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Life - Quotes

Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy. - Unknown

Every time you subtract Negative from your life, you make room for more Positive! - Unknown

Life gets easier when you stop caring and expecting things to get better! - Nehali Lalwani

Life holds so many simple blessings, each day bringing its own individual wonder. - John McLeod

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it’s worth watching. - Unknown

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts. - Soren Kierkegaard

Life is a beach. Sometimes you end up with a little sand in your pants. - Unknown

Nothing in life promised except death. - Kanye West

A useless life is an early death. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One must live as he can. - Maxwell Anderson

We often miss the end of life by having no object before us. - Henry F. Kletzing

Our lives are frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify. - Henry David Thoreau

Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it. - C. C. Lewis

If you are good, life is good. - Roald Dahl

Live your own life, for you will die your own death. - Latin Proverb

No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted. - George Eliot

Life doesn’t retreat. - Dan Simmons

It is not length of life, but depth of life. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

You have not lost all when you have life. - Edward Counsel

Life thunders on. - Lola Ridge

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Mind - Quotes

The greatest business of a man is to improve his mind. - Wellins Calcott

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. - Rene Descartes

The hardest thing in the world to open is a closed mind. - Unknown

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

The human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse. - Samuel Richardson

The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater power it is termed a hunch, or insight, or intuition. - Isaac Asimov

The idle mind knows not what it wants. - Ennius

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift. - Albert Einstein

The knowing mind is active in attending, selecting and interpreting; but it must attend to, select from and interpret what is presented to it; and therefore, it must be passive as well as active. - Unknown

The mind ain't nothing without the old body tagging along to follow things through. - Sam Shepard

The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere. - James Russell Lowell

The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance. - St. Augustine

The mind grows by what it feeds on. - Josiah Gilbert Holland

The mind has an extraordinary power to create illusion through belief through escapes, through dogmas. - J. Krishnamurti

The mind has no kitchen to do its dirty work in while the parlour remains clean. - Henry Ward Beecher

The mind is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not discreetly how to use it. - Michel Montaigne

The mind is a mill which can incessant turn, 'til its mere operation focus the stress inward and the stones grind themselves to dust. - David Mamet

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. - Eckhart Tolle

The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. - John Milton

The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost everything; if ill-packed, next to nothing. - Augustus William Hare & Julius Charles Hare

You - Quotes

Whatever you habitually think yourself to be, that you are. You must form, now, a greater and better habit; you must form a conception of yourself as a being of limitless power, and habitually think that you are that being. It is the habitual, not the periodical thought that decides your destiny. - Wallace D. Wattles

If you learn to really sit with loneliness and embrace it for the gift that it is – an opportunity to get to know YOU, to learn how strong you really are, to depend on no one but YOU for your happiness, you will realize that a little loneliness goes a LONG way in creating a richer, deeper, more vibrant and colourful YOU. - Mandy Hale

One day it just clicks. You realize what’s important and what isn’t. You learn to care less about what other people think of you and more about what you think of yourself. You realize how far you’ve come and you remember when you thought things were such a mess that you would never recover. And you smile. You smile because you are truly proud of yourself and the person you’ve fought to become. - Unknown

Sometimes life can be very painful. It gets complicated at the worst of times and sometimes you have no idea where to go or what to do. But you have to keep trying. You have to push through all that hurts; work past all the painful memories. Because sometimes the things that hurt you the most are that things that make you the strongest. A life without experience is no life at all. Never stop yourself from living, from loving, from hoping and dreaming. You deserve it. - Unknown

Win / Winning / Winners- Quotes

A quitter never wins – and a winner never quits. - Napoleon Hill

A winner is someone who recognizes his talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills and uses these skills to accomplish his goals. - Larry Bird

Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it. - Arthur Ashe

Games are lost and won in your mind as much as they are on the field. - Carl Deuker

He who dares wins. - American Proverb

If you ask me how I want to be remembered, it is as a winner. You know what a winner is? A winner is somebody who has given his best effort, who has tried the hardest they possibly can, who has utilized every ounce of energy and strength within them to accomplish something. It doesn't mean that they accomplished it or failed, it means that they've given it their best. That's a winner. - Walter Payton

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. - William Hazlitt

It’s impossible for me to applaud your successes when my hands are too busy patting myself on the back. But if I clap for you, and you pat my back, we can both feel like winners. - Jarod Kintz

