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Archives - June 2016

June 1, 2016

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.

– Wilson Mizner

June 2, 2016

Blushing is the color of virtue.

– Diogenes

June 3, 2016

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

– Muhammad Ali

June 4, 2016

I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.

– Henry David Thoreau

June 5, 2016

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities, and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

– Harry Truman

June 6, 2016

Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.

– John F. Kennedy

June 7, 2016

Love is an ice cream sundae, with all the marvelous coverings.

– Jimmy Dean

June 8, 2016

It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

– Marlene Dietrich

June 9, 2016

I don’t like standard beauty --- there is no beauty without strangeness.

– Karl Lagerfeld

June 10, 2016

The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.

– Daniel Gilbert

June 11, 2016

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

– Henry Ford

June 12, 2016

A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe.

– Thomas Keller

June 13, 2016

Flowers don't worry about how they're going to bloom. They just open up and turn toward the light and that makes them beautiful.

– Jim Carrey

June 14, 2016

We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.

– Bernard Meltzer

June 15, 2016

I have found that a smile and a stick will carry you through all right, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it is the smile that does the trick.

– Robert Powell

June 16, 2016

Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.

– Lewis Mumford

June 17, 2016

There are no easy methods of learning difficult things; the method is to close your door, give out that you are not at home, and work.

– Joseph de Maistre

June 18, 2016

The 12-step chocoholics program: Never be more than 12 steps away from chocolate!

– Terry Moore

June 19, 2016

When it comes to Father's Day, I will remember my dad for both being there to nurture me and also for the times he gave me on my own to cultivate my own interests and to nurture my own spirit.

– Jennifer Grant

June 20, 2016

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.

– Germaine Greer

June 21, 2016

Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something.

– Regina Brett

June 22, 2016

The moments that make life worth living are when things are at their worst and you find a way to laugh.

– Amy Schumer

June 23, 2016

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

– Swami Sivananda

June 24, 2016

The more you do stuff, the better you get at dealing with how you still fail at it a lot of the time.

– John Mulaney

June 25, 2016

People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.

– Richard J. Needham

June 26, 2016

Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.

– Ellen DeGeneres

June 27, 2016

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

– Agnes Repplier

June 28, 2016

You can't reach for anything new if your hands are still full of yesterday's junk.

– Louise Smith

June 29, 2016

Quotations will tell the full measure of meaning, if you have enough of them.

– James Murray

June 30, 2016

The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace.

– Jhumpa Lahiri