Wise Inspirational Quote
“You have never really lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you” – Unknown
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Quotes of the Day
Language is one of the fundamental principles of human understanding. It is the way we interact with each other and how we grasp the world we live in. – Unknown
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. – Benjamin Disraeli
People are very open-minded about new things — as long as they’re exactly like the old ones. – Charles Kettering
The 2 timeless drivers that underpin the behavior of every generation: the need to belong and the need to be significant. – Unknown
The man of wisdom is never of two minds; the man of benevolence never worries; the man of courage is never afraid. – Confucius
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost. – Billy Graham
Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done. – Linus Torvalds
Meaningful Life Quote
Never take someone for granted. Hold every person close to your heart because you might wake up one day and realize that you’ve lost a diamond while you were busy collecting stones… – Unknown
Creativity and Life Quotes
Do one thing every day that scares you. – Eleanor Roosevelt
Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today. – James Dean
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. – Oscar Wilde
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. – Plato
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. – Helen keller
You must be the change you want to see in the world. – Mahatma Gandhi
Two men looked out through prison bars… One saw mud, the other stars. – Unknown
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. – Picasso
Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth. – Stephen Hawking
You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend or not. – Isabel Allende
A year from now you may wish you had started today. – Karen Lamb
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail? – Unknown
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. – Leonardo da Vinci
A goal without a plan is just a wish. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people. – Admiral Hyman G. Rickover
Don’t worry baby. There should be sunshine after rain and love after pain. – Unknown
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that 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
Be Who You Are and Say What You Feel Because Those Who Mind Don’t Matter and Those Who Matter Don’t Mind. – Dr. Seuss, originally by Bernard Baruch
For billions of years, since the outset of time, every single one of your ancestors survived, every single person on your mom and dads side successfully looked after and passed on to you life. – Unknown
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. – Laozi
Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they’re doing. Do things without always knowing how they’ll turn out. – XKCD 267
From a universal standpoint, there are always bigger and better things to worry about. – Albert Einstein
We know what we are, but not what we may be. – William Shakespeare
What gets us into trouble is not what we don’t know. It’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so. – Mark Twain
You have to take the good with the bad, smile with the sad.
Love what you’ve got, and remember what you had.
Learn to forgive, but never forget.
Learn from your mistakes, but never regret.
People change, things go wrong.
Just remember life goes on. – Unknown
Next time
To create more positive results in your life, replace “if only” with “next time” – Unknown
Witty Quotes
Some of my favorite witty quotes just here, for you.
His mouth is a no-go area. It’s like kissing the Berlin Wall – Helena Bonhem Carter on Woody Allen
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. – Henry Kissinger
He has a face like a Saint – A Saint Bernard. – Unknown
A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstien, but with the attention span of Daffy Duck. – Tom Shale on Robin Williams
If I found her floating in my pool, I’d punish my dog. – Joan Rivers on Yoko Ono
God does not play dice with the universe. – Albert Einstien
She is as wholesome as a bowl of cornflakes and at least as sexy. – Dwight McDonald on Doris Day
If you can’t convince them, confuse them. – President Harry S Truman
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with. – W C Fields
He had the compassion of an icicle and the generosity of a pawnbroker. – S J Perelman on Groucho Marx
Avoid all needle drugs. The only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon. – Abbey Hoffman
Who picks your clothes – Stevie Wonder? – Don Rickles
Breasts like Granite and a brain like Swiss Cheese – Billy Wilder on Marilyn Monroe
The thief of bad gags. – Walter Winchell on Milton Berne
I’ve noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born – Ronald Reagan
He’s proof that there’s life after death. – Mort Sahl on Ronald Reagan
The only genius with an IQ of 60. – Gore Vidal on Andy Warhol
He’s so ugly they ought to donate his face to the world wildlife fund. – Muhammad Ali on Joe Frazier
She’s so stupid she returns bowling balls because they’ve got holes in them. – Joan Rivers on Bo Derek
For every action there is an equal and opposite government program. – Bob Wells
Can’t act. Slightly bald. Can dance a little. – Screen Tester on Fred Astaire
An empty suit that goes to funerals and plays golf. – Ross Perot on Dan Quayle
Most of the time he sounds like he has a mouth full of toilet paper. – Rex Reed on Marlon Brando
He could start a row in an empty house – Sir Alex Ferguson on footballer Dennis Wise
When Kissinger can get the Nobel Peace Prize, what is there left for satire? – Tom Lehrer on Henry Kissinger
Shaw writes his plays for the ages, the ages between five and twelve. – George Nathan on George Bernard Shaw
He is to acting what Liberace was to pumping iron. – Rex Reed on Sylvester Stallone
What makes him think a middle aged actor, who’s played with a chimp, could have a future in politics? – Ronald Reagan commenting on Eastwood’s bid to become mayor of Carmel
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. – Shakespeare
Do what you can
“It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing when you can only do little. Do what you can!” – Unknown
25 Change Quotes
1. “Change will only come about when each of us takes up the daily struggle ourselves to be more forgiving, compassionate, loving, and above all joyful in the knowledge that, by some miracle of grace, we can change as those around us can change too.” —Mairead Maguire
2. “God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it’s me.” —Unknown
3. “Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in.” —Alan Alda
4. “Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches, letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.” —Pauline R. Kezer
5. “It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims revealed to him by reason, he continues to plod along in old paths until his life becomes frustrating and unbearable—he finally makes the change only when his usual life can no longer be tolerated.” —Leo Tolstoy
6. “A competitive world offers two possibilities. You can lose. Or, if you want to win, you can change.” —Lester Thurow
7. “If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.” —Lao Tzu
8. “No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
9. “The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” —Oprah Winfrey
10. “The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” —Alan Watts
11. “He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.” —Harold Wilson
12. “The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.” —William H. Seward
13. ”A great wind is blowing and that gives you either imagination or a headache” —Catherine the Great
14. “No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.” —Barbara de Angelis
15. “The real problem for the creative person is getting over the resistance of those who don’t want to change.” —Unknown
16. “If we fall, we don’t need self-recrimination or blame or anger – we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to re-commit, to be whole-hearted once again.” —Sharon Salzberg
17. “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” —Barack Obama
18. “There are no prescriptive solutions, no grand designs for grand problems. Life’s solutions lie in the minute particulars involving more and more individual people daring to create their own life and art, daring to listen to the voice within their deepest, original nature, and deeper still, the voice within the earth.” —Stephen Nachmanovitch
19. “New insights fail to get put into practice because they conflict with deeply held internal images of how the world works … images that limit us to familiar ways of thinking and acting.” —Peter Senge
20. “I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.” —Georg C. Lichtenberg
21. “The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.” —M. Scott Peck
22. “It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.” —Epictetus
23. “We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.” —Anais Nin
24. “In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.” —Eric Hoffer
25. “The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.” —James Baldwin
Love like math
“Love is like Pi… natural, irrational, and very important.” – Unknown
Peace Quote
Peace.
It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work. It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart. – Unknown