It’s not the will to win that matters – everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters. - Paul “Bear” Bryant

My core philosophy on winning and motivation is summed up by saying that you were born to win, but in order to be the winner you were born to be, you have to plan to win and prepare to win before you can expect to win. - Zig Ziglar

Never give up, never give in, and when the upper hand is ours, may we have the ability to handle the win with the dignity that we absorbed the loss. - Dough Williams

Not all dreamers are winners, but all winners are dreamers. - Mark Gorman

Our skill is not shown in winning the game with good cards, but to make the best of whatever cards are placed in our hands. - G. Forster

Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive. - Donald Trump

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you're behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory. - Arthur Ashe

Slow and steady wins the race. - Aesop

Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner. - Lady Gaga

The difference in winning and losing is most often ... not quitting. - Walt Disney

The fact is, none of us truly wins, until we all win!! - Unknown

The game itself is bigger than the winning. - Dejan Stojanovic

The hardest thing about winning is trying to do so without losing something of greater importance. - Pete Abrams

The important thing in life is not the victory but the contest; the essential thing is not to have won but to have fought well. - Baron Pierre de Coubertin

The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning. - Pele

Those enjoying winning streaks thus win twofold. They win not only the game but also the right to greater self-determination. They become masters of their own fate. That feeling of efficacy, of being in charge of circumstances, is the essence of confidence. Winning once or twice is encouraging, but winning continuously is empowering. - Rosabeth Moss Kanter

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are. - Muhammad Ali

We like winning. We've tried both and winning is better. - Lane Kirkland

When you win, say nothing, when you lose, say less. - Paul Brown

When you win, you don't examine it very much, except to congratulate yourself. You easily, and wrongly, assume it has something to do with your rare qualities as a person. But winning only measures how hard you've worked and how physically talented you are; it doesn't particularly define you beyond those characteristics. - Lance Armstrong

Whoever said, "It's not whether you win or lose but how you play the game" is full of it! Winning makes all the difference in the world. Winning is fun. Losing is not. Losing sucks. - Pete Rose

Winners are people who aren’t afraid to take a chance now and then. Losers sit around and wait for the odds to improve. Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant, and interesting. - Aldous Huxley

Winning becomes easier over time as the cornerstones of confidence become habits. - Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Winning is a state of mind that embraces everything you do. - Bryce Courtenay

Winning is about struggle and effort and optimism, and never, ever, ever giving up. - Amby Burfoot

Winning isn't getting ahead of others. It's getting ahead of yourself. - Roger Staubach

Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it. - Dianne Feinstein

Winning means you’re willing to go longer, work harder, and give more than anyone else. - Vince Lombardi

Yes, victory is sweet, but it doesn't necessarily make life any easier the next season or even the next day. - Phil Jackson

You can only become a winner if you are willing to walk over the edge. - Ronald E. McNair

You've got to be sure of yourself before you can ever win a prize. - Napoleon Hill

Love - Quotes

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning. - Thornton Wilder

Grasping at love is like trying to retain a handful of sand; the tighter one squeezes, the more sand escapes. - Corvus

I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world. - Charles Dickens

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools. - Katherine Mansfield

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. - Mother Theresa

Every person has to love at least one bad partner in their lives to be truly thankful for the right one. - Unknown

In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love. - Igor Stravinsky

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. - Oscar Wilde

Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost. - Khalil Gibran

I love it when I see old people together, because it makes me believe that true LOVE exists. - Unknown

If you have to convince someone you’re right for them, then they aren’t right for you. - Unknown

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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Life - Quotes

The important thing in life is not the victory but the contest; the essential thing is not to have won but to have fought well. - Baron Pierre de Coubertin

The important thing in life is to have great aim and to possess the aptitude and the perseverance to attain it. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. - Oprah Winfrey

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. - Cecil B. De Mille

The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility. - Thomas S. Monson

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honourable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination. - Don Williams

The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind. - Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

There is nothing more grey, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory. - Jaron Lanier

This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize that it is play. - Alan Watts

Those who died yesterday had plans for this morning. And those who died this morning had plans for tonight. Don’t take life for granted. - Unknown

To grant all a man’s wishes is to take away his dreams and ambitions. Life is only worth living if you have something to strive for. To aim at. - P.B. Kerr

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Proverbs / Maxims / Axioms...

