THE GODDESS' FAVORITE QUOTES ON LIFE
I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after,
and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me,
like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.
Emily Bronte, from Wuthering Heights
NOTE: If the author is not listed, it's by the infamous Unknown Author...
There is no end.
There is no beginning.
There is only the infinite passion of life.
Federico Fellini
There are many paths to enlightenment.
Be sure to take the one with a heart.
Lao Tzu
Life is too short to play games,
enjoy your life to it's fullest,
but always be honest with yourself about your motives.
Your task is not to seek for love,
But merely to seek and find
All the barriers within yourself
That you have built against it.
Rumi
The value of life can be measured by how many times your soul has been deeply stirred...
Soichiro Honda
We are all wanderers on this earth.
Our hearts are full of wonder, and our souls are deep with dreams.
Gypsy proverb
Our destiny sometimes is not found in faraway places or in grand adventures but merely a place within the depths of our soul.
The best feelings are those that
Have no words to describe them...
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world,
the master calls a butterfly.
Richard Bach
What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of mind, for the moment realizes itself.
Anna Jameson
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
Love is something eternal;
the aspect may change, but not the essence.
Vincent Van Gogh
The greater a man's soul,
the deeper he loves.
Leonardo da Vinci
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
O.A. Battista
Try to find the beauty and the gentleness in love which remains about and around you, and let this help you through your sorrows. And ever has it been that love knows not it's own depth until the hour of separation.
Kahlil Gibran, from The Prophet
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Edgar Allan Poe
In the province of the mind what one believes to be true, is.
John Lily
A person experiences life as something separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. Our task must be to free ourselves from this self-imposed prison, and through compassion, to find the reality of ONEness.
Albert Einstein
Humanity needs to listen, until such a time as the voice of the soul is heard throughout the universe as the only voice of compassion and reason that has ever existed. When this occurs, all of humanity will be truly free and the voice of the Soul will sing the end of time.
Fred Wolf, Physicist/author
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young,
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving
and tolerant of the weak and strong.
Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
George Washington Carver
You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.
Barbara De Angelis
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Albert Schweitzer
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
Aldous Leonard Huxley, British writer (1894-1963)
It is hard to fight with anger; for what it wants it buys at the price of soul.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Carl G. Jung (1875-1961), Swiss psychologist
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
Albert von Szent-Gyorgy
Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Never doubt that a group of people can change the world. Indeed that is all that ever has.
Margaret Mead
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
Albert Einstein
Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality.
Victor Frankel
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that 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
"Come to the edge," he said.
They said, "We are afraid."
"Come to the edge," he said.
They came, he pushed them...
and they flew.
Guillaume Appolinaire
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly,
acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all
I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Agatha Christie
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Helen Keller
If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love,
you have to find the courage to live it.
John Irving
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope.
For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; and wait without love,
for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith.
But the faith, and the hope, and the love are all in the waiting.
And so the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness, the dancing.
T. S. Eliot
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 within.
Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
The soul would have no rainbow, had the eye no tears.
A friend is someone who knows the song of your soul and sings it back to you when you've forgotten the words.
Fear is the lock, and laughter the key to your heart.
Crosby, Stills & Nash
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
John F. Kennedy
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 (1803-1882), American essayist and poet
Believe nothing because it is written in books.
Believe nothing because wise men say it is so.
Believe nothing because it is religious doctrine.
Believe it only because you yourself know it to be true.
Siddharta Gautama Buddha (563-483 B.C.)
Life is like an hourglass.
Consciousness is the sand.
Fears over tomorrow and regrets over yesterday are twin thieves that rob us of the moment.
The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.
Sebastien-Roch Nicholas Chamfort (1741-1794), French author
Be glad for life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to look up at the stars.
Henry Van Dyke
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
The Dalai Lama (b. 1935), Tibetan spiritual leader
Treat every person with kindness and respect, even those who are rude to you. Remember that you show compassion to others not because of who they are but because of who you are.
Andrew T. Somers
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if he or she were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do so with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
Og Mandino (Motivational Author & Speaker)
Love is everything it's cracked up to be.
That's why people are so cynical about it.
It really is worth fighting for,
Being brave for,
Risking everything for.
And the trouble is,
If you don't risk anything,
You risk even more.
Erica Jong
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Rene Descartes (1596-1650), French philosopher
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life,
your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
If You are Patient in One Moment of Anger,
You will Avoid One Hundred Days of Sorrow.
Chinese Proverb
Life consists of problems, living is solving those problems.
