Wisdom about life

"I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires."

"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need."

"Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance."

"Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do."

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts."

"It isn't the burdens of today that drive men mad. It is the regrets over yesterday and the fear of tomorrow. Regret and fear are twin thieves who rob us of today."

"We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way. "

"Look at each day as a chance to invest life into life. A chance to share your experience and deposit it into someone else's conscience. Each day is a chance to work miracles in the lives of others."

"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."

"The genius of life is to carry the spirit of childhood into old age."

"The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work."

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll still land among the stars."

"Step into a new you each day. Reach out to greater health, happiness, fitness, friendship, love and greater pride in yourself."

"Every situation can be a positive situation if you look upon it as an opportunity for growth and self-improvement."

"The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit."

"At the end of the game the king and the pawn go back in the same box."

"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."

"To begin to think with purpose is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment."

"I've learned ... That life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes."

"No pleasure philosophy, no sensuality, no place nor power, no material success can for a moment give such inner satisfaction as the sense of living for good purposes, for maintenance of integrity, for the preservation of self-approval."

"Our eyes were put in the front of our heads, so we look to where we are going not to where we have been."

"Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark; professionals built the Titanic!"

"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it."

"There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?"

"We never sit anything out. We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out."

"A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul."

"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."

"It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others."

"Let yesterday be your lesson, today your study and tomorrow your test."

"You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight."

"...Sooner or later you're going to realize, just as I did, there's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path..."

"Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there."

"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity."

"All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."

"A dreamer is one who finds his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."

"Life isn't like a box of chocolates ... it's more like a jar of jalapenos. What you do today might burn your ass tomorrow. "

"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours."

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do ... Explore. Dream. Discover."

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it."

"Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why."

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. "

"Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind."

"Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there."

"Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are driving taxi cabs and cutting hair."

"Many things in life will catch your eye but few will catch your heart... Pursue those."

"Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going."

"I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning."

"Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking."

"An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in every situation."

"Far better to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory, nor defeat."

"If you weep because the sun has set, your own tears will never let you see the stars."

"It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them."

"Live so that you wouldn't mind selling your pet parrot to the town gossip."

"Some things cannot be spoken or discovered until we have been stuck, incapacitated, or blown off course for awhile. Plain sailing is pleasant, but you are not going to explore many unknown realms that way."

"In a nutshell, just be good and kind to your children, because not only are they the future of the world, but they are the ones who can eventually sign you into the home."

"Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, "I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me."

"Too often we under estimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."

"I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness or abilities that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."

"My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am."

"Think excitement, talk excitement, act out excitement, and you are bound to become an excited person. Life will take on a new zest, deeper interest and greater meaning. You can think, talk and act yourself into dullness or into monotony or into unhappiness. By the same process you can build up inspiration, excitement and surging depth of joy."

"You are in charge of your feelings, beliefs, and actions. And you teach others how to behave toward you. While you cannot change other people, you can influence them through your own behaviors and actions. By being a living role model of what you want to receive from others, you create more of what you want in your life."

"If you want your life to be a magnificent story, then begin by realizing that you are the author and every day you have the opportunity to write a new page."

"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions."


	My English Homepage \| home back to Quotations Winnie the Pooh \| Wisdom about life \| Worries \| War and Peace \| Courage \| Experience in life \| Love \| