Quote Worthy

We have no more right to put our discordant states of mind into the lives of those around us and rob them of their sunshine and brightness than we have to enter their houses and steal their silverware. - Julia Moss Seton

Seek ye counsel of the aged, for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hearkened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them. - Kahlil Gibran

Just let go. Let go of how you thought your life should be, and embrace the life that is trying to work its way into your consciousness. - Caroline Myss

Do something great by starting with something small. Do something difficult with something easy. - Bruce Frantzis

Trying times need not drag you down if you will see them as doorways to new beginnings. - Unknown

Act without striving. Work without interfering. Find the flavour in what is flavourless. - Lao Tzu

Cheating on a good person is like throwing away a diamond and picking up a rock. - Unknown

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. - Aristotle

A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better. - Robert Burton

When ideas fail, words come in very handy. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Cursing a flat tire does not fix it. - Unknown

Do not find fault. Find a remedy. - Unknown

Humorous Quotes

Quotes which are funny, ironical, as well as simply, or profoundly true.

If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm. - Vincent Lombardi

If you ask enough people, you can usually find someone who’ll advise you to do what you were going to do anyway. - Weston Smith 

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe. - Lord Salisbury

If you bungle raising your children, I do not think whatever else you do well matters very much. - Jacqueline Kennedy

If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, it’s just possible you haven't grasped the situation. - Rose Kennedy

If you can’t convince ’em, confuse ’m. - Harry Truman

If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull. - W. C. Fields

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month. - Theodore Roosevelt

If you don't drink, smoke, or drive a car, you're a tax evader. - Thomas S. Foley

If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed. - Mark Twain

If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem, but if you owe a million, it has. - John Maynard

If you see me smiling it’s because I’m thinking of doing something evil or naughty. If you see me laughing, it’s because I’ve already done it. - Unknown

If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism. If you steal from two, it's research. - John Burke

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive. - Elbert Hubbard

If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter. - John Gotti

Life - Quotes

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savoured. - Earl Nightingale

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever. - Isak Dinesen

Life is a like a book. Some chapters sad, some happy, and some exciting. But if you never turn the page, you will never know what the next chapter holds. - Unknown

Life isn’t meant to be easy, its meant to be lived … sometimes happy, other times rough. But with every up and down you learn lessons that make you strong. - Unknown

Life isn’t about meeting expectations, it’s about pushing past them and venturing into what people thought was not possible. - Stan Ancheta

The most difficult phase of life is not when no one understands you. It is when you don’t understand yourself. - Unknown

Let yourself move to the next chapter in life when the time comes. Don’t remain stuck on the same page. - Unknown

Life is full of blessings. Sometimes we are just too blind to see them. - Unknown

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. - Havelock Ellis

Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. - Voltaire

A person should want to live: If only out of curiosity. - Yiddish Proverb

The only disability in life is a bad attitude. - Scott Hamilton

Life is the sum of all  your choices. - Albert Camus

Beware the barrenness of a busy life. - Socrates

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If you look closely enough, amid the merciless and the bitter, there is always the chance that you may find comfort and the promise of something good. - Bob Greene

When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit. - Ayn Rand

Sometimes it is very hard to move on, but once you move on, you’ll realize it was the best decision you’ve ever made. - Unknown

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also. - Julius Caesar

Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster. - Quentin Crisp

The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

Believe that your life is worth living and your beliefs will help create the fact. - Unknown

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. - Saint Augustine

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. - Aesop

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens. - Carl Jung

Never assume the obvious is true. - Unknown

The champion makes his own luck. - Unknown

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A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man. - John Adams

       

Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself. - Berenice Abbott

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life’s deepest joy: true fulfillment. - Tony Robbins

If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already. - Johann Kaspar Lavater 

Indolence and timidity often keep us to our duty, while our virtue carries off all the credit of doing so. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow. - Unknown

All of us are always going to do better tomorrow, and we would, too, if only we started today. - Unknown

Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live. - Jim Rohn

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. - John Ruskin

Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. - Seneca

Praise loudly; blame softly. - Unknown

Fool’s haste is no speed. - Unknown

Food For Thought

Being positive does not mean saying that things are fine when they are not, being positive means being in touch with your emotions and expressing them appropriately. Life does not always run smoothly and acceptance of this is at the very heart of positivity. - Lynda Field

