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If someone comes into your life and has a positive impact on you, be thankful that your paths crossed. And even if they can’t stay for some reason, be thankful that they somehow made you happy, even if it was just for a short while. - Unknown

We come with nothing, we go with noting, but one great thing we can achieve in our beautiful life is… a little remembrance in someone’s mind and a small place in someone’s heart. - Unknown

Instead of judging others as people who ought to behave in certain ways, see them as reflecting a part of you, and ask yourself what it is you are ready to learn from them. - Wayne Dyer

When you believe something is hard, the universe demonstrates the difficulty. When you believe something is easy, the universe demonstrates the ease. - Abraham Hicks

You don’t always need a logical reason for doing everything in your life. Do it because you want to, because it’s fun, because it makes you happy. - Unknown

You can give a person knowledge, but you can’t make them think. Some people want to remain fools, only because the truth requires change. - Unknown

Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest. - Unknown

Sometimes things happen to us that we just don’t understand. These things sometimes become the doors and window to our destiny. - Andrea Nugent

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. - George Bernard Shaw

Some days are for falling in love with people some days for cities and some for your time in solitude. - Akif Kichloo

Not the ones speaking the same language, but the ones sharing the same feeling understand each other. - Rumi

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations. - Edward de Bono

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The Mind - Quotes

If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place. - Lao Tzu

If you don't control your mind, someone else will. - John Allston

If you let cloudy water settle, it will become clear.  If you let your upset mind settle, your course will also become clear. - Unknown

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. - Chinese Proverb

If you would make your mind strong, you must give it strong food. - Reuen Thomas

In the world of mind, as in that of matter, we always occupy a position. He who is continually changing his point of view will see more, and that too more clearly, than one who, statue-like, forever stands upon the same pedestal; however lofty and well-placed that pedestal may be. - Arthur Helps

Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen: even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind. - Leonardo da Vinci

It all begins and ends in your mind. What you give power to, has power over you. - Leon Brown

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways. – The Buddha

It is our mind, and that alone, that chains us or sets us free. - Dilgo Rinpoche 

It is our minds that make our lives so homeless. - John O'Donohue

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. - Aristotle

It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul. - Ovid

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. - Alfred North Whitehead

It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way. - Christopher Morley

Just as dogs love to chew bones, the mind loves to get its teeth into problems. That's why it does crossword puzzles and builds atom bombs. - Eckhart Tolle

Just as the ocean has waves or the sun has rays, so the mind’s own radiance is its thoughts and emotions. - Sogyal Rinpoche

Keep your mind humble, and open to new ideas. You will learn much more in the process, and continue to develop as a human being. - Unknown

Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality. - Joseph Addison

Let the mind be enlarged…to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind. - Francis Bacon

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. - Washington Irving

Man has amazing potentialities of mind but like treasure hidden in the mountain they are of little use to him until he has cleared away the dense matter that keeps them concealed from himself. - K. Sri Dhammananda

Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Love - Quotes

True love does not only encompass the things that make you feel good, it also holds you to a standard of accountability. - Monica Johnson

There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love. - Mother Theresa

There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love. - Oscar Wilde

The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love. - Henry Miller

The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it’s not work for me. - John Irving

Anyone can love you when the sun is shining. In the storm is where you learn who truly cares for you. - Unknown

To love is not to look at one another, but to look together in the same direction. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

There is no greater treasure in this world than somebody who loves you as you are. - Eric Micha’el Leventhal

True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does. - Torquato Tasso

To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything. - T. Tolis

So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world. - Isadora Duncan

Time has no dominion over love. Love is the one thing that transcends time. - Jeaniene Frost

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Mirrors are dangerous things. They can just as easily tell us what we don't like as what we do. Yet in truth, you can't tell anything from a reflection, as a reflection is actually empty. - Susie Staplehurst

Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells in heads replete with thoughts of other men; wisdom in minds attentive to their own. - William Cowper

When you fight reality, you will lose every time. Once you accept the situation for what it really is, not what you want it to be, you are then free to mover forward. - Jenni Young

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions – as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all. - Nietzsche

True mastery lies not in things or in paradigms, but in our ability to cause life to be serenely, magnificently, completely, what is. - Werner Erhard

Never miss out on a good person that can make you life great just because they are a little difficult. The good ones never come easy. - Unknown

Earth is not a platform for human life. It’s a living being. We’re not on it but part of it.its health is our health. - Thomas Moore

If your outlook is focused on misery, you live in hell; if your outlook is focused on happiness, the very hell becomes the heaven. - Osho

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared. - Niccolo Machiavelli

One day you will look back and realize that you worried too much about things that don’t really matter. - Unknown

What a man can be is born with him; what he becomes is a result of his environment. - American Proverb

There is something so much bigger in your future than anything you have left behind. - Abraham Hicks

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You - Quotes on You

Never think for a second you’re alone with your struggles. you’re not a mess. you’re human. - Lori Deschene

