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Uplifting Quotes

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General Quotes:

1. "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence." Albert Einstein


2. "True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable." Jeremy Collier


3. "I have come to believe that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it." Charles Swindol.


4. "GREAT people talk about ideas, AVERAGE people talk about things, SMALL people talk about other people."


5. "To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world"


6. "Real friends are those who, when you feel you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel you've done a permanent job."


7. TEAM = Together Everyone Accomplishes More!


8. "Sometimes the MAJORITY only means that all the fools are on the same side"


9. "Following the path of least resistance is what makes rivers and men crooked."


10. "I don't have to attend every argument I am invited to"


11. "Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make all mistakes yourself"


12. "Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings had forgotten how to fly."


13. "Lead your life so you won't be ashamed to sell the family parot to the town gossip"


14. "I would rather do something great and fail than doing nothing and succeeding"


15. "When you are in the middle of something, it always looks like a failure"


16. "Life is like an onion: you peel off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep."


17. "I would rather be a hill in a small town, than a tall mountain on a remote, lost island"


18. "People gather bundles of sticks to build bridges they never cross"


19. "Personal strengths and resources often are like stars, ignored at day and unseen on a cloudy night."


20. "A word of wisdom found at the right time can change your life forever"


21. "I am grateful for the health that I still have, I will adjust my lifestyle to improve what I still can, but I will not waste my life being bitter about what I have foolishly or unfortunately lost"


22. "A ship in port is safe, but this is not what ships are built for". - Grace Hopper 


23. "Our strength grows out of our weakness". - Ralph Wald Emerson 


24. "When faced with a challenge, look for a way, not a way out". - David L. Weatherford


25. "I am only one, but still I am one; I cannot do everything; but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."        
    - Edward Everett Hale 


26. "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams". - Eleanor Roosevelt 


27. "You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down". - Mary Pickford


28. "Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat".    - Napoleon Hill 


29. "If I could wish for my life to be perfect, it would be tempting, but I would have to decline, for life would no longer teach me anything". - Allyson Jones


30. "Youth is a gift of nature, Age is a work of art". - Helen M. Carrall


31. "Be not afraid of going slowly".  Be afraid of standing still. - Japanese Proverb 


32. "Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms, you would never see the beauty of their carvings". - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross


33. "I can live for two months on a compliment." - Mark Twain 


34. "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are". - Theodore Roosevelt 


35. "Experience is a hard teacher, because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards".  - Vernon Saunders' Law 


36. "Put your troubles in a pocket with a hole in it".
    


37. "You've got to work like you don't need the money, dance like nobody's watching, and love like you've never been hurt."
    


38. "The riches of the human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome". - Helen Keller 


39. "You can't be afraid of stepping on toes if you want to go dancing." - Lewis Freedman 


40. "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear- not absence of fear". - Mark Twain 


41. "We should consider every day lost in which we have not danced at least once."              
    - Friedrich Nietsche 


42. "There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm." - Willa Cather 


43. "The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it." - John Ruskin 


44. "My company mascot is the bumblebee.  Beacuse of its tiny wings and heavy body, aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly.  But the bumblebee doesn't know that, so it flies anyways." - Mary Kay Ash 


45. "One joy shatters a hundred griefs" - Chinese Proverb


46. "If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow."   - Chinese Proverb


47. "In the game of life, heredity deals the hand, and society makes the rules; but you can still play your own cards." - Peter's Almanac 


48. "We cannot direct the wind... but we can adjust the sails."
    


49. "Don't look back unless you intend to go that way." - Marc Holm 


50. "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." - Marie Curie 


51. "Has anyone ever said, "It is important to spend less time on how we look and more time on how we see"? If not, someone should." - Carmen Richardson Rutlen 


52. "Beauty is in the heart of the beholder." - Al Bernstein


53. "Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." - Joseph Addison


54. "It is better to be hated for what you are then to be loved for what you are not."
    


