In Other Words

What is the fascination people seem to have with quotes? Why is it better to use another's words to state what we think or feel? Who knows...but here are a few I like. :-)

Don't worry about the people from your past, there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future. -- Author Unknown

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them. -- Desmond Tutu

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. -- Albert Einstein

Love while we're here before time passes by. -- Lyrics to a song by Kathy Mattea

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them. -- Leo Tolstoy

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. -- Alexander Graham Bell

Love doesn't make the world go 'round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile. -- Franklin P. Jones

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. -- Winston Churchill

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. -- Abraham Lincoln

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. -- Dale Carnegie

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity. -- Doug Horton