“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” -- Dr.King
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that 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.”--M.Twain
"Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience." -- Calvin and Hobbes
"You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment." Les Brown
"My Past is forgotten, my Present is focused, and my Future is secure" - Beder
"Many a false step is made by standing still."
"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems" - Ghandi
"Marge you'll have to speak up. I'm wearing a towel." - Homer Simpson
"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within" -- James Baldwin
""Enthusiasm finds the opportunities, and energy makes the most of them." -- Henry Hoskins
"Who you are speaks so loud, I can't hear what you say"
"Confront the dark parts of yourself and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength." -- August Wilson
"If you want to be somebody, if you want to go somewhere, you better wake up and paaaaay attention" -- Sister Act 2
"You! Bring me the Wall Street Journal. You two! Fight to the death!" -- Stewie
"One good thing about music, when it hits, you feel no pain." -- Bob Marley
"IDK, my BFF Jill?"
"Would I rather be feared or loved? Umm...easy, both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me" -- Michael Scott
"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down." -- Oprah Winfrey
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved." -- Helen Adams Keller
"Half-heartedness never won a battle." -- William McKinley
"Dare to believe in miracles. Look beyond the mud on the windshield, beyond the impossible, and know life is more than anguish and stress. Reach out to someone, when your heart is too heavy to feel the sunlight or to taste the rain. Rid yourself of dark thought and melancholy. Open your mind to fresh air, to the unlimited music in your soul." -- Joyce
"It's all about stretching yourself a bit more, when we think our job is finished, because that extra effort does make the difference in our success." Unknown
"Pain is nothing compared to the emptiness that comes from quitting." Unknown
"The main cause for failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want at the moment." Unknown
"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies." Aristotle
"We cannot discover new oceans unless we have the courage to lose sight of the shore." Unknown
"A day without laughter is a day wasted." Charlie Chaplin
"The H.A.L.T. method: Never make a decision when you are Hungry, Angry, Lonely, or Tired." Dave DeNotaris
"I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am." Francis Bacon
"If we put our energy in worrying, that is what we will harvest." David DeNotaris
"In life you need either inspiration or desperation." Tony Robbins
"There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration." Cicero
"We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action." Frank Tibolt
"The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done." Allard Lowenstein
"Life is like a B-grade movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it and you don't want to go back and see it again." Ted Turner
"Take chances; make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave." Mary Tyler Moore
"If there's something on your mind, it's going to stay there until you actually do it." Unknown
"Don't waste your time thinking about your failures. You can use the same time for becoming more successful." Raj Sharma
"It is wise to start something that has gone bad all over. For when you start over, you'll get over. When you get over, you'll come over and those who come over are called overcomers." Abraham A. Eninla
"My success is measured by my willingness to keep on trying." Unknown
"Time is a gift for us to share with those we love, to make special memories that will last a lifetime. Remember, time shared with loved ones, is time well spent." Elaine Harper
"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle." Abraham Lincoln.
"Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own." Chinese proverb
"Let false friends fall through thoughts and your true friends fill up with memories." Unknown
"Your inability to stay at peace with people around you is due to your inability to understand their inability to understand you." Dimoriaku Chijioke Godwin
"Your thoughts become your choices, your choices become your habits, and your habits become your lifestyle. If you want to change your lifestyle, change your thoughts." Unknown
"The only way to get positive feelings about yourself is to take positive actions. Man does not live as he thinks, he thinks as he lives." Reverend Vaughan Quinn
"Don't be run so much by what you lack as by what you have already achieved." Marcus Aurelius
"We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world." Charles F. Kettering
"Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement." C. S. Lewis
"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience." Henry Miller
"The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said." Peter Drucker
"Comfort is an investment that diminishes with time, yet risk taking is an investment that returns comfort tenfold what you put in!" Unknown
"Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make Me Feel Important.' Not only will you succeed in business, you will succeed in life." Mary Kay Ash
"We always attract into our lives whatever we think about most, believe most strongly, expect on the deepest level, and imagine most vividly." Shakti Gawain
"Beauty only gets attention but personality captures the heart." Unknown
"Dream with the belief that you may never awake from your slumber." T. Anderson
"The only way to get positive feelings about yourself is to take positive actions. Man does not live as he thinks, he thinks as he lives." Reverend Vaughan Quinn
"A life lived without goals is much like going shopping without a list. You come to the checkout wondering why you got laden with things you didn't really want - you just thought you did at the time." Gary Tear
"At some point, you have to make a decision. Boundaries don't keep other people out. They fence you in. Life is messy. That's how we're made. So, you can waste your life drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them." -- Unknown
"The world's most bankrupt person is not the one who has lost his money but the person who has lost his enthusiasm." Unknown
"Love can build a fire off a spark of romance but will burn out quickly if there is no wood." Lindsey Choate
"He who spits at the sky dirties his own face" - An African Saying
"The truth, in time, will tell all." - ?
"Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it." Anthony J. D'Angelo
"When we are angry about having a problem, we are choosing anger as a way of continuing not to look at whatever it is that is being brought to our attention." Malcolm D. Muir
"The best place to put your troubles is in your back pocket, the one with the hole in it." Unknown
"We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't." Frank A. Clark
"Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life." Oprah Winfrey
"A fool and water will go the way they are diverted." African Proverb
"Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." Henry Van Dyke
"Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made." Barbara Hall
"Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such." Henry Miller
"Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing." Elizabeth Goudge
"I don't have pet peeves; I have whole kennels of irritation." Whoopi Goldberg
"It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste." Henry Ford
"It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on." Real Live Preacher
"Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms." Alan Corenk
"Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears." Robert W. Sarnoff
"A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest." Pearl Bailey
"Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire." Arab Proverb
"A wise man cares not for that which he cannot have." Italian Proverb
"Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded." Jess Lair
"People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get." Frederick Douglas
"The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself." Garth Brooks
"How can you have charisma? Be more concerned about making others feel good about themselves than you are making them feel good about you." Dan Reiland
"There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament." Henry Van Dyke
"Charisma is a sparkle in people that money can't buy. It's an invisible energy with visible effects." Marianne Williamson
"Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still." Robert Sternberg
"Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate." Thomas Jones
"Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it." Mark Twain
"Our problems are man-made; therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings." John F. Kennedy
"When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is any thing you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it." Edgar Watson Howe
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need." Voltaire
"Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece." Ralph Charell
"We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing." R.D. Laing
"The cruelest lies are often told in silence." Robert Louis Stevenson
"The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention." Kevin Kelly
"Encourage one another. Many times a word of praise or thanks or appreciation or cheer has kept people on their feet." Charles Swindoll
"Only you know the real you, and only you ought to decide your future." Larispique Philidor
"Words and hearts should be handled carefully; as words when spoken and hearts when broken are beyond repairs." Nilesh Soni
"Plant your thoughts of success within your own self. You have the power and the courage to make all your dreams come true; make them happen with the steps of faith. Indulge yourself in inspirational, motivational and positive thoughts for they're healthy for the mind, body and soul." Antonio Talbert
"Never look at the doors closing behind you or you'll miss the ones opening ahead." Cyril Magnin
"Hard work is doing the "hard part" of the work, which means going the extra mile." Unknown
"I am convinced the world is flat since I have been walking on the edge for so long." Unknown
"If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much." Jim Rohn
“As long as I know where I stand, I therefore know where I should be." Maleiha B. Candao
"The value of a diamond depends on whether you char it to ash or wear it in a crown."
"The Grass is always greener where you water it." Unknown
"I have been sent out here for a specific purpose; let me check that out. Until then, I will not move from this earth." Aparna Gupta
"Life ends...when you stop dreaming about success." Waseem Safdar
"The Road to Success is Always Under Construction." Mihir Parekh
"You've got to pay the price. Winning is not a sometime thing; It's an all-the-time-thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit." Vince Lombardi
"Imma test this out! Now keep in mind that I'm an artist, and I'm sensitive about my shit..." - Eryka Badu ("Tyrone" World Premiere)
"Baby I won't tell if you dont want me to, cuz I got a thing for you
and I'd do anything for you." - J.Holiday
"Never dismiss your dreams for you alone have the power to make them come true." Jamie Volner
"It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires." Rebecca West
"Don't waste time worrying about future difficulties; they may never come." Unknown
"Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful." Annette Funicello
"The miracle is this; the more we share, the more we have." Leonard Nimoy
"Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action." Benjamin Disraeli
"All seasons are beautiful for the person who carries happiness within." Horace Friess
"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him." John Steinbeck
"The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and an actualizer... He can visualize something, and when he visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen." Robert L. Schwartz
"Opposition is a natural part of life. Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition,such as lifting weights,we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity." Stephen Covey
"Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket." Robert Orben
"Happiness is good health and a bad memory." Ingrid Bergman
"Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." Norman MacEwan
"And then one day,
one magic day,
he passed my way,
and while we spoke of many things,
fools and kings,
this he said to me,
"The greatest thing you'll ever learn, is just to love and be loved in return."
--- Nature Boy (Nat King Cole)
“Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.” – John Ruskin
"I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out."
--Unknown
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
Professor Keating (Robin Williams) in 'Dead Poet's Society'
"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear."
--John 4:18
"Some times you just have to let it go
Leaving all my fears to burn down
Push them all away so I can move on
Closer to my dreams
Feel it all over my being
Close your eyes and see what you believe"
-- Closer, Goapele
"You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly."
--Sam Keen
"We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit."
--e.e. cummings
"So there is only one fruit of the Spirit. That fruit is love. The others...
