love and life quotes for teenagers

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk. ~Doug Larson



Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them, either. They keep you. ~Frank Crane



You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend. ~Paul Sweeney



The life spark in my eyes is in no way different than the life spark in the eyes of any other sentient being. ~Michael Stepaniak, quoted in Joanne Stepaniak, The Vegan Sourcebook, 1998



Prayer is exhaling the spirit of man and inhaling the spirit of God. ~Edwin Keith



There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds. ~James Russell Lowell



The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.



Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. ~Shirley Maclaine



A wise man can do no better than to turn from the churches and look up through the airy majesty of the wayside trees with exultation, with resignation, at the unconquerable unimplicated sun. ~Llewelyn Powys, The Pathetic Fallacy



Weather forecast for tonight: dark. ~George Carlin



I'm not funny. What I am is brave. ~Lucille Ball



If you don't control your mind, someone else will. ~John Allston



What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty! I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle. ~John Bunyan



What's done to children, they will do to society. ~Karl Menninger



Time flies... scrapbook it. ~Vivian Perez-Espinosa, owner of Let�s Scrap!, a scrapbooking store in South Miami, Florida (www.lets-scrap.com)



The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind. ~Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954



Marriage must constantly fight against a monster which devours everything: routine. ~Honore de Balzac



My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. ~Aldous Huxley



When darkness descends on summer nights, the air around campfires, lanterns and cottage windows becomes filled with swirling moths seemingly intent on self destruction. The suicide fliers are drawn to the flames and light because they normally navigate a straight course by keeping constant the angle of moonlight or sunbeams falling on their eyes. Night lights created by humans disorient moths, causing them to flutter round and round the source without being able to get their bearings. ~Doug Bennet and Tim Tiner, Up North



The very worst fire plan is no plan. The next worse is two plans. ~Author Unknown