Douglas Horton famous quotes

Remember only the good, the bad will never forget you.
-- Douglas Horton

#Remember #Never Forget #Forget You

Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.
-- Douglas Horton

#Motivational #Success #Simplicity

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.
-- Douglas Horton

#Love #Sad #Forever

While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself.
-- Douglas Horton

#Peace #Revenge #Fear

Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.
-- Douglas Horton

#Sorry #Selfish #Values

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.
-- Douglas Horton

#Happiness #Past #Inner Peace

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.
-- Douglas Horton

#Fear #Action #Terrorism

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.
-- Douglas Horton

#Love #Eye #Hatred

When all is lost, ask the I.R.S. - they'll find something.
-- Douglas Horton

#Lost

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.
-- Douglas Horton

#Art #Simplicity #Favourite

Smile, it's better than a poke in the eye.
-- Douglas Horton

#Smile #Eye #Poke

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.
-- Douglas Horton

#Beauty #Variables #Constant

Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.
-- Douglas Horton

#Thinking #Example #Deeds

If food were free, why work?
-- Douglas Horton

#Food

No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys.
-- Douglas Horton

#Crazy #Keys #Self

Live to learn, learn to live, then teach others.
-- Douglas Horton

#Cynicism #Teach #Altruism

Man worships because God lays His hand to the dust of our experience, and man miraculously becomes a living soul - and knows it and wants to worship.
-- Douglas Horton

#Men #Dust #Hands

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.[only if the past was better...if it was worse then you feel good that life is getting better]
-- Douglas Horton

#Gratitude #Past #Feel Good

Strong words are required for weak principles.
-- Douglas Horton

#Strong #Weakness #Principles

It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.
-- Douglas Horton

#Happiness #Alternatives #Requirements

Seeing the light is a choice, not seeing the light is no choice.
-- Douglas Horton

#Light #Choices

Buying a lie is one thing, giving it away for free is quite another.
-- Douglas Horton

#Lying #Giving #Buying

The art of giving is perfected through anonymity.
-- Douglas Horton

#Art #Giving #Cynicism

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.
-- Douglas Horton

#Doe #Action

Growing old is not growing up.
-- Douglas Horton

#Growing Up #Growing #Growing Old

Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age.
-- Douglas Horton

#Thinking #Age #Birth

Drive slow and enjoy the scenery - drive fast and join the scenery.
-- Douglas Horton

#Enjoy #Scenery

We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.
-- Douglas Horton

#Behavior #Pardon #Sentences

Smile, it's free therapy.
-- Douglas Horton

#Happiness #Smile #Laughter

First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.
-- Douglas Horton

#Time #Desire #Three

Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.
-- Douglas Horton

#Fear #Eye #Gun

If wishes were fishes we'd all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses we'd all ride.
-- Douglas Horton

#Horse #Wish #Throwing

The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.
-- Douglas Horton

#Love #Happiness #Lust

Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.
-- Douglas Horton

#Mafia #Attention #Chance

To hit bottom is to fall from grace.
-- Douglas Horton

#Fall #Grace #Falls From Grace

Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.
-- Douglas Horton

#Simple #Skills #Perfection

Born to be wild - live to outgrow it.
-- Douglas Horton

#Birth #Born

To buy happiness is to sell soul.
-- Douglas Horton

#Soul

There is no bad in good.
-- Douglas Horton

The key to heaven's gate cannot be duplicated.
-- Douglas Horton

#Keys #Heaven #Cynicism

To awake from death is to die in peace.
-- Douglas Horton

#Death #Dying #Awake

Boring people are a reflection of boring people.
-- Douglas Horton

#Reflection #People #Boredom

As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.
-- Douglas Horton

#Fear #Doors #Heaven

Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.
-- Douglas Horton

#Ideas #Dimes #Dozen

He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
-- Douglas Horton

#Bending #Lifting Others #Fallen

If the destination is heaven, why do we scramble to be first in line for hell?
-- Douglas Horton

#Heaven #Lines #Firsts

Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.
-- Douglas Horton

#Evil #Spirit #Window

Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket.
-- Douglas Horton

#Hero #Tickets #Cynicism

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.
-- Douglas Horton

#Death #Birth #Forgotten

Sherrill On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer.
-- Douglas Horton

#Easter #Veils #Eternity

Money is good, love is wealth.
-- Douglas Horton

#Money #Good Love #Love Is

Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.
-- Douglas Horton

#Never Change #Proportion #Direct

Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.
-- Douglas Horton

#Good Life #Life Is Good #Thinking

Why ask why? If it's raining it just is.
-- Douglas Horton

#Rain

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.
-- Douglas Horton

#Hate #Love Is #Hatred

Death is the final wake-up call.
-- Douglas Horton

#Morning #Finals #Wake Up

Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.
-- Douglas Horton

#Sleep

We may not always get what we want, but surely we will get what we deserve.
-- Douglas Horton

#May #Want #Deserve

Born a saint, die a sinner - born a sinner, die a saint.
-- Douglas Horton

#Saint #Birth #Born