55. "Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world." - Helen Keller


56. “To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has
    breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson


57. "In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge" - Aristotle


58. "Keeping in touch with childhood memories keeps us believing in life's simplest pleasures like a rainy afternoon, a swingset, and a giant puddle to play in." - Chrissy Ogden


59. "Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death."
    


60. "When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." - Helen Keller


61. "We must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day had been" - Sophocles


62. "If you treat men the way they are, you never improve them.  If you treat them the way you want them to be, you do." - Goethe


63. "The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision." - Helen Keller


64. "Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief." - Joseph Addison


65. "Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world.  So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain." - Helen Keller


66. "We are often so caught up in our destination  that we forget to appreciate the jorney, Especially the goodness of the people we meet along the way.  Appreciation is a wonderful feeling, don't overlook it."


67. "The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them." - Montaigne


68. "Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit." - Aristotle


69. "We live by admiration, hope and love". - William Wordsworth


70. "Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.  In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible." - Norman Vincent Peale



71. "Experience is a hard teacher, because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards."
    Vernon Saunders' Law

72. "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle.
    The other is as though everything is a miracle. Albert Einstein

73. People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

75. The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart, head and hands. Robert M. Pirsig

76. "Words may show a man's wit, but actions his meaning." - Benjamin Franklin


77. "Laughter is the shortest distance between two people." - Victor Borge


78. "A friend is a person who knows all about you--and still likes you" - Elbert Hubbard


79. "The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have." - Norman Vincent Peale


80. "The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons." - Aristotle


81. "What doesn't kill me makes me stronger". - Albert Camus


82. "In the middle of a difficulty lies opportunity". - Albert Einstein


83. "If you learn from your suffering, and really come to understand the lesson you were taught, you might be able to help someone else who's now in the phase you may have just completed.  Maybe that's what it's all about after all ... "


84. "People are like stained-glass windows.  They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."  - Elizabeth Kubler-Ross


85. "There are two lasting bequests we can give our children:   One is roots.  The other is wings."   - Hodding Carter, Jr.


86. "You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time." - Charles F. Kettering


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


88. "My dad always used to say, "If you're falling off a cliff, you may as well try to fly.  You have nothing to lose." - Captain John Sheridan, Babylon 5


89. "You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with." - Wayne Dyer


90. "Maturity is the ability to express one's own feelings and convictions balanced with consideration for the thoughts and feelings of others." - Hrand Saxenian


91. "A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding." Isaac Newton


92. "The challenge is to believe your dreams in the center of illusion." Emmanuel (Pat Rodegast)


93. "Love is a force that connects us to every strand of the universe, an unconditional state that characterizes human nature, a form of knowledge that is always there for us if only we can open ourselves to it." Emily H. Sell


94. "As you recognize that you already own the wholeness you seek, and no one outside you can give you more than you already are, dysfunctional situations will evaporate like bad dreams exposed to the morning sun." Alan Cohen


95. "Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry." Richard Feynman


96. "Enlightenment does not ask you to be perfect; it simply asks you to find perfection right where you stand." Alan Cohen


97. "The only thing more important than being good is being real. Authenticity is kinder than resignation without conviction. Truth leads to good faster than good leads to truth. Ultimately truth is good, but you have to live it from the inside out." Alan Cohen


98. "See the world as if for the first time; see it through the eyes of a child, and you will suddenly find that you are free." Deepak Chopra


99. "When your sense of worth exceeds your conditions, conditions will shift to match your vision." Alan Cohen


100. "I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud." Carl Jung


101. "The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention." Anthony J. D' Angelo


102. "A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed. It feels an impulsion: this is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reasons and patterns behind all clouds. And you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons." Richard Bach, Illusions


103. "The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed." Carl Jung


104. "In any conflict, we can defend ourselves or we can learn. Defense has made the world unlivable. What would happen if we chose to learn instead? Instead of saying, 'You frighten me', what if we said, 'You interest me'?" Leslie Back, One


