The power of words to inspire, to motivate, to uplift and to comfort is great! I keep an ever growing list of my favorite quotes here. Check back from time to time to see the updated quotes and may they brighten your day!
| "Whatever the present moment contains - accept it as if you had chosen it. Accept - then act. Always work with it, not against it. Make the present your friend and ally, not your opponent. This will miraculously transform your whole life." -----Eckhart Tolle "Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation." -----Brian Tracy "Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into." -----Wayne Dyer "Some fragrance remains on the hand that gives the roses." -----Chinese Proverb "In relation to others, gratitude is good manners; in relation to ourselves, it is a habit of the heart and a spiritual discipline." -----Daphne Rose Kingma "I will smile at friend and foe alike and make every effort to find, in him or her, a quality to praise, now that I realize the deepest yearning of human nature is the craving to be appreciated." -----Og Mandino "Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow." -----Melody Beattie "You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true." ----- Richard Bach "Always reward your long hours of labor and toil in the very best way, surrounded by your family. Nurture their love carefully, remembering that your children need models, not critics, and your own progress will hasten when you constantly strive to present your best side to your children. And even if you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you have a loving family, you are a success." -----Og Mandino "It is not how much you do, but how much Love you put into the doing that matters." -----Mother Teresa "If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life, you’ll find it's easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality of life that's far below what you deserve." -----Anthony Robbins "It is futile to wish for a long life, and then give so little care to living well." -----Thomas A. Kempis "It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."-----Emerson "The butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough." -----Rabindranath Tagore "To love what you do and feel that it matters--how could anything be more fun?" -----Katherine Graham “When you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.†-----Joseph Campbell “A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years’ study of books.†-----Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.†-----Diane Ackerman “If you do the best you can, you will find, nine times out of ten, that you have done as well or better than anyone else.†-----William Feather “We look backward too much and we look forward too much; thus we miss the only eternity of which we can be absolutely sure--the eternal present, for it is always now.†-----William Phelps “The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.†-----Henry Miller “In the hope of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.†-----Albert Schweitzer “Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.†----Annie Dillard “To the attentive eye, each movement of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before and which shall never be seen again.†----Ralph Waldo Emerson “I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.†---Rumi “If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall.†-----Nadine Stair “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.†-----Michael Althsuler “Nothing is as fatiguing as the continued hanging on of an uncompleted task.†-----William James “Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.†-----Buddha “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.†-----Henry David Thoreau “The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life’s plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.†-----Robert Louis Stevenson “Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die, so let us all be thankful.†-----Buddha “The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.†----- Benjamin Disraeli “For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is the flow.†-----Antoine de Saint-Exupery “You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.†-----Henry Drummond “Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature---the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.†-----Rachel Carson “If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, ‘Thank You,’ that would suffice.†----Meister Eckhart “We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.†----Thornton Wilder "Too much of a good thing is wonderful!" -----Mae West “Follow your bliss.†-----Joseph Campbell "A sound mind in a sound body, is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.†-----John Locke “What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.†-----Aristotle “I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred...the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.†-----Ralph Waldo Emerson “The most certain sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness...†-----Michel De Montaigne “Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better.†-----Emile Coue “True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.†-----Antoine de Saint-Exupery “Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.†-----Ayn Rand “Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.†-----John Stossel “The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind.†-----Dr. Wayne Dyer “Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.†-----Seneca “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, and honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.†-----Leo Buscaglia “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.†-----Albert Einstein “The universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lake, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes---every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.†-----Orison Swett Marden “To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.†----Lao-Tzu “Make yourself familiar with the angels, and behold them frequently in spirit; for without being seen, they are present with you.†-----St. Francis De Sales “Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer’s year. It brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul.†-----Billy Graham “You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.†-----Vernon Howard “Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.†-----John Lubbock “Happiness is perfume, you can’t pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself. -----James Van Der Zee “Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.†-----George Eliot |
