Showing posts with label quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quotes. Show all posts

Friday, June 13, 2014

Flowers

"There are always flowers for those who want to see them." ~ Henri Matisse

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Quotes

Motivational Quotes
I'm happy to be alive, I'm happy to be who I am.” ~ Michael Jackson

"Be thankful when you don't know something for it gives you the opportunity to learn." ~ Unknown

“The shorter way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.” ~ Mozart

“Wanting to be someone you're not is a waste of the person you are.” ~ Kurt Cobain


“A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.”


“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.” ~ Vincent van Gogh

“You are the sky. The clouds are what happens, what comes and goes.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.” ~ A.Rubinstein

“Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.” ~ Marquis de Condorcet

“You are as Divine and as perfect as you allow yourself to be.” ~ Philip Arnold

“The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.” ~ William Morris

“Time makes more converts than reason.” ~ Thomas Paine

“Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.” ~
George Bernard Shaw


“Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.” ~ Demosthenes

“We do good because it frees the heart. It open us to a wellspring of happiness.” ~ Sharon Salzberg


“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” ~ Antoine de Saint- Exupery

“When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. 

And it'll become like a wildfire.” ~ Whoopi Goldberg

“He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.” ~ Confucius

“What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?” ~ Dr. Robert Schuller

“A step in the wrong direction us better than staying on the spot all your life.” ~ Maxwell Maltz


“No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.” ~ Samuel Goldwyn


“Words are the only things that last forever.” ~ William Hazlitt

“We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.” ~ Menander

“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore

“Straighten up your room first, then the world.” ~ Jeff Jordan

“Sit loosely in the saddle of life.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

“Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.” ~ Anonymous

“If you would be loved, love and be lovable.” ~ Benjamin Franklin

“We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.” ~ Buddha



Friday, November 20, 2009

Helen Keller Quotes

"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye." ~ Helen Keller

"As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.” ~ Helen Keller

“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.” ~ Helen Keller

“I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.” ~ Helen Keller

“I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud". ~ Helen Keller


"When all you can feel are the shadows, turn you face towards the sun.” ~ Helen Keller


“Keep your eyes to the sunshine and you cannot see shadow.” ~ Helen Keller


“College isn’t the place to go for ideas.” ~ Helen Keller


“The greatest woman of our age.” ~ Helen Keller


“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” ~ Helen Keller


“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the dark.” ~ Helen Keller


“Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.” ~ Helen Keller


“Faith is the strength by which a shattered wound shall emerge into light.” ~ Helen Keller
“The best way out is always through.” ~ Helen Keller


“Who shall dare let his incapacity for hope or goodness cast a shadow upon the courage of those who bear their burdens as if they were privileges?” ~ Helen Keller


“The Bible gives me a deep, comforting sense that things seem are temporal and things unseen are eternal.” ~ Helen Keller –Time


“Knowledge is love and light and vision.” ~ Helen Keller

“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.” ~ Helen Keller


“Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but though fidelity to a worthy purpose.” ~
Helen Keller


“The bulk of the world’s knowledge is an imaginary construction.” ~ Helen Keller

“Selfishness and complaint pervert the cloud the mind, so love with joy clears and sharpens the vision.” ~ Helen Keller


“My share of work may be limited, but the fact that it makes it precious.” ~ Helen Keller


“Sure, the world is full of trouble. But, as long as we have people undoing trouble, we have a pretty good world.” ~ Helen Keller


“Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across of miles and all the years we have lived.” ~ Helen Keller


“There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.” ~ Helen Keller


Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.” ~ Helen Keller


“Security is an illusion. Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at all.” ~ Helen Keller


“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of overcoming it.” ~ Helen Keller


“The highest result of education is tolerance.” ~ Helen Keller

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Aesop



"Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own."
~ Aesop



"I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath."
~ Aesop



"The gods help them that help themselves."
~ Aesop



"The smaller the mind the greater the conceit."
~ Aesop



"In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest."
~ Aesop



"Appearances often are deceiving."
~ Aesop



"We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified."
~ Aesop



"Do not count your chickens before they are hatched."
~ Aesop



"While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again."
~ Aesop



"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."
~ Aesop



"It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds."
~ Aesop



"Slow and steady wins the race."
~ Aesop



"Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find - nothing."
~ Aesop



"Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction."
~ Aesop



"Familiarity breed contempt."
~ Aesop



"People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves."
~ Aesop



"Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow."
~ Aesop



"Union gives strength."
~ Aesop



"It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow."
~ Aesop



"Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything."
~ Aesop



"United we stand, divided we fall."
~ Aesop



"Persuasion is often more effectual than force."
~ Aesop



"Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties."
~ Aesop



"It is easy to be brave from a safe distance."
~ Aesop



"Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten."
~ Aesop

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