[more or less]

quotes for a few things i think everyone could use a little more or less of. this is way too deep for me :/ but the quote garden got me thinking late last night! and i don't even know who some of these people are who said these things, and i might not like the quote so much if i knew more about the person. does that go against everything i'm about to post? ugh, yes.

confidence

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.  

Eleanor Roosevelt

gossip

I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody.

Benjamin Franklin

patience

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

Mac McCleary

worry

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which will never happen.

James Russel Lowell

virtue

Unless I accept my faults I will most certainly doubt my virtues.

Hugh Prather

trust

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment unless you trust enough.

Frank Crane

stress

Slow down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you.

John De Paola

solitude

Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.

Lorraine Hansberry

simplicity

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Leonardo DaVinci

self-control

The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own.  No apologies or excuses.  No one to lean on, rely on, or blame.  The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it.  This is the day your life really begins.

Bob Moawad

risk

Take risks:  if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise.

Author Unknown

purpose

"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for new and richer experience." 

Eleanor Roosevelt

politics

If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain.”

winston churchill

perseverance

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

John Quincy Adams

forgiveness

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

Paul Boese

friendship

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. 

Dave Tyson Gentry

hate

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.

Charles Caleb Colton

kisses

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

Thomas Carlyle

opportunities

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

Milton Berle

kindness

Be kind; for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Plato

exercise

Fitness - if it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body.

Cher

exaggeration

If you add to the truth, you subtract from it.

The Talmud

curiosity

There are no foolish questions, and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions. 

Charles Proteus Steinmetz

anger

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Sydney J. Harris

apology

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

Kimberly Johnson

teamwork

It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn't matter who gets the credit.

Author Unknown

family

When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses. 

Joyce Brothers