Food For Thought

Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors. - Unknown

It is never too late. Even if you are going to die tomorrow. Keep yourself straight and clear and be a happy human being today. If you keep your situation happy day by day, you will eventually reach the greatest happiness of enlightenment. - Lama Yeshe

Learn acceptance of yourself just the way you are, existence has given birth to  you and accepts you unconditionally, you are breathing and alive with its aliveness, a miracle in itself. Every individual is unique and irreplaceable in this vast cosmos; the very beauty of you remain its unique signature. - Swami Rajneesh

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One of the greatest moments in anybody’s developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is. - Norman Vincent Peale

Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed. - Jean Anouilh

When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to fall into the like. - Joseph Addison

Never assume that you are stuck with the way things are right now. Life changes every single moment, and so can you. - Unknown

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solve all questions for the time being. - Franz Kafka

Sometimes life is about risking everything for a dream no one can see, but you. - Unknown

The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think. - Aristotle

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt

When the going gets tough, the tough get going. - Joseph Kennedy 

A good disposition is invincible, if it be genuine. - Marcus Aurelius

Irony is the essence of the character of Providence. - Honore de Balzax

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death. - Coco Chanel

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Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character; and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man. - Schopenhauer

As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison. - Nelson Mandela

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. - Dale Carnegie

Since emotions are few and reasons many, the behavior of a crowd can be more easily predicted than the behavior of one person can. - Isaac Asimov

Morality is doing what is right regardless of what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told regardless of what is right. - Unknown

Healing doesn’t mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls our lives. - Unknown

Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them. - Aristotle

Resentments are like stray cats. If you don’t feed them, they go away. - Unknown

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. - Aldous Huxley

Snatch at today and trust as little as you can in tomorrow. - Horace

Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. - Benjamin Franklin

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. - Lord Alfred Tennyson

Humorous Quotes

Quotes which are funny, ironical, some of which are also profoundly true.

It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him. - Jean Baudrillard 

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more. - Woody Allen

It seems that people go to a psychiatrist because they are slightly cracked. And they keep going until they are broke. - Unknown

It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you’d do something else. - Lawrence Durrell

It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn’t. - Mignon Mclaughlin

It was an amiable weakness. - Richard B. Sheridan

It would be an inconvenient rule if nothing could be done until everything can be done. - Winston Churchill

It’s not the lie that bothers me. It’s the insult to my intelligence that I find offensive. - Unknown

It’s a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water. - Franklin P. Jones

It’s all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date. - George Bernard Shaw

It’s better to be black than gay because when you’re black you don't have to tell your mother. - Charles Pierce

It’s important to be open-minded, but not so open-minded that your brains fall out. - Rick Radebaugh

It’s impossible to ravish me. I’m so willing. - The Faithful Shepherdess

It’s pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed. - Frank Mckinney Hubbard

Life - Quotes

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. - Chief Eagle, Pawnee

So long as you have courage and a sense of humour, it is never too late to start life afresh. - Unknown

Sometimes you need to look at Life from a different perspective. - Unknown

The big secret in life is there is no secret. Whatever your goal. You can get there if you’re willing to work. - Oprah Winfrey

The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles. Life’s true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin. - Johnathan Lockwood Huie

The essence of life is not in the great victories and grand failures, but in the simple joys. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times. -Paulo Coelho

There are two primary choices in life: To accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. - Denis Waitley

What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful. - Dalai Lama

What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things. - Unknown

Whatever you give to life, it gives you back. Do not hate anybody. The hatred which comes out from you will someday comeback to you. Love others. And love will come back to you. - Unknown

You are responsible for your life. You can’t keep blaming somebody else for  your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on. - Oprah Winfrey

Every day you can wake up with a new outlook on life; just by having hope, a good attitude, and no expectations of others. - Louis R R Wilkerson

Life is short. If there was ever a moment to follow your passion and do something that matters to you, that moment is now. - Unknown

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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character. - Stephen R. Covey

In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men, he is constantly acting a studied part. - Jeremy Collier

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist. - Stewart Alsop

In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action. - Aristotle

How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life. - Marcus Aurelius

The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. - Sigmund Freud

Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing. - Unknown

To find fulfillment . . . don’t exist with life – embrace it. - Jim Beggs

Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases. - Jeremy Collier

Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favour. - John  Collins

We often give enemies the means of our own destruction. - Aesop

There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man. - Aristotle

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If you treat an individual as he is, he will stay as he is; but if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we are praying for. - Angelina Grimke

When the seeds of love are planted in the hearts of others, hope has a chance to grow. Wherever hope grows, peace has a chance to bloom. - Robert Clancy

In the time we have, it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can. - William Barclay

It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives. - Samuel Butler

Sometimes, you need to be alone, not to be lonely, but to enjoy your free time being yourself. - Unknown

When someone does something wrong, don’t forget all the things they did right. - Unknown

Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary. - Louisa May Alcott

There are tones of voice that mean more than words. - Robert Frost 

It’s nice to be important, but it’s important to be nice. - Melissa Hahn

A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass. - Thomas Fuller

Nothing lasts forever – not even your troubles. - Arnold Glasgow

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When a distinguished but elder scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that  something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. - Arthur Charles Clarke

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination. - Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

If you believe everything happens for a reason, then trust that whatever you need will come and go from your life at precisely the right time.- Lisa Prosen

Accept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. - Eckhart Tolle

Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong. - Mandy Hale

Don’t lie to people who trust you and don’t trust people who lie to you. As simple as that. - Unknown

Enjoy yourself. These are the good old days you’re going to miss in the years ahead. - Unknown

You can’t study the darkness by flooding it with light. - Edward Abbey

It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong. - John Maynard

Kites rise highest against the wind; not with it. - Winston Churchill

It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived. - Publilius Syrus

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. - Harry Vaughan

Humorous Quotes

Quotes which are funny, ironical, some of which are also profoundly true.

It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. - Jerome Klapka Jerome

It is amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world everyday always just exactly fits the newspaper. - Jerry Seinfeld

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing. - Tom Stoppard

It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is difficult to believe that someone can differ from us and be right. - Unknown

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time. - Honore de Balzac

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less with baldness. - Cicero

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. - H. L. Mencken

It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin. - H. L. Mencken

It is not a lie, it’s a terminological inexactitude. - Alexander Haig

It is not a sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you do not break any. - Unknown

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it’s a painting, and if you can walk around it it’s a sculpture. - Tom Stoppard

It is well that war is so terrible – we would grow too fond of it. - Robert E. Lee

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs. - Margaret Thatcher

It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country. - Will Durant

Happiness - Quotes

Life’s truest happiness is found in the friendships we make along the way. - Unknown

Happiness is not the absence of the problems; it’s the ability to deal with them. - Unknown

Happiness is achieved when you stop waiting for it and make the most of the moment you are in now. - Unknown

Happiness is the best revenge, because nothing drives your enemies more insane than seeing you smiling and living a good life. - Unknown

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. - Marcus Aurelius

Everybody in the world is seeking happiness – and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn’t depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions. It isn’t what you have or who you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it. - Dale Carnegie

Happiness can only achieved by looking inward and learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude. - John Chrysostom

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. - Henry Ward Beecher

You have to find happiness in yourself before you can find it with someone. - Unknown

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You may know for a certainty that if your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you; for work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. - George C. Hubbs 

A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world. - Dr. Paul Dudley White

I could never think well of a man’s intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments. - Nathaniel Emmons

Sometimes the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the path to the best things that will ever happen to us. - Unknown

There are as many ways to live and grow as there are people. Our own ways are the only ways that should matter to us. - Unknown

The fellow who says he’ll meet you halfway usually thinks he’s standing on the dividing line. - Orlando A. Battista

It is not half as important to burn the midnight oil as it is to be awake in the daytime. - E. W. Elmore

You must make a choice to take a chance or your life will never change. - Unknown

Many things happen between the cup and the lip. - Robert Burton

Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

It’s hard to fly when something is weighing you down. - Unknown

Until death it is all life. - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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You seldom get what you go after unless you know in advance what you want. Indecision has often given an advantage to the other fellow because he did his thinking beforehand. - Maurice Switzer

I do not think necessity is the mother of invention – invention, in my opinion, arise directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble. - Agatha Christie

Miserable people focus on the things they hate about their life. Happy people focus on the things they love about their life. - Unknown

Moving on doesn’t mean you forget about things. It just means you have to accept what happened and continue living. - Unknown

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. - Henry C Link

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others. - Pericles

When you say ‘yes’ to others, make sure you are not saying ‘no’ to yourself. - Paulo Coehlo

The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies. - Unknown

We’re all so desperate to be understood, we forget to be understanding. -Beau Taplin

First law on holes - when you’re in one, stop digging! - Denis Healey

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. - Lao-tze

Man belongs to the earth, Earth does not belong to man. - Unknown

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You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters. - Plato

All achievers are life-long learners... Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they’re not learning, they’re not growing... not moving toward excellence. - Denis Waitley

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official. - Theodore Roosevelt

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own. - Lao Tzu

Self-discipline cures our body, deep concentration cures our mind and wisdom cures our behaviour. - Unknown

Pay attention to the ones who care instead of trying to get the attention of those who don’t. - Unknown

Remember, you can earn more money, but when time is spent, it’s gone forever. Zig Ziglar

All crosses are easier to carry when we keep moving. - Neal Maxwell

The coward threatens when he is safe. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Diplomacy is the art of knowing what not to say. - Matthew Trump

Sometimes it ends up different and it is better that way. - Unknown

It takes a big man to say, "I was wrong." - Unknown

Humorous Quotes

Quotes which are funny, ironical, some of which are also profoundly true.

Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results. - Scott Adams

Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops. - Cary Grant 

Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders? - Friedrich Nietzsche

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don’t know and I don’t care. - William Safire

Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me? - Mae West

It ain't over 'til the fat lady sings. - Dan Cook

It doesn’t matter what temperature the room is; it’s always room-temperature. - Steven Wright

It is just six of one and half-a-dozen of the other. - Frederick Marryat

It is only when a mosquito lands on your testicles that you realize there is always a way to solve problems without using violence. - Unknown

It happens as with cages: the bird without are desperate to get in, and those within despair of getting out. - Michel do Montaigne of marriage

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. - Bertrand Russell

It hath been thought a vast commendation of a painter to say his figures seem to breathe; but surely it is much greater and nobler applause, that they appear to think. - Henry Fielding

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. - Charles Dickens

It is absurd to argue with men, as well as to torture them into believing. - Cardinal John Henry Newman

It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life - Quotes

Experience life in all possible ways – good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities. Don’t be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become. - Osho

Life won’t be better, and never will be, until you stop wishing for this better life and realize that life is already incredible. This life, right now, is already perfect. Enjoy it. - Leo Babauta

Life’s up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want. - Marsha Sinetar

Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are. - Bernice Reagon

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. - Hans Christian Andersen

Life is like a multiple choice question, sometimes the choices confuse you – not the question itself. - Unknown

Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb but how well you bounce. - Vivian Komori

Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use. - Charles M. Schulz

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Don’t go through life, grow through life. - Eric Butterworth

Each day is a new life. Seize it. Live it. - David Guy Powers

Life is the greatest journey you will ever be on. - Unknown

Live is an adventure in forgiveness. - Norman Cousins

A life not lived for others is not a life. - Mother Teresa

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Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. THAT IS relativity. - Albert Einstein

Familiarity may not breed contempt, but your worthy thoughts and actions are assured a greater recognition by those of a less close association. - Validivar

Sometimes you have to get knocked down lower than  you’ve ever been, to stand up taller then you ever were. - Unknown

We are strangers to our hidden potential until we confront problems that reveal our capabilities. - Apoorve Dubey

We become what we want to be by consistently being what we want to become each day. - Richard G Scott

You can determine how confident people are by listening to what they don’t say about themselves. - Brian G. Jett

Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. - Unknown

Fake people have an image to maintain. Real people just don’t care. - Unknown

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice. - Ed Howe

All is ephemeral - fame and the famous as well. - Marcus Aurelius

That which does not kill us makes us stronger. - Friedrich Nietzsche

A wish is a desire without an attempt. - Unknown

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Darkness is not a force – it is merely the absence of light. Observe that when a light is brought to a dark place, the darkness disappears. Sadness is similar – when joy is brought to suffering, the sadness disappears. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Don’t try to overhaul your life overnight. Instead, focus on making one small change at a time. Over time, those small changes will add up to big transformation. Don’t give up! - Unknown

Ask yourself what is really important, and then have the wisdom and courage to build your life around  your answer. - Unknown

Don’t wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul. - Unknown

Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different. - C.S Lewis

How you see your future is much more important than what has happened in the past. - Zig Ziglar

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. - Lao Tzu

Never cry for that person who doesn’t know the value of your tears. - Unknown

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams. - Oprah Winfrey

Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. - Marilyn Monroe

Keep your face to the sunshine and you will not see the shadows. - Helen Keller

Be happy. It is one way of being wise. - Unknown

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An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Sometimes it’s great fun to be silly, like children playing statues and dying of laughter. And sometimes being silly breaks the even pace and lets you get a new start. - John Steinbeck

Learn to accept the reality of yourself as someone with strengths and weaknesses who will have some good days and some bad days. - Unknown

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. - Albert Einstein

Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never. - Alan Bennett

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable. - Denis Waitley

Anything we have ever done that ultimately was worthwhile, initially scared us to death. - Unknown

To be old and wise, you must first have to be young and stupid. - Unknown

Ill customs and bad advice are seldom forgotten. - Benjamin Franklin

Nobody abuses us more than we abuse ourselves. - Don Miguel Ruiz

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it. - J. Ogden Armour

Examine the contents, not the bottle. - Unknown

Humorous Quotes

Quotes which are funny, ironical, some of which are profoundly true.

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older. - Mario Andretti

If you want to see an endangered species, get up and look in the mirror. - John Young

If you were happy every day of your life, you wouldn't be a human being. You'd be a game show host. - Unknown

If you win, you need not have to explain… if you lose, you should not be there to explain! - Adolf Hitler

If you’re already walking on thin ice, you might as well dance. - Gil Atkinson

If you’re going through hell, keep going. - Winston Churchill

If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall. - Bill Earle

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh? - Aldous Huxley

I'm astounded by people who want to ‘know’ the universe when it’s hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. - Woody Allen 

Imagination is a guilty secret, usually, a passion best kept inside the privacy of one's own skull. - Margaret Lee Runbeck

In an underdeveloped country don’t drink the water. In a developed country don’t breathe the air. - Jonathan Raban

In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody’s torments in this world or the next laid to my charge. - Lord Chesterfield

In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued. - Helen Rowland

In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him. - Dereke Rita