love and life quotes for teenagers

A thing of beauty is a joy forever. ~John Keats



Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts. ~Jean Cocteau, Professional Secrets, 1922



To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward. ~Margaret Fairless Barber, The Roadmender To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward. ~Margaret Fairless Barber, The Roadmender



It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts. ~Bill Vaughan



To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world. ~Author Unknown



I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me. ~Edith Sodergran



Think what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - had cookies and milk about three o�clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. ~Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, commonly misattributed to Barbara Jordan because she quoted Fulghum in a commencement address



With hope and virtue, let us brave once more the icy currents, and endure what storms may come. Let it be said by our children's children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations. ~Barack Obama, Inaugural Address, 2009 Jan 20, Washington, D.C.



There's such a thin line between winning and losing. ~John R. Tunis



When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one. ~Epitaph of Leonard P. Matlovich, 1988 (Thanks, Marlene)



Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content. ~Alfred de Musset, Le Poete dechu, 1839



I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are very wise and very beautiful; but I never read in either of them: "Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden." ~St Augustine



Lord save us all from... a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. ~Mark Twain



Television keeps the masses occupied. What if everyone decided they wanted to make something of their lives? Television keeps the competition down and keeps more criminals off the street. What if everyone decided to go to law school or medical school? It would sure make it tough on the rest of us. ~Jim Urbanovich



Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too. ~Voltaire



The Russians have a weapon that can wipe out two hundred eighty thousand Americans. That puts them exactly ten years behind Howard Cosell. ~Red Smith



Trust is letting go of needing to know all the details before you open your heart. ~Author Unknown



Oxygen is overrated. ~Author Unknown



When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them. ~Chinese Proverb



To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing. ~Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 1876