quotes about everything happens for a reason

I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time. ~Charlie Brown (Charles Schulz)



Advertising is a bit like playing make-believe. ~Hartman Jule



It's the menace that everyone loves to hate but can't seem to live without. ~Paddy Chayevsky



There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great. ~G.K. Chesterton



I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant. ~Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night



Men are not punished for their sins, but by them. ~Elbert Hubbard, A Thousand and One Epigrams, 1911



The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist. ~Thomas Carlyle, Sir Walter Scott, in London and Westminster Review, 12 November 1838



It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can. ~Sydney Smith



Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal. ~From a headstone in Ireland



Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses. ~English Proverb



Getting down on all fours and imitating a rhinoceros stops babies from crying. (Put an empty cigarette pack on your nose for a horn and make loud "snort" noises.) I don't know why parents don't do this more often. Usually it makes the kid laugh. Sometimes it sends him into shock. Either way it quiets him down. If you're a parent, acting like a rhino has another advantage. Keep it up until the kid is a teenager and he definitely won't have his friends hanging around your house all the time. ~P.J. O'Rourke



'Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



This house is protected by killer dust bunnies. ~Author Unknown



Fear cannot give us the adrenaline to push forward until we realize it is the fear in us that holds us back. ~J Beard, @promoterofpeace



Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this: That you are dreadfully like other people. ~James Russell Lowell, "Democracy Address," Birmingham, England, 6 October 1884



Witticism: a smart saying, notable for its form rather than content.



There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke. ~Vincent van Gogh



Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God's goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright. And then you ask yourself in amazement: Is this really my own life I see before me? ~Albert Schweitzer Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God's goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright. And then you ask yourself in amazement: Is this really my own life I see before me? ~Albert Schweitzer



Betting is the manure to which the enormous crop of horse-races and racehorse breeding in this and other countries is to a large extent due. ~Richard Blackmore, The Jockey Club and its Founders, 1891



Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. ~John Muir