Quotes 5


Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply.  Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.  
author unknown - from “Old Farmer’s Advice”

Watch your words. Your heart is listening.
Eleanor Brownn

A heart filled with anger has no room for love.
Joan Lunden  

We have two ears and one mouth and we should use them proportionally.
Susan Cain  

Love changes everything.
Betty Bethards

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
Rudyard Kipling

We all have different perspectives, believe differently. But in the end, love should always win.
unknown author

…love at any age takes everything you’ve got.
Florida Scott-Maxwell

Once you choose hope, anything is possible!  
Christopher Reeves

Peace begins with a smile.
Mother Teresa

Forgiveness is the key to the heart’s shackles.
Richard Evans

. . . telling the truth is a great creative act. . . . your truth in any moment is your gift.
Marianne Williamson

If we want to be responsible for our lives, remember we’ve got to be responsible for our mouths. . . . Our words are powerful, our thoughts create our reality and so let’s choose them with wisdom.
Louise Hay

 If we accept less and share what we have, there will be enough for everybody. 
Give that stuff to someone who needs it. 
Lauri Rose

Faith does not make things easy, it makes them possible.
Luke 1:37

Playing is not just a pastime for kids, it’s our life force. Playing keeps us young at heart, puts passion in our work, and helps our relationships thrive. It rejuvenates us. To play is to live life to it’s fullest.
Elizabeth Kubler Ross and David Kessler  

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.
Theodore Roosevelt

Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
Amy Bloom

A grateful person is a powerful person, for gratitude generates power. All abundance is based on being grateful for what we have.
Elizabeth Kubler Ross and David Kessler

At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
Barbara Bush

Sports for me is when a guy walks off the court, and you really can’t tell whether he won or lost, when he carries himself with pride either way.
Jim Courier

You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.
Winston S. Churchill    

…choose being better – but not better than others; rather, better than you were before.
God through Neale Donald Walsch  

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.
Johnny Cash

A man should never neglect his family for business.
Walt Disney

The central question in ANY decision is, “What would love do now?”
Love for yourself, and love for all others who are affected or involved.
God through Neale Donald Walsch  


It’s impossible, said pride.
It’s risky, said experience.
It’s pointless, said reason.
Give it a try, whispered the heart.
author unknown

Treat the earth well. It was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children.
We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children.
Native American traditional    

The best comfort I could offer was to just let her tell her story.
Mary Anne Radmacher  

Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.
Elizabeth Bibesco        

 A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there.
author unknown 

Frame every so-called disaster with these words, “In five years, will this matter?”
Regina Brett    

There isn’t a way things should be. There’s just WHAT HAPPENS, and WHAT WE DO.
Terry Pratchett  

Faith makes all things possible.
Hope makes all things work.
Love makes all things beautiful.
Dwight L. Moody  

Man sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices his money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.
The Dalai Lama  

One of the simplest ways to stay happy is letting go of the things that make you sad.
author unknown

If you’re helping someone and expecting something in return, you’re doing business not kindness.
author unknown    

Rest and self-care are so important. When you take time to replenish your spirit,
it allows you to serve others from the overflow. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.
Eleanor Brownn

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
Vaclav Havel

You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy.
Garth Brooks

…choose being better – but not better than others; rather, better than you were before.
God through Neale Donald Walsch  

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.
Muhammad Ali   

 I've learned .... that love, not time, heals all wounds.
Andy Rooney  

We just need to get on with being mindful and being helpful to each other.
Lauri Rose 

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.
John F. Kennedy  

You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.
Eckhart Tolle  

Giving up doesn’t always mean you are weak, sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.
author unknown   

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
African proverb  

Enjoy everything. Need nothing.
Needing someone is the fastest way to kill a relationship.
Like to feel unneeded instead – for the greatest gift you can give someone is the strength and the power not to
need you
, to need you for nothing.
God through Neale Donald Walsch  

Sometimes the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the path to the best things that will ever happen to us.
Paul Milsap   

 I see practical enlightenment as becoming comfortable with the idea that some suffering is always inevitable – that no matter what you do, life is comprised of failures, loss, regrets, and even death. Because once you become comfortable with all the shit that life throws at you, you become invincible in a sort of low-level spiritual way.
Mark Manson  

In Three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It Goes On.
Robert Frost  

When you pray, don’t give God instructions… Just report for duty.
author unknown  

Love yourself, accept yourself, forgive yourself, and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.
Leo Buscaglia

Different is not good or bad, different is just different.
author unknown 

Everyone you meet has something to teach you.
author unknown    

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Buddha   

Begin every day with gratitude.
author unknown      

The coming times are going to be different but, they don’t have to be bad.  Learn to share your labor, your love, your stuff and you will be protected from the worst of the physical and mental traumas we’ll be going through as the world changes. Resolve to start sharing and be grateful for the people and things that lift you up. 
Lauri Rose

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptive to change.
Charles Darwin

Change is never painful. Only the resistance to change is painful.
Gautama Buddha    

I've learned that…even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.
Maya Angelou   

It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.
Vince Lombardi

To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.
F. Scott Fitzgerald  

If you want to know what a man is like, take a look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
J.K. Rowling

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
Buddha   

I don’t forgive people because I’m weak, I forgive them because I am strong enough to know people make mistakes.
Marilyn Monroe  

Life is not fair, it never was, it isn't now and it won't ever be. Do not fall into the trap. The entitlement trap, of feeling like you're a victim. You are not.
Matthew McConaughey    

Life is too ironic. It takes sadness to know what happiness is, noise to appreciate silence, and absence to value presence.
Abhysheq Shukla   

You aren't learning anything when you're talking.
Lyndon B. Johnson.

Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing.
Eckhart Tolle   

Listen with your mouth closed and your heart open.
Christine Toda  

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.
C.S. Lewis   everydaypower

Never give up, which is the lesson I learned from boxing. As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn’t cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions.
Kris Kristofferson   

Every day may not be a good day but there is good in every day.
author unknown

Surrender to what is. Let go of what was. Have faith in what will be.
Sonia Ricotti   

The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen.
Rachel Naomi Remen  

As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison.
Nelson Mandela  

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back.
Maya Angelou 

Tue   Listening is about being present, not just about being quiet.
Krista Tippett  

Rest and self care are so important. When you take time to replenish your spirit, it allows you to serve others from the overflow. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.
Eleanor Brownn

All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate... I choose love.
Johnny Cash

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Rita Mae Brown  

Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.
Marvin J. Ashton  

Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough.
Ted Chiang  

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
John F. Kennedy

Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
Thomas Edison

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
David Icke   

Having good days is a decision that we make every day before we even walk out the door.
Sumit Gautam

Don’t let people pull you into their storm. Pull them into your peace.   
Kimberly Jones   

Every day may not be a good day but there is good in every day.
author unknown

Failure is success in progress.
Albert Einstein

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
Martin Luther King Jr.  

It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
Mother Teresa

You cannot see someone unless you are willing to listen to them.
Andre Freimann  

All your life you have been taught that it is better to give than to receive. Yet you cannot give what you do not have.
God through Neale Donald Walsch  

Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals.
L. J. Isham  

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
Marianne Williamson  

If each one sweeps before his own door, the whole street is clean. 
Yiddish Proverbs

Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives, and remembering what one receives.
Dumas 

I like to remind myself that my track record for getting through bad days is 100 percent, and that’s pretty good.
Hudson    

Be where your feet are.
Pattie Saunders and Kelly Kammerer     

At times I was arrogant and other times I had the lowest self-esteem ever. It is a funny thing to have to remind yourself pride comes before the fall and then other times have to remind yourself you are God's masterpiece.
Mandy Fender

You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.
Zig Ziglar 

Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.
Dalai Lama  

You don’t drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.
Edwin Louis Cole  

And remember this always: If you saw you as God sees you, you would smile a lot.
God through Neale Donald Walsch  

There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.
Rumi  

Many people may be to blame for your unhappiness, but nobody is ever responsible for your unhappiness but you. This is because you always get to choose how you see things, how you react to things, how you value things. You always get to choose the metric by which to measure your experiences.
Mark Manson  

To damage the earth is to damage your children.
Wendell Berry   

A boat cannot go forward if each rows his own way.
African Proverb

I've moved more couches and spent more time making gifts for friends than I thought possible, all to make sure that others whose friendships I valued knew I appreciated what they had done for me and, in so doing, kept those bonds from fraying down the line.
David DeSteno

Charlie Brown “We only live once.”
Snoopy “Wrong. We only die once. We live every day.”
Charles Schulz

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.
Anne Frank

Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.
Wilferd Peterson 

Use what talent you possess - the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
Henry vanDyke

As you know, life is an echo; we get what we give.
David DeNotaris

Sometimes the best way to love someone, and the most help you can give, is to leave them alone or empower them to help themselves.
God through Neal Donald Walsch  

You can’t fake listening. It shows.
Raquel Welch  

Just disconnect. Once in a day sometime, sit silently and from all connections disconnect yourself.
Yoda

The key to success is failure.
Michael Jordan 

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
Jimmy Carter

Remember, to be human is to be mortal, vulnerable and flawed. No one is perfect but, no one is alone. As times change, for better or worse, stop dwelling on the past.  Don’t ruminate on how great it used to be, look for the small pleasures in the now. 
Lauri Rose

As a photographer, Michio taught me how to look with my eyes – but as a friend, he taught me how to see with my heart.
Lyn Schooler, about his friend Michio Hoshino

A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world.
Kahlil Gibran

For me, the new year is a time of reflection and thanksgiving for the gift of the past year and hope for doing it better with whatever time I have left. The longer I live, the more I learn not to assume anything, especially the days I am given.
David La Belle   

Truth.
Joy.
Love.
These three are interchangeable. One leads to the other, and it matters not in which order they appear.
God through Neale Donald Walsch  

A secret to living a happy life is not just having what you want, but, more important, wanting what you have.
David DeNotaris  

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free .… so other people would be also free.
Rosa Parks  

Be happy for no reason, like a child.
Deepak Chopra.