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Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Life's Wisdom Quotes

Enjoy life now - it has an expiration date!

The greatest use of a life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.--Anonymous

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away.--Anonymous

In this life  
Be kinder than necessary,
for everyone you meet is
fighting some kind of battle.

Live simply,
Love generously,
Care deeply,
Speak kindly.......

Leave the rest to God.  Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass.
It's about learning to dance in the rain.  
Choose this day to not simply be alive but to LIVE."
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And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. --Abraham Lincoln

We are not human beings on a Spiritual journey. We are Spiritual Beings on a human journey.—Anonymous

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. –Samuel Butler

All that is made seems planless to the darkened mind, because there are more plans than it looked for...There seems no plan because it is all plan: there seems no centre because it is all centre. --George MacDonald

An unexamined life is not worth living. – Socrates

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. --Henry David Thoreau

He not busy being born is busy dying.-- Bob Dylan

When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, that is when you command the attention of the world. --George Washington Carver

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

Whatever you are, be a good one.--Abraham Lincoln

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor. --Vince Lombardi

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.—Martin Luther King

I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman. --Laurence Olivier

The virtues of men are of more consequence to society than their abilities, and for this reason, the heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.
--Noah Webster

The last great freedom of man is the freedom to choose his attitude under any given set of circumstances.--Victor Frankl, noted Psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler. --Henry David Thoreau

It is quite true what philosophy says: that life must be understood backwards. But then one forgets the other principle: that it must be lived forwards. --Soren Kierkegard

Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. –Unknown

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff life is made of. –Benjamin Franklin

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. --Annie Dillard

Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans.—John Lennon

For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin — real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. -- Fr. Alfred D'Souza

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest. --John Buchan

I don't fear failure. I fear succeeding at something that doesn't matter.--Dan Erickson

The size of a man (his wisdom) can be measured by the size of the things that make him angry. - J.K. Morley

What you love is a clue to what you hate, and what you hate is a clue to what you love.—Chip Brogden

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. --Martin Luther King Jr.

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.—Unknown

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. --C.S. Lewis

When a person who used to “use” people for their own gain finally succumbs to being used by his/her Creator instead, the world dramatically changes for the better, both for the person and for the world. --Gary Amirault

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.- George Henry Lewes

You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF. -- A.R. Ammons

Are you a thermostat, or a thermometer? Do you merely reflect the environment, or do you change it? –Unknown

Common sense is not so common. – Voltaire

No man was ever wise by chance. –Seneca

The wise person questions himself, the fool others. –Henri Arnold

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. 

--Albert Einstein

If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man's shoulders. I must get off him first, that he may pursue his contemplations too. 

--Thoreau

Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. 

--Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch? 

--A. W. Tozer

Experience is the comb we receive after we’ve lost our hair.

 –Unknown

The thing about our choices is that after we have made them, they turn around and make us.—Anonymous

Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become. Do you believe in free speech? Then speak freely. Do you love the truth? Then tell it. Do you believe in an open society? Then act in the open. Do you believe in a decent and humane society? Then behave decently and humanely. -

-Adam Michnik

The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either, but right through every human heart, and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. Even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained; and even in the best of all hearts, there remains a small corner of evil. It is impossible to expel evil from the world in its entirety, but it is possible to constrict it within each person. 

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air.

-- T. Starr King

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice

.--Indian saying

To live a rich and abundant life, ask not what life can do for you, ask what you can do for the lives of others. 

--Gary Amirault

We live that our souls may grow. The development of the soul is the purpose of existence. God Almighty is trying to obtain some decent association for Himself. 

--John G. Lake

We may think God wants actions of a certain kind, but God wants people of a certain kind. 

--C.S. Lewis

When it comes time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home. 

-- Chief Aupumut, Mohican

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

 --George Eliot

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us. --Dag Hammarskjold

I still believe that standing up for the truth of God is the greatest thing in the world. This is the end (purpose) of life. The end of life is not to be happy. The end of life is not to achieve pleasure and avoid pain. The end of life is to do the will of God, come what may. 

--Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Favorite Famous Quotations # 1
     Imagination is more important than knowledge.
     Albert Einstein


Favorite Famous Quotations # 2
     If music be the food of love, play on.
     Shakespeare

Favorite Famous Quotations # 3
     The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
     Walt Disney


Favorite Famous Quotations # 4
     Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
     Henry Ford


Favorite Famous Quotations # 5
     I skate where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
     Wayne Gretzky


Favorite Famous Quotations # 6
     When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
     Yogi Berra


Favorite Famous Quotations # 7
     We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
     Hegel


Favorite Famous Quotations # 8
     The life which is unexamined is not worth living.
     Socrates

Favorite Famous Quotations # 9
     Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
     M.K. Gandhi


Favorite Famous Quotations # 10
     What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
     Zig Ziglar

Albert Einstein Quotes


Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.
Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.
In spite of the cost of living, it’s still popular.
- Kathy Norris
Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with the truth.
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
I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it.
- Jack Handey
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.
- Christopher Morley

Wise Quotes on Fear

“Fear is false evidence of what may appear to be”
unknown

"Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate."
Jack Canfield

"The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature."
Anne Frank

"Hope defeats fear", Hope can conquer fear", Judgement squashes hope and drives us into fear"
Brian Buffini 


Good Car Quotes

We get picked up in these Rolls Royces and get three miles down the highway and five cop cars pull us over.
Johnny Thunders

