177 quotes
“Things do not change; we change.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“I do not think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains”
— Anne Frank
“Where would I possibly find enough leather with which to cover the surface of the earth? But wearing leather on the soles of my feet is equivalent to covering the earth with it.”
— Shantideva
“You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.”
— Pema Chodron
“Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.”
— Chinua Achebe
“If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.”
— Unknown
“Every wall is a door.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes playing a poor hand well.”
— Jack London
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
— Marcel Proust
“The single story creates stereotypes. Creativity requires multiple stories and perspectives.”
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.”
— Kahlil Gibran
“A book is a mirror if an ass peers into it you cannot expect an apostle to look out”
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”
— Henri Matisse
“There is a saying in Tibetan that at the door of the miserable rich man sleeps the contented beggar”
— Dalai Lama
“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
— William Arthur Ward
“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
— Truman Capote
“The winner says it may be difficult but it is possible. The loser says it may be possible but it is too difficult.”
— Denis Waitley
“What we see depends mainly on what we look for.”
— John Lubbock
“Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain. Short therefore is man's life, and narrow is the corner of the earth wherein he dwells.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“One joy scatters a hundred griefs.”
— Chinese Proverb
“The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
“When you change the way you look at things the things you look at change and healing begins”
— Wayne Dyer
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle.”
“The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution”
— Hannah Arendt
“The true journey is to find a new perspective.”
“Heaven and earth are not humane; they treat all things as straw dogs.”
— Laozi
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.”
— Oscar Wilde
“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
“If you count all your assets, you always show a profit.”
— Robert Quillen
“I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet”
— Persian Proverb
“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”
— William James
“Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore!”
“Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.”
— George Orwell
“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 world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.”
— William Makepeace Thackeray
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you.”
— Whitman
“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience we are spiritual beings having a human experience”
“If all mankind were to disappear the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago if insects were to vanish the environment would collapse into chaos”
— E.O. Wilson
“Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.”
“The longest day has its end.”
— Jean de La Fontaine
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
— William Shakespeare
“Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet”
— Stephen Hawking
“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.”
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower”
— Albert Camus
“We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.”
“In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.”
— Blaise Pascal
“I will love the light for it shows me the way yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.”
— Og Mandino
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
“What is food to one man is bitter poison to others”
— Lucretius
“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
“The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.”
— Orison Swett Marden
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”
— Seneca
“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
“With everything that has happened to you you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift”
“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life”
— Khalil Gibran
“Whatever anybody says or does assume positive intent you will be amazed at how your whole approach to a person or problem becomes very different”
— Indra Nooyi
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
— Epicurus
“Nothing in life is as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it.”
— Daniel Kahneman
“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.”
— Cicero
“If the only tool you have is a hammer you tend to see every problem as a nail”
— Abraham Maslow
“The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world.”
— Alexander von Humboldt
“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.”
“We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars”
“Nothing others do is because of you what others say and do is a projection of their own reality”
— Don Miguel Ruiz
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive — to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”
“Life is simple everything happens for you not to you”
— Byron Katie
“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin
“Enjoy the little things for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.”
— Robert Brault
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.”
— Walt Whitman
“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”
— Richard Bach
“All my possessions for a moment of time.”
— Elizabeth I
“It isnt what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
— Dale Carnegie
“The world is a traveller's inn, not his dwelling place.”
— Rumi
“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
“We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.”
— Thomas Fuller
“The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.”
— Thomas Carlyle
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.”
— John Milton
“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.”
“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life.”
“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.”
— Erasmus
“If a problem is fixable we should fix it and if it is not fixable then there is no use worrying about it and faith gives this perspective”
“Time is the wisest counsellor of all.”
— Pericles
“Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause and of obstinacy in a bad one”
— Laurence Sterne
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.”
“Only to the white man was nature a wilderness and only to him was it infested with wild animals and savage people.”
— Luther Standing Bear
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.”
— Alphonse Karr
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare it is because we do not dare that they are difficult”
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world but then you read”
— James Baldwin
“People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes”
“Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of them.”
— Epictetus
“I do not think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.”
“I am thankful for a lawn that needs mowing, windows that need cleaning and gutters that need fixing because it means I have a home…. I am thankful for the piles of laundry and ironing because it means my loved ones are nearby.”
— Nancie J. Carmody
“Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.”
“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
“Our life is what our thoughts make it.”
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”
“An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight.”
— Albert Schweitzer
“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.”
“Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.”
— Margaret Lee Runbeck
“To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination.”
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
“What disturbs men's minds is not events but their judgments on events.”
“I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet.”
“Clouds come floating into my life no longer to carry rain or usher storm but to add color to my sunset sky.”
“No object is so beautiful that under certain conditions it will not look ugly”
“In this world we walk on the roof of heaven gazing at flowers”
— Kobayashi Issa
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from their point of view and approach them with kindness”
— Harper Lee
“As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.”
“Everything we hear is an opinion not a fact everything we see is a perspective not the truth”
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
— Soren Kierkegaard
“I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”
— Mark Twain
“It is not what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
“The single story creates stereotypes and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue but that they are incomplete”
“What we call the way you see the world determines art”
— Louise Nevelson
“Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.”
“You are the sky everything else is just the weather”
“If you change the way you look at things the things you look at change”
“A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.”
— Catherine the Great
“Everything we experience depends on how we perceive it.”
“There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.”
— Walt Streightiff
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
“Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.”
— Paul Tillich
“The wise man looks into space and does not regard the small as too little, nor the great as too big, for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.”
— Chuang Tzu
“The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.”
“A drowning man is not troubled by rain.”
“Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.”
— James Russell Lowell
“Religion is regarded by the common people as true by the wise as false and by rulers as useful”
“All wonder is the effect of novelty upon ignorance.”
— Samuel Johnson
“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
“Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness”
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
“He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.”
“The right time to dine is: for the rich man, when he is hungry; and for the poor man, when he has something to eat.”
“The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.”
— Joseph Roux
“The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.”
— Francis Bacon
“There are no facts, only interpretations.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.”
“Almost every problem we face can be helped by our willingness to see it differently”
— Lori Gottlieb
“We suffer more in imagination than in reality.”
“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.”
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty”
— Winston Churchill
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