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Uplifting quotes & Inspiring Thoughts
I hope you can help me add uplifting and inspiring quotes here.
Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.
― Thích Nhất Hạnh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
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I really like that and love him that's my faveband ever
"To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life." - Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
I have 3 quotes written on my wall which I refer to the most:
"Don't you see? Your fear is based on the certainty that these things are going to happen, whereas the one thing that centuries of Science have taught us is that; the only thing that's certain is NOTHING is for certain" - I heard this on an episode of Ghost Whisperer!
"Too many of us stay walled because we are afraid of being hurt. We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care as much or not at all." --Eleanor Roosevelt
"Coffee: The finest organic suspension devised." - Captain Kathryn Janeway of the Federation Starship: Voyager
I especially find the coffee one uplifting because well.. coffee.. and Janeway.
But in all seriousness, when life gets too crazy, it's always nice to sit with a hot beverage and just take a minute.
Well, the greats thought the same way!
"Bring me abowl of coffeebefore I turn into a goat." - J.S. Bach
@Kim coffee immediately makes me need to *** my pants. America explain
?I free myself from hatred through forgiveness and love. I understand that suffering, when it cannot be avoided, is here to help me on my way to glory.? From Aleph By Paulo Coehlo
Every time there are losses there are choices to be made. You choose to live your losses as passages to anger, blame, hatred, depression and resentment, or you choose to let these losses be passages to something new, something wider, and deeper.
-Henri Nouwen
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
- Helen Keller
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances. ? Benjamin Franklin
One of my favourites
"It's never too late to be what you might have been" attributed to George Eliot
?The bad news is you?re falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there?s no ground.? | Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
?In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.? | Albert Camus
?The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.? | Elisabeth Kler-Ross
?Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.?| Kahlil Gibran
?Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.? | Samuel Beckett
?If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.?| Henry David Thoreau
?Don?t step into lives that aren?t yours, make choices that aren?t nourishing, or dance stiffly for years with the wrong partner, or parts of yourself.? | SARK
?There shall be an eternal summer in the grateful heart.? | Celia Thaxter
?You must learn one thing.The world was made to be free in.Give up all the other worldsExcept the one in which you belong.? | David Whyte
?Nothing, Everything, Anything, Something: If you have nothing, then you have everything, because you have the freedom to do anything, without the fear of losing something.? | Jarod Kintz
I really like the one in my DP:
"Spend life with who makes you happy, not who you have to impress"
I think it applies to everyone, friends, spouses, lovers. We shouldn't give importance tothe people who make us feel bad about ourselves.
An arrow can only be shot by pulling it back.
So when life is dragging you back with difficulties,
it means that it?s going to launch you into
something great.
Just focus and keep aiming!
It's not a quote.. merely a website with daily quotes by email. but it suits 7 cups ideology I think. www.tut.com. Daily positive inspirational quotes to live by. always makes me smile.
Especially for all the listeners amongst us
?A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so.?
― Mahatma Gandhi
My first thought was: "Great quote, but Gandhi said that??" I was skeptical, but apparently -- Yes!
http://quotations.about.com/b/2004/05/07/was-gandhi-a-marketing-consultant.htm
Nice one!
''Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.?
Marianne Williamson
Nope, common mistake though.
http://www.aetw.org/mandela.htm