People don’t always need advice
People don’t always need advice. Sometimes all they really need is a hand to hold, an ear to listen and a heart to understand them.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
A great fortune is a great slavery. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
A great mind becomes a great fortune. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer’s hand. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
All art is but imitation of nature. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
All cruelty springs from weakness. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
Inspiring Life Quotes to Live By
1. “It’s better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.” –William Markiewicz
2. “Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life… Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated. Thus, everyone’s task is as unique as is his specific opportunity to implement it.” – Viktor Frankl
3. “Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.” –Kahlil Gibran
4. “One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.” – Dale Carnegie
5. “Challenges come so we can grow and be prepared for things we are not equipped to handle now. When we face our challenges with faith, prepared to learn, willing to make changes, and if necessary, to let go, we are demanding our power be turned on.” –Iyanla Vanzant
6. Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live. –Nicolas de Chamfort
7. “Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead; that is where your future lies.” –Ann Landers
8. “Circumstances and situations do color life but you have been given the mind to choose what the color shall be.” –John Homer Miller
9. “You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.” –Jiddu Krishnamurti
10. “Whatever you want in life, start today. Not tomorrow – today. Let it be a small beginning – a tiny beginning. Your happiness depends on starting today – every day.” –Jonathan Lockwood Huie
11. “The only difference between an extraordinary life and an ordinary one is the extraordinary pleasures you find in ordinary things.” –Veronique Vienne
12. “For most of life, nothing wonderful happens. If you don’t enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are you’re not going to be very happy. If someone bases his or her happiness on major events like a great job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn’t going to be happy much of the time. If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.” –Andy Rooney
13. “The three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.” –Addison
14. “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
15. “Life is not a journey to the grave with intentions of arriving safely in a pretty well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out and loudly proclaiming … WOW! What a ride!” –Unknown
16. “To live with the conscious knowledge of the shadow of uncertainty, with the knowledge that disaster or tragedy could strike at any time; to be afraid and to know and acknowledge your fear, and still to live creatively and with unstinting love: that is to live with grace.” –Peter Abrahams
17. “People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life… I think that what we’re really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.” –Joseph Campbell
18. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover” –Mark Twain
19. “Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of.” –Charles Richards
20. “Live life fully while you’re here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You’re going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process.” –Anthony Robbins
21. “It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived –forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.” –Soren Kierkegaard
22. “For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin – real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.” –Fr. Alfred D’Souza
23. “I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.” –Jack London
24. “Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.” –Mary Anne Radmacher
25. “When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.” –Greg Anderson
Hope Quotes and Sayings
Hope is that thing that all of us need in tough times. Let me show you some great hope quotes for a better day.
Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route. ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Once you choose hope, anything’s possible. ~Christopher Reeve
Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. ~Robert G. Ingersoll
Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope. ~Titus Maccius Plautus
Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them. ~Vincent McNabb
In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs man’s torments. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, 1878
When the world says, “Give up,”
Hope whispers, “Try it one more time.” ~Author Unknown
There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing – but we all do and call it Hope. ~Edgar Howe
If you knew that hope and despair were paths to the same destination, which would you choose? ~Robert Brault
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain. ~Samuel Johnson
Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops… at all. ~Emily Dickinson
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. ~Anne Lamott
All it takes is one bloom of hope to make a spiritual garden. ~Terri Guillemets
The miserable have no other medicine
But only hope. ~William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination. ~Marian Zimmer Bradley
You’ve gotta have hope. Without hope life is meaningless. Without hope life is meaning less and less. ~ Author Unknown
Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960
Lord save us all from… a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. ~Mark Twain
Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark. ~George Iles
When hope is hungry, everything feeds it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960
Motivational Sports Quotes
The most important thing in sport is your motivation. You can’t be one of the best without motivation. Let me share with you some great motivational sports quotes.
