1. Do Not Interfere In Others’ Business Unless Asked:
Most of us create our own problems by interfering too often in others’ affairs. We do so because somehow we have convinced ourselves that our way is the best way, our logic is the perfect logic and those who do not conform to our thinking must be criticized and steered to the right direction, our direction. This thinking denies the existence of individuality and consequently the existence of God.. God has created each one of us in a unique way. No two human beings can think or act in exactly the same way. All men or women act the way they do because God within them prompts them that way. Mind your own business and you will keep your peace.
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2. Forgive And Forget:
This is the most powerful aid to peace of mind. We often develop ill feelings inside our heart for the person who insults us or harms us. We nurture grievances. This in turn results in loss of sleep, development of stomach ulcers, and high blood pressure. This insult or injury was done once, but nourishing of grievance goes on forever by constantly remembering it. Get over this bad habit. Life is too short to waste in such trifles. Forgive,20Forget, and march on. Love flourishes in giving and forgiving.
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3. Do Not Crave For Recognition:
This world is full of selfish people. They seldom praise anybody without selfish motives. They may praise you today because you are in power, but no sooner than you are powerless, they will forget your achievement and will start finding faults in you. Why do you wish to kill yours if in striving for their recognition? Their recognition is not worth the aggravation. Do your duties ethically and sincerely.
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4. Do Not Be Jealous:
We all have experienced how jealousy can disturb our peace of mind. You know that you work harder than your colleagues in the office, but sometimes they get promotions; you do not. You started a business several years ago, but you are not as successful as your neighbor whose business is only one year old. There are several examples like these in everyday life. Should you be jealous? No. Remember everybody’s life is shaped by his/her destiny, which has now become his/her reality. If you are destined to be rich, nothing in the world can stop you. If you are not so destined, no one can help you either. Nothing will be gained by blaming others for your misfortune. Jealousy will not get you anywhere; it will only take away your peace of mind.
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5. Change Yourself According To The Environment:
If you try to change the environment single-handedly, the chances are you will fail. Instead, change yourself to suit your environment. As you do this, even the environment, which has been unfriendly to you, will mysteriously change and seem congenial and harmonious.
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6. Endure What Cannot Be Cured:
This is the best way to turn a disadvantage into an advantage. Every day we face numerous inconveniences, ailments, irritations, and accidents that are beyond our control. If we cannot control them or change them, we must learn to put up with these things. We must learn to endure them cheerfully. Believe in yourself and you will gain in terms of patience, inner strength and will power.
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7. Do Not Bite Off More Than You Can Chew:
This maxim needs to be remembered constantly. We often tend to take more responsibilities than we are capable of carrying out. This is done to satisfy our ego. Know your limitations. . Why take on additional loads that may create more worries? You cannot gain peace of mind by expanding your external activities. Reduce your material engagements and spend time in prayer, introspection and meditation. This will reduce those thoughts in your mind that make you restless. Uncluttered mind will produce greater peace of mind.
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8. Meditate Regularly:
Meditation calms the mind and gets rid of disturbing thoughts. This is the highest state of peace of mind. Try and experience it yourself. If you meditate earnestly for half an hour everyday, your mind will tend to become peaceful during the remaining twenty-three and half-hours. Your mind will not be easily disturbed as it was before. You would benefit by gradually increasing the period of daily meditation. You may think that this will interfere with your daily work. On the contrary, this will increase your efficiency and you will be able to produce better results in less time.
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9. Never Leave The Mind Vacant:
An empty mind is the devil’s workshop. All evil actions start in the vacant mind. Keep your mind occupied in something positive, something worthwhile. Actively follow a hobby. Do something that holds your interest. You must decide what you value more: money or peace of mind. Your hobby, like social work or religious work, may not always earn you more money, but you will have a sense of fulfillment and achievement. Even when you are resting physically, occupy yourself in healthy reading or mental chanting of God’s name.
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10. Do Not Procrastinate And Never Regret:
Do not waste time in protracted wondering ” Should I or shouldn’t I?” Days, weeks, months, and years may be wasted in that futile mental debating. You can never plan enough because you can never anticipate all future happenings. Value your time and do the things that need to be done. It does not matter if you fail the first time. You can learn from your mistakes and succeed the next time. Sitting back and worrying will lead to nothing. Learn from your mistakes, but do not brood over the past. DO NOT REGRET. Whatever happened was destined to happen only that way. Why cry over split milk?
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Saturday, July 11, 2009
My favourite thoughts collection
I started collecting thoughts which I can relate to and which I believe in way back in 2003, when I was a college student.When I started I used to write down the thoughts in my diary. Initially I used to collect the thoughts mostly from Times of India, Sunday Edition.Slowly I extended myself to books and magazines. I was not making a constant effort to collect them, was just making note of the thoughts which I was inspired with.
My thought collection hobby picked up when I joined Infosys and started sharing the thoughts which I had collected during my college days. Lot of my friends and colleauge appreciated the thoughts. Form then I made a constant effort for collecting thoughts through internet, newspapers, books, SMS. While collecting them I made sure that I collect the thoughts to which I connect and understood the meaning they convey.
Sharing with you all my thoughts collection. Hope you all like it. You may find few of the thoughts convey the same message and philosophy. Let me know your opinion about the thoughts.
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already, thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take firm root in our personal experience. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Enjoy!!
1. Love is a decision, not an emotion, that if made from the heart will outlast anything.
2. Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
3. Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.
4. What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
5. Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
6. Your personality is what you think about yourself and what you wish yourself to be. You have the power to make yourself. Belief in God comes only after belief in yourself.- Swami Vivekananda
7. Champions aren't made in the gym; champions are made from something they have deep inside them.
8. Humility is a strange thing. The moment you think you've got it, you've lost it.- Groucho Marx
9. Anyone can become angry-that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way - this is not easy.
-Aristotle
10. In asking for miracles, we are not asking for something outside us to change, but for something inside us to change.- Marianne Williamson
11. We don't see things as they are. We see them as we are.
12. The tragedy of life is not death, but what we let die inside of us while we live.- Norman Cousins
13. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
14. Talent develops itself in solitude; character in life's stream.- Goethe
15. People are lonely because they build wall around them instead of building bridges.
16. An individual who becomes richer becomes happier, but when society as a whole grows richer, nobody seems any more content.
17. Be nice to people on your way up because you will meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante
18. The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.
19. It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than lose that someone you love with your useless pride.-Chinese proverb
20. Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.- LEROY PALGE
21. A rumour is one thing that gets thicker instead of thinner as it is spread.
22. It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
23. Worry is misuse of imagination.
24. We are all born with a divine fire in us. Our efforts should be to give wings to this fire and fill the world with the glow of its goodness.- A P J Abdul Kalam
25. Success without honour is an unseasoned dish. It will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good. - Joe Palem
26. The worst part of life is waiting. The best part of life is having someone worth waiting for.
- Jessica Bruntley
27. The moment u think of giving up, think of the reason why u held so long..!
28. To be most successful in Life, always forget the Problems that You faced in life, but never forget the Lessons that those Problems Taught You!
29. Life is not about finding the right person, but creating the right relationship.
It's not how much we care in the beginning, but how much we care till the end.
30. A True relation should have the determination like a Mirror, which never loses its ability to Reflect even if it is broken into a thousand pieces.
31. We must do our best to get what we like....or else....we will be forced to like whatever we get.
32. When we really want 2 forget something intentionally....We come to know how powerful our memory is..!
33. Its not always that you get to hit the iron when it’s hot, instead hit it so hard that it gets hot..!
34. Half of the problems in life r because we act without thinking & rest half r because we keep thinking without acting..!
35. Progress isn't made by early risers or hard workers, but by LAZY people, trying to find easier ways to do the same. -Henry Ford.
36. If u can't fly, run. If u can't run, walk. If u can't walk, crawl. But whatever u do, keep on moving towards your goal. -Martin Luther King.
37. In the fight between wave & rock on seashore, wave always wins. NOT through strength, but through persistence. Do not ever give up until u WIN.
38. Don't go the way life takes you, Take the life the way you go, Remember you are 'BORN TO LIVE' Not LIVING because u r born..!
39. Being a Good Person is like being a Goal Keeper - No matter how many Goals we save, People will remember only the one that we missed.
40. A GOOD FRIEND is not like the rain that pours and goes. It is more like d air, sometimes keeping quiet but it is always there, constantly hanging around.
41. Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. So, carry on your attempts to make your Destiny.
42. "Excellence has always been achieved by those who dared believe that something inside them is superior to circumstances”. Believe in yourself.
43. "Defeat is not when you fall down. It is when you refused to get up."
44. Waves of Sea are Inspiration For us Not because they RISE & FALL, But because each time they FALL, They never fail To RISE AGAIN.
45. Be strong enough to accept the challenges of life. Don't say to god ''Why me?'', instead, say ''Try me..!"
46. LIFE Is Very Different From A TEACHER. Because A Teacher Teaches The LESSON & Then Takes The Exam. But LIFE Takes The Exam First, And Then Teaches the LESSON.
47. People are to be Loved and Things r to be used. The sad part in the World is that People r being Used and Things r being loved..!
48. Time is like a river. You can't touch the same water twice because the flow that has passed will never pass again. So cherish every moment of u r life.
49. Faith in the God does not make the mountain small but it certainly makes the climbing easy..!
50. When a drop of water falls on a lake its identity is lost & when it sits a top on a Lotus leaf it sparkles like a pearl. The Drop is the same but company maters.
51. There is natural desire to be special. You may not know that you are unique and special. Wanting to be like someone else is waste of a person you are.
52. Success is never final and failure never fatal. It’s courage that counts.-GEORGE F TILTON
53. You are not your habits. You can make and break your habits. Do not be a victim of conditions or conditioning. Write your own script, choose your course and control your own destiny. – Stephen Covey
54. "I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature. "- John D. Rockefeller.
55. Courage is not having strength to go on - it is going on when you do not have the strength.
- Napolean Bonaparte
56. Winning may sometime be a matter of luck, but losing is not. The causes of failure are not matter of luck or accident. There is always room for improvement.
57. A successful marriage requires falling in love many times and always with the same person.
58. You are never given problem that u can't handle. Problems let u realize your abilities, how more u can bring out of yourself. Suffering is product of limited knowledge.
59. In the walk of life don’t worry if people move ahead of u take your own time n be careful not to fall but once u r ready to run make sure u r d BEST of all..!
60. Suffering takes us to the centre of things and away from trivialities of life.
61. The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
62. If you cannot be a sun, be a star. It is not by size that you win or fall; be the best of whatever you are.
63. If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters. -GEORGE B. SHAW
64. It's when you run away that you're most liable to stumble.- CASEY ROBINSON
65. A meeting is an event at which minutes are kept and hours are lost.
66. Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
67. The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson
68. Marriage: Trust is start of it. Joy is part of it. Love is heart of it.
69. Movies and life are very different. In a movie you WIN because you are a hero while in life you are a hero because you WIN. – Ajit
70. For a given level of intelligence, your actual achievement is a function not just of talent, but also of the capacity to stand defeat.
71. We do not love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
72. People who are optimistic see a failure as due to something that can be changed so that they can succeed next time around, while pessimists take the blame for failure, ascribing it to some lasting characteristics they are helpless to change. - Emotional Intelligence by D. Goleman
73. I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustrations were actually laying the foundation for the understanding that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
74. A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example. - Joe Dimaggio
75. Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
76. I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, i am ungrateful to these teachers.
77. Don't look down on someone unless you are helping him up.
78. Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand. – Chinese Proverb
79. Well done is better than well said.
80. After a time, you may find that 'having' is not as pleasing as 'wanting'. It is not logical but it is often true. - Spock
81. Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.
82. We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves..!
83. Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.-Ambrose Redmoon.
84. Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
- Unknown
85. In a time of rapid change, standing still is the most dangerous course of action. - Brian Tracy
86. Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream. Peter McWilliams
87. A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car. -- Kenneth Tynan
88. Men are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.-Moliere
89. Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you. -- Herbert Gasser
90. Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten. --B. F. Skinner
91. Hold yourself responsible to a higher standard than anybody else expects of you; never excuse yourself. -- Henry Ward Beecher
92. Never ruin an apology with an excuse. Kimberly Johnson
93. He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. -Chinese proverb.
94. Character is the ability to carry out a worthy decision after the emotion of making that decision has passed. Hyrum W. Smith
95. Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. -- John Wooden
96. I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude Judith M. Knowlton
97. To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the human will. To trust
yourself, to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed. -- Bernard Edmonds
98. Every great, successful person I know shares the capacity to remain centered, clear and powerful in the midst of emotional storms. -- Anthony Robbins.
99. Fall seven times, stand up eight. --Japanese proverb
100. We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindnesses there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over. -- James Boswell
101. If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way. Don't wait for great opportunities.
102. Seize common everyday ones and make them great. -- Napoleon Hill.
103. All greatness is achieved while performing outside your comfort zone. -- Greg Arnold
104. If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor. --Jennifer Jones
105. Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves. -- Dale Carnegie
106. With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable. -- T.F. Buxton
107. The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.
108. The highest reward for your work is not what you get for it, but what you become by it.
-John Maxwell
109. “Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strength. When you go through hardship and decide not to surrender, that is strength.” - Arnold Schwarzenegger
110. “The greater 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.” - Michelangelo
111. “I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.” - Helen Keller
112. “To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.” - Dr. Robert Muller
113. “Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.”- John Maxwell
114. “You have to believe in yourself when no one else does. That's what makes you a winner.”
- Venus Williams
115. “Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.” - Michael Jordan
116. “It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.” - Isaac Asimov
117. “Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.” - Albert Einstein
118. “Humility is a strange thing, the moment you say you have got it, you lose it.” -Anonymous.
119. “What we think or what we know or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.”- John Ruskin
120. “It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.” -Albert Einstein
121. “Come to the edge, he said. They said: We are afraid. Come to the edge, he said. They came. He pushed them, and they flew...”- Guillaume Apollinaire
122. “Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.” - Dr. Joyce Brothers
123. “Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus.” - Oprah Winfrey
124. “If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”- H.D. Thoreau
125. “It's never too late to become the person you might have been.” - George Elliot
126. “In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins – not by strength but by perseverance.”- H. Jackson Brown
127. “Cultivate heroic spirit. Disregard all self-concern. Tremendous passion will surge up out of nowhere. Suddenly it will be incredibly thrilling to be alive.”- Andrew Cohen
128. “Believe when others doubt.. Work when others refuse.. Save when others waste.. Stay when others quit.. DARE 2 Be POSITIVE & DIFFERENT” - Anonymous.
129. “People are lonely because they build wall around them instead of building bridges.”- Anonymous.
130. "I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition." - Martha Washington
131. "You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself" - Jim Rohn
132. "Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so." - Belva Davis
133. “You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you."- James Allen
134. "Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."- Abraham Lincoln
135. "Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose." - Lyndon B. Johnson
136. "Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow." - Ronald E. Osborn
137. The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation." - Pearl S. Buck
138. "You are a living magnet. What you attract into your life is in harmony with your dominant thoughts." - Brian Tracy
139. "One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation." - Arthur Ashe
140. "All life is a chance. So take it! The person who goes furthest is the one who is willing to do and dare." - Dale Carnegie
141. "Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person we become."
- Jim Rohn
142. "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing." - Abraham Lincoln
143. Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.-Albert Einstein
144. “To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail." - Dorothea Brande
145. "The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want." - Ben Stein
146. "Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them."- Orison Swett Marden
147. The first step towards excellence is to move one step away from mediocrity
148. "Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money and power and influence. It is no more or less than faith in action." - Henry Chester
149. To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness - Benjamin Franklin
150. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. Eleanor Roosevelt
151. In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.-Cassius Longinus, Roman General
152. Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act. George W. Crane
153. The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done. - Mary Frances Berry
154. Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill
155. It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. – Harry S. Truman
156. Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not. -- George Bernard Shaw
157. The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment. -William A. Ward
158. He that is good at making excuses is seldom good at anything else. - Benjamin Franklin
159. The finest kind of friendship is between people who expect a great deal of each other, but never ask it.- Sylvia Bromer
160. If life gives you rocks, it is your choice whether to build bridges or walls.
161. As long as you are going to think anyway, you might as well think big.
162. Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you .
163. The darkest hour of the night came just before dawn .
164. Sometimes instead of climbing over barricades, you just have to walk around them.
165. The cleverest trick of the devil is to convince us that he does not exist.
166. The leaders I met whatever walk of life they were from always referred back to some failure, something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic, something that made them hit the bottom as something that was almost a necessity, it is as if at that moment the iron entered their soul. That moment created the resilience that leaders need.
167. Happiness hides in life's small details; if you are not looking it becomes invisible.
168. Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
169. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
170. It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
171. When you are successful your well wishers know who you are and when you are unsuccessful you know who your well wishers are.
172. Effort is important, but knowing where to make an effort in your life makes all the difference.
173. There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will. -Epictetus
174. Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
-Benjamin Franklin
175. To rejoice in another's prosperity, is to give content to your own lot: to mitigate another's grief, is to alleviate or dispel your own. -Thomas Edwards
176. It requires less character to discover the faults of others than is does to tolerate them. -J. Petit Senn
177. Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul. -Sir J. Stephen
178. The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time. -Richard Cech
179. The aim of education should be to teach us how to think, rather than what to think. -James Beattie
180. Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose. Stephen Covey
181. "Everyone can think of the one thing that would make life better for them.But people are not so quick to answer the second question:’ What are you doing to make that change come true'." -Catherine Pulsifer
182. Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally by product of other activities.
183. Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. - Confucius
184. Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
185. When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness. - Bob Hope
186. Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations. - Jean Paul Richter
187. It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions. - Charles F. Kettering
188. "The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money."
189. It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more on a man than he can bear. But worry is rust upon the blade. It is not movement that destroys the machinery, but friction. -Henry Ward Beecher
190. Learn to smile at every situation. See it as an opportunity to prove your strength and ability. - Joe Brown
191. The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is: that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't. -Henry Ward Beecher
192. Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all. - Dale Carnegie
193. Everything happens for a reason. Nothing happens by chance or by means of good or bad luck. Illness, injury, love, lost moments of true greatness and sheer stupidity all occur to test the limits of your soul. Without these small tests, if they be events, illnesses or relationships, life would be like a smoothly paved, straight, flat road to nowhere.
194. Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. "~ Kahlil Gibran
195. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take."~ Wayne Gretzky
196. I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days, or great days."~ Lance Armstrong
197. "Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
198. "Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another."- Marquis de Condorcet
199. "Anger is the most impotent passion that accompanies the mind of man; it effects nothing it goes about; and hurts the man who is possessed by it more than any other against whom it is directed." - Lord Clarendon
200. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
201. Sometimes, familiarity and comfort need to be challenged.
202. You'll find something good in everything bad that's happened to you. As long as you have the patience and perseverance to find out - Unknown
203. If you say something, people may not believe it; but if you do it, they have to.
204. The treasure that is precious in life is the quality of even mindedness in all situations.
205. "You've got two ears and one mouth. Use them in proportion."
206. God does not give what we desire, but God certainly gives what we deserve
207. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all – Oscar Wilde
208. “Most of the time we expect more from others because we are more than willing to do that much for them." - Ian Campomanes
209. “Don’t complain about the passive situation you are in. That's due to your lack of taking action!! No matter where you are, if you believe that your action can change the world, the world changes for you."- Koik Boon Tatt
210. “Have a unique feature, like salt. Its presence is not felt but its absence makes things tasteless/useless!"
211. “Recognize that it is natural and normal to fear rejection. The only thing wrong with it is if you allow the fear to dominate you so that it holds you back from fulfilling your potential in your business." - Brian Tracy
212. “The power of thought is the only thing over which you have complete, unchallenged, and unchallengeable control."--- Napoleon Hill
213. The most important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we might become. – Charles Du Bos
214. “It is not what you accomplish in life that matters, it is what you OVERCOME.” – Johnny Miller
215. The scars you acquire by exercising courage would never make you feel inferior – D.A. Battista
216. Go as far as you can see. When you get there you will be able to see further. – Thomas Carlyle
217. You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens. - Louise L. Hay
218. Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway. – Robert Anthony
219. "Learn to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want."
220. "You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it." --- Margaret Thatcher
221. "Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself."--- Richard Bach
222. If someone says can't, that shows you what to do, - John Cage
223. Always concentrate on how far you have come, rather than how far you have left to go.
224. "Don't rush life, today! If rivers were in a hurry to get to the sea, the world would be a much drier place in which to live. Don't rush life, today, and you'll be able to leave more of yourself behind, to help others grow." - Scott Johnson
225. "Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it, and you'll start believing in it."- Jesse Owens
226. "The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results." - Norman Vincent Peale
227. “Be courageous and bold. When you look back on your life, you'll regret the things you didn't do, more than the ones you did."
228. It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. – Sir Edmund Hillary
229. The more sorrow one encounters, the more joy one can contain." –Kahlil Gibran
230. “As long as I'm faced in the right direction, it does not matter the size of my steps."
- Erica Lawrence
231. "Just when you feel like it's over, just when you think you are down, someone comes along, picks you up and dusts you down; then you realize that the person who picked you up is your own hope and faith." - Paul Cargill
232. “There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.” – William Frederick Halsey, Jr.
233. When you learn to be flexible, amazing opportunities reveal themselves .
234. “Don’t let your today get spoiled with the regret of yesterday & fear of tomorrow. Just live the best & leave the rest."
235. " Everyday is a good day; just some days are better than others."
236. “If things don't happen by your wish, make them happen by your will."
237. “If your mind is open, you will never face closed doors."
238. "Life is always about searching. We keep searching all the time. For... Friends, Love, Peace, Success and so much more. But at times do wait for a while, and search your soul. It won't take you anywhere, but will help you reach yourself."
239. "Life is like a Sea. It's as vast as you can imagine; As deep as you can think. Don't waste time measuring your life. You won't succeed. Instead, explore Life. Reach for new harbours as you pass through different phases of life. Make friends on each destination. Enjoy your journey."
240. "One day you might see yourself walking alone on a new path. No one seems in sight. No one seems to have walked it earlier. Don't give up midway. You're on a right track. Go on. Reach your dreams. The reason why you do not see anyone is because, the world is following you."
241. In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing that you can do is nothing. - Theodore Roosevelt
242. Determine never to be idle. . . . It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. - Thomas Jefferson
243. An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field. - Neils Bohr
244. Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say.
245. I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm. - Harry S. Truman
246. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. - Martin Luther King
247. Smart people learn from their own mistakes. Smarter people learn from the mistakes of others - Michael Altshuler
249. My personal definition of success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable. - John R. Wooden
250. When I work, I relax; doing nothing makes me tired. - Pablo Picasso
251. Too many of us are hung up on what we don’t have, can’t have or won’t ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy if not less of it doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do.
252. “Do as much as you can, as well as you can, for as long as you can." Anthony A. Lowe
253. You can’t direct the wind, but you can adjust your sails.
254. Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. --Benjamin Franklin
255. Have the courage to act instead of react. --Earlene Larson Jenks
256. The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems. -- Mahatma Gandhi
257. Thinking will not overcome fear but action will. -- W. Clement Stone
258. Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the 'impossible,' we very soon would find the truth of that old saw that nothing is impossible. Abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish. -- Dr. C.E. Welch
259. It’s not how much you accomplish in life that much really counts, but how you give to others. It’s not how high you build your dreams that make a difference, but how high your faith can climb. It’s not how many goals you reach but how many lives you touch. It’s not whom you know that matters, but who you are inside. -- Anonymous
260. Real change comes from within. It doesn't come from hacking at the leaves of attitude and behavior with quick fix personality ethic techniques. It comes from striking at the root -- the fabric of our thought, the fundamental, essential paradigms, which give definition to our character and create the lens through which we see the world. -- Stephen Covey
261. The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment. -- Anthony Robbins
262. The people and circumstances around me do not MAKE me what I am, they REVEAL who I am. -- Dr. Laura Schlessinger
263. Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances. -- J. Donald Walters
264. We tend to get what we expect. -- Norman Vincent Peale
265. The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fear you will make one. -- Elbert Hubbard
266. The only real security in life comes from knowing that every single day you are improving yourself in some way. -- Anthony Robbins
267. You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. -- Dale Carnegie
268. Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as soon as you can change your beliefs. -- Dr. Maxwell Maltz
269. Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. -- M. Scott Peck
270. Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it. - Katherine Whitehorn
271. Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy. -- Wayne Dyer
272. The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense. --Thomas Edison
273. There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge. -- Napoleon Hill
274. A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. -- Mark Twain
275. If you don't have a vision, then your reality will always be determined by other's perceptions. -- Melanée Addison
276. It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you spend so much time with yourself, you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship. Norman Vincent Peale
277. A man of quality is never threatened by a woman seeking equality.
278. Hardwork is like the stairs, Luck is like a lift. Lift may fail sometimes. But whatever may be the occasion, Stairs will always get you to the top. Luck might help you once, Hardwork helps always.
279. We are like teabags, whose strength comes out when we’re put in hot water.
So, when problems upset you… Just think, you must be God’s favorite cup of Tea!
281. The most difficult phase of life is not when no one understands you; it is when you don’t understand yourself.
282. If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time. --Shimon Peres
283. It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. - Anthony Robbins
284. This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. - Dalai Lama
285. The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers. - M. Scott Peck
286. They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. - Andy Warhol
287. Ego and self-respect are identical twins but genetically unmatched. Be vigilant to spot the difference.
288. Life isn’t about finding yourself, it is about creating yourself.
289. "People often say that motivation doesn't last.Well neither does bathing - that is why we recommend it daily" .
290. There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right....Martin Luther
291. The only journey is the journey within. -Rainer Maria Rilke
292. All truly wise thoughts have been thought already, thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take firm root in our personal experience. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
293. Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probably reason why so few people engage in it. --Henry Ford
294. You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning
295. You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.
296. While it can be a good stretch to occasionally try out activities you don't like, your strongest talents will only show themselves when you're doing what you want to do.
