Friday, July 28, 2023

 Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. St. Augustine

Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments. Rose Kennedy

Cut yourself off from the past and the future and live in the present, and your life becomes a song and a dance. Osho

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. Alfred Adler

Life is sweeter when you have an attitude of gratitude. Dolly Parton (Source)

The only way out is through. Robert Frost

Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful. Annette Funicello

The ego wants comfort and certainty. The soul wants to live fully. Maxime Lagacé

Stop seeking today. You have all it takes to live a good life. You have your mind. Maxime Lagacé

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. Henry David Thoreau

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. Lao Tzu




 Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. Confucius

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

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. William James

Life is a book you write, not a movie you watch. Maxime Lagacé

Life gets better when you stop caring about everything. Maxime Lagacé

The trick in life is learning how to deal with it. Helen Mirren

The cost for the good life is giving up comfort. Maxime Lagacé

The first step to life is to try. The second is to learn. The third is to share. Maxime Lagacé

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. Helen Keller

 Believe you can and you’re halfway there. Theodore Roosevelt

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. Søren Kierkegaard

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done. Bruce Lee

Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get. Forrest Gump

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing. Seneca

A happy life consists in the tranquility of mind. Marcus Tullius Cicero

The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning. Albert Camus

Difficult and meaningful will always bring more satisfaction than easy and meaningless. Maxime Lagacé

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

Change your thoughts and you change your world. Norman Vincent Peale

 What makes you different or weird, that’s your strength.” – Meryl Streep

“If you can’t fly then run if you can’t run then walk if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Never give up on your dreams. Barack Obama

I dwell in possibility. Emily Dickinson

Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain

Let your dreams be your wings. Unknown

In dreams begins responsibility. W. B. Yeats

You get one life. Make it count. Shane Parrish

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. Marcel Proust

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. J.K. Rowling

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt

You can kill the dreamer, but you can’t kill the dream. Martin Luther King Jr

You were made by God and for God and until you understand that life will never make sense.” Rick Warren

God sometimes removes a person from your life for your protection. Don’t run after them.” Rick Warren

If you have felt hopeless, hold on! Wonderful changes are going to happen in your life as you begin to live it on purpose.” Rick Warren

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Don’t waste your pain; use it to help others.” Rick Warren

Pretentiousness repels but authenticity attracts, and vulnerability is the pathway to intimacy.” Rick Warren

Your value is not determined by your valuables, and God says the most valuable things in life are not things!” Rick Warren

Those who have hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment.” Rick Warren

Happy moments, praise God Difficult moments, seek God Quiet moments, worship God Painful moments, trust God every moment, thank God.” Rick Warren

It’s not what you do, but how much love you put into it that matters.” Rick Warren

We are a product of our past but we don’t have to be prisoners of it.” Rick Warren

He who is brave is free. Seneca

You can totally do this.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough. Helen Keller

The fastest road to meaning and success: choose one thing and go all in. Maxime Lagacé

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. Winston Churchill

Try again. Fail again. Fail better. Samuel Beckett

Impossible is for the unwilling. John Keats

I can and I will.

No pressure, no diamonds. Thomas Carlyle

Don’t tell people your plans. Show them your results.

 Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.--Clare Boothe Luce (in Reader's Digest, 1979) 

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.--Maya Angelou 

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.--Raymond Lindquist 

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things;
Knows not the livid loneliness of fear;
Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear
The sound of wings.--Amelia Earhart 

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.--Ruth Gordon 

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

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. Winston Churchill

Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar. Erica Jong

Having lived the life I’ve lived, and having seen the other side, not being afraid to attack what was in front of me, has made me happy. David Goggins

Have the courage to be who you are, not what people expect you to be. David Goggins

I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster. Catherine the Great

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear. Mark Twain

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. Anaïs Nin

Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room. Dwayne Johnson (The Rock)

