Quote of the day

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Albert Einstein

I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.
Sylvia Plath

knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting –
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
Mary Oliver

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

Arnold Bennett

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.
May Sarton

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
Ernest Hemingwa

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Rumi

Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
Toni Morrison, Beloved

Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens
Tony DeLiso

We'd start slow, the way we always did, because the run, and the game, could go on for awhile. Maybe even forever.
That was the thing. You just never knew. Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what everything was really all about. It was twenty minutes, or a hundred years, or just this instant, or any instant I wished would last and last. But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this: it was happening. Right then, as I ran with Wes into that bright sun, and every moment afterwards. Look, there. Now. Now. Now.
Sarah Dessen

Don't think about making life better for other people who don't even deserve you, rather, focus on making your life the best, for yourself and those who love you.
C. JoyBell C.

It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.
Hermann Hesse

The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed.
Søren Kierkegaard

If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are, here and now and when you get there, you will discover yourself, like a lotus flower in full bloom, even in a muddy pond, beautiful and strong.
Masaru Emoto

I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.
Mary Anne Radmacher

We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.
Elizabeth Gilbert

You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
Alan W. Watts

Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.
David Levithan,

This above all: to thine own self be true.
William Shakespeare

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means

--- Ronald Reagan ---

- So remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and hold on to that childlike wonder about what makes the universe exist.

Stephen Hawking

R.I.P...

We should never lose sight of the fact that the road to tyranny begins with the destruction of the truth.

Bill Clinton

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"A stranger is a friend you haven't met yet." - Wain Emory

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill

Now my life really starts. Fight against injustice, against racism, crime, illiteracy and poverty, with this face that knows the world so well.

Muhammad Ali

At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.
Oscar Wilde

It's because the heart does not lie that it's easy to hurt.

Quote from Jen Spi

«I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions».

Stephen Covey.

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"A stranger is a friend you haven't met yet." - Wain Emory

"Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

«Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent».

Eleanor Roosevelt.

Very often, we only demand the virtues of others to make our mistakes more comfortable.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

The great Breakthrough in your life comes when you realize it that you can learn anything you need to learn to accomplish any goal that you set for yourself.This means there are no limits on what you can be, have or do.

Brian Tracy

Done onto others as you would like done onto you.  Good quote and applies to everyone and all experiences.

The first rule of success, never postpone the execution of a job.

Emmeline Raymond

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"When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one cannot eat money." - Unknown, possibly Alanis Obomsawin

If you want to test the modesty of the modest, do not search whether he spurns applause, but whether he endures the censure.

Franz Grillparzer

«It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years».

Abraham Lincoln.

"To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game." - Babe Ruth

To love life is to bring in oneself the joy of living and make it shine around you.

Jean Gastaldi

“Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.”

– Winston Churchill

Be quick to decide.

Remember what General George S. Patton said: "A good plan violently executed today is far and away better than a perfect plan tomorrow."

«Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing».

Benjamin Franklin.

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Quote in the topic. I said Confucius

"The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense."
– Thomas A. Edison

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"Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game." - Babe Ruth

Many people are well educated not to speak with their mouths full, but they have no qualms about dealing with an empty mind.

Orson Welles

Birds... scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth. They know the truth. Screaming bloody murder all over the world in our ears, but sadly we don't speak bird.

--- Kurt Cobain --- 

«There are people who have money and people who are rich».

Coco Chanel.