Quotation Saturday!

Quotes to fill your day with Sunshine!

 FRIENDSHIP

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
~ Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.”       ~ Richelle Mead

And mortal ones!  ~ joni

“Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.”
~ William Shakespeare

“The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.”
~ Barbara Kingsolver

A friend is someone who’ll stand up for you, stand beside you and protect you from any harm. An acquaintance is someone who says they’ll stand up for you, but runs and hides in the face of adversity.

~ Joni Zipp

COURAGE

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
~ Winston Churchill

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that
something else is more important than fear.”
~ Ambrose Redmoon

“Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
~ Maya Angelou

“Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

  

INSPIRATION

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
~ Martin Luther King Jr.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
~ Albert Einstein

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
~ Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You'll Go!

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
~ Helen Keller

HUMOR

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
~ Albert Einstein

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
~ Robert A. Heinlein

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
~ Terry Pratchett, Diggers

“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
~ E.B. White