Quotes of Josh Billings

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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

- Josh Billings

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“ A dream comes true through repeated actions. ”

- Lailah Gifty Akita

“ The road to success is always under construction. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse. ”

- Jim Rohn

“ But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving; To rest at noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy; To return home at eventide with gratitude; And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise on your lips. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ I believe in love the verb, not the noun. ”

- Greg Behrendt

“ Until you step into the unknown, you don’t know what you’re made of. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ Relationships are like Rome difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the 'golden age', and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt... that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soul mate, and your love. ”

- Helen Keller

“ It is now how good you are, it’s how good you want to be. ”

- Unknown

“ I love you and it’s getting worse. ”

- Joseph E. Morris

“ Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option. ”

- Maya Angelou

“ What I stand for is what I stand on. ”

- Wendell Berry

“ I love the Lord, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy. Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live. (Psalms 116:12 NIV) ”

- Anonymous

“ Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truthpenultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told. ”

- Joseph Campbell

“ Often, we fabricate the people we love to make loving them more palatable; the fictionalized version of them reduces the awareness of truth. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort. ”

- Confucius

“ When your only competition is becoming a better you, you will always win the game. ”

- Jackie Griffin

“ The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. ”

- Alexander Graham Bell

“ Every day is your entire life. ”

- Mike Stagnitta

“ There will be tough workouts when the athlete has to really dig deep, believe, and not give up when the pain seems too much. The athlete can respond in one of two ways: Yield to the pain and selfdoubt or decide that fear will not determine his or her potential. It's hard (and usually uncomfortable) work breaking through old barriers and selfdefeating thought patterns to see meaningful progress, and fear is an absolutely natural response, but you can't let it become a limiter. ”

- Siri Lindley

“ Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. ”

- Augustine of Hippo

“ Love cannot be hidden. It even shines in the darkest places." ~ Carla Olson Gade, The Shadow Catcher's Daughter ”

- Carla Olson Gade

“ There are many Mondays to go before I die. I may as well look forward to them. ”

- Trevor Carss

“ Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all. ”

- St. Augustine