Quotes by Authors - Page 159

Let us labor to make the heart grow larger as we become older as spreading oak gives more shelter.
Richard Jeffries
In the rush of daily living it's easy to forget all the remarkable people real or fictional who have been a part of your life. But if you just imagine they are near for a moment you will realize that anyone who ever touched your heart is always with you patiently waiting to emanate warmth and support whenever you remember to think of them.
Barbara Sher
How important is the heart! It is there that character is formed. It alone holds the secrets of true success.
Charles Swindoll
In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber so long as it receives messages of beauty hope cheer and courage so long are you young.
Douglas MacArthur
You don't have to sit on top of a mountain to discover what's right for you. You always know in your heart what you need to do.
Liz Dolan
Keep your heart open for as long as you can as wide as you can for others and especially for yourself.
Morrie Schwartz
When you wholeheartedly adopt a "with all your heart" attitude and go all out with the positive principle you can do incredible things.
Norman Vincent Peale
Discouraged not by difficulties without or the anguish of ages within the heart listens to a secret voice that whispers: "Be not dismayed in the future lies the Promised Land."
Helen Keller
Health is not a condition of matter but of Mind.
Mary Baker Eddy
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill never own it to yourself. Illess is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
I'm not that much into working out. My philosophy - no pain no pain.
Toni Anderson
I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over he would have put diamonds on the floor.
Joan Rivers
I burned sixty calories. That should take care of a peanut I had in 1962.
Rita Rudner
His idea of exercise is walking to his vitamins.
Casey Fenton
I don't give my weight. I weigh a hundred and plenty.
Wendy Morgan
doctor to stout patient: You've been swallowing your food again.
Anonymous
They say the Japanese don't experience menopause or hot flashes. If that's the case why are they the number-one fan-producing country in the world?
Wendy Morgan
My doctor gave me six months to live but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.
Walter Mattbau
My husband wasn't listening when the doctor asked for "a urine stool and semen sample" . . . so I just told him they wanted his shorts.
Anonymous
The trouble with jogging is that by the time you realize you're not in shape for it it's too far to walk back.
Franklin P. Jones
I get my exercise being a pallbearer for those of my friends who believed in regular running and calisthenics.
Anonymous
I won't say I'm out of condition now - but I even puff going downstairs.
Dick Gregory
My husband lost a lot of weight on a new diet and I resent it. It's simple he just doesn't eat when I'm talking.
Wendy Morgan
If I am ever stuck on a respirator or a life support system I definitely want to be unplugged but not until I get down to size eight.
Henriette Montel
Lord if you can't make me thin - can you make all my friends fat?
Judy Hampton
I've been on a constant diet for the last two decades. I've lost a total of 789 pounds. By all accounts I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.
Erma Bombeck
Diets are for people who are thick and tired of it.
Jacob Braude
God heals and the doctor takes the fee.
Ben Franklin
Health food makes me sick.
Calvin Trillin
To improve your memory lend people money.
Anonymous
If you hate a person you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
Hermann Hesse
It does not matter much what a man hates provided he hates something.
Samuel Butler
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
Eric Hoffer
Psychiatrists today . . . see the irrational hostility that people everywhere vent upon one another as chiefly projected self-hate.
Bonaro Overstreet
Hatred seems to operate on the same glands as love it even produces the same actions. If we had not been taught how to interpret the story of the Passion would we have been able to say from their actions alone whether it was the jealous Judas or the cowardly Peter who loved Christ?
Graham Greene
People hate as they love unreasonably.
William Thackeray
Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer.
Anonymous
The happy and efficient people in this world are those who accept trouble as a normal detail of human life and resolve to capitalize it when it comes along.
H. Bertram Lewis
Man's real life is happy chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
Edgar Allan Poe
Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men but one and he has saved not only his soul but his life.
G.K. Chesterton
Better be happy than wise.
Anonymous
The happy people are those who are producing something.
William Ralph Inge
Happy is he that chastens himself.
Anonymous
Happy people plan actions they don't plan results.
Dennis Wholey
What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?
Margaret Oliphant
Happiness grows at our own firesides and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
Douglas Jerrold
Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
Henry David Thoreau
When I was young I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness. I was right.
Graham Wilson
I am one of those people who just can't help getting a kick out of life - even when it's a kick in the teeth.
Paula Adler
If ignorance is bliss why aren't there more happy teenagers?
Anonymous
Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
Norman Vincent Peale
Suffering is not a prerequisite for happiness.
Judy Tatelbaum
If you always do what interests you at least one person is pleased.
Katharine Hepburn
He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise.
Thomas Fuller
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
Edith Wharton
That sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself.
Jane Austen
If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
Katharine Hepburn
The truth is laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought choked half strangled or surrendered to with humiliation.
Anne Rice
I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
We always have enough to be happy if we are enjoying what we do have- and not worrying about what we don't have.
Ken Keyes