Quotes About Happiness

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Happiness

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Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary

 

Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.

~Robert S. Lynd

 

Try to be a rainbow in someones cloud

 

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

~Margaret Lee Runbeck

 

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

~Robert Frost


Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

~Marcel Proust

 

I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

~J.D. Salinger

 

Happiness is your dentist telling you it won’t hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.

~Johnny Carson

 

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

 

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

~Josh Billings

 

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

~William Morris

 

Cheerfulness is the very flower of health.

~Proverb

 

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

~Albert Camus

 

It is a comely fashion to be glad; Joy is the grace we say to God.

~Jean Ingelow

 

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know

 

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

~Thomas Jefferson

 

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

~Phillips Brooks

 

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

~Epictetus

 

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

~Hosea Ballou

 

When a man has lost all happiness, he’s not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

~Sophocles

 

 You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness

 

Joy is more divine than sorrow; for joy is bread, and sorrow is medicine.

~Henry Ward Beecher

 

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

~Mahatma Gandhi

 

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

~Richard Wagner

 

Considering the way the world is, one happy day is almost a miracle.

~Paulo Coelho

 

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

~Samuel Johnson

 

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

~Joseph Addison

 

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness

 

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

~Maxim Gorky

 

Happiness is a function of accepting what is.

~Werner Erhard

 

The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.

~J.D. Salinger

 

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens.

~Douglas Jerrold

 

Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.

~Colette

 

One filled with joy preaches without preaching.

~Mother Teresa

 

One joy scatters a hundred griefs.

~Chinese Proverb

Quotes About Success

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About  Success

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Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. ~Albert Einstein

 

Eighty percent of success is showing up. ~Woody Allen

 

I've had great success being a total idiot.

If at first you don’t succeed, you’re running about average. ~M.H. Alderson

 

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. ~Winston Churchill

 

I couldn’t wait for success… so I went ahead without it. ~Jonathan Winters

 

Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. ~David Frost

 

If you are going through hell keep going

Those who have succeeded at anything and don’t mention luck are kidding themselves. ~Larry King

 

Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches. ~Donald A. Miller

 

Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles. ~Walter Cronkite

 

The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no “top.” ~Nancy Barcus

 

Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it…. Success is shy — it won’t come out while you’re watching. ~Tennessee Williams

 

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. ~William Feather

 

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. ~Earl Wilson

 

Success is 99 percent failure. ~Soichiro Honda

 

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. ~Dale Carnegie

 

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. ~Abraham Lincoln

 

Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get. ~Dale Carnegie

 

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. ~Booker T. Washington

 

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others, Unsuccessful people are always asking Whats in it for me

Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction. ~Al Bernstein

 

The man who has done his level best, and who is conscious that he has done his best, is a success, even though the world may write him down as a failure. ~B.C. Forbes

 

If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style. ~Quentin Crisp

 

I don't know the key to success but the key to failure is trying to please everyone

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then give up. There’s no use in being a damn fool about it. ~W.C. Fields

 

Quotes About Love

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Love

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There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved. It is God’s finger on man’s shoulder.

~Charles Morgan

 

True love is rare, and its the only thing that gives life real meaning.

 

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

~Erich Fromm

 

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame

 

Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.

~Khalil Gibran

 

When love is not madness, it is not love.

~Pedro Calderon de la Barca

 

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved.  It is God's finger on man's shoulder.

 

Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones.

~Mignon McLaughlin

 

Love is not singular except in syllable.

 

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

~William Shakespeare

 

Who, being loved, is poor?

~Oscar Wilde

 

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

 

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

~Robert Heinlein

 

We loved with a love that was more than love.

~Edgar Allan Poe

 

Love me and the world is mine.

 

Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.

~Rose Franken

 

Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies.

~Swedish Proverb

 

Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.

 

Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.

~Rabindranath Tagore

 

When you trip over love, it is easy to get up.  But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.

 

Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come.

~Lord Byron

 

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

~Lynda Barry

 

If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

 

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

~Robert Browning

 

A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love.

~Mother Teresa

Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.

 

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

~Robert Frost

 

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

 

You know you’re in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

~Dr. Seuss

 

Love is the poetry of the senses.

~Honoré de Balzac

 

Love is a symbol of eternity.  It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

 

A man is not where he lives, but where he loves.

~Latin Proverb

 

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

~Charles Dickens

 

A hundred hearts would be too few to carry all my love for you.

