"Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life." --Burton Hills
"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves." --William Shakespeare
"Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good
things that happen to you on a piece of marble." -- Arabic saying
Don't be afraid to buck the trend:
"Every new opinion, at
its starting, is precisely in a minority of one." --Thomas
Carlyle
"Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice,
wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs." --Sir
Robert Peel
"I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you
except yourself." --Rita Mae Brown
"A schedule defends from chaos and whim." --Annie Dillard
"An optimist is
one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it." --Laurence
Peter
"Never eat more than you can lift." -Miss Piggy
Let go
of that grudge:
"Mutual Forgiveness of each vice, / Such are the
Gates of Paradise." --"William Blake"
"To err is human, to forgive,
divine." --Alexander Pope
"And forgive us our trespasses, As we
forgive them that trespass against us." --Lord's Prayer
"The moment
you blame anyone for anything, your relationship and your personal power
deteriorate." --Brian Koslow
"Creativity is inventing, experimenting,
growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having
fun." --Mary Lou Cook
"Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to
them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity." --B. C.
Forbes
Don't demand perfection from yourself:
"We set up
harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. The man
is best who has fewest." --Horace
"We expect more of ourselves than we
have any right to." --Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
"To do all that one
is able to do is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do is to be a
god." --Napoleon
"It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running
risks." --Theodore Roosevelt
"Write it on your heart that every day is
the best day of the year." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I learn by going
where I have to go." --Theodore Roethke
Let your fears energize you
and make you alert:
"Nerves provide me with energy . . . . It's when
I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that I get worried." --Mike
Nichols
"Fear is the father of courage and the mother of
safety." --Henry H. Tweedy
"Fear is an emotion indispensable for
survival." --Hannah Arendt
"Happiness is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with
it." -Anon.
"If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the
corner after the parade is a mile down the street." -Ben Nicholas
"All
we are asked to bear we can bear." -Elizabeth Goudge
Don't get too
caught up in self-analysis:
"Trying to define yourself is like trying
to bite your own teeth." --Alan Watts
"There is no psychology; there
is only biography and autobiography." --Thomas Szasz
"Psychiatry's
chief contribution to philosophy is the discovery that the toilet is the seat of
the soul." --Alexander Chase
"My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the
best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment." --Oprah
Winfrey
"Let us not burden our remembrances with a heaviness that is
gone." --Shakespeare
"Many an optimist has become rich simply by
buying out a pessimist." --Laurence Peter
Sometimes you just have
to let time take care of it:
"Come what may, time and the hour runs
through the roughest day." --Shakespeare
"Time bears away all
things." --Virgil
"Your three best doctors are faith, time, and
patience." --fortune cookie
"The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved
by criticism." --Norman Vincent Peale
"In matters of principle, stand
like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current." --Thomas
Jefferson
"Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have
eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to
death." --Gilbert Highet
Know your limits:
"Each of us
does, in effect, strike a series of `deals,' or compromises, between the wants
and longings of the inner self, and an outer environment that offers certain
possibilities and sets certain limitations." --Maggie Scarf
"What has
always made a hell on earth is that man has tried to make it his
heaven." --Friedrich Holderlin
"Happy is the man who early learns the
wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his
powers." --Goethe
"After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal
with the irritating details of outer life." --Evelyn Underhill
"Hope
is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper." --Francis Bacon
"A sad
soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ." --John
Steinbeck
Think it over, choose a course of action - and then DO
it!:
"He who desires but acts not breeds pestilence." --William
Blake
"To be is to do." --Plato
"To do is to
be." --Socrates
"Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of
value." --Albert Einstein
"Character isn't inherited." --Helen
Gahagan Douglas
"Confidence and certainty will get you further than
anything else will." --Brian Koslow
Take pleasure in overcoming
obstacles:
"Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting
difficulties." --Samuel Johnson
"To overcome difficulties is to
experience the full delight of existence." --Arthur Schopenhauer
"The
greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting
it." --Epicurus
"Happiness is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as
by little advantages that occur every day." --Benjamin Franklin
"An
excuse is a lie guarded." --Jonathan Swift
"A mother is not a person
to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary." --Dorothy Canfield
Fisher
Don't gripe, get with it:
"You can overcome anything
if you don't bellyache." --Bernard Baruch
"Do not weep; do not wax indignant.
Understand." --Baruch Spinoza
"Have it your way." --Burger King
"Security is a kind of
death." --Tennessee Williams
"Before you begin a thing remind yourself
that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee ate ahead . . . . You
can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of
that and cling to it through thick and thin." --Kathleen Norris
Use
your money; don't let it use you:
"Banks and riches are chains of
gold, but still chains." --Edmund Ruffin
"To suppose as we all
suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave is like
supposing we could drink all day and stay sober." --Logan Pearsall
Smith
"Few rich men own their property. Their property owns
them." --Robert G. Ingersoll
"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Change
occurs when one becomes what she is, not when she tries to become what she's
not." --Ruth P, Freedmen
"Only the brave know how to
forgive." --Laurence Sterne
Use time as if it were your most
precious resource - because it is:
"Doest thou love life? Then do not
squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of." --Benjamin
Franklin
"I wish I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg
people to throw me all their wasted hours." --Bernard Berenson
"A man
who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of
life." --Charles Darwin