Inspirational Quotations
These quotations are used as part of the working process for the personal development courses and programmes undertaken with thelastingchange
Participants are invited to browse and select what they find most useful!
"The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand".
(Thomas Carlyle)
"Ninety percent of what we worry about never happens, yet we worry and worry. What a horrible way to go through life! What a horrible thing to do to your colon!"
(Leo F Buscaglia)
"Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness."
(Lao Tzu)
'You must be the change you wish to see in the world'
(Mahatma Gandhi)
Our deepest fear
is not that we are inadequate
Our deepest fear is that we are
powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness,
that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves
who am I to be brilliant,
gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
There's nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people
won't feel insecure around you.
We were all meant to shine
As children do.
We were born to make manifest
the glory of God
that is within us.
It's not just in some of us;
It's in Everyone!
And as we let our own light shine,
We unconsciously give other people
permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
Our presence automatically liberates others!
(Marianne Williamson)
'You see things and say "Why?" But I dream things that never were and say "Why not?"
(George Bernard Shaw)
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)
Only when the last tree has died
and the last river been polluted
and the last fish caught
will we realize we can't eat money
(Cree Indian saying)
I used to be snow white………….
but then I drifted
(Mae West)
What is the greatest thing of the world
people, people, people
When no one steps on my dreams
there'll be days like this
When people understand what I mean
there'll be days like this
When you bring out the change
of how everything is
Will my momma hold be
there'll be days like this
(Van Morrison)
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
(The Dalai Lama)
May you live all the days of your life
(Dr.Jonathan Swift)
"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you." (William James, 1842-1910, American Philosopher)
"If I am not for myself, who will be? And if I am for myself alone, then what am I? And if not now, when?" (Rabbi Hillel, Pirke Avot 1:14)
"Wonder rather than doubt is the root of our knowledge."
(Abraham Heschel, Rabbi and scholar of Judaism)
"The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over."
(J. Richard Clarke)
"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."
(Harry S Truman)
"People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care."
(Anon)
"We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them."
(Albert Einstein)
"You think because you understand 1 you must understand 2, because 1 and 1 makes 2. But you must also understand and." (Ancient Sufi Teaching)
"Before you speak, ask yourself: Is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve on the silence?" (Shirdi Sai Baba, Indian Saint)
"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic on it." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
"We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do." (Brigham Young)
"Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom." (Theodore Isaac Rubin)
"Instead of making others right or wrong, or bottling up right and wrong in ourselves, there's a middle way, a very powerful middle way……Could we have no agenda when we walk into a room with another person, not know what to say, not make that person wrong or right? Could we see, hear, feel the other people as they really are? It is powerful to practise this way…..true communication can happen only in that open space." (Pema Chodron, Buddhist nun who runs Gammpo Abbey retreat in Nova Scotia)
"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest." (Elie Wiesel)
"A gossip talks to you about other people. A bore talks about himself. A brilliant conversationalist talks to you about yourself." (Anon)
"What we see depends mainly on what we look for." (John Lubbock)
"The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers."
(Ralph Nader)
"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own." (Benjamin Disraeli)
"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"
(Jean Jacques Rousseau)
"Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown." (George Shinn)
"It all depends on whether you have things, or they have you." (Robert A. Cook)
"And in the ends it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
(Abraham Lincoln)
"The best things in life aren't things." (Art Buchwald)
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul." (Emily Dickenson)
"The futures already here; it just isn't evenly distributed."
(William Gibson)
"Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed," (Storm Jameson)
"Are you fit company for the person you wish to become?" (Anon)
"Hope is grief's best music." (Anon)
"He/ She has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much' who has enjoyed the trust of people, the respect of intelligent men and women, and the love of little children; who has filled their niche and accomplished their task; who has left the world better than they found it whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who has never lacked appreciation of Earth's beauty or failed to express it; who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best that they had; whose life was an inspiration; whose memory a benediction."
(Bessie A Stanley)
"The true voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." (Marcel Proust)
"Though my soul may set in darkness,
I will rise in perfect light,
I have loved the stars too deeply,
To be fearful of the night"
(Sarah Williams)
"Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born," (Dr. Dale Turner)
"I like the word "indolence". It makes my laziness seem classy." (Bern Williams)
"If it is to be it must be me" (Anon)
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." (Buckminster Fuller)
"The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel." (C.S. Lewis)
"At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities." (Jean Houston)
"I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure." (Lawana Blackwell)
"No-one ever listened themselves out of a job." (Calvin Coolidge)
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead)
"With every willing pair of hands comes a free brain." (Anon)
"Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open." (Thomas Dewar)
"It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant".