* Joy - love smiling
* Peace - love resting
* Patience - love waiting
* Kindness - love showing itself sensitive to others' feelings
* Goodness - love making allowances
* Faithfulness - love proving constant
* Gentleness - love yielding
* Self-control - love triumphing over selfish inclinations "
--Source Unknown
"Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low."
--Henry Ward Beecher
"Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate."
~ William Arthur Ward ~
"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail."
~ Confucius ~
"Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and the wrong. Sometime in your life you will have been all of these."
~ Bob Goddard ~
"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."
~ John Wooden ~
"He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away."
~ Raymond Hull ~
"When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves."
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
"Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly."
~ St. Francis De Sales ~
"A man can do only what a man can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day."
~ Albert Schweitzer ~
"How a man plays the game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it."
~ Author Unknown ~
"Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either."
~ Golda Meir ~
"If wrinkles must be written upon our brow, let them not be written upon the heart; the spirit should not grow old."
~ James A. Garfield ~
"The great man is he that does not lose his child's heart."
~ Menicus ~
"Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece -- by thought, choice, courage and determination."
~ John Luther ~
"It is never too late to be what we might have been."
~ George Eliot ~
"Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time."
~ Elbert Hubbard ~
"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."
~ James A. Michener ~
"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."
~ Elizabeth Kubler-Ross ~
""What is a friend? I will tell you. It is a person with whom you dare to be yourself. Your soul can be naked with him. He seems to ask of you to put on nothing, only to be what you are. He does not want you to be better or worse. When you are with him, you feel as a prisoner feels who has been declared innocent. You do not have to be on your guard. You can say what you think, so long as it is genuinely you. He understands those contradictions in your nature that lead others to misjudge you. With him you breathe freely. You can avow your little vanities and envies and hates and vicious sparks, your meannesses and absurdities and, in opening them up to him, they are lost, dissolved on the white ocean of his loyality. He understands. You do not have to be careful. You can abuse him, neglect him, tolerate him. Best of all, you can keep still with him. It makes no matter. He likes you. He is like fire that purges to the bone. He understands. You can weep with him, sin with him, laugh with him, pray with him. Through it all - and underneath - he sees, knows and loves you.
A friend? What is a friend? Just one, I repeat, with whom you dare to be yourself."
~ C. Raymond Beran ~
"The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch swing with, never saying a word, and then walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've ever had."
~ Unknown ~
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost"
~ Charles Caleb Colton ~
"Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to a new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives for awhile, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same."
"The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
"Each friend represents 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 ~
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
~ Martin Luther King Jr. ~
"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
~ Marcel Proust ~
Be Thankful
Be thankful that you don't already have everything you desire,
If you did, what would there be to look forward to?
Be thankful when you don't know something
For it gives you the opportunity to learn.
Be thankful for the difficult times.
During those times you grow.
Be thankful for your limitations
Because they give you opportunities for improvement.
Be thankful for each new challenge
Because it will build your strength and character.
Be thankful for your mistakes
They will teach you valuable lessons.
Be thankful when you're tired and weary
Because it means you've made a difference.
It is easy to be thankful for the good things.
A life of rich fulfillment comes to those who are
also thankful for the setbacks.
GRATITUDE can turn a negative into a positive.
Find a way to be thankful for your troubles
and they can become your blessings.
~ Author Unknown ~
"The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they'll sleep at night."
~ Otto von Bismarck ~
"You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is."
~ Ellen DeGeners ~
"Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must use it, as it is given only once. Once wasted you cannot get it back."
~ Author Unknown ~
The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.It is more important that the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. The remarkable thing is - we have a choice every day of our lives regarding the attitude we embrace for that day.
We cannot change our past. We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I’m convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you. We are in charge of our attitudes.
~ Charles Swindoll ~
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It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.
It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dreams, for the adventure of being alive.
It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life’s betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain.
I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it or fix it.
I want to know if you can be with joy mine or your own. If you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, be realistic, remember the limitations of being human.
It doesn’t interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself. If you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul. If you can be faithless and therefore trustworthy.
I want to know if you can see beauty even when it is not pretty every day, and if you can source your own life from its presence.
I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand at the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, “Yes.”
It doesn’t interest me to know where you live, or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up after the night of grief and despair, and do what needs to be done…
It doesn’t interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to knwo if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back.
It doesn’t interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to knwo what sustains you from inside when all else falls away.
I want to know if you can be alone with yourself, and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.
- Oriah Mountain Dreamer
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“Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power”
Shirley MacLaine quotes
“Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one”
Hans Selye quotes
“Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh quotes
“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”
George Bernard Shaw
“When all other means of communication fail, try words” - Unknown
“The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now.”
- Proverb
“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.”
- Tom Robbins
“Procastination is the thief of time.” - Joseph Heller quotes
