Robert Hall

A friend should be one 
in whose understanding and virtue 
we can equally confide, 
and whose opinion we can value 
at once for its justness 
and its sincerity. 
~Robert Hall~ 

William Frederick Halsy, Jr.

There are no great people in this world, 
only great challenges which 
ordinary people rise to meet. 
~William Frederick Halsy, Jr.~ 

Edith Hamilton

Faith is not belief. 
Belief is passive. 
Faith is active. 
~Edith Hamilton~ 

Learned Hand

Words are chameleons, 
which reflect the color of their environment. 
~Learned Hand~ 

Thich Nhat Hahn

If in our daily life we can smile,
if we can be peaceful and happy,
not only we, but everyone will profit from it.
This is the most basic
kind of peace work.
~Thich Nhat Hahn~

When you plant lettuce,
if it does not grow well,
you don't blame the lettuce.
You look for reasons
it is not doing well.
It may need fertilizer,
or more water, or less sun.
You never blame the lettuce.
Yet if we have problems
with our friends
or our family,
we blame the other person.
But if we know how to
take care of them,
they will grow well,
like the lettuce.
Blaming has no
positive effect at all,
nor does trying to persuade
using reason and argument.
That is my experience.
If you understand,
and you show
that you understand,
you can love,
and the situation will change.
~Thich Nhat Hahn~

Our own life is the instrument 
with which we experiment 
with the truth.
~Thich Nhat Hahn~

The most precious gift we can offer others 
is our presence. 
When mindfulness embraces those we love, 
they will bloom like flowers. 
~Thich Nhat Hanh~ 

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

Please write again soon.
Though my own life is filled with activity,
letters encourage momentary escape
into other's lives and I come back to my own
with greater contentment.
~Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey~

Dag Hammarskjold

Is life so wretched?
Isn't it rather your hands
which are too small,
your vision which is muddled?
You are the one who must grow up.
~Dag Hammarskjold~

Friendship needs no words -
it is solitude delivered
from the anguish of loneliness.
~Dag Hammarskjold~

Life only demands from you the strength you possess. 
Only one feat is possible--not to have run away. 
~Dag Hammarskjold~

Oscar Hammerstein II

A bell is not a bell
until you ring it;
A song is not a song
until you sing it.
Love in your heart
is not put there to stay;
Love is not love
until you give it away.
~Oscar Hammerstein II ~

E. Y. Harbug

Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
~E. Y. Harbug~

Ausustus Hare

Reading is to the mind 
what exercise is to the body. 
It is wholesome and bracing 
for the mind to have its faculties 
kept on the stretch. 
~Ausustus Hare~

John Harold

Without trust, words become the hollow sound 
of a wooden gong. With trust, 
words become life itself. 
~John Harold~ 

Sydney J. Harris

Most people are mirrors,
reflecting the moods and emotions
of the times; few are windows,
bringing light to bear on the dark corners
where troubles fester. The whole purpose
of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
~Sydney J. Harris~

The three hardest tasks in the world 
are neither physical feats 
nor intellectual achievements, 
but moral acts: to return love for hate, 
to include the excluded, 
and to say, "I was wrong." 
~Sydney Harris~

There's no point in burying the hatchet 
if you're going to put up a marker on the site. 
~Sydney Harris~ 

When I hear somebody sigh, 
"Life is hard," 
I am always tempted to ask, 
"Compared to what?" 
~Sydney J. Harris~ 

Barbara G. Harrison

Fantasies are more than 
substitutes for unpleasant reality, 
they are also dress rehearsals, plans. 
All acts performed in the world 
begin in the imagination. 
~Barbara G. Harrison~ 

Elizabeth Harrison

Those who are lifting the world upward and onward 
are those who encourage more than criticize. 
~Elizabeth Harrison~ 

Paul Harvey

They have gun control in Cuba. 
They have universal health care in Cuba. 
So why do they want to come here? 
~Paul Harvey~ 

Minnie Haskins

And I said to the one who stood 
at the gate of the year, 
"Give me a light that I may 
tread safely into the Unknown." 
And he replied, "Go out into the darkness 
and put your hand into the hand of God. 
That shall be to you better 
than light and safer than a known way." 
~Minnie Haskins~

Vaclav Havel

I am not an optimist,
because I am not sure
that everything ends well.
Nor am I a pessimist,
because I am not sure
that everything ends badly.
I just carry hope in my heart.
Hope is the feeling
that life and work have a meaning.
You either have it or you don't,
regardless of the state
of the world that surrounds you.
Life without hope is an empty, boring,
and useless life. I cannot imagine
that I could strive for something
if I did not carry hope in me.
I am thankful to God
for this gift.
It is as big as life itself.
~Vaclav Havel~