You are either as beautiful or as ugly as you believe you are. You define your beauty. that’s not a power anyone can have over you.- Unknown

Create your identity in such a way where people surely realise that ignoring or leaving you is only their loss. Live with uniqueness and dignity. - Unknown

If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride – and never quit, you’ll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards. - Paul Bryant

Life is way too short to spend another day at war with yourself. - Unknown

You owe yourself the love that you so freely give to other people. - Alexander Elle

You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry, don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way. - Walter Hagen

Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You. - Dr. Seuss

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement. - Golda Meir

What you must dare: is to be yourself. - Dag Hammarskjöld

What you tell yourself every day will either lift you up or tear you down. - Unknown

Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it. - Diane Sawyer

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life. - Jean Shinoda Bolen

When you’re different, sometimes you don’t see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn’t. - Jodi Picoult

You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else things. - Deepak Chopra

You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of your own making. - Stephen Richards

Stop looking at yourself at yourself negatively for everything you aren’t, and start loving yourself for everything you already are. - Unknown

As you are you jailer, you are also you saviour. - Unknown

Success - Quotes

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. - Swami Vivekananda

If you associate with successful people, before long you will become successful. Their enthusiasm will be contagious and you will catch that vision. If you stay in an atmosphere of victory, before long you're going to have an image of victory. - Joel Osteen

The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The highest form of success ... comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph. - Theodore Roosevelt

Remember, success is buried on the other side of rejection. There are no real successes without rejection. The more rejection you get, the better you are, the more you've learned, the closer you are to your outcome. - Anthony Robbins

The key to success is to risk thinking unconventional thoughts. Convention is the enemy of progress. If you go down just one corridor of thought you never get to see what’s in the rooms leading off it. - Trevor Baylis

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; for, as it surrounds us with friends, who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects. - Charles Caleb Colton

Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity. - Joseph Sugarman

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Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves. - Thomas Hobbes

The real things haven’t changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong. - Laura Ingalls Wilder

Breaking someone’s trust is like crumpling up a perfect piece of paper. You can smooth it over but it’s never gong to be the same again. - Unknown

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. - Eckhart Tolle

Tell the story of the mountain you climbed. Your words could become a page in someone else’s survival guide. - Morgan Harper Nichols

Waiting for circumstances to change so you can feel good is like looking in a mirror waiting for your reflection to smile first. - Bashar

The most important thing is this: to be able at any moment – to sacrifice what you are, for what you will become. - Eric Thomas

Sometimes, seeing is believing. And sometimes the most real things in the world are the things you can’t see. - Unknown

When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower. - Alexander Den Heijer

The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else. - John Madden

Do all you do, not intimated by the world, but peacefully driven from within to make it better. - Unknown

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. - Unknown

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Technology - Quotes

I discovered, to my amazement, that all through history there had been resistance ... and bitter, exaggerated, last-stitch resistance ... to every significant technological change that had taken place on earth. Usually the resistance came from those groups who stood to lose influence, status, money...as a result of the change. Although they never advanced this as their reason for resisting it. It was always the good of humanity that rested upon their hearts. - Isaac Asimov

I have no opposition at all to technology. I think technology is a wonderful thing that has to be used thoughtfully, and we can't just assume that every bit of new technology improves the quality of life; it's really in how the technology is used. What I am very disturbed about is this trend of everything happening faster and faster and faster and there being more and more general noise in the world, and less and less time for quiet refection on who we are, and where we're going. - Alan Lightman

If we're ever going to get the world back on a natural footing, back in tune with natural rhythms, if we're going to nurture the Earth and protect it and have fun with it and learn from it – which is what mothers do with their children – then we've got to put technology (an aggressive masculine system) in its proper place, which is that of a tool to be used sparingly, joyfully, gently and only in the fullest cooperation with nature. Nature must govern technology, not the other way around. - Tom Robbins

I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things. - Douglas Adams

The strongest impacts of an emergent technology are always unanticipated. You can’t know what people are going to do until they get their hands on it and start using it on a daily basis, using it to make a buck and u­sing it for criminal purposes and all the different things that people do. The people who invented pagers, for instance, never imagined that they would change the shape of urban drug dealing all over the world. We’re increasingly aware that our society is driven by these unpredictable uses we find for the products of our imagination. - William Gibson

The way to solve the conflict between human values and technology needs is not to run away from technology. That's impossible. The way to resolve the conflict is to break down the barriers of dualistic thought that prevent a real understanding of what technology is – not an exploitation of nature, but a fusion of nature and the human spirit into a new kind of creation that transcends both. - Robert M. Pirsig

We now stand in the vestibule of a vast new technological age – one that, despite its capacity for human destruction, has an equal capacity to make poverty and human misery obsolete. If our efforts are wisely directed – and if our unremitting efforts for dependable peace begin to attain some success – we can surely become participants in creating an age characterized by justice and rising levels of human well-being. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Life - Quotes

