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Life changing quotes

Posted on July 20, 2011 by

“Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.” – Unknown

“Change in all things is sweet.” – Aristotle

“Life itself is the proper binge.” – Julia Child

“A strong oak is just a nut that stood fast.” – Unknown

“When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.” – Tuli Kupferberg

“Learn from yesterday. Live for today. Hope for tomorrow.” – Unknown

“Change yourself, change your fortunes.” – Portuguese Proverb

“Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.” – Karen Kaiser Clark

“Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.” – John Wooden

“In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.” – Author unknown

“Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.” – Abraham Lincoln

“First, say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.” – Epictetus

“Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.” – Buddha

“Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we’re here we should dance.” – Unknown

“Amidst the worldly comings and goings, observe how endings become beginnings.” – Tao Te Ching

“The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.” – Chinese Proverb

”Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution.” – Anthony J. D’Angelo

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” – Maria Robinson

“When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.” – Indian saying

“Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be!” – Miguel de Cervantes

“Unless you are prepared to give up something valuable you will never be able to truly change at all, because you’ll be forever in the control of things you can’t give up.” – Andy Law

“Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn’t do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.” – Florida Scott-Maxwell

“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be Dont Ask What The Meaning What Life Is 300×300 Change your Life – Life changing Quotescareful lest you let other people spend it for you.” – Carl Sandburg

“Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them — every day begin the task anew.” – Saint Francis de Sales

“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.” – Nelson Mandela

Fear Quotes

Posted on June 18, 2011 by

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. ~ Marcus Aurelius

A chicken doesn’t stop scratching just because worms are scarce. ~ Grandma Axiom

Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn’t like jam if it didn’t, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn’t like truth if it wasn’t sticky, if, from time to time, it didn’t ooze blood. ~ Jean Baudrillard

Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

Fear is met and destroyed with courage. ~ James F. Bell

Anything I’ve ever done that ultimately was worthwhile… initially scared me to death. ~ Betty Bender

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination. ~ Christian Nevell Bovee

When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation — it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams. ~ Les Brown

The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process. ~ Jean Bryant

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear. ~ Buddha

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear. ~ Dale Carnegie

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground. ~ Miguel De Cervantes

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear. ~ Charles Caleb Colton

Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson. ~ Roger Craig

A fighter has to know fear. ~ Cus D’Amato

It all changed when I realized I’m not the only one on the planet who’s scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, “Are you scared, too?” “You bet your sweet life I am.” “Aha, so that’s the way it is for you, too.” We were all in the same boat. That’s probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, “Who else feels like this?” the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way. ~ Stan Dale

The first and great commandment is, “Don’t let them scare you.” ~ Elmer Davis

Fear is the biggest motivator. ~ Bill Dixon

Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it. ~ Donald Downes

My worst fear is that I’ll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath. ~ Richard Dreyfuss

He without fear is king of the world. ~ E. E. Eddison

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing. ~ Ed Foreman

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of. ~ Viktor E. Frankl

Most fear stems from sin; to limit one’s sins, one must assuredly limit one’s fear, thereby bringing more peace to one’s spirit. ~ Marvin Gaye

Music Quotes

Posted on January 14, 2011January 15, 2011 by

– “Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music” – Sergei Rachmaninov

– “A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.” – Leopold Stokowski

– “Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” – Berthold Auerbach

– “All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!” – Thomas Carlyle

– “If the King loves music, it is well with the land.” – Mencius

– “Without music life would be a mistake.” – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

– “Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

– “If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.” – Gustav Mahler

– “Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?” – Michael Torke

– “He who sings scares away his woes.” – Cervantes

– “Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” – Maya Angelou, Gather Together in My Name

– “Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.” – Benjamin Disraeli

– “Music is what feelings sound like.” – Unknown

Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

Posted on March 31, 2010 by

– “A closed mouth catches no flies.”

– “A person dishonored is worst than dead.”

– “There is a time for some things and a time for all things; a time for great things and a time for small things.”

– “A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.”

– “A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.”

– “Alas! all music jars when the soul’s out of tune.”

– “Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.”

– “Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.”

– “Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.”

– “Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.”

– “Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.”

– “Every man is the son of his own works.”

– “Fair and softly goes far.”

– “Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.”

– “For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.”

– “Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.”

– “From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.”

– “God bears with the wicked, but not forever.”

– “Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.”

– “He had a face like a blessing.”

– “He preaches well that lives well.”

Famous Friendship Quotes

Posted on January 3, 2010 by

– “Tell me what company thou keepst, and I’ll tell thee what thou art.” – Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616) Spanish novelist.

– “Have no friends not equal to yourself.” – Confucious (551 – 497 BC) Chinese philosopher.

– “Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.” – Jacques Delille (1738 – 1813) French poet.

– “A Friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882) US poet & essayist.

– “Keep your friendships in repair.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

– “A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

– “The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

– “It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

– “If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.” – Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784) British lexiographer.

– “True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice.” – Samuel Johnston

– “It is more shameful to distrust one’s friends than to be deceived by them.” – Duc de la Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680) French writer.

– “If it is abuse – why one is always sure to here of it from one damned good-natured friend or other!” – Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 – 1816) British dramatist.

– “Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for ’tis better to be alone than in bad company.” – George Washington (1732 – 1799) US Statesman.

– “True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.” – George Washington

– “I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend’s interest and inclination.” – George Washington

– “Should auld aquaintance be forgot, And never brought to min’?” – Robert Burns (1759 – 1796) Scottish poet.

– “It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.” – Epicurus (341 – 270 BC) Greek philosopher.

– “It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.” – Epicurus

– “These are called the pious frauds of friendship.” – Henry Fielding (1707 – 1754) British novelist.

– “Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. he whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.” – Samuel Johnston (1709 – 1784) British lexicographer.

– “Sir, I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquantaince.” – Samuel Johnston