SquirrelSpider's Favourite Quotations

My favourite quotes ... about everything

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"You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old." George Burns

"The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism." Norman Vincent Peale

"The temptation to give up is strongest just before victory." Zen Sayings

"Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools." Albert Einstein

"Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people." Socrates

"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit." Helen Keller

"We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far." Swami Vivekananda

"Every time I find the meaning of life, they change it." Reinhold Niebuhr

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"You will never be free until you free yourself from the prison of your own false thoughts." Philip Arnold

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." Lao Tzu

"Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear." Anthony Robbins

"Do every act of your life as if it were your last." Marcus Aurelius

"No wise man ever wished to be younger." Jonathan Swift

"Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become." Paramahansa Yogananda

"The greatest prayer is patience." Buddha

"The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread." D. H. Lawrence

"When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it." Rumi

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"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life." Steve Jobs

"Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late." Benjamin Franklin

"Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it." J.K. Rowling

"A loving heart is the truest wisdom." Charles Dickens

"Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness." Lao Tzu

"Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves." Benjamin Disraeli

"A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving." Lao Tzu

"Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form." Rumi

"When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending." Thich Nhat Hanh

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"Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth." Buddha

"Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life." Thich Nhat Hanh

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." Robert Anson Heinlein

"Once you label me, you negate me." Soren Kierkegaard

"Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens." Epictetus

"I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself." Aldous Huxley

"Looking at beauty in the world, it the first step of purifying the mind." Amit Ray

"Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true." Swami Vivekananda

"Never stop learning, because life never stop teaching." Mu'uminina Sadiqina

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"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise." Benjamin Franklin

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for." Epicurus

"We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness." Buddha

"Beware what you set your heart upon. For it surely shall be yours." Ralph Emerson

"Talent is a gift, but character is a choice." John Calvin Maxwell

"The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work." Richard Bach

"I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man." Charlie Chaplin

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"Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end." John Lennon

"You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth." William W. Purkey

"Sometimes when we just stay still the grace finds us." Mary Davis

"Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences." Eckhart Tolle

"Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them." Dalai Lama

"The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed." Eminem

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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." Ralph Emerson

"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." Marcus Aurelius

"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time." Leo Tolstoy

"In every real man, a child is hidden that wants to play." Friedrich Nitzsche

"If you keep on trying, you will improve. A saint is a sinner who never gave up." Paramahansa Yogananda

"If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction the brought it back." Holly Black

"You know everything about the world, but you do not know anything about yourself. This is a ridiculous way to live." Sadhguru

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." George Bernard Shaw

"All that we are is the result of what we have thought." Buddha

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"One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself." Leonardo da Vinci

"You know it's love when you want to keep holding hands even after you're sweaty." Anonymous

"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." Voltaire

"Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety or possessions - we cannot be free." Thich Nhat Hanh

"Be thankful for the infinitesimal thing that you have. Learn to value the blessings." Giridhar Alwar

"Maybe true travel is not the transportation of the body, but a change of perception, renewing the mind." Ben Okri

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"To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today." Will Rogers

"Anger slowly. Forgive quickly. Trust cautiously. Love easily." Matshona Dhliwayo

"Don't allow your wounds to transform you into someone you are not." Paulo Coelho

"The greatest prison people live in, is the fear of what other people think." David Icke

"Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future." Robert H. Shuller

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"Fools laugh at others. Wisdom laughs at itself." Osho

"Love is when you sit beside someone doing nothing yet you feel perfectly happy." Anonymous

"Ten years from now, make sure you can say that you chose your life, you didn't settle for it." Mandy Hale

"Be like the tree, let the dead leave drop." Rumi

"The first act of insight is throw away the labels." Eudora Welty

"Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection." Mark Twain

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"Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend." Albert Camus

"One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself." Leonardo da Vinci

"A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same." Elbert Hubbard

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open." John Barrymore

"The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work." Richard Bach

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." Robert Louis Stevenson

"We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal." Thich Nhat Hanh

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"You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free." Thich Nhat Hanh

"The quieter you become, the more you can hear." Ram Dass

"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity." Buddha

"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you." Lao Tzu

"Lost Time is never found again." Benjamin Franklin

"Should you find a wise critic to point out your faults, follow him as you would a guide to hidden treasure." Buddha

"When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state." Swami Vivekananda

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"You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens." Rumi

"Our minds influence the key activity of the brain, which then influences everything; perception, cognition, thoughts and feelings, personal relationships; they're all a projection of you." Deepak Chopra

"This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him." William Lyon Phelps

"The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without even having to fight them." Lao Tzu

"The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury." Marcus Aurelius

"It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder." Albert Einstein

"History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce." Karl Marx

"Winners never quit and quitters never win." Vince Lombardi

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"Love is the absence of judgement." Buddha

"You teach best what you most need to learn." Richard Bach

"He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough." Lao Tzu

"Don't speak if it doesn't improve on silence." Zen saying

"For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them." Thich Nhat Hanh

"It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up." Eckhart Tolle

"What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain." Victor Hugo

"Experience life in all possible ways - good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities. Don't be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become." Osho

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"A hut full of laughter is richer than a palace full of sadness." Zen Sayings

"Hell has three gates: lust, anger, and greed." Bhagavad Gita

"The greatest prayer is patience." Buddha

"That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity." Rumi

"Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself." Paramahansa Yogananda

"Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you." Eckhart Tolle

"Enlightenment is when a wave realizes it is the ocean." Thich Nhat Hanh

"To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect." Lao Tzu

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"Consider whether fulfilment of the goal you have chosen will constitute success. What is success? If you possess health and wealth, but have trouble with everybody (including yourself), yours is not a successful life. Existence becomes futile if you cannot find happiness. When wealth is lost, you have lost a little; when health is lost, you have lost something of more consequence; but when peace of mind is lost, you have lost the highest treasure." Paramahansa Yogananda

"Worry about your character, not your reputation. Your character is who you are, and your reputation is only what people think of you." John Wooden

"No one returns from a long journey the same person they were before." Zen saying

"Treat people the way you want to be treated. Talk to people the way you want to be talked to. Respect is earned, not given." King Hussein Nishah

"Happiness is letting go of what you think your life is supposed to look like and celebrating it for everything that it is." Mandy Hale

"I see in Nature a magnificent structure… that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility…" Albert Einstein

"Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth." Alan Watts

"Being positive isn't pretending that everything is good - it's seeing the good in everything." Anonymous

"If you wish to see the truth, then hold no opinion for or against." Osho

"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle." Khalil Gibran

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"To live fully, we must learn to use things and love people and not love things and use people." Buddha

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." Bernard Mannes Baruch

"Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal." Deepak Chopra

"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination." Jimmy Dean

"Thank people who help you because they make you happy. Thank people who don't help you because they make you strong." Udai Yadla

"Thoughts are like the breeze or the leaves on the trees or the raindrops falling. They appear like that, and through inquiry we can make friends with them. Would you argue with a raindrop? Raindrops aren’t personal, and neither are thoughts. Once a painful concept is met with understanding, the next time it appears you may find it interesting. What used to be the nightmare is now just interesting. The next time it appears, you may find it funny. The next time, you may not even notice it. This is the power of loving what is." Byron Katie