On life
Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more right the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear.
Jean Paul Richter
Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.
Wally 'Famous' Amos
You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something -- your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
Steve Jobs
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much. Mother Teresa
Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment.
Eckhart Tolle
The capacity to care is the thing that gives life its deepest meaning and significance. Pablo Casals
The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.
Thomas Moore
The marvelousness richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were not limitations to overcome. The hilltop would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
Hellen Keller
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain
Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Howard Thurman
More important than talent, strength or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.
Amy Grant
Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
Donald Williams
There is a crack in everything; that’s how the light gets in.
Leonard Cohen
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
Even after all this time, the sun never says to the Earth, ‘You owe Me’. Look what happens with a love like that, it lights the Whole Sky.
Hafiz
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
Mahatma Gandhi
The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.
Henry L. Stimson
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
Horace
Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
John Updike
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.
Charles Schultz
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
Ambrose Redmoon
Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.
Katherine Mansfield
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
Ralph Marston
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
George Santayana
The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.
Albert Einstein
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Kahlil Gibran
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.
Robert Fulghum
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou
The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.
Dr Joyce Brothers
To understand your parents’ love you must raise children yourself.
Chinese Proverb
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each friend represents a a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Anais Nin
What is right for one may not be right for another. It may mean having to stand on your own and do something strange in the eyes of others.
Eileen Caddy
Maturity of mind is capacity to endure uncertainty.
Confucius
A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. - Spanish Proverb
If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
To find what you seek in the road of life,
the best proverb of all is that which says:
"Leave no stone unturned."
Edward Bulwer Lytto
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
Dalai Lama
When you have the choice to be right or to be kind, always choose to be kind.
Wayne Dyer
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Andy Warhol
There must be more to life than having everything.
Maurice Sendak
Watch, wait. Time will unfold and reveal its purpose.
Marianne Williamson
Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.
Eckhart Tolle
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. Abraham Lincoln
What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.
Ellen Burstyn
Everyone has their own special gift. In some it is speech, in some, silence. The world has need of small perfection as well as great achievements.
Anonymous
Failing and Flying
Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew.
It's the same when love comes to an end,
or the marriage fails and people say
they knew it was a mistake, that everybody
said it would never work. That she was
old enough to know better. But anything
worth doing is worth doing badly.
Like being there by that summer ocean
on the other side of the island while
love was fading out of her, the stars
burning so extravagantly those nights that
anyone could tell you they would never last.
Every morning she was asleep in my bed
like a visitation, the gentleness in her
like antelope standing in the dawn mist.
Each afternoon I watched her coming back
through the hot stony field after swimming,
the sea light behind her and the huge sky
on the other side of that. Listened to her
while we ate lunch. How can they say
the marriage failed? Like the people who
came back from Provence (when it was Provence)
and said it was pretty but the food was greasy.
I believe Icarus was not failing as he fell,
but just coming to the end of his triumph.
Jack Gilbert
Giving is so often thought of in terms of the gifts we give, but our greatest giving is of our time, and kindness, and even comfort for those who need it. We look on these little things as unimportant-until we need them.
Joyce Hiffler
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quite voice at the end of the day saying: I will try again tomorrow.
Mary Anne Radmacher
Sharing is the enemy of a high technology, globalised economy.
Mark Boyle
Love is more than just a feeling: it's a process requiring continual attention. Loving well takes laughter, loyalty, and wanting more to be able to say, "I understand" than to hear, "You're right." Molleen Matsumura
Everything that annoys us about others, can help us understand ourselves.
Anonymous
A great many people think they are thinking when they are actually rearranging their prejudices. William James
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change world, indeed it’s the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
It is not our abilities that show what we truly are; it is our choices.
J. K. Rowling
As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit. Emmanuel
Family means sharing inadequacies, imperfections and feelings with each other and still loving each other. But even when you set out to love, you may not always be a likeable person. And when you’re not perfect, forgiveness for yourself and others becomes important. Then you get up the next day and start again. It is a process, like the opening of a bud. It is a flowering, a blooming and a blossoming.
Bernie Siegel
In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization.
Eckhart Tolle
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.
Steve Jobs
I've got nothing to do today but smile.
Simon and Garfunkel
Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark; professionals built the Titanic.
