Chicken Soup for the Soul: Happily Ever After

Quotes from Jack Canfield and Mark Hansen's Chicken Soup for the Soul: Happily Ever After :) A must read!!!

 

If you don't like something, change it. 

If you can't change it, change the way 

you think about it. -Mary Engelbreit

Anywhere is paradise; it's up to you. -Author Unknown

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another is essential to your own. -Robert Heinlein

Make your optimism come true. -Author Unknown

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, 

destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. -Author Unknown

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. -David Viscott, M.D.

Age does not protect you from love, but love to some

extent protects you from age. -Jeanne Moreau

Small deeds are done better 

than great deeds planned. -Peter Marshall

Challenges make you discover things about

yourself that you never really knew. -Cicely Tyson

When the world says, "Give up," 

Hope whispers, "Try it one more time." 

 -Author Unknown

We must be willing to 

get rid of the life we've planned, 

so as to have the life that is waiting for us. 

 -Joseph Campbell

True love stories never have endings. -Richard Bach

Forgiveness does not change the past, 

but it does enlarge the future. -Paul Boese

Soul-mates are people who bring out the best in you. 

They are not perfect but are always perfect for you. -Author Unknown

See everything; 

overlook a great deal; 

correct a little. 

 -Pope John XXIII

To get to a woman's heart, 

a man must first use his own. 

 -Mike Dobbertin

The first duty of love is to listen. -Paul Tillich

They are not long, the days of wine and roses: 

Out of a misty dream, our path emerges for a while, 

then closes within a dream. 

 -Ernest Dowson

We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, 

as best to remove the weeds of anger, 

avarice, envy and doubt. -Dorothy Day

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. -Emma Goldman

Flowers are love's truest language. -Park Benjamin

You give but little when you give of your possessions. 

It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. -Kahlil Gibran

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, 

you gotta put up with the rain. -Dolly Parton

Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent. -Jean Kerr

Let your love be stronger than you hate or anger. 

Learn the wisdom of compromise, 

for it is better to bend a little than to break. -H.G. Wells

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. -Agnes Repplier

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play 

than in a year of conversation. -Plato

Kindness is the greatest wisdom. -Author Unknown

A hundred men may make an encampment,
but it takes a woman to make a home. -Chinese Proverb

We love because it's 

the only true adventure. -Nikki Giovanni

If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances. -Julia Sorel

A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover 

as the love of the giver. -Thomas a Kempis

Do I love you because you're beautiful, 

or are you beautiful because I love you? 

-Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein II

Remember, we all stumble, every one of us, 

that's why it's comfort to go hand in hand. -Emily Kimbrough

The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have. -Leonard Nimoy

I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved. -George Eliot

It's not where you go or what you do, it's who you take along with you. -Anonymous