105. "Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail." Edward A. Navajo


106. "Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and of life." Henri Frederic Amiel


107. "A small boy looked at a star and began to weep. The star said, 'Boy, why are you weeping?' And the boy said, 'You are so far away I will never be able to touch you.' And the star answered, 'Boy, if I were not already in your heart, you would not be able to see me.' " John Magliola


108. "Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used." Blaise Pascal


109. "The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him." Ralph Waldo Emerson


110. "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." Helen Keller


111. "If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive..." Eleonora Duse


112. "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


113. "There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning." Louis L'Amour


114. "To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the enlightened mind the whole world sparkles and burns." Ralph Waldo Emerson


115. “Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.” Dinah Craik


116. "To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically." Henry David Thoreau


117. "There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter -- loving spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and totally without social significance. Bubbling spontaneously from the heart of child or man. Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life." Sir William Osler


118. "I wanted a perfect ending.. Now, I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity." Gilda Radner


119. "Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling; not a mean and groveling thing that we are to shuffle through as we can, but an elevated and lofty destiny." William E. Gladstone


120. "All day I have been tossed and whirled in a preposterous happiness; was it an elf in the blood? Or a bird in the brain? Or even part of the cloudily crested, fifty-league-long, loud, uplifted wave of a journeying angel's transit over and through my heart?" C.S. Lewis


121. "A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star." Edwin H. Chapin


122. "Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born." Dale Turner


123. "Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand, and melting like a snowflake." Marie Beyon Ray


124. "Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing." Helen Keller


125. "There is always hope for an individual who stops to do some serious thinking about life." Katherine Logan


126. "If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that." Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe


127. "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." Mark Twain


128. "Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around." Leo Buscaglia


129. "Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe..." Albert Einstein


130. "Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and everlasting life." JRR Tolkien in letter to poet WH Auden


131. "Life is like a finger, pointing to the Moon. If you look at the finger... you will miss all the heavenly glory." from Enter the Dragon, Bruce Lee tells his pupil


132. "Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities. Always see them, for they're always there." Norman Vincent Peale


133. "Dynamic choices made in the physical, the daring to follow the path set by the heart, are the only prerequisites to ultimate success." Mentor, Agartha


134. "Bad things are not the worst that can happen to us. NOTHING is the worst that can happen to us." Richard Bach, One


135. "The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly." Richard Bach, Illusions


136. "Human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our own ignorance about ourselves." Carl Sagan


137. "It's OK to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation." Helen Keller


138. "A human being is an expression of life, bringing light, reflecting love across whatever dimension it chooses to touch, in whatever form it chooses to take. Humanity isn't a physical description, it's a spiritual goal. It's not something we're given, it's something we earn." Mashara, One


139. "You do not suffer because things are impermanent. You suffer because things are impermanent and you think they are permanent." Thich Nhat Hanh


140. "The ageless melody, unheard, heals; the healing vision, unseen, leads; the true leaders, immortal, know...." Kahlil Gibran


141. "Awareness is given to the newborn, but must be sought by the adult." Mentor, Agartha


142. "He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise." Lao Tzu


143. "This world is but a canvas to our imaginations." Henry David Thoreau


144. "A mind that has been stretched will never return to it's original dimension." Albert Einstein


145. "Healing and positive life change comes from having the courage and spiritual conviction to look squarely at life's impermanence." Meredith Young Sowers


146. "All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself." Aristotle


147. "What is past holds potential wisdom for the present. What is present is only temporary, and continually shifts within the structure of change. Then what is the future? It is the truth of action taken and the awareness of this truth as it exists in the heart of Divine Intention." Mentor, Agartha


148. "People who do not need to please are irresistible because they radiate wholeness, a rare delicacy in a world of hungry hearts." Alan Cohen