 

Love is being stupid together.

~Paul Valery

 

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

~Plato

 

Trip over love you can get up.  Fall in love and you fall forever.

 

Love makes time pass; time makes love pass.

~French Proverb

 

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

~Tom Robbins

 

 

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

 


Best Quotes About Life

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Life

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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

 

Life is simple, it’s just not easy.

~Author Unknown

 

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee,
And I’ll forgive Thy great big one on me.

~Robert Frost

 

No person ever ended his eyesight by looking on the bright side.
No person ever ended his eyesight by looking on the bright side.

 

You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.

~Quentin Crisp

 

We know what we are but not what we may be.

 

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

~Danny Kaye

 

Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.

~Lillian Dickson

 

Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.

~Author Unknown

 

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

~Friedrich Nietzsche

 

There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep rolling under the stars.... Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.

 

I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it’s not the answer.

~Jim Carrey

 

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.

~Cary Grant

 

Living involves tearing up one rough draft after another.

~Author Unknown

 

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: “I am with you kid. Let’s go.”

~Maya Angelou

 

A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory.

 

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

~Mark Twain

 

There is no wealth but life.

~John Ruskin

 

Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise.

~Jerome K. Jerome

 

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

~Eleanor Roosevelt

 

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

 

The only way to have a life is to commit to it like crazy.

~Angelina Jolie

 

To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone.

~Reba McEntire

 

He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for.

~Moroccan Proverb

 

I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime.

~Robert Brault

 

The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.

 

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on.

~Robert Frost

 

The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.

~Thomas Jefferson

 

The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.

~Chinese Proverb

 

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

~Søren Kierkegaard

 

Every day may not be good but there's something good in every day.

 

It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.

~Phillips Brooks

 

 

Quotes About Mistakes

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Mistakes

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Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

~Albert Einstein

 

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

~Elbert Hubbard, The Note Book

 Mistakes are always forgivable if one has the courage to admit them

 

 

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

~Sophia Loren

 

It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.

~Ornette Coleman

 

Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?

~L.M. Montgomery

 

I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.

~John Peel

 

Never say, “oops.” Always say, “Ah, interesting.”

~Author Unknown

 

be not ashamed of mistakes and this make them crimes

 

If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake.

~F. Wikzek

 

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

~Mahatma Gandhi

 

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

~Henry C. Link

 

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.

~Niels Bohr

 

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying… that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

~Alexander Pope

 

When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.

~Paulo Coelho, Brida

 

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

 

That’s not serious, it’s just human.

~Jerry Kopke

 

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

~John Powell

 

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

~Napoléon Bonaparte

 

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

~Edward Phelps

 

Making mistakes simply means you are learning faster.

~Weston H. Agor

 

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

 

Doing one fool thing after another is not so terrible when you consider the human proclivity to do several fool things at once.

~Robert Brault

 

If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.

~Eli Siegel

 

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

~Salvador Dalí

 

One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors; for to dwell upon them is to add to the offense.

~Henry David Thoreau

 

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

~Colette

 

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

 

Unto those Three Things which the Ancients held impossible, there should be added this Fourth, to find a Book Printed without erratas.

~Alfonso de Cartagena

 

To err is human, to forgive, divine.

~Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism

 

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.

~Mel Brooks

 

Our blunders mostly come from letting our wishes interpret our duties.

~Author Unknown

 

 Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.

Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

~L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

 

When we make mistakes they call it evil. When God makes mistakes they call it Nature!

~Jack Nicholson in The Witches of Eastwick

 

Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.

~Author Unknown

 

Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow.

~Henry S. Haskins

 

A life is like a garden.  Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory.

We learn from failure, not from success!

~Bram Stoker, Dracula

 

Error is a hardy plant; it flourishes in every soil.

~Martin F. Tupper

 

When you realize you’ve made a mistake, make amends immediately. It’s easier to eat crow while it’s still warm.

~Dan Heist

 

Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress.

~Robert Brault

 

It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

~Mahatma Gandhi

 

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

~Phyllis Theroux, Night Lights

 

You are a master of the words you don't say and a slave to the ones you do.

 

The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.

~Aubrey Menen

 

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.

~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

 

If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.

~Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

 

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

~James Joyce, Ulysses

 

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

~Rita Mae Brown, Alma Mater

 

Just because you make mistakes doesn’t mean you are one.

~Author Unknown

 

Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.

