Tag: Various

Quotes July 09, 2020

“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
 
 
 
 
“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
 
 
 
 
“You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.”
Tom Wilson
 
 
 
 
“I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.”
Diane Ackerman
 
 
 
 
“After every difficulty, ask yourself two questions: “What did I do right?” and “What would I do differently?”
Brian Tracy
 
 
 
 
“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
 
 
 
 
“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
 
 
 
 
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
Winston Churchill
 
 
 
 
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Theodore Roosevelt
 
 
 
 
Don’t let the mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future.
Zig Ziglar
 
 
 
 
You can’t be real with others if you’re not real with yourself.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
Be strong and move on. It’s time for you to be happy again.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
When you really love someone, age, distance, height, and weight are just numbers.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
Common sense is not a gift. It’s a punishment. Because you have to deal with everyone who doesn’t have it.
Unknown

Quotes June 29, 2020

“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
 
 
 
 
“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
 
 
 
 
“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
 
 
 
 
One tiny flame could make so many other flames; one tiny flame could set afire a whole world.
One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before.
Anne Rice,
writer
 
 
 
 
Sometimes waiting is a sign of true love and patience. Anyone can say I love you, but not everyone can wait and prove it is true.
Unknown

Quotes June 25, 2020

“One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.”
Arthur Ashe
 
 
 
 
“You can’t really be strong until you can see a funny side to things.”
Ken Kesey
 
 
 
 
“Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.”
Jack Nicklaus
 
 
 
 
“You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.”
Louise L. Hay
 
 
 
 
“Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too.”
David Storey
 
 
 
 
“Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.”
Peter T. Mcintyre
 
 
 
 
“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you are right.”
Henry Ford
 
 
 
 
The writing of fiction is deceptive. It looks easy until you try it!
Jack Bickham
 
 
 
 
There are 3 rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
Somerset Maugham
 
 
 
 
The most valuable gift you can receive is an honest friend.
Stephen Richards
 
 
 
 
Patience is the writer’s ultimate virtue. Checks are always a month late, contracts take forever, and overnight success takes at least ten years.
Anonymous

Quotes June 22, 2020

Don’t compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.
Jordan Peterson
 
 
 
 
The work of today is the history of tomorrow, and we are its makers.
Juliette Gordon Low,
founder of Girl Scouts of the USA
 
 
 
 
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Thomas Fuller,
writer, churchman, historian
 
 
 
 
Life is challenging but I’m always up for a challenge.
Venus Williams,
professional tennis player
 
 
 
 
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.
Khalil Gibran,
writer, poet, artist
 
 
 
 
“Do stuff. Be clenched. Curious… don’t wait for society’s kiss on your forehead.”
Susan Sontag, Vassar commencement address (2003)
 
 
 
 
Start making your own happiness a priority.
Unknown

Quotes June 04, 2020

There are two days in the year that we can not do anything, yesterday and tomorrow.
If you want to change the world, start with yourself.
Mahatma Gandhi,
social reformer, independent movement leader
 
 
 
 
Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.”
Lionel Hampton
 
 
 
 
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
Marcel Proust
 
 
 
 
“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
 
 
 
 
Work harder, especially when nobody is watching.
Unknown

Quotes June 03, 2020

It is the consistency of the pursuit of the highest possible vision that you can find in front of you that gives you the constancy, that gives you the encouragement, that gives you the way to understand where you are and why it’s important for you to do what you can do.
Ossie Davis,
actor, director, poet, playwright, writer, civil rights activist
 
 
 
 
Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know.
Rembrandt,
painter, printmaker, draftsman
 
 
 
 
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,
writer
 
 
 
 
The easier it is to do something, the harder it is to change the way you do it.
Steve Wozniak,
co-founder of Apple, electronics engineer, programmer, philanthropist, entrepreneur
 
 
 
 
People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
Harper Lee,
writer
 
 
 
 
When you let go of the toxic people in your life, you will find that life becomes so much easier.
Steven Aitchison

Quotes May 30, 2020

If it can be solved, there’s no need to worry, and if it can’t be solved, then worry is of no use.
Dalai Lama
 
 
 
 
“Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.”
Albert Schweitzer
 
 
 
 
“A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.”
Amelia Earhart
 
 
 
 
Always remember that everything happens for a reason. It might not make sense now, but at the right time it will.
Unknown
 
 
 
 

Quotes May 20, 2020

One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer.
Stephen Hawking,
theoretical physicist, cosmologist, writer
 
 
 
 
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
Graham Greene,
writer
 
 
 
 
Above all, don’t fear difficult moments. The best comes from them.
Rita Levi-Montalcini,
neurobiologist, Nobel Prize winner
 
 
 
 
Words sing. They hurt. They teach. They sanctify. They were man’s first immeasurable feat of magic.
Leo Rosten
 
 
 
 
Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.
Howard Schultz
 
 
 
 
St. Augustine tells the story of a pirate captured by Alexander the Great. The Emperor angrily demanded of him, “How dare you molest the seas?” To which the pirate replied, “How dare you molest the whole world? Because I do it with a small boat, I am called a pirate and a thief. You, with a great navy, molest the world and are called an emperor.”
St. Augustine thought the pirate’s answer was “elegant and excellent.”
Noam Chomsky

 
 
 
 
A good friend is like a four-leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have.
Irish Proverb

 
 
 
 
The world is gonna judge you no matter what you do, so live your life the way you want to.
Unknown

Quotes May 16, 2020

Each man has his own music bubbling up inside him.
Louis Armstrong,
trumpeter, composer, vocalist, actor
 
 
 
 
You have to say no to the old ways before you can begin to find the new yes you need.
Betty Friedan,
writer, women’s rights activist
 
 
 
 
I don’t know any other way to lead but by example.
Don Shula,
American football coach, winningest coach in National Football League history
1930-2020
 
 
 
 
If you remain calm in the midst of great chaos, it is the surest guarantee that it will eventually subside.
Julie Andrews,
actress, singer, writer
 
 
 
 
Have no fear of perfection — you’ll never reach it.
Salvador Dali,
Surrealist artist
 
 
 
 
I dressed and went for a walk — determined not to return until I took in what Nature had to offer.
Raymond Carver,
writer, poet
 
 
 
 
I don’t think there is anything wrong with white space. I don’t think it’s a problem to have a blank wall.
Annie Leibovitz,
portrait photographer
 
 
 
 
Most of us have compromised with life. Those who fight for what they want will always thrill us.
Vivien Leigh,
film and stage actress
 
 
 
 
Change lays her hand not upon the truth.
Algernon Charles Swinburne,
poet, playwright, novelist, critic
 
 
 
 
There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.
Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily colored by the circumstances in which one remembers.
Kazuo Ishiguro,
writer, Nobel Prize winner
 
 
 
 
I did what I felt, and I felt what I did, at all costs.
Little Richard,
singer, songwriter, musician
1932-2020

Quotes May 12, 2020

“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
 
 
 
 
“Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.”
Ashley Smith
 
 
 
 
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
Leonardo da Vinci
 
 
 
 
“The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
 
 
 
 
“Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
 
 
 
 
“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”
Pablo Picasso
 
 
 
 
“Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.”
Stephen R. Covey
 
 
 
 
“There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.”
Ray Goforth
 
 
 
 
“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
 
 
 
 
If you’re not getting the results you want in life, the first place to look is your daily habits and routines.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
Don’t feel guilty for doing what is best for you.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
Apparently when you treat people like they treat you, they get upset.
Unknown