“Just go out there and do what you’ve got to do.” – Martina Navratilova
“The pain of discipline is far less than the pain of regret” – Sarah Bombell
“In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without a total 100 percent dedication, you won’t be able to do this.” – Willie Mays
“The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That’s real glory.” – Vince Lombardi
“Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.” – Babe Didrikson Zaharias
“The most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon your goal and launch, get started, take action, move.” – John Wooden
“Don’t give up at half-time. Concentrate on winning the second half.” – Paul Bryant
“The Truth is that Running Hurts. No one gets faster without meeting their personal pain barrier straight on. No amount of junk miles, fun runs or affirmations are going to get you over the hill at the five mile mark in a 10k. However, what will pull you through is solid prep with hard hill runs and interval work.” – Manciata
“Some people say I have attitude – maybe I do…but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right there.” – Venus Williams
“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John Wooden
“My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.” – Wilma Rudolph
“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination.” – Tommy Lasorda
“If you believe in yourself, have dedication and pride and never quit, you’ll be a winner. The price of victory is high, but so are the rewards.” – Paul Bryant
“The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.” – Arthur Ashe
“You can’t get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.” – Jerry West
“The answer to three questions will determine your success or failure.
1 – Can people trust me to do my best?
2 – Am I committed to the task in hand?
3 – Do I care about other people and show it?
If the answers to all three questions are yes, there is no way you can fail.” – Lou Holtz
“Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.” – Leroy Paige
“Being a winner is more than getting a first place trophy, it is acting like the effort was an honour and the trophy is just a decoration.” – Bryan Moseley
“I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you’re a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you’ll win–if you don’t, you won’t.” – Bruce Jenner, Olympic Gold Medalist, Decathlon
“You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave – win or lose.” – Gordie Howe
“I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.” – Gale Sawers
“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.” – Vincent T. Lombardi
“Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.” – Mike Singletary
“It’s great to win, but it’s also great fun just to be in the thick of any truly well and hard fought contest against opponents you respect, whatever the outcome.” – Jack Nicklaus
“The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.” – Vince Lombardi
“It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get back up.” – Vince Lombardi
“Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.” – George Herman “Babe” Ruth
“The principle is competing against yourself. It’s about self improvement, about being better than you were the day before.” – Steve Young
“If you don’t invest very much, then defeat doesn’t hurt very much and winning is not very exciting.” – Dick Vermeil
“The man who has no imagination has no wings.” – Muhammad Ali
“I’ve never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn’t appreciate the grind, the discipline… I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour – this greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle, victorious.” – Vince Lombardi
“When I go our on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.” – Katarina Witt
“Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I’m going to complete every pass.” – Ron Jaworski
“Just do what you do best.” – Red Auerbach
“I didn’t just jump back on the bike and win. There were a lot of ups and downs, good results and bad results, but this time I didn’t let the lows get to me.” – Lance Armstrong
“Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.” – Winston Churchill
“Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.” – Stan Smith
“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination.” – Tommy Lasorda
Wednesday’s Quotes
This is just a random list of great quotes, but because today is Wednesday, let’s call them Wednesday’s Quotes :)
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” – Albert Einstein
“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” – Beverly Sills
“To dream of the person you wish to be is to waste the person you are.” – Author Unknown
“Do what you can with what you’ve got wherever you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.” – Henry Van Dyke
“It is not length of Life, but depth of life.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might just be the world.” – Author Unknown
“The same hammer that breaks the glass forges the steel.” – Russian Proverb
“Strangers are just friends waiting to happen.” – Author Unknown
“We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.” – Tim McGraw
“And sometimes when you turn, there is a shoulder to lean upon, a smile to believe in, a hand to hold. Those are the times your faith in the world is restored.” – Nirvikar Dahiya
“Laughter is the music of life.” – Sir William Osler
Friendship Quotes
Friends are the most important ingredient in this recipe of life.
Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.
Side by side or miles apart, dear friends are always close to the heart.
Your friends are what will matter in the end.
Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes.
Friends are God’s way of taking care of us.
It’s the friends you can call up at 4am that matter.
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.
True friends are like stars in the sky. They’re most clear in the darkest of times.
Good Friends Are Hard To Find, Harder To Leave, An Impossible To Forget…
A Best Friend Wont Let You Do Stupid Things…..Alone
Me and you are friends!
