Saturday, 5 May 2018

Quote Worthy

There has never been another you. With no effort on your part you were born to be something very special and set apart. What you are going to do in appreciation of that gift is a decision only you can make. - Dan Zadra

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success; we often find out what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. - Samuel Smiles

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. - Gilbert K. Chesterton

Never regret being a good person to the wrong people. Your behaviour says everything about you, and their behaviour says enough about them. - Marc and Angel

You’ll never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine. - John C. Maxwell

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old. - Philip Pullman

The only things you can take with you when you leave this world are the things you’ve packed inside your heart. - Susan Gale

Sometimes, you don’t even know what you want until you find out you can’t have it. - Meghan O’Rourke

There is no harm in being sometimes wrong – especially if one is promptly found out. - John Maynard Keynes

Time and good friends are two things that become more valuable the older you get. - Unknown

A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man. - Arthur Miller

Nothing is as it seems. Look again. See deeper. - Unknown

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Tuesday, 1 May 2018

Change - Quotes

A man who is used to acting in one way never changes; he must come to ruin when the times, in changing, no longer are in harmony with his ways. - Niccolo Machiavelli

Change is not always improvement, as the pigeon said when it got out of the net into the pie. - G. H. Spurgeon

If you are serious about change, you have to go through uncomfortable situations and stop trying to dodge the process, it's the only way to grow. - Unknown

It’s true, we cannot stop the waves of change; they are the very fabric of our lives. Yet we can learn to surf, to be aware, to balance. - Jack kornfield

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. - Henri Bergson

To improve is to change. To be perfect is to change often. - Winston Churchill

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance. - Harrison Ford

We change, but always at a cost: to win this you lose that. - Geoffrey Wolff

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves. - Lynn Hall

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing. - R. D. Laing

We must change in order to survive. - Pearl Bailey

We pay for every change we make ... and we pay just as dearly if we refuse to change. - Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson

Weep not that the world changes – did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep. - William Bryant

When change is rapid and problems abundant, society must be creatively adaptive or fall further and further behind. - David Moss

You can't change who you are. No matter how you struggle, some things will never change. And maybe they shouldn't. - Rob Thurman

You must embrace change before change erases you. - Rob Liano

You must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do this, you will not be hurt yourself. - Roger Zelazny

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of. - Jim Rohn

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler. - Denis Waitley

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. - Richard Buckminster Fuller

Monday, 30 April 2018

Mind - Quotes

At certain times, a silent mind is very important, but ‘silent’ does not mean closed. The silent mind is an alert, awakened mind; a mind seeking the nature of reality. - Lama Yeshe

Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind. - Jeffrey Eugenides

By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

Different minds incline to different objects; one pursues the vast alone, the wonderful, the wild; another sighs for harmony and grace, and gentlest beauty. - Mark Akenside

Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise. - Thomas Jefferson

Do not let trifles disturb your tranquillity of mind. The little pin-pricks of daily life when dwelt upon and magnified, may do great damage, but if ignored or dismissed from thought, will disappear from inanition. - Grenville Kleiser 

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. - The Buddha

Empires will fall – dynasties fade away; but the mind of man will survive the destruction of all inanimate matter – its destiny is eternal. - Edward Counsel

Every human mind is a great slumbering power until awakened by a keen desire and by definite resolution to do. - Edgar F. Roberts

Everything is in the mind. That is where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step towards getting it. - Mae West

Failing to understand the workings of one's own mind is bound to lead to unhappiness. - Marcus Aurelius

Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. - Alfred Whitehead

Few minds wear out; more rust out. - Christian Nestell Bovee

For me, the adventures of the mind, each inflection of thought, each movement, nuance, growth, discovery, is a source of exhilaration. - Anais Nin

Gallantry of the mind is saying the most empty things in an agreeable manner. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Great minds are like eagles, and build their nest in some lofty solitude. - Arthur Schopenhauer

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. - Washington Irving

Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there’s no difference between what is and what could be. - Chuck Palahniuk

I never met one interesting mind that was not richly endowed with inadmissible deficiencies. - Emil Cioran

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief. - Gerry Spence

If any part of your uncertainty, is a conflict between your heart and your mind – follow your mind. - Ayn Rand

If the human mind naturally produces noisome weeds, it also produces flowers and fruit; and ... the best method to mend the soil in general, is for each of us to cultivate his own particular spot. - Fluke Greville

If the mind is not contrived, it is spontaneously blissful, just as water, when not agitated, is by nature transparent and clear. - Unknown