As I began to love myself, I freed myself of anything that is no good for my health – food, people, things, situations, and everything that drew me down and away from myself. At first I called this attitude a healthy egoism. Today I know it is ‘Love of Oneself’. - Charlie Chaplin

Our problem is that we make the mistake of comparing ourselves with other people. You are not inferior or superior to any human being … You do not determine your success by comparing yourself to others; rather you determine your success by comparing your accomplishments to your capabilities. You are ‘number one’ when you do  the best you can with what  you have, every day. - Unknown

Democracy is a bit like that old Spanish story of a boy and his grandfather walking home with their burro on a hot afternoon. The grandfather rides until a passer-by scolds him for abusing the child. Then the child rides until somebody complains he is not showing respect for his grandfather. So they both ride, until another busybody asks how they could be so cruel to the burro. Somehow, they get home. - Unknown

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Not what he wishes and prays for does a man get, but what he justly earns. His wishes and prayers are only gratified and answered when they harmonize with his thoughts and prayers. - James Allen

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. - Marcus Aurelius

The first essential in a boy’s career is to find out what he’s fitted for, what he’s most capable of doing and doing with a relish. - Charles M. Schwab

Allow yourself to hope, to believe and to trust again. Don’t let a few bad memories stop you from having a good life. - Mandy Hale

No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

What you think, you create. What you feel you attract. What you imagine, you become. - Unknown

If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can’t buy. - Unknown

Always follow the energy that uplifts, inspires, thrills and delights! - Sherri Bishop

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die. - Joe Louis

A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart. - Goethe

Misfortunes never come singly. - Unknown

Set a thief to catch a thief. - Unknown

Humorous Quotes

Quotes which are funny, ironical, as well as simply, or profoundly true.

If I look confused it is because I am thinking. - Samuel Goldwyn

If it weren’t for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn’t get any exercise at all. - Joey Adams

If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers. - Doris Day

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name. - A. A. Milne

If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later to be found out. - Oscar Wilde

If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars. - Abbie Hoffman

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh. - Lord Acton 

If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice. - Norman Augustine

If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher. - Unknown

If the grass on the other side of the fence appears greener . . . it must be all the fertilizer they are using. - Kevin Rodowicz

If things go wrong, don’t go with them. - Roger Babson 

If today were half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was. - Norman Augustine 

If two wrongs don’t make a right, try three. - Laurence Peter

If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and colour, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon. - George Aiken

If you are good for nothing else, you can still serve as a bad example. - Peter Ludwig Berger

Life - Quotes

Three simple rules in life: If you do not GO after what you want, you will never have it. If  you do not ASK, the answer will always be NO. If you do not STEP FORWARD, you’ll always be in the SAME PLACE. - Unknown

The meaning of life is just to be alive.it is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves. - Alan Watts

Life is about balance. Be kind. But don’t let people abuse you. Trust. But don’t be deceived. Be content. But never stop improving yourself. - Unknown

Don’t take life so seriously … you will never get out of it alive. - Elbert Hubbard

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research. -Carl Jung

Life is like an ice cream, enjoy it before it melts. - Unknown

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. So if you’re feeling uncomfortable right now, know that the change taking place in your life is a beginning, not an ending. - Neale Donald Walsch

Life goes on … whether you choose to move on and take a chance in the unknown, or stay being, locked in the past, thinking of what could’ve been. - Unknown

Life is a journey from moment to moment. Live each moment to its fullest. - Garth Catterall-Heart

Life  is one big road with lots of signs. So when you are riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake up and live. - Bob Marley

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. - John Gardner

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Quote Worthy

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea. - Paul Tillich

I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment. - Pearl Bailey

If you make it plain you like people, it’s hard for them to resist liking you back. - Lois Mcmaster Bujold

Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior. - Unknown

The one whose judgment counts most in your life is the one staring back in the mirror. - Unknown

It’s your aptitude, not just your attitude that determines your ultimate altitude. - Zig Ziglar