Courageous risks are life-giving, they help you grow, make you brave, and better than you think you are.--Joan L. Curcio 

Everyone has talent. What’s rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads. Erica Jong

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself. Charlie Chaplin

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear. Franklin D. Roosevelt

Deal honestly and objectively with yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character.--Brian Tracey (The Treasury of Quotes) 

Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.--Neal A. Maxwell 

Do the thing you fear, then the death of fear is certain.--Brian Tracey (The Treasury of Quotes) 

Do what you fear and fear disappears.--David Joseph Schwartz 

Don't forget to pack your courage for your journey to greatness.--Dave Weinbaum

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.” – Steve Maraboli

 Beauty is God's handwriting.--Charles Kingsley 

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.--Al Bernstein 

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them.--David Hume ("Of the Standard of Taste" Four Dissertations) 

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.--Khalil Gibran 

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.--Jean Anouilh (Becket) 

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.--George Sand 

Beauty that dies the soonest has the longest life. Because it cannot keep itself for a day, we keep it forever. Because it can hove existence only in memory, we give it immortality there.--Bertha Damon (A Sense of Humus) 

Beauty you may have with you always, if you will but plant beauty in your heart.--Fred De Witt Van Amburgh 

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.--Helen Keller 

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.--Hannah Arendt (Rachel Varnhagen) 

The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There is therefore, something in true beauty that corresponds with right reason, and is not the mere creation of fancy.--Lord Greville

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.--Gertrude Stein 

Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway.--Mignon McLaughlin (The Neurotic's Notebook) 

Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear.--John-Roger and Peter McWilliams (Do It! Let's Get Off our Buts) 

 Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.--John Henry Newman 

Ability is of little account without opportunity.--Napoleon Bonaparte 

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.--Lou Holtz 

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.–-John Wooden 

Ability without honor is useless.--Marcus Tullius Cicero 

All of us are, to some extent, victims of what we are. We are not limited by our imaginations, but by our ability to do what we imagine. We are not too often limited by our abilities as much as by circumstances. And we are not as often limited by our circumstances as much as by the lack of the will to respond.--Dee Bowman (That's Life!) 

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.--Norman Vincent Peale 

Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.--Lou Dorfsman 

Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.--Roy L. Smith 

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.--John Wooden 

Every man is born with the ability to do something well. This is what the Lord intended him to do. Using that ability - what life is all about.--Gracie Allen 

Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more.--Gail Hamilton

Beauty has nothing to do with possession. If possession and beauty must go together, then we are lost souls. A beautiful flower is not to be possessed, it's there to be beheld. … It's there for your pleasure.--Diana Vreeland 

Beauty I have learned from the ugly, charity from the unkind, and peace from the turmoil of the world.--Frederick Ward Kates 

Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.--Goethe 

Beauty is at the heart of God, and the beauty that we see — and even create — is like the trailing wake from God's hand across the ocean of the universe. This is why, in attending to beauty, we become open to the mystery of God.--Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki 

Beauty is everywhere to he or she who would behold it. When God reigns supreme in the consciousness of man, the tiniest blade of grass speaks of God's beauty.--Frater Achad 

Sunday, July 23, 2023

 In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” —Abraham Lincoln

“Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” —Babe Ruth

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” —Robert Frost

“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” —Maya Angelou

“Do, or do not. There is no try.” —Yoda

A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.” – Brad Henry

“You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.” – Michelle Obama

“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.” – Winston Churchill

“Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.” – Jonas Salk

“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.” – Emily Dickinson

“The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.” – Barbara Kingsolver

“Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there’s no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.” – Laini Taylor

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” – Albert Einstein

“Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

“Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.” – Nelson Mandela

“Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering ‘it will be happier’…” – Alfred Lord Tennyson

”In fact, hope is best gained after defeat and failure, because then inner strength and toughness is produced.” –  Fritz Knapp

