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12 Life Lessons from Marilyn Monroe

marilyn monroe life lessons1. “I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.”

2. “I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right.”

3. “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”

4. “Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together”

5. “Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.”

6. “It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.”

7. “This life is what you make it. Not matter what, you’re going to mess up sometimes, it’s a universal truth.”

8. ” Just because you fail once, doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don’t, then who will”

9. “If I’d observed all the rules I’d never have got anywhere.”

10. “We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.”

11. “We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.”

12. “I restore myself when I’m alone.”

Famous Short Quotes

“I am always doing things I can’t do. That is how I get to do them.” –Pablo Picasso

It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich. – Henry Ward Beecher

You can do anything, but not everything. —David Allen

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will. –W. Clement Stone

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us. – Rabindranth Tagore

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take. —Wayne Gretzky

He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Your work is to discover your work and then, with all your heart, to give yourself to it.” – Buddha

In order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow – and that is likely to hurt. – Wei Wu Wei

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. —Gandhi

“A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.” – Henry Ford

“As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big.” – Donald Trump

Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it. –Bill Cosby

“The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

What may be done at any time will be done at no time. – Scottish Proverb

“If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete.” – Jack Welch

“If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong either with you or with your business.” – William J. H. Boetcker

“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it!” – Jonathan Winters

A happy family is but an earlier heaven. –John Bowring

“In life, as in football, you won’t go far unless you know where the goalposts are.” – Arnold H. Glasgow

The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency. – Eugene McCarthy

“Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.” – Albert Camus

We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. —Aristotle

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison

“You will not do incredible things without an incredible dream.” – John Eliot

Courage is a kind of salvation. –Plato

“I’ve been blessed to find people who are smarter than I am, and they help me to execute the vision I have.” – Russell Simmons

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. —André Gide

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. – e.e. cummings

“Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

Halloween Quotes

In this scary night, please enjoy some great halloween quotes selected just for you.

I’ll bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween. – Author Unknown

As spirits roam the neighborhoods at night,
Let loose upon the Earth till it be light… – Nicholas Gordon

Eat, drink and be scary. – Author Unknown

Pixie, kobold, elf, and sprite,
All are on their rounds tonight;
In the wan moon’s silver ray,
Thrives their helter-skelter play. – Joel Benton

A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween. – Erma Bombeck

Witch and ghost make merry on this last of dear October’s days. – Author Unknown

halloween quotesHalloween wraps fear in innocence,
As though it were a slightly sour sweet.
Let terror, then, be turned into a treat… – Nicholas Gordon

Nothing on Earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night. – Steve Almond

Halloween is huge in my house and we really get into the “spirits” of things. – Dee Snider

At first cock-crow the ghosts must go
Back to their quiet graves below. – Theodosia Garrison

‘Tis now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world. – William Shakespeare

Hold on, man. We don’t go anywhere with “scary,” “spooky,” “haunted,” or “forbidden” in the title. – Scooby-Doo

Love is what we are born with

love is what we are born with“Love is what we are born with.
Fear is what we learn.
The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudicies and the acceptance of love back in our hearts.
Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth.
To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life.
Meaning dos not lie in things.
Meaning lies in us.” – Marianne Williamson

20 Most Inspirational Steve Jobs Quotes

1. “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.”

2. “I want to put a ding in the Universe.”

3. “Let’s go invent tomorrow rather than worrying about what happened yesterday.”

4. “Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment of failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”

5. “Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because the didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while.”

6. “Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me… Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… That’s what matters to me.”

7. “Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.”

8. “I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.”

9. “People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully.”

inspirational steve jobs quotes10. “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”

11. “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking bacwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something. Your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow you heart, even when it leads you off the well worn path. And that will make all the difference.”

12. “If I try my best and fail, well, I’ve tried my best.”

13. “If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you’ve done and whoever you were and throw them away.”

14. “When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.”

15. “You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.”

16. “That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”

17. “I think the artistry is in having an insight into what one sees around them. Generally putting things together in a way no one else has before and finding a way to express that to other people who don’t have that insight.”

