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Quotes March 24, 2021

Quotes courtesy of Henrik Edberg The Positivity Blog

“Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.”
William Feather
 
 
 
 
“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow. It only saps today of its joy.”
Leo Buscaglia
 
 
 
 
“Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.”
Leo Tolstoy
 
 
 
 
“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.”
Zig Ziglar
 
 
 
 
“Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.”
Jack Handey
 
 
 
 
“Every time you feel yourself being pulled into other people’s drama, repeat these word: Not my circus, not my monkeys.”
Polish Proverb
 
 
 
 
“A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, ‘At my age, I don’t even buy green bananas.’”
Claude Pepper
 
 
 
 
“A failure is like fertilizer; it stinks to be sure, but it makes things grow faster in the future.”
Denis Waitley
 
 
 
 
“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”
Tom Clancy
 
 
 
 
“You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.”
Ethel Barrymore
 
 
 
 
“I may be a living legend, but that sure don’t help when I’ve got to change a flat tire.”
Roy Orbison
 
 
 
 
“When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.”
Will Rogers
 
 
 
 
“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.”
Theodore Roosevelt
 
 
 
 
“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
Groucho Marx
 
 
 
 
“You can always tell when a man’s well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.”
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
 
 
 
 
“When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’”
Sydney J. Harris
 
 
 
 
“Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?”
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
George Carlin
 
 
 
 
“I have noticed that even people who claim everything is pre­determined and that we can do nothing to change it look before they cross the road.”
Stephen Hawking
 
 
 
 
“Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.”
Miles Kington
 
 
 
 
“I saw a study that said speaking in front of a crowd is considered the number one fear of the average person. Number two was death. This means to the average person, if you have to be at a funeral, you would rather be in the casket than doing the eulogy.”
Jerry Seinfeld
 
 
 
 
“Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.”
Dale Carnegie
 
 
 
 
“It’s always darkest before the dawn. So if you’re going to steal your neighbor’s newspaper, that’s the time to do it.”
Navjot Singh Sidhu
 
 
 
 
“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”
Winston Churchill
 
 
 
 
“Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.”
William James
 
 
 
 
“Facebook just sounds like a drag, in my day seeing pictures of peoples vacations was considered a punishment.”
Betty White
 
 
 
 
“Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are.”
Will Ferrell
 
 
 
 
“You know, some people say life is short and that you could get hit by a bus at any moment and that you have to live each day like it’s your last. Bullshit. Life is long. You’re probably not gonna get hit by a bus. And you’re gonna have to live with the choices you make for the next fifty years.”
Chris Rock

Quotes February 24, 2021

Quotes courtesy of Henrik Edberg The Positivity Blog

“Every morning brings new potential, but if you dwell on the misfortunes of the day before, you tend to overlook tremendous opportunities.”
Harvey Mackay
 
 
 
 
“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.”
George Horace Lorimer
 
 
 
 
“Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.”
Theodore Roosevelt
 
 
 
 
“You will never plough a field if you only turn it over in your mind.”
Irish Proverb
 
 
 
 
“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.”
Zig Ziglar
 
 
 
 
“Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.”
Buddha
 
 
 
 
”Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday.”
Brian Tracy
 
 
 
 
“Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.”
Dalai Lama
 
 
 
 
“Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.”
James Allen
 
 
 
 
“Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
Lolly Daskal
 
 
 
 
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.”
Helen Keller
 
 
 
 
“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
 
 
 
 
“Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.”
Charles F. Kettering
 
 
 
 
“We become what we think about.”
Earl Nightingale
 
 
 
 
“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”
Maria Robinson
 
 
 
 
“A year from now you may wish you had started today.”
Karen Lamb
 
 
 
 
“Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.”
John Barrymore
 
 
 
 
“Happy Wednesday! You are who you are; be happy with what you are called to do. Do not pretend to be like someone else for your gifts are unique to help lead you to the success as only you can define. Have a good day.”
Byron Pulsifer
 
 
 
 
“Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
Carlos Castaneda
 
 
 
 
“Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.”
John Henry Jowett
 
 
 
 
“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.”
Albert Ellis
 
 
 
 
“Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.”
Mary Lou Retton
 
 
 
 
“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”
Buddha
 
 
 
 
“If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.”
Epicurus
 
 
 
 
“I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.”
Dalai Lama
 
 
 
 
“We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.”
Frederick Keonig
 
 
 
 
“If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy.”
Proverb
 
 
 
 
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.”
Helen Keller
 
 
 
 
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
Mahatma Gandhi
 
 
 
 
“For most of life, nothing wonderful happens. If you don’t enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are you’re not going to be very happy. If someone bases his/her happiness on major events like a great job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn’t going to be happy much of the time.
If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.”
Andy Rooney
 
 
 
 
“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
Maxim Gorky
 
 
 
 
“If you want happiness for an hour — take a nap.’
If you want happiness for a day — go fishing.
If you want happiness for a year — inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime — help someone else.”
Chinese Proverb
 
 
 
 
“The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.”
Andre Maurois
 
 
 
 
“There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.”
Anthony de Mello
 
 
 
 
“The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.”
Epictetus
 
 
 
 
“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
 
 
 
 
“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
George Bernard Shaw
 
 
 
 
“Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.“
Groucho Marx
 
 
 
 
“I was thinking one day and I realized that if I just had somebody behind me all the way to motivate me I could make a big difference. Nobody came along like that so I just became that person for myself.”
Unknown

Quotes February 03, 2021

Quotes courtesy of Henrik Edberg The Positivity Blog

“Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.”
Hermann Hesse
 
 
 
 
“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.”
Albert Ellis
 
 
 
 
“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
 
 
 