~Francis Bacon

 

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give

 

Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.

~Andrew V. Mason

 

Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.

~Brandon Mull, Fablehaven

 

Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.

~Sydney Smith

 

I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn’t explain away afterwards.

~Rudyard Kipling, Under The Deodars

 

In the game of life it’s a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

~Bill Vaughan

 

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

~Syrus

 

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

~Jessamyn West

Quotes About Trust

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Trust

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Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

~William Shakespeare

 

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

~E.M. Forster

 

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God

 

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

~Henry David Thoreau

 

I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.

~Friedrich Nietzsche

 

Our distrust is very expensive.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment unless you trust enough.

~Frank Crane

 

We’re all born brave, trusting, and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.

~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook

 

Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships

All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.

~J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

 

You can as easily love without trusting as you can hug without embracing.

~Robert Brault

 

I trust everyone. I just don’t trust the devil inside them.

~Troy Kennedy-Martin, The Italian Job

 

You can only trust yourself… and barely that.

~Paige Wilson

 

Ultimately, there can be no complete healing until we have restored our primal trust in life.

~Georg Feuerstein

 

I don’t trust people who don’t love themselves and tell me, ‘I love you.’ … There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.

~Maya Angelou

 

 All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen

 

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s.

~Billy Wilder

 

Trust is letting go of needing to know all the details before you open your heart.

~Author Unknown

 

There comes a point in a relationship when you realize that you trust someone enough to let them keep their secrets.

~Robert Brault

 

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.

~Alfred Adler

 

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

~Ernest Hemmingway

 

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

 

A skeptic is a person who would ask God for his ID card.

~Edgar A. Shoaff

 

Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree, because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch, or you might simply get covered in sap, and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors, where it is harder to get a splinter.

~Lemony Snicket

 

Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.

~Maya Angelou

 

Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly.

~George MacDonald

 

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

~Booker T. Washington

 

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

~William E. Gladstone

 

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

~Corrie ten Boom

 

The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer is God.

 

Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country — and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.

~Charles Krauthammer

 

Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.

~Fred Woodworth, The Match!

 

It was a mistake,” you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

~David Levithan, The Lover’s Dictionary

 

Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government is harmful because no men can be trusted to look after anyone else.

~Nicolas Walter, About Anarchism

 

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

 

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.

~Paul Sweeney

 

In God we trust, all others we virus scan.

~Author Unknown

 

Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.

~Helen Rowland

 

Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don’t have trust, the friendship will crumble.

~Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Quotes About Confidence

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Confidence

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Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.

~ Bernard M. Baruch

 

You are a piece of the puzzle of someone else’s life. You may never know where you fit, but others will fill the holes in their lives with pieces of you.

~Bonnie Arbon

 

Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can wear.

 

If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together… there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart… I’ll always be with you.

~ A.A. Milne

 

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes.

~Sally Field

 

Don’t let people drive you crazy when you know it’s in walking distance.

~Author Unknown

 

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie
Which we ascribe to heaven.

~William Shakespeare

 

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

 

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

~Eleanor Roosevelt

 

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.

~David Brinkley

 

It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.

~ Hanoch McCarty

 

We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies.

~Roderick Thorp

 

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

 

It ain’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to.

~W.C. Fields

 

Whether you think you can or think you can’t — you are right.

~Henry Ford

 

I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn’t fall down.

~Allen H. Neuharth

 

If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

~Vincent Van Gogh

 

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer, in my mind I am free.

Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.

~ Paulo Coelho

 

I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.

~Buckminster Fuller

 

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

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 light from within.

~Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

 

Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.

~Wendy Wasserstein

 

You must not lose faith in humanity.  Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Confidence is ignorance. If you’re feeling cocky, it’s because there’s something you don’t know.

~ Eoin Colfer

 

Success comes in cans, not cant’s.

~Author Unknown

 

Put your future in good hands — your own.

~Author Unknown

 

What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty! I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle.

~John Bunyan

 

I am not a has-been. I am a will be.

~Lauren Bacall

 

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

 

The light of starry dreams can only be seen once we escape the blinding cities of disbelief.

~Shawn Purvis

 

I’m not old enough to play baseball or football. I’m not eight yet. My mom told me when you start baseball, you aren’t going to be able to run that fast because you had an operation. I told Mom I wouldn’t need to run that fast. When I play baseball, I’ll just hit them out of the park. Then I’ll be able to walk.

