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Quotes to Uplift and Inspire



"You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf."

Jon Kabat-Zinn
"When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look into the reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or our family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and arguments. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change. "

Thich Nhat Hahn



"Learning how to be kind to ourselves, learning how to respect ourselves, is important. The reason it's important is that, fundamentally, when we look into our own hearts and begin to discover what is confused and what is brilliant, what is bitter and what is sweet, it isn't just ourselves that we're discovering. We're discovering the universe."

Pema Chodron



"One cannot think crooked and walk straight."

Anonymous



"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over."
F Scott Fitzgerald



"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."

Jim Ryun



"No longer forward nor behind
I look in hope or fear;
But grateful take the good I find,
The best of now and here."

John G Whittier



"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out."

Robert Collier



"The obstacle is the path."

Zen saying



"I could not wait for success, so I went ahead without it."

Jonathan Winters

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"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."

Marcus Aurelius



"Self-acceptance comes from meeting life's challenges vigorously. Don't numb yourself to your trials and difficulties, nor build mental walls to exclude pain from your life. You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory."
J Donald Walters



"What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better."
Wendell Holmes



"We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses."

Carl Jung



"The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself."

Mark Twain



"We see things as WE are, not as they are."

Leo Rosten



"Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

Joshua J Marine



"Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people."
      
Anonymous



"In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take."

Anthony Robbins



"A man is not old until regrets start taking the place of dreams."

Anonymous



"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



"Happiness depends on what you can give, not what you can get."

Mahatma Gandhi



"The wise man does at once what the fool does finally."

Baltasar Gracien



"The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."

Chinese proverb



"A man who finds no satisfaction in himself will search for it in vain elsewhere."

La Rochefoucauld



"I do my thing and you do your thing.
I am not in this world to live up to your expectations,
And you are not in this world to live up to mine.
You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful.
If not, it can't be helped."

The Gestalt Prayer by Fritz Perls



"The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is unchangeable or certain."

John F Kennedy



“The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.”

Viktor Frankl



"Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely."

Anonymous



"Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them."

Horace


 
"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. "

Barbara Sher



"Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along. "

Napoleon Hill



"Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can. "

John Wesley



"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than the ones you did do.  So throw off the bowlines.  Sail away from the safe harbour.  Catch the trade winds in your sails.  Explore.  Dream.  Discover."

Mark Twain



"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that there is something more important than fear."

Ambrose Redmoon



"Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight."

Benjamin Franklin



"Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open."

Thomas Dewar



"One cannot get through life without pain. What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents us."

Bernie S Siegel



"The way to love anything is to realise that it might be lost."

G K Chesterton



"Begin today! No matter how feeble the light, let it shine as best it may. The world may need just that quality of light which you have."

Henry C Blinn



"If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away?"

Lord Chesterfield



"Dost thou love life?
Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff life is made of."

Benjamin Franklin



"All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible."

T.E. Lawrence



"Don’t look back on happiness or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it."

Henry Ward Beecher



"One joy scatters a hundred griefs."

Chinese proverb



"If we did all the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves."

Thomas Edison



"Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance."

John Petit-Senn



"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."

Albert Einstein



"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. "

Calvin Coolidge



"Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of travelling."

Margaret B. Runbeck



 "Look well to this day. Yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day."

Francis Gray



"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution."

Kahlil Gibran


 
"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.

Now put foundations under them."

Henry David Thoreau



"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



"The future depends on what we do in the present."

Mahatma Gandhi



"It is never too late to be what we might have been."

George Eliot



"To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says:
"Leave no stone unturned.""

Edward Bulwer Lytton



"Dance as though no-one is watching you,
Love as though you have never been hurt before,
Sing as though no-one can hear you,
Live as though Heaven is on earth."

Souza



"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly."

The Buddha



"The world is like a ride in an amusement park and when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are.

And the ride goes up and down and around and around and it has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun - for a while.

Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question: Is this real?  Or is this this just a ride?

And other people have remembered, and they come back to us and they say, hey, don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because...this is just a ride."

Bill Hicks



"You have your way.  I have my way.  As for the right way, the correct way and the only way, it does not exist."

Friedrich Nietzsche



"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."

Marcus Aurelius



"No-one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

Eleanor Roosevelt



"To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it.  But we must not drift or lie at anchor."

Oliver Wendell Holmes



"Our character is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be."

George Santayana



"If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you.  What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down."

Mary Pickford



"Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first, most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves."

Walter Anderson



"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate,
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that frightens us.
We ask ourselves: who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are you NOT to be?
You are a child of the Universe.
Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
There is nothing enligtened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are born to make manifest the glory of the Universe that is within us.
It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give people permission to do the same.
And as we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

Marianne Williamson



"You gain strength, courage & confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face.  You must do the thing which you think you cannot do."

Eleanor Roosevelt



"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one."

Mark Twain



"Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. "

Voltaire



"No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has."

Henry Ward Beecher




© Ana Benedict 2009