297. One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is. -- Norman Vincent Peale
298. Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast. --Norman Vincent Peale
299. We first must think "I can," then behave appropriately along that line of thought. -- Marsha Sinetar
300. Many of us grow up thinking of mistakes as bad, viewing errors as evidence of fundamental incapacity. This negative thinking pattern can create a self-fulfilling prophecy, which undermines the learning process. To maximize our learning it is essential to ask: "How can we get the most from every mistake we make?" -- Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan
301. Every exit is an entry somewhere. -- Tom Stoppard
302. The fast pace of our lives makes it difficult for us to find grace in the present moment, and when the simple gifts at our fingertips cease to nourish us, we have a tendency to crave the sensational. --Macrina Wiederkehr
303. As you begin to nourish creativity in one area of your life, it begins to flourish in other areas. -- C. Diane Ealy, Ph.D.
304. For most of us, working toward our own vision, following our own intuition, and respecting our own authority all feel incredibly bizarre...But don't let the alien sensation of taking your dreams and ambitions seriously deter you from what you really want to do: create a life you love. --Carol Lloyd
305. Think of a fine painter attempting to capture an inner vision, beginning with one corner of the canvas, painting what he thinks should be there, not quite pulling it off, covering it over with white paint, and trying again, each time finding out what his painting isn't, until he finally finds out what it is. And when you finally do find out what one corner of your vision is, you're off and running. --Author: Anne Lamott
306. It is better to wear out than to rust out. -- Richard Cumberland
307. Everything comes too late for those who only wait. -- Elbert Hubbard
308. Silence is the true retreat. It is a way of treating the self and others again and again to the healing qualities of stillness. Just as a still lake becomes a mirror to reflect the beauty of nature, silence reveals the beauty of our original nature. Such silence becomes both a physical and mental healing, the result is coolness and serenity.
309. "If you really want to do something, you'll find a way; if you don't, you'll find an excuse."
310. "It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." —Charles Darwin
311. "While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior." —Henry C. Link
312. You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think.
313. 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.
314. There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way. Buddha
315. You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer. -Byron Katie
316. See if you can catch yourself complaining in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather. To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.-Eckhart Tolle
317. When the pupil is ready, the teacher will appear.-Unknown
318. The world when seen through a little child's eyes, greatly resembles paradise.-Unknown
319. Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life. -Eckhart Tolle
320. In the final analysis, the hope of every person is simply peace of mind. -Dalai Lama
321. When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life. - Greg Anderson
322. Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit. - Norman Vincent Peale
323. When flowing water...meets with obstacles on its path, a blockage in its journey, it pauses. It increases in volume and strength, filling up in front of the obstacle and eventually spilling past it...Do not turn and run, for there is nowhere worthwhile for you to go. Do not attempt to push ahead into the danger...emulate the example of the water: Pause and build up your strength until the obstacle no longer represents a blockage.
324. Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding. - Harvey Mackay
325. "Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else." -Nathaniel Branden
326. "Money doesn't bring happiness and creativity. Your creativity and happiness brings money." —Sam Rosen
327. Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. –Harold B. Melchart
328. "People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost." —Dalai Lama
329. Do not set your goals by what other people deem important.Only you know what is best for you.
330. ”All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.” - Buddha
331. Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.” – Buddha
332. “When you think everything is someone else´s fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will learn both peace and joy. Pride leads to violence and evil. The truly good gaze upon everything with love and understanding.” – Dalai Lama
333. Healing is a process of handling pain and pleasure in positive ways rather than self-destructive ways. -Gary Eby
334. I’ve gone into hundreds of [fortune-teller's parlors], and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her. —New York City detective
335. The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.—Unknown Author
336. I'd rather live with a good question than a bad answer.-Aryeh Frimer
337. I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.-Blaise Pascal
338. A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.-Fred Allen
339. I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.-Galileo Galilei
340. If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.-Kurt Lewin
341. Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.-Rich Cook
342. Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.-Alexander Pope
343. "Getting things done is not always what is most important. There is value in allowing others to learn, even if the task is not accomplished as quickly, efficiently or effectively." --- R. D. Clyde
344. You must be the change you wish to see in the world.-Gandhi
345. Yes, there are times when something is legitimately not our fault. Blaming others, however, keeps us in a stuck state and is ultimately rough on our own self-esteem. - Eric Allenbaugh
346. CAST OF CHARACTERS
I Can’t is a quitter,
I Don’t Know is lazy,
I Wish I Could is a wisher,
I Might is waking up,
I Will Try is on his feet,
I Can is on his way,
I Will is at work,
I Did is now the boss.
-Earl Cassel
347. “Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more on it. A strength which becomes clearer and stronger through experiences of such obstacles is the only strength that can conquer them. Resistance is only a waste of strength.” -Albert Schweitzer
348. “You can have everything in life you want if you’ll just help enough other people get what they want.” -Zig Ziglar
349. “ALL rewards come from doing, not from knowing.” -unknown
350. "Why is everyone here so happy except me?" "Because they have learned to see goodness and beauty everywhere," said the Master. "Why don't I see goodness and beauty everywhere?" "Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside."-Anthony De Mello
351. Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening.-G.I. Gurdjieff
352. Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we have learned here. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love back into our hearts.-Marianne Williamson
353. Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them. You will want to change them when you realize that each thought creates according to its own nature. Remember that the law works at all times and that you are always demonstrating according to the kind of thoughts you habitually entertain. Therefore, start now to think only those thoughts that will bring you health and happiness.-Paramahansa Yogananda
354. " Always listen to your elder's advice, not because they are always right, but because they have more experience at being wrong."- Unknown
355. " We all live under the same Sky, but we don't all have the same Horizon."- Author Unknown
356. " Kind words are like the seats in an airplane. You'll still get to your destination without them, but the journey is a whole lot more comfortable with them."- Author Unknown
357. People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. -Elizabeth Kubler Ross
358. Sometimes in the winds of change we find our true direction.
359. No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood. - Anonymous
360. The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it. - Mad. de Stael
361. Every living thing requires nourishment. If it doesn't get nourishment, it dies. Similarly, you develop your attitude by nourshing thoughts in your mind. Nourish postive thoughts and let the negative thoughts die due to lack of nourishment. - Ajit
362. "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal." - Henry Ford
363. Be corageous to tell one's fault. But tell it in person. This is much better than cribbing.
364. There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. -- Buckminster Fuller
365. The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.-- Allan K. Chalmers
366. Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.-- Mary Kay Ash
367. Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change. Author: Pilgrims
368. Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.-- C. S. Lewis
369. A good listener tries to understand thoroughly what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but before he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with.-- Kenneth A. Wells
370. You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.-- Albert Einstein
371. Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.-- Anonymous
372. People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. People who really want help may attack you if you help them. Help them anyway. Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway.-- Mother Teresa
373. When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and your discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.-- Patanjali
374. I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life had been like if I'd just been myself.-- Brittany Renée
375. I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.-Jack Benny
376. Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.-Evan Esar
377. Life is like riding a bike& it is impossible to maintain balance while standing still. The best way to get more out of life is to put more into it
378. Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade your mind will seek to develop the picture. -Norman Vincent Peale
379. " Loneliness is boring, whereas in solitude you can inspect/examine your deeds & thoughts "
380. You seldom get what you go after, unless you know in advance - what you want .Maurice~Switzer.
381. Great things are done - more through courage than through wisdom .Anamika.
382. Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not. - Virgil Thomson
383. Motivation is something from outside. Inspiration comes from inside. You can motivate a person, but the motivation is short lived. To motivate maybe you give some prize but that motivation doesn’t last. Inspiration can last for the whole life – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
384. We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about. - Charles Kingsley
385. We find comfort among those who agree with us-growth among those who don't. - Frank Clark
386. Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. - Lou Holtz
387. When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative "success mechanism" within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or "willpower.". Maxwell Maltz
388. Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination. John Luther
389. There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important. - Ruth Ross
390. Greatest lie of the world : At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. - Paulo Coelho
391. Nothing is NEXT, THIS is it. - NDTV good times : One life to love : On significance of present moment.
392. It is not the load that breaks you down, it is the way you carry it. - Lena Horne
393. You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul. -Swami Vivekananda
394. Whenever we attain a higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself. - Swami Vivekananda
395. Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.
396. Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all. -Dwight Eisenhower
397. If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. Wayne Dyer
398. There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either. - Robert Graves
399. It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy. - George Lorimer
400. BY the study of different RELIGIONS we find that in essence they are one.- Swami Vivekananda
401. The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comfort.
402. Friendship is like the relation between hands and eyes. It's like when the hand gets hurt, the eye cries, and when the eye cries the hand wipes its tears. - Unknown
403. It is difficult to see the picture when you are inside the frame.
404. "I will awake every day knowing, that as soon as my feet touch the ground, that what I make of it, is up to me. I will not expect anything from anyone. I will give - with no intentions of receiving. I will listen when someone just needs to talk. I will smile at a stranger. I will be accepting of challenges. I will accept change. I will love myself and others.I will laugh when I want to cry and smile when I want to frown. I will live each day like no other. This day belongs to me. I will value each day that I am given. I WILL make a difference. I will LIVE my life and enjoy it."- Andrea VanCourt
405. "There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."- Edith Wharton
406. "The more sorrow one encounters, the more joy one can contain."- Kahlil Gibran
407. As long as I'm faced in the right direction, it does not matter the size of my steps."- Erica Lawrence
408. Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals. -Cynthia Heimel
409. A conservative is a man who does not think that anything should be done for the first time. - Frank Vanderlip
410. Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. - Henry Ward Beecher
411. Every artist was first an amateur. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
412. There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun. - Pablo Picasso
413. A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do. - Joel Osteen
414. Worry doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.
415. I felt negative when I thought I was a victim, but really I was only a victim of negative thoughts.
416. There is more to life than just increasing its speed. - Mahatma Gandhi
417. Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.
418. Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. - Pablo Picasso
419. I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.-Wayne Dyer
420. We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.-Eric Hoffer
421. Nothing is easier than saying words. Nothing is harder than living them day after day.Arthur Gordon
422. The best way out is always through. Helen Keller
423. "Any powerful idea is absolutely fascinating and absolutely useless until we choose to use it." -Richard Bach
424. "Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will." -Zig Ziglar
425. There is always a light at the end of each tunnel, but it is only visible and obtainable to those who wish to see it. -Michelle C. Ustaszeski
426. We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths ; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heartthrobs. He most lives who thinks most, feels t the noblest, acts the best.- David Bailey ( British Photographer)
427. " Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."- Author Unknown
428. "It doesn't matter how long you forget, only how soon you remember!" - Budhha
429. ... reality stands before them, yet they don't see it, because what you call real is just the mirror image of your expectations. - Deepak Chopra, Return of Merlin
430. Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose--and commit myself to--what is best for me.~ Paulo Coelho
431. ..in all the woods and forests, God did not create a single leaf the same as any other. People go against nature because they lack the courage to be different.~ Paulo Coelho
432. If we agree that the bottom line of life is happiness, not success, then it makes perfect sense to say that it is the journey that counts, not reaching the destination.~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
433. “Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” -- Saint Francis
My thought collection hobby picked up when I joined Infosys and started sharing the thoughts which I had collected during my college days. Lot of my friends and colleauge appreciated the thoughts. Form then I made a constant effort for collecting thoughts through internet, newspapers, books, SMS. While collecting them I made sure that I collect the thoughts to which I connect and understood the meaning they convey.
Sharing with you all my thoughts collection. Hope you all like it. You may find few of the thoughts convey the same message and philosophy. Let me know your opinion about the thoughts.
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already, thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take firm root in our personal experience. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Enjoy!!
1. Love is a decision, not an emotion, that if made from the heart will outlast anything.
2. Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
3. Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.
4. What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
5. Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
6. Your personality is what you think about yourself and what you wish yourself to be. You have the power to make yourself. Belief in God comes only after belief in yourself.- Swami Vivekananda
7. Champions aren't made in the gym; champions are made from something they have deep inside them.
8. Humility is a strange thing. The moment you think you've got it, you've lost it.- Groucho Marx
9. Anyone can become angry-that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way - this is not easy.
-Aristotle
10. In asking for miracles, we are not asking for something outside us to change, but for something inside us to change.- Marianne Williamson
11. We don't see things as they are. We see them as we are.
12. The tragedy of life is not death, but what we let die inside of us while we live.- Norman Cousins
13. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
14. Talent develops itself in solitude; character in life's stream.- Goethe
15. People are lonely because they build wall around them instead of building bridges.
16. An individual who becomes richer becomes happier, but when society as a whole grows richer, nobody seems any more content.
17. Be nice to people on your way up because you will meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante
18. The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.
19. It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than lose that someone you love with your useless pride.-Chinese proverb
20. Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.- LEROY PALGE
21. A rumour is one thing that gets thicker instead of thinner as it is spread.
22. It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
23. Worry is misuse of imagination.
24. We are all born with a divine fire in us. Our efforts should be to give wings to this fire and fill the world with the glow of its goodness.- A P J Abdul Kalam
25. Success without honour is an unseasoned dish. It will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good. - Joe Palem
26. The worst part of life is waiting. The best part of life is having someone worth waiting for.
- Jessica Bruntley
27. The moment u think of giving up, think of the reason why u held so long..!
28. To be most successful in Life, always forget the Problems that You faced in life, but never forget the Lessons that those Problems Taught You!
29. Life is not about finding the right person, but creating the right relationship.
It's not how much we care in the beginning, but how much we care till the end.
30. A True relation should have the determination like a Mirror, which never loses its ability to Reflect even if it is broken into a thousand pieces.
31. We must do our best to get what we like....or else....we will be forced to like whatever we get.
32. When we really want 2 forget something intentionally....We come to know how powerful our memory is..!
33. Its not always that you get to hit the iron when it’s hot, instead hit it so hard that it gets hot..!
34. Half of the problems in life r because we act without thinking & rest half r because we keep thinking without acting..!
35. Progress isn't made by early risers or hard workers, but by LAZY people, trying to find easier ways to do the same. -Henry Ford.
36. If u can't fly, run. If u can't run, walk. If u can't walk, crawl. But whatever u do, keep on moving towards your goal. -Martin Luther King.
37. In the fight between wave & rock on seashore, wave always wins. NOT through strength, but through persistence. Do not ever give up until u WIN.
38. Don't go the way life takes you, Take the life the way you go, Remember you are 'BORN TO LIVE' Not LIVING because u r born..!
39. Being a Good Person is like being a Goal Keeper - No matter how many Goals we save, People will remember only the one that we missed.
40. A GOOD FRIEND is not like the rain that pours and goes. It is more like d air, sometimes keeping quiet but it is always there, constantly hanging around.
41. Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. So, carry on your attempts to make your Destiny.
42. "Excellence has always been achieved by those who dared believe that something inside them is superior to circumstances”. Believe in yourself.
43. "Defeat is not when you fall down. It is when you refused to get up."
44. Waves of Sea are Inspiration For us Not because they RISE & FALL, But because each time they FALL, They never fail To RISE AGAIN.
45. Be strong enough to accept the challenges of life. Don't say to god ''Why me?'', instead, say ''Try me..!"
46. LIFE Is Very Different From A TEACHER. Because A Teacher Teaches The LESSON & Then Takes The Exam. But LIFE Takes The Exam First, And Then Teaches the LESSON.
47. People are to be Loved and Things r to be used. The sad part in the World is that People r being Used and Things r being loved..!
48. Time is like a river. You can't touch the same water twice because the flow that has passed will never pass again. So cherish every moment of u r life.
49. Faith in the God does not make the mountain small but it certainly makes the climbing easy..!
50. When a drop of water falls on a lake its identity is lost & when it sits a top on a Lotus leaf it sparkles like a pearl. The Drop is the same but company maters.
51. There is natural desire to be special. You may not know that you are unique and special. Wanting to be like someone else is waste of a person you are.
52. Success is never final and failure never fatal. It’s courage that counts.-GEORGE F TILTON
53. You are not your habits. You can make and break your habits. Do not be a victim of conditions or conditioning. Write your own script, choose your course and control your own destiny. – Stephen Covey
54. "I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature. "- John D. Rockefeller.
55. Courage is not having strength to go on - it is going on when you do not have the strength.
- Napolean Bonaparte
56. Winning may sometime be a matter of luck, but losing is not. The causes of failure are not matter of luck or accident. There is always room for improvement.
57. A successful marriage requires falling in love many times and always with the same person.
58. You are never given problem that u can't handle. Problems let u realize your abilities, how more u can bring out of yourself. Suffering is product of limited knowledge.
59. In the walk of life don’t worry if people move ahead of u take your own time n be careful not to fall but once u r ready to run make sure u r d BEST of all..!
60. Suffering takes us to the centre of things and away from trivialities of life.
61. The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
62. If you cannot be a sun, be a star. It is not by size that you win or fall; be the best of whatever you are.
63. If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters. -GEORGE B. SHAW
64. It's when you run away that you're most liable to stumble.- CASEY ROBINSON
65. A meeting is an event at which minutes are kept and hours are lost.
66. Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
67. The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson
68. Marriage: Trust is start of it. Joy is part of it. Love is heart of it.
69. Movies and life are very different. In a movie you WIN because you are a hero while in life you are a hero because you WIN. – Ajit
70. For a given level of intelligence, your actual achievement is a function not just of talent, but also of the capacity to stand defeat.
