All misery derives from the inability to sit in a quiet room alone.
~ unknown (via Jared Akers)
Happiness is not a reward – it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment – it is a result.
~Robert Ingersoll
Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who are alive.
~Howard Thurman
We may not all live holy lives, but we live in a world alive with holy moments.
~Kent Nerburn
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
~ Maria Robinson
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
~ Sri Ram
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.
~ Buddha
Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.
~ Bernard Meltzer
The more you dwell on what you don’t have, the more you get what you don’t want.
~ Unknown
“I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they will keep getting a busy signal-and soon they’ll forget my number.”
~ Edith Armstrong
Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves – or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.
~ Ayn Rand
Our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world…as in being able to remake ourselves.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Slow down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you.
~ John De Paola
Every morning is a new beginning, a new chance for you to rewrite the story of your life.
~ Tina Su
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
~ Andre Gide
Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.
Life is just a quick succession of busy nothings.
~ Jane Austen
The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
~ Helen Keller
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.
~ Jim Horning
Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.
~ Lao Tzu
A belief is only a thought you continue to think. A belief is nothing more than a chronic pattern of thought, and you have the ability -if you try even a little bit- to begin a new pattern, to tell a new story, to achieve a different vibration, to change your point of attraction.
~ Abraham-Hicks
Happiness is a Butterfly which, when pursued is just beyond your grasp… but if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Happy people continuously change; and because they change they become more and more happy; and then more and more change is possible
~ Osho
We search for perfection because we believe we are entitled to the best — even if perfection is an illusion foisted on us by an abundance of possibilities.
~ Hara Estroff Marano (Psychology Today)
Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.
~ Eckhart Tolle
When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
Life is not what it’s supposed to be. Its what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.
~ Virginia Satir
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