Quotes I Like

I had many of these saved for years, however, I'm always adding quotes that strike me. So, if you've viewed these before, come back again. There is always new sayings being added. 1/25/14

"Once your baby arrives, the world is no more the same than you are. Because from our very bodies we add to the collective human destiny. Our deepest urge is always toward life, to wholeness and well-being." 

~ Claire Fontaine

The energy that emanates from someone who owns who they are shines from their eyes and it effects the people watching them and I think that gives off an aura of youth; even though chronologically you're not young.
~ Jane Fonda

From "the Buddha" via Jack Kornfield
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.

Every life has a measure of sorrow. Sometimes it is this that awakens us.

The greatest protection is a loving heart. Protecting yourself, you protect others. Protecting others, you protect yourself.

Generosity brings joy; honesty brings peace.

If you are poor, life wisely. If you have riches, live wisely. It is not your station in life but your heart that brings blessing.

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Love is so short,
forgetting so long
~ Pablo Neruda

The perfect journey is circular,
the joy of departure, the joy of return.

"Without culture we do not have an identity. 

Without education, we do not have a future. 

Without the sciences we do not have clarity.

Without communication, we do not have ommunity."

~ Herbie Hancock to UNESCO World Heritage 40th Anniversary Convention Paris 1/30/12

“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”
~ Goethe

One is content until he sees better, one isn’t appreciative until he sees less.
~Henry Mulzac.

"I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all."~ Leo Rosten

We have little to live and much to know, and you cannot live if you do not know. If you can't make knowledge your servant, make it your friend.

~ The Art of Worldly Wisdom

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness."

~ Mark Twain

"I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting" the Admiral said. "I seek to defeat his confidence: a mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals--true equals--only when they have equal confidence.

~ Memoirs of a Geisha

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

~ Lao-Tsu

Let us give something to each person we meet: joy, courage, hope, assurance, philosophy, wisdom or a vision for the future. Let us always give something.

~ Daisaku Ikeda

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well-used brings happy death.

~ Leonardo DaVinci

We should occupy our time with things which make us happy because happiness makes our lives complete when it's there and is the goal of all our actions when it isn't.

~ Epicurus

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

~ Rumi

I think I am pretty much of a fatalist. You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best you have to give.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.

~ Colette

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

~ Aldous Huxley

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

~ Anais Nin

Growing older is mandatory, growing up is optional.

In Judaism, it's all about the action; not the intention. It doesn't matter if you mean to do the right thing if you do all bad things. You need to learn how to do right things. Doing is what affects people.

~ Natalie Portman

Let your thoughts be positive

For they will become your words

Let your words be positive

For they will become your actions

Let your actions be positive

For they will become your values

Let your values be positive

For they will become your destiny

"A man's true delight is to do the things he was made for." Human happiness, he maintained, lies in doing those things only humans can; seeking the truth and acting to help those who are suffering.

~ Marcus Aurelius

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

~ e.e. Cummings

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them."

~ Mark Twain


After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
~ Aldous Huxley

The Value of Time

To realize the value of ONE YEAR, ask a student who failed his   exams...

To realize the value of ONE MONTH, ask a mother who gave birth   to a premature baby...

To realize the value of ONE WEEK, ask the editor of a weekly newspaper...

To realize the value of ONE DAY, ask a daily wage laborer...

To realize the value of ONE HOUR, ask the lovers who are waiting to meet...

To realize the value of ONE MINUTE, ask a person who missed the train...

To realize the value of ONE SECOND, ask a person who just avoided an accident...

To realize the value of ONE MILLISECOND, ask the person who won a silver medal in the Olympics...

Treasure every moment that you have!!

"Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies."

~ Thomas Jefferson

Thought worth sharing for today: While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

~ Henry Link

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death, but to inspire yourself to life.

~ Adele Brookman

WORRY looks around

SORRY looks back

FAITH looks up

Winners make things happen. Losers let things happen.

To the world you might be one person, but to one person you just might be the world.

Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate."

~ William Arthur Ward

Change often causes conflict, conflict often causes change.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies

~ Aristotle

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were?

~ Sachel Paige

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

~ Maya Angelou

It is vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.

~ Aesop

Ladino Text says:

The greatest love is a mother's, then comes a dog's, then a sweethearts.

SUCCESS:

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

~ Emerson

Do not follow where the path may lead.  Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

~ R.W. Emerson

Good friends are like stars...you don't always see them, but  you know they are always there.

The folks who know the truth aren't talking. The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up.

~ Tom Waits

"The universe is transformation; our lives are what our thoughts make it."

 ~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

~  Henri Bergson

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost;

When health is lost, something is lost;

When character is lost, all is lost!

~  German Proverb

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it's the only thing that ever has".

~ Margaret Mead

Iron shines when used, but rests when not."
~ Turkish Proverb