149. "Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void." Simon Weil


150. "Meditation means learning how to get out of this current, sit by its bank and listen to it, learn from it, and then use its energies to guide us." Jon Kabat Zin


151. "Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends." Richard Bach, Illusions


152. "The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly." Buddha


153. "Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully." Richard Bach, Illusions


154. "Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed, but with what is still possible for you to do." Pope John XXIII


155. "We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us there is something valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit." e.e. Cummings


156. "The heart is the only constant and sure beam to follow one's cosmic door of understanding." Mentor, Agartha


157. "Everything that happens to us is a reflection of who we are." Deepak Chopra, Ageless Body/Timeless Mind


158. "There is no remedy for love but to love more." Henry David Thoreau, Journal, July 25, 1839


159. "If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them." Francis Bacon


160. "We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light." Ralph Waldo Emerson


161. "I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains." Anne Frank


162. "Serene will be our days, and bright and happy will our nature be, when love is an unerring light, and joy its own security." William Wordsworth


163. "It is never too late to be what you might have been." George Elliot


164. "Don't fear change. It's always for the best." Richard Bach, Illusions


165. "There is only one happiness in life - to love and be loved." Amandine Dupin


166. "How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world." William Shakespeare


167. "Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants." Epicurus 341 BC-270 BC - ancient Greek philosopher


168. "Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves." James M. Barrie


169. "As much of heaven is visible as we have eyes to see." William Winter


170. "By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity." Vernon Howard


171. "Truly I have looked in the very heart of darkness and refused to yield to its paralyzing influence, but in spirit I am one of those who walk the morning." Helen Keller


172. "Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." Benjamin Franklin


173. "As long as you're actively pursuing your dream with a practical plan, you're still achieving, even if it feels as though you're going nowhere fast. Its been my experience that at the very moment I feel like giving up, I'm only one step from a breakthrough. Hang on long enough and circumstances will change, too. Trust in yourself, your dream and spirit." Sarah Ban Breathnach


174. "Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use." Earl Nightingale


175. "If we won't be better tomorrow than we are today, then what do we need tomorrow for?" Rabbi Nahman


176. "Choose Life! Only that and always! At whatever risk, to let life leak out, to let it wear away by the mere passage of time, to withhold giving and spending it... is to choose nothing." Sister Helen Kelley


177. "People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within." Elizabeth Kubler-Ross


178. "Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know it just as well as you do. We are all learners, doers and teachers." Richard Bach, Illusions


179. "Courage is the first of human qualities, because it is the quality which guarantees all others." Winston Churchill


180. "Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite." Thomas Carlyle


181. "The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope." Samuel Johnson


182. "What a doctor or healer tells you is a reflection of the beliefs and expectations you hold. Change your beliefs and you change the prognosis. Who is the doctor? The mind of the patient." Alan Cohen


183. "The force of union conquers all." Homer


184. "True love is the most enduring of all of life's worldly possessions, never tarnishing over time but ever to remain bright and brilliant in the light of love." Joseph P. Martino


185. "The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations." Isaac D'Israeli


186. "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore.Dream. Discover"
     -- MARK TWAIN


187. “Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin!" - ANONYMOUS


188. “Every judgement blocks the light!" - Mary Anne Williamson


189. “The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring increased happiness to you!" - GREENVILLE KLEISER


190. “Being considerate of others will take you further in life than a college degree." - MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN


191. “The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.” - PAUL VALERY


192. “The Important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become” - CHARLES DUBOIS


193. “When I give, I give myself” - WALT WHITMAN


194. "To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever." - HENRY DRUMMOND


195. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only a page” - ST. AUGUSTINE


196. "We are all alike, on the inside."- MARK TWAIN


197. "To be good is noble, but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble."- MARK TWAIN


198. “Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else” - J.M. BARRIE, Novelist


199. “There are hundreds of languages in the world, but a smile speaks them all” - ANONYMOUS


200. “The best way you can cheer yourself up is to cheer someone else up” - MARK TWAIN


