Startig with this simple poem like quote:
“The future lies before you
Like a field of driven snow,
Be careful how you tread it,
For every step will show.”

“Just about a month from now I’m set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.”
~Richard Halliburton

“The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.”
~Tom Bodett This is adapted for the saying that says, Life is a Hard Teacher, it takes exams first and lessons afterwards.

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars. ”
~Les Brown

“If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.”
~ Frank A. Clark

“The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.”
~Edward Koch

“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught. ”
~Oscar Wilde

“Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. ”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
~ Sparrowrose Howard Thurman

“Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed.”
~Erma Bombeck

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
~ Aristotle

“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”
~ Aristotle

“When you leave here, don’t forget why you came. ”
~Adlai Stevenson

“Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can – there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.”
~ Sarah Caldwell

“Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable. ”
~Wendy Wasserstein

“Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.”
~Paulo Coelho

“The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after. ”
~Newton D. Baker

“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest”
~ Benjamin Franklin

“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. ”
~B.F. Skinner

“A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.”
~ Michael Garrett Marino

I have only one eye,–I have a right to be blind sometimes . . . I really do not see the signal!
~Lord Horatio Nelson

My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness
~ Helen Keller

If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God
~ Blaise Pascal

Their blindness and arrogance are as solid as an iron mountain
~ Martin Luther

I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life’s unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.
~Vachel Lindsay

There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn’t there.
~Thomas Hardy

Love comes from blindness; friendship from knowledge.
~Comte DeBussy-Rabutin

Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness
~ William Watson

There’s no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers.
~Grantland Rice

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
~Margaret Atwood

Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman . . .
~ Charles Dickens

Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
~ Ralph Ellison

Without music life would be a mistake.
~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes

Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.
~Benjamin Disraeli

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
~Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.
~Oscar Wilde

Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music
~Sergei Rachmaninov

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
~Aldous Huxley,

Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.
~Giuseppe Mazzini

When I don’t like a piece of music, I make a point of listening to it more closely.
~ Florent Schmitt

Where words fail, music speaks.
~Hans Christian Andersen

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.
~ Thomas Carlyle

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
~Bob Marley

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another.
~Frank Zappa

You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
~ Miles Davis

I’d like to get something together – like a Handel, Bach, Muddy waters, flamenco type of thing. If I could get that sound, I’d be happy.
~ Jimi Hendrix

“Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration. ”
~Charles Dicken

“Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to. ”
~John Ed Pearce

“One may have a blazing hearth in one’s soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way.”
~Vincent van Gogh

“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.”
~George Moore

“Home is a shelter from storms – all sorts of storms. ”
~William J. Bennett

“He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home”
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“A good home must be made, not bought.”
~Joyce Maynard

“I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world. ”
~George Washington

“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in.”
~Robert Frost

On a lighter note:
“Home is where you can say anything you please, because nobody pays any attention to you anyway”
~ Joe Moore

And here are some more family quotes for those home lovers :

Family Quotes
Father Quotes
Wife Quotes
Grandfather Quotes
Mother Quotes
Sister Quotes
Cousin Quotes
Husband Quotes

Starting the sarcastic list with,

“Nothing is more discouraging than unappreciated sarcasm.”

“I would have liked to insult you, but the sad truth is that you wouldn’t understand me.”

“I can tell that you are lying, your lips are moving.”

“I feel so miserable without you, it’s almost like having you here.”
~ Stephen Bishop

“People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.”
~Russel Baker

“History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.”
~Abba Eban

“I like you. People say I’ve got no taste, but I like you.”

“Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victems he intends to eat until he eats them.”
~Samuel Butler

“Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.”
~ Oscar Levant

“A sharp tongue does not mean you have a keen mind.”

“The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.”
~ Frank Zappa, But that should be India, compared to which United States’s Law’s are like Stalin’s?

“He was happily married – but his wife wasn’t.”
~ Victor Borge

“If you ever become a mother, can I have one of the puppies?”
~ Charles Pierce

“I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.”
~ Clarence Darrow

“If you can’t live without me, why aren’t you dead already?”
~Cynthia Heimel

“She’s the first in her family born without tail.”

“I never apologize. I’m sorry, but that’s just the way I am.”
~Homer J. Simpson

“Caution: Cape does not enable user to fly.”
~Batman costume warning label

“I have opinions of my own — strong opinions –but I don’t always agree with them.”
~George Bush,

“If we don’t succeed we run the risk of failure.”
~Dan Quayle

“It is wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago”
~ Dan Quayle

“We are not ready for an unforeseen event that may or may not occur.”
~Dan Quayle

“Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours.”
~Yogi Berra, But then Yogi Berra Was a different Character altogether.