71. We do not love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
72. People who are optimistic see a failure as due to something that can be changed so that they can succeed next time around, while pessimists take the blame for failure, ascribing it to some lasting characteristics they are helpless to change. - Emotional Intelligence by D. Goleman
73. I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustrations were actually laying the foundation for the understanding that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
74. A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example. - Joe Dimaggio
75. Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
76. I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, i am ungrateful to these teachers.
77. Don't look down on someone unless you are helping him up.
78. Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand. – Chinese Proverb
79. Well done is better than well said.
80. After a time, you may find that 'having' is not as pleasing as 'wanting'. It is not logical but it is often true. - Spock
81. Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.
82. We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves..!
83. Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.-Ambrose Redmoon.
84. Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
- Unknown
85. In a time of rapid change, standing still is the most dangerous course of action. - Brian Tracy
86. Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream. Peter McWilliams
87. A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car. -- Kenneth Tynan
88. Men are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.-Moliere
89. Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you. -- Herbert Gasser
90. Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten. --B. F. Skinner
91. Hold yourself responsible to a higher standard than anybody else expects of you; never excuse yourself. -- Henry Ward Beecher
92. Never ruin an apology with an excuse. Kimberly Johnson
93. He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. -Chinese proverb.
94. Character is the ability to carry out a worthy decision after the emotion of making that decision has passed. Hyrum W. Smith
95. Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. -- John Wooden
96. I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude Judith M. Knowlton
97. To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the human will. To trust
yourself, to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed. -- Bernard Edmonds
98. Every great, successful person I know shares the capacity to remain centered, clear and powerful in the midst of emotional storms. -- Anthony Robbins.
99. Fall seven times, stand up eight. --Japanese proverb
100. We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindnesses there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over. -- James Boswell
101. If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way. Don't wait for great opportunities.
102. Seize common everyday ones and make them great. -- Napoleon Hill.
103. All greatness is achieved while performing outside your comfort zone. -- Greg Arnold
104. If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor. --Jennifer Jones
105. Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves. -- Dale Carnegie
106. With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable. -- T.F. Buxton
107. The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.
108. The highest reward for your work is not what you get for it, but what you become by it.
-John Maxwell
109. “Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strength. When you go through hardship and decide not to surrender, that is strength.” - Arnold Schwarzenegger
110. “The greater 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.” - Michelangelo
111. “I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.” - Helen Keller
112. “To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.” - Dr. Robert Muller
113. “Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.”- John Maxwell
114. “You have to believe in yourself when no one else does. That's what makes you a winner.”
- Venus Williams
115. “Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.” - Michael Jordan
116. “It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.” - Isaac Asimov
117. “Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.” - Albert Einstein
118. “Humility is a strange thing, the moment you say you have got it, you lose it.” -Anonymous.
119. “What we think or what we know or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.”- John Ruskin
120. “It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.” -Albert Einstein
121. “Come to the edge, he said. They said: We are afraid. Come to the edge, he said. They came. He pushed them, and they flew...”- Guillaume Apollinaire
122. “Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.” - Dr. Joyce Brothers
123. “Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus.” - Oprah Winfrey
124. “If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”- H.D. Thoreau
125. “It's never too late to become the person you might have been.” - George Elliot
126. “In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins – not by strength but by perseverance.”- H. Jackson Brown
127. “Cultivate heroic spirit. Disregard all self-concern. Tremendous passion will surge up out of nowhere. Suddenly it will be incredibly thrilling to be alive.”- Andrew Cohen
128. “Believe when others doubt.. Work when others refuse.. Save when others waste.. Stay when others quit.. DARE 2 Be POSITIVE & DIFFERENT” - Anonymous.
129. “People are lonely because they build wall around them instead of building bridges.”- Anonymous.
130. "I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition." - Martha Washington
131. "You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself" - Jim Rohn
132. "Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so." - Belva Davis
133. “You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you."- James Allen
134. "Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."- Abraham Lincoln
135. "Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose." - Lyndon B. Johnson
136. "Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow." - Ronald E. Osborn
137. The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation." - Pearl S. Buck
138. "You are a living magnet. What you attract into your life is in harmony with your dominant thoughts." - Brian Tracy
139. "One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation." - Arthur Ashe
140. "All life is a chance. So take it! The person who goes furthest is the one who is willing to do and dare." - Dale Carnegie
141. "Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person we become."
- Jim Rohn
142. "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing." - Abraham Lincoln
143. Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.-Albert Einstein
144. “To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail." - Dorothea Brande
145. "The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want." - Ben Stein
146. "Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them."- Orison Swett Marden
147. The first step towards excellence is to move one step away from mediocrity
148. "Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money and power and influence. It is no more or less than faith in action." - Henry Chester
149. To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness - Benjamin Franklin
150. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. Eleanor Roosevelt
151. In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.-Cassius Longinus, Roman General
152. Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act. George W. Crane
153. The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done. - Mary Frances Berry
154. Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill
155. It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. – Harry S. Truman
156. Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not. -- George Bernard Shaw
157. The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment. -William A. Ward
158. He that is good at making excuses is seldom good at anything else. - Benjamin Franklin
159. The finest kind of friendship is between people who expect a great deal of each other, but never ask it.- Sylvia Bromer
160. If life gives you rocks, it is your choice whether to build bridges or walls.
161. As long as you are going to think anyway, you might as well think big.
162. Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you .
163. The darkest hour of the night came just before dawn .
164. Sometimes instead of climbing over barricades, you just have to walk around them.
165. The cleverest trick of the devil is to convince us that he does not exist.
166. The leaders I met whatever walk of life they were from always referred back to some failure, something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic, something that made them hit the bottom as something that was almost a necessity, it is as if at that moment the iron entered their soul. That moment created the resilience that leaders need.
167. Happiness hides in life's small details; if you are not looking it becomes invisible.
168. Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
169. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
170. It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
171. When you are successful your well wishers know who you are and when you are unsuccessful you know who your well wishers are.
172. Effort is important, but knowing where to make an effort in your life makes all the difference.
173. There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will. -Epictetus
174. Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
-Benjamin Franklin
175. To rejoice in another's prosperity, is to give content to your own lot: to mitigate another's grief, is to alleviate or dispel your own. -Thomas Edwards
176. It requires less character to discover the faults of others than is does to tolerate them. -J. Petit Senn
177. Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul. -Sir J. Stephen
178. The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time. -Richard Cech
179. The aim of education should be to teach us how to think, rather than what to think. -James Beattie
180. Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose. Stephen Covey
181. "Everyone can think of the one thing that would make life better for them.But people are not so quick to answer the second question:’ What are you doing to make that change come true'." -Catherine Pulsifer
182. Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally by product of other activities.
183. Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. - Confucius
184. Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
185. When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness. - Bob Hope
186. Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations. - Jean Paul Richter
187. It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions. - Charles F. Kettering
188. "The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money."
189. It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more on a man than he can bear. But worry is rust upon the blade. It is not movement that destroys the machinery, but friction. -Henry Ward Beecher
190. Learn to smile at every situation. See it as an opportunity to prove your strength and ability. - Joe Brown
191. The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is: that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't. -Henry Ward Beecher
192. Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all. - Dale Carnegie
193. Everything happens for a reason. Nothing happens by chance or by means of good or bad luck. Illness, injury, love, lost moments of true greatness and sheer stupidity all occur to test the limits of your soul. Without these small tests, if they be events, illnesses or relationships, life would be like a smoothly paved, straight, flat road to nowhere.
194. Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. "~ Kahlil Gibran
195. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take."~ Wayne Gretzky
196. I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days, or great days."~ Lance Armstrong
197. "Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
198. "Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another."- Marquis de Condorcet
199. "Anger is the most impotent passion that accompanies the mind of man; it effects nothing it goes about; and hurts the man who is possessed by it more than any other against whom it is directed." - Lord Clarendon
200. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
201. Sometimes, familiarity and comfort need to be challenged.
202. You'll find something good in everything bad that's happened to you. As long as you have the patience and perseverance to find out - Unknown
203. If you say something, people may not believe it; but if you do it, they have to.
204. The treasure that is precious in life is the quality of even mindedness in all situations.
205. "You've got two ears and one mouth. Use them in proportion."
206. God does not give what we desire, but God certainly gives what we deserve
207. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all – Oscar Wilde
208. “Most of the time we expect more from others because we are more than willing to do that much for them." - Ian Campomanes
209. “Don’t complain about the passive situation you are in. That's due to your lack of taking action!! No matter where you are, if you believe that your action can change the world, the world changes for you."- Koik Boon Tatt
210. “Have a unique feature, like salt. Its presence is not felt but its absence makes things tasteless/useless!"