Without commonly shared and widely
entrenched moral values and obligations,
neither the law, nor democratic government,
nor even the market economy will function properly.
~Vaclav Havel~

Alan Havhames

I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God. 
~Alan Havhamess~ 

H.R. Haweis

Love is a many-sided sacrifice; 
it means thoughtfulness for others; 
it means putting their good before self-gratification. 
Love is impulse, no doubt, 
but true love is impulse wisely directed. 
~H.R. Haweis~

Goldie Hawn

Once you can laugh at your own weaknesses, 
you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. 
It opens up people. If you're good, 
you can fill up those openings 
with something positive. 
Maybe you can combat 
some of the ugliness in the world. 
~Goldie Hawn~ 

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Love is a butterfly,
which when pursued is just beyond your grasp,
but if you will sit down quietly it may alight upon you.
~Nathaniel Hawthorne~

Words - so innocent and
powerless as they are,
as standing in a dictionary,
how potent for good and evil
they become in the hands of one
who knows how to combine them.
~Nathaniel Hawthorne~

I used to visit and revisit
it a dozen times a day,
and stand in deep contemplation
over my vegetable progeny
with a love that nobody could share
or conceive of who had never taken part
in the process of creation.
It was one of the most bewitching
sights in the world
to observe a hill of beans
thrusting aside the soil,
or a rose of early peas
just peeping forth sufficiently
to trace a line of delicate green.
~Nathaniel Hawthorne~

Happiness in this world,
when it comes, comes incidentally.
Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us on
a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.
Follow some other object,
and very possibly we may find
that we have caught happiness
without dreaming of it.
~Nathaniel Hawthorne~

No man, for any considerable period,
can wear one face to himself
and another to the multitude,
without finally getting bewildered
as to which one is true.
~Nathaniel Hawthorne~

Every individual has a place to fill in the world 
and is important in some respect 
whether he chooses to be so or not. 
~Nathaniel Hawthorne~ 

William Hazlitt

Books let us into their souls
and lay open to us
the secrets of our own.
~William Hazlitt~

Helen Hays

My mother drew a distinction between 
achievement and success. 
She said that achievement 
is the knowledge that you have studied 
and worked hard and done the best that is in you. 
Success is being praised by others, 
and that's nice, too, 
but not as important or satisfying. 
Always aim for achievement 
and forget about success. 
~Helen Hays~ 

Hecato

If you would be loved, love. 
~Hecato~ 

Heinrich Heine

Perfumes are the feelings of flowers. 
~Heinrich Heine~

Robert A. Heinlein.

Love is that condition in which
the happiness of another person is essential
to your own.
~Robert A. Heinlein~

I am free because I know that
I alone am morally responsible
for everything I do.
~Robert A. Heinlein~

Arthur Helps

It takes a great man 
to make a good listener. 
~Arthur Helps~ 

Hemeon

Our environment is like a patchwork quilt. 
Each "patch" is dependent on those around it. 
If one part unravels, it affects the rest.
~Hemeon~ 

Ernest Hemingway

When people talk, completely.
Most people never listen.
~Ernest Hemingway~

Nelson Henderson

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, 
under whose shade you do not expect to sit. 
~Nelson Henderson~ 

Patrick Henry

We are not weak,
if we make proper use of those means
which the God of nature
hath placed in our power...
The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone;
it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
~Patrick Henry~

I know not what course others may take;
but as for me, give me liberty,
or give me death.
~Patrick Henry~

Katharine Hepburn

Love has nothing to do with 
what you are expecting to get --
only with what you are expecting to give --
which is everything. 
~Katharine Hepburn~ 

Frank Herbert

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. 
Seek discipline and find your liberty. 
~Frank Herbert~ 

George Herbert

Thou has given me so much... 
Give me one thing more, a grateful heart. 
~George Herbert~

Oliver Herford

Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing 
your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. 
~Oliver Herford~ 

Esau Herrera

My theme is to make a difference
right here in my own neighborhood.
I don't have to fight the whole world.
If I do well where I am,
it will make a difference
in the rest of the world...
People want to do and to be better.
They need inspiration to change
and to try to make a difference.
They need a catalyst to inspire faith
and to encourage them to take a risk...
~Esau Herrera~

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

I am not the same,
having seen the moon shine
on the other side of the world.
~Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey~

Fr. Theodore Hesburgh

My basic principle is that
you don't make decisions
because they are easy;
you don't make them
because they are cheap;
you don't make them
because they're popular;
you make them
because they're right.
~Fr. Theodore Hesburgh~

Abraham Heschel

A test of a people
is how it behaves toward the old.
It is easy to love children.
Even tyrants and dictators
make a point of being fond of children.
But the affection and care for the old,
the incurable, the helpless
are the true goldmines of a culture.
~Abraham Heschel~

