QUOTES TO THINK ABOUT

Try choosing three favorites and writing about why they are your favorites.

Maybe the hokey pokey really IS what it's all about.
Anonymous

You can't stop the waves from coming, but you can learn how to surf.
Sri Swami Satchidananda

We do not see things as they are,
we see them as we are.
Anais Nin

Each time anyone comes into contact with us,
they must become different and better people
because of having met us.
We must radiate love.
We must know that we have been created for greater things,
not just to be a number in the world,
not just to go for diplomas and degrees,
this work and that work.
We have been created in order to love and to be loved.
Love does not measure. . . it just gives.
Mother Teresa

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
Henry David Thoreau

Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life.
Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.
Don't let your special character and values,
the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth --
dont let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.
Meryl Streep

Happiness is the sense that one matters.
Sarah Trimmer

The great mind knows the power of gentleness.
Robert Browning

Ask yourself this question:
"Will this matter a year from now?"
Richard Carlson Ph.D., Author of "Don't Sweat the Small Stuff"

The day a person becomes a cynic
is the day he loses his youth.
Marvin D. Levy

Our life is frittered away by detail...
Simplify, simplify.
Thoreau

There comes that mysterious meeting in life
when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be,
igniting the circuits of our highest potential.
Rusty Berkus

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
Robert Frost

Learn to listen.
Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly.
Frank Tyger

Sometimes it takes years to really grasp
what has happened to your life.
Wilma Rudolph

What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.
Thomas Sprat

Every passing moment is a chance to turn it all around.
Penelope Cruz in Vanilla Sky

Let go of your attachment to being right,
and suddenly your mind is more open.
You're able to benefit from the unique
viewpoints of others, without being crippled
by your own judgment.
Ralph Marston

Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
Thomas Carlyle

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
Victor Borge

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
Bertrand Russell

The big question is whether you are going to be able to
say a hearty yes to your adventure.
Joseph Campbell

My favorite quote is "Life is too short to be little," written by Disraeli.
Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget.
We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year’s time,
will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile
actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings.
Andre Maurois

Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
Where there’s love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.
Ella Fitzgerald

Life has a practice of living you, if you don’t live it.
Philip Larkin

. . .if we wait for the moment when everything,
absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
Ivan Turgenev

People only see what they are prepared to see.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who angers you conquers you.
Elizabeth Kenny

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel,
and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.
Leo Rosten

When you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.
Joseph Campbell

When you are content to be simply yourself and
don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
Lao-Tzu

If you’re going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it,
you might as well laugh about it now.
Marie Osmond

There are two ways of spreading light --
to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton

As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway,
THINK BIG.
Donald Trump

Don’t hold grudges; it’s pointless.
Jealousy too is a non-cathartic, negative emotion.
Liz Smith

There is a transcendent power in example.
We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
Anne Sophie Swetchine

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh,
at yourself.
Ethel Barrymore

Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things,
but just look what they can do when they stick together.
Vista M. Kelly

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?
Marcel Marceau

Let your heart guide you.
It whispers, so listen closely.
The Land Before Time

Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
L a u g h.
Choose with no regret.
Continue to Learn.
Appreciate your friends.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
Mary Anne M.B.L. Radmacher

There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Gandhi

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Begin challenging your own assumptions.
Your assumptions are your windows on the world.
Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.
Alan Alda

Mitakuye Oyasin.
[We are all related.]
Lakota Belief

Humankind has not woven the web of life.
We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
All things are bound together.
All things connect.
Chief Seattle