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Tuesday, March 29, 2011
#Motivational #Quotes for Tuesday: #Persistence
Do you have the unstoppable spirit when you stumble upon obstacles?
Let these persistence quotes motivate you to move on.
In our route to success, there will always be difficulties and challenges. Everyone hates that :) .
But it’s persistence that pushes one to keep on trying and trying.
I believe that that’s the turning point towards success if you refuse to give up.
So keep these motivational persistence quotes in your journal. Let them encourage
you to persist, persist and persist. You will achieve greatly one day.
- PERSISTENCE QUOTES I -
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Robert Schuller
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Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.
Hugh Miller
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Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Joshua J. Marine
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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy
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Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The steeper the mountain the harder the climb the better the view from the finishing line.
Anonymous
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Never let a problem become an excuse.
Robert Schuller
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The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Dolly Parton
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It always seems impossible until it’s done.
Nelson Mandela
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas Alva Edison
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When one door closes another one opens with great possibilities ahead.
Unknown
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In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie
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A quitter never wins – and – a winner never quits.
Napoleon Hill
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March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
Kahlil Gibran
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It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles.
Claude M. Bristol
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We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.
Helen Keller
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Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.
Lord Chesterfield
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Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.
Samuel Johnson
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You've got to say, ''I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it.'' It's called perseverance.
Lee Iacocca
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The only way to overcome is to hang in.
Dan O'Brien
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Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.
Walter Elliott
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Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
Newt Gingrich
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You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.
Marian Wright Edelman
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When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
George Bernard Shaw
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Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Jim Rohn
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It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get up.
Vince Lombardi
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Fall seven times, stand up eight.
Japanese Proverb
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
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If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.
Steve Bartkowski
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It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.
Babe Ruth
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Never, never, never, never give up.
Winston Churchill
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Don't be discouraged. It's often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.
Anonymous
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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It's when things get rough and you don't quit that success comes.
Unknown
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Patience is also a form of action.
Auguste Rodin
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The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.
Arnold H Glasgow
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Patience in the present, faith in the future, and joy in the doing
George Perera
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You will conquer by patience.
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Sunday, March 27, 2011
Great #Spiritual #Quotes from TD Jakes
You face your greatest opposition when your closest to your biggest miracle.
our latter days are supposed to be greater than your former days.
All over this nation, all over this world there are people going to church today and they say they are believers, but until you can take what you've been taught and bring it to the place you gave up--you will never be the radical believer that you need to be for the times in which we live.
If your in anything and never wanted to quit it--your not in much.
It is God's objective to make your condition line up with your position.
There is a higher power, a higher influence, a God who rules and reigns and controls circumstances and situations that are beyond your area and realm of authority.
Come hell or high water you will never take me back to the place I was before. I have been through too much to let life whoop me again. My faith is stronger than it's ever been, my mind is more tenacious than it's ever been, my soul is more absolute.
Even when things are getting worse instead of better--I believe God!
Faith will get in the ditch with you, faith will go in the prison with you, faith will go into divorce court with you, faith will go in the hospital with you, faith will go in the nursing home with you.
Faith becomes a bridge between where I am and where I want to go--it is a substance.
God will give you anything as long as you understand that he is the primary and not the secondary.
Grace doesn't run from trouble--in fact it looks for trouble as a backdrop so that you can see how strong it is.
In order to make this journey--you have to make it without baggage. You can't carry loads of bags with weight on you in order to be free and Jesus gives you an invitation to come unto him. Now you have to come to him--you will not get rest from anybody else. If you go to anybody else your going to find more work.
The greater the battle--the greater the spoils.
You went down so that you can come up, you cried so that you can rejoice, you mourned so that you can dance, you did without so that you can overcome, you want to tell every devil in hell. Somebody holler the fight is on.
Prayer will get you out of a pinch, prayer will get you out of a crises, prayer will get you out of your dilemma, prayer will get you out of your trouble.
When you can't do nothing but pray--you've done a whole lot.
Something happens whenever you sacrifice.
The enemy is great at changing a word or two!
You are not going to defeat this devil with will power--you need the power of God and if you lose your faith you've lost the fight.
