Golden Quotes

• To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.

  William James

  Life, Positive, Art

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• Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

  Henry Miller

  Gratitude, Time, Perspective

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.356, New Directions Publishing

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• The golden age is before us, not behind us.

  William Shakespeare

  Happy Birthday, Afterlife, Age

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• Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday. Be a self-starter. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all. You were not born to fail.

  Og Mandino

  Positive, Good Morning, Success

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• we're all golden sunflowers inside.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Happiness, Contentment, Sunflower

  Allen Ginsberg (2013). “Collected Poems 1947-1997”, p.196, Penguin UK

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• The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Inspirational, Confidence, Money

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• Sweet life continues in the breeze, in the golden fields.

  Jack Kerouac

  Sweet, Fields, Breeze

  Jack Kerouac (2006). “Book of Sketches”, p.22, Penguin

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• Silence is not only golden, it is seldom misquoted.

  Bob Monkhouse

  Funny, Humor, Silence

  Bob Monkhouse (1991). “The complete speaker's handbook”

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• The golden opportunity you are seeking is within yourself.

  Mary Engelbreit

  Inspiring, Graduation, Opportunity

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• Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.

  Aristotle

  Mean, Two, Vices

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• We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

  Joni Mitchell

  Peace, Hippie, Garden

  "Woodstock" (song) (1969)

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• You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.

  Diana Ross

  Inspirational, Motivational, Encouraging

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.

  John Donne

  Love, Cute, Anniversary

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'The Bait'

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• We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

  Edwin Markham

  Inspirational, Life, Memories

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• Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

  Horace Mann

  Life, Time, Sunset

  'Lost, Two Golden Hours'

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• There is a sun, a light that for want of another word I can only call yellow, pale sulphur yellow, pale golden citron. How lovely yellow is!

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Yellow, Light

  Vincent van Gogh (1959). “Complete Letters: With Reproductions of All the Drawings in the Correspondence”

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• He was golden and beautiful as a sunset.

  Anita Diament

  Beautiful, Sunset

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• In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and run Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Running, Clouds, Race

  1820 'To a Skylark', stanza 3.

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• Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?

  Brigham Young

  Thinking, Silence, May

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• All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Spring, Tree

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• Take a deep breath and exhale slowly. Mentally picture all tiredness, tension, and fatigue leaving you. Visualize that a wave of golden light is entering you at the top of your head and passing throughout your entire body.

  Frederick Lenz

  Light, Leaving, Entering

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• Chance. It weaves through our lives like a golden thread, sometimes knotting, tangling, and breaking along the way. Loose threads are left hanging, but the in and out, the back and forth continues, the weaving goes on. It doesn't stop.

  Mary E. Pearson

  Left Hanging, Goes On, Way

  Mary E. Pearson (2009). “The Miles Between”, p.212, Macmillan

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• Golden lads and girls all must as chimney sweepers come to dust.

  William Shakespeare

  Girl, Death, Dust

  'Cymbeline' (1609-10) act 4, sc. 2, l. 258

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• Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sunday, Together, Week

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 525), 1895.

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• The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Teaching, Learning, Eulogy

  Man and Superman "Maxims for Revolutionists" (1903)

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