(Bishop Desmond Tutu)
"Attitude determines altitude." (Anon)
"The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do." (Anon)
"Management means helping people to get the best out of themselves, not organising things." (Lauren Appley)
"The way to succeed is to double your error rate." (Thomas J. Watson)
"Where there is no vision, the people perish." (Proverbs)
"True peace is not merely the absence of tension, it is the presence of justice."
(Martin Luther King Jr.)
"The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart." (Helen Keller)
"Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it."
(Danny Kaye)
"The time is always right to do what is right." (Martin Luther King Jr.)
"Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question." (Edward Estlin Cummings). [When someone asks for advice, they don't want someone else's answer, instead, they want help finding their own. A 'more beautiful question' can provide such help.]
"How we spend our days is, of course,
How we spend our lives." (Annie Dillard)
"It is not length of life, but depth of life." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
"Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare."<br /> (Japanese Proverb)
"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind." (Rudyard Kipling)
"Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will." (Jawaharal Nehru)
"If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else."
(Anon)
"Knock loud, life is deaf!" (Anon)
"No-one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
(Eleanor Roosevelt)
"The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it." (Al Batt)
"One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making darkness conscious."
(Carl Jung)
"A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams." (Anon)
"We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs." (Eric Berne)
"Although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not."
(Isaac Asimov)
"Yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision, but today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope."
(Kalidasa)
"The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole." (Anon)
"Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do."
(Emmanuel Swedenborg)
"Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull." (W. Somerset Maugham)
"The imagination sees through a thing to the cluster of possibilities which shroud it."
(John O Donohue)
"Everyone is shy….. it is the inborn modesty that makes us able to live in harmony with other creatures and our fellows. Achievement comes not by denying shyness but, occasionally, by setting it aside and letting pride and perspiration come first."
(Kirkpatrick Sale)
"You have forgotten who you are and so have forgotten me. Look inside yourself, Simba. You are more than what you have become. You must take your place in the Circle of Life."
(Mufasa's ghost)
"Smile: if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag." (Anon)
"Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand."
(C.N. Bovee)
"We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less." (Anon)
"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog." (Mark Twain)
We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
(Stephen Covey)
"The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant."
(Anon)
"A family man from Siberia
As a father was very inferior,
But one operation,
Revised the situation,
And now he's a Mother Superior."
(Spike Milligan)
"If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us." (Anon)
"He who wishes to talk well must first think well." (Anon)
"You have a choice as to whether you are either part of the steam roller or part of the road." (Anon)
"The stone age didn't end because they ran out of stones." (Anon)
"I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping stone just right, you won't have to die. The truth is you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren't even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and you have a lot more fun while they're doing it." (Anne Lamott)
"A man's dreams are an index to his greatness." (Zadok Rabinwitz)
"Anything that elicits an immediate nod of recognition only reconfirms a prejudice."
(Don Paterson)
"If you hear a voice inside you that says, "You cannot paint", then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced." (Vincent Van Gogh)
"Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on?" she asked me. "The big show is inside my head," I said. (Kurt Vonnegut)
"Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, "What happened?"
(Anon)
"Those who love peace must learn to organize as well as those who love war."
(Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.)
"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong, because someday in life you will have been all of these."
(George Washington Carver)
"Fantastic things happen - to the way we feel, to the way we make other people feel. All this simply by using positive words."
(Professor Leo F Buscaglia)
"Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than love… Kindness is good will. Kindness says, "I want you to be happy." (Randolph Ray)
"Gentlemen, Chicolini here may look like an idiot, and talk like an idiot, but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot." (Duck Soup (1933) - Groucho Marx)
"One hundred percent of shots you don't take don't go in." (Wayne Gretzky)
"A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself." (Anon)
"It is essential that justice be done, and it is equally vital that justice not be confused with revenge, for the two are wholly different." (Oscar Aria)
"The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls." (Elizabeth Cady Stanton)
"Always do right- this will gratify some and astonish the rest." (Mark Twain)
"Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kiss the ground." (RUMI)
"Its not enough to hate death. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely." (Leo F Buscaglia)
"Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire." (Fred Shero, Philadelphia Flyers and New York Rangers hockey coach)
"Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans." (John Lennon)
"The most wasted of days are those without laughter." (E.E. Cummings)
"As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more." (Jules Renard)
"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness." (Seneca)
"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.)
"Nobody puts Baby in a corner." (Jonny Castle)
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." (Mahatma Gandhi)
"The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others."
(Madame De Maintenon)
"Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make your self a happier and more productive person." (Dr. David M. Burns)
"You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him." (Anon)
"Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life." (Burton Hills)
"Let him that would move the world first move himself." (Socrates)
"DON'T PANIC."
