Bring Your Own Sunshine

Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness to pull another hand into the light.  ~ Norman B. Rice

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.  ~ Anthony J. D'Angelo

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.  ~ Ben Sweetland

Quotes about light, life

A Form of Exploration

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced - even a proverb is not a proverb till your life has illustrated it.    ~John Keats

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.  ~ Oscar Wilde

How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?  ~ Robert Frost

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.  ~ Henry Ford

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

Quotes about experience, life

Breaking the Bridge

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

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.   ~Audrey Hepburn

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.   ~ Mahatma Gandhi
 
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.   ~Mark Twain

He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.  ~George Herbert

Quotes about forgiveness, life

The Things that Make Me

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.   ~ Jane Goodall

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.   ~ Augusten Burroughs
 
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

It's hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.   ~ Dolly Parton

The things that make me different are the things that make me.  ~ A. A. Milne


Quotes about individuality, life

Everything Else is Secondary

Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.  ~Phil Jackson

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.   ~ Steve Jobs

Paul and I, we never thought that we would make much money out of the thing. We just loved writing software.  ~Bill Gates

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word – excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.  ~Pearl S. Buck

Love what you do and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life.   ~ Ray Bradbury

Quotes about doing what you love, life

While You're Climbing

Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.   ~Buckminster Fuller

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.  ~Abraham Maslow

If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.  ~ John Maxwell

A person grows most tired while standing still.  ~ Chinese proverb

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.  ~ Andy Rooney

Quotes about growth, learning, life

Hold On

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.  ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Hold on to what is good, even if it is a handful of earth. Hold on to what you believe, even if it is a tree which stands by itself. Hold on to what you must do, even if it is a long way from here. Hold on to life, even when it is easier letting go. Hold on to my hand, even when I have gone away from you.   ~Pueblo Blessing

Fall seven times, stand up eight.  ~ Japanese proverb

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

Quotes about holding on, hanging in there, life

In Everything where Power Moves

You have noticed that everything an Indian does
is in a circle, and that is because the Power of the World always works in circles, and everything tries to be round..... The Sky is round, and I have heard
that the earth is round like a ball, and so are
all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nest in circles, for
theirs is the same religion as ours....
Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a man is a circle from
childhood to childhood, and so it is in
everything where power moves.  ~ Black Elk

To lovers of the wild, these mountains are not a hundred miles away.  Their spiritual power and the goodness of the sky make them near, as a circle of friends. ... You cannot feel yourself out of doors; plain, sky, and mountains ray beauty which you feel.  You bathe in these spirit-beams, turning round and round, as if warming at a camp-fire.  Presently you lose consciousness of your own separate existence: you blend with the landscape, and become part and parcel of nature. ~ John Muir

He drew a circle that shut me out -
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flaunt.
But love and I had the wit to win;
We drew a circle and took him in.  ~ Edward Markham

Quotes about circles, life

One Link at a Time

Destiny is not a matter of chance, but of choice. Not something to wish for, but to attain.    ~ William Jennings Bryan

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.   ~ Agnes De Mille

It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.  ~ Sir Winston Churchill

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.  ~ Shakespeare

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve. ~ Albert Schweitzer


Quotes about destiny, life

From This Inner Desire

Always do right--this will gratify some and astonish the rest.  ~ Mark Twain

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.  ~ Victor Hugo

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.  ~ Oprah Winfrey

Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.  ~ Emanuel Swedenborg

Quotes about doing right, life

The Most Courageous Decision

I have seen the sea when it is stormy and wild; when it is quiet and serene; when it is dark and moody. And in all its moods, I see myself.  ~ Martin Buxbaum

On a bad day, I have mood swings - but on a good day, I have the whole mood playground.  ~ Charles Rosenblum

The heart loves, but moods have no loyalty. Moods should be heard but never danced to.  ~ Hugh Prather

Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus.  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most courageous decision you make each day is the decision to be in a good mood.  ~ Voltaire

Quotes about moods, life

The Ablest Navigators

The bad news is time flies.
The good news is you're the pilot.  ~Michael Althsuler

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.  ~ Epicurus

I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of things.  ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Flying dreams mean that you are doing the right thing with your life.  ~ Doug Coupland