Damien Hess

Service... 
Giving what you don't have to give. 
Giving when you don't need to give. 
Giving because you want to give. 
~Damien Hess~ 

Max R. Hickerson

A man is not what he thinks he is, 
but what he thinks, he is. 
~Max R. Hickerson~ 

Liz Curtis Higgs

The head thinks, the hands labor, 
but it's the heart that laughs. 
~Liz Curtis Higgs~

These are not books,
lumps of lifeless paper,
but minds alive on the shelves.
From each of them
goes out its own voice...
and just as the touch of a
button on our set will fill
the room with music,
so by taking down one of these volumes
and opening it,
one can call into range
the voice of a man far distant
in time and space,
and hear him speaking to us,
mind to mind,
heart to heart.
~Gilbert Highet~

Napoleon Hill

Until you have learned to be tolerant
with those who do not always agree with you;
until you have cultivated the habit of saying
some kind word of those whom you do not admire;
until you have formed the habit of
looking for the good instead of the bad
there is in others,
you will be neither successful nor happy.
~Napoleon Hill~

Cherish your visions and your dreams
as they are the children of your soul;
the blue prints of your ultimate achievements.
~Napoleon Hill~

Desire is the starting point 
of all achievement, 
not a hope, not a wish, 
but a keen pulsating desire 
which transcends everything. 
~Napoleon Hill~

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache 
carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit. 
~Napoleon Hill~ 

If you must speak ill of another, 
do not speak it . . . 
write it in the sand near the water's edge. 
~Napoleaon Hill~ 

When defeat comes, 
accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, 
rebuild those plans, 
and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. 
~Napoleon Hill~ 

Gordon B. Hinckley

Anyone who imagines that bliss
is normal is going to waste a lot
of time running around shouting
that he's been robbed.
The fact is that most
putts don't drop,
most beef is tough,
most children grow up
to be just people,
most successful marriages
require a high degree
of mutual toleration,
and most jobs are more
often dull than otherwise.
Life is like an old time journey...
delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust,
cinders, and jolts,
interspersed only occasionally
by beautiful vistas,
and thrilling bursts of speed.
The trick is to thank the Lord
for letting you have the ride.
~Gordon B. Hinckley~

Adolph Hitler

A meeting between two beings
who complete one another,
who are made for each other,
borders already, in my opinion,
on a miracle.
~Adolph Hitler~

This year will go down in history.
For the first time,
a civilized nation has full
gun registration!
Our streets will be safer,
our police more efficient,
and the world will follow
our lead into the future!
~Adolph Hitler~

What luck for the rulers
that men do not think.
~Adolph Hitler~

Charles Hodge

The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge 
is confidence in God. 
~Charles Hodge~

L. Thomas Holdcroft

The past is a guidepost,
not a hitching post.
~L. Thomas Holdcroft~

Billie Holiday

Sometimes it's worse to win a fight
than to lose.
~Billie Holiday~

J.G. Holland

God gives every bird its food, 
but He does not throw it into its nest. 
~J.G. Holland~ 

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I find the great thing in this world
is not so much where we stand,
as in what direction we are moving --
we must sail sometimes with the wind
and sometimes against it --
but we must sail, and not drift,
nor lie at anchor.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes~

Without wearing any mask
we are conscious of, we have
a special face for each friend.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes~

To obtain a man's opinion of you,
make him mad.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes~

The best of a book
is not the thought
which it contains,
but the thought
which it suggests;
just as the charm
of music dwells not
in the tones but in
the echoes of our hearts.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes~

The greatest thing in this world
is not so much where we are,
but in what direction we are moving
~Oliver Wendell Holmes~

Man has his will,
-- but woman has her way.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes~

It is the province of knowledge to speak
and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes~

Love is the master key
that opens the gates of happiness.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes~

The real religion of the world
comes from women
much more than from men --
from mothers most of all,
who carry the key of our souls
in their bosoms.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes~

Fame is the scentless sunflower,
with gaudy crown of gold;
But friendship is the rose,
with sweets in every fold.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes~

Winifred Holtby

The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; 
it is understanding. 
~Winifred Holtby~ 

Lou Holtz

Ability is what you're capable of doing. 
Motivation determines what you do. 
Attitude determines how well you do it. 
~Lou Holtz~ 

If you don't make a total commitment 
to whatever you're doing, 
then you start looking to bail out 
the first time the boat starts leaking. 
It's tough enough getting that boat to shore 
with everybody rowing, 
let alone when a guy stands up 
and starts putting his life jacket on. 
~Lou Holtz~ 

Homer

There is nothing nobler or more admirable
than when two people who see eye to eye
keep house as man and wife,
confounding their enemies and
delighting their friends.
~Homer~

