All Quotes
Monday Aug 13, 2018
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: How to treat people
If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
Friday Aug 10, 2018
Gretchen Rubin: A happy life
I can build a happy life only on the foundation of my own nature.
Thursday Aug 9, 2018
William Feather: Your share of happiness
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
Wednesday Aug 8, 2018
Albert Einstein: Ignorance
We are all very ignorant. What happens is that not all ignore the same things.
Tuesday Aug 7, 2018
H. Jackson Brown Jr.: Try your best
Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.
Monday Aug 6, 2018
Eleanor Roosevelt: Footprints in your heart
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
Friday Aug 3, 2018
Dalai Lama: Everything springs from yourself
When you think everything is someone else's fault, you will suffer a lot.
When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will learn both peace and joy.
Thursday Aug 2, 2018
Anton Chekhov: The beauty of the earth
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.
Wednesday Aug 1, 2018
Martin Luther King, Jr.: Education
Education without morals is like a ship without a compass, merely wandering nowhere.
Tuesday Jul 31, 2018
William Feather: The adventure
One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.
Monday Jul 30, 2018
Thich Nhat Hanh: The Truth
To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth.
The problem is to see reality as it is.
Friday Jul 27, 2018
Chanakya: Attachment and love
Drop the idea that attachment and love are one thing.
They are enemies.
It is attachment that destroys all love.
Thursday Jul 26, 2018
Buddha: The snake's skin and our past
Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.
Wednesday Jul 25, 2018
Martin Luther King, Jr.: A productive and happy life
A productive and happy life
is not something you find;
it is something you make.
Tuesday Jul 24, 2018
Pharrell Williams: Happiness
Happiness is not about the trophy or the finish line.
It's the journey.
If you can enjoy your journey,
you can enjoy your life.
Monday Jul 23, 2018
Sitting Bull: The two dogs
Inside of me there are two dogs.
One is mean and evil and the other is good, and they fight each other all the time.
When asked which one wins I answer,
the one I feed the most.
Friday Jul 20, 2018
Dalai Lama: One small positive thought
Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.
Thursday Jul 19, 2018
Louise L. Hay: Yesterday's garbage
Would you really dig into yesterday’s garbage to make tonight’s meal?
Do you dig into old mental garbage to create tomorrow’s experiences?
If a thought or belief does not serve you, let it go!
There is no written law that says that because you once believed something, you have to continue to believe it forever.
Wednesday Jul 18, 2018
Alejandro Jodorowsky: What you do not understand
Respect what you do not understand, study it before denying it.
Tuesday Jul 17, 2018
Buddha: Who saves us
No one saves us but ourselves.
No one can and no one may.
We ourselves must walk the path.