Quotes to help you make it through the day
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Maya Angelou
If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking. George S. Patton
If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished? Mevlana Rumi
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. Carl Jung
Change. It has the power to uplift, to heal, to stimulate, surprise, open new doors, bring fresh experience and create excitement in life. Certainly it is worth the risk. --Leo Buscaglia
It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them--the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas. -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821 - 1881) Russian novelist
Don't ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go do that. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive. -- Harold Whitman
If you can't get enthusiastic about your work, it's time to get alarmed--something is wrong. Compete with yourself; set your teeth and dive into the job of breaking your own record. No one keeps up their enthusiasm automatically. Enthusiasm must be nourished with new actions, new aspirations, new efforts, new vision. It is a person's own fault if enthusiasm is gone; they have failed to feed it. If you want to turn your hours into minutes, renew your enthusiasm. Papyrus
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. -- Albert Einstein
If you understand who you are and respect yourself, you will not see criticism as a problem but as an opportunity to become a better person. When you feel inadequate or imperfect, the criticism is threatening and makes you feel that you have to defend yourself. When you are secure - not perfect, but secure - you can listen to the criticism and consider its value." Dr. Bernie Siegel
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Maya Angelou
If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking. George S. Patton
If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished? Mevlana Rumi
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. Carl Jung
Change. It has the power to uplift, to heal, to stimulate, surprise, open new doors, bring fresh experience and create excitement in life. Certainly it is worth the risk. --Leo Buscaglia
It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them--the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas. -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821 - 1881) Russian novelist
Don't ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go do that. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive. -- Harold Whitman
If you can't get enthusiastic about your work, it's time to get alarmed--something is wrong. Compete with yourself; set your teeth and dive into the job of breaking your own record. No one keeps up their enthusiasm automatically. Enthusiasm must be nourished with new actions, new aspirations, new efforts, new vision. It is a person's own fault if enthusiasm is gone; they have failed to feed it. If you want to turn your hours into minutes, renew your enthusiasm. Papyrus
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. -- Albert Einstein
If you understand who you are and respect yourself, you will not see criticism as a problem but as an opportunity to become a better person. When you feel inadequate or imperfect, the criticism is threatening and makes you feel that you have to defend yourself. When you are secure - not perfect, but secure - you can listen to the criticism and consider its value." Dr. Bernie Siegel
Quotes about anger
Anger has been one of my greatest teachers. It has not only helped me feel what I truly care about, it has also shown me where my shadows live.
Me! Diane Grevelle
Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get
angry, they bring about a change.
James Russell Lowell
When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
Mark Twain
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Confucius
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anger, if not restrained, is
frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.
Lyman Abbott
People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
Will Rogers.
Me! Diane Grevelle
Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get
angry, they bring about a change.
James Russell Lowell
When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
Mark Twain
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Confucius
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anger, if not restrained, is
frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.
Lyman Abbott
People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
Will Rogers.
Archived Quotes
The way to a Happy New Year
To leave the old with a burst of song
To recall the right and forgive the wrong
To forget the things that bind you fast
To the vain regrets of the year that’s past
To have the strength to let go your hold
Of the not worthwhile of the days grown old
To dare go forth with a purpose true
To the unknown task of the year that’s new
To help your brother along the road
To do his work and lift his load
To add your gift to the world’s good cheer
Is to have and to give a Happy New Year
To recall the right and forgive the wrong
To forget the things that bind you fast
To the vain regrets of the year that’s past
To have the strength to let go your hold
Of the not worthwhile of the days grown old
To dare go forth with a purpose true
To the unknown task of the year that’s new
To help your brother along the road
To do his work and lift his load
To add your gift to the world’s good cheer
Is to have and to give a Happy New Year
Caring
I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
–Pablo Casals
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I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
–Pablo Casals
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Change
Be the change you wish to see in the world...Gandhi
God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me.
- Author Unknown
- Author Unknown
All appears to change when we change.
-- Henri Amiel, 19th-century Swiss writer
-- Henri Amiel, 19th-century Swiss writer
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
-- Maya Angelou
-- Maya Angelou
Change. It has the power to uplift, to heal, to stimulate, surprise, open new doors, bring fresh experience and create excitement in life. Certainly it is worth the risk.
--Leo Buscaglia
--Leo Buscaglia
If we do not change direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed.
-- Chinese proverb
-- Chinese proverb
"The major institution for social change is the human heart."
-- Ram Dass
-- Ram Dass
In times of change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Eric Hoffer
-- Eric Hoffer
When you blame others, you give up your power to change.
-- Dr. Robert Anthony
-- Dr. Robert Anthony
To often we underestimate how quickly our feelings are going to change because we underestimate our ability to change them.
-- David Gilbert, Ph.D.
-- David Gilbert, Ph.D.
Empowerment
"You don't know what power you have until you make choices in a hard time."
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"You don't know what power you have until you make choices in a hard time."
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Forgiveness
Sincere forgiveness isn’t colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don’t worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time...just like it does for you and me.
Sara Paddison, The Hidden Power of the Heart
Sincere forgiveness isn’t colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don’t worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time...just like it does for you and me.
Sara Paddison, The Hidden Power of the Heart
Humanity
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
–Goethe
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
–Goethe
Kindness
"The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt." - Frederick Buechner
"The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt." - Frederick Buechner
"People may not remember exactly what you did, or what you said, but they will always remember how you made them feel." Maya Angelou (Watch her story on OWN network's Master Class...inspiring)
"The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention."
-- Kahlil Gibran
-- Kahlil Gibran