Quotes To Stimulate Your Thoughts 7a
1. Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller
2. Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
Marianne Williamson
3. People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
4. If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
5. Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Oscar Wilde
6. The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it
Michaelangelo
7. It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change
Charles Darwin
8. Some people walk in the rain. Others just get wet.
Roger Miller
9. The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.
George Bernard Shaw
10. When you stand in that sliver of space that is completely and utterly you, then will you be truly awesome, wonderful, magnificent.
Joseph Riggio
11. It is a sad thing to look at happiness only through another's eyes
Marquerite Blessington
12. The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
George Bernard Shaw
13. When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Helen Keller
14. Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.
Robert Anthony
15. Seek first to understand, then to be understood
Stephen R. Covey
16. Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Harold Whitman
17. Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase "each other" doesn't make any sense.
Rumi
20. Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can.
Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
21. Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
Harvey Fierstein
22. Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
Pope John XXIII
23. You can't teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them
Galileo
24. The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.
Albert Einstein
25. The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.
Richard Bach.
26. "Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response."
-- Mildred Barthel.
27. "Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor..."
-- Henry Ward Beecher
28. "He who sings frightens away his ills."
-- Cervantes
29. "If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.
-- Unknown
30. "Of cheerfulness, or a good temper -- the more it is spent, the more
of it remains."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson.
31. "The supreme happiness of live is the conviction that we are loved."
-- Victor Hugo.
32. "Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens."
-- Douglas Jerrold.
33. "Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy."
-- Karl Marx
34. "To accept what you are is to be content, and contentment is the greatest wealth. To work with patience is to gather power."
-- Vimalia McClure
35. Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get."
-- Bernard Meltzer
36. "Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will."
-- Dan Millman
37. "Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have."
-- Doris Mortman
38. "'Tis easy enough to be pleasant,
When life flows along like a song;
But the man worth while is the one who will smile When everything goes dead wrong.
-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
39. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
-- Carl Jung
40. A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
-- Hugh Downs
41. We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.
��-- Fredrick Koeing
42. You can complain because roses have thorns,� or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
��-- ZIGGY
43. Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.
-- A. Nielsen
44. The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
��-- Victor Hugo
45. Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.
-- Mildred Barthel
46. Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
-- Ingrid Bergman
47. Worse than being blind is to see and have no vision.
Helen Keller
48. The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
Elie Wiesel
49. Unless you make specific time for something that you feel committed to, ou will always have other obligations.
Dalai Lama
50. Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan
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