Happiness

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

Henrik Ibsen - strongest man

The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone. ~Henrik Ibsen~

Benjamin Franklin - investment in knowledge

"If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."~Benjamin Franklin~

Henry George - social problems

For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of the wrong.~Henry George, Social Problems (ch. IX)~

Ed and Deb Shapiro - smiles and laughter

"Life does not come with instructions on how to live, but it does come with trees, sunsets, smiles and laughter, so enjoy your day." — Ed and Deb Shapiro

Samuel Smiles - possibility to reality

Daily Inspirational Quote For Friday, April 2, 2010.

"An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing."— Samuel Smiles

Marie Curie - the way of progress

I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.~ Marie Curie, Polish-born Physicist and Chemist

Golda Meir - flames of achievement

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.~ Golda Meir, Israeli's Fourth Prime Minister

Calvin Coolidge - Persistence and Determination

Press on. Nothing can take the place of persistence. Talent will not. Nothing is more common that unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not. Unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not. The world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are the overwhelming power. ~Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the USA~

Ed and Deb Shapiro - play and climb

"If you never play, you will never lose, but you won't win either. If you never climb a mountain, you will never know for sure how good the view is." — Ed and Deb Shapiro

Daily Inspirational Quote For Monday, March 8, 2010.

"If we want our children to possess the traits of character we most admire, we need to teach them what those traits are and why they deserve both admiration and allegiance. Children must learn to identify the forms and content of those traits."— William J. Bennett

Daily Inspirational Quote For Friday, March 5, 2010.

"The measure of a man's character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out."— Baron Thomas Babington Macauley

Leo Tolstoy - happiness

“Happiness is in your ability to love others.” — Leo Tolstoy

March 4, 2010

Richard Wiseman - thinking and behaving

"Luck is not a magical ability or a gift from the gods. Instead, it is a way of thinking and behaving." ~ Richard Wiseman, PhD (Oprah)

Oprah - fear and self-doubt

"You can either waltz boldly onto the floor of life and live the way you know your spirit is nudging you to, or you can sit quietly by the wall and recede in the shadows of fear and self-doubt." ~ Thought for Today

Chelle Thompson - gifts that relationship offers

Daily Inspirational Quote For Friday, February 19, 2010.

"There"s no escaping it, the common denominator in each and every relationship in our life is: OURSELVES. The person I am today is a direct result of my past experiences and the fact that I chose to pay attention and learn. When we stay conscious, we eventually recognize the gifts that our relationships offer.— Chelle Thompson, Inspiration Line"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - armory of human mind ...

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.~Samuel Taylor Coleridge~

Oprah - Touched by Love

Thought for Today

"Whenever you've been touched by love, a heart-print lingers so that you're always reminded of the feeling of being cared for, knowing that, to someone, you mattered."
— Oprah

Daily Inspirational Quote For Saturday, February 13, 2010.

"We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympatheticlookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts."— Henry Ward Beecher

Love

If you love somebody…

Let go of their hand.

Let go of their sight.

Let go of their company.

But never let go of their heart.

~The Happy Guy

Orpah's Daily Quote - Jennifer Aniston - health, happiness and success

January 25, 2010
“There's literally nothing more important to our health, happiness and success than what we put into our bodies and the energy, clarity and stamina that come as a result.” — Jennifer Aniston

Thought for Today - Caroline Myss - appreciate what you have

"If you don't appreciate what you have in life right now, whatever it is, you will never realize your purpose. Without appreciation, you will never become strong enough to respect yourself." — Caroline Myss, January 25, 2010

Daily Inspirational Quote For Monday, January 25, 2010.

"You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses."— Ziggy

Daily Inspirational Quote For Saturday, January 23, 2010.

"Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon."— Denis Waitley

Sir Winston Churchill Quotes

"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." ~Sir Winston Churchill

"One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger." ~WinstonChurchill

"People occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened." ~Sir WinstonChurchill

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." ~Sir Winston Churchill
“Success is moving from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” ~ Winston Churchill

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." ~Winston Churchill

"The truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is." ~Winston Churchill (1871-1947)

"We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm." ~Winston Churchill

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." ~Winston Churchill

~(British Orator, Author and Prime Minister during World War II. 1874-1965) ~

Daily Inspirational Quote For Friday, January 22, 2010.

"Miracles seem to rest, not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from far off, but upon our perceptions being made finer so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear that which is about us always."— Willa Cather

Thought for Today — Oprah

"What I know for sure is that every sunrise is like a new page, a chance to right ourselves and receive each day in all its glory. Each day is a wonder."~January 20, 2010

Margo Jefferson - Creativity

"Creativity isn't far away, or outside of you. It's an inner movement, a heart-shift, a joy making its way out of your throat or hands or feet. So go for it. No one's watching. The payoff is magnificent." — Margo Jefferson

Daily Inspirational Quote For Sunday, January 17, 2010.

"You have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things you never thought you could do. There are no limitations in what you can do except the limitations of your own mind."— Darwin P. Kingsley

Daily Inspirational Quote For Wednesday, January 13, 2010.

"All that we are is the result of what we have thought."— Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama)

DB - on Wisdom

"Wisdom is a personal thing, a thing to be achieved on one's own terms."~ DB, Vagabond Journeys

Gerald Jampolsky - attitude

"The world does not have to change. The only thing that has to change is our attitude." ~Gerald Jampolsky

Quote-of-the- Day: Rush Limbaugh

Today is Jan 8, 2010.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Source: The World of Quotes

Daily Inspirational Quote For Friday, January 8, 2010.

"If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic."— Hazel Henderson

Quote of the Day

Today is Jan 7, 2010.

Some values are ... like sugar on the doughnut, legitimate, desirable, but insufficient, apart from the doughnut itself. We need substance as well as frosting.
~Ralph T. Flewelling~

Daily Inspirational Quote For Thursday, January 7, 2010.

"The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude."— Charles Swindoll

Daily Inspirational Quote For Monday, January 4, 2010.

"If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won"t, you most assuredly won"t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.— Denis Waitley"

Wayne Dyer Quotes

"Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it." ~Wayne Dyer

"Be a Good Listener ... Its a Way of being Inspiring." ~Wayne Dyer

"Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed." ~Wayne Dyer


"The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind." ~Wayne Dyer

The music plays on

In the rhythm of Life, we sometime find ourselves out of tune, But as long as there are friends to provide the melody, The music plays on.~Anonymous

Beginning to an end

“…to make an end is to make a beginning.” — T.S. Eliot

Cheryl Richardson Quotes

"Let your attitude and your actions be the presence of light for someone in need this week." ~Cheryl Richardson

"Surrender your expectations. Instead of setting yourself up for disappointment, decide to do things differently this year. When you notice yourself projecting into the future, worrying about the past or listening to your negative internal chatter, use a simple statement like 'be here now' to remind you to return your thoughts to the most useful place of all—the present!" ~Cheryl Richardson, spiritual author

Thomas J. Peters - Celebrate

“Celebrate what you want to see more of!.” ~Thomas J. Peters

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

"Don't waste your life in doubts and fears: spend yourself on the work before you."~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Nature always wears the colors of the spirit." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"People only see what they are prepared to see." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


"The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one."  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The sky is the daily bread of the eyes." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Their speech shall be lyrical, and sweet, and universal as the rising of the wind." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy is to set our own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson "We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.
There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right.
To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When I discover who I am, I'll be free." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

(American writer and scholar)

Quote of the Day

Today is Dec 30, 2009.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.~Alfred North Whitehead~

Daily Inspirational Quote For Saturday, December 26, 2009.

"Be ready when opportunity comes...Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet."— Roy D. Chapin Jr.

What is Christmas?

“It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace.”— Agnes M. Pharo

Daily Inspirational Quote For Friday, December 25, 2009.

"Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love!" — Hamilton Wright Mabie

Daily Inspirational Quote For Thursday, December 24, 2009.

"This was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart... filled it, too, with a melody that would last forever." — Bess Streeter Aldrich

Daily Inspirational Quote For Sunday, December 20, 2009.

"Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself." — Chief Seattle

Thomas Edison Quotes

"The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around." ~Thomas Edison

“There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start anew.” ~ Thomas Edison