Dave Barry
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
Robert Brault
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a fantastic stroke of luck.
Dalai Lama
Freedom is instantaneous the moment we accept things as they are.
Karen Maezen Miller
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The three things we crave most in life – happiness, freedom and peace - are always attained by giving them to someone else.
Peyton Conway March
More important than talent, strength or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.
Amy Grant
We are not rich by what we possess but rather by what we can do without.
Immanuel Kant
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
Josh Billings
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows.
Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to.
Jim Jarmusch
You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing. Arthur Ashe
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
Dr Seuss
There are shortcuts to happiness and dancing is one of them.
Vicki Baum
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Dalai Lama
Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.
Brene Brown
Nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccesful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Calvin Coolidge
We’re all just walking each other home.
Ram Dass
You become most powerful in whatever you do if the action is performed for its own sake rather than as a means to protect, enhance, or conform to your role identity.
Eckhart Tolle
As you express joy, you draw it out of those you meet, creating joyful people and joyful events. The greater the joy you express, the more joy you experience.
Arnold Patent
Forget love... I’d rather fall in chocolate.
Author Unknown
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Steve Jobs
We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Anais Nin
I thought about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen.
Elizabeth Gilbert
I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.
Sarah Dessen
If work keeps us fed, play keeps us laughing, love keeps us caring, and evil only keeps us strong, it is a passion for living that holds it all together. And in the end your life will only burn as bright as that passion inside of you.
Author Unknown
At any moment you have a choice that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.
Thich Nhat Hanh
I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect, or vice versa.
Lauren Oliver
I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
Dorothy Day
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
Jay Leno
Man, unlike the animal, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not."
Eckhart Tolle
Our father is more than one hundred schoolmasters.
George Herbert
Look closely and you will find that people are happy because they are grateful. The opposite of gratefulness is just taking everything for granted.
David Steindel-Rast
In everything that you do, consider the end.
Solon
When you're struggling with something, look at all the people around you and realize that every single person you see is struggling with something, and to them, it's just as hard as what you're going through.
Nicholas Sparks
Sometimes it takes some time out on your own to find your way back home.
Taylor Dane
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
Katherine Mansfield
I'm happy about the things I've done. Not always happy about the results, but happy about the decisions, because I made them myself. And I think that's an important way to go through life.
Kevin Costner
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability. To be alive is to be vulnerable.
Madeleine L'Engle
Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colours. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
Terry Pratchett
Regardless of whether a relationship brings us joy or sorrow, each relationship gives us the opportunity to grow stronger, nobler, and more compassionate with ourselves and others.
Tamela Rich
Unusual travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
Kurt Vonnegut
The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
Orlando A. Battista
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
and though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love, but not your thoughts.
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.
Kahlil Gibran
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie
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
Let's trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let's lay down our righteousness and just be together.
Ram Dass
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
John Lublock
Give without any expectation of receiving, without a moment’s thought of credit or debt, and you will receive whatever you need when you need it.
Mark Boyle
Each of us is the same kind of being, capable of outflowing attention and awareness, or withdrawing it. And that is all we need to do: Give full, permissive, loving attention to absolutely anything that we see in our minds, in our bodies, in our environment, in other people.
Expansion in love is an action that is available to every being in the universe all the time. A willing awareness will take us to heaven, a loving attitude will make us free. Nothing else controls our fate. Good or bad behavior is secondary. Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are thinking, love yourself for thinking it. Love is the only dimension that needs to be changed. If you are not sure how it feels to be loving, love yourself for not being sure of how it feels. There is nothing on earth more important than the love which conscious beings feel towards each other, whether or not it is ever expressed.
Thaddeus Golas
On learning
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
Frank Tyger
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
Doris Lessing
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.
Charles A. Dana
Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.
William Faulkner
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.
Gilda Radner
People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.
St. Augustine
“The best thing for being sad,” replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, “is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting."
Theodore White
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
Groucho Marx
If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old.
Edgar Watson Howe
To listen is to continually give up all expectation and to give our attention, completely and freshly, to what is before us, not really knowing what we will hear or what that will mean. In the practice of our days, to listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.
Mark Nepo
On friendship
The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch swing with, never say a word, then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation that you ever had.