When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth. - George Bernard Shaw

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers. - Titus Maccius Plautus

We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one. - John Updike

He who angers you conquers you. - Unknown

If it is to be, it is up to me! - Unknown

Some Lovely Sceneries

 Mendenhall Ice Cave, Alaska

 Mount Roraima, South America

 Naica Mine, Mexico - 1

 Naica Mine, Mexico - 2

Red Beach, Panjin, China

Quote Worthy

Starting something new, or making a big change, requires effort, persistence, and motivation … doubt, fear, and worry will only slow you down. Focus on doing your best now, and celebrate every step of the way. - Doe Zantamata 

If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self-interest, you can have practically anything you go after. - Napoleon Hill

It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences. - Aristotle

Appreciate those who love you. Help those who need you. Forgive those who hurt you. Forget those who leave you. - Unknown

Don’t complain about someone not treating you right. If you know you deserve better, why are  you with them? - Unknown

 

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together. - Marcus Aurelius

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. - Henry Adams

You can't know too much, but you can say too much. - Calvin Coolidge

Be to her virtues very kind. Be to her faults a little blind. - Matthew Prior

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself. - Michel De Montaigne

Potential remains potential until it is motivated. - Unknown

Nobody ever forgets where he buried a hatchet. - Unknown

Spiritual - Quotes

Empty yourself of everything. Let the mind become still. The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return. They grow and flourish and then return to the Source. Returning to the Source is stillness, which is the way of nature. - Lao Tzu

Maybe the journey isn’t so much about becoming anything. Maybe it’s about un-becoming everything that isn’t really you so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place. - Unknown

When you step aside and tune in to the wisdom of the universe, you are preparing the way for new opportunities and exiting possibilities to show up in  your life. - Sherri Bishop

Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become. - Paramahansa Yogananda

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. - Lao Tzu

Trust the process of life to unfold just the way it needs to for your soul’s perfect path. - Sherri Bishop

When you stop doing what insults yoru Soul, your Journey accelerates and your Life begins to fill with Joy. - Unknown

The heart of all spiritual teaching is simple. Be love. Be peace. Be harmony. Be compassion. Be joy. - Unknown

It’s your journey and yours alone. Others may take it with you, but no one can take it for you. - Rumi

To truly hear, you must quiet the mind. - Sherri Bishop

Quote Worthy

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed. - Joseph Addison

The way of moving on sometimes can be found in figuring out why something had to happen, but other times moving on can only be found in fully accepting that it did. - Doe Zantamata 

I don’t have everything figured out, but I will always keep trying to do my best, do what’s right and keep moving forward – one step at a time. - Unknown

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions. - Kahlil Gibran

If something seems harder, do it as a hobby and it will be easier. Call it ‘work’ and it will be harder for you. - Unknown

We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it. - Sharon Salzberg

Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know. - Pema Chodron

Every human being is the author of his own health or disease. - The Buddha

Nothing is really lost. It’s just where it doesn’t belong. - Suzanne Mueller

Goodwill is earned by many acts; it can be lost by one. - Duncan Stuart

The good you do is not lost though you forget it. - Unknown

When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge. - Unknown

Humorous Quotes

Quotes which are funny, ironical, as well as simply, or profoundly true.

I’ve a grand memory for forgetting. - Robert Lois Stevenson

I’ve always been interested in people, but I’ve never liked them. - Henry James 

I’ve always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth 

I’ve arrived, and to prove it, I’m here. - Max Bygraves

I’ve been on a calendar, but never on Time. - Marilyn Monroe

I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own. - Margaret Atwood

If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if he has a headache. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

If age imparted wisdom, there wouldn't be any old fools. - Claudia Young

If at first you don’t succeed, well, so much for skydiving. - Victor O''Reilly

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it. - W. C. Fields

If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee - that will do them in. - Bradley's Bromide

If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius. - Larry Leissner

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party. - Dag Hammarskjold

If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening. - George Barzan

If fame is only to come after death, I am in no hurry for it. - Marcus Martial

If four or five guys tell you that you're drunk, even though you know you haven't had a thing to drink, the least you can do is to lie down a little while. - Joseph Schenck

