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Quotes November 08, 2023

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“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”

Marcel Proust
 
 
 
 
“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.”

Charles Lamb
 
 
 
 
“If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.”
Zig Ziglar
 
 
 
 
“You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.”
Laurence J. Peter
 
 
 
 
“Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.”

Mark Twain
 
 
 
 
“Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.”
William Arthur Ward
 
 
 
 
“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
Alice Walker
 
 
 
 
“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”

Woodrow T. Wilson
 
 
 
 
“Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.”
Ed Cunningham
 
 
 
 
“Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success.”

Oscar Wilde

 
 
 
 
“Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they’re trying to find someone who’s going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.”
Anthony Robbins
 
 
 
 
“The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.”

Elisabeth Foley
 
 
 
 
“There’s one sad truth in life I’ve found

While journeying east and west
The only folks we really wound

Are those we love the best.

We flatter those we scarcely know,

We please the fleeting guest,

And deal full many a thoughtless blow

To those who love us best.”

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
 
 

Quotes October 25, 2023

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“I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.”

Plutarch
 
 
 
 
“In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.”

Albert Schweitzer
 
 
 
 
“The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?”

Eugene Kennedy
 
 
 
 
“A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.”
Arnold H. Glasgow
 
 
 
 
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

Friedrich Nietzsche
 
 
 
 
“Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for that.”
Ally Condie
 
 
 
 
“One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.”

George Santayana
 
 
 
 
“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.”

Audrey Hepburn
 
 
 
 
“Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.”

Socrates
 
 
 
 
“One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.”

Clifton Fadiman
 
 
 
 
“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.”
Muhammad Ali
 
 
 
 
“If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together… there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart… I’ll always be with you.”

Winnie the Pooh
 
 
 
 
“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
 
 
 
 
“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
 

Quotes October 18, 2023

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“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”
Ernest Hemingway
 
 
 
 
“True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.”
David Tyson
 
 
 
 
“Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.”
Washington Irving
 
 
 
 
“There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.”
Jim Henson
 
 
 
 
“A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.”
Leo Buscaglia
 
 
 
 
“Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.”
Thomas J. Watson
 
 
 
 
“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
 
 
 
 
“How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live ’em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give ’em.”
Shel Silverstein
 
 
 
 
“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.”
Arnold H. Glasgow
 
 
 
 
“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”
Confucius
 
 
 
 
“A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.”
Unknown
 
 

Quotes October 11, 2023

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“No duty is more urgent than giving thanks.”

James Allen
 
 
“When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.”

Anthony Robbins
 
 
“Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.”

Confucius
 
 
“If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.”

Meister Eckhart
 
 
“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.”

Lucius Annaeus Seneca
 
 

Quotes October 04, 2023

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“In order to carry a positive action, we must develop here a positive vision.”

Dalai Lama
 
 
 
 
“A little progress every day adds up to big results.”

Satya
 
 
 
 
“If you ever think about giving up, remember why you held on for so long.”

Hayley Williams
 
 
 
 
“Life is like a moving river, and you can be at the mercy of the river if you don’t take action to steer yourself in a predetermined direction.”

Mahesh Jethmalani
 
 
 
 
“Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”

Conrad Hilton
 
 
 
 
“In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.”
Albert Schweitzer
 
 
 
 
“Do something today that your future self will thank you for.”

Sean Patrick Flanery
 
 
 
 
“Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.”

John Wooden
 
 
 
 
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie
 
 
 
 
“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
”
Maria Robinson
 
 
 
 
“If your mind and body screams for a much needed break then listen to that. And when you come back from that break you’ll be more focused, energetic and be far more effective than if you are all worn out.”

Unknown
 
 
“Eliminate time wasters mercilessly. Not just to free up time but more importantly to free up the limited energy you have each day and week for the things and people that mean the most to you.”

Unknown
 
 

Quotes September 20, 2023

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“You never get tired unless you stop and take time for it.”
Bob Hope
 
 
 
 
“I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.”
Brené Brown
 
 
 
 
“When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.”

Willie Nelson
 
 
 
 
“Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.”

William Arthur Ward
 
 
 
 
“Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.”