Sunday, 29 April 2018

Love - Quotes

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; re-made all the time, made new. - Ursula K. Le Guin

The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen. - Henri-Dominique Lacordaire

Love, such as it is in society, is only the exchange of two fantasies, and the contact of two bodies. - Sebastien R. N. Chamfort

Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Love has the power of making you believe what you would normally treat with the deepest suspicion. - Mirabeau

Love can leave a memory that no one can steal, but love can also leave a pain that no one can heal. - Unknown

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. - Buddha

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. - Kahlil Gibran

To love somebody isn’t just a strong feeling. It is a decision, a judgement and a promise. - Unknown

Ah, cruel 'tis to love, and cruel not to love, but cruelest of all, to love and love in vain. - Anacreon

It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like so long as somebody loves you. - Roald Dahl

It is better to go for someone who loves you, rather than someone who you love. - Unknown

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Saturday, 28 April 2018

Quote Worthy

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age. - Sophia Loren

There can’t be a perfect replacement for those we lost, whom we love so much. But there’s always a kind replacement, strong and caring enough to take us through those lonely moments. - Terry Mark

The world we have made as a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far creates problems we cannot solve at the same level of thinking at which we created them. - Albert Einstein

In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all, and to the young it comes with bittered agony because it takes them unawares. The older have learned to expect it. - Abraham Lincoln

Sometimes saying sorry is the most difficult thing on earth. But its the cheapest thing to save the most expensive gift called relationship. - Unknown

To break through the wall of limited thinking, never assume that what is now seen is all that exists. - Vernon Howard

Sometimes, you have to stop being scared and just go for it. Either it will work, or it won’t. That’s life. - Unknown

It is the semi-learned who scorn the ignorant; the learned know too much about them for that. - Henry S. Haskins

You can count the seeds from one apple, but you can’t count the apples from one seed. - Unknown

Of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heart-breaking as unemployment. - Jane Addams

Sometimes, you have to take a step back to move forward. - Erika Taylor

To the pure all things are pure! - Marcel Proust

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Tuesday, 24 April 2018

Relationship - Quotes

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others. - Wayne Dyer

Relationships are not exams to pass or fail and not a competition to win or lose, but it’s a feeling in which you care for someone more than yourself. - Unknown

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person. - Brian Tracy

Relationships don’t always make sense. Especially from the outside. - Sarah Dessen

The best thing to spend on your relationship is time, conversation, understanding, and honesty. - Unknown

The best you can hope for in a relationship is to find someone whose flaws are the sort you don't mind. It is futile to look for someone who has no flaws, or someone who is capable of significant change; that sort of person exists only in our imaginations. - Scott Adams

The more you move in rhythm with someone, the closer you become with that person. - George Leonard

The most important relationship you have is with yourself. Everything happening in you life results from the way you treat yourself through thoughts, words and actions. - Roxana Jones

The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself. - Steve Maraboli

The one who loves least controls the relationship. - Unknown

The present relationship existing between husband and wife, where one claims a command over the actions of the other, is nothing more than a remnant of the old leaven of slavery. It is necessarily destructive of refined love; for how can a man continue to regard as his type of the ideal a being whom he has, be denying an equality of privilege with himself, degraded to something below himself? - Herbert Spencer

The Relationship you have with yourself is the most important relationship of all. - Unknown

The scariest thing about distance is you don’t know if they’ll miss you or forget about you. - Nicholas Sparks

The world has no meaning apart from relationships. Some are just messier than others, some are seasonal, others are difficult, and a few are easy, but every one of them is important. - WM. Paul Young

We can find reasons to dislike anyone. But it's what you focus on and appreciate in a person that cultivates a positive relationship. - David J. Lieberman

We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes broke. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger. - T. S. Eliot

We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence. - Cornel West

Well, it seems to me that the best relationships – the ones that last – are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is… suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with. - Gillian Anderson

When in a relationship, a real man doesn’t make his woman jealous of others, he makes others jealous of his woman. - Steve Maraboli

When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment. - Bell Hooks

You bring all you ever were and are to any relationship you have today. - Fred Rogers

You can be happy in a relationship, but you don’t need a relationship to be happy. - Unknown

You can’t just give up on someone because the situation’s not ideal. Great relationships aren’t great because they have no problems. They’re great because both people are enough about the other person to find a way to make it work. - Unknown

You can't build a relationship with a hammer. - Unknown

You’ll know when a relationship is right for you. It will enhance your life, not complicate your life. - Brigitte Nicole