~Edward J. McGrath, Jr

 

The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post.

 

If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.

~Author Unknown

 

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.

~Peter T. McIntyre

 

Accept who you are; and revel in it.

~ Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

 

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.

~Anaïs Nin

 

Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they’re yours.

~Richard Bach

 

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

~Michael Jordan

 

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

~Edmund Hillary

 

When someone tells me “no,” it doesn’t mean I can’t do it, it simply means I can’t do it with them.
~Karen E. Quinones Miller

 

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered — either by themselves or by others.

~Mark Twain

 

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

~Bruce Barton

 

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

~Sydney Smith

 

God gives us dreams a size too big so that we can grow in them.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

~Virginia Woolf

 

Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn’t know that so it goes on flying anyway.

~Mary Kay Ash

 

Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

~Norman Vincent Peale

 

Always act like you’re wearing an invisible crown.

~Author Unknown

 

When I was a child my mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk, you’ll be the pope.’ Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

~Pablo Picasso

 

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

~Paul Tillich

 

Thing big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

 

Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.

~Michel de Montaigne

 

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.

~Henry David Thoreau

 

It’s hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

~Sally Kempton

 

When the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, it may be that they take better care of it there.

~Cecil Selig

 

Other people’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

~Les Brown

 

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.

~ John Lennon

 

What do you get when you cross poison ivy with a four leaf clover?  A rash of good luck.

 

You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
You’re on your own.
And you know what you know.
You are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

~Dr. Seuss

 

Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control.

~Richard Kline

 

Knock the “t” off the “can’t.”

~Samuel Johnson

 

Sex appeal is fifty percent what you’ve got and fifty percent what people think you’ve got.

~Sophia Loren

 

A great man is always willing to be little.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.

~Christian Nestell Bovee

 

We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.

~Mignon McLaughlin

 

Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember — the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.

~Zig Ziglar

 

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

~Edgar Allan Poe

 

Your value is the product of your thoughts. Do not miscalculate your self worth by multiplying your insecurities.

~Dodinsky

 

I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

~ Michel de Montaigne

 

 We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less

 

If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.

~Henrik Ibsen

 

Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them.

~Robert Brault

 

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

~Truman Capote

 

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

~Henry Stanley Haskins

 

The horizon, to remind you of your courage, sends its gentle waves of confidence to kiss your feet.

~Dodinsky

 

I’ve come to the conclusion that people who wear headphones while they walk, are much happier, more confident, and more beautiful individuals than someone making the solitary drudge to work without acknowledging their own interests and power.

~ Jason Mraz

 

Never dull your shine for somebody else.

~Tyra Banks

 

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

~Thomas Edison

 

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen

 

Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.

~Max L. Forman

 

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.

~William Shakespeare

 

The things we hate about ourselves aren’t more real than things we like about ourselves.

~Ellen Goodman

 

I was thinking of my patients, and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of their own fate. It was not a matter of bad or good luck. When they could no longer blame fate, they were in despair.

~Anaïs Nin

 

Never let the hand you hold, hold you down.

~Author Unknown

 

Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.

~William Hazlitt

 

Your problem is you’re… too busy holding onto your unworthiness.

~Ram Dass

 

Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.

~Mignon McLaughlin

 

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

~Michel de Montaigne

 

If you are going to doubt something, doubt your limits.

~Don Ward

 

Let others determine your worth and you’re already lost, because no one wants people worth more than themselves.

~Peter V. Brett

 

It’s me who is my enemy
Me who beats me up
Me who makes the monsters
Me who strips my confidence.

~Paula Cole

 

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future or a different past

 

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

~Andrew Carnegie

 

Life marks us all down, so it’s just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves.

~Mignon McLaughlin

 

A gold medal is a nice thing — but if you’re not enough without it, you’ll never be enough with it.

~From Cool Runnings

 

Don’t let anyone steal your dream. It’s your dream, not theirs.

~Dan Zadra

 

If I am not for myself, who will be?

~Pirke Avoth

 

All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.

~Charles Dickens

 

 From the errors of others,  A wise man corrects his own

 

Keep shining, beautiful one. The world needs your light.

~Author Unknown

 

We all have our limitations, but when we listen to our critics, we also have theirs.

~Robert Brault

 

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

~Anthony Powell

 

Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.

~Mignon McLaughlin

 

What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates his fate.

~Henry David Thoreau

 

There are offences given and offences not given but taken.

