Library of Quotations

Reach for the Stars is pleased to offer this extensive library of 'inspirational words' to compliment your choice of photographs. When you order any of our 'Custom Saying' pictures, you may also choose to select a quotation from list below to enhance the photographic artwork.

You will find many scripture verses as well as quotations from favorite poets, authors and other famous (or not so famous) people. From Aristotle to Alan Alda, the Bible to Bill Cosby, William Shakespeare to Ferris Bueller, there are positive messages of love, faith, hope, happiness, and encouragement,

Whatever inspirational message you may be seeking, you will most likely find it here!

A Course in Miracles

Forgiveness is the key to happiness.

Aesop

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Alan Alda

Be brave enough to live creatively…What you’ll discover will be wonderful: Yourself.

Albert Einstein

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Keep it simple.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.

Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.

Alice Mackenzie Swain

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go;
it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Alpha English

Each day is different and has a surprise in it.

André Gide

Dare to be yourself.

Andrew Martin Fairbairn

All God’s great works are silent.

Creation is a silent process.

Angelus Silesius

For the heart that finds joy in small things, In all things each day is a wonderful gift.

Ann Ruth Schabacker

Each day comes bearing its gifts, Untie the ribbons.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Only with winter-patience can we bring the deep-desired, long-awaited spring.

Anonymous

Knowing your destination is half the journey.

Each season has its own wonder, it’s own special place,
and purpose in the pattern of creation.

This day I will marry my friend, the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.

Aristotle

There is something of the marvelous in all things of nature.

Author Unknown

Circle of Friends, Friends, you and me…
You brought another friend…And then there were 3…
We started our group… Our circle of friends…
And like our circle… There is no beginning or end…

Whatever the question, love is the answer.

When you give someone a book….you give him the possibility of a whole new life.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Alleluia!

Celebrate Life

Celebrate with Joy

Christ is Risen, Alleluia

Come Holy Spirit

Faith is like a muscle. It must be exercised to grow strong.

Faith!

Forgiveness brings healing.

Forgiveness brings new life.

Forgiveness brings peace.

Friends make the path of life worth traveling.

God loves you exceedingly

Hope

I love you.

Joy

Joy to the World

Live in the Power of the Holy Spirit!

Live well, love much, laugh often

Lord, I need only one thing in this world, To know myself and to love you!

Love

Love is friendship caught on fire!

Many people will walk in and out of your life,
but only true friendship will leave footprints in your heart.

Marvel at the wonders of God’s creation

May God’s Love Be Your Greatest Joy!

May your life be bright and full of love!

Morning praise can make your days.

Peace

Peace - Joy - Hope

Peace and Joy

Peace on earth

Receive the Holy Spirit

Rejoice and be glad

The beauty of a single moment can last an eternity

When I count my blessings, I think of you

Baltasar Gracian

Friendship multiplies the good of life, and divides the evil.

Baron Friedrich von Hugel

Be silent about great things; let them grow inside you.

Bible

1 Corinthians 13
    LOVE bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

1 Corinthians 13:8
    Even before you were born, God knew you and loved you.

Colossians 3:16
    Sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your heart to God.

Ecclesiastes 3:11
    God has made everything beautiful.

Ephesians 4:24
    Speak the truth.

Ephesians 4:32
    Be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another as God has forgiven you.

Ephesianns 5:17
    Do not continue in ignorance, but try to understand what is the will of the Lord.

Exodus 15:26
    I, the Lord, am your healer.

Exodus 16:12
    I, the Lord, am your God.

Gen 1:1
    In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Genesis 1:3
    Let there be light.

Genesis 1:31
    God looked at everything God made and found it very good.

Genesis 28:16
    Surely the Lord is in this place.

Genesis 9:13
    I set my bow in the clouds to serve as a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.

Genesis 9:9
    I am now establishing my covenant with you, says the Lord.

Joshua 24:15
    As for me and my house, we will choose the Lord.

Matthew 19:26
    With God all things are possible.

Matthew 21:22
    Whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.

Numbers 6:24
    May the Lord bless you and keep you.

Philippians 4:13
    In God who is the source of my strength, I have strength for everything.

Psalm 118:24
    Today is the day that the Lord has made.

Psalm 27:14
    Wait for the Lord with courage; be stouthearted, and wait for the Lord.

Psalm 4:7
    O Lord, let the light of your countenance shine upon us!

Psalm 4:8
    You, O Lord, put gladness into my heart.

Psalm 40:2
    I have waited, waited for the Lord, and God stooped toward me and heard my cry.

Psalm 5:12
    Let all who take refuge in you be glad and exalt forever.

Psalm 66:5
    Come and see what God has done, how awesome God’s works…

Bill Cosby

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

Blessed Angela of Foligno

The whole world is full of God.

Budda, The Dharmapada

We are shaped by our thoughts…, We become what we think.

C.S. Lewis

The splendor, the love, and the strength of God be upon you.

Carl Jung

I am what I choose to become.

Say Yes to Life

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.

Charles Morgan

As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.

Charles Wesley

Father, thy will be done!

Chinese Proverb

One who plants a garden plants happiness.

Confusius

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Dag Hammarskjold

Friendship needs no words.

Dale Carnegie

Take a chance! All life is a chance.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

I Have a Dream…

Eknath Easwaran

Cultivate time with people whose companionship elevates you.

Elisabeth Keebler-Ross

We are, each of us, like beautiful snowflakes -
unique, and born for a specific reason and purpose.

Epictetus

No great thing is created suddenly.

