Quotable Quotes 4

[David Baxter PhD]

"Love doesn't make you happy, make yourself happy. Then you get love."

~ Sue Shapiro, Five Men Who Broke My Heart

 

[Cat Dancer]

Life is simple, its just not easy.

~Author Unknown

 

[ladylore]

There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Washington Irving

 

[Cat Dancer]

Most of my major disappointments have turned out to be blessings in disguise. So whenever anything bad does happen to me, I kind of sit back and feel, well, if I give this enough time, it'll turn out that this was good, so I shouldn't worry about it too much.
~ William Gaines

 

[Cat Dancer]

Allow Events to Change You: You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you. You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth: the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them.
-Bruce Mau, designer


The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions?the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
-Og Mandino


How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway... And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!
-Anne Frank

 

[Cat Dancer]

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
~ Mary Tyler Moore

 

[Cat Dancer]

Go as far as you can see, and when you get there you will see farther.
-Orison Swett Marden


An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

 

[megk]

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." - Carl Gustav Jung

 

[David Baxter PhD]

"Between a stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." ~ Victor Frankl

 

[Yuray]

Thank You

To hear the words "thank you for being my friend" is a testament to your being. To say the words "thank you for being my friend", is a testament to your nakedness. If I heard the words, unsolicited by any action of my own making, "thank you for being my friend", I would certainly cry. Can you understand how one might have tears in their eyes while hearing such a thing? .......Miller

 

[Yuray]

If you always do,
What you've always done,
You'll always have,
What you've always had.

.....smarty pants

 

[David Baxter PhD]

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

~ Michael Jordan, Nike advertisement

 

[SueW]

The Facts are Friendly...And being closer to the truth can never be a harmful or dangerous or unsatisfying thing.

Carl Rogers (1961). On Becoming a Person. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 4-27.

 

[David Baxter PhD]

"When you're young, you always feel that life hasn't yet begun - that "life" is always scheduled to begin next week, next month, next year, after the holidays - whenever. But then suddenly you're old and the scheduled life didn't arrive. You find yourself asking, 'Well then, exactly what was it I was having - that interlude - the scrambly madness - all that time I had before?' " ~ Douglas Coupland (Life After God).

 

[Budoaiki]

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power then the world will know peace."

-Jimi Hendrix

Although I think he may have taken the idea from William E. Gladstone, who said;

"We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace."

I prefer Jimi's quote because I think it's simpler and also more eloquent.

 

[David Baxter PhD]

"Being happy doesn't mean everything's perfect; it just means you've decided to see beyond the imperfections." ~ Unknown

 

[Trust]

LEONARD COHEN LYRICS - Anthem

From Leonard Cohen's song "Anthem": (full lyrics at link above).

"Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in. "

 

[HBas]

- Guilt is the payment made by a shallow self to avoid real change. - Steve Gillman

- I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. - Galileo Galilei

 

[HBas]

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes it is a quiet voice at the end of the day, saying?"I will try again tomorrow."
~Mary Anne Radmacher

 

[David Baxter PhD]

"When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it." ~ Bernard Bailey