Wise to resolve,
and patient to perform.
~Homer~

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, 
as to find a friend worth dying for. 
~Homer~

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades 
is that man who hides one thing 
in his heart and speaks another. 
~Homer~ 

Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves

I have seen soldiers panic 
at the first sight of battle, 
and a wounded squire pulling arrows 
out from his wound to fight 
and save his dying horse. 
Nobility is not a birth right 
but is defined by one's action. 
~Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves~ 

Bell Hooks

The moment we choose to love,
we begin to move against domination, 
against oppression. 
The moment we choose to love, 
we begin to move toward freedom, 
to act in ways that liberate 
ourselves and others. 
~Bell Hooks~ 

Bob Hope

If you haven't any charity in your heart,
you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
~Bob Hope~

Audiences are my best friends. 
You never tire of talking with your best friends. 
~Bob Hope~

C. Hoppe

I hope that my achievements
in life shall be these --
that I will have fought for what was
right and fair,
that I will have risked for that
which mattered,
and that I will have given help
to those who were in need
that I will have left the earth
a better place for what I've done
and who I've been.
~C. Hoppe~

Rear Admiral Grace Hopper

If it's a good idea,
go ahead and do it.
It's much easier to apologize
than it is to get permission.
~Rear Admiral Grace Hopper~

Horac

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, 
which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant. 
~Horace~ 

Carol Horos

Seeds, like hearts 
must open to grow.
~Carol Horos~

Edgar Watson Howe

If a friend is in trouble,
don't annoy him by asking if
there is anything you can do.
Think up something appropriate and do it.
~Edgar Watson Howe~

Tehyi Hsieh

The schools of the country 
are its future in miniature. 
~Tehyi Hsieh~ 

Elbert Hubbard

God will not look you over for medals,
degrees or diplomas,
but for scars.
~Elbert Hubbard~

A retentive memory may be a good thing, 
but the ability to forget 
is the true token of greatness. 
~Elbert Hubbard~

Character is the result of two things: 
mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
~Elbert Hubbard~

I would rather be able to appreciate things 
I can not have than to have things I 
am not able to appreciate. 
~Elbert Hubbard~

The object of teaching a child 
is to enable him to get along without a teacher. 
~Elbert Hubbard~

Often we can help each other most 
by leaving each other alone; 
at other times we need the hand-grasp 
and the word of cheer. 
~Elbert Hubbard~

Responsibilities gravitate to the person 
who can shoulder them. 
~Elbert Hubbard~

Victor Hugo

What a grand thing, to be loved!
What a grander thing still, to love!
~Victor Hugo~

When grace is joined
with wrinkles, it is adorable.
There is an unspeakable dawn
in happy old age.
~Victor Hugo~

Music expresses that which cannot be said
and on which it is impossible to be silent.
~Victor Hugo~

Certain thoughts are prayers.
There are moments when,
whatever be the attitude of the body,
the soul is on its knees.
~Victor Hugo~

Separated lovers cheat absence
by a thousand fancies 
which have their own reality.
They are prevented from
seeing one another
and they cannot write;
nevertheless they find
countless mysterious ways
of corresponding,
by sending each other
the song of birds,
the scent of flowers,
the laughter of children,
the light of the sun,
the sighing of the wind,
and the gleam of the stars
-- all the beauties of creation.
~Victor Hugo~

A man is not idle
because he is absorbed in thought.
There is visible labor
and there is invisible labor.
~Victor Hugo~

Be like the bird that,
passing on her flight awhile
on boughs too slight,
feels them give way beneath her,
and yet sings,
knowing that she hath wings.
~Victor Hugo~

As the purse is emptied,
the heart is filled.
~Victor Hugo~

Laughter is the sun that drives winter 
from the human face. 
~Victor Hugo~

Life is the flower for which love is the honey. 
~Victor Hugo~

The supreme happiness of life is 
the conviction that we are loved - 
loved for ourselves, or rather, 
loved in spite of ourselves. 
~Victor Hugo~

Hubert H. Humphrey

The moral test of government
is how it treats those
who are in the dawn of life,
the children; those who are in the twilight of life,
the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life --
the sick, the needy, and the handicapped.
~Hubert H. Humphrey~

The impersonal hand of government 
can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor. 
~Hubert H. Humphrey~

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, 
the sweetness of the rose 
depends upon the name it bears. 
Things are not only what they are. 
They are, in very important respects, 
what they seem to be. 
~Hubert H. Humphrey~ 

Aldous Huxley

Experience is not what 
happens to a man. 
It is what a man does with 
what happens to him. 
~Aldous Huxley~ 

The secret of genius 
is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, 
which means never losing your enthusiasm. 
~Aldous Huxley~ 

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