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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way. - William James

It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world. - George D. Prentice

How to work with people: Know their strong points and use them, know their weaknesses and watch out for them – accept them as they are. - Unknown

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody. - Franklin Pierce Adams

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so. - Marcus Aurelius

Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. - Joseph Addison

My friend, all motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still. - Unknown

They say everything in the world is good for something. - John Dryden

The worst ruler is one who cannot rule himself. - Marcus Porcius Cato 

See everything. Overlook a great deal. Improve a little. - Unknown

All endings are also beginnings. - Unknown

He who is down fears no fall. - Unknown

Some Lovely Sceneries

 Hitachi Seaside Park, Japan

 Lake Hillier, Australia

 Lake Retba, Senegal

 Lavender Fields - 1

Lavender Fields - 2

Quote Worthy

Hear the words of Prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life. - Akhnaton

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong. - Ayn Rand

When people are too open-minded it can lead them into being unable to discriminate between sense and nonsense. - Unknown

My eyes can only see and my ears can only hear. Only my mind can conceive all that which I think I fear. - Unknown

If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat. - Johann Von Goethe

The porcupine, whom one must handle gloved, may be respected, but is never loved. - Arthur Guiterman

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom. - Elizabeth Gaskell

If it is not seemly, do it not; if it is not true, speak it not. - Marcus Aurelius

I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause. - Jonathan Edwards

It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody. - Publilius Syrus

Necessity and time will teach us what to do. - Unknown

Where the tiller is tireless, the land is fertile. - Unknown

Food For Thought

To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget. - Arundhati Roy

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. - Gilda Radner

Quote Worthy

Accept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it … this will miraculously transform your whole life. - Eckhart Tolle

Imagine how different the world would look if help were given more freely than criticism and judgements were made only after hearing all sides - Doe Zantamata 

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view – until you climb into his skin and walk around in it. - Harper Lee

The secret of freedom lies in educating people whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.  Maximilien Roberspierre

If you hold on to the past, you can’t live the present. If you can’t live the present, then you can’t plan your future. - Unknown

Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in the imperfection is perfect reality. - Shunryu Suzuki

Never regret anything because at one time it was exactly what you wanted. - Unknown

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny. - C S Lewis

If you want to fly, you got to give up the stuff that weighs you down. - Unknown

You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible! - Ezra Taft Benson

The ripples we create are greater than we can imagine. - Josefina

Flexible people do not get bent out of shape. - Unknown

Humorous Quotes

Quotes which are funny, ironical, as well as simply, or profoundly true.

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. - Shirley Temple Black

I suppose it is much more comfortable to be mad and not know it than to be sane and have one’s doubts. - George Brown Burgin

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means. - Oscar Wilde on being charged a large fee for an operation

I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it. - Charles Schulz 

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm. - Franklin Roosevelt

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance. - Unknown

I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I was not poor, I was needy. They told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was deprived. (Oh not deprived but rather underprivileged.) Then they told me underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime but I have a great vocabulary. - Jules Feiffer

I wish I could be half as sure of anything as some people are of everything. - Gerald Barzan

I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. There’s a knob called “brightness”, but it doesn’t seem to work. - Gallagher

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood. - George Carlin

I’ll give you a definite maybe. - Samuel Goldwyn

I’m always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I’m listening to it. - George Carlin

I’m like a big old hen. I can’t cluck too long about the egg I’ve just laid because I’ve got five more inside me pushing to get out. - Louis L'Amour

Quote Worthy

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don’t spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes. - Denis Waitley

The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. - Joseph Addison

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us. - Benjamin Franklin

None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error. - Benjamin Franklin

It would probably be an improvement if more things we heard went out the other ear instead of the mouth. - Unknown

Expect the best, prepare for the worst and don’t be surprised when you get what you deserve. - Lionel Goulet

Some people have got a hard outside but they have got a soft heart. Look for it. - Unknown

You are either part of the solution or part of the problem. - Eldridge Cleaver

The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right. - Benjamin Disraeli

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. - Samuel Johnson

The system will work, if you work the system. - Unknown

You must look into people as well as at them. - Unknown