Quotes

I love quotes…I think you learn more from those than whole books sometimes…some make you think, others smile, but in some way or other, they usually affect you, if so just a tad. Like a gentle tap on your shoulder. Someone pointing you in a direction. Someone hinting. Here are some of my favorites…enjoy!!!

“The meeting of two people is like the meeting of two chemical substances. If anything happens, both are changed.” – C. G. Jung

“The two worst strategic mistakes are: acting prematurely and acting too late. To avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people’s opinions.” – Paulo Coelho

“You know, I believe if there’s any kind of God, it wouldn’t be in any of us. Not you, or me… but just this little space in between. If there’s any kind of magic in this world, it must be in the attempt of understanding someone, sharing something (sigh). I know, it’s almost impossible to succeed, but… who cares, really? The answer must be in the attempt.” – Before Sunrise by Richard Linklater

“Nothing is worth more than this day.” – Goethe

“It doesn’t interest me where or what or with whom
you have studied.
I want to know what sustains you
from the 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

“Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny.” – Carl Schurz

“There are two types of mints you never turn down in life: breath mints and compliments. Either way, someone is trying to tell you something.”

“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.” – Schaupenhauer

“When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others, too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then on cannot touch others… Only when one is connected to one’s own core is one connected to others.” ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Every person, place, thing, idea and event (even all the “bad” stuff), is actually part of the perfected experience that you need to build your dreams; Within EVERY crisis there is a hidden blessing and with everty setback there is a new step forward: it’s called Gratitude!” – Dr. John Demartini

“You must begin to trust yourself. If you do not then you will forever be looking to others to prove your own merit to you and you will never be satisfied. You will always be asking others what to do, and at the same time resenting those from whom you seek such aid. Believe in yourself and other will believe in you.” – David Tillyer

“See that any time you feel pained or defeated, it is only because you insist on clinging to what doesn’t work. Dare to let go and you won’t lose a thing except for a punishing idea.”  – Guy Finley

“Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside themselves was superior to circumstance.” – Bruce Barton

“Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.” – Jane Austen

“The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.” – Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hahn:

“If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.” – Thomas Edison

“As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.” – Marian Anderson

“There are only two ways to live your life. One as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” – Albert Einstein

“A man who finds no satisfaction in himself will seek for it in vain elsewhere.” – La Rochefoucauld

“Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.” – Miguel de Cervantes

“Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.” – George Santayana

“Optimism doesn’t wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.” – Norman Cousins

“I don’t think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.” – Oprah Winfrey

“Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before.” – Joseph Campbell

“They can because they think they can.” – Virgil

“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.” – Thomas Jefferson

“The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.” – Frank Loyd Wright

“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.” – Vince Lombardi

“When you know that you’re capable of dealing with whatever comes, you have the only security the world has to offer.” – Harry Browne

“I don’t need Prince Charming to rescue me – I’ll save myself…it would just be nice if he was waiting at the bottom of the tower ready to sweep me off my feet. It’s exhausting being independent ~*sigh*~” – Mollie Balogun

“The wind may blow from any direction, but the direction in which you go depends on how you set your sails. When thinking of that follow your heart.” – David J. Tillyer M.NLP

“Before everything else, getting ready is the secret to success.” – Henry Ford

“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.” – Lewis L. Dunnington

“Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a permanent attitude.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work or make it better.” – Barbara Pletcher

“The minute you alter your perception of yourself and your future, both you and your future begin to change.” – Marilee Zdenek

“You will find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make earnest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.” – Lydia M. Child

“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.” – Tom Bodett

“We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.” – Anne Frank

“The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.” – Walter Bagehot

“The three great essentials to achieving anything worthwhile are; first, hard work, second, stick-to-it-iveness, and third, common sense.” – Thomas Edison

“Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. It is evident that our organism has stored-up reserves of energy that are ordinarily not called upon – deeper and deeper strata of explosible material, ready for use by anyone who probes so deep. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.” – William James

“You cannot travel within and stand still without.” – James Allen

“People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things.” – Norman Vincent Peale

“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.” – George Bernard Shaw

“Activity and sadness are incompatible.” – Christian Bovee

“Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand-and melting like a snowflake…” – Marie Beyon Ray

“When you’re through changing, you’re through.” – Bruce Barton

“Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.” – William Faulkner

“The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.    The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.” – Dale Carnegie

“Optimism doesn’t wait on facts.   It deals with prospects.   Pessimism is a waste of time.” – Norman Cousins

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.   With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is.” – Anne Frank

“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” – Albert Einstein

“Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.” – William James

“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela

“We’ve all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it’s more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.”  - Norman Vincent Peale

“What if you could be anything, or anybody, you chose to be?    Think about it.    What would you choose to be?” – Nido Qubein

“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

“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John Wooden

“Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before.” – Joseph Campbell

“Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.” – William Butler Yeats

“Somehow I can’t believe that there are any heights that can’t be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true.   This special secret – curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.” – Walt Disney

“There is a power under your control that is greater than poverty, greater than the lack of education, greater than all your fears and superstitions combined.   It is the power to take posession of your own mind and direct it to whatever ends you may desire.” – Andrew Carnegie

“Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.” – Henry Ford

“The key to success is to learn from the experts. Study and copy the very best people in your field. Do what they say, day after day, until it becomes second nature. And then – surprise! Surprise! You begin to get the same results.” – Brian Tracy

“It is a very funny thing about life – if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.” – W. Somerset Maugham
“Each friend represents a world in us a world not born until they arrive, and its only by this meeting that a new world is born.” – Anais Nin.

“Life Is Simple. Life Is A Joy.” – Sam Kogan

“If you ask people what they’ve always wanted to do, most people haven’t done it. That breaks my heart.

People say that you’re going the wrong way when it’s simply a way of your own.

I don’t believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don’t judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free.

Love one person, take care of them until you die. You know, raise kids. Have a good life. Be a good friend. And try to be completely who you are. And figure out what you personally love. And like go after it with everything you’ve got no matter how much it takes.

That’s the reason we kind of exist. It’s like our Job. To give to each other. And learn from each other. To capture moments of people. So it’s really strange to have somebody ignore the obvious human being right in front of them.” – Angelina Jolie

“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

Our life is made by the death of others.

Life well spent is long.” – Leonardo Da Vinci

“The good thing about acting is that it always keeps you on your toes… It’s not like any other job where you can go in and do the same thing as yesterday.

If you can do what you do best and be happy, you’re further along in life than most people.” – Leonardo Di Caprio

“Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.

I think the most important thing is that in the last seven days we’ve just had the greatest adventure of our lifetimes.

We’d love to be involved with the creation of something very special, something quite large and something quite exciting.

Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.” – Richard Branson

“Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.” – Martin Scorsese

“Ask, and it will be given you; Seek, and you will find; Knock, and it will be opened to you.

He who believes in me will also do the works that I do; and Greater Works than These will he do…

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Whatever thy hand findest to do, do it with all thy heart.

Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

Ye shall know them by their fruits.” – Jesus

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins; not through strength, but through persistence.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.

Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.

Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering.

He is able who thinks he is able.

He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha

“If it is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.” – Marcus Aurelius