“I get to go to lots of overseas places, like Canada.”
~ Britney Spears,

“I was under medication when I made the decision to burn the tapes.”
~Richard (Dicky) Nixon

“Smoking kills. If you’re killed, you’ve lost a very important part of your life.”
~ Brooke Shields

“We’ve got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?”
~Lee Iacocca

“Life is very important to Americans.”
~Bob Dole, U.S. Senator from Kansas

“Most of my cliches aren’t original.”
~Chuck Knox,

“The internet is a great way to get on the net.”
~ Bob Dole,

“A verbal contract is not worth the paper it’s written on.”
-Samuel Goldwyn

“We are not without accomplishment. We have managed to distribute poverty equally.”
~Nguyen Co Thatch, Vietnamese foreign minister

“Don’t pay any attention to the critics–don’t even ignore them”
~Samuel Goldwyn

“Fiction writing is great, you can make up almost anything.”
~ Ivana Trump

“Thank God, I’m still alive.” But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.
~ Sen. Barbara Boxer, after the San Fransisco Earthquake

“I can’t really remember the names of the clubs that we went to.”
- Shaquille O’Neal, when asked if he visited the Parthenon during his visit to Greece.

” The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.”
~Dwight Eisenhower

“Take it easy — but take it.”
~Woody Guthrie

“Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.”
~ Erica Jong

A funny advice by Woody Allen “Just don’t take any class where you have to read BEOWULF.”

“Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that’s no reason not to give it.”
~Agatha Christie

“To accept good advice is but to increase one’s own ability”
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“A word to the wise ain’t necessary, it’s the stupid ones who need the advice.”
~Bill Cosby

“She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it)”
~Lewis Carroll

“Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.”
~Erma Bombeck

“I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.”
~Gloria Steinem

“If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don’t listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.”
~Lillian Hellman

“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
~ Napoleon Bonaparte

“Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.”
~ Publilius Syrus

“Never complain and never explain.”
~ Benjamin Disraeli

“The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.”
~Oscar Wilde

“Never assume that the guy understands that you and he have a relationship.”
~ Dave Barry

We are Humans and we offer sympathy. We always do, sometimes we express it, sometimes, we don’t but offer we do. We are always moved by someone else’ plight, and we offer sympathy to each other the plight is upon us together. But more often than, we are at a loss when we want to express our sympathy, and we end up saying something stupid like, “I understand”. Truth is you don’t. So we say, I am sorry.

What we have here is a collection of sympathy sayings and quotes that will come in handy, memorize them if you must. And you may also use them in Sympathy Cards, or ecards that you send.

“And you should always know, wherever you may go,
No matter where you are, I will never be far away.”
~ Billy Joel

“There is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy.”
~ Margaret Fuller

“To live in hearts we leave behind Is not to die.” ~Thomas Campbell

“In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.” ~Robert Ingersoll

“For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.”
~William Penn

“A human life is a story told by God.”
~Hans Christian Andersen

“Whom the heart of man shuts out, Sometimes the heart of God takes in, And fences them all round about , With silence ‘mid the world’s loud din.”
~ James Russell Lowell

“He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“We pine for kindred natures to mingle with our own.”
~ Mrs. Felicia D. Hemans,

“Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow. ” Robert Louis Stevenson

This are about sympathy..

“Sympathetic people are often uncommunicative about themselves; they give back reflected images which hide their own depths.”
~ George Eliot

“The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life.”
~ Edwin Hubbell Chapin

“Women have the genius of charity. A man gives but his gold; a woman adds to it her sympathy.”
~ Ernest Wilfrid LeGouve

“Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.”
~ Voltaire

“A good garden may have some weeds.”
~Thomas Fuller

“The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.”
~George Orwell

“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”
~Anna Quindlen

“People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it”
~Edith Schaeffer

“Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.”
~William Safire

“The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.”
~ Eugene Delacroix

“Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn’t perfection but progress.”
~Michelle Burford,

“The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.”
~Doug Larson

“Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.”
~Lord Chesterfield

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
~Antoine de Saint Exupery

“The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.”
~Matthew Arnold

We have freedom but but have have lots to ask for. Lyndon B. Johnson put it best when he said, “Freedom is not enough.”

“They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security.” ~ Benjamin Franklin

“While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.”~ Stephen R. Covey

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” ~ Albert Camus quotes

“He who is brave is free.”~ Seneca quotes

“Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.”~ Hubert H. Humphrey

“My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.”~John F kennedy

“What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.”~ Cicero

“The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either. ” ~Benjamin Franklin

“History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.”~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

“If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.”~ Carl Shurz

“Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.” ~Benjamin Franklin

“History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.” ~Charles de Gaulle

“The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.”~ Greek philosopher Thucydides

“The patriot’s blood is the seed of Freedom’s tree.” ~Thomas Campbell

“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.” ~Abraham Lincoln

“Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires” ~Bertrand Russell quotes

“Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.”~ Abraham Lincoln

While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State. “~ Vladimir Lenin

“For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson