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“Love is what we are born with.
Fear is what we learn.
The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudicies and the acceptance of love back in our hearts.
Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth.
To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life.
Meaning dos not lie in things.
Meaning lies in us.” – Marianne Williamson
Feeling Depressed? You had a bad day? Let me share with you some quotes to cheer you up. You will be amazed about how your day will be better just by reading some great quotes.
“In fighting and in every day life, you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tension yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit”. – Miyamoto Musashi
“One of the simplest things about our life is that to get where you want to go, you must keep on keeping on…” – Normal Vincent Peale
“The indispensable first step in getting the things you want out of your life is this: first decide what you want!” – Ben Stein
“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them”. – Henry David Thoreau
“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, and 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
“Blessed are those that can give without remembering and receive without forgetting”. – Author Unknown.
“Never allow some one to be your priority, while allowing yourself to be their option.” – Author Unknown.
“Experience something fully, then drop it and move on to the next moment, uninfluenced by the previous one”. – Anthony de Mello.
“Some of the God’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers”. – Garth Brooks.
Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky. – Anaïs Nin
The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up. – Mark Twain
May God grant you always… A sunbeam to warm you, a moonbeam to charm you, a sheltering Angel so nothing can harm you. Laughter to cheer you. Faithful friends near you. And whenever you pray, Heaven to hear you. – Irish Blessings
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
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves. – Helen Keller
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are. – Marianne Williamson
You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry. Don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way. – Walter Hagen
Laugh when you can, apologize when you should, and let go of what you can’t change. Life’s too short to be anything… but happy. – Anonymous
Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance. – Anonymous
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. – Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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. – Marianne Williamson
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. – Anaïs Nin
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are. – Marianne Williamson
Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky. – Anaïs Nin
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has. – Margaret Mead
We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are. – Anaïs Nin
He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions. – Louisa May Alcott
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. – Helen Keller
You must do the things you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. – Helen Keller
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. – Anne Frank
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. – Helen Keller
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die. – Eleanor Roosevelt
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. – Helen Keller
It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. – Marlene Dietrich
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. – Helen Keller
If you judge people, you have no time to love them. – Mother Teresa
The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. – Helen Keller
Peace begins with a smile. – Mother Teresa
Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. – Helen Keller
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. – Mother Teresa
True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. – Helen Keller
Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go. – Mother Teresa
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. – Helen Keller
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. – Helen Keller
I’m not afraid of storms for I’m learning how to sail my ship. – Louisa May Alcott
Dreams are necessary to life. – Anais Nin
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all — the apathy of human beings. – Helen Keller
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. – Anaïs Nin
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give. – Eleanor Roosevelt
It is never too late to be what you might have been. – George Eliot [George Eliot was the pen name of English novelist Mary Anne Evans (1819-1880)]
People living deeply have no fear of death. – Anaïs Nin
It is our choices … that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. – J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
Never allow a person to tell you No who doesn’t have the power to say Yes. – Eleanor Roosevelt
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. – Anaïs Nin
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. – Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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. – Marianne Williamson
Success is not the key to happiness.
Happiness is the key to success.
If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. – Albert Schweitzer
We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. – George Bernard Shaw
Success is getting what you want.
Happiness is wanting what you get. – Dale Carnegie
True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. – Helen Keller
Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are
When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. – Lao Tzu
He who is contented is rich. – Lao Tzu
Earth laughs in flowers.- Ralph Waldo Emerson
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. – Eleanor Roosevelt
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared. – The Buddha
Happiness depends upon ourselves. – Aristotle
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are. – Marianne Williamson
As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others. – Marianne Williamson
Be gentle first with yourself. – Lama Yeshe
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
As we light a path for others, we naturally light our own way. – Mary Anne Radmacher
Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass…
It’s about learning how to dance in the rain. – Vivian Greene
We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how to respond to them. – Epictetus
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. – Helen Keller
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. – Mark Twain
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. – Confucius
From caring comes courage. – Lao Tzu
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. – Maimonides
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. – Judy Garland
When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance. – Lee Ann Womack
The great opportunity is where you are. Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world. –John Burroughs
Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. –Harold B. Melchart
Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves. –Dale Carnegie
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault. –John Henry Newman
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. –Albert Einstein
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 and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? –Marianne Williamson
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. –Lao-Tzu
Things do not change; we change. –Henry David Thoreau
It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem. –G.K. Chesterton
Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. –St. Francis of Assisi
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall. –Confucius
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. –Helen Keller
The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one. –Elbert Hubbard
It’s not that some people have willpower and some don’t. It’s that some people are ready to change and others are not. –James Gordon
You have to get to the point where going for it is more important than winning or losing. –Arthur Ashe
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity. –Louis Pasteur
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. –Ambrose Redmoon
Often you just have to rely on your intuition. –Bill Gates
It’s easier to live with disappointment than regret. –Andre Agassi
The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are. –J. Pierpont Morgan
– “When we are centered in joy, we attain our wisdom.” – Marianne Williamson
– “Remember to light the candle of joy daily and all the gloom will disappear from your life.” – Djwhal Khul
– “You have to sniff out joy. Keep your nose to the joy trail.” – Buffy Sainte-Marie
– “Joy is untouched by circumstance.” – Unknown
– “In thy presence is fullness of joy.” – Psalms 16:11
– “Joy is the echo of God’s life in us.” – Abbot Coumba Marmion
– “We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.” – Guatama Buddha
– “What I know for sure is that you feel real JOY in direct proportion to how connected you are to living your truth.” – Oprah
– “Joy springs from within; no one makes you joyous; you choose joyfulness.” – Unknown
– “Thou has made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.” – Acts 2:28
– “True joy results when we become aware of our connectedness to everything.” – Paul Pearsall
– “Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I’m doing.” – Phil Jackson
– “Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
– “Joy is a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace – a connection to what matters.” – Oprah
– “Man loves because he is Love. He seeks Joy, for he is Joy. He thirsts for God for he is composed of God and he cannot exist without Him.” – Sathya Sai Baba
– “Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.” – Mark Twain
– “Joy is not in things; it is in us.” – Richard Wagner
– “Joy is the highest expression of love.” – Abraham-Hicks
– “Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.” – Mother Teresa
– “Shared joy is double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.” – Swedish proverb