The winds and sails are always on the side of the ablest navigators.  ~ Edward Gibbons

Quotes about pilots, navigating, life

A Great Language

But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart.  ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye.  ~ Charlotte Bronte

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.  ~ Meister Eckhart

When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.  ~ Alanis Morissette

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.  ~ Martin Buber

Quotes about eyes, life

The Underline to Almost every Success

What is to give light must endure the burning.  ~Eleanor Roosevelt

This is no time for ease and comfort.
It is time to dare and endure.  ~Winston Churchill

A hero is an ordinary individual
who finds the strength to persevere
and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.  ~Christopher Reeve

Nothing endures but change.  ~Heraclitus

The boldness of endurance is
the underline to almost every success.  ~Mary Anne Radmacher

Quotes about endurance, life

Stood Alone in the Silence

Who has seen the wind?

Neither I nor you:

But when the leaves hang trembling,

The wind is passing through.

Who has seen the wind?

Neither you nor I:

But when the trees bow down their heads,

The wind is passing by.  ~ Christina Rossetti

And all about him was the wind now, a pervasive sighing trough great emptiness, as though the prairie itself was breathing in long gusting breaths, unhampered by the buildings of town, warm and living against his face and in his hair....

 

People were forever born; people forever died, and never were again. Fathers died and sons were born; the prairie was forever, with its wind whispering through the long, dead grasses, through the long and endless silence. Winter came and spring and fall, then summer and winter again; the sun rose and set again, and everything that was once -- was again -- forever and forever. But for man, the prairie whispered -- never -- never. For Brian's father -- never.... There were no catches of breath, simply tears as he stood alone in the silence that stretched from everlasting to everlasting  ~ W. O. Mitchell,  Who Has Seen the Wind

Quotes about wind, life, death

The Dew of Little Things

What youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.   ~ Robert Browning
 
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.   ~Rabindranath Tagore

Dew-drops are the gems of morning, But the tears of mournful eve!  ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.   ~Kahlil Gibran

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.  ~Elizabeth Cady Stanton


Quotes about dew, life 

If We Don't Grow

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.  ~ Anatole France

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.  ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Change before you have to.  ~ Jack Welch

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.  ~ Maya Angelou

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.  ~ Gail Sheehy

Quotes about change, life

Humor is Truth

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.   ~ Romain Gary

Humor and knowledge are the two great hopes of our culture.  ~ Konrad Lorenz

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.  ~ James Thurber

Humor is just another defence against the universe.  ~ Mel Brooks

Jesters do oft prove prophets.  ~ William Shakespeare, King Lear

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.  ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.  ~ Victor Borge


Quotes about humor, life

Improving Yourself

Treat people as if they were what they should be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming. ~ Goethe
 
The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is. ~ Phillips Brooks

The healthy, the strong individual, is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an abscess on his knee or in his soul. ~ Rona Barrett

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor. ~ Hubert H. Humphrey
 
You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself. ~ John Ruskin

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed. ~ Maria Montessori

Quotations on helping, life

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Trust to Thy Heart

We all need illusions.  That's why we love movies.  ~ Monica Bellucci

Official truths are often powerful illusions.  ~ John Pilger

I'm an idealist without illusions.  ~ John F. Kennedy

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and honorable and dull.  ~ Joseph Conrad

Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.  ~ Virginia Woolf

Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.  ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Quotes about illusions, life

Definition of illusion: a false idea or belief, a deceptive appearance or impression

The Usable Surface

There are three ways of dealing with difference: domination, compromise, and integration. By domination only one side gets what it wants; by compromise neither side gets what it wants; by integration we find a way by which both sides may get what they wish.  ~ Mary Parker Follett

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.  ~ Margaret Thatcher

Better bend than break.  ~ Scottish Proverb

A professional politician is a professionally dishonourable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.  ~ H. L. Mencken

People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the gray areas. Things are not all black and white. There have to be compromises. The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.  ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower 


Quotes about compromise, life

Word We Have Invented

If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius. ~ Larry Leissner

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion. ~ Albert Einstein

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood. ~ Henry Miller

Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity. ~ Michael J. Gelb

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation. ~ Edward R. Murrow
Quotes about confusion, life

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