There are some fires you can't get out of--you've got to go through the fire--you've got to go through the flood--you've got to go through the test--you've got to go through the struggle that you might decrease and he might increase.
You have to recognize as troubles and trials and tests come into your life you have to recognize that there is a God who sits high and looks low and has all power and has all power in his hand and if you want to communicate with the divine you do it by faith.
You've done everything that you know how to do, you've tried everything and everything has failed, but it's not to late for God--even now!
I'll give you some symptoms of a sign that your faith is deteriorating--whenever you face all of your problems and you trust only your plans to get you out--it is a sign that your faith is deteriorating.
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Great #Inspirational #Quotes from The Author of "The Purpose Driven Life" Rick Warren
Great Inspirational Quotes from The Author of "The Purpose Driven Life" Rick Warren
Change always starts in your mind. The way you think determines the way you feel, and the way you feel influences the way you act.
God is much more concerned about your character than your career, because you will take your character into eternity, but not your career.
Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test.
Remember that your character is the sum total of your habits.
Every problem is a character-building opportunity, and the more difficult it is, the greater the potential for building spiritual muscle and moral fiber.
What happens outwardly in your life is not as important as what happens inside you. Your circumstances are temporary, but your character will last forever.
God is far more interested in what you are than who you are.
What happens outwardly in your life is not as important as what happens inside you. Your circumstances are temporary, but your character will last forever.
A non-serving Christian is a contradiction in terms.
Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.
Fear is a self imposed prison that will keep you from becoming what God intends for you to be. You must move against it with the weapons of faith and love.
Self worth and net worth are not the same.
God never does anything accidentally, and he never makes mistakes.
God's purpose is greater than our problems, our pain and even our sin.
God never wastes anything.
God specializes in giving people a fresh start.
Possessions only provide temporary happiness.
Jesus did not die on the cross just so we could live comfortable, well adjusted lives. His purpose is far deeper: He wants to make us like himself before he takes us to heaven. This is our greatest privilege, our immediate responsibility, and our ultimate destiny.
God does not want you to become a Go; he wants you to become godly - taking on his values, attitudes, and character.
The closer you live to God, the smaller everything else appears.
Many of our trouble occur because we base our choices on unreliable authorities; culture ("everyone is doing it"), tradition ("we've always done it"), reason ("it seems logical"), or emotion ("it just felt right").
Integrity is built by defeating the temptation to be dishonest; humility grows when we refuse to be prideful; and endurance develops every time you reject the temptation to give up.
Life on earth is a temporary assignment.
Just as the nine months you spent in your mother's womb were not an end in themselves but preparation for life, so this life is preparation for the next.
Life is about letting God use you for his purposes, not using him for your own purpose.
Never forget that life is not about you! You exist for God's purposes, not vise versa.
The smile of God is the goal of your life.
The easiest way to discover the purpose of an invention is to ask the creator of it. The same is true for discovering your life's purpose: Ask God.
The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose.
Time is your most precious gift, because you only have a set amount of it.
To make the best use of your life, you must never forget two truths: First, compared with eternity, life is extremely brief. Second, earth is only a temporary residence. You won't be here long, so don't get too attached.
Because God is love, the most important lesson he wants you to learn on earth is how to love
For instance, God teaches us to love by putting some unlovely people around us. It takes no character to love people who are lovely and loving to you.
Don't waste your pain; use it to help others.
Your greatest ministry will most likely come out of your greatest hurt.
It is never to late to start growing.
Becoming like Christ is a long, slow process of growth.
The most damaging aspect of contemporary living is short-term thinking.
Pride builds walls between people, humility builds bridges.
Don't ever try to argue with the Devil.
The only way you can serve God is by serving other people.
God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me.'
Never confuse activity with productivity.
Since God intends to make you like Jesus, he will take you through the same experiences Jesus went through. That includes loneliness, temptation, stress, criticism, rejection, and many other problems.
There is no growth without change, no change without fear or loss and no loss without pain.
Every time Satan suggested a temptation, Jesus countered by quoting Scripture.
Every time you defeat a temptation, you become more like Jesus!
Temptation always starts in your mind, not in circumstances.
