June's Quotes

"Here are some quotes that appeal to me this month.

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."
~Mae West

"Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers."
~Marguerite Gardiner

"If you woke up breathing, congratulations! You have another chance."
~Andrea Boydston

"Suppose you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down."
~Mary Pickford

"If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning."
~Catherine Aird

"The thing we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves."
~Ellen Goodman

"Good judgement comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgement."
~Rita Mae Brown

"You're never too old to grow up."
~Shirley Conran

"Why do human beings need answers? Partly I suppose because without one, almost any one, the question itself soon sounds silly."
~Jeanette winterson

"We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity."
~Isadora Duncan

"The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone's concern and like vampires they suck our life's blood."
~Bette Davis

"If I's observed all the rules, I'd never have gotten anywhere."
~Marilyn Monroe

"How can something bother you if you won't let it?"
~Terri Guillements

"The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others."
~Sonya Friedman

"How sick one gets of being 'good', how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody slfishness'"
~Alice James

"Many people think they want things, but they don't really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough."
~Sophia Loren

"If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days."
~Doroty Canfield Fisher

"I don't believe that life is suppose to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable, either. Life is just suppose to make you feel."
~Gloria Naylor

"I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is is better."
~Glenda Jackson

What do you think?" I whisper.

Are you listening?