A man with a cough cannot conceal himself. - African Proverb

Some things are better left unsaid. - Unknown

After dinner rest a while; after supper walk a mile. - T. Cogan

Keep your eyes on the sun and you will not see the shadows. - Australian Aborigine Saying

Great oaks from little acorns grow. - Chaucer

A clean mouth and an honest hand will take a man through any land. - German Proverb

Pleasing ware is half sold. - George Herbert

When the iron is hot, strike. - John Heywood

Things are seldom what they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream. - W. S. GIlbert

Everyone gets their just deserts. - Unknown

Don't be led around by the nose. - Unknown

An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. - Spanish Proverb

Don’t do things that kill you. - Unknown

Who waiteth for dead man's shoes will go long barefoot. - John Heywood

New roads: new ruts. - G. K. Chesterton

All’s well that ends well. - John Heywood

What is true by lamplight is not always true in sunlight. - French Proverb

Every head is a world. - Cuban Proverb

Little by little one walks far. - Peruvian

When the heart is at ease, the body is healthy. - Chinese Proverb

Speak little, do much. - Benjamin Franklin

Every man for himself. - John Heywood

Only the foolish visit the land of the cannibals. - Maori Proverb

Play the hand you're dealt. - Jawahareal Nehru

A watched pot never boils. - Unknown

Truth - Quotes

Most people don’t really want the truth. They just want constant reassurance that what they believe us the truth. - Unknown

Most people will accept a likely lie to an unlikely truth. In fact, they prefer it. - Laurel K. Hamilton

Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit. - Edward R. Murrow

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world. - George Bernard Shaw

Never assume the obvious is true. - William Safir

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it. - Mark Twain

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed. - H. L. Mencken

No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition. - William Osler

No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth. - Henry Ward Beecher

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

No one owns the truth, no person, no prophet, and no holy book. Each of those and, indeed, each person has the ability, the right, and the responsibility to seek and find his or her own truth, and, if found, it may be a truth for that moment, in that situation, and for that person only. - Unknown

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth. - Francis Bacon

No two things can be so contradictory, so much at variance as truth and falsehood; and yet none are so mixed and united. - Fluke Greville

Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments. - Henry Wad Beecher

Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have. - Elizabeth Bowen

Not everything that's true needs to be said. - Cassandra Clare

Nothing endures except truth. - Luc de Clapiers

Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

On the face of it, it must be a bad cause which will not bear discussion. Truth seeks light instead of shunning it. - Horace Mann

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be ‘unseen’. - David Victor Sim

Our feelings often colour the truth. - Edward Counsel

Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

Envronment - Quotes

The story of humankind and our relationship to the earth may be seen as a continuing adventure or a tragedy shrouded in mystery. The choice is ours. - Al Gore

The warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis. It is deepening. We are entering a period of consequences. - Al Gore

There are very few objections to the theory as a whole; everyone in the scientific community agrees that the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide is on the rise, and almost everyone believes that it cannot help having some effect. To declare, as some editorialists have done, that the warming has not yet appeared and therefore the theory is wrong is like arguing that a woman hasn't yet given birth and therefore isn't pregnant. - Bill McKibben

Two thousand scientists, in a hundred countries, engaged in the most elaborate, well organized scientific collaboration in the history of humankind, have produced long-since a consensus that we will face a string of terrible catastrophes unless we act to prepare ourselves and deal with the underlying causes of global warming. - Al Gore

We are in a race against time. Newspaper and magazine articles, television specials, and film documentaries all predict a terrible future: global warming will bring to the world melting ice sheets, flooded coastal regions, powerful hurricanes, droughts, and dislocated populations. In a recent study, the Pentagon described the famine, widespread rioting, and even war we can expect as nations defend their dwindling food, water, and energy supplies. - Brian Dumaine

We have many advantages in the fight against global warming, but time is not one of them. Instead of idly debating the precise extent of global warming, or the precise timeline of global warming, we need to deal with the central facts of rising temperatures, rising waters, and all the endless troubles that global warming will bring. We stand warned by serious and credible scientists across the world that time is short and the dangers are great. The most relevant question now is whether our own government is equal to the challenge. - John McCain

We wield an enormous influence over the world through how we choose to vote and what we choose to buy. Again, it's the power of numbers. If voters hold their leaders responsible for doing something about global warming, it will get done. If most people refuse to buy products from companies that, for example, wrap products in more plastic than necessary, pretty soon the plastic wrapping will stop. - Anthony D. Barnosky