We must move away from our dependency on fossil fuels, and I am glad that GM has invested over $1 billion in hydrogen fuel cells cars to meet this goal.
Albert Wynn

We need a number of solutions - we need more efficiency and conservation. Efficiency is a big one. I think car companies need to do a lot better in producing more efficient cars. They have the technology, we just need to demand them as consumers.
Daryl Hannah

We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.
Yuan T. Lee

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.
Barack Obama

We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions.
John Searle

We ran three cars last year. Unfortunately, as time went on, we did have to let a few people go, which we regretted, but just because of the situation.
Bobby Rahal


We're just into toys, whether it's motorcycles or race cars or computers. I've got the Palm Pilot right here with me, I've got the world's smallest phone. Maybe it's just because I'm still a big little kid and I just love toys, you know?
Catherine Bell

We're seeing the development of tactics in Iraq, such as suicide bombing. Insurgents have been driving cars with explosives into hotels and office buildings. The recruitment may be even more prolific outside Iraq.
Rand Beers

Well, we won the war. You know what that means. In twenty years, we'll all be driving Iraqi cars.
Will Durst

What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
J. G. Ballard

When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could.
Loretta Lynn

When I had money in the past, I would always travel rather than spend it on big apartments or cars. And I still feel exactly the same way.
Robin Wright Penn

When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or '31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a garage. The cars in the garage had been abandoned by their owners, since they had lost their jobs and couldn't keep up the payments.
Tom Glazer

When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.
Russell Baker


Why did they keep changing guitars and amplifiers when they were perfect? They did the same things with cars, if you ask me. They forgot how to make them right, because they focused on style and bells and whistles.
Buddy Guy


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Success Quotes




 A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
David Brinkley

Action is the foundational key to all success.
Pablo Picasso

After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.
Shirley Jones

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
Abraham Lincoln

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.
Lydia M. Child

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
George Edward Woodberry



Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Dale Carnegie

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
Benjamin Disraeli

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

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
Erma Bombeck

Failure is success if we learn from it.
Malcolm Forbes

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


Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
Jim Rohn

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
J. Paul Getty

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
Logan P. Smith

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Jonathan Winters

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
George Burns

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields

If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.
Juliana Hatfield

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Bill Cosby

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Henry Ward Beecher

It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail.
David Merrick

It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.
Carrot Top

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Moving Quotes

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Sometimes the cards we are dealt are not always fair. However you must keep smiling & moving onTom Jackson
Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.Dave Mustaine
To be able to move on, one has to learn to forgive not only the person (or people) who have done one wrong but also oneselfEugenia Tripputi
By forgiving and choosing to move on, one takes the power back to morph it into positive energy.Eugenia Tripputi
Life is about making the right decisions and moving on.Josh
Forgiveness and letting go are steps on our road back to happiness.Tina Dayton
That time plus distance equaled moving on from your ex.Lisa Steadman
What's the point of pointing the finger, other than to stall your own progress in moving on?Lisa Steadman
If you're serious about moving on in your life, all you have to do at this point is be willing to have your path be an enlightened one.Howard Bronson
The fact is you can't escape the past by moving on, it just moves with you.Fabian Black
Often the thought of pain is actually worse that the pain itself.Greg Behrendt
You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.Oprah Winfrey
Take a second out to think about this: in your life you search and search for the right person for you. Every time you break up with someone you get one step closer to that person. You should look at moving on as getting closer to meeting the one.Ian Philpot
Quietly forgiving and moving on is a gift to God ~ and yourself.Unknown
When you start to abandoning your old beliefs or values ... you may be stuck at the threshold for two or three years. Before moving on, you have to clear away your cherished beliefs.Dick Raymond
Courage is not the absence of fear, but simply moving on with dignity despite that fear.Pat Riley
You may have buried or repressed your own power for so long a time that you feel incapable of moving on without the strength and support of a lover, even the lover you just left behind.Howard Bronson
Drinking, eating, shopping, revenge,, rebound sex, drugs or whatever your poison may be will number the pain - but that's all.Greg Behrendt
If you bury the pain deep down it will stay with you indefinitely, but if you open yourself to it, experience it, and deal with it head-on, you'll find it begins to move on after a while.Greg Behrendt
one shot at a time and then move on. Remember that golf is justNancy Lopez
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can and as often as you can, and keep moving on.Ulysses S. Grant
A graduation is a small but significant tradition that I think everyone should take part in. What a great way to symbolize a part of your journey and to represent your thoughts for moving on.Martin Stoleman
Moving On has allowed me to know who I am and to be present in all that I do. I take this forward in my work and in my personal relationships. It is a powerful program and I highly recommend it to anyone wanting to move on with their life.Lou
If someone you love hurts you cry a river, build a bridge, and get over it.Unknown
Letting go doesn't mean giving up ... it means moving on. It is one of the hardest things a person can do. Starting at birth, we grasp on to anything we can get our hands on, and hold on as if we will cease to exist when we let go. We feel that letting go is giving up, quitting, and that as we all know is cowardly. But as we grow older we are forced to change our way of thinking. We are forced to realize that letting go means accepting things that cannot be. It means maturing and moving on, no matter how hard you have to fight yourself to do so. "U

Any change, any loss, does not make us victims. Others can shake you, surprise you, disappoint you, but they can't prevent you from acting, from taking the situation you're presented with and moving on. No matter where you are in life, no matter what your situation, you can always do something. You always have a choice and the choice can be power.
Blaine Lee


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