Sabado, Mayo 14, 2011

LIFE QUOTES

I have made it a habit of writing down quotes that I liked or meant something to me and placed them in a journal I kept for that purpose... hope you'll enjoy reading my personal collection!

Every day may not be good, but there’s something good in every day. —-Author Unknown

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. —-Oprah Winfrey

Things will happen in your life that you can’t stop, but that’s no reason to shut out the world. There’s a purpose for the good and for the bad. —–Crazy Pete

If we think happy thoughts, we will be happy. If we think miserable thoughts, we will be miserable. —-Dale Carnegie

You’re alive. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you change the world, the world will change. —–NeilL Gaiman
We’re so busy watching out for what’s just ahead of us that we don’t take time to enjoy where we are.  —-Calvin & Hobbes

Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was. —-Richard L. Evans

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you. —-Richard Bach

Trouble is part of your life – if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.  —-Dinah Shore

The purpose of life is a life of purpose. —-Robert Byrne
Let your life mean something. Become an inspiration to others so that they may try to do more and to become more than they are today. —Thomas D. Willhite

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

Being vulnerable doesn't have to be threatening. Just have the courage to be sincere, open and honest. This opens the door to deeper communication all around. It creates self-empowerment and the kind of connections with others we all want in life. Speaking from the heart frees us from the secrets that burden us. These secrets are what make us sick or fearful. Speaking truth helps you get clarity on your real heart directives.-- Sara Paddison


Each day is a new canvas to paint upon. Make sure your picture is full of life and happiness, and at the end of the day you don't look at it and wish you had painted something different.
-- Author Unknown 

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
-- George Washington Carver  

If you want to know the past, to know what has caused you, look at yourself in the PRESENT, for that is the past's effect. If you want to know your future, then look at yourself in the PRESENT, for that is the cause of the future.
-- Majjhima Nikaya

" There are so many people out there who will tell you that you can't. What you've got to do is turn around and say Watch Me."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Lauren Covington --- New Jersey


" Don't walk as if you are the king, but walk as if you are not bothered by who the king is."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Vaishali S. --- India 


" Keep surging forward even when struggle pushes you back for every trial is like a wind; it will try to push you back or make you quit. You have to stay strong for struggles don’t last; they come strongly and pass swiftly and only the ones who hold onto their grounds strongly and fight to go forward will emerge victorious."
Written in 2010 by Kiplimo Chemirmir --- Texas


" Eliminate all obstacles and elements of distraction in your life. Erect a structure that attracts only positive elements and individuals. Allow the sun to radiate your soul, the water to refresh your spirits and the wind to soothe your mind. Let the fire ignite your ambitions and embrace the love of people who will motivate your growth."
Written in 2011 by Easton Leiba --- Jamaica 


" When you feel that you are at the end of your path and there is a ten foot high brick wall right there in front of you, and you have nowhere to go but backwards, break down that wall and move forward. There are great and wonderful things on the other side of that wall... and, they have always been there. Let nothing divide you from what you need to do in life, and see the solutions that are right in front of you. The key is, you must break down what separates you from them and choose to find them."
Written inn 2010 by Rich Barnes --- Massachusetts


" We might not be able to be the best, but we can always be better than the rest."
Written in 2011 by Abdul Rahim Bin Mohd Said --- Singapore



" Success... is not measured by the value of wealth that you have accumulated throughout your lifetime! When you achieved your dream - no matter how simple that dream may be, for as long as you are happy and contented with what you have achieved, it is only then, that will be able to appreciate what success is all about!"
Written in 2011 by Rolando S. Sumalague, Jr., CPA --- Philippines  

Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don’t hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.Play the smiling game in your daily life. See how many people you can get to smile back at you. Keep score and tally the results at the end of each day. —- Josh S. Hinds


Never tell your problems to anyone…20% don’t care and the other 80% are glad you have them.  —- Lou Holtz


The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. —- Walter Bagehot




Life is about trusting your feelings and taking chances, losing and finding happiness, appreciating the memories, learning from the past, and realizing people change.The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. —- Oprah Winfrey


Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. —-Oprah Winfrey


Let your life mean something. Become an inspiration to others so that they may try to do more and to become more than they are today. — Thomas D. Willhite



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