Anonymous
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
Gloria Naylor
It is raining still… Maybe it is not one of those showers that is here one minute and gone the next, as I had so boldly assumed. Maybe none of them are. After all, life itself is a chain of rainy days. But there are times when not all of us have umbrellas to walk under. Those are the times when we need people who are willing to lend their umbrellas to a wet stranger on a rainy day. I think I’ll go for a walk with my umbrella.
Sun-Young Park
On music
Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit. No matter what language we speak, what color we are, the form of our politics or the expression of our love and our faith, music proves: We are the same.
John Denver
On laughter
Humor has a way of bringing people together. It unites people. In fact, I'm rather serious when I suggest that someone should plant a few whoopee cushions in the United Nations.
Ron Dentinger
You don’t stop laughing because you grow old: you grow old because you stop laughing.
Michael Pritchard
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: they all make me laugh.
W. H. Auden
The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.
Shirley MacLaine
Humor has great power to heal on an emotional level. You can't hold anger, you can't hold fear, you can't hold hurt while you're laughing.
Steve Bhaerman
I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.
Woody Allen
The man who smiles when things go wrong...has thought of someone else to blame it on.
Robert Bloch
Marriage is love. Love is blind. Marriage is an institution. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind.
Anonymous
A policeman stopped me and said: "Would you please blow into this bag, sir?" I said: "What for, officer?" He said: "My chips are too hot."
Tommy Cooper
Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.
Ed Gardner
I think the worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades…or a game of fake heart attack.
Demetri Martin
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
Mark Russell
Last night I lay in bed looking up at the stars in the sky and thought to myself, where the heck is the ceiling?
Author Unknown
Happiness is finding two olives in your Martini when you're hungry.
Johnny Carson
A guy walked into a bar. He was treated for minor injuries.
Author Unknown
Sometimes life's Hell. But hey! Whatever gets the marshmallows toasty.
J. Andrew Helt
True humor is fun - it does not put down, kid, or mock. It makes people feel wonderful, not separate, different, and cut off. True humor has beneath it the understanding that we are all in this together. Hugh Prather
Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more right the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear.
Jean Paul Richter
Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.
Wally 'Famous' Amos
You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something -- your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
Steve Jobs
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much. Mother Teresa
Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment.
Eckhart Tolle
The capacity to care is the thing that gives life its deepest meaning and significance. Pablo Casals
The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.
Thomas Moore
The marvelousness richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were not limitations to overcome. The hilltop would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
Hellen Keller
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain
Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Howard Thurman
More important than talent, strength or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.
Amy Grant
Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
Donald Williams
There is a crack in everything; that’s how the light gets in.
Leonard Cohen
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
Even after all this time, the sun never says to the Earth, ‘You owe Me’. Look what happens with a love like that, it lights the Whole Sky.
Hafiz
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
Mahatma Gandhi
The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.
Henry L. Stimson
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
Horace
Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
John Updike
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.
Charles Schultz
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
Ambrose Redmoon
Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.
Katherine Mansfield
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
Ralph Marston
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
George Santayana
The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.
Albert Einstein
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Kahlil Gibran
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.
Robert Fulghum
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou
The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.
Dr Joyce Brothers
To understand your parents’ love you must raise children yourself.
Chinese Proverb
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each friend represents a a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Anais Nin
What is right for one may not be right for another. It may mean having to stand on your own and do something strange in the eyes of others.
Eileen Caddy
Maturity of mind is capacity to endure uncertainty.
Confucius
A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. - Spanish Proverb
If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
To find what you seek in the road of life,
the best proverb of all is that which says:
"Leave no stone unturned."
Edward Bulwer Lytto
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
Dalai Lama
When you have the choice to be right or to be kind, always choose to be kind.
Wayne Dyer
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Andy Warhol
There must be more to life than having everything.
Maurice Sendak
Watch, wait. Time will unfold and reveal its purpose.
Marianne Williamson
Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.
Eckhart Tolle
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. Abraham Lincoln
What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.
Ellen Burstyn
Everyone has their own special gift. In some it is speech, in some, silence. The world has need of small perfection as well as great achievements.
Anonymous
Failing and Flying
Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew.
