Quotes November 21, 2019

“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.”
“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
 
 
 
 
“The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.”
Aesop
 
 
 
 
“Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don’t over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness. “
Leo F. Buscaglia
 
 
 
 
“Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.”
Drew Barrymore
 
 
 
 
“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”
Lucille Ball
 
 
 
 
“A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.”
Andrew Matthews
 
 
 
 
“I found in my research that the biggest reason people aren’t more self-compassionate is that they are afraid they’ll become self-indulgent. They believe self-criticism is what keeps them in line. Most people have gotten it wrong because our culture says being hard on yourself is the way to be.”
Kristen Neff
 
 
 
 
“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.”
Napoleon Hill
 
 
 
 
“Happiness is a state of activity.”
Aristotle
 
 
 
 
“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton
 
 
 
 
If you can DREAM it, you can DO it.
“All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.”
Walt Disney
 
 
 
 
“Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.”
William James
 
 
 
 
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
Rumi
 
 
 
 
“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”
Dale Carnegie
 
 
 
 
“If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.”
Benjamin Franklin
 
 
 
 
“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”
Confucius
 
 
 
 
All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame them, it will not change you.
Wayne Dyer
 
 
 
 
I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of his or her works – I actually believe that the financial issue is less important than the integrity of the work, the attribution, that kind of stuff.
Esther Dyson
 
 
 
 
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
Og Mandino
 
 
 
 
The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.
Charles Kingsleigh, Alice in Wonderland (2010)
 
 
 
 
None think the great unhappy but the great.
Edward Young,
poet
 
 
 
 
A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.
Liberty Hyde Bailey
 
 
 
 
“If you want to be successful, find out what the price is and then pay it.”
Scott Adams, author and creator of the Dilbert comic strip, on the price of success
 
 
 
 
“If you don’t get what you want, it’s a sign either that you did not seriously want it, or that you tried to bargain over the price.”
Writer Rudyard Kipling also on the price of success
 
 
 
 
‘Always be as honest as you can possibly be without hurting someone`s feelings and keep a good sense of humor.`
Velma`s advice to her children and grandchildren
 
 
 
 
The pain you feel today will be the strength you feel tomorrow.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
Never give up. Great things take time. Be patient.
Unknown