Erwin W. Lutzer

Before God created the universe, God already had you in mind.

Eugene F. Ware

All glory comes from daring to begin.

Euripides

There is just one life for each of us; our own.

Evelyn Underwood

God…works always in tranquility.

Ferris Bueller

Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Florence Scovel Shinn

Intuition …simply points the way.

Francis Bacon

Knowledge is power.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Let us move forward with strong and active faith.

Gail Sheehy

If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we are not really living.

George Earle Buckle

To simplify complications is the first essential of success.

George Herbert

The best mirror is an old friend.

George Sand

There is only one happiness in life, To love and be loved.

Gerard de Nerval

Each flower is a soul opening out to nature.

Germaine Greer

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Goethe

As soon as you trust yourself you will know how to live.

Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.

H.L. Hunt

Decide what you want. Decide what you are willing to exchange for it.
Establish your priorities. And go to work.

Hans Hoffman

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

Harold Myra

The deer are in the forest, but often all you get are glimpses. Like God’s surprises.

Helen Keller

All that we love deeply…becomes a part of us.

Henry David Thoreau

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.

Live the life you have imagined.

Ivy Baker Priest

The place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.

James Montgomery

Remembered joys are never past.

Japanese Proverb

Vision without action is a daydream., Action without vision is a nightmare.

Jean Anouilh

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Obstacles can’t stop you, Problems can’t stop you,
Only you can stop you.

Obstacles can’t stop you. Problems can’t stop you.
Most of all, other people can’t stop you. Only you can stop you.

Joaquin Miller

The secret of true greatness is simplicity.

John Ciardi

I marry you, morning by morning, day by day, night by night….

John Hay

Friends are the sunshine of life.

John Lyly

Marriages are made in heaven, and consummated on earth.

John Muir

Keep close to nature’s heart.

Let nature’s peace flow into you…

Joseph Campbell

Love is perfect kindness.

Josh McDowell

A healthy self-image is seeing yourself as God sees you - no more and no less.

Kohn Greenleaf Whittier

Behind the cloud the starlight lurks, Through showers the sunbeams fall;
For God, who loves all his works, Has left God’s hope with all!

Lao Tzu

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

LaRochefoucauld

A true friend is the most precious of all possessions.

Leo Buscaglia

Happiness and love are just a choice away.

Mae West

Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it.

Mahatma Ghandi

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love.

Mahatma Mohandas Ghandi

Real education consists of drawing the best out of yourself.

Marie de Vichy-Chamrond

The first step is the hardest.

Marie E. Biringer

'A Metaphor for Life'
      Although our life may be 'rocky' at times, it is through the 'rockyness' of our life,
      comes the greatest opportunities for new growth and new life.

Marilyn Vos Savant

To acquire knowledge, one must study, but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Mark Twain

I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of them never happened.

Maureen Dowd

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

Michaelangelo

A true work of art is but a shadow of divine perfection.

Art is the gift of God and must be used for God’s glory.

Milton Berle

Laughter is an instant vacation.

Moses Ben Jacob Ibn Ezra

A short life with wisdom is better than a long life without it.

Mother Teresa

Joy is a net of love by which you catch souls.

Nicene Creed

I believe in God the Father, maker of heaven and earth.

Nietzshe

Our greatest moments are our quiet moments.

Nikos Kazantzakis

We have our brush and colors - paint Paradise and in we go.

Norman Vincent Peale

Enthusiasm makes ordinary people extraordinary.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Silence…comes to heal the blows of sound.

OM

In the heart of a child lies the abundance of love.

Oprah Winfrey

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

Orison Swett Marden

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself alone.

Oswald Chambers

God comes in where my helplessness begins.

Paramashansa Yogananda

True friends want nothing from you except the joy of your presence.

Happiness lies in giving yourself time to think and to introspect.

Live simply and take life more easily.

Paul Brunton

Everyday life is the path.

Pema Chodron

Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves.

Plato

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty is God’s handwriting - Welcome it - and thank God for it.

Nature is the art of God.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Raymond Lindquist

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.

Rev. Neil Colton

Follow your dreams and pursue them with courage,
let no one stand between you and your dreams.

Robert Altman

To play it safe is not to play.

Robert Burns

Now’s the day, and now’s the hour…

Robert Harold Schuller

Beginning is half done.

Robert Kennedy

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Robert Orben

A compliment is verbal sunshine.

Ron Rubin and Stuart Avery Gold

Passion breeds excitement; excitement breeds success.
Only by embracing your passions
can you achieve the satisfaction and joy in life you are destined for.

Rudyard Kipling

Teach us delight in simple things.

Saint Francis of Assisi

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.

Seth

You are worthy because you are.

St. Exupery

Love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself.

Suzuki

I am an artist at life. My work of art is my life.

Ted Trueblood

The silence of nature is very real., It surrounds you…, You can feel it.

Tennessee Williams

Security is a kind of death

Thict Nhat Hahn

Be Yourself, Life is precious, Just Be….

Thomas a Kempis

First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Thomas Carlyle

Wonder is the basis for worship.

Thomas Fuller

Be a friend to yourself, And others will be so too.

Thoreau

We can never have enough of nature.

Victoria Marshall

Life is a journey, Love is the destination.

Wayne Dyer

Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing.

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

William Arthur Ward

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

William James

Believe that your life is worth living and your belief will help create that fact.

It is your attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which,
more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

We can alter our life by altering our attitudes of mind.

William Shakespeare

Now join your hands, And with your hands your hearts.