Quotes

These are some of my favorite quotes. Check back often for new ones!

 

- People who make us angry are our most important teachers. They indicate the limits to our capacity for forgiveness.

- Ultimately, it is not our credentials but our committment to a higher purpose that creates our effictiveness in the world.

- If we wait for the world's permission to shine, we will never receive it.

- The reason so many of us are obsessed with becoming stars is because we're not yet starring in our own lives.

- It takes wisdom to understand that our reactiveness only fans the flames of false drama.

- The goal of personal growth is the journey out of dark emotional patterns that cause us pain, to those that create peace.

 

- There's a certain kind of madness you get if you know people can't see you, often resulting in some kind of writing.

- Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

- The unhappiest people in this world are the people who care the most about what everyone else thinks.

- Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
- Steve Jobs

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
- Danny Kaye

Sooner or later, all games become serious. 

- J.G. Ballard

- The more technology frees us from our mundane duties, the more enslaved we become.

- Behind me is infinite power, before me is endless possibility, around me is boundless opportunity.
- Author Unknown

- What screws us up most in life is the picture in our head of how it's supposed to be.

- Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you'll never, ever have enough.
- Oprah

- One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard

- Don't go into business to get rich. Do it to enrich people. It will come back to you.
- Stew Leonard

- Everyone you meet has something to teach you.

- Turn your wounds into wisdom.

 

- We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
- Carlos Castaneda

- I know this for sure, that doing good actually makes you better.
- Oprah

- Be careful with your words. Once they are said, they can only be forgiven, nor forgotten.

- Faith and Fear will lead you into completely different directions...

- Be thankful for what you have. Stop complaining. Start appreciating.

- Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

- When love beckons to you, follow him, though his ways are hard and steep.

- Kahil Gibran

- Do not ask me where I am going, as I travel in this limitless world, where every step I take is my home.
- Dogen

- Our deepest fears are like dragons, guarding our deepest treasure.
- Rainer Maria Rilke

- The future always starts today, not tomorrow.
- Pope John Paul II

    

     

     

- Great spirits have always faced violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Einstein

- Someday, someone may make a movie of your life. Make sure it doesn't go straight to DVD.
- Unknown

- Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now.
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

- True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, & the world around us.
- Socrates

- Write your hurts in the sand and write your blessings in stone!

- The most beautiful and intense feelings and things in the world cannot be touched or even seen, they must be felt with the heart.

- One smile, can start a friendship. One word, can end a fight. One look, can save a relationship. One person can change your life

- Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.
- Napoleon Hill

- When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
- Henry Ford

- To follow the path of the soul brings bliss!
- Theo

- Giving up doesn't always mean you're weak. Sometimes, it means that you're strong enough to let go.

- If someone hates you for no reason, give that motherfucker a reason.

- What you believe is possible, is exactly what is possible.
- ME

- You can tell a man is clever by his answers, you can tell a man is wise by his questions.

   

- How many of us go through our days parched and empty, thirsting after happiness, when we're really standing knee-deep in the river of abundance?
- Sarah Ban Breathnach

- Lucky is the man who is the first love of a woman, but luckier is the woman who is the last love of a man.

- The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli

- To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth…is potentially to have everything….
- Joan Didion

- The ultimate sign of maturity is knowing just how immature you really are.
- Mohammad Qureshi

- In time we hate that which we often fear.
- William Shakespeare

- A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
- Herm Albright

- When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bustling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.
- Dale Carnegie

- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
- Aristotle

- Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.
- Mary Tyler Moore

- Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
- Emily Kimbrough

- If happiness was easy, everybody would be doing it.

- Not all who wander are lost.

- Success in life will never be the easiest path.