~Izaak Walton

 

Do not doubt the goodness in you. It is inappropriate.

~Dodinsky

 

Men harm others by their deeds, themselves by their thoughts.

~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare

 

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality

 

A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.

~John Powell

 

[S]o you plant your own garden and nourish your own soul instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers….

~Veronica Shoffstall

 

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

~Epicurus

 

If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.

~Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Chamfort)

 

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

~Louisa May Alcott

 

How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it.

~Robert Brault

 

The universe knows the perfect timing for all those things you want and will find, through the crack of least resistance, the best way to deliver it to you.

~Abraham–Hicks

 

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything

 

Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heart-ache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source. There is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, to discover what is already there.

~Henry Miller

 

Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic.

~Jean Sibelius

 

Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people’s orchards.

~Mignon McLaughlin

 

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

~African Proverb

 

The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do.

~Author Unknown

 

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength

 

Be proud to wear you.

~Dodinsky

 

Be humble, for you are made of dung. Be noble, for you are made of stars.

~Serbian Saying

 

Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.

~Thomas à Kempis

 

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.

~André Dubus

 

Chiefly the mold of a man’s fortune is in his own hands.

~Francis Bacon

 

God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily.

~Author Unknown

 

A smile is the beginning of peace

 

We probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.

~Olin Miller

 

As soon
Seek roses in December, ice in June;
Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff;
Believe a woman or an epitaph,
Or any other thing that’s false, before
You trust in critics.

~George Gordon

 

You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.

~Lou Holtz and John Heisler

 

[Self-]assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.

~George Santayana

 

Mediocrity is a hand-rail.

~Montesquieu

 

All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do…. Build, therefore, your own world.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Oliver Wendell Holmes once attended a meeting in which he was the shortest man present. “Dr. Holmes,” quipped a friend, “I should think you’d feel rather small among us big fellows.” “I do,” retorted Holmes, “I feel like a dime among a lot of pennies.”

~Author Unknown

 

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may probe to be

 

The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.

~Sonya Friedman

 

We are like the little branch that quivers during a storm, doubting our strength and forgetting we are the tree — deeply rooted to withstand all of life’s upheavals.

~Dodinsky

 

Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.

~E.F. Schumacher

 

Many men are like unto sausages: Whatever you stuff them with, that they will bear in them.

~Alexi Konstantinovich Tolstoy

 

Only as high as I reach can I grow,
Only as far as I seek can I go,
Only as deep as I look can I see,
Only as much as I dream can I be.

~Karen Ravn

 

If you can make a woman laugh you can make her do anything

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

~Marianne Williamson, (commonly misattributed to Nelson Mandela)

 

Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.

~Gene Fowler

 

 

 

 

Quotes About Complaining

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Complaining

Quotations & Citations:

 

 

What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. Don’t complain.

~ Maya Angelou

 

When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints.

~Samuel Johnson

 

I personally believe we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

 

If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.

~Anthony J. D’Angelo

 

 

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

 

You can overcome anything if you don’t bellyache.

~Bernard M. Baruch

 

I think that the insane desire one has sometimes to bang and kick grumblers and peevish persons is a Divine instinct.

~Robert Hugh Benson

 

Haven’t you learned anything, not even with the approach of death? Stop thinking all the time that you’re in the way, that you’re bothering the person next to you. If people don’t like it, they can complain. And if they don’t have the courage to complain, that’s their problem.

~ Paulo Coelho

 

One’s life must seem extremely flat
With nothing whatever to grumble at!
~W.S. Gilbert

 

I feel like I'm waiting on something that isn't going to happen

Don’t complain; just work harder.

~Randy Pausch

 

I personally believe we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

~Jane Wagner

 

Untold suffering seldom is.

~Franklin P. Jones

 

I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity, and consume your own smoke with an extra draft of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints.

~William Osler

 

 Every tomorrow has two handles we can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith

 

If you can quit, quit. If you can’t quit, stop complaining – this is what you chose.

~ J.A. Konrath

 

In trying to get our own way, we should remember that kisses are sweeter than whine.

~Author Unknown

 

I can’t complain, but sometimes I still do.

~Joe Walsh

 

Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.

~ Sigmund Freud

 

Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.

~Og Mandino

 

You could at least complain, I say. I adore complaining. It calms the nerves.

~ Franny Billingsley

 

It is no use to grumble and complain;
It’s just as cheap and easy to rejoice;
When God sorts out the weather and sends rain –
Why, rain’s my choice.

