177 quotes
“Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.”
— Margaret Lee Runbeck
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare it is because we do not dare that they are difficult”
— Seneca
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes”
— Marcel Proust
“The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.”
— Francis Bacon
“I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”
— Mark Twain
“We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars”
— Oscar Wilde
“The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.”
— Orison Swett Marden
“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”
— Richard Bach
“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life”
— Khalil Gibran
“Clouds come floating into my life no longer to carry rain or usher storm but to add color to my sunset sky.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“If you count all your assets, you always show a profit.”
— Robert Quillen
“If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore!”
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
“Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.”
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
“Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.”
— Chinua Achebe
“The single story creates stereotypes. Creativity requires multiple stories and perspectives.”
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“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
“I do not think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains”
— Anne Frank
“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.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.”
— George Orwell
“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
“I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet.”
— Persian Proverb
“Life is simple everything happens for you not to you”
— Byron Katie
“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
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
— Albert Einstein
“Things do not change; we change.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world but then you read”
— James Baldwin
“Enjoy the little things for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.”
— Robert Brault
“With everything that has happened to you you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift”
— Wayne Dyer
“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
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you.”
— Whitman
“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
“Nothing others do is because of you what others say and do is a projection of their own reality”
— Don Miguel Ruiz
“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”
— Dalai Lama
“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”
— Henri Matisse
“He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.”
“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.”
— Unknown
“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
“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
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle.”
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.”
— Walt Whitman
“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
— William Arthur Ward
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
“Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes playing a poor hand well.”
— Jack London
“The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.”
— Joseph Roux
“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
“The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
“One joy scatters a hundred griefs.”
— Chinese Proverb
“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.”
“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”
— William James
“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.”
— Cicero
“Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause and of obstinacy in a bad one”
— Laurence Sterne
“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
“Our life is what our thoughts make it.”
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience we are spiritual beings having a human experience”
“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life.”
“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.”
“There are no facts, only interpretations.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.”
“A book is a mirror if an ass peers into it you cannot expect an apostle to look out”
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
“A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.”
— Catherine the Great
“What disturbs men's minds is not events but their judgments on events.”
— Epictetus
“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
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.”
— John Milton
“The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.”
— William Makepeace Thackeray
“I do not think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.”
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.”
— Alphonse Karr
“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.”
“The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution”
— Hannah Arendt
“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
“What is food to one man is bitter poison to others”
— Lucretius
“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.”
— Erasmus
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from their point of view and approach them with kindness”
— Harper Lee
“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.”
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.”
“Everything we hear is an opinion not a fact everything we see is a perspective not the truth”
“Every wall is a door.”
“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.”
“A drowning man is not troubled by rain.”
“Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet”
— Stephen Hawking
“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
“We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet”
“Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.”
“To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination.”
“In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.”
— Blaise Pascal
“There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.”
— Walt Streightiff
“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
— Truman Capote
“We suffer more in imagination than in reality.”
“We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.”
— Thomas Fuller
“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
“Almost every problem we face can be helped by our willingness to see it differently”
— Lori Gottlieb
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty”
— Winston Churchill
“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
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
— William Shakespeare
“If you change the way you look at things the things you look at change”
“The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.”
— Kahlil Gibran
“Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness”
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
“In this world we walk on the roof of heaven gazing at flowers”
— Kobayashi Issa
“The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world.”
— Alexander von Humboldt
“You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.”
— Pema Chodron
“The longest day has its end.”
— Jean de La Fontaine
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.”
— Harper Lee<
