love and life quotes for teenagers

Unless your name ends in Baskin or Robbins, I really can't fit you into my schedule right now. ~Uniek Swain


If you don't start out the day with a smile, it's not too late to start practicing for tomorrow. ~Author Unknown


There ought, I thought, to be a ritual for being born twice - patched, retreaded and approved for the road. ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, Chapter 20 There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave. ~Louis Kronenberger


He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate. ~Henry David Thoreau


I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks, May 1849


The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves. ~Arnold Toynbee


Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. ~Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 1969


Playing with fire is bad for those who burn themselves. For the rest of us, it is a very great pleasure. ~Author Unknown


Mrs Millamant: "Only with those in verse.... I never pin up my hair with prose."


A heartbreak is a blessing from God. It's just his way of letting you realize he saved you from the wrong one. ~Author Unknown


Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got. ~Art Buchwald


Masha: "I am in mourning for my life."


Gone fishin', be back at dark-thirty! ~Author Unknown


The Lord gives us friends to push us to our potential - and enemies to push us beyond it. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


There is no education like adversity. ~Disraeli


The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs. ~Joan Didion


We seem as a nation to be suffering from a mania for play. The huge development of pleasure-chasing automobiles merely symbolizes our universal restless eagerness to be running after something, anything, that we can classify as diversion. Under pressure from tormenting constituents our legislatures are piling up holidays. And the cry of labor everywhere is "Cut down hours; cut down hours," until it seems as if brief, tired minutes were all that would be left for work. The obvious deduction is that work is always something to be got rid of, as if it were a curse. Yet life is work. ~Author unknown, editorial from Labor Digest, June 1922, quoted in Quotations for Special Occasions by Maud van Buren


It's always been and always will be the same in the world: The horse does the work and the coachman is tipped. ~Author Unknown


Prayers not felt by us are seldom heard by God. ~Philip Henry


People always think something's all true. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 2