The Noblest of Fruits

Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.  ~Bernard M. Baruch

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.   ~Martin Luther

Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.  ~Jane Austen

Surely the apple is the noblest of fruits.   ~Henry David Thoreau

I like to stay hydrated with water throughout the day and snack on apples, but my guilty pleasure would definitely be a caramel macchiato from Starbucks!   ~ Janel Parrish

Quotes about apples, life

A State to Grow Into

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
 
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light. ~ Helen Keller

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. ~ Mother Teresa

Faith sees a beautiful blossom on a bulb, a lovely garden in a seed, and a giant oak in an acorn.  ~ William Arthur Ward

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into. ~ Mahatma Gandhi


Quotes about faith, life

The Best Story

The chief beauty about time
is that you cannot waste it in advance.
The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you,
as perfect, as unspoiled,
as if you had never wasted or misapplied
a single moment in all your life.
You can turn over a new leaf every hour
if you choose.  ~ Arnold Bennett

Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.  ~ Douglas Pagels

Quotes about new day, life

The Will to Sprout

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
 
A good farmer never plants all his seeds in a single piece of land. ~ Habeeb Akande
 
Once more I am the silent one
who came out of the distance
wrapped in cold rain and bells:
I owe to earth's pure death
the will to sprout. ~ Pablo Neruda

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises. ~ Leo Buscaglia

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place, but a seed to be planted and to bear more seeds toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea. ~ Henry David Thoreau

-  Quotes about seeds, life

A Good Idea

Let every dawn of morning be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.  ~ John Ruskin

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.  ~ Victor Hugo

For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.  ~ Edwin Way Teale

Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.  ~ Wendell Berry

There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history.  ~ Frank B. Kellogg

Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.  ~ Emily Dickinson

It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.  ~ James Douglas

Quotes about dawn, life

The Mark of Wisdom

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.  ~ Albert Einstein

The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.  ~ W. B. Yeats

You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down.  ~ Charlie Chaplin

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.  ~ Socrates

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quotes about wonder, life

Part of a Tree

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.  ~ Virginia Woolf

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.  ~ George Orwell

Study the past if you would define the future.  ~ Confucius

"History" is a Greek word which means, literally, just "investigation."  ~ Arnold Toynbee

If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.  ~ Micheal Crichton

Quotes about history, life

Until You Have Won

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment; full effort is full victory.  ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Victory and defeat are each of the same price.  ~ Thomas Jefferson

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.  ~ Mahatma Gandhi

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.  ~ Nelson Mandela

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.  ~ Horace Mann

Quotes about victory, life

A Celebration of Awakenings

Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey.   ~ Fitzhugh Mullan

Life is a celebration of awakenings,
of new beginnings, and wonderful
surprises that enlighten the soul.    ~Cielo

All was Light

Even when the laws have been written down, they ought not always remain unchanged.  ~ Aristotle

Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.  ~ Thomas Jefferson

Good men must not always obey the laws too well.  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.  ~ Benjamin Franklin

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.  ~ Plato

Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night; God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.  ~ Alexander Pope

Two things awe me most; the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.  ~ Immanuel Kant

Quotes about laws, life.

The Actual Well Seen

I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.  ~ Carl Sandburg

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.  ~ Theodore Roosevelt

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.  ~ Oscar Wilde

Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?  ~ Eliza Cook

The actual well seen is ideal.  ~ Thomas Carlyle 

Quotes about ideals, life

Don't Know What to Do

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?  ~ Friedrich Nietzsche 

The Beatles saved the world from boredom.  ~ George Harrison

...I also believe that introversion is my greatest strength. I have such a strong inner life that I’m never bored and only occasionally lonely. No matter what mayhem is happening around me, I know I can always turn inward.  ~ Susan Cain

The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.  ~ Albert Camus

Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.  ~ Saul Bellow

... millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.  ~ Susan Ertz

I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.   ~Thomas Carlyle

Quotes about boredom, life

Patience is Power

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.  ~ Francis Bacon

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.  ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.  ~ Margaret Thatcher

Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.  ~ Chinese proverb

Quotes about patience, life

Where I Now Am

Be sure your feet are in the right place. Then stand firm.  ~ Abraham Lincoln
 
I've always been in the right place at the right time. Of course, I steered myself there.  ~ Bob Hope

Each place is the right place--the place where I now am can be a sacred space.  ~ Ravi Ravindra
 
I am in the right place at the right time doing the right thing.  ~ Louise L. Hay
 
A successful person finds the right place for himself. But a successful leader finds the right place for others.  ~ John Maxwell

(quotes about the right place, life)

Strong at the Broken Places

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.   ~Rachel Carson

Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.    ~ Maya Angelou
 
A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.   ~ Veronica Roth
 
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength..   ~ Marcus Aurelius
 
The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.   ~ Ernest Hemingway 

(quotes about strength, life)

What We Already Have Done

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.  ~ Carl Jung

Self-awareness is an act of self-kindness.  ~ Reuben Lowe

People of the world don't look at themselves, and so they blame one another.  ~Rumi

Whereas the average individuals often have not the slightest idea of what they are, of what they want, of what their own opinions are, self-actualizing individuals have superior awareness of their own impulses, desires, opinions, and subjective reactions in general.  ~ Abraham Maslow

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.  ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

(Best, favorite quotes about self awareness,  life)

You Can Shake the World

Be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars. In the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.  ~ Max Ehrmann

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.  ~ Albert Schweitzer

The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding.  ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

The beginning of divine wisdom is clemency and gentleness, which arise from greatness of soul and the bearing of infirmities.  ~ St. Isaac of Ninevah

In a gentle way you can shake the world.  ~ Mahatma Gandhi

(Favorite, best quotes about gentleness, kindness, life)

Learn to Be Unreceptive

Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.

The wise man steers by the torch of doubt.

If you want happiness, help someone.

Learn to be unreceptive to external forms.

Know who you are; be what you know.  ~ Zen proverbs

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More Empowering

Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.  ~ Theodore Roethke

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.  ~ Madeleine L'Engel

Sometimes it's better to show our vulnerability / pain / regrets so others don't think us impervious / unapproachable - be real / open.  ~ Jay Woodman

I found that the more truthful and vulnerable I was, the more empowering it was for me.  ~ Alanis Morissette

(best, favorite quotes about vulnerability, life)

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The Best of Everybody

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.  ~ Lucy Larcom
 
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.  ~ Lucille Ball

Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase.  ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

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

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.  ~ Anne Frank

(best, favorite quotes about optimism,life)

A New World Every Heart Beat

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.   ~Arthur Schopenhauer

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.  ~ Jonathan Swift
 
Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.  ~ Paul Cezanne

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.  ~ E. F. Schumacher
 
To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.   ~ Joyce Cary

(favorite, best quotes about genius, life)

Unless you Do

I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better.    ~ Glenda Jackson

Don't ever say that you are nothing because you are the opposite of nothing. You are everything.   ~ Sherri Lee Emmons

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.  ~  Oscar Wilde

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.    ~ Dr. Seuss

Nothing will work unless you do.   ~ Maya Angelou

(Quotes about nothing, life)

The Art of Living

Suffering is the sandpaper of our life. It does its work of shaping us for becoming wise.  ~Ram Dass

Perhaps the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.  ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.  ~ Bernard M. Baruch

The brook would lose its song if you removed the rocks.  ~ Fred Beck

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

(quotes about suffering, hardship, overcoming, life)

At 365 Quote Quest I ask questions about the daily quotes:

- How much have you been shaped by suffering?
- How much have you grown?
- How quiet and ready are you?

On His Own Wings

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.  ~ Albert Einstein

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.  ~ Marcus Aurelius

It may be all right to be content with what you have; never with what you are.  ~ B. C. Forbes

I thank God for my handicaps, for through them I have found myself, my work, and my God.  ~ Helen Keller

No bird soars too high, if he soars on his own wings.  ~ William Blake

(Quotes about knowing oneself, life)

A Fine Mingling

Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.  ~ Ann Landers

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.  ~ Henry Ellis

Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it. It's like boats. You keep your motor on so you can steer with the current. And when you hear the sound of the waterfall coming nearer and nearer, tidy up the boat, put on your best tie and hat, and smoke a cigar right up till the moment you go over. That's a triumph.  ~ Ray Bradbury

(Quotes about letting go, life)

Disturbs, Upsets Enlightens

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and opens ways for better understanding. Where those who are not artists are trying to close the book, he opens it and shows there are still more pages possible.  ~ Robert Henri

At 365 Quote Quest I ask questions about the daily quotes:

- What artist (the creations can take many forms)  has moved you?
- What does he/she communicate through his/her work?
- How is your world expanded through their expressions?

Will It Be Here?

It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away. Puzzling.  ~ Robert M. Pirsig

Will it be here that we shall find a place which will not elude us, or which if it remains does not exert on us a culpable attraction? Or must we, leaning over the deck and watching the shores glide by, move forever onward?  ~ Andre Gide

(Quotes about searching, truth, life)

They Call It Peace

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity...  ~ John Muir

“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in.  ~ Wallace Stengner

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.  ~ Jimmy Carter

And this is what happened, and this is why the caribou and the wolf are one; for the caribou feeds the wolf, but it is the wolf that keeps the caribou strong.  ~ Farley Mowat

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.  ~ Tacitus

Quotes about wilderness, nature, life

My Fragile Immortality

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.  ~ Maya Angelou

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.  ~ W. Somerset Maugham

Where does your security lie? Is God your refuge, your hiding place, your stronghold, your shepherd, your counselor, your friend, your redeemer, your saviour, your guide? If He is, you don't need to search any further for security.  ~ Elisabeth Elliot

From my spirit's gray defeat,
From my pulse's flagging beat,
From my hopes that turned to sand
Sifting through my close-clenched hand,
From my own fault's slavery,
If I can sing, I still am free.

For with my singing I can make
A refuge for my spirit's sake,
A house of shining words, to be
My fragile immortality.  ~ Sara Teasdale

Quotes about refuge, life

To Make Allowances

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions. ~ Augusten Burroughs
 
I like flaws. I think they make things interesting. ~ Sarah Dressen
 
A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance. ~ Benjamin Franklin
 
I don't want a perfect character, I want a character who has, as strange as it sounds, some humanity, some flaws, some needs. ~ Nicholas Cage

Only a kind person is able to judge another justly
and to make allowances for his weaknesses.
A kind eye, while recognizing defects,
sees beyond them.  ~Lawrence G. Lovasik

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Take to the Oars

Adversity is the first path to truth.  ~ Lord Byron

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

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.  ~ Dale Carnegie

But ne'er the rose without the thorn.  ~ Robert Herrick

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.  ~ Latin proverb

Tags: quotes about hardship, adversity, life

To Set our Hearts Right

Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;
Thy fate is the common fate of all,
Into each life some rain must fall.  ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Hearts Live By Being Wounded.  ~ Oscar Wilde

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.  ~ Benjamin Franklin

To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.
~Confucius 

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Do Your Own Growing

I don't consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I'm growing. ~ Paul Simon

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing. ~ William Butler Yeats

A man growing old becomes a child again.  ~ Sophocles

The trick is growing up without growing old.  ~ Casey Stengel 
 
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.  ~ Abraham Lincoln

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Take a Good Look

Every now and again take a good look at something not made with hands – a mountain, a star, the turn of a stream. There will come to you wisdom and patience and solace and, above all, the assurance that you are not alone in the world. ~Sidney Lovett

Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars...
and if you have eyes you will be able to see
that the whole existence is joyful.
Everything is simply happy.
Trees are happy for no reason;
they are not going to become prime ministers or presidents
and they are not going to become rich
and they will never have any bank balance.
Look at the flowers- for no reason.
It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are.  ~Osho

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Bridge to our Future

Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life.  ~ Albert Einstein

It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.  ~ Johann Schiller

Call it a clan, call it a network, call in a tribe, call it family.  Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.  ~ Jane Howard

In time of test family is best.  ~ Burmese proverb

The family is link to our past, bridge to our future.  ~ Alex Haley

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The Richness of Self

By all means use sometimes to be alone.  
Salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear. ~ George Herbert

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone, and that's where I renew my springs that never dry up.  ~ Pearl Buck

The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.  ~ Voltaire

Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.  ~ Lorraine Hansberry

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.  ~ May Sarton

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You Have the Answer

Like vanishing dew,
a passing apparition
or the sudden flash
of lightning -- already gone --
thus should one regard one's self.  ~ Ikkyu

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.  ~ Katharine Hepburn

You are who you are when nobody's watching.  ~ Stephen Fry

Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)  ~  Cicero

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.  ~ C. G. Jung

You have the answer.  Just get quiet enough to hear it.  ~ Pat Obuchowski

Tags: quotes about self, life

By Becoming More

Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.  ~ Ruth Ann Schabacker

It is better to deserve without receiving, than to receive without deserving.  ~ Robert Green Ingersoll

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.  ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

For of those to whom much is given, much is required.  ~ John F. Kennedy

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.  ~ Anthony Robbins

For it is in giving that we receive.  ~ St. Francis of Assisi 

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It Equals Miracles

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.   ~ Steve Jobs
 
We've got facts, they say. But facts aren't everything; at least half the battle consists in how one makes use of them.  ~ Fyodor Dostoevski
 
Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.   ~ Terry Brooks
 
Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles.  ~ Bob Richards

Ingenuity is nothing more than doing the best with what you've got.  ~ Eric Walton

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How Can We Expect Ideal Conditions?