It's the same when love comes to an end,
or the marriage fails and people say
they knew it was a mistake, that everybody
said it would never work. That she was
old enough to know better. But anything
worth doing is worth doing badly.
Like being there by that summer ocean
on the other side of the island while
love was fading out of her, the stars
burning so extravagantly those nights that
anyone could tell you they would never last.
Every morning she was asleep in my bed
like a visitation, the gentleness in her
like antelope standing in the dawn mist.
Each afternoon I watched her coming back
through the hot stony field after swimming,
the sea light behind her and the huge sky
on the other side of that. Listened to her
while we ate lunch. How can they say
the marriage failed? Like the people who
came back from Provence (when it was Provence)
and said it was pretty but the food was greasy.
I believe Icarus was not failing as he fell,
but just coming to the end of his triumph.
Jack Gilbert
Giving is so often thought of in terms of the gifts we give, but our greatest giving is of our time, and kindness, and even comfort for those who need it. We look on these little things as unimportant-until we need them.
Joyce Hiffler
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quite voice at the end of the day saying: I will try again tomorrow.
Mary Anne Radmacher
Sharing is the enemy of a high technology, globalised economy.
Mark Boyle
Love is more than just a feeling: it's a process requiring continual attention. Loving well takes laughter, loyalty, and wanting more to be able to say, "I understand" than to hear, "You're right." Molleen Matsumura
Everything that annoys us about others, can help us understand ourselves.
Anonymous
A great many people think they are thinking when they are actually rearranging their prejudices. William James
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change world, indeed it’s the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
It is not our abilities that show what we truly are; it is our choices.
J. K. Rowling
As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit. Emmanuel
Family means sharing inadequacies, imperfections and feelings with each other and still loving each other. But even when you set out to love, you may not always be a likeable person. And when you’re not perfect, forgiveness for yourself and others becomes important. Then you get up the next day and start again. It is a process, like the opening of a bud. It is a flowering, a blooming and a blossoming.
Bernie Siegel
In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization.
Eckhart Tolle
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.
Steve Jobs
I've got nothing to do today but smile.
Simon and Garfunkel
Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark; professionals built the Titanic.
Dave Barry
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
Robert Brault
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a fantastic stroke of luck.
Dalai Lama
Freedom is instantaneous the moment we accept things as they are.
Karen Maezen Miller
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The three things we crave most in life – happiness, freedom and peace - are always attained by giving them to someone else.
Peyton Conway March
More important than talent, strength or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.
Amy Grant
We are not rich by what we possess but rather by what we can do without.
Immanuel Kant
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
Josh Billings
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows.
Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to.
Jim Jarmusch
You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing. Arthur Ashe
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
Dr Seuss
There are shortcuts to happiness and dancing is one of them.
Vicki Baum
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Dalai Lama
Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.
Brene Brown
Nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccesful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Calvin Coolidge
We’re all just walking each other home.
Ram Dass
You become most powerful in whatever you do if the action is performed for its own sake rather than as a means to protect, enhance, or conform to your role identity.
Eckhart Tolle
As you express joy, you draw it out of those you meet, creating joyful people and joyful events. The greater the joy you express, the more joy you experience.
Arnold Patent
Forget love... I’d rather fall in chocolate.
Author Unknown
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Steve Jobs
We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Anais Nin
I thought about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen.
Elizabeth Gilbert
I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.
Sarah Dessen
If work keeps us fed, play keeps us laughing, love keeps us caring, and evil only keeps us strong, it is a passion for living that holds it all together. And in the end your life will only burn as bright as that passion inside of you.
Author Unknown
At any moment you have a choice that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.
Thich Nhat Hanh
I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect, or vice versa.
Lauren Oliver
I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
Dorothy Day
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
Jay Leno
Man, unlike the animal, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not."
Eckhart Tolle
Our father is more than one hundred schoolmasters.
George Herbert
Look closely and you will find that people are happy because they are grateful. The opposite of gratefulness is just taking everything for granted.
David Steindel-Rast
In everything that you do, consider the end.
Solon
When you're struggling with something, look at all the people around you and realize that every single person you see is struggling with something, and to them, it's just as hard as what you're going through.
Nicholas Sparks
Sometimes it takes some time out on your own to find your way back home.