Zig Ziglar
 
 
 
 
“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.”
Oprah Winfrey
 
 
 
 
“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”

Eckhart Tolle
 
 
 
 
“Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.”

Henry Ward Beecher
 
 
 
 
“The struggle ends when the gratitude begins.”

Neale Donald Walsch
 
 
 
 
“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”

G.K. Chesterton
 
 
 
 
“The more you are in a state of gratitude, the more you will attract things to be grateful for.”

Walt Disney
 
 
 
 
“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.”

Robert Brault
 
 
 
 
“Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.”

Lucius Annaeus Seneca
 
 
 
 
“Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.”

Henri Frederic Amiel
 
 
 
 
“Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: It must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.”

William Faulkner
 
 
 
 
“A thankful heart is a happy heart. Being thankful for what you have is a good place to start.”

Unknown
 
 

Quotes September 13, 2023

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“Making some time each week for your physical health and for a bit of self-care makes all the difference.”

Eloise Brown
 
 
 
 
“Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature.”
Andrea Arnold
 
 
 
 
“You’ve had your share of secrets and I’m tired of being last to know.”

Taylor Swift
 
 
 
 
“Keep believing. You may be tired, discouraged, but don’t give up on your future.”
Joel Osteen
 
 
 
 
“I am tired of being tired and talking about how tired I am.”
Amy Poehler
 
 
 
 
“Tired minds don’t plan well. Sleep first, then plan later.”

Walter Reisch
 
 
 
 
“Many, my children, are the tears I’ve wept, and threaded many a maze of weary thought.”
Sophocles
 
 
 
 
“Life is one long process of getting tired.”
Samuel Butler
 
 
 
 
“Even nice things don’t make you happy when you’re tired.”

Jo Brand
 
 
 
 
“Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.”

Jules Renard
 
 
 
 
“I’m not tired of challenges. I’m tired of people challenging me for nothing.”
Ces Peta
 
 
 
 
“I don’t stop when I’m tired, I only stop when I’m done.”

Marilyn Monroe
 
 
 
 
“I’m so tired. I don’t know if I can ever outrun how I used to be.”
Marie Lu
 
 
 
 
“Give me plenty of sleep and I am good for anything.”
Richard Marsh
 
 
 
 
“Keep believing. You may be tired, discouraged, but don’t give up on your future.”

Joel Osteen
 
 
 
 
“Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe
 
 

Quotes September 06, 2023

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“Your victory is right around the corner. Never give up.”

Nicki Minaj
 
 
 
 
“Never give up on something you believe in.”

Steve Scalise
 
 
 
 
“So relax when you are tired or bored. More battles are lost for want of sleep than for inadequate preparation.”

Pavan Choudary
 
 
 
 
“When I’m grateful for all the blessings, it puts away all the stress about things not in my control. Things like long hours, aging, pollution, scandals … it helps me create perspective by just focusing on being grateful. Take that moment twice a day with yourself.”

Darby Stanchfield
 
 
 
 
“It’s important to surround yourself with good people, interesting people, young people, young ideas. Go places, learn new stuff. Look at the world with wonder – don’t be tired about it.”

Angela Bassett
 
 
 
 
“Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s the determination and commitment to the unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek.”

Mario Andretti
 
 
 
 
“Seek and see all the marvels around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else.”

Carlos Castaneda
 
 
 
 
“Never stop trying. Never stop believing. Never give up. Your day will come.”

Mandy Hale
 
 
 
 
“Even when you have every right to be tired of everything, never be tired of living.”

Terry Mark
 
 
 
 
“Giving up is the only sure way to fail.”
Gena Showalter
 
 
 
 
“Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.”

Newt Gingrich
 
 
 
 
“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
 
 
 
 
“Tiredness is just something that is appearing; it’s not who you are.”

Nirmala
 
 
 
 
“A man grows most tired while standing still.”

Chinese proverb
 
 
 
 
“I’m tired of all the pain, agony, tears, and feeling that there is no reason to carry on.”

Pete Frierson
 
 
 
 
“I am not an early bird or a night owl. I am some form of permanently exhausted pigeon.”

Unknown
 
 

Quotes August 30, 2023

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“There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.”