~James Whitcomb Riley

 

Complaining is truly my strongest weakness.

~ Evinda Lepins

 

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

Sweat silently.  Let’s have no squawking about a little expenditure of energy.

~Martin H. Fischer

 

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

~Randall Jarrell

 

That’s typically what writers do; we just sit around complaining most of the time. And the better things are going, the more they complain.

~ Markus Zusak

 

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

~Antoine Rivarol

 

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished.  That will be the beginning.

 

The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.

~Lord Jeffrey

 

People that pay for things never complain.  It’s the guy you give something to that you can’t please.

~Will Rogers

 

Instead of complaining that the rosebush is full of thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses.

~Proverb

 

To make a criticism is a bit like complaining about the shape of the Pyramids.

~Author Unknown

 

The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.

~Ronald Firbank

 

 

Quotes About Beauty

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Beauty

Quotations & Citations:

 

 

Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.

~ Markus Zusak

 

Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.

~Alice Walker

 

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Our hearts are drunk with a beauty our eyes could never see.

~George W. Russell

 

All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren’t.

~ Marilyn Monroe

 

Imperfection is a beauty madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring

 

I’ve never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful.

~Author Unknown

 

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

~Rabindranath Tagore

 

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

~Khalil Gibran

 

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

~ Anne Frank

 

Against Him those women sin who torment their skin with potions, stain their cheeks with rouge and extend the line of their eyes with black coloring. Doubtless they are dissatisfied with God’s plastic skill. In their own persons they convict and censure the Artificer of all things.

~Tertullian

 

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness

 

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.

~Ninon de L’Enclos

 

Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked. ~Ralph Ellison
That’s always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they’re pretty. It’s like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.

~ John Green

 

Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty — they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.

~Martin Buxbaum

 

Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,
Then beauty is its own excuse for being

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Close your eyes and see the beauty.

~Author Unknown

 

What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.

~ Scott Westerfeld

 

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

~Leo Tolstoy

 

In every man’s heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

~Christopher Morley

 

You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.

~ Amy Bloom

 

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

~Simone Weil

 

What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!

~Logan Pearsall Smith

 

 

Would you destroy something perfect in order to make it beautiful

 

 

The most beautiful view is the one I share with you.

~Author Unknown

 

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
~Rabindranath Tagore

 

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.

~Chinese Proverb

 

Beauty comes in all sizes, not just size 5.

~Roseanne

 

What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.

~Dorothy Parker

 

I don’t like standard beauty — there is no beauty without strangeness.

~Karl Lagerfeld

 

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

~Gilbert Keith Chesterton

 

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God’s handwriting — a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.

But he who dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.

~Anne Brontë

 

Beauty and folly are generally companions.

~Baltasar Gracián

 

May she be granted beauty and yet not
Beauty to make a stranger’s eye distraught,
Or hers before a looking-glass, for such,
Being made beautiful overmuch,
Consider beauty a sufficient end,
Lose natural kindness and maybe
The heart-revealing intimacy
That chooses right, and never find a friend….

~William Butler Yeats

 

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

~Confucius

 

There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.

~ Edgar Allan Poe

 

Sure God created man before woman, but then you always make a rough draft before the final masterpiece

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Don’t let insecurity ruin the beauty you were born with.

~Author Unknown

 

We are all born sexual creatures, thank God, but it’s a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift.

~ Marilyn Monroe

 

Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty.

~George Eliot

 

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

~ Franz Kafka

 

We need beauty because it makes us ache to be worthy of it.

~Mary Oliver

 

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

~Edgar Allan Poe

 

I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?

 

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

~Johann von Goethe

 

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
~Marcus Aurelius

 

The misconception with a lot of girls is that it takes two to three hours to be beautiful. I always tell girls allow yourself 30 minutes so that you can really enjoy the process, so that you can get to know you in the morning before the world gets to know you.

~Tracy Balan

 

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

~Karl Kraus

 

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

~John Ruskin

 

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.

~ Anne Frank

 

Beauty in the flesh will continue to rule the world.

~Florenz Ziegfeld

 

Do I love you because you’re beautiful,
Or are you beautiful because I love you?

~Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Cinderella

 

Beauty without grace is a hook without a bait.

~Ninon de l’Enclos

 

No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

 

It is a rare woman who can overcome her desire to remain pretty and allow herself to become beautiful.

