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John James Audubon Quotes

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John James Audubon QuotesToday we celebrate 226 years since the birth of John James Audubon. Let me share with you some great John James Audubon Quotes.

One day I caught four Dolphins, how much I have gazed at these beautiful creatures… as they changed their hue in twenty varieties of richest arrangement of tints. – John James Audubon

On the 17th of May, the Delos put out to sea. I was immediately affected with sea-sickness, which, however, lasted but a short time. I remained on deck constantly, forcing myself to exercise.- John James Audubon

The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear. – John James Audubon

The mercantile business did not suit me.- John James Audubon

To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.- John James Audubon

To be a good draftsman was to me a blessing.- John James Audubon

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.- John James Audubon

Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me?- John James Audubon

Almost every day, instead of going to school, I made for the fields, where I spent my day.- John James Audubon

After all, I long to be in America again, nay, if I can go home to return no more to Europe, it seems to me that I shall ever enjoy more peace of mind, and even Physical comfort than I can meet with in any portion of the world beside.- John James Audubon

Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased.- John James Audubon

As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.- John James Audubon

Duruing all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.- John James Audubon

But hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns.- John James Audubon

Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.- John James Audubon

How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books?- John James Audubon

I cannot help but think a curious event is this life of mine.- John James Audubon

I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.- John James Audubon

I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could.- John James Audubon

I feel fully decided that we should all go to Europe together and to work as if an established Partnership for Life consisting of Husband Wife and Children.- John James Audubon

I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens.- John James Audubon

I waged war against my feelings.- John James Audubon

In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.- John James Audubon

If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America.- John James Audubon

My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.- John James Audubon

Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic.- John James Audubon

On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France took charge of me and placed me under the care of two Quaker ladies. To their skillful and untiring care I may safely say I owe my life.- John James Audubon

Top 20 Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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Top 20 Mahatma Gandhi QuotesWhen it comes to quotes, Mahatma Gandhi is one of my favorites. Let me share with you Top 20 Mahatma Gandhi Quotes.

1. “Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong” – Mahatma Gandhi

2. “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” – Mahatma Gandhi

3. “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” – Mahatma Gandhi

4. “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed” – Mahatma Gandhi

5. “The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles” – Mahatma Gandhi

6. “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” – Mahatma Gandhi

7. “Almost everything you do will seem insignificant, but it is important that you do it” – Mahatma Gandhi

8. “You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result” –Mahatma Gandhi

9. “The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children” – Mahatma Gandhi

10. “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” – Mahatma Gandhi

11. “Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.” – Mahatma Gandhi

12. “An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.” – Mahatma Gandhi

13. “As a rule, the mind, residing in a body that has become weakened by pampering, is also weak, and where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul.” –Mahatma Gandhi

14. “Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.” – Mahatma Gandhi

15. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi

16. “Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.” – Mahatma Gandhi

17. “A ‘NO’ uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a ‘YES’ merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.” – Mahatma Gandhi

18. “There is more to life than increasing its speed.” – Mahatma Gandhi

19. “Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.” – Mahatma Gandhi

20. “Be the change you want to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi

The Greatest Irony of Life

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“The greatest irony of life is loving the right person at the wrong time, having the wrong person when the time is right and finding out you love someone after that person walks out from your life and sometimes you think you’re already over a person but when you see them smile at you, you’ll suddenly realize that you’re just pretending to be over them just to ease the pain of knowing that they will never be yours again. For some, they think that letting go is one way of expressing how much you love the person. Most relationships tend to fail not because the absence of love; love is always present. It’s just the one was being loved too much and the other was being loved too little as we all know that the heart is the center of the body but it beats on the left. Maybe that’s the reason why the heart is not always right. Most often we fall in love with the person we think we love only to discover that for them, we are just for past times, while the one who truly loves us remains either a friend or a stranger. Here’s a piece of advice: let go when you’re hurting too much, give up when love isn’t enough and move on when things are not like before. There is someone out there who will love you even more, surely then, you will know true love.” – Unknown

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Yuri Gagarin Quotes

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Today we celebrate 50 years since man first landed on the moon. His name was Yuri Gagarin and we celebrate him in our own way, sharing Yuri Gagarin Quotes!