You cry, i cry
You fight, i fight
you jump off bridge
I get a paddle boat and save your retarded Butt!!
A best friend is a sister destiny forgot to give you.
Friends are like a box of crayons. Each one is different from the others separately, but put them together and they make a rainbow.
Someone who will pick you up, when your feeling down …..lend an ear when you need to talk, hold your hand when you are scared, be by your side, when you are lonely…..accepts you for you…..that is a true friend.
A friend is someone who reaches out for your hand…and touches your heart.
True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.
Friends are God’s way of taking care of us.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.
A road to a friend’s house is never long.
A true friend sticks with you through thick and thin no matter what.
Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows.
True friendship is when two friends can walk in opposite directions, yet remain side by side.
No person is Ur friend who demands Ur silence, or denies ur right to grow.
Our paths may change as life goes along, but the bond between friends remains ever strong…
Friendship is not a big thing – its a million little things.
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
Everyone is a friend, until they prove otherwise.
Friends are the most important ingredient in this recipe of life.
To be depressed is to be lonely; to have a friend is to be happy.
Friendship is not a big thing – its a million little things.
Side by side or miles apart, dear friends are always close to the heart.
The most I can do 4 my friend is simply be his friend
Best of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
– “A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.”
– “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– “Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”
– “Don’t waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.”
– “Every artist was first an amateur.”
– “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
– “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
– “For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.”
– “Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.”
– “In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire.”
– “Insist on yourself; never imitate… Every great man is unique.”
– “It is not length of life, but depth of life.”
– “It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.”
– “Life is not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.”
– “Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live.”
– “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air…”
– “Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.”
– “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
– “None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.”
– “Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.”
– “Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.”
– “That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased.”
– “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– “Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.”
– “To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children…to leave the world a better place…to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
– “Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be.”
– “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
– “What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.”
– “Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.”
– “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
– “You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”
Funny Love Quotes
Shopping is better than sex. At least if you’re not satisfied, you can exchange it for something you really like. – Adrienne Gusoff
An archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. – Agatha Christie
Women marry men hoping they will change.
Men marry women hoping they will not.
So each is inevitably disappointed. – Albert Einstein
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That’s relativity. – Albert Einstein
Men make the highs higher and the lows more frequent. – Anonymous
You know it’s love when you want to keep holding hands even after you’re sweaty. – Anonymous
The four most important words in any marriage…”I’ll do the dishes.” – Anonymous
No man is truly married until he understands every word his wife is NOT saying. – Anonymous
Marriage is like jogging through a puddle of industrial strength rubber glue. You can work hard and make it through the struggles; however, you usually leave your bobby socks and sneakers behind along the way. – Anonymous
When a relationship goes flat, so does a couple of sets of car tires. – Anonymous
Men only have two faults….What they do, and what they say! – Anonymous
You can’t buy love on eBay. – Anonymous
If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it? – Bette Midler
A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him. – Brendan Francis
Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch. – Cathy Carlyle
Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter. – Cecilia Egan
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing — and then marry him. – Cher
Men aren’t necessities, they’re luxuries. – Cher
By the time you swear you’re his,
Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his passion is infinite, undying –
Lady, make note of this: One of you is lying. – Dorothy Parker
I’m always looking for meaningful one night stands. – Dudley Moore
Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery. – Erma Bombeck
Romantic love is mental illness. But it’s a pleasurable one. It’s a drug. It distorts reality, and that’s the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw. – Fran Lebowitz
It is impossible to love and be wise. – Francis Bacon
Marriage marks the end of many short follies – being one long stupidity. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery. – Fulton J. Sheen
Men are from Earth. Women are from Earth. Deal with it. – George Carlin
Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one. – Glenn Beck
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. – Groucho Marx
To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all. – Helen Rowland
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There’s too much fraternizing with the enemy. – Henry Kissinger
When we got married I told my wife “If you leave me, I’m going with you.” And she never did. – James Fineous McBride
Marrying a man is like buying something you’ve been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn’t always go with everything else in the house. – Jean Kerr