”A positive statement propels hope toward a better future, it builds up your faith and that of others, and it promotes change.” – Jan Dargatz

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” – Helen Keller

“You are not here merely to make a living, you are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.” – Woodrow Wilson

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.” – Magic Johnson

”It’s always something, to know you’ve done the most you could. But, don’t leave off hoping, or it’s of no use doing anything. Hope, hope to the last.” – Charles Dickens

“We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones.” – Ed Markey

“Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.” – Samuel Smiles

“A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope.” – Howard Thurman

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” – Desmond Tutu

“There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.” – Bernard Williams

“Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.” – Robert H. Schuller

“I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.” – Arthur Miller

“Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.” – Robert Green Ingersoll

“Hope fills the holes of my frustration in my heart.” – Emanuel Cleaver

“Time is no longer endless or the horizon destitute of hope.” – Charles Lindbergh

“A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.” – Charles M. Schulz

“He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope has everything.” – Thomas Carlyle

“To live without hope is to cease to live.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The miserable have no other medicine but only hope.” – William Shakespeare

“Hope is a waking dream.” – Aristotle 

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” — Albert Einstein

 It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” —Theodore Roosevelt

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” —Friedrich Nietzsche

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” —Thomas A. Edison

“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” —Wayne Dyer

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” —Eleanor Roosevelt

“I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.” —Anthony Robbins

“The greater damage for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it it too low and we reach it.” —Michelangelo

“Do not go where the path may lead , go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. —Winston Churchill

“I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’” —Muhammad Ali

“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” —Michael Jordan

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” —Mark Twain

“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” —Henry Ford

“Live each day as if your life had just begun.” —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” —Lao Tzu

“Do one thing every day that scares you.” —Eleanor Roosevelt

“You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.” —Shonda Rhimes

“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.” —Helen Keller

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive.”  —Maya Angelou

“The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at.” —Jesse Owens

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.” —Kobe Bryant

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

“If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.” —Oprah Winfrey

“If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.” —John Wooden

“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.” —Lyndon B. Johnson

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” —William James

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” —Theodore Roosevelt

“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.” —Martin Luther King Jr.

“When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go.” —Carol Burnett

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” —C.S. Lewis

“Try to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.” —Maya Angelou

“Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you’re positive, good things happen.” —Deep Roy

“The most wasted of days is one without laughter.”  —E. E. Cummings

 Don’t tell people about your dreams. Show them your dreams.” ―Unknown

“Revenge is a powerful motivator.” ―Marcus Luttrell

“Motivation may be what starts you off, but it’s habit that keeps you going back for more.”  ―Miya Yamanouchi

“I will not erase all my hard work this week because it’s the weekend.” ―Unknown

“It might not be easy, but it’ll be worth it.” ―Unknown

“Make your fear of losing your greatest motivator.” ―Unknown

“You will never always be motivated, so you must learn to be disciplined.” —Unknown

“I’m not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” ―Stephen Covey

Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.” – Suzy Kassem

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman

“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford

“Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you’re willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.” —Lou Holtz

“The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.” – Marcus Aurelius

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” — Aristotle

“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” -Dale Carnegie

“You learn more from failure than from success. Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character.” — Unknown

“Fairytales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairytales tell children that dragons can be killed.” – G K Chesterton

“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” – Michael Altshuler

“It is only when we take chances, when our lives improve. The initial and the most difficult risk that we need to take is to become honest. —Walter Anderson

“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.”- Walt Disney

“Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.”- Brian Tracy

“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.”- George Addair

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

“We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action. Fear is nature’s way of warning us to get busy.” –  Dr. Henry Link

“The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.” – Hasidic Proverb

“What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110% all the time.” – Don Zimmer

“Fake it until you make it! Act as if you had all the confidence you require until it becomes your reality.” – Brian Tracy

I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean

“Don’t Let Yesterday Take Up Too Much Of Today.” – Will Rogers

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” —E.E. Cummings