“I could have gone on flying through space forever.”

“I see Earth! It is so beautiful!”

“Orbiting Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it!”

Yuri Gagarin Quotes

“What beauty. I saw clouds and their light shadows on the distant dear earth…. The water looked like darkish, slightly gleaming spots…. When I watched the horizon, I saw the abrupt, contrasting transition from the earth’s light-colored surface to the absolutely black sky. I enjoyed the rich color spectrum of the earth. It is surrounded by a light blue aureole that gradually darkens, becoming turquiose, dark blue, violet, and finally coal black.”

“I looked and looked but I didn’t see God.”

Love Quotes

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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love. – George Eliot

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. – Khalil Gibran

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. – Khalil Gibran

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough. – Maurice Maeterlinck

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

I’ve learned that you should always leave loved ones with loving words. It may be the last time you see them. – Anonymous

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there’s less of you. – Margaret Atwood

Parting is such sweet sorrow. – William Shakespeare

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. – Anonymous

If I hadn’t met you, I wouldn’t like you.
If I didn’t like you, I wouldn’t love you.
If I didn’t love you, I wouldn’t miss you.
But I did, I do, and I will. – Anonymous

You know you love someone when you know you want them to be happy, even if their happiness means that you are not a part of it. – Anonymous

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. – Washington Irving

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is never good dwelling on good-byes … it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting. – Elizabeth Bibesco

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company. – George Washington

Cute Friendship Quotes

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I almost forgot what great pleasure is to share cute friendship quotes, but now we can recover :)

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

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure. – Jewish Saying

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. – Aristotle

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. – Fr. Jerome Cummings

Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends. – Cindy Lew

The only way to have a friend is to be one. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. – Swedish Proverb

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend. – Abraham Lincoln

Hold a true friend with both your hands. – Nigerian Proverb

Friendship needs no words… – Dag Hammarskjold

A faithful friend is the medicine of life. – Apocrypha

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same. – Anonymous

Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. – Elbert Hubbard

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world. – John Evelyn

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. – Baltasar Gracian

Friends are the sunshine of life. – John Hay

The best mirror is an old friend. – George Herbert

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. – Walter Winchell

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow. – Samuel Paterson

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. – Anonymous

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship. – Pietro Aretino

One who looks for a friend without faults will have none. – Hasidic Saying

Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try. – Claude Mermet

Count your age with friends but not with years. – Anonymous

Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness. – Lois L. Kaufman

There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends. – Hillaire Belloc

Funny Love Quotes

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Let’s make our day better with some wonderful funny love quotes.

“A light heart lives long.” – William Shakespeare

“Never go to bed mad — stay up and fight.” – Phyllis Diller

“To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia.” – H.L. Mencken

“Once you have loved someone, you’d do anything in the world for them… except love them again.” – Anonymous

“Love is like war: Easy to begin but hard to end.” – Anonymous

“Love has the power of making you believe what you would normally treat with the deepest suspicion.” – Mirabeau

“Three things can’t be hidden: coughing, poverty, and love.” – Yiddish proverb

“The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed.” – Chamfort

“I detest ‘love lyrics.’ I think one of the causes of bad mental health in the United States is that people have been raised on ‘love lyrics.” – Frank Zappa

“You’d be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.” – Dolly Parton

“I should like to see any kind of a man, distinguishable from a gorilla, that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

“A woman might as well propose: her husband will claim she did.” – Edgar Watson Howe

“I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor’s eighth husband on her wedding night: I know what I’m supposed to do…I just have to figure out a way to make it interesting.” – many attributions

“No man is truly married until he understands every word his wife is NOT saying.” – unknown

“An old man who marries a young wife grows younger – but she grows older.” – folk saying

“It is not uncommon for slight acquaintances to get married, but a couple really have to know each other to get divorced.” – Anonymous

“What female heart can despise gold?” – Thomas Gray

“A lady of 47 who has been married 27 years and has six children knows what love really is and once described it for me like this: ‘Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.'” – James Thurber

“I love being married. It’s so great to find one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.” – Rita Rudner

“We cannot really love anybody without whom we never laugh.” – Alice Reppler

Confidence Quotes

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Happiness is always knocking on your door, you just gotta let it in.

