billbatterman’s Loved Quotes

Repeatin' a lie don't make it true.

Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is worth half-a-hundred half-finished tasks.

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.

Happiness is a place between too much and too little.

Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

Let us decide on the route that we wish to take to pass our life, and attempt to sow that route with flowers.

If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time, you’ll save yourself from many a sink. Routine is a condition of survival.

A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else happens to you and me. Pick up your pieces. Then, help me gather mine.

It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief... and unspeakable love.

Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

I would love you as a bird loves flight, as meat loves salt, as a dog loves chase, as water finds its own level. Or I would not love you at all.

Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security.

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is 'thank you', it will be enough.