While we worry about how fast we grow, God is concerned about how strong we grow.
Your most profound and intimate experiences of worship will likely be in your darkest days - when your heart is broken, when you feel abandoned, when your out of options, when the pain is great - and you turn to God alone.
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Saturday, March 26, 2011
#Creativity Starts from a #Belief... ( #Inspirational Video)
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Some #Spiritual Encouragement: Joel Osteen on Self control & Discipline
Joel Osteen on Self control & Discipline
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#Inspirational #Quote Collection Vol.2
Inspirational Quote Collection Vol.2
Anger is one letter away from danger.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We are not retreating
we are advancing in another direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear a hundred battles.
- Tzu-Sun
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
- Edward R. Murrow
Do you live in tomorrow when you must face today? At times, I forget to live in the moment, but what do I miss? The setting sun, the sound of birds' singing and, most importantly, I miss meeting myself. I am constantly changing, and if I don't spend time with myself in the here and now, I will never get to appreciate who I truly am because I am too busy focusing on who I want to be.
- Gary Barnes
You are the only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life.
- Les Brown
"You Can Heal Your Life" Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.
- Dottie Walters
It is books that are the key to the wide world; if you can't do=20 anything else, read all that you can.
- Jane Hamilton
I've never learned anything while I was talking.
- Larry King (Television talk show host)
There is nothing about a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. Death is nature's expert advice to get plenty of life. Always forgive your enemies Nothing annoys them so much.
- Oscar Wilde
Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.
- Anthony Robbins
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
- Maureen Dowd
You can't tell how deep a puddle is until you step into it. Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.
Antisthenes Set your goals high and don't stop until you get there.
- Bo Jackson
I have had dreams, and I have had nightmares.
If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.
- Sir Isaac Newton
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
- William Cowper
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
- Albert Einstein
The only true gift is a portion of yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you want to know your past
look into your present conditions. If you want to know your future
look into your present actions.
- Buddhist Saying
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
- Emily P. Bissell
It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization.
If you believe everything you read, you better not read.
- Japanese Proverb
It's better to be hated for what you are then loved for what you are not.
- Andre Gide
Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures. In the assurance of strength, there is strength, and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.
- Christian Bovee
Spend less time deciding "who" is right and more time deciding "what" is right. Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Fault finding is like window washing. All the dirt seems to be on the other side. Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, don't think you can go wrong.
- Ella Fitzgerald
Most of my major disappointments have turned out to be blessings in disguise. So whenever anything bad does happen to me, I kind of sit back and feel, well, if I give this enough time, it will turn out that this was good, so I shant worry about it too much.
- William Gaines
If I want circumstances in my life to change for the better, I must change for the better.
Regrets over yesterday and the fear of tomorrow are twin thieves that rob us of the moment.
I'll sleep when I'm dead. - Warren Zevon
Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.
- Earl Nightingale
Happiness can't buy money.
- Bob Hope
No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
- Lowell
You can't always control the wind, but you can control your sails.
- Anthony Robbins
He that lives upon hope, dies fasting.
- Benjamin Franklin
The quality of an individual is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
- Ray Kroc
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
- Henri L. Bergson
All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.
- Blaise Pascal
"Am I willing to pay the price for the success I desire?"
- Kathy R. Caulton Writer and publisher
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#Inspirational #Quote Collection Vol.1
"Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people."
- Jawaharlal Nehru
"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority."
- E.B. White
"Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives."
- Abba Eban
"Wisdom is a life that knows it is living."
- Moravian prayer book
"Be happy. It's one way of being wise."
- Colette
"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy."
- Thich Nhat Hanh
"Although the world is very full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."
- Helen Keller
"This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it."
- Psalm 118:24
"A day without laughter is a day wasted."
- Charlie Chaplin
"Don't worry... be happy."
- Bobby McFerrin
"I want to know God's thoughts.....the rest are details."
- Albert Einstein
"The best way to know God is to love many things."
- Vincent van Gogh
"Knock,
And He'll open the door
Vanish,
And He'll make you shine like the sun.
Fall,
And He'll raise you to the heavens.
Become nothing,
And He'll turn you into everything." - Rumi
"The universe is made of stories, not of atoms."