You should live life to its fullest and never look back on the past.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dare to risk, dare to dream my friend, he said.
And if, in your risk and your dream you fall short...
Dare to pick up the pieces and try again.
For daring to try, you shall find a reward in itself.
Dare to trust, dare to care my friend, he said.
And, if in the process you feel hurt...
Have the courage to trust and care again.
For daring to trust, you shall find comfort and success.
Dare to try, dare to be different my friend, he said.
But if in your trying and your difference you feel ridicule,
Dare to rejoice in that difference. For it is that difference
Which shall set you free... to find your ultimate self.
Talk not of wasted affection. Affection was never wasted.
Longfellow
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
Mother Teresa
The best way to destroy your enemy is to make him your friend.
Abraham Lincoln
Small are the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own heart.
Albert Einstein
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
Kindness in words creates confidence,
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness,
Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao-Tze
You can have anything you want if you will give up the belief that you can't have it.
Robert Anthony
Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
Antonio Smith
Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.
Les Brown
Each day comes bearing its gifts. Untie the ribbons.
We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities.
Jacques Maritain
You cannot cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
R. Tagore
For we lose not only by death,
But also by leaving and being left,
By changing and letting go and moving on.
Judith Viorst
In the hospital they told us that pain is something you experience and then put behind you. I disagree, I think you hold everything, pain and pleasure, in your heart, and that memory only deepens the next experience.
From an endless beach of reality, we take a grain of sand and call it the world.
Robert Pirsig
You must love people and use money, not love money and use people.
Tom Luu
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice;
it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan
[Be] at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.
Max Ehrmann, from Desiderata
The only consistency in life is change.
Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul.
Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life.
J. Nehru
It's a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
Somerset Maugham
Seek not outside yourself,
Success is within.
Mary Lou Cook
Life is suffering. Once you learn to accept that life is suffering, life will cease to be suffering.
Sidhartha Gatauma Buddha (563-483 B.C.)
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
Aldous Leonard Huxley, British writer (1894-1963)
Time is too slow for those who wait,
too swift for those who fear,
too long for those who grieve,
too short for those who rejoice,
but for those who love, time is eternity.
Henry Van Dyke
Anyone can become angry that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way; this is not easy. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle
No matter where you go,
However far away,
A part of me will be with you
And a part of you, with me, will stay
How much better to know that we have dared to live our dreams than to live our lives in a lethargy of regret.
Gilbert Caplin
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Theodore Roosevelt
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius
If you allow yourself to feel the way you really feel, maybe you won't be afraid of that feeling anymore.
Tori Amos
Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it.
Swedish proverb
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
Galileo
We can either make ourselves miserable or we can make ourselves strong, but the amount of work involved is the same.
Carlos Castaneda
We are always getting ready to live, but never living.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Journals"
Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain
There are many in the world
Who are dying for a piece of bread,
But there are many more dying for a little love.
Mother Teresa
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Ann Landers
Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.
Goethe
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Napoleon Hill
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Helen Keller
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Helen Keller
There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.
Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Everything is a gift of the universe even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for our growth or our enjoyment.
Ken Keyes, Jr.
Love is not blind it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julins Gordo
Love doesn't make the world go 'round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Franklin P. Adams (1881-1960)
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Immanuel Kant
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi
The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is living dangerously.
Nietzsche
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
Henry David Thoreau
Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
Henry David Thoreau
Obstacles are necessary for success victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.
Og Mandino (Motivational Author & Speaker)
THE BEAUTY OF THE ROSE
Think of the stem as the road of life ever bending,
turning and changing, as we walk along life's road.
Think of the rose, as our hearts delicate and fragile,
slowly healing, and slowly opening,
as time heals our wounds.
Think of the broken petals as the broken dreams,
broken hearts, and wounded spirits, that have filled our lives.
Think of the growth of the rose, and the opening of the petals
as time that passes, as we forget our pains,
and as we grow, and as we experience new joys,
new dreams, new hope, new love, and new friendships.
Think of the fallen petals as growth
as we learn to let go of the burdens we need not carry
along the way, as we allow our hearts to open again,
our hearts will heal, we will learn to love again,
we will become stronger. Time is a healer.
When we can see the beauty of the rose
we learn to see the beauties of life that's when we'll know,
we've healed and we've become as beautiful as the ROSE.
M. Fortney
May the sun bring you new energies by day,
may the moon softly restore you by night,
may the rain wash away any worries you may have.
May gentle breezes refresh your soul...
And, all the days of your life,
may you walk gently through the world and know its beauty.
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