The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
James Oppenheim
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.
Zeno of Citium
“Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism.”
David M. Burns
“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”
Will Durant
“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.”
Wayne Dyer
“The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.”
Tom Bodett
“We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.”
Lloyd Alexander
“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”
John R. Wooden
“You will either step forward into growth, or you will step backward into safety.”
Abraham Maslow
“If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
Ben Franklin
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with compassions, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
“Anyone can give up, it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength.”
Unknown
Tag: Endurance
Quotes November 28, 2020
Quotes November 24, 2020
“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven?
And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see in truth that you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”
Kahlil Gibran
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“At any given moment you have the power to say: This is not how the story is going to end.”
Christine Mason Miller
“I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustrations were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.”
Anthony Robbins
“You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
Marcus Aurelius
I invent nothing, I rediscover.
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Auguste Rodin,
sculptor
No matter how long you’ve been at it, you always start from scratch.
Jeffrey Eugenides,
writer
Most problems, if you give them enough time and space, will eventually wear themselves out.
Buddha
Never forget the people who gave you the chance to grow.
Unknown
Quotes November 22, 2020
Saying nothing… sometimes says the most.
Emily Dickinson
“What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning – and some of them many times over – what do you find? That you can swim?
Well – life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!”
Alfred Adler
“If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.”
James Cameron
“The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.”
R. G. Ingersoll
“Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.”
Virgil Thomson
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Most great people have attained their greatest success one step beyond their greatest failure.”
Napoleon Hill
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”
Samuel Beckett
“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
Quotes July 29, 2020
I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
Walt Whitman
“Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.”
Albert Schweitzer
“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.”
Marie Curie
“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.”
Lee Iacocca
“When things go wrong as they sometimes will,
When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit
Rest if you must, but don’t you quit.
Success is failure turned inside out,
The silver tint on the clouds of doubt,
And you can never tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems afar.
So, stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit
It’s when things go wrong that you mustn’t quit.”
Edgar A. Guest