Yes, there is still much about global warming we have to learn and research should continue. But the longer we delay, the more CO2 will build up in the atmosphere. It stays there a long time. If we wait too long before acting, we will pass a point of no return and lock ourselves into centuries of global warming. We could pass one of those dangerous tipping points that could make life very difficult. It's a risk we shouldn't take. - Jim Dipeso

On the other hand, there are those who think that …

Global warming is indeed a scam, perpetrated by scientists with vested interests, but in need of crash courses in geology, logic and the philosophy of science. - Martin Keeley

Some of the scientists, I believe, haven’t they been changing their opinion a little bit on global warming? There’s a lot of differing opinions and before we react I think it’s best to have the full accounting, full understanding of what’s taking place. - George W. Bush

Most people have very busy lives and simply are not exposed to the real facts about what is happening. It’s much easier to pretend it’s not happening when you can’t see, on very short time scales, the actual impacts. Coupled with this psychological reality is the fact that society ‘is now’ rather than in the future. The inertia in the Earth System means that behaviour today will have significant impacts tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow, rather than being immediate. The most serious impacts of climate change today are not seen by most people in the western world as few venture into the developing world, or the poles, where most of the action is. This, coupled with the fact that it is rarely possible to directly link climate change to a specific event in a specific place, all helps to seed doubt into many minds. The final ingredient in this story is a tiny minority of people and organizations who deliberately provide disinformation and set out to confuse people, for their own ends. The coal and oil industries among others have repeatedly demonstrated their credentials in this area. The result is that normal intelligent people are confused, and rather than take on what seems to be a daunting challenge, will tend to walk away from the question. - Neil Hamilton

On Humour

He who laughs, lasts. - Mary Pettibone Poole

Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing. - Allen Klein

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. - Thomas Carlyle

Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does. - Bill Nye

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it. - Frank A. Clark

Laugh as much as possible, always laugh. It's the sweetest thing one can do for oneself & one's fellow human beings. - Maya Angelou

Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor. - Eric Sevareid

Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it. - George Saintsbury

The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortunes. - Bert Williams

The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense. - Jacob August Riis

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Life - Quotes

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. - Jawaharlal Nehru

We must value life and treasure each breath we take. We must value each person and how he or she touches our lives every day. - Shadonna Richards

When thinking about life, remember this: No amount of guilt can solve the past, and no amount of anxiety can change the future. - Unknown

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice. - Indian Proverb

Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible. - Eric Hoffer

You can’t control everything. Sometimes you just need to relax and have faith that things will work out. Let go a little and just let life happen. - Kody Keplinger

You can’t open up the story of my life and just go to page 738 and think you know me. - Arin Hanson

You don’t have the power to make life ‘fair,’ but you do have the power to make life joyful. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You must live life in such a spirit that you make in every moment the best of possibilities. - Carl Gustav Jung

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it. - Gautama Buddha

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life. - James Allen

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else. - Les Brown

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Love - Quotes

Love has both honey and gall in abundance. - Roman Proverb

He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gates open. - R Tagore

If  you have love, you will do all things well. - Thomas Merton .

Love is a great beautifier. - Louisa May Alcott

And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make. - The Beatles

Love's never a fair trade. - Margaret Atwood

Love is a stream that will find its course. - Jamaican Proverb

Love is a strange dark magic. - Atticus

Love is like butter, it goes well with bread. - Yiddish Proverb

One love drives out another. - Spanish Proverb

If love be timid it is not true. - Spanish Proverb

Take away love, and our earth is a tomb! - Robert Browning

The first duty of love is to listen. - Paul Tillich

Love laughs at locksmiths. - English Proverb

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man. - Charles Darwin

True love lasts forever. - Joseph B. Wirthlin

Love is love's reward. - John Dryden

Love is great when you find someone to give it to. - Chris Myrick

Love conquers all things. - Virgil

Love will find a way. - Unknown

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Quote Worthy

Diversity is not about how we differ. Diversity is about embracing one another's uniqueness. - Ola Joseph

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been. - Sophocles

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions. - John Locke

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him. - John Locke

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided. - John Locke

It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of truth. - John Locke

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. - John Locke

The discipline of desire is the background of character. - John Locke

The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves. - John Locke

He who lives without folly is not as wise as he may think. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Mind - Quotes

