All Quotes
Friday Dec 27, 2019
Marcus Aurelius: A happy life
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Thursday Dec 26, 2019
Confucius: Falling and Rising
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Tuesday Dec 24, 2019
Dalai Lama: Make it meaningful
Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.
Monday Dec 23, 2019
Theodore Roosevelt: How to make decisions
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.
Friday Dec 20, 2019
Buddha: True kind words
When words are both true and kind they can change the world.
Wednesday Dec 18, 2019
Rumi: Oh soul
Oh soul you worry too much.
You have seen your own strength.
You have seen your own beauty.
You have seen your golden wings.
Why do you worry?
Tuesday Dec 17, 2019
C. S. Lewis: Humility
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of your self less.
Monday Dec 16, 2019
Albert Einstein: Solving problems
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Friday Dec 13, 2019
Swami Vivekananda: Faith in ourselves
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.
Thursday Dec 12, 2019
John C. Maxwell about your mistakes
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
Tuesday Dec 10, 2019
Marcus Aurelius: Quality of your thoughts
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Monday Dec 9, 2019
Francis of Assisi: When you are proclaiming peace
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
Friday Dec 6, 2019
Dalai Lama: My simple religion
This is my simple religion.
No need for temples.
No need for complicated philosophy.
Your own mind, your own heart is the temple.
Your philosophy is simple kindness.
Thursday Dec 5, 2019
Paulo Coelho: Do what you always wanted
One day you will wake up and there won't be an more time to do the things you've always wanted.
Do it now.
Wednesday Dec 4, 2019
Eckhart Tolle: Time
Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.
Tuesday Dec 3, 2019
William James: Changing your mind
If you can change your mind,
you can change your life.
Monday Dec 2, 2019
Baltasar Gracián: Advice
Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
Friday Nov 29, 2019
Mencius: Are you benevolent?
He who seeks to be rich will not be benevolent.
He who wishes to be benevolent wil not be rich.