Alan Cohen
 
 
 
 
“I’m tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That’s deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?”
Jean Kerr
 
 
 
 
“Fatigue has many faces and many causes. Fatigue and tiredness mean different things to different people.”
Michael A. Schmidt
 
 
 
 
“You need to be able to manage stress because hard times will come, and a positive outlook is what gets you through.”

Marie Osmond
 
 
 
 
“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”

Friedrich Nietzsche
 
 
 
 
“It was hell to be so tired, and still care.”
Lois McMaster Bujold
 
 
 
 
“A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.”

Martin H. Fischer
 
 
 
 
“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.”
Sam Levenson
 
 
 
 
“The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.”

Norman Vincent Peale
 
 
 
 
“It depends on you, to keep pushing forward until you win or give in. Always choose the former.”

Lailah Gifty Akita
 
 
 
 
“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”
Jim Ryun
 
 
 
 
“The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.”
Morgan Freeman
 
 
 
 
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”

“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”

Confucius
 
 
 
 
“Really, the measure of a man is when they’re tired and exhausted.”
George Eads
 
 
 
 
“You must be strong enough to strike and strike and strike again without tiring. The first lesson is to make yourself that strong.”

Holly Black
 
 
 
 
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
Winston Churchill
 
 
 
 
“The most certain way to succeed is to just try one more time.”

Thomas Edison
 
 
 
 
“Don’t resist the growing pains, push through them.”
Germany Kent
 
 
 
 
“Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.”
Dean Karnazes
 
 
 
 
“Do you think miners stand around all day talking about how hard it is to mine for coal? They do not. They simply dig.”

Cheryl Strayed
 
 
 
 
“One thing you can’t hide – is when you’re crippled inside.”

John Lennon
 
 
 
 
“Let heavy thoughts sink. Go to sleep and wake up with light thoughts.”
Unknown
 
 

Quotes August 23, 2023

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“I am someone who can’t hold on to negativity or hold on to grudges. I might feel something at a certain point, but I get tired after that. I don’t carry it with me. I forgive and forget very easily, and that’s the only way to be happy and peaceful.”
Deepika Padukone
 
 
 
 
“When you’re at your absolute, most exhausted… That’s when you have to be at the top of your game.”

Bill Hader
 
 
 
 
“I’m exhausted trying to stay healthy.”

Steve Yzerman
 
 
 
 
“The most critical time in any battle is not when I’m fatigued, it’s when I no longer care.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough
 
 
 
 
“When you are tired, sleep; when you are hungry, eat.”

Michael Gluckman
 
 
 
 
“I’m tired of people who aren’t real.”

Graham Masterton
 
 
 
 
“Losers quit when they’re tired. Winners quit when they’ve won.”

Mike Ditka
 
 
 
 
“The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when no one else is watching.”

Anson Dorrance
 
 
 
 
“If you think you’re done, you always have at least 40 percent more.”

Lauren Crandall
 
 
 
 
“If you can’t outplay them, outwork them.”
Ben Hogan
 
 
 
 
“When you’re tired and weary, tap into the energy of friends and family or through books, videos and podcasts. Make this a habit for your mental health and for your progress towards your goals.”
Rip Miller
 
 
 
 
“Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it.”
Andre Agassi
 
 
 
 
“You learn you can do your best even when it’s hard, even when you’re tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show some courage.”
Joe Namath
 
 
 
 
“When you are tired, speaking gently will take effort. But I can assure you that the peace it brings to your home is well worth it.”

Pavan Choudary
 
 
 
 
“Stress is largely self-inflicted, so the ability to manage stress more effectively comes from managing oneself.”

Michael Hetherington
 
 
 
 
“The worst thing about being tired is the negative twist of perception.”

Rosamond Rice
 
 
 
 
“A detached mind is seldom tired because it is free of fearful or tiresome thoughts.”
Sfurti Sahare
 
 
 
 
“The most critical time in any battle is not when I’m fatigued, it’s when I no longer care.”

Craig D. Lounsbrough
 
 
 
 
“An exhausted man is much more than a weary man. Does he exhaust the possible because he is himself exhausted, or is he exhausted because he has exhausted the possible? He exhausts himself by exhausting the possible, and inversely.”
Gilles Deleuze