211. “Recognize that it is natural and normal to fear rejection. The only thing wrong with it is if you allow the fear to dominate you so that it holds you back from fulfilling your potential in your business." - Brian Tracy
212. “The power of thought is the only thing over which you have complete, unchallenged, and unchallengeable control."--- Napoleon Hill
213. The most important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we might become. – Charles Du Bos
214. “It is not what you accomplish in life that matters, it is what you OVERCOME.” – Johnny Miller
215. The scars you acquire by exercising courage would never make you feel inferior – D.A. Battista
216. Go as far as you can see. When you get there you will be able to see further. – Thomas Carlyle
217. You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens. - Louise L. Hay
218. Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway. – Robert Anthony
219. "Learn to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want."
220. "You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it." --- Margaret Thatcher
221. "Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself."--- Richard Bach
222. If someone says can't, that shows you what to do, - John Cage
223. Always concentrate on how far you have come, rather than how far you have left to go.
224. "Don't rush life, today! If rivers were in a hurry to get to the sea, the world would be a much drier place in which to live. Don't rush life, today, and you'll be able to leave more of yourself behind, to help others grow." - Scott Johnson
225. "Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it, and you'll start believing in it."- Jesse Owens
226. "The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results." - Norman Vincent Peale
227. “Be courageous and bold. When you look back on your life, you'll regret the things you didn't do, more than the ones you did."
228. It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. – Sir Edmund Hillary
229. The more sorrow one encounters, the more joy one can contain." –Kahlil Gibran
230. “As long as I'm faced in the right direction, it does not matter the size of my steps."
- Erica Lawrence
231. "Just when you feel like it's over, just when you think you are down, someone comes along, picks you up and dusts you down; then you realize that the person who picked you up is your own hope and faith." - Paul Cargill
232. “There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.” – William Frederick Halsey, Jr.
233. When you learn to be flexible, amazing opportunities reveal themselves .
234. “Don’t let your today get spoiled with the regret of yesterday & fear of tomorrow. Just live the best & leave the rest."
235. " Everyday is a good day; just some days are better than others."
236. “If things don't happen by your wish, make them happen by your will."
237. “If your mind is open, you will never face closed doors."
238. "Life is always about searching. We keep searching all the time. For... Friends, Love, Peace, Success and so much more. But at times do wait for a while, and search your soul. It won't take you anywhere, but will help you reach yourself."
239. "Life is like a Sea. It's as vast as you can imagine; As deep as you can think. Don't waste time measuring your life. You won't succeed. Instead, explore Life. Reach for new harbours as you pass through different phases of life. Make friends on each destination. Enjoy your journey."
240. "One day you might see yourself walking alone on a new path. No one seems in sight. No one seems to have walked it earlier. Don't give up midway. You're on a right track. Go on. Reach your dreams. The reason why you do not see anyone is because, the world is following you."
241. In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing that you can do is nothing. - Theodore Roosevelt
242. Determine never to be idle. . . . It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. - Thomas Jefferson
243. An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field. - Neils Bohr
244. Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say.
245. I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm. - Harry S. Truman
246. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. - Martin Luther King
247. Smart people learn from their own mistakes. Smarter people learn from the mistakes of others - Michael Altshuler
249. My personal definition of success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable. - John R. Wooden
250. When I work, I relax; doing nothing makes me tired. - Pablo Picasso
251. Too many of us are hung up on what we don’t have, can’t have or won’t ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy if not less of it doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do.
252. “Do as much as you can, as well as you can, for as long as you can." Anthony A. Lowe
253. You can’t direct the wind, but you can adjust your sails.
254. Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. --Benjamin Franklin
255. Have the courage to act instead of react. --Earlene Larson Jenks
256. The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems. -- Mahatma Gandhi
257. Thinking will not overcome fear but action will. -- W. Clement Stone
258. Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the 'impossible,' we very soon would find the truth of that old saw that nothing is impossible. Abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish. -- Dr. C.E. Welch
259. It’s not how much you accomplish in life that much really counts, but how you give to others. It’s not how high you build your dreams that make a difference, but how high your faith can climb. It’s not how many goals you reach but how many lives you touch. It’s not whom you know that matters, but who you are inside. -- Anonymous
260. Real change comes from within. It doesn't come from hacking at the leaves of attitude and behavior with quick fix personality ethic techniques. It comes from striking at the root -- the fabric of our thought, the fundamental, essential paradigms, which give definition to our character and create the lens through which we see the world. -- Stephen Covey
261. The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment. -- Anthony Robbins
262. The people and circumstances around me do not MAKE me what I am, they REVEAL who I am. -- Dr. Laura Schlessinger
263. Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances. -- J. Donald Walters
264. We tend to get what we expect. -- Norman Vincent Peale
265. The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fear you will make one. -- Elbert Hubbard
266. The only real security in life comes from knowing that every single day you are improving yourself in some way. -- Anthony Robbins
267. You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. -- Dale Carnegie
268. Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as soon as you can change your beliefs. -- Dr. Maxwell Maltz
269. Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. -- M. Scott Peck
270. Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it. - Katherine Whitehorn
271. Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy. -- Wayne Dyer
272. The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense. --Thomas Edison
273. There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge. -- Napoleon Hill
274. A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. -- Mark Twain
275. If you don't have a vision, then your reality will always be determined by other's perceptions. -- Melanée Addison
276. It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you spend so much time with yourself, you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship. Norman Vincent Peale
277. A man of quality is never threatened by a woman seeking equality.
278. Hardwork is like the stairs, Luck is like a lift. Lift may fail sometimes. But whatever may be the occasion, Stairs will always get you to the top. Luck might help you once, Hardwork helps always.
279. We are like teabags, whose strength comes out when we’re put in hot water.
So, when problems upset you… Just think, you must be God’s favorite cup of Tea!
281. The most difficult phase of life is not when no one understands you; it is when you don’t understand yourself.
282. If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time. --Shimon Peres
283. It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. - Anthony Robbins
284. This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. - Dalai Lama
285. The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers. - M. Scott Peck
286. They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. - Andy Warhol
287. Ego and self-respect are identical twins but genetically unmatched. Be vigilant to spot the difference.
288. Life isn’t about finding yourself, it is about creating yourself.
289. "People often say that motivation doesn't last.Well neither does bathing - that is why we recommend it daily" .
290. There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right....Martin Luther
291. The only journey is the journey within. -Rainer Maria Rilke
292. All truly wise thoughts have been thought already, thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take firm root in our personal experience. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
293. Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probably reason why so few people engage in it. --Henry Ford
294. You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning
295. You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.
296. While it can be a good stretch to occasionally try out activities you don't like, your strongest talents will only show themselves when you're doing what you want to do.
297. One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is. -- Norman Vincent Peale
298. Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast. --Norman Vincent Peale
299. We first must think "I can," then behave appropriately along that line of thought. -- Marsha Sinetar
300. Many of us grow up thinking of mistakes as bad, viewing errors as evidence of fundamental incapacity. This negative thinking pattern can create a self-fulfilling prophecy, which undermines the learning process. To maximize our learning it is essential to ask: "How can we get the most from every mistake we make?" -- Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan
301. Every exit is an entry somewhere. -- Tom Stoppard
302. The fast pace of our lives makes it difficult for us to find grace in the present moment, and when the simple gifts at our fingertips cease to nourish us, we have a tendency to crave the sensational. --Macrina Wiederkehr
303. As you begin to nourish creativity in one area of your life, it begins to flourish in other areas. -- C. Diane Ealy, Ph.D.
304. For most of us, working toward our own vision, following our own intuition, and respecting our own authority all feel incredibly bizarre...But don't let the alien sensation of taking your dreams and ambitions seriously deter you from what you really want to do: create a life you love. --Carol Lloyd
305. Think of a fine painter attempting to capture an inner vision, beginning with one corner of the canvas, painting what he thinks should be there, not quite pulling it off, covering it over with white paint, and trying again, each time finding out what his painting isn't, until he finally finds out what it is. And when you finally do find out what one corner of your vision is, you're off and running. --Author: Anne Lamott
306. It is better to wear out than to rust out. -- Richard Cumberland
307. Everything comes too late for those who only wait. -- Elbert Hubbard
308. Silence is the true retreat. It is a way of treating the self and others again and again to the healing qualities of stillness. Just as a still lake becomes a mirror to reflect the beauty of nature, silence reveals the beauty of our original nature. Such silence becomes both a physical and mental healing, the result is coolness and serenity.
309. "If you really want to do something, you'll find a way; if you don't, you'll find an excuse."
310. "It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." —Charles Darwin
311. "While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior." —Henry C. Link
312. You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think.
313. 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.