- Muriel Rukeyser
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
- Albert Einstein
"Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together."
- Carl Zwanzig
"Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match."
- Ingrid Bengis
"We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality."
- Albert Einstein
"What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup."
- Boris Pasternak
"Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it."
- Rabindranath Tagore
"We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine."
- H. L. Mencken
"The heart has it's reasons, of which reason knows nothing."
- Pascal
"I am certain of nothing but the Holiness of the Heart's affections and the Truth of the Imagination."
- John Keats
"I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words Bother me.
- Winnie-the-Pooh, A.A. Milne
"When you are deluded and full of doubt, even a thousand books of scripture are not enough. When you have realized understanding, even one word is too much."
- Fen-Yang
"It does not require many words to speak the truth."
- Chief Joseph (Nez Perce)
"No one's mouth is big enough to utter the whole thing."
- Alan Watts
"Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things."
- Dan Quayle
"Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes."
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes."
- Mickey Mouse
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
- Albert Einstein
"Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known."
- Winnie-the-Pooh
"Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know."
- William Shakespeare
"When your heart speaks, take good notes."
- Judith Campbell
"Faith is an oasis in the heart which can never be reached by the caravan of thinking."
- Kahlil Gibran
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
"To those who can dream there is no such place as faraway."
- Anonymous
"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens."
- Carl Jung
"Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days... What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The beginning is always today."
- Mary Wollstonecraft
"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday."
- John Wayne
"It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly."
- Anatole France
"You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm."
- Colette
"Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul."
- Samuel Ullman
"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation."
- Pearl S. Buck
"Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination."
- Lionel Stander
"If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith."
- Albert Einstein
"In order for you to profit from your mistakes, you have to get out and make some."
- Anonymous
"A man on a mission is far different from a drone on a deadline."
- Rheta Grimsley Johnson
"We're on a mission from God."
- The Blues Brothers
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries."
- A.A. Milne
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star."
- Friedrich Neitzsche
"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
- Mark Twain
"Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things."
- Edgar Degas
"Ideas run wild without discussion."
- Serge Kahili King
"Without deviation, progress is not possible."
- Frank Zappa
"The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post."
- Thomas Holcroft
"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."
- John Cage
"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk."
- Thomas Edison
"Art my slats! I can paint with a shoestring dipped in lard!"
- George Luks
"You can play a shoestring if you're sincere."
- John Coltrane
"I'll play with it first and tell you what it is later."
- Miles Davis
"Art is running away without ever leaving home."
- Twyla Tharp
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."
- Pablo Picasso
"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."
- e. e. cummings
"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you was?"
- Satchel Paige
"It takes one a long time to become young."
- Pablo Picasso
"Things do not change: we change."
- Henry David Thoreau
"To change one's life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions."
- William James
"The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball."
- Doug Larson
"If you never did, you should. These things are fun, and fun is good."
- Dr. Seuss
"It's never too late to have a happy childhood."
- Tom Robbins, from Still Life with Woodpecker
"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation."
- Plato
"Anything on earth you want to do is play. Anything on earth you have to do is work. Play will never kill you, work will. I never worked a day in my life."
- Dr. Leila Denmark, 100, USA's oldest practicing physician.
"Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery (The Little Prince)
"You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself."
- Ethel Barrymore
"We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh."
- Agnes Repplier
"Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either."
- Golda Meir
"Blessed is the person who can laugh at himself
he'll never cease to be amused."
- Anonymous
"Life is too important to be taken seriously."
- Oscar Wilde
"It's best not to be too moral. You cheat yourself out of too much life. Aim above morality. If you apply that to life, you're bound to live it fully."
- Maude (from Harold & Maude)
"I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough."
- Diogenes "Water which is too pure has no fish."
- Ts'ai Ken T'an
"Where there are humans you'll find flies, and Buddhas."
- Issa
"To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,
One clover, and a bee,
And revery.
The revery alone will do,
If bees are few." - Emily Dickinson
"Unthinking, idle, wild, and young, I laugh'd and danc'd and talk'd and sung." Princess Amelia (1783-1810)
"I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!"
