Tag: Life advice

Quotes May 01, 2018

Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground.
Theodore Roosevelt,
26th US president
 
 
 
 
You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.
Steve Jobs,
entrepreneur
 
 
 
 
Simplicity is the shortest path to a solution.
Ward Cunningham,
computer programmer
 
 
 
 
Genius is often only the power of making continuous efforts.
Elbert Hubbard,
writer
 
 
 
 
A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry.
George Bernard Shaw,
playwright
 
 
 
 
Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
Arthur Koestler,
writer and journalist
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

Quotes April 24, 2018

“Anyone can say they care. But watch their actions, not their words.”
Buddha
 
 
 
 
“I will breathe. I will think of solutions. I will not let my worry control me. I will not let my stress level break me. I will simply breathe. And it will be okay. Because I don’t quit.”
Shayne McClendon
 
 
 
 
“Darlin’ you don’t need all that armor. Because what lives inside, they can’t break.”

“If you love them, then love in the way that frees them. Build them up. Grow them and let them grow you. Love that is confining, restrictive, and full of laws is love born out of the desperation of loneliness.”
Jm Storm
 
 
 
 
“A strong woman loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, and perseveres…no matter what life throws at her.”
Unknown
 
 
 
 
“Sometimes when you are in a dark place, you think you’ve been buried; but actually you’ve been planted.”
Unknown
 
 
 
 
“What a beautiful thing it is, to stand tall and say, I fell apart and I survived.”
Unknown
 
 
 
 
“Your value doesn’t decrease based on someone’s inability to see your worth.”
Unknown
 
 
 
 
“Learn to be happy alone, so you know how to be happy with someone else.”
Unknown
 
 
 
 
“Your mind is a powerful thing. When you fill it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.”
Unknown
 
 
 
 
“A person can break your heart and damage your pride. But never ever give them the power to break your spirit.”
Unknown

Quotes April 14, 2018

“Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.”
Malcolm X
 
 
 
 
If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
Mother Teresa
 
 
 
 
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
shchedrina
 
 
 
 
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“A blazing fire makes flame and brightness out of everything that is thrown into it”
Marcus Aurelius
 
 
 
 
Truth is powerful and it prevails.
Sojourner Truth
 
 
 
 
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Barack Obama
 
 
 
 
I try to keep my head on straight and take nothing for granted.
Anna Faris
 
 
 
 
The fear of becoming a “has been” keeps some people from becoming anything.
Eric Hoffer,
writer and social critic
 
 
 
 
Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.
Joan Didion,
writer
 
 
 
 
Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
Simone de Beauvoir
 
 
 
 
Hope is the most exciting thing there is in life.
Mandy Moore

Quotes April 10, 2018

Anxiety pals, remember – it’s not a switch that turns ON or OFF. It’s a dial that you can learn how to turn down.
Mallory O’Meara (@malloryomeara)
 
 
 
 
Never trust your fears, they don’t know your strength.
Suada Mag
 
 
 
 
“The greatest thing we can do is to help someone know that they are loved and capable of loving.”
Fred Rogers
 
 
 
 
Sometimes speed doesn’t matter. Forward is forward.
shchedrina

Quotes April 05, 2018

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt
 
 
 
 

When the love of power is replaced by the power of love, there can be peace in the world.
Jimi Hendrix
 
 
 
 
We all should rise above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness and selfishness.
Booker T. Washington
 
 
 
 
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.
George Herman (The Babe) Ruth

Quotes April 03, 2018

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
T.S. Eliot,
poet
 
 
 
 
Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world.
Mary Wollstonecraft,
writer, philosopher and women’s rights advocate
 
 
 
 
As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
Clarence Darrow,
lawyer

Quotes February 12, 2018

Everybody wants to be a diamond, but very few are willing to get cut.
Kushandwizdom
 
 
 
 
Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.
Vicki Harrison
 
 
 
 
Life is not all about getting and having; sometimes its about giving and just being.
Kevin Kruse
 
 
 
 
Joan Halifax: Buoyancy Rather than Burnout
We’re in an era of great breakdown, environmentally and socially and psychologically, and when systems break down, the ones who have the resilience to actually repair themselves, they move to a higher order of organization.
Joan Halifax
 
 
 
 
We don’t struggle with creativity, we struggle with originality.
Adam Grant
 
 
 
 
If there is something you care about, make a commitment to do something now- starting with today. And choose to live a meaningful and purpose-driven life where you care about people and issues that are much greater than yourself.
Evangeline Mitchell
 
 
 
 
Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.
Howard Zinn
 
 
 
 
Good people are like candles: they burn themselves up to give others light.
Anonymous

Quotes February 08, 2018

You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready.
Bruno Mars
 
 
 
 
Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person, they are almost indistinguishable.
David Augsburger
 
 
 
 
Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.
Eckhart Tolle
 
 
 
 
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
Joseph Campbell
 
 
 
 
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
Jackie Robinson
 
 
 
 
Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.
Coretta Scott King
 
 
 
 
Nobody wants to hear this, but sometimes we have to accept the fact that the person we want the most is the person we’re best without.
Unknown

Quotes February 06, 2018

If things go wrong, don’t go with them.
Roger Babson
 
 
 
 
I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.
Sylvia Plath
 
 
 
 
Where’s your will to be weird?
Jim Morrison
 
 
 
 
Imitation is suicide.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
 
 
 
We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us.
Virginia Satir
 
 
 
 
Don’t look for society to give you permission to be yourself.
Steve Maraboli
 
 
 
 
Flatter yourself critically.
Willis Goth Regier
 
 
 
 
Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for.
Oliver James

Quotes January 29, 2018

A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way. But intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.
Albert Einstein,
theoretical physicist
 
 
 
 
We spend so much time focusing on what makes us crazy. Focus on what makes you smile. Be kind to you. Be the light in your world.
Claudia Hall Christian
 
 
 
 
“Silence is not the absence of something but the presence of everything.”
Gordon Hempton
 
 
 
 
“It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.”
Scott Belsky
 
 
 
 
“Single is no longer a lack of options, but a choice. A choice to refuse to let your life be defined by your relationship status but to live every day Happily and let your Ever After work itself out.”
Mandy Hale
 
 
 
 
“Most of us try to do too much because we are secretly afraid we will not be able to do anything at all.”
Rick Aster
 
 
 
 
The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough.
Randy Pausch,
professor