power. - Rene Descartes Make not your thoughts your prisons. - William Sha...

  Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret. - Laurence J. Peter Do not fight verbosity with words: speech is given to all, intelligence to few. - Moralia By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean. - Mark Twain Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity. - Socrates Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it. - Cicero Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then. -Samuel Johnson Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. - William Arthur Ward Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity. - Og Mandino Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. - Abraham Lincoln Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full ...