Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.
—Doug Larson
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d preferred to talk.
—Doug Larson
Topics: Listening, Wisdom
People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon undoubtedly made necessary by the 30-year mortgage.
—Doug Larson
Topics: Money
The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.
—Doug Larson
Topics: Graduation
Some of the world’s greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.
—Doug Larson
Topics: Attitude, Accomplishment, Achieving, People, Goals, Possibilities
Autumn is a season followed immediately by looking forward to spring.
—Doug Larson
Topics: Autumn
Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three—and paradise is when you have none.
—Doug Larson
Topics: Luxury, Paradise
Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.
—Doug Larson
Topics: Eating, Health
A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.
—Doug Larson
Topics: Failure, Friends and Friendship, Friendship, Friend, Fail, Success
For disappearing acts, it’s hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.
—Doug Larson
Topics: Time Management, Time, Adversity
Nostalgia: A device that removes the ruts and potholes from memory lane.
—Doug Larson
Topics: The Past
If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.
—Doug Larson
Topics: Driving
The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
—Doug Larson
Topics: Happiness, Gratitude, Contentment, Blessings, Appreciation
More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
—Doug Larson
Topics: Marriage
The reason people blame things on the previous generations is that there’s only one other choice.
—Doug Larson
Topics: Responsibility
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
—Doug Larson
Topics: Integrity
Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe.
—Doug Larson
Topics: Happiness
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
—Doug Larson
The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
—Doug Larson
Topics: Aging, Age
Establishing goals is all right if you don’t let them deprive you of interesting detours.
—Doug Larson
Topics: Goals, Goal
Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
—Doug Larson
Topics: Wisdom
Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap.
—Doug Larson
To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.
—Doug Larson
Topics: Mistakes
The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.
—Doug Larson
Topics: Perfectionism, Perfection
A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows
—Doug Larson
Topics: Gardening
Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.
—Doug Larson
Topics: Spring, Seasons
If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there’d be a shortage of fishing poles.
—Doug Larson
Topics: Worth, Stress
Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.
—Doug Larson
Topics: Work, Accomplishment, Challenges
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- John Fowles English Novelist
- Queen Elizabeth II Queen of United Kingdom
- Harold Stephens American Travel Writer
- David Attenborough English Naturalist, Broadcaster
- Lynda Barry American Cartoonist
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross American Psychiatrist
- Kenneth H. Olsen American Engineer, Business Executive
- Robert H. Schuller American Televangelist, Author
- Karel Reisz Czech-British Film Director
- Dario Fo Italian Playwright
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