Thursday Thirteen

Yep...it's Thursday again...yay!! I've had a pretty crappy couple of days (months, even?), so I decided to do something on a slightly positive note. So, today's "Thirteen" will be....drum roll, please....

THIRTEEN OF MY FAVORITE QUOTES:

1. "A memory can be a paradise from which we cannot be driven. It can also be a hell from which we cannot escape."--John Lancaster Spaulding

2. "Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be."-- David Bly

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

4. "Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."--Jonathan Swift

5. "Be yourself, everyone else is already taken."--Oscar Wilde

6. "A true friend is someone who will know your name in heaven"--Patricia Pasquariello

7. "Turn your wounds into wisdom."--Oprah Winfrey

8. "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."--Plato

9. "Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment."--Fred Brooks

10. "Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm."--Norman Vincent Peale

11. "You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die."--E.B. White in "Charlotte's Web"

12. "Explore. Dream. Discover."--Mark Twain

13. "Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy."--Anne Frank

I have so many more, it's not even comical! Maybe this theme will have to repeat at some point.