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Fountain of Wisdom: Counselors
© 2003 Stephen D. Glass
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Americans' favorite inspirational, motivational funny sayings, phrases and quotes from counselors and others in counseling professions from all over the U.S.

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Happiness is an inside job.
Have a nice day…unless you've made other plans.
Having a passion to help others gives purpose and meaning to life!
Having abandoned my search for truth, I am now looking for a good fantasy.
He is no friend who has no time!
He profits most who serves best.
He who angers you, controls you!
Heck if I know!
Help! My life feels like I'm trapped in a Tennessee Williams' play!
Helping others for a living may not pay well, but it's rewards are priceless.
Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.
Hope is a dream you make for yourself.
How can I soar like an eagle when I'm surrounded by turkeys?
I am grateful each day to rise and be the person God wants me to be.
I am the canary in the mine.
I bid you peace.
I can thank you with a whisper or condemn you with a roar.
I choose to make every day a Zippity-do-dah-day.
I cried because I had no shoes, until I saw a man who had no feet.
I daydream to avoid the oddities of everyday life. Is that so wrong?
I don't know where I'm going, but I'm making record time. --- test pilot
I feared change until I saw that even the most beautiful butterfly had to undergo a metamorphosis before it could fly.
I get high on oxygen and sunshine!
  I have learned that success is to be measured not by ones position that has been reached in life but by the obstacles one has overcome while trying to succeed.
I have not yet begun to fight.
  "I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing." ---Agatha Christie
I help to heal the broken places in people's hearts.
I hope to change one small corner of the world with a smile on both of our faces.
I kicked the map into the river.
  I look into the face of a child and see the innocence man forgets as he grows. Then I see the pain of being hungry, the hurt of being alone, and I weep inside for the hundreds I can't save and rejoice for the one I can.
I love to help kids!
I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend till my death your right to say it.
I may not be responsible for where I am, but I will be responsible for where I go!
I must be a mushroom! Everyone keeps me in the dark and feeds me bullsh*t!
I must be butter, because I'm on a roll.
"I never cared for the sound of being alone." ---Neil Diamond
I never learned nothin' from playing it safe.
I used to go crazy most of my days. Now, I'm taking my time with my days.
I used to want to be a procrastinator, but I just never got around to it.
I was born ready!
I was country, when country wasn't cool!
I will always condescend to men of low estate.
I will gladly give you my input and advice, for there are no sweeter words than "I told you so!"
I wondered why somebody didn't do something, and then I realized I am somebody.
I would rather be alone than be lonely with someone!
I would rather have 30 minutes of wonderful, than a lifetime of nothing special.
I'd rather be writing.
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy.
If "if's" and but's" were candy and nuts, every day would be Christmas!
If God is for you, who can be against you?
If I don't get in touch with you in a year or two, please show me the same consideration.
If I say a duck can pull a truck, then hook him up.
If it ain't broke, then don't fix it!
If it wasn't hard, they wouldn't call it "trying". Once you have mastered something, it just called "doing".
If life's a bowl of cherries, why do I always get the pits?
If my name is on it, you know it's done right.
If only I could throw away the urge to trace my patterns in your heart, I could really see you.
If there were no problems, there would be no opportunities to grow.
If there's a light inside, it will shine.
If thoughts become your actions, and your actions become your character, then your character becomes your destiny.
If time is in a bottle, then don't waste time sipping.
"If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we could literally astound ourselves." --- Thomas Edison
If you are always afraid to take the 1st step, the footprints you leave will be few.
If you assume there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope.
If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague!
If you can't feel it, you can't heal it!
If you didn't want to know, you shouldn't have asked.
If you don't have anything nice to say, I don't want to hear it!
If you don't make at least one mistake a day, you're not investing enough in life.
If you don't take control of your life, someone else will.
If you dwell in the past, your life is history.
  "If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. That is where they should be. Now, put the foundations under them." --- Henry David Thoreau
If you have helped change one life, you have helped change the world.
If you keep doing what you've been doing, you'll keep getting what you've been getting.
If you lie down with dogs, expect to get up with fleas!
If you love someone, put his name in a circle, instead of a heart. Hearts can break, but circles go on forever.
If you love something, set it free. If it comes back to you, it is truly meant to be.
If you never learn anything else in life, learn how to love yourself.
If you really want to be happy, nobody can stop you!
If you take everything seriously, you've got some serious work to do!
If you want to be seen, stand up. If you want to be heard, speak up. If you want to be respected, sit down and shut up.
If your heart can believe it and your mind can conceive it, then you can achieve it!
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it!
If you're not living on the edge, then you're taking up too much space!
If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention.
I'll find a way.
I'm anything, but typical.
I'm just peachy!
I'm never wrong. Once, I thought I was wrong, but I was wrong.
I'm not fat. I'm big boned.
I'm not sure I know what normal is.
I'm sittin' on top of the world with my legs hangin' free.
I'm still standing after all these years.
I'm too blessed to be stressed.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." --- Albert Einstein
Imagination is the language of the soul.
In everyone's past, there is a love they never got over, and a summer when it all began.
In the end, only kindness matters.
In this world you have to be a little too kind to be kind enough.
Intelligence doesn't stoop to ignorance!
"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues." --- Abraham Lincoln
"It is better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for who you try to be." ---Rosie O'donnell
It is better to be silent and be considered a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt!
It is not who you are. It's whom you know.
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye."
--- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. This is not weakness. This is life.
It matters not how long we live, but how.
It may be the early bird that catches the worm, but it's the second mouse that gets the cheese!
It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but it only takes one thing to prove you are ignorant.
It takes courage to grow up and be whom you really are.
It wasn't me!
It's all a matter of how you look at it.
It's all about mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
It's better to open the floodgates than to let the dam break.
It's by the deception of illusion that we experience reality.
It's doable.
It's easier to live with regrets of things you've done than to regret things you didn't.
It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything.
It's hard to be sad, when you're singing.
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
It's never too late. Hope always is rewarded.
It's not a matter of choosing the right partner, but rather of being the right partner.
It's not easy!
It's not wise to argue with a 900 pound gorilla about the ownership of bananas.
It's not your aptitude, but your attitude that determines your altitude!
"It's o.k. to let yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back." --- Mick Jagger
It's too wet to plow and too windy to stack BB's, so let's dance.
It's what we do for the kids that counts.
"I've known a lot of troubles in my life, and most of them never happened." --- Mark