butterfly

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you 

read a book

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader  

If you can read this, thank a teacher

a book

 When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life 

The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention 

My interest

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the  

rest of my life there 

happiness

Don't put the key of your happiness in someone else's pocket

Quotes About Life

Life is like an onion. Why is life like an onion? Because you peel away layer after layer and when you come to the end you have nothing

Yiddish Proverb

Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up   

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive  

Elbert Hubbard  

You live and you learn or you don't live long 

 Robert A. Heinlein  

Life is an incurable disease  

Abraham Crowley 

 Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep

Teachers

Teachers change the world one child at a time

kindness

How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it

The happiest people

The happiest people in the world are not those who have no problems, but those who learn to live with things that are less than perfect

phone call

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say?  And why are you waiting  

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quotations--believing

Start believing in yourself

and the world will start believing in you

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  Teachers open the door...you enter by yourself   

  To teach is to touch a life forever

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Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly.   (Lauren Bacall)

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    see a face without a smile... give them yours

"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live." - Marcus Aurelius

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A friend

When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance 

You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your friends 

A friend is a hand that is always holding yours, no matter how close or far apart you may be. A friend is someone who is always there and will always, always care. A friend is a feeling of forever in the heart 

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words