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to The Galaxy
"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a lift around." (Leo Buscaglia)
"I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow." (Woodrow Wilson)
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These quotations are used as part of the working process for the personal development courses and programmes undertaken with thelastingchange
Participants are invited to browse and select what they find most useful!
"The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand".
(Thomas Carlyle)
"Ninety percent of what we worry about never happens, yet we worry and worry. What a horrible way to go through life! What a horrible thing to do to your colon!"
(Leo F Buscaglia)
"Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness."
(Lao Tzu)
'You must be the change you wish to see in the world'
(Mahatma Gandhi)
Our deepest fear
is not that we are inadequate
Our deepest fear is that we are
powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness,
that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves
who am I to be brilliant,
gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
There's nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people
won't feel insecure around you.
We were all meant to shine
As children do.
We were born to make manifest
the glory of God
that is within us.
It's not just in some of us;
It's in Everyone!
And as we let our own light shine,
We unconsciously give other people
permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
Our presence automatically liberates others!
(Marianne Williamson)
'You see things and say "Why?" But I dream things that never were and say "Why not?"
(George Bernard Shaw)
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)
Only when the last tree has died
and the last river been polluted
and the last fish caught
will we realize we can't eat money
(Cree Indian saying)
I used to be snow white………….
but then I drifted
(Mae West)
What is the greatest thing of the world
people, people, people
When no one steps on my dreams
there'll be days like this
When people understand what I mean
there'll be days like this
When you bring out the change
of how everything is
Will my momma hold be
there'll be days like this
(Van Morrison)
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
(The Dalai Lama)
May you live all the days of your life
(Dr.Jonathan Swift)
"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you." (William James, 1842-1910, American Philosopher)
"If I am not for myself, who will be? And if I am for myself alone, then what am I? And if not now, when?" (Rabbi Hillel, Pirke Avot 1:14)
"Wonder rather than doubt is the root of our knowledge."
(Abraham Heschel, Rabbi and scholar of Judaism)
"The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over."
(J. Richard Clarke)
"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."
(Harry S Truman)
"People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care."
(Anon)
"We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them."
(Albert Einstein)
"You think because you understand 1 you must understand 2, because 1 and 1 makes 2. But you must also understand and." (Ancient Sufi Teaching)
"Before you speak, ask yourself: Is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve on the silence?" (Shirdi Sai Baba, Indian Saint)
"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic on it." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
"We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do." (Brigham Young)
"Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom." (Theodore Isaac Rubin)
"Instead of making others right or wrong, or bottling up right and wrong in ourselves, there's a middle way, a very powerful middle way……Could we have no agenda when we walk into a room with another person, not know what to say, not make that person wrong or right? Could we see, hear, feel the other people as they really are? It is powerful to practise this way…..true communication can happen only in that open space." (Pema Chodron, Buddhist nun who runs Gammpo Abbey retreat in Nova Scotia)
"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest." (Elie Wiesel)
"A gossip talks to you about other people. A bore talks about himself. A brilliant conversationalist talks to you about yourself." (Anon)
"What we see depends mainly on what we look for." (John Lubbock)
"The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers."
(Ralph Nader)
"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own." (Benjamin Disraeli)
"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"
(Jean Jacques Rousseau)
"Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown." (George Shinn)
"It all depends on whether you have things, or they have you." (Robert A. Cook)
"And in the ends it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
(Abraham Lincoln)
"The best things in life aren't things." (Art Buchwald)
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul." (Emily Dickenson)
"The futures already here; it just isn't evenly distributed."
(William Gibson)
"Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed," (Storm Jameson)
"Are you fit company for the person you wish to become?" (Anon)
"Hope is grief's best music." (Anon)
"He/ She has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much' who has enjoyed the trust of people, the respect of intelligent men and women, and the love of little children; who has filled their niche and accomplished their task; who has left the world better than they found it whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who has never lacked appreciation of Earth's beauty or failed to express it; who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best that they had; whose life was an inspiration; whose memory a benediction."
(Bessie A Stanley)
"The true voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." (Marcel Proust)
"Though my soul may set in darkness,
I will rise in perfect light,
I have loved the stars too deeply,
To be fearful of the night"
(Sarah Williams)
"Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born," (Dr. Dale Turner)
"I like the word "indolence". It makes my laziness seem classy." (Bern Williams)
"If it is to be it must be me" (Anon)
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." (Buckminster Fuller)
"The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel." (C.S. Lewis)
"At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities." (Jean Houston)
"I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure." (Lawana Blackwell)
"No-one ever listened themselves out of a job." (Calvin Coolidge)
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead)
"With every willing pair of hands comes a free brain." (Anon)
"Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open." (Thomas Dewar)
"It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant".