One man that has a mind and knows it, can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t. - George Bernard Shaw

One’s mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do. - Arthur C. Benson

Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. - Hans Margolius

Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite. - Marcus Fabius Quintilian

Our Minds can be wonderful, but at the same time they can be our very worst enemy. - Sogyal Rinpoche

Our minds influence the key activity of the brain, which then influences everything; perception, cognition, thoughts and feelings, personal relationships; they’re all a projection of you. - Deepak Chopra

Paradoxically, as the mind becomes simpler, it can perceive greater complexity. - William Hamilton

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock in a thunderstorm. - Robert Luis Stevenson

Quiet people have the loudest minds. - Stephen Hawking

Research has clearly demonstrated that the subconscious mind makes no distinction between constructive and destructive thought-impulses, and will drive our actions based on the material we used in nourishing it. - Unknown

Seek first the virtues of the mind; and other things either will come, or will not be wanted. - Francis Bacon

Since  everything is a reflection of our minds … everything can be changed by our minds. - The Buddha

Sit in reverie and watch the changing colour of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. - Blaise Pascal

Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves. - James Frazer

Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set. - Unknown

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion. - Pythagoras

That’s the classical mind at work, runs fine inside but looks dingy on the surface. - Robert M. Pirsig

The best cure for a sluggish mind is to disturb its routine. - William H. Danforth

The country would be far better if the population were half as interested in keeping their minds in as good condition as they tried to keep their bodies. - John Saul

Life - Quotes

As one goes through life, one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t move. - Katherine Hepburn

Everyone should smile. Life really isn’t that serious. We make it hard. The sun rises. The sun sets. We just tend to complicate the process. - Unknown

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. - Walt Disney

If there’s one thing I learned, it’s that nobody is here forever. You have to live for the moment, each and every day … the here, the now. - Simone Elkeles

It is the familiar that usually eludes us in life. What is before our noses is what we see last. - William Barrett

Keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life’s a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about. - Marilyn Monroe

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier. - Albert Schweitzer

Life begins as a quest of the child for the man and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child. - Laurens Van der Post

Life is not made up of a single moment, it’s made up of a gazillion moments. What defines us is the choice we make in the next moment, and the one after that. - Henry Spencer

Live quietly in the moment and see that beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself. - Paramahansa Yogananda

Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment. - Mahatma Gandhi

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humour, and some style. - Maya Angelou

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Humour

Teacher: Why are you late?
Student: Mom and dad were fighting.
Teacher: So what makes you late if they were fighting?
Student: One of my shoes was in mom's hand, and the other in dad's.

A guy asked a beautiful lady sitting next to him, 'Nice perfume.....which one is it? I want to give it to my wife.'
The lady said,'Don't give her. Some idiot will find an excuse to talk to her.

Wife: I hate that beggar.
Husband: Why?
Wife: Rascal, yesterday I gave him food. Today he gave me a book on, "How to Cook!”

Enjoy these fresh two-liners

Alcohol is a perfect solvent:
It dissolves marriages, families and careers.

A fine is a tax for doing wrong.
A tax is a fine for doing well.

Alcohol and calculus don't mix.
Never drink and derive

An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have:
The older she gets, the more interested he becomes in her.

There are two kinds of people who don't say much:
Those who are quiet and those who talk a lot.

They say that alcohol kills slowly.
So what? Who's in a hurry?

One nice thing about egotists:
They don't talk about other people.

Wife Sues Hospital For Husband's Lack of Sex Drive

A recent article in the Kentucky Post reported that a woman, Anne Maynard, has sued St Luke’s Hospital, saying that after her husband was treated there recently, he had lost all interest in sex.

A hospital spokesman replied, "Mr. Maynard was actually admitted in Ophthalmology – all we did was correct his eyesight."