 
“Good things take time.”
John Wooden
 
 
 
 
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
 
 
 
“If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?”
W. Sommerset Maugham
 
 
 
 
“A year from now you may wish you had started today.”
Karen Lamb
 
 
 
 
“The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.”
Roy L. Smith
 
 
 
 
“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
William Arthur Ward
 
 
 
 
“If you know what you want to achieve in life, then you are more inspired to change for the better.”
Philip Vang
 
 
 
 
“Resistance is never the agent of change. You have to embrace the actions that are going to get you closer to your goal.”
Ali Vincent
 
 
 
 
“Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.”
John Wooden
 
 
 
 
“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”
Andy Warhol
 
 
 
 
“Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.”
Confucius
 
 
 
 
“Failure is a bend in the road, not the end of the road. Learn from failure and keep moving forward.”
Roy T. Bennett
 
 
 
 
“Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.”
Dalai Lama
 
 
 
 
“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.”
John F. Kennedy
 
 
 
 
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
Margaret Mead
 
 
 
 
“Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.”
Ovid
 
 
 
 
“All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.”
Sophocles
 
 
 
 
“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”
Milton Berle
 
 
 
 
“You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.”
Jim Rohn
 
 
 
 
“Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses, and start making changes.”
Roy T. Bennett
 
 
 
 
“Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.”
John Wooden
 
 
 
 
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
Charles Darwin

Quotes January 27, 2021

Quotes courtesy of Henrik Edberg The Positivity Blog

“On Wednesday, when the sky is blue,
and I have nothing else to do,
I sometimes wonder if it’s true
That who is what and what is who.”
Winnie the Pooh
 
 
 
 
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
C.S. Lewis
 
 
 
 
“One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren’t enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.”
Viggo Mortensen
 
 
 
 
“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.”
M. Scott Peck
 
 
 
 
“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”
Conrad Hilton
 
 
 
 
“We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday’s burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.”
John Newton
 
 
 
 
“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.”
Henry Ford
 
 
 
 
“When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
 
 
 
“There is no traffic jam along the extra mile.”
Roger Staubach
 
 
 
 
“Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.”
Lemony Snicket
 
 
 
 
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
Arthur Ashe
 
 
 
 
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.”
Mark Twain
 
 
 
 
“It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.”
Confucius
 
 
 
 
“Either you run the day or the day runs you.”
Jim Rohn
 
 
 
 
“Think of many things; do one.”
Portuguese proverb
 
 
 
 
“Now that your eyes are open, make the sun jealous with your burning passion to start the day. Make the sun jealous or stay in bed.”
Malak El Halabi

Quotes January 21, 2021

Courtesy of Henrik Edberg The Positvity Blog

 
 
“The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one’s life.”
Peace Pilgrim
 
 
 
 
“Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.”
Wayne Dyer
 
 
 
 
“You’ll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.”
George Michael
 
 
 
 
“The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.”
Norman Vincent Peale
 
 
 
 
“When you do the right thing, you get the feeling of peace and serenity associated with it. Do it again and again.”
Roy T. Bennett
 
 
 
 
“He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.”
Marcus Aurelius
 
 
 
 
“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”
Buddha
 
 
 
 
“You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.”
Eckhart Tolle
 
 
 
 
“Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake.”
Paramahansa Yogananda
 
 
 
 
“We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.”
Dalai Lama
 
 
 
 
“If there’s no inner peace, people can’t give it to you. The husband can’t give it to you. Your children can’t give it to you. You have to give it to you.”
Linda Evans
 
 
 
 
“My heart forgives and releases. Inner peace is my goal.”
Louise Hay
 
 
 
 
“Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it.”
Brian Tracy
 
 
 
 
“To experience peace does not mean that your life is always blissful. It means that you are capable of tapping into a blissful state of mind amidst the normal chaos of a hectic life.”
Jill Bolte Taylor
 
 
 
 
“Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.”
Robert J. Sawyer
 
 
 
 
“Ego says – Once everything falls into place, I’ll feel inner peace. Spirit says – Find your inner peace and then everything will fall into place.”
Marianne Williamson
 
 
 
 
“Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.”
Gerald Jampolsky
 
 
 
 
“Never continue in a job you don’t enjoy. If you’re happy in what you’re doing, you’ll like yourself, you’ll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you’ll have more success than you could possibly have imagined.”
Roger Caras
 
 
 
 
“Acceptance of others, their looks, their behaviors, their beliefs, bring you an inner peace and tranquility – instead of anger and resentment.”
Unknown

Quotes January 04, 2021

Quotes courtesy of Henrik Edberg The Positivity Blog

“You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy.”
C. JoyBell C.
 
 
 
 
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
Nelson Mandela
 
 
 
 
“I have accepted fear as part of life — specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.”
Erica Jong
 
 
 
 
“We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change.”
Katharine Hepburn
 
 
 
 
“Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.”
John Maxwell
 
 
 
 
“Follow effective actions with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.”
Peter Drucker
 
 
 
 
“When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
Haruki Murakami
 
 
 
 
“Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others– it only changes yours.”
Shannon Alder
 
 
 
 
“When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something’s suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.”
Barbara Bloom
 
 
 
 
“Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.”
Eckhart Tolle
 
 
 
 
“Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the ‘someday I’ll’ philosophy.”
Denis Waitley
 
 
 
 
“No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you’ve come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.”
Madonna
 
 
 
 
“Life will only change when you become more committed to your dreams than you are to your comfort zone.”
Billy Cox
 
 
 
 
“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
 
 
 
 
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”
Alan Watts
 
 
 
 
“Change is painful, but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.”
Mandy Hale
 
 
 
 
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
Mark Twain