314. There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way. Buddha
315. You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer. -Byron Katie
316. See if you can catch yourself complaining in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather. To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.-Eckhart Tolle
317. When the pupil is ready, the teacher will appear.-Unknown
318. The world when seen through a little child's eyes, greatly resembles paradise.-Unknown
319. Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life. -Eckhart Tolle
320. In the final analysis, the hope of every person is simply peace of mind. -Dalai Lama
321. When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life. - Greg Anderson
322. Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit. - Norman Vincent Peale
323. When flowing water...meets with obstacles on its path, a blockage in its journey, it pauses. It increases in volume and strength, filling up in front of the obstacle and eventually spilling past it...Do not turn and run, for there is nowhere worthwhile for you to go. Do not attempt to push ahead into the danger...emulate the example of the water: Pause and build up your strength until the obstacle no longer represents a blockage.
324. Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding. - Harvey Mackay
325. "Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else." -Nathaniel Branden
326. "Money doesn't bring happiness and creativity. Your creativity and happiness brings money." —Sam Rosen
327. Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. –Harold B. Melchart
328. "People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost." —Dalai Lama
329. Do not set your goals by what other people deem important.Only you know what is best for you.
330. ”All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.” - Buddha
331. Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.” – Buddha
332. “When you think everything is someone else´s fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will learn both peace and joy. Pride leads to violence and evil. The truly good gaze upon everything with love and understanding.” – Dalai Lama
333. Healing is a process of handling pain and pleasure in positive ways rather than self-destructive ways. -Gary Eby
334. I’ve gone into hundreds of [fortune-teller's parlors], and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her. —New York City detective
335. The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.—Unknown Author
336. I'd rather live with a good question than a bad answer.-Aryeh Frimer
337. I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.-Blaise Pascal
338. A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.-Fred Allen
339. I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.-Galileo Galilei
340. If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.-Kurt Lewin
341. Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.-Rich Cook
342. Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.-Alexander Pope
343. "Getting things done is not always what is most important. There is value in allowing others to learn, even if the task is not accomplished as quickly, efficiently or effectively." --- R. D. Clyde
344. You must be the change you wish to see in the world.-Gandhi
345. Yes, there are times when something is legitimately not our fault. Blaming others, however, keeps us in a stuck state and is ultimately rough on our own self-esteem. - Eric Allenbaugh
346. CAST OF CHARACTERS
I Can’t is a quitter,
I Don’t Know is lazy,
I Wish I Could is a wisher,
I Might is waking up,
I Will Try is on his feet,
I Can is on his way,
I Will is at work,
I Did is now the boss.
-Earl Cassel
347. “Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more on it. A strength which becomes clearer and stronger through experiences of such obstacles is the only strength that can conquer them. Resistance is only a waste of strength.” -Albert Schweitzer
348. “You can have everything in life you want if you’ll just help enough other people get what they want.” -Zig Ziglar
349. “ALL rewards come from doing, not from knowing.” -unknown
350. "Why is everyone here so happy except me?" "Because they have learned to see goodness and beauty everywhere," said the Master. "Why don't I see goodness and beauty everywhere?" "Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside."-Anthony De Mello
351. Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening.-G.I. Gurdjieff
352. Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we have learned here. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love back into our hearts.-Marianne Williamson
353. Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them. You will want to change them when you realize that each thought creates according to its own nature. Remember that the law works at all times and that you are always demonstrating according to the kind of thoughts you habitually entertain. Therefore, start now to think only those thoughts that will bring you health and happiness.-Paramahansa Yogananda
354. " Always listen to your elder's advice, not because they are always right, but because they have more experience at being wrong."- Unknown
355. " We all live under the same Sky, but we don't all have the same Horizon."- Author Unknown
356. " Kind words are like the seats in an airplane. You'll still get to your destination without them, but the journey is a whole lot more comfortable with them."- Author Unknown
357. People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. -Elizabeth Kubler Ross
358. Sometimes in the winds of change we find our true direction.
359. No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood. - Anonymous
360. The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it. - Mad. de Stael
361. Every living thing requires nourishment. If it doesn't get nourishment, it dies. Similarly, you develop your attitude by nourshing thoughts in your mind. Nourish postive thoughts and let the negative thoughts die due to lack of nourishment. - Ajit
362. "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal." - Henry Ford
363. Be corageous to tell one's fault. But tell it in person. This is much better than cribbing.
364. There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. -- Buckminster Fuller
365. The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.-- Allan K. Chalmers
366. Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.-- Mary Kay Ash
367. Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change. Author: Pilgrims
368. Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.-- C. S. Lewis
369. A good listener tries to understand thoroughly what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but before he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with.-- Kenneth A. Wells
370. You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.-- Albert Einstein
371. Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.-- Anonymous
372. People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. People who really want help may attack you if you help them. Help them anyway. Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway.-- Mother Teresa
373. When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and your discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.-- Patanjali
374. I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life had been like if I'd just been myself.-- Brittany Renée
375. I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.-Jack Benny
376. Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.-Evan Esar
377. Life is like riding a bike& it is impossible to maintain balance while standing still. The best way to get more out of life is to put more into it
378. Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade your mind will seek to develop the picture. -Norman Vincent Peale
379. " Loneliness is boring, whereas in solitude you can inspect/examine your deeds & thoughts "
380. You seldom get what you go after, unless you know in advance - what you want .Maurice~Switzer.
381. Great things are done - more through courage than through wisdom .Anamika.
382. Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not. - Virgil Thomson
383. Motivation is something from outside. Inspiration comes from inside. You can motivate a person, but the motivation is short lived. To motivate maybe you give some prize but that motivation doesn’t last. Inspiration can last for the whole life – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
384. We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about. - Charles Kingsley
385. We find comfort among those who agree with us-growth among those who don't. - Frank Clark
386. Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. - Lou Holtz
387. When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative "success mechanism" within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or "willpower.". Maxwell Maltz
388. Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination. John Luther
389. There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important. - Ruth Ross
390. Greatest lie of the world : At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. - Paulo Coelho
391. Nothing is NEXT, THIS is it. - NDTV good times : One life to love : On significance of present moment.
392. It is not the load that breaks you down, it is the way you carry it. - Lena Horne
393. You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul. -Swami Vivekananda
394. Whenever we attain a higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself. - Swami Vivekananda
395. Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.
396. Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all. -Dwight Eisenhower
397. If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. Wayne Dyer
398. There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either. - Robert Graves
399. It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy. - George Lorimer
400. BY the study of different RELIGIONS we find that in essence they are one.- Swami Vivekananda
401. The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comfort.
402. Friendship is like the relation between hands and eyes. It's like when the hand gets hurt, the eye cries, and when the eye cries the hand wipes its tears. - Unknown
403. It is difficult to see the picture when you are inside the frame.
404. "I will awake every day knowing, that as soon as my feet touch the ground, that what I make of it, is up to me. I will not expect anything from anyone. I will give - with no intentions of receiving. I will listen when someone just needs to talk. I will smile at a stranger. I will be accepting of challenges. I will accept change. I will love myself and others.I will laugh when I want to cry and smile when I want to frown. I will live each day like no other. This day belongs to me. I will value each day that I am given. I WILL make a difference. I will LIVE my life and enjoy it."- Andrea VanCourt
405. "There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."- Edith Wharton
406. "The more sorrow one encounters, the more joy one can contain."- Kahlil Gibran
407. As long as I'm faced in the right direction, it does not matter the size of my steps."- Erica Lawrence
408. Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals. -Cynthia Heimel
409. A conservative is a man who does not think that anything should be done for the first time. - Frank Vanderlip
410. Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. - Henry Ward Beecher
411. Every artist was first an amateur. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
412. There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun. - Pablo Picasso
413. A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do. - Joel Osteen
414. Worry doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.
415. I felt negative when I thought I was a victim, but really I was only a victim of negative thoughts.
416. There is more to life than just increasing its speed. - Mahatma Gandhi
417. Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.
418. Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. - Pablo Picasso
419. I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.-Wayne Dyer
420. We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.-Eric Hoffer
421. Nothing is easier than saying words. Nothing is harder than living them day after day.Arthur Gordon
422. The best way out is always through. Helen Keller
423. "Any powerful idea is absolutely fascinating and absolutely useless until we choose to use it." -Richard Bach
424. "Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will." -Zig Ziglar
425. There is always a light at the end of each tunnel, but it is only visible and obtainable to those who wish to see it. -Michelle C. Ustaszeski
426. We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths ; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heartthrobs. He most lives who thinks most, feels t the noblest, acts the best.- David Bailey ( British Photographer)
427. " Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."- Author Unknown
428. "It doesn't matter how long you forget, only how soon you remember!" - Budhha
429. ... reality stands before them, yet they don't see it, because what you call real is just the mirror image of your expectations. - Deepak Chopra, Return of Merlin
430. Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose--and commit myself to--what is best for me.~ Paulo Coelho
431. ..in all the woods and forests, God did not create a single leaf the same as any other. People go against nature because they lack the courage to be different.~ Paulo Coelho
432. If we agree that the bottom line of life is happiness, not success, then it makes perfect sense to say that it is the journey that counts, not reaching the destination.~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
433. “Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” -- Saint Francis
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