Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant -
Robert Louis Stevenson.
We don’t see things the way they are. We see them the way WE are -
Talmud.
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.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single
step – Lao Tzu.
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you
make, the better – Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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.
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.
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.
Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and
knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security – John
Allen Paulos.
The price of anything is the amount of life you
exchange for it – Henry David Thoreau.
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.
You cannot be lonely if you like the person
you’re alone with - Dr. Wayne Dyer.
”It’s impossible” said pride. “It’s risky”
said experience. “It’s pointless” said reason. “Give it a try” whispered the heart.
Be happy while you’re living, for
you’re a long time dead - Scottish
Proverb.
The best way to pay for a lovely
moment is to enjoy it.- Richard Bach.
The real voyage of
discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -
Marcel Proust.
Men do less than they
ought, unless they do all they can. - Thomas Carlyle.
Success is sweet: the
sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats. -
Amos Bronson Alcott.
If you’re going through hell, keep going – Winston
Churchill.
No matter what, no matter how, where or who - you can almost always turn
around and get a second chance.
We must let go of the life we had planned so as to
have the life that is waiting for us - Joseph Campbell.
Change is inevitable.
Progress is optional – Tony Robbins.
The great thing in the world is not so much where we
stand, as in what direction we are moving - Oliver W Holmes.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I
think I’ve ended up where I needed to be - Douglas Adams.
Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you
are right - Henry Ford.
Life is like a library
owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of
them were written for him. - Harry Emerson Fosdick.
The future belongs to
those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. - Eleanor Roosevelt.
If you want to succeed
in the world must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits
for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave
is a long time a coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the
roadside until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth
or influence. - John B. Gough.
We learn wisdom from
failure much more than success. We often discover what we will do, by finding
out what we will not do. - Samuel Smiles.
Experience is a
grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not
ground. - Josh Billings.
The quality of a man's
life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his
chosen field of endeavor. - Vince Lombardi.
It is not easy to find
happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. - Agnes
Repplier.
Awareness is not an
achievement. It's a lifestyle. - Ariel and Shya Kane.
We think too small.
Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as
the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.
- Mao Zedong.
A failure is a man who
has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience. - Elbert Hubbard.
I like the dreams of
the future better than the history of the past. - Patrick Henry.
Our character is but
the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made through
life. - John C. Geikie.
The significance of a
man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain. - Khalil Gibran.
They fail, and they
alone, who have not striven. - Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
Live in each season as
it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign
yourself to the influences of each. - Henry David Thoreau.
The only way of finding
the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. -
Arthur C. Clarke.
Experience is the child
of thought, and thought is the child of action. - Benjamin Disraeli.
Our doubts are
traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. -
William Shakespeare.
Imagine every day to be
the last of a life surrounded with hopes, cares, anger and fear. The hours that
come unexpectedly will be much the more grateful. – Horace.
In the hopes of
reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. -
Albert Schweitzer.
All men dream but not
equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in
the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous
men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible. - T.E.
Lawrence.
Sow an act, and you
reap a habit; sow a habit, and you reap a character; sow a character, and you
reap a destiny. - George Dana Boardman.
Nothing can stop the
man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth
can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. - Thomas Jefferson.
A strong imagination
begetteth opportunity. - Michel de Montaigne.
We are what we
repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. – Aristotle.