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Dreams - Quotes

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. - Langston Hughes

I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more. - C.S. Lewis

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. - Henry David Thoreau

If we couldn't dream, our lives wouldn't mean anything anymore. - Georg Kaiser

If you can dream it, you can do it. - Walt Disney

If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone upturned to make it a reality. - Roopleen

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. - J.K. Rowling

It may be that those who do most, dream most. - Stephen Butler Leacock

Keep your dreams, you never know when you might need them. - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Keep your heart open to dreams. For as long as there’s a dream, there is hope, and as long as there is hope, there is joy in living. - Unknown

Let us learn to dream, gentlemen; then we shall perhaps find the truth. - Friedrich Kekulé

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work. - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true. - Napoleon Hill

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

Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight. - George Eliot

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us. - Wilma Rudolph

No is a word on your path to Yes. Don’t give up too soon. Not even if well-meaning parents, relatives, friends, and colleagues tell you to get a real job. Your dreams are your real job. - Joyce Spizer

No man lives long when his dreams are dead. - Gene Wolfe

No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dreams that you wish will come true. - Walt Disney

Nothing happens unless first we dream. - Carl Sandburg

One difference between those who make it and those who don't – regardless of their field of endeavour – is not the "talent" difference. Those who go over the top have a dream and the dream has them. They make the commitment and pursue that dream with dogged patience and persistence. Commitment produces consistent, enthusiastic effort that inevitably produces greater and greater rewards. - Zig Ziglar

Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding. - John Locke

Rich men have dreams. Poor men die to make them come true. - Glen Cook

Somehow I can’t believe there are any heights that can’t be scaled by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C’s. They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy and the greatest of these is Confidence. When you believe a thing, believe it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably. - Walt Disney

Sometimes dreams are all that separate us from the machines. - Unknown

Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had. - Alice Sebold

That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed. - Neil Gaiman

The longer that dreams remained mere dreams, the more difficult it was to mould them into reality. - Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson

The more a man dreams, the less he believes. - H. L. Mencken

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking. - Robert H. Schuller

The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the will to try and the belief that it is actually possible. - Joel Brown

The time may be long, the vehicle may be strange or unexpected. But if the dream is held close to the heart, and imagination is applied to what there is close at hand, everything is still possible. - Robert Fulghum

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die. - Edward Kenny

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were. - John Fitzgerald Kennedy

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure. - Paulo Coelho

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter’s evening. Some of us let these Dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who hope that their dreams will come true. - Woodrow Wilson

When it comes to dreams, one may falter, but the only way to fail is to abandon them. - Jonathan Rhys Meyers

When you have a dream that you can't let go of, trust your instincts and pursue it. But remember: Real dreams take work, They take patience, and sometimes they require you to dig down very deep. Be sure you're willing to do that. - Harvey Mackay

When you stop having dreams and ideals – well, you might as well stop altogether. - Marian Anderson

Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action. - Wim Wenders

Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream. - Khalil Gibran

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. - Virginia Woolf

You can dream, create, design and build the most wonderful place in the world, but it requires people to make the dream a reality. - Walt Disney

Your dreams come true when you act to turn them into realities. - Unknown

You / Yourself - Quotes

You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it. - Mahatma Gandhi

You cannot travel back in time to fix your mistakes, but you can learn from them and forgive yourself for not knowing better. - Leon Brown

You are always a decision away from a totally different life. - Unknown

You don’t need a new day to start over, you only need a new mindset. - Unknown

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go. - Dr. Seuss

You’ve done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination. - Ralph Marston

You either get bitter or you get better. It’s that simple You either take what has been dealt to you and allow it to make you a better person, or you allow it to tear you down. The choice does not belong to fate, it belongs to you. - Josh Shipp

How would your life be different if…You stopped allowing other people to dilute or poison your day with their words or opinions? Let today be the day…You stand strong in the truth of your beauty and journey through your day without attachment to the validation of others. - Steve Maraboli

If only you could sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person. - Fred Rogers

You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something. You must contribute good to the world. The world must be a better place for your presence. And the good that is in you must be spread to others … - Gordon B. Hinckley

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. - Woodrow Wilson

You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing everything with logic; true power is restraint. If words control you, that means everyone else can control you; breathe and allow things to pass. - Unknown

Your emotions come in response to your thoughts. So a feeling is a manifestation because it’s coming in response to a thought. If you care about the way you feel, you will find a way to redirect your thoughts. It really is as simple as that. - Abraham Hicks

You have to stop thinking you’ll be stuck in your situation forever. We feel like our heart will never heal or we’ll never get out of this impossible struggle. don’t confuse a season for a lifetime. Even your trials have an expiration date. You will grow. Life will change. Things will work out. - Brittney Moses

Don’t rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can’t love and respect yourself – no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are – completely; the good and the bad – and make changes as YOU see fit – not because you think someone else wants you to be different. - Stacey Charter