It ain’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to.

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes.

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. – Eleanor Roosevelt

It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.

Success comes in cans, not cant’s.

Put your future in good hands – your own.

I am not a has-been. I am a will be.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.

Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they’re yours.

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

Always act like you’re wearing an invisible crown.

You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
You’re on your own.
And you know what you know.
You are the guy who’ll decide where to go. –Dr. Seuss

Knock the “t” off the “can’t.”

Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

Don’t let anyone steal your dream. It’s your dream, not theirs.

The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do.

I’m Never The Less; Always The MORE!

I’m the Best You NEVER Had.

I’m the Best to Ever Do It Bitch & You the Best At Never Doing Shit!

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

Learn from your Work Quotes

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You are the only person on earth who can use your ability. – Zig Ziglar

Never turn down a job because you think it’s too small; you never know where it may lead. – Julia Morgan

You learn something every day if you pay attention. – Ray LeBlond

Wherever we are and whatever we are doing, it is possible to learn something that can enrich our lives and the lives of others… No one’s education is ever complete. – Sir. John Templeton

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. – Thomas Henry Huxley

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have mastered, you will never grow. – C.R. Lawton

No one knows everything, but everyone can learn something. – Sean Gregory Derrick

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you’re willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you. – Barbara Sher

Perfection does not exist – you can always do better and you can always grow. – Les Brown

Invest in yourself, in your education. There’s nothing better. – Sylvia Porter

Be determined to handle any challenge in a way that will make you grow. – Les Brown

Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. – Ronald E. Osborn

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have mastered, you will never grow. – C.R. Lawton

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. – Seneca

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. – William Ellery Channing

The biggest room in the world, is the room for improvement. – Unknown

Making mistakes simply means you are learning faster. – Weston H. Agor

When you are through improving yourself, you are out of the game. You learn until your last breath. – Richard A. Nelson

If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it. – Unknown

Spring Quotes

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Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn. ~ Lewis Grizzard in Kathy Sue Loudermilk, I Love You

Spring is nature’s way of saying, “Let’s party!” ~Robin Williams

Spring makes its own statement, so loud and clear that the gardener seems to be only one of the instruments, not the composer. ~Geoffrey B. Charlesworth

April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go. ~Christopher Morley, John Mistletoe

Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring. ~George Herbert

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. ~Charles Dickens

Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night. ~Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke

It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want – oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so! ~Mark Twain

Hoe while it is spring, and enjoy the best anticipations. It is not much matter if things do not turn out well. ~Charles Dudley Warner

Awake, thou wintry earth –
Fling off thy sadness!
Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth
Your ancient gladness! ~Thomas Blackburn, “An Easter Hymn”

I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden. ~Ruth Stout

No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow. ~Proverb

Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush. ~Doug Larson

Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day. ~W. Earl Hall

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. ~Anne Bradstreet

The year’s at the spring
And day’s at the morn;
Morning’s at seven;
The hillside’s dew-pearled;
The lark’s on the wing;
The snail’s on the thorn;
God’s in His heaven –
All’s right with the world! ~Robert Browning

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. ~Hal Borland

Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world. ~Virgil A. Kraft

April is a promise that May is bound to keep. ~Hal Borland

Where man sees but withered leaves,
God sees sweet flowers growing. ~Albert Laighton

That God once loved a garden we learn in Holy writ.
And seeing gardens in the Spring I well can credit it. ~Winifred Mary Letts

In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them. ~Aldo Leopold

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. ~Margaret Atwood

Indoors or out, no one relaxes in March, that month of wind and taxes, the wind will presently disappear, the taxes last us all the year. ~Ogden Nash

Every spring is the only spring – a perpetual astonishment. ~Ellis Peters