Taylor Dane
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
Katherine Mansfield
I'm happy about the things I've done. Not always happy about the results, but happy about the decisions, because I made them myself. And I think that's an important way to go through life.
Kevin Costner
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability. To be alive is to be vulnerable.
Madeleine L'Engle
Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colours. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
Terry Pratchett
Regardless of whether a relationship brings us joy or sorrow, each relationship gives us the opportunity to grow stronger, nobler, and more compassionate with ourselves and others.
Tamela Rich
Unusual travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
Kurt Vonnegut
The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
Orlando A. Battista
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
and though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love, but not your thoughts.
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.
Kahlil Gibran
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie
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
Let's trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let's lay down our righteousness and just be together.
Ram Dass
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
John Lublock
Give without any expectation of receiving, without a moment’s thought of credit or debt, and you will receive whatever you need when you need it.
Mark Boyle
Each of us is the same kind of being, capable of outflowing attention and awareness, or withdrawing it. And that is all we need to do: Give full, permissive, loving attention to absolutely anything that we see in our minds, in our bodies, in our environment, in other people.
Expansion in love is an action that is available to every being in the universe all the time. A willing awareness will take us to heaven, a loving attitude will make us free. Nothing else controls our fate. Good or bad behavior is secondary. Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are thinking, love yourself for thinking it. Love is the only dimension that needs to be changed. If you are not sure how it feels to be loving, love yourself for not being sure of how it feels. There is nothing on earth more important than the love which conscious beings feel towards each other, whether or not it is ever expressed.
Thaddeus Golas
On learning
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
Frank Tyger
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
Doris Lessing
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.
Charles A. Dana
Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.
William Faulkner
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.
Gilda Radner
People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.
St. Augustine
“The best thing for being sad,” replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, “is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting."
Theodore White
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
Groucho Marx
If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old.
Edgar Watson Howe
To listen is to continually give up all expectation and to give our attention, completely and freshly, to what is before us, not really knowing what we will hear or what that will mean. In the practice of our days, to listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.
Mark Nepo
On friendship
The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch swing with, never say a word, then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation that you ever had.
Anonymous
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
Gloria Naylor
It is raining still… Maybe it is not one of those showers that is here one minute and gone the next, as I had so boldly assumed. Maybe none of them are. After all, life itself is a chain of rainy days. But there are times when not all of us have umbrellas to walk under. Those are the times when we need people who are willing to lend their umbrellas to a wet stranger on a rainy day. I think I’ll go for a walk with my umbrella.
Sun-Young Park
On music
Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit. No matter what language we speak, what color we are, the form of our politics or the expression of our love and our faith, music proves: We are the same.
John Denver
On laughter
Humor has a way of bringing people together. It unites people. In fact, I'm rather serious when I suggest that someone should plant a few whoopee cushions in the United Nations.
Ron Dentinger
You don’t stop laughing because you grow old: you grow old because you stop laughing.
Michael Pritchard
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: they all make me laugh.
W. H. Auden
The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.
Shirley MacLaine
Humor has great power to heal on an emotional level. You can't hold anger, you can't hold fear, you can't hold hurt while you're laughing.
Steve Bhaerman
I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.
Woody Allen
The man who smiles when things go wrong...has thought of someone else to blame it on.
Robert Bloch
Marriage is love. Love is blind. Marriage is an institution. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind.
Anonymous
A policeman stopped me and said: "Would you please blow into this bag, sir?" I said: "What for, officer?" He said: "My chips are too hot."
Tommy Cooper
Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.
Ed Gardner
I think the worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades…or a game of fake heart attack.
Demetri Martin
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
Mark Russell
Last night I lay in bed looking up at the stars in the sky and thought to myself, where the heck is the ceiling?
Author Unknown
Happiness is finding two olives in your Martini when you're hungry.
Johnny Carson
A guy walked into a bar. He was treated for minor injuries.
Author Unknown
Sometimes life's Hell. But hey! Whatever gets the marshmallows toasty.
J. Andrew Helt
True humor is fun - it does not put down, kid, or mock. It makes people feel wonderful, not separate, different, and cut off. True humor has beneath it the understanding that we are all in this together. Hugh Prather