- Louise Bogan
"I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable ... but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."
- Agatha Christie
"As long as you live, keep learning how to live."
- Seneca
"Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough."
- Emily Dickenson
"Look to this Day! For it is Life, the very Life of Life."
- From the Sanskrit Salutation of the Dawn
"Isn't it wonderful? All around us, living things!"
- Maude (from Harold & Maude)
"People need joy. Quite as much as clothing. Some of them need it far more."
- Margaret Collier Graham
"From three to four, he planned to stand perfectly still and think of what it was like to be alive."
- Wilbur the Pig (Charlotte's Web by E.B. White)
"So you see, imagination needs moodling-long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering."
- Brenda Ueland
"All of the animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it."
- Anonymous
"We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same."
- Anne Frank
"The purpose of our lives is to be happy."
- The 14th Dalai Lama
"If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live."
- Lin Yutang
"Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy."
- Charlie McCarthy
"Punctuality is the thief of time."
- Oscar Wilde
"The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up."
- Anonymous
"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."
- Bertrand Russell
"Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop."
- Ovid
"I take a nap making the mountain water pound the rice."
- Issa
"How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward."
- Spanish proverb
"Sit quiety, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself."
- Zen saying
"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say."
- Will Durant
"The good and the wise lead quiet lives."
- Euripides
"Patience is the key to paradise."
- Turkish proverb
"The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable."
- Goethe
"The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too."
- Teresa of Avila
"Who says the eternal being does not exist? Who says the sun has gone out? Someone who climbs up on the roof and closes his eyes tight, and says, I don't see anything."
- Rumi
"As I walk, As I walk / The Universe is walking with me."
- From the Navajo rain dance ceremony
"The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness."
- William Saroyan
"True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self, but the point is not only to get out-you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand."
- Henry James
"Don't refuse to go on an occasional wild goose chase. That's what wild geese are for."
- Anonymous
"Geese are friends to no one, they badmouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false accusations."
- E. B. White
"If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens"
- Grandma Moses
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
- Groucho Marx
"I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."
- Winston Churchill
"I have an Egyptian cat. He leaves a pyramid in every room."
- Rodney Dangerfield
"I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul."
- Jean Cocteau
"Every creature is a word of God."
- Meister Eckhart
"Every animal knows more than you do.
- Native American Proverb
"Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away."
- Ben Hecht
"Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in."
- Henry David Thoreau
"If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles."
- Doug Larson
"If you're too busy to go fishin', you're too busy."
- Jed Clampett
"If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done."
- Unknown
"Things are more like they are now than they ever were before."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Tom Seaver:
"Hey, Yogi, what time is it?" Yogi Berra: "You mean now?" "Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life."
- George Burns
"The future will be better tomorrow."
- Dan Quayle
"Life is so short we must move very slowly."
- Thai saying
"God knows no distance."
- Charleszetta Waddles
"If I'm not back in five minutes, wait longer."
- Ace Ventura, Pet Detective
"Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time."
- Stephen Wright
"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."
- Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
"May you live all the days of your life."
- Jonathan Swift
"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."
- Marcus Aurelius (121-180)
"Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved."
- D.H. Lawrence
"TODAY."
- (word carved on a stone on John Ruskin's desk)
"Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it."
- M. Gandhi
"Old age was simply a delightful time, when the old people sat on the sunny doorsteps, playing in the sun with the children, until they fell asleep. At last they failed to wake up."
- James Paytiamo (Acoma Peublo)
"A painting is never finished-it simply stops in interesting places."
- Paul Gardner
"I look back on my life like a good day's work; it was done and I am satisfied with it."
- Grandma Moses
"Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory."
- Betty Smith
"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice."
- Meister Eckhart
"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake."
- Victor Hugo
"Now comes the mystery."
- Henry Ward Beecher
"It is time now for us to rise from sleep."
- Saint Benedict "Then Jacob woke from his sleep and said,
"Surely the Lord is in this place."
- Genesis 28:16-17
"...the fog is rising."
- Emily Dickinson's last words
"More light!"
- Goethe's last words
"Ring the bell that still can ring, Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything, That's how the light gets in."
- Leonard Cohen
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