Starting Over Talk - Peer Coaching Support Site

I love quotes, they make you think or smile.. If you have any inspirational or funny or whathaveyou quotes you'd like to share, you've come to the right place!

These first ones don't have authors.. I'm going to break them up a bit so it's not one looooong thread.

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You were born with two ears and one mouth, therefore should we not listen twice as much as we speak?


Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.

I can please only one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't looking good either.

Don't confuse me with facts, my mind's already made up.

Forget the Joneses. I can't keep up with the Simpsons.

I've discovered that I often visit the state of confusion, and I know my way around pretty well.

My mind works like lightning... one brilliant flash and it's gone.

I'm not crazy; I'm just a sane person trapped in the body of a lunatic.

Why is it that if something says, "do not eat" on the packaging it becomes extra tempting to eat?

He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away. ~Raymond Hull

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another. ~William Shakespeare

All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naïve. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: that I am nobody but myself. ~Ralph Ellison

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. ~Judy Garland

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. ~Harvey Fierstein

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. ~Oscar Wilde

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~Dr. Seuss

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not. ~Andre Gide

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. ~H. Jackson Browne

Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. ~Abraham Lincoln

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. ~Frederick Keonig

Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important. ~Janet Lane

A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour. ~Author Unknown

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. ~Dalai Lama

We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it. ~Mignon McLaughlin

Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do. ~Jean de la Bruyere

The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid. ~Lady Bird Johnson

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. ~Thomas à Kempis

You've got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice. ~Steven D. Woodhull

Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it. ~Author Unknown

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him. ~Leo Aikman

God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me. ~Author unknown, variation of an excerpt from "The Serenity Prayer" by Reinhold Neibuhr

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. ~Theodore Roosevelt

Just remember, there's a right way and a wrong way to do everything and the wrong way is to keep trying to make everybody else do it the right way. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter

Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb

Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it anyway. ~Elbert Hubbard

Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong. ~Dandemis

Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak. Sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go. ~Author Unknown

While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself. ~Doug Horton

The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow. Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show. ~Author Unknown

One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us. ~Michael Cibenko

Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate. ~Barnett R. Brickner


Now that it's all over, what did you really do yesterday that's worth mentioning? ~Coleman Cox


You don't stop laughing because you grow old; you grow old because you stop laughing

Honesty without compassion and understanding is not honesty,
but subtle hostility......Rose N. Franzblau,M.D.

As you go through life you are going to have many opportunities
to keep your mouth shut. Take advantage of all of them.
James Dent

There are few things more consoling to men than the mere
finding that other men have felt as they feel.
Frederick W. Faber

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so
stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
James Baldwin

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday...and I
love today.
Unknown.

Everything in your life leads up to everything else in your life.
E George

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
Robert Louis Stevenson

The bravest of heroes is he who makes a friend out of an
enemy................?

Brevity may be the soul of wit, but not when someone's saying
"I love you."
Judith Viorst

Love never dies of a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source, it dies of blindness and errors and
betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds, it dies of weariness,of
witherings, of tarnishings.
Anais Nin

When one finds himself in a hole of his own making, it is a good
time to examine the quality of workmanship.
Jon Remmerde

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to
tell more than he knows.
Dwight D.Eisenhower

Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.
Abraham Lincoln