Monday, 23 April 2018

All About You - Quotes

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own. - Carl Gustav Jung

If there is a song in your heart, sing it. If there’s love in your soul, show it. If there are dreams in your mind, chase them. Your life is meant for living, don’t ever be afraid to share the real you. - Steven Aitchison

If you are not good for yourself, how can you be good for others. - Spanish Proverb

If you make yourself into a doormat, people will wipe their feet on you. - Belizean Proverb

If you surround yourself with the good and righteous, they can only raise you up. If you surround yourself with the others, they will drag you down into the doldrums of mediocrity, and they will keep you there, but only as long as you permit it. - Mark Glamack

It is when you lose sight of yourself, that you lose your way. To keep your truth in sight you must keep yourself in sight and the world to you should be a mirror to reflect to you your image; the world should be a mirror that you reflect upon. - C. JoyBell C.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you. - Jim Rohn

Let them judge you. Let them misunderstand you. Let them gossip about you. Their opinions aren’t your problem. You stay kind, committed to love, and free in your authenticity. No matter what they do or say, don’t dare doubt your worth or the beauty of your truth. Just keep shining like you do. - Scott Stable

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. - Lucille Ball

Love yourself! Because you’re the only person who’ll be with you your entire life! - Unknown

Never sacrifice who you are just because someone has a problem with it. - Unknown

On your last day on earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become. - Unknown

People will come and go in life, but the person in the mirror will be there forever. So, be good to yourself. - Unknown

Role models are only of limited use. For no-one is as important, potentially powerful and as key in your life and world as you. - Rasheed Ogunlaru

The cost of not following your heart is spending the rest of your life wishing you had. Don’t let fear or peer pressure determine your path. Be courageous, take risks, make mistakes, and realize that this is your life. The only person’s approval you truly in need of is your own. - Gavin Nascimento

The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you. - Stephanie Perkins

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. - C.G.Jung

There is nothing wrong with taking a break from everything and concentrating on yourself. You are not responsible for fixing everything that is broken. You don’t always have to try making everyone else happy. Make you own happiness and peace of mind a priority. - Unknown

Sunday, 22 April 2018

Success - Quotes

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles one has overcome while trying to succeed. - Booker T. Washington

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility. - Pablo Picasso

It’s very important that people aspire to be successful. The only way you can do it is if you look at somebody who is. - Donald Trump

In all things, success depends on previous preparation, and without such previous preparation there is sure to be failure. - Conficius

Success is not something you achieve, conquer, climb, or complete. Success is a process; it's a way of life. - Anthony Robbins

Most of us go through life borrowing someone else's definition of success rather than coming up with our own! - Tommy Newberry

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved. - Anne Sullivan

Success does not mean happiness: it means an unusual number of industrious enemies. - Edgar Watson Howe

Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency. - David G. Myers

If you can find work, stay healthy, find somebody to share it with, you're the ultimate success. - Dick Clark

It wasn’t until I'd met everyone else’s measure of success that I realized I’d failed myself. - Rick Remender

It is not what happens that is success or failure, but what it does to the heart of man. - Bruce Lee

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Saturday, 21 April 2018

Quote Worthy

We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness-and call it love – true love. - Robert Fulghum

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy? - Mahatma Gandhi

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order to things. - Niccolò Machiavelli

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun. - Thomas Carlyle

Within our perceived weaknesses and imperfections lies the key to realizing our true strength. - Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

Sometimes, you just outgrow certain people. Don’t try to fix or repair it, just accept it and move on. - Unknown

Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make you peace with that and all will be well. - Jack Kornfield

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. - Andy Warhol

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people. - Karl Marx

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. - Coco Chanel

To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable. - Epictetus

Sometimes, it’s now or never. - Unknown

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Monday, 16 April 2018

Humour

A lady and her 7-year-old son are eating in a restaurant.

In a moment of playfulness, the boy swallows a coin and chokes. The mother tries slapping his back, rubbing his neck, shaking him hard and everything she could think of without success.

The boy begins to turn blue. The desperate mother starts screaming for help.

A man gets up from a nearby table, and with astonishing tranquility, without saying a word, lowers the boy's pants and squeezes his testicles.

The boy yells and spits out the coin. The gentleman with the same tranquility returns to his table without a word.

Soon, the mother calms down and approaches the gentleman to thank him for saving her son's life.

She asks, "Sir, are you a doctor?"

"No, ma'am," comes the reply. "I'm an Assistant Commissioner of the Inland Revenue Authority. We are trained to squeeze everyone's balls to make them cough up the last penny."