Here's a collection of some of my favorite quotes. I'm always adding to it. If you have a favorite you'd like to add you can email me or add it as a comment to a post.
"There's no use trying," Alice said, "One can't believe impossible things." "I dare say you haven't had much practice," said the Queen, "When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."--Lewis Carroll
It's not how much we have, but how much we enjoy that makes happiness.--Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will. --Norman Vincent Peale
Be the change that you want to see in the world.--Mohandas Gandhi
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
You must do the thing you think you cannot do.--Eleanor Roosevelt
It's never too late to be what you might have been.--George Ernst
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
We are pencils in the hand of a writing God, who is sending love letters to the world.--Mother Teresa
If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul. --Rabbi Harold Kushner
Nothing unless first a dream.--Carl Sandburg
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity into smiles.--Washington Irving
The best way to have good ideas is to have lots of ideas.--Linus Pauling
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.--Martin Luther King, Jr.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.-- Marcel Proust
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
By listening to the creator within, we are led to our right path.--Julia Cameron
Maintaining a complicated life is a great way to avoid changing it.--Elaine St. James
It takes a long time to become young.--Pablo Picasso
Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination.--Plato
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.--Eleanor Roosevelt
We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.--Helen Keller
Happiness is like jam. You can't spread even a little without getting some on yourself.--Anonymous
Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.--Dr. Seuss
Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.--Mohandas Gandhi
Peace begins with a smile.--Mother Teresa
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.--Albert Einstein
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.--Albert Schweitzer
For happiness is anyone and anything at all that's loved by you. —Charlie Brown from Peanuts comic strip by Charles Schultz
“The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do”-- Orison Swett Marden
Art is neither a profession or a hobby. Art is a Way of being.--Frederick Franck
Good works are links that form a chain of love.--Mother Teresa
“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.”--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Real winners achieve their success through honest hard work" - Rajesh, Trippalur, Palakkad
"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile."-- Mother Teresa
Silence is the language God speaks, and everything else is a bad translation.--Father Thomas Keating
"The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you, and you don't know how or why."--Albert Einstein
“Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.” —Plato
“Open your heart - open it wide; someone is standing outside.” —Mary Engelbreit, artist
“And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. ”-- Nelson Mandela
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, it empties today of its strength. -- Corrie Ten Boom
“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.” —Thornton Wilder
Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.”--Henry Van Dyke
The earth laughs in flowers. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.--Rachel Carson
“Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”—Voltaire
Nothing is more the child of art than a garden.--Sir Walter Scott
To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.--Mohandas Gandhi
"Dwell in possibility."-- Emily Dickinson
"Imagination precedes fact."--C.S. Lewis
“No person ever ended his eyesight by looking on the bright side.”—Zig Ziglar
“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.”--Woodrow Wilson, the 28th US President
God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with Him. --Jim Elliot
“Only a life lived for others is worth living.” --Albert Einstein
No one has ever become poor by giving.--Anne Frank
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.--Carl Jung
“Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.”-Mohandas Gandhi
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso
“We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessing of peace.”--—William Gladstone
Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark.--Rabindranath Tagore
Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons! --Ruth Ann Schabacker
"The great man is he that does not lose his child's heart." --Menius
A warm smile is the universal language of kindness. - William Arthur Ward“Dream your dream. Follow your heart. Imagine. Listen to the wind. Drink sunsets. Be free. Let the wonder never cease. Believe. Wish on EVERY star. Create adventure. Be Kind.” —Debbie Coulter"When you carry out acts of kindness, you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, 'Yes, this is how I ought to feel.'" -- Harold Kushner"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but
trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they
do is inconceivable." --Joseph Addison
“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the
sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed
only if there is light from within.”
—Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. ~Dr. Seuss True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. ~William Penn
You were born an original. Don't die a copy." --John Mason
Sometimes, to pursue a new idea, the artist must forfeit his deposit on an old idea. --Robert Brault“Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words
are the flowers, Kind deeds are the fruits, Take care of your garden
And keep out the weeds, Fill it with sunshine, Kind words, and Kind
deeds.”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most
deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which
says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude,
follow it. -- William James
The garden is the poor man's apothecary. ~German Proverb
The best portion of a good man's life; His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. -- William Wordsworth
My childhood may be over, but that doesn't mean playtime is. --Ron Olson
Goodthought Quotes from Readers
Don’t be so busy in doing what you should do; that you don’t get time to do what you want to do.--Jaisal
"Counting on my positives I shall rise... Higher and higher to my own surprise." -Sankalp S. Paralkar Don't
wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There
will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions.
So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow
stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more
self-confident and more and more successful.--Jaisal
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