(Bishop Desmond Tutu)
"Attitude determines altitude." (Anon)
"The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do." (Anon)
"Management means helping people to get the best out of themselves, not organising things." (Lauren Appley)
"The way to succeed is to double your error rate." (Thomas J. Watson)
"Where there is no vision, the people perish." (Proverbs)
"True peace is not merely the absence of tension, it is the presence of justice."
(Martin Luther King Jr.)
"The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart." (Helen Keller)
"Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it."
(Danny Kaye)
"The time is always right to do what is right." (Martin Luther King Jr.)
"Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question." (Edward Estlin Cummings). [When someone asks for advice, they don't want someone else's answer, instead, they want help finding their own. A 'more beautiful question' can provide such help.]
"How we spend our days is, of course,
How we spend our lives." (Annie Dillard)
"It is not length of life, but depth of life." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
"Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare."<br /> (Japanese Proverb)
"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind." (Rudyard Kipling)
"Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will." (Jawaharal Nehru)
"If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else."
(Anon)
"Knock loud, life is deaf!" (Anon)
"No-one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
(Eleanor Roosevelt)
"The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it." (Al Batt)
"One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making darkness conscious."
(Carl Jung)
"A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams." (Anon)
"We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs." (Eric Berne)
"Although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not."
(Isaac Asimov)
"Yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision, but today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope."
(Kalidasa)
"The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole." (Anon)
"Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do."
(Emmanuel Swedenborg)
"Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull." (W. Somerset Maugham)
"The imagination sees through a thing to the cluster of possibilities which shroud it."
(John O Donohue)
"Everyone is shy….. it is the inborn modesty that makes us able to live in harmony with other creatures and our fellows. Achievement comes not by denying shyness but, occasionally, by setting it aside and letting pride and perspiration come first."
(Kirkpatrick Sale)
"You have forgotten who you are and so have forgotten me. Look inside yourself, Simba. You are more than what you have become. You must take your place in the Circle of Life."
(Mufasa's ghost)
"Smile: if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag." (Anon)
"Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand."
(C.N. Bovee)
"We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less." (Anon)
"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog." (Mark Twain)
We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
(Stephen Covey)
"The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant."
(Anon)
"A family man from Siberia
As a father was very inferior,
But one operation,
Revised the situation,
And now he's a Mother Superior."
(Spike Milligan)
"If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us." (Anon)
"He who wishes to talk well must first think well." (Anon)
"You have a choice as to whether you are either part of the steam roller or part of the road." (Anon)
"The stone age didn't end because they ran out of stones." (Anon)
"I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping stone just right, you won't have to die. The truth is you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren't even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and you have a lot more fun while they're doing it." (Anne Lamott)
"A man's dreams are an index to his greatness." (Zadok Rabinwitz)
"Anything that elicits an immediate nod of recognition only reconfirms a prejudice."
(Don Paterson)
"If you hear a voice inside you that says, "You cannot paint", then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced." (Vincent Van Gogh)
"Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on?" she asked me. "The big show is inside my head," I said. (Kurt Vonnegut)
"Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, "What happened?"
(Anon)
"Those who love peace must learn to organize as well as those who love war."
(Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.)
"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong, because someday in life you will have been all of these."
(George Washington Carver)
"Fantastic things happen - to the way we feel, to the way we make other people feel. All this simply by using positive words."
(Professor Leo F Buscaglia)
"Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than love… Kindness is good will. Kindness says, "I want you to be happy." (Randolph Ray)
"Gentlemen, Chicolini here may look like an idiot, and talk like an idiot, but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot." (Duck Soup (1933) - Groucho Marx)
"One hundred percent of shots you don't take don't go in." (Wayne Gretzky)
"A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself." (Anon)
"It is essential that justice be done, and it is equally vital that justice not be confused with revenge, for the two are wholly different." (Oscar Aria)
"The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls." (Elizabeth Cady Stanton)
"Always do right- this will gratify some and astonish the rest." (Mark Twain)
"Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kiss the ground." (RUMI)
"Its not enough to hate death. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely." (Leo F Buscaglia)
"Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire." (Fred Shero, Philadelphia Flyers and New York Rangers hockey coach)
"Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans." (John Lennon)
"The most wasted of days are those without laughter." (E.E. Cummings)
"As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more." (Jules Renard)
"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness." (Seneca)
"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.)
"Nobody puts Baby in a corner." (Jonny Castle)
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." (Mahatma Gandhi)
"The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others."
(Madame De Maintenon)
"Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make your self a happier and more productive person." (Dr. David M. Burns)
"You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him." (Anon)
"Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life." (Burton Hills)
"Let him that would move the world first move himself." (Socrates)
"DON'T PANIC."
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to The Galaxy
"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a lift around." (Leo Buscaglia)
"I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow." (Woodrow Wilson)
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