Quotes from Ann Landers

If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don't have it, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

Some people believe that holding on and hanging there are signs of strength, but there are times in life when it takes much more strength just to let go.

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conslusive evidence that your are wonderful.

Don't give up. Keep going. there is always a chance that you stumble onto something terrific. I have never heard of anyone stumbling over anything while he was sitting down

Friends with benefits? More than friends? Don't sample the goodies unless you're willing to risk addiction and withdrawal.

There are really only three types of people: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who say, What happened?

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Too many people today know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Some women have the best husbands. Others make the best of the husbands they have.

Blessed are they who hold lively conversations with the helplessly mute, for they shall be called dentists.

at every party there are two kinds of people - those who want to go home and those who don't. the trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

many people think that holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. But there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go - and then to do it.

No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic.

There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who walk into a room and say 'Here I am' and those who walk into a room and say, 'There you are.

Inside every seventy-year-old is a thirty-five-year-old asking, 'What happened?

Anyone who believes the competitive spirit in America is dead has never been in a supermarket when the cashier opens another check-out line.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Asking a writer what he thinks about critics is like asking what a fire hydrant feels about dogs.

Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals because nobody wants to read the small print in dreams.

the true measure of a person is how they treat someone who can do them aboslutely no good

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other".