We all love animals.  Why do we call some "pets" and others "dinner?"  ~ k.d. lang

Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.  ~ Albert Einstein

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.  I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body.  ~ Mahatma Gandhi

I think if I want to eat more meat you should kill it yourself and eat it raw so that you are not blinded by the hypocrisy of having it processed for you.  ~ Margie Clark

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect ideal conditions on the earth?  ~ George Bernard Shaw

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Telling Secrets to the Wind

Voiceless it cries,
Wingless flutters,
Toothless bites,
Mouthless mutters.   ~ J. R. R. Tolkien
 
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.   ~ Kahlil Gibran

Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,
For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame.  ~ W. B. Yeats

So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea.  ~ Virginia Wolf

And the leaves were telling secrets to the wind.  ~ Peter Mulvey

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A Call to Arms

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.   ~ Henry Miller
 
The body is a big sagacity (insight), a plurality with one sense, a war and peace, a flock and shepherd.  ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
 
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.   ~ Joseph Addison
 
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.   ~ Jim Rohn
 
This is a call to arms. A call to be gentle, to be forgiving, to be generous with yourself. The next time you look into the mirror, try to let go of the story line that says you're too fat or too sallow, too ashy or too old, your eyes are too small or your nose too big; just look into the mirror and see your face. When the criticism drops away, what you will see then is just you, without judgment, and that is the first step toward transforming your experience of the world.    ~ Oprah Winfrey

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Hold on to One's Heart

He is a true fugitive who flies from reason.  ~ Marcus Aurelius

Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities.  ~ Paul Eldridge

Reason: the arithmetic of the emotions.  ~ Elbert Hubbard

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.  ~ Blaise Pascal

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.  ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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Cannot Blossom Without Sunshine

Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.  ~ Helen Keller

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.  ~ Joseph Addison

Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.  ~ Walt Whitman

Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.  ~ Thomas Mann

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.  ~ Max Muller

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Light One Small Candle

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth try.  ~ James A. Michener

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.  ~ John Wooden

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.  ~ Mark Twain

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.  ~ W. Somerset Maugham

Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.  ~ Chinese proverb

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Risks Must Be Taken

To laugh is to risk being a fool.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out to another is to risk involvement.
To express feelings is to risk exposing your true self.
To place your ideas, your dreams, before the crowd
Is to risk their loss. To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To live is to risk dying.
To hope is to risk despair.
To try is to risk failure.
The person who risks nothing,
Does nothing,
Has nothing and is nothing.
They may avoid suffering and sorrow, 
But they simply cannot learn, Feel, change, grow, love or live. 
Risks must be taken because, the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. 
Only a person who risks is free.  ~Leo Buscaglia

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A Form of Exploration

Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.  ~ Aldous Huxley

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow; it only saps today of its strength.   ~A. J. Cronin

And if my heart be scarred and burned,
The safer, I, for all I learned.  ~ Dorothy Parker

Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.  ~ Victoria Holt

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.  ~ Ansel Adams

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You Own Unique Spirit

No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos.  ~ D. H. Lawrence

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.  ~ Desiderus Erasmus

Originality is...a by-product of sincerity.  ~ Marianne Moore

My mom always said I like to stir the pot with a glittering spoon.  ~ Kris Carr

Ride the energy of your own unique spirit.  ~ Gabrielle Roth

Tags: quotes about being yourself, individuality, life

Grades of Concealing It

In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity;
On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools - that's vanity.   ~ Robert Browning
 
I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.  ~ Diana Vreeland
 
Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired; even I who write this, and you who read this.  ~ Blaise Pascal
 
There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of concealing it.  ~ Mark Twain
 
Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.   ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Keep Moving

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.   ~ Thomas Merton

Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed.  Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings.   ~ Rumi
 
My point is, life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The pina and the colada.     ~ Ellen DeGeneres

The word happiness would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.   ~Carl Jung
 
Live a balanced life – learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.   ~Robert Fulghum

Life is like riding a bicycle; in order to keep your balance you must keep moving.   ~ Albert Einstein 

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