~Robert Brault

 

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

~John Ruskin

 

For you see each day I love you more today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.

Just because you’re beautiful and perfect, it’s made you conceited.
~William Goldman

 

Glamour is a shooting star, it catches your eye, but fades away, beauty is the sun always brilliant day after day.

~Mike Dolan

 

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

~Stendhal

 

Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin. That, or a kick-ass red lipstick.

~Gwyneth Paltrow

 

Beauty can be coaxed out of ugliness.

~Dr. SunWolf

 

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can wear.

 

One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space. Millions of stars blazed in darkness, and on the far shore a few lights burned in cottages. Otherwise there was no reminder of human life. My companion and I were alone with the stars: the misty river of the Milky Way flowing across the sky, the patterns of the constellations standing out bright and clear, a blazing planet low on the horizon. It occurred to me that if this were a sight that could be seen only once in a century, this little headland would be thronged with spectators. But it can be seen many scores of nights in any year, and so the lights burned in the cottages and the inhabitants probably gave not a thought to the beauty overhead; and because they could see it almost any night, perhaps they never will.

~Rachel Carson

 

Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

~Walt Whitman

 

 We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend

No spring nor summer’s beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one Autumnal face….

~John Donne

 

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.

~ Oscar Wilde

 

Men and women make their own beauty or their own ugliness. Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton speaks in one of his novels of a man “who was uglier than he had any business to be;” and, if we could but read it, every human being carries his life in his face, and is good-looking or the reverse as that life has been good or evil. On our features the fine chisels of thought and emotion are eternally at work.

~Alexander Smith

 

Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.

~Robert Brault

 

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

~Oliver Wendell Holmes

 

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone….

~Sam Levenson

 

All things must come to the sould from its roots, from where it is planted

 

Beauty… is the shadow of God on the universe.

~Gabriela Mistral

 

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realizes an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

~ Virginia Woolf

 

Beauty… when you look into a woman’s eyes and see what is in her heart.

~Nate Dircks

 

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul’s own doing.

~Marie Stopes

 

Beauty — in projection and perceiving — is 99.9% attitude.

~Grey Livingston

 

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.

~ Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

 

Adopt the pace of nature: Her secret is patience

 

Beauty?… To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.

~Pablo Picasso

 

I’m tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That’s deep enough. What do you want — an adorable pancreas?

~Jean Kerr

 

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

~Saint Augustine

 

Taking joy in living is a woman’s best cosmetic.

~Rosalind Russell

 

I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow’s feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong.

~George Bernard Shaw

 

Beauty isn’t worth thinking about; what’s important is your mind. You don’t want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head.

~Garrison Keillor

 

Quotes About Gratitude

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Gratitude

Quotations & Citations:

 

 

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

~Marcel Proust

Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality.

~Alfred Painter

 

Gratitude turns what we have into enough.

~Author Unknown

 

As we express our gratitude we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them

 

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say “thank you?”

~William A. Ward

 

The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving.

~H.U. Westermayer

 

Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.

~Thích Nhất Hạnh

 

Silent gratitude isn’t much use to anyone.

~G.B. Stern

 

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, “thank you,” that would suffice.

~Meister Eckhart

 

There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.

~Robert Brault

 

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

~Epicurus

 

Gratitude is the memory of the heart.

~Jean Baptiste Massieu

 

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

~G.K. Chesterton

 

The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.

~John E. Southard

 

Grattitude unlocks the fullness of life, It turns what we have into enough and more It turns denial into acceptance...

Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Gratitude is an art of painting an adversity into a lovely picture.

~Kak Sri

 

If you have lived, take thankfully the past.

~John Dryden

 

Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.

~A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

 

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

~G.K. Chesterton

 

You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

~G.K. Chesterton

 

For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.

~Maya Angelou

 

If a fellow isn’t thankful for what he’s got, he isn’t likely to be thankful for what he’s going to get.

~Frank A. Clark

 

The unthankful heart… discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!

~Henry Ward Beecher

 

Grace isn’t a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It’s a way to live.

~ Jacqueline Winspear

 

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them

 

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

~Seneca

 

Praise the bridge that carried you over.

~George Colman

 

If you count all your assets, you always show a profit.

~Robert Quillen

 

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

~Epictetus

 

What a miserable thing life is: you’re living in clover, only the clover isn’t good enough.

~Bertolt Brecht

 

At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets.

~Steve Maraboli

 

Gratitude is the best attitude.

~Author Unknown

 

Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.

~W.T. Purkiser

 

We thank Thee, O Father of all, for… all the soul-help that sad souls understand.

~Will Carleton

 

 When a child gives you a gift, even if it is a rock they just picked up, exude gratitude.  It may be the only thing they have to give, and they have chosen to give it to you.

 

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

~Thornton Wilder

 

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.

~Meister Eckhart

 

Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.

~Edwin Arlington Robinson

 

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.

~William Faulkner

 

The struggle ends when the gratitude begins.

~Neale Donald Walsch

 

 

When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.

~Maya Angelou

 

If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily.

~Gerald Good

 

Gratitude is the least of the virtues, but ingratitude is the worst of vices.

~Thomas Fuller

 

Gratitude is an opener of locked-up blessings.

~Marianne Williamson

 

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.

~ John F. Kennedy

 

There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance.

~Joseph Addison

 

I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?

 

Gratitude is the music of the heart, when its chords are swept by the breeze of kindness.

~Author Unknown

 

Whatever be the depth of woe
Along the path that I must go,
I’ll sing my song—
My song of joy for all the love
That’s lavished on us from above,
And count no loss of treasure-trove
When things go wrong.
I’ll sing the sunlight, and the bright
Soft smiling stars that gem the night;
For gifts of good
That God hath spread along my way,
The lilt of birds in tuneful play,
The harvests full and flowers gay,
The whole day long
I’ll sing my song
Of gratitude!

~John Kendrick Bangs

 

Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses.

~Alphonse Karr

 

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

~Khalil Gibran

 

Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.

~Alice Walker

 

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

 

O Infinite Father, I’m grateful to Thee
For the moon and the stars and deep rolling sea;
For beauties of nature, where e’er they may be…
For the handclasp of friends, so firm and so true;
For sunrise and sunset and glistening dew;
The fleecy white clouds and the Heavens, so blue;
For these wonderful gifts, dear Lord, I thank you!

~Gertrude T. Buckingham

 

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.
~James Herriot

 

Appreciation is the purest vibration that exists on the planet today.

~Abraham–Hicks

 

I feel a very unusual sensation — if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.

~Benjamin Disraeli

 

There is no greater difference between men than between grateful and ungrateful people.

~R.H. Blyth

 

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

 

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive—to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love—then make that day count!
~Steve Maraboli

 

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.

~Henry Clay

 

The world has enough beautiful mountains and meadows, spectacular skies and serene lakes. It has enough lush forests, flowered fields and sandy beaches. It has plenty of stars and the promise of a new sunrise and sunset every day. What the world needs more of is people to appreciate and enjoy it.

~Michael Josephson

 

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
~Marcus Tullius Cicero

 

My socks may not match, but my feet are always warm.

~Maureen McCullough

 

Have patience with all things, but, first of all with yourself.

 

Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.

~Estonian Proverb

 

Whatever Juice this sky will pour
this gaping parched old throat will drain;
What time the Harper harps I’ll dance:
’tis He, not I, who shall complain.
Meal may be scarce and cakes be burnt,
yet I weep not nor even scold:
The sun is food enough for me,
‘t is large, and has not yet grown cold.

~Frederic Ridgely Torrence

 

All that we behold is full of blessings.

~William Wordsworth

 

We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.

~Neal A. Maxwell

 

Thou hast given so much to me,
Give one thing more, — a grateful heart;
Not thankful when it pleaseth me,
As if Thy blessings had spare days,
But such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.

~George Herbert

 

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

~Eric Hoffer

 

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

~Henry Ward Beecher

 

When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?

~George Canning

 

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

~C.S. Lewis

 

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.  If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

 

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

~John Fitzgerald Kennedy

 

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

~Cynthia Ozick

 

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

~Horace

 

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.

~Stephen Hawking

 

The grateful person, being still the most severe exacter of himself, not only confesses, but proclaims, his debts.

~Robert South

 

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

~François de La Rochefoucauld

 

When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.
~Anthony Robbins

 

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

~Aldous Huxley

 

When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them.

~Chinese Proverb

 

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand, they listen with the intent to reply

 

Thanks are justly due for boons unbought.

~Ovid

 

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

~H.L. Mencken

 

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

~William Arthur Ward

 

Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don’t unravel.

~Author Unknown