1. Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life
is about creating yourself – George Bernard Shaw.
2. Twenty years from now
you will be more disappointed by the
things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So
throw off the bowlines. Catch the trade winds
in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover – Mark Twain.
3. Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap
but by the
seeds you plant - Robert Louis Stevenson.
4. We don’t see things the way they are.
We see them the way
WE are - Talmud.
5. I have found that if you
love life, life will love you back - Arthur Rubinstein.
6. The reason people find it
so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better
than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved
than it will be – Marcel Pagnol.
7. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step – Lao Tzu.
8. Don’t ask what the world needs.
Ask what makes you come
alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people
who have come alive – Howard Thurman.
9. All life is an experiment. The
more experiments you make, the better – Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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10. Too many people spend money
they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people
they don’t like – Will Rogers.
11. I
skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it
has been - Wayne Gretzky.
12. Pain is inevitable.
Suffering is optional -
Anony-mouse.
13. Every man dies. Not every man really lives – William Ross
Wallace.
14. Life isn’t a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving
safely in a well preserved body, but rather to
skid in sideways,
chocolate in one hand, latte in the other, body thoroughly used up,
totally worn out and screaming ‘Woohoo WHAT A RIDE’!
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15. There are two ways to live your life. One is as though
nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a
miracle - Albert Einstein.
16.
Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and
knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security – John
Allen Paulos.
17. You are not in this world to live up to other people’s
expectations, nor should you feel the world must live up to
yours – F Perl.
18. How you do one thing, is how you do everything.
Be aware.
19. Life is either a
daring adventure or nothing –
Helen Keller.
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20.
Life is not about kissing a**, it’s about kicking a**!
21. The price of anything is the amount
of life you exchange for it – Henry David Thoreau.
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22. Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a
victim.
Accept no one’s definition of your life; define
yourself - Harvey Fierstein.
23.
Be more concerned with your character than your
reputation, because your character is what you really are,
while your reputation is merely what others think you are – John Wooden.
24. In the end
, it’s not going to matter how many breaths you took, but
how many moments took your breath away - Shing Xiong.
Breathe. It’s just a bad day. Not a bad
life. (tx Megan!)
25. Dance like the photo’s not being
tagged. Love like you’ve never been unfriended. Sing like nobody’s
following. Share like you care. And do it all like it won’t end up on
youtube!
25 Inspirational Quotes about Love & Happiness
26. The most important thing in life is to
learn how to give out love, and let it come in –
Morrie Schwartz.
27. You cannot be lonely if you
like the person you’re alone
with - Dr. Wayne Dyer.
28. Happiness is like a butterfly.
The more you chase it, the more it eludes you.
But if you turn your attention to other things,
It comes and sits softly on your shoulder.
- Henry David Thoreau
29. I think
everyone should be told they’re beautiful until
they believe it - Unknown
Yes, you. Pass it on to someone you
think is too.
30.
People were created to be loved. Things were created to
be used. The reason the world is in chaos, is because things
are being loved, and people are being used.
31. Dear Heart,
fall in love only when you’re ready, not
when you’re lonely – Anony-mouse.
32. ”It’s impossible” said pride. “It’s risky” said experience. “It’s
pointless” said reason. “
Give it a try” whispered the heart -
Anonymous (via Tad).
33.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong
romance – Oscar Wilde.
34. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while
loving
someone deeply gives you courage - Lao Tzu.
35. When in doubt, choose Love.
36. Your task is not to seek love, but to seek and find all the
barriers within yourself that you have built against it – Rumi.
37. Happiness always sneaks in a door you did not think was open –
Anony-mouse.
38. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is
like fire. It burns it all clean – Maya Angelou.
39.
Be happy while you’re living, for you’re a long time dead -
Scottish Proverb.
40. The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for
you, not knowing how blind that was.
Lovers don’t finally meet
somewhere. They’re in each other all along - Rumi.
41. Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means
that you’ve decided to
look beyond the imperfections.
42. Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop
– Gertrude Stein.
43. The appearance of things change according to the emotions and
thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the
magic and beauty
really are in ourselves - Kahlil Gibran.
44. You’re at the zoo, you have a popsicle, how can you be unhappy? -
Dewey, Malcolm in the Middle.
45.
Find the guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who
calls you back when you hang up on him, who will lie under the stars
and listen to your heartbeat, or stay awake just to watch you sleep. The
one who turns to his friends and says, “thats her” – Anony-mouse.
46. Don’t worry. Be happy.
47. Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy.
48. Be helpful. When you see a person without a smile, give them
yours – Zig Ziglar.
49. My life has
no purpose, no direction, no aim, no
meaning, and yet I’m happy. I can’t figure it out. What am I doing
right? – Charles Schultz (probably # 50!).
50. Happiness is a choice. Choose happy.
25 Inspirational Quotes about Change & Growth
51. If you’re going through hell, keep
going – Winston Churchill.
52. Feelings come and feelings go. There is no need to fear them and
no need to crave them. Let them come, and then let them go. No feeling
is your permanent reality, no matter how intense it is.
53. No matter what, no matter how, where or who -
you can
almost always turn around and get a second chance - Anony-mouse.
54. When
one door closes, another opens; but we
often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do
not see the one which has opened for us – Alexander Graham Bell.
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55. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the
unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man -
George B Shaw.
56. You cannot solve a problem with the same mind that created it
- Albert Einstein.
57.
Do or Do Not. There is no Try - Yoda.
58. We must
let go of the life we had planned so as to have
the life that is waiting for us - Joseph Campbell.
59. You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in
which you really
stop to look fear in the face - Eleanor
Roosevelt.
60. When we are no longer able to change a situation,
we are
challenged to change ourselves – Viktor Frankl.
61.
Change is inevitable. Progress is optional –
Tony Robbins.
62.
Be smart enough to hold on, be brave enough to let go.
Sometimes, we need to hold onto faith while letting go of the outcome.
Open your hand and hold your dreams gently, don’t try to grab them.
63. If you are irritated by every rub,
how will you be
polished? - Rumi
64. If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we
should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could
better be changed in ourselves – Carl Jung.
65. I’ve developed a new philosophy. I only dread one day at a time –
Charlie Brown
66. Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you
just sit there – Will Rogers.
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67. The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as
in
what direction we are moving - Oliver W Holmes.
68.
The harder you fall, the higher you bounce – Unknown.
69. I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I’ve
ended up where I needed to be - Douglas Adams.
70. The best way to predict the future is to create it.
71. People will hate you, rate you, shake you, and break you. But
how
strong you stand is what makes you – Unknown.
72. We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just
how we play
the hand - Randy Pausch.
73. You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your
grandfather was – Irish proverb.
74. You are who you are and what you are because of what has gone
into your mind. You can change who you are and what you are by
changing
what goes into your mind - Zig Ziglar
75.
Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are
right - Henry Ford.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the
courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the
difference – Reinhold Niebuhr. (The Serenity Prayer rocks!)
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