18. “It’s more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy.”

19. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living some else’s life. Don’t pe trapped by dogma – wich is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

20. “Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”

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Jack Handy Funny Quotes #2

Why do they put Braille on the drive-through bank machines?

How do blind people know when they are done “wiping?”

If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do the rest drown too?

If you ate pasta and antipasta, would you still be hungry?

Should crematoriums give discounts for burn victims?

If a mute swears, does his mother wash his hands with soap?

A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.

Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don’t have film.

Put on your seatbelt….. I wanna try something.

What happens if you get scared half to death twice?

Chocolate: the OTHER major food group.

Death is hereditary.

I used to have an open mind but my brains kept falling out.

Jack Handy QuotesMultitasking – screwing up several things at once.

Arachibutyrophobia : fear of peanut butter sticking to roof of mouth.

To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there’s no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.

As I bit into the nectarine, it had a crisp juiciness about it that was very pleasurable – until I realized it wasn’t a nectarine at all, but A HUMAN HEAD!!

Most people don’t realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer.

Sometimes when I feel like killing someone, I do a little trick to calm myself down. I’ll go over to the persons house and ring the doorbell. When the person comes to the door, I’m gone, but you know what I’ve left on the porch? A jack-o-lantern with a knife stuck in the side of it’s head with a note that says “You.” After that I usually feel a lot better, and no harm done.

If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you’ll look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy.

Contrary to what most people say, the most dangerous animal in the world is not the lion or the tiger or even the elephant. It’s a shark riding on an elephant’s back, just trampling and eating everything they see.

As we were driving, we saw a sign that said “Watch for Rocks.” Marta said it should read “Watch for Pretty Rocks.” I told her she should write in her suggestion to the highway department, but she started saying it was a joke – just to get out of writing a simple letter! And I thought I was lazy!

I wish a robot would get elected president. That way, when he came to town, we could all take a shot at him and not feel too bad.

As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint.

Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But then I think, what is I was an ant, and she fell on me. Then it wouldn’t seem quite so funny.

If you go parachuting, and your parachute doesn’t open, and you friends are all watching you fall, I think a funny gag would be to pretend you were swimming.

When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we’d all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn’t until later that I found out that Uncle Caveman was a bear.

The crows seemed to be calling his name, thought Caw.

Even though I was their captive, the Indians allowed me quite a bit of freedom. I could walk freely, make my own meals, and even hurl large rocks at their heads. It was only later that I discovered that they were not Indians at all but only dirty-clothes hampers.

I wish outer space guys would conquer the Earth and make people their pets, because I’d like to have one of those little beds with my name on it. The next time I have meat and mashed potatoes, I think I’ll put a very large blob of potatoes on my plate with just a little piece of meat. And if someone asks me why I didn’t get more meat, I’ll just say, “Oh, you mean this?” and pull out a big piece of meat from inside the blob of potatoes, where I’ve hidden it. Good magic trick, huh?

Dale Carnegie Short Quotes

A great list with some Dale Carnegie Quotes. I’ve prepared some short Dale Carnegie Quotes just for you. It’s cool, because you can send them on Twitter.

Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. –Dale Carnegie Quotes

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still. –Dale Carnegie Quotes

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing. –Dale Carnegie Quotes

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. –Dale Carnegie Quotes

Dale Carnegie QuotesIf you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. –Dale Carnegie Quotes

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain – and most fools do. –Dale Carnegie Quotes

The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore. –Dale Carnegie Quotes

If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive. –Dale Carnegie Quotes

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. –Dale Carnegie Quotes

We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do. –Dale Carnegie Quotes

Eleanor Roosevelt Inspirational Quotes

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

You must do the things you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

Eleanor Roosevelt QuotesYou have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

We are afraid to care too much for fear that the other person does not care at all. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

Friendship with one’s self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly,
and without fear, for newer and richer experiences. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do and damned if you don’t. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

Never allow a person to tell you No who doesn’t have the power to say Yes. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes