Mohandas Gandhi

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

~ Mohandas Gandhi

Yukitaka Yamamoto

To be fully alive is to have an aesthetic perception of life because a major part of the world's goodness lies in its often unspeakable beauty.” 

~ Yukitaka Yamamoto

Henry David Thoreau

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind.
To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again.
To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over

the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Barack Obama

“The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.” 

~  Barack Obama

Marie Beynon Ray

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand – and melting like a snow flake. Let us use it before it is too late. 

~ Marie Beynon Ray

Matthew Donnelly

“You can not avoid life or your thoughts you can only make the best of your current situation and move on with a positive mental attitude.” 

~ Matthew Donnelly

John Steinbeck

“There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.” 

~ John Steinbeck

Robert Louis Stevenson

Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Paul Henderson

I get up every morning and it's going to be a great day. You never know when it's going to be over so I refuse to have a bad day.

~ Paul Henderson

Kenny Loggins

There is trust in there being a Spirit who loves me and wants me to have love in my life. 

I trust in this higher power, it is what keeps me moving forward no matter what happens.

~ Kenny Loggins

Al Capp

The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else was to be indifferent to that difference. 

~ Al Capp

Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,

I'm Filled with Love Inside.

~ Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Thomm Quackenbus

“When I lay down on my deathbed, I want to know that I have done all I could to be a first rate human, not a third rate pawn of the gods.” 

~Thomm Quackenbush,

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Reba McEntire

To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone.

~ Reba McEntire

Gautama Buddha

“Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.”

~ Gautama Buddha

Charles Dickens

“Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.” 

~ Charles Dickens

Groucho Marx

“Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.”

~ Groucho Marx

Leo Tolstoy

There is only one time that is important - Now!

 It is the most important time because it is the only time that we have any power.

 - Leo Tolstoy

Joseph Campbell

“When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.”

~ Joseph Campbell

Alice Walker

Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul. 

~ Alice Walker

Aldous Huxle

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

~ Aldous Huxle

Anne Lamott

Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.

Og Mandino

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will neverthe same again. 

~ Og Mandino

Oscar Hammerstein II

Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart; and you'll never walk alone; you'll never walk alone. 

~ Oscar Hammerstein II

Jim Rohn

I have found in life that if you want a miracle you

first need to do whatever it is you can do – if that’s to plant, then plant; if it is to read, then read; if it is to change, then change; if it is to study, then study; if it is to work, then work; whatever you have to do. And then you will be well on your way of doing the labor that works miracles. 

~ Jim Rohn

Confucius

"Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean." 

~ Confucius

Mary Anne Radmache

I rest in the light of forgiveness.
I forgive myself and others for that
which is done (and better left undone)
and also that which is not done (and better if done).
I give myself permission to enjoy this moment without guilt.

I freely release all uncertainty, regret, and fear.

~ Mary Anne Radmacher

Robert Louis Stevenson

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

John Lennon

“I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?”

~ John Lennon

Elizabeth Taylor

"You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other, and damn it, you refuse to let it get to you. You fight. You cry. You curse. Then you go about the business of living. That’s how I’ve done it. There’s no other way.”

~ Elizabeth Taylor

Isaac Asimov

"There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don't come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity." 

~ Isaac Asimov

Lao Tzu

Simply see that you are at center of the universe,
and accept all things and beings
as parts of your infinite body.
When you perceive that an act done to another
is done to yourself,

you have understood the great truth.

~ Lao Tzu

Buddha

In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.

~ Buddha

Lao Tzu

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. 

~ Lao Tzu

Irish Blessing

May love and laughter light your days,

and warm your heart and home.

May good and faithful friends be yours,

wherever you may roam.

May peace and plenty bless your world

with joy that long endures.

May all life's passing seasons

bring the best to you and yours.

~ Irish Blessing

Euripides

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

~ Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)

Mary Engelbreit

If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it. 

~ Mary Engelbreit

Ola Joseph

Diversity is not about how we differ.

Diversity is about embracing one another's uniqueness.

~ Ola Joseph

Henry David Thoreau

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Anurag Prakash Ray

Life is nothing without Love and Care. Love everyone but don't except from others.

Because its a feeling not a dealing.

~ Anurag Prakash Ray

Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Today is a day to choose a different path. Enjoy the unknown way - one step at a time.

~ Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Robert Fulghum

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. 

~ Robert Fulghum

George Washington Carver

“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.” 

~ George Washington Carver

Thomas Jefferson

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

~ Thomas Jefferson

Mahatma Gandhi

“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.”

~Mahatma Gandhi

Niklas Zennstrom

Surround yourself with smart, dedicated people - to build something isn't a one-man show. It's more important to have smart people who really believe in what you're doing than really experienced people who may not share your dream.

~ Niklas Zennstrom

Patrick Henry

I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

~ Patrick Henry

Unknown

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain.

~ Unknown

Ayn Rand

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual) .

~ Ayn Rand

Jalal ad-Din Rumi

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

~ Jalal ad-Din Rumi