Ah, what is life! 'T is but a passing touch upon the world; a print upon the beaches of the earth. Next flowing wave will wash away. - Anna Katherine Green

About the time we have subdued the fires of youth that threaten to consume us, we find ourselves battling with the infirmities of age. - Lewis F. Korns

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don’t just give up. - Stephen Hawking

A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning. - Virginia Woolf

How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy! - Robert Browning

A somewhat depressing lesson that we learn from life is that there is no guaranteed sure-fire formula for happiness. - Michael Eysenck

Life must be lived with courage, with climbing and risks, else there is no happiness, no hope, no true success, no future. - Jennette Lee

Sometimes life doesn’t give you what you want, not because you don’t deserve it, but because you deserve more. - Unknown

Life will only change when you become more committed to your dreams than you are to your comfort zone. - Unknown

A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation. - Neale Walsch

We are meant to taste life ... and drink the cup of it to the dregs, bitter and sweet alike. - Jacqueline Carey

The joy of living, its beauty, is all bound up in the fact that life can surprise you. - Frank Herbert

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If you want good things to happen in your life you first have to believe good things are possible for yourself. Quite allowing negative and cynical thinking to get in the way of the good life you deserve. - Bryant McGill

Nobility of birth does not always insure a corresponding nobility of mind; if it did, it would always act as a stimulus to noble actions; but it sometimes acts as a clog, rather than a spur. - Charles Caleb Colton

Power and beauty are antithetical. Power strives to build stable structures that can exist for all of time, while beauty shifts the earth from beneath our feet; as soon as we glimpse it, it is already gone. - Michael Jones

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him. - Niccolo Machiavelli

Sometimes, what appears like an obstacle in your path is really a gift mean to move you in a better direction. - Unknown

Don’t be in such a rush to figure everything out. Embrace the unknown and let your life surprise you. - Unknown

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected. - Steve Jobs

Not the ones speaking the same language, but the ones sharing the same feeling understand each other. - Rumi

Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine. - Jack Ma

Life is not all about money. Some of the poorest people are the happiest people you can meet. - Unknown

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story. - Orson Welles

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top. - Unknown

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Food for Thought

If somebody tells me that the sky is green, and I believe it is to be blue, I don’t need to argue with them, prove myself right by making them wrong, or call them names,, I just walk away from that conversation with the newfound knowledge that to some people the sky looks green. that’s all. The blueness of my sky is not at all jeopardized by how green someone else perceive it to be. Imagine how much easier life would be if we stopped fighting about every little things. Loosen your grip, smile it’s all okay. All of it. - Unknown

Every single day is different. Some days you wake up and feel strong to face the world, you feel like you can handle everything and you think you’re unstoppable. Other days you just don’t want to get out of bed, you feel like you’re fragile like a glass and just wanna get away from your reality. And that’s life. Life consists of both kind of days. Learn to love and support yourself every single day, either good or bad. Learn to accept that life has ups and downs and that is what makes it a wonderful journey. - Unknown

The people we surround ourselves with either raise or lower our standards. They either help us to become the-best-version-of-ourselves or encourage us to become lesser versions of ourselves. We all need people in out lives who raise our standards, remind us of our essential purpose, and challenge us to become the-best-version-of-ourselves. - Matthew Kelly

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Happiness

There are some individuals who have too strong a craving, a will, and a nostalgia for happiness ever to reach it. They always retain a bitter and passionate aftertaste, and that's the best they can hope for. - Albert Camus

To be happy, even to conceive happiness, you must be reasonable or ... you must be tamed. You must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passions and learned your place in the world. - George Santayana

Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur every day than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom. - Benjamin Franklin

A somewhat depressing lesson that we learn from life is that there is no guaranteed sure-fire formula for happiness. - Michael W. Eysenck

We live in a dangerous world. If you see a chance to be happy, you have to fight for it, so later you have no regrets. - Ilona Andrews

Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections. - Gerard Way

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

Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness. - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy! - Joyce Meyer

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Happiness can never come to those who can’t appreciate what they already have. - Unknown

Happiness consists in giving and in serving others. - Henry Drummond

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We all have inner demons to fight, we call these demons, fear and hatred and anger. If you do not conquer them then a life of one hundred years is a tragedy. If you do, then a life of a single day can be a triumph. - Yip Man

What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instincts of beasts. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

After all, what matters is not the first, but the last chapter of our lives which shows how well we ran the race. So smile, laugh, forgive, believe and love. - Unknown

There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind, where none may save. - Isaac Asimov

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration. - Niccolo Machiavelli

Sometimes you face difficulties not because you’re doing something wrong, but because you’re doing something right. - Unknown

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. - James Baldwin

Sometimes, you have to let faith lead the way even though you can’t see where it will take you. - Unknown

Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar. - Bradley Miller

Happiness or sorrow – whatever befalls you. Walk on untouched, unattached. - Unknown

Life becomes magical when you learn to be as good to yourself as you are to others. - Unknown

There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives. - Graham Green

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