201. “How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself. So always think positively.” - NORMAN VINCENT PEALE


202. "Love is the beauty of the soul." - ST. AUGUSTINE


203. “Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance” - BENJAMIN FRANKLIN


204. “The journey is the reward” - TAO SAYING


205. “If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all of your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fear” - CESARE PAVESE


206. “The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going. ” -- UNKNOWN


207. “A limit on what you will do puts a limit on what you can do.” -- DEXTER YAGER


208. “Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.” -- MAE WEST


209. “Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.” -- UNKNOWN


210. "Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it." -- WAYNE DYER


211. "Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized." -- LEO BUSCAGLIA


212. "To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle." -- WALT WHITMAN


213. "Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination." -- VOLTAIRE


214. "It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." -- HENRY DAVID THOREAU


215. "Nature always wears the colors of the spirit." -- RALPH WALDO EMERSON


216. "Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention." -- JIM ROHN


217. "Chance does nothing that has not been prepared beforehand." -- ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE


218. "You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." -- MARK TWAIN


219. "Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love." -- LEO BUSCAGLIA


220. "Our aspirations are our possibilities." -- ROBERT BROWNING


221. "Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want." -- JIM ROHN


222. "Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today." -- EARL OF CHESTERFIELD


223. "To reach a port, we must sail ; sail, not tie at anchor; sail, not drift." -- FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT


224. "Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read." -- MARK TWAIN


225. "A good laugh is sunshine in a house." -- WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY


226. "Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true." -- RALPH WALDO EMERSON


227. "Everybody likes a compliment" -- ABRAHAM LINCOLN


228. "The very best proof that something can be done is that someone has already done it" -- BERTRAND RUSSEL


229. "If you can't forgive, don't ask to be forgiven" -- NAPOLEON HILL


230. "The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step" -- LAO TZU


231. "A smile is a passport that will take you anywhere you want to go." -- UNKNOWN


232. "It is only with the heart that one can see clearly, for the most essential things are invisible to the eye." -- ANTONIE DE SAINTE EXUPERY


233. "Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." --MARCEL PROUST


234. "Things turn out the best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out" --JOHN WOODEN
     


235. "There are no language barriers when you are smiling." -- ALLEN KLEIN


236. "One day is worth a thousand tomorrows." -- BENJAMIN FRANKLIN


237. "Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." -- GOETHE


238. "Paradise is Always Where Love Dwells" -- JEAN PAUL F. RICHTER


239. "The beginning is always today." -- MARY WOLLSTONECROFT


240. "It doesn't matter how slow you go, as long as you don't stop!" -- CONFUCIUS


241. "At the Touch of Love, Everyone becomes a poet" -- PLATO


242. "I amuse myself by studying people as I travel...it is fun to study the world while passing through it." -- CASANOVA


243. "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON


244. "Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly" -- G.K. CHESTERTON


245. "Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children."- WALT DISNEY


246. "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." - CHINESE SAYING


247. "Life I Love You, All is Groovy" -- SIMON & GARFUNKEL 1968


248. "All of our dreams can come true." -- WALT DISNEY


249. "No-one knows what he can do until he tries." -- PUBLILIUS SYRUS


250. "All that I will, I can." -- FRENCH SAYING


251. "Your love is better than chocolate." -- SARA MCLAUGHLIN


252. "Go out into the world today and love the people you meet. Let your presence light new light in the hearts of people." -- MOTHER TERESA


253. "Whether you think you can, or think you can't, you're right." -- HENRY FORD


254. "If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have." -- SIR JAMES M. BARRIE


255. "The true profession of man is finding his way to himself." --HERMAN HESSE


256. "You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action." --ANTHONY ROBBIN


257. "Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy." -- JIM ROHN


258. "You can't control the contour of your face, but you can control its expression." --UNKNOWN


259. "I am not afraid of storms, I am learning to sail my own ship." -- LOUISE MAY ALCOTT


260. "Your self-image controls your performance; see yourself as confident and in complete control." -- BRIAN TRACY


261. “Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The "sure thing" boat never gets far from shore.” -- DALE CARNEGIE


262. "One who cares is one who listens." -- J. RICHARD CLARKE


263. "Some people come into our lives and leave footprints on our hearts and we are never ever the same." -- FLAVIA WEEDN


264. "A smile is your greatest social asset." -- ZIG ZIGLAR


265. "Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” -- CARL GUSTAV JUNG


266. "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." --ROBERT FROST


267. "The most important trip you may ever take in life is meeting people halfway..." -- HENRY BOYE


268. "There are no shortcuts to any place worth going... " -- BEVERLY SILLS


269. "There's a place in the world for any business that takes care of its customers--after the sale." -- HARVEY MACKAY


270. "A man can do only what a man can do. But if he does it everyday he can sleep at night and do it again the next day" -- ALBERT SCHWEITZER


271. "Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you also have an obligation to be one." -- ELEANOR ROOSEVELT


272. "Attitude is Everything! Silver linings aren't just discovered, they're created!" -- PRESENTED BY NOLAN BURRIS


273. “You’ve got to have a dream. If you don’t have a dream, how [are you] gonna make a dream come true?” ~ BLOODY MARY SINGING "HAPPY TALK" IN THE MOVIE 'SOUTH PACIFIC' ~
     


274. "If you judge people, you have no time to love them" -- MOTHER TERESA
     


275. "Always do what you are afraid to do." -- RALPH WALDO EMERSON
     


276. "Life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be." --GRANDMA MOSES


277. "Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now & do it." -- WILLIAM DURANT


278. “Unforgiveness is like drinking the poison and waiting for the other person to die!”
     presented by Amanda Gore.


279. "Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments and places that take our breath away" - UNKNOWN


280. "The first love, the first sunrise, the first South Sea island, are memories apart" - ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON


281. "One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things." - HENRY MILLER


282. "Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen." - BENJAMIN DISRAELI


283. "For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move." - ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON


284. "Life is too short to fly coach!" - DALE IRVIN


285. "..focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it." - GREG ANDERSON


286. "We can do anything we want if we stick to it long enough." - HELEN KELLER


287. "Life is not always what one wants it to be, but to make the best of it as it is,
     is the only way of being happy." - JENNIE JEROME CHURCHILL


288. "The time is always right to do what is right." - MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.


289. "The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard.. But must be felt with the heart." - HELEN KELLER


290. "Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind.
     The third is to be kind." - HENRY JAMES


291. "If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up." - NORMAN VINCENT PEALE
     


292. "What’s the best thing that happened to you today?” - AMANDA GORE
     


293. "This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it."- RALPH WALDO EMERSON


294. "Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON


295. "You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time." - CHARLES F. KETTERING


296. "We are often so caught up in our destination That we forget to appreciate the journey, Especially the goodness of the people we meet along the way. Appreciation is a wonderful feeling, don't overlook it." - AUTHOR UNKNOWN
     


297. "There is pleasure in the pathless woods
     There is a rapture on the lonely shore
     There is society, where none intrudes,
     By the deep sea, and music in its roar
     I love not man the less, but nature more" -- LORD BYRON


298. "Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world." -- GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
     
     
299. "The best way to predict the future is to create it!" -- JASON KAUFMANN
     
     
300. "Begin doing what you want to do now. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake." -- MARIE BEYON RAY
     
     
301. "Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and follow where they lead." -- LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
     
     
302. "Our lives are not determined by what happens to us, but how we react to what happens; not by what life brings us, but by the attitude we bring to life. A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst a spark that creates extraordinary results." -- UNKNOWN
     
     
303. "Let a series of happy thoughts run through your mind. They will show on your face." -- UNKNOWN
     
     
304. "Your love is better than ice cream" -- SARAH MCLACHLAN
     
     
305. "Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything." -- GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
     
     
306. "Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." -- RALPH WALDO EMERSON
     
     
307. "A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow." -- GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON
     
     
308. "Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere." -- CARL SAGAN
     
     
309. "If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it." -- MARY ENGELBREIT
     
     
310. "For everything you have missed, you have gained something else." -- RALPH WALDO EMERSON
     
     
311. "Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out." -- ANONYMOUS
     
     
312. "Not all those who wander are lost" -- J.R.R. Tolkein
     
     
313. "If you can dream it, you can do it." -- WALT DISNEY
     
     
314. "And if not now, when?" -- TALMUD
     
     
315. "Follow your bliss" -- JOSEPH CAMPBELL
     
     
316. "The only reward of virtue is virtue." -- RALPH WALDO EMERSON
     
     
317. "Whoever is happy will make others happy too" -- ANNE FRANK
     
     
318. "A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before" -- RALPH WALDO EMERSON
     
     
319. "Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been." -- MARK TWAIN
     
     
320. "Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection" -- LAWRENCE DURRELL
     
     
321. "A good travel agent is worth more than a good lawyer . . . ."
     
     
322. "Life is a paradise for those who love many things with a passion" -- LEO BUSCAGLIA
     
     
323. "Abundance is about being rich, with or without money." -- SUZE ORMAN
     
     
324. "Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful"-- ANNETTE FUNICELLO
     
     
325. "Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries."-- CORITA KENT
     
     
326. " Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better" -- EMILE COUÉ
     
     
327. "If we are ever to enjoy life, now is the time, not tomorrow or next year . . . Today should always be our most wonderful day." -- THOMAS DREIER
     
     
328. "Life is a great and wondrous mystery, and the only thing we know that we have for sure
     is what is right here and right now. Don't miss it." -- LEO BUSCAGLIA
     
     
329. " Giving opens the way to receiving" -- FLORENCE SCOVEL SHINN
     
     
330. " Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons" --RUTH ANN SCHABACKER
     
     
331. "Write in your heart that every day is the best day of the year" -- RALPH WALDO EMERSON
     
     
332. " Be the change that you want to see in the world." ~ MAHATMA GANDHI
     
     
333. "The world will not change until we do" ~ JIM WALLIS
     
     
334. "When we are no longer able to change a situation... We are challenged to change ourselves" ~ VIKTOR FRANKL
     
     
335. "Be here now!" -- RAM DAS
     
     
336. "How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives" -- ANNIE DILLARD
     
     
337. "Today is the first day of the rest of your life" -- CHARLES DEDERICH
     
     
338. “Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do today, because if you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.!” -- JAMES A .MICHENER
     
     
339. “Hitch your wagon to a star” -- RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Spiritual Quotes:

1. PUSH = Pray Until Something Happens!

2. FAITH = Fantastic Adventure In Trusting Him!

3. FROG = Fully Reliable On God!

4. "Spirituality leaps where science cannot yet follow, because science must always test and measure, and much of reality and human experience is immeasurable." Miriam Simos

6. "A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on". - Carl Sandberg


7. "I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business." - MICHAEL J. FOX


8. "When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything you gave me." - Erma Bombeck


9. "Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace, and your best days are never beyond the need of God's grace."


10. "There are two things I've learned: There is a God. And, I'm not Him."


11. "Did it ever occur to you that nothing occurs to God?"


12. "A coincidence is when God performs a miracle and decides to remain anonymous"


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


14. "Going to church does not make you more Christian than going to McDonalds makes you a hamburger."


15. "My profession is to be always on the alert to find God in nature, to know his lurking-places, to attend all the oratorios, the operas in nature." Henry David Thoreau


16. "I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting system through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in." George Washington Carver


17. "The very presence of an angel is a communication. Even when an angel crosses our path in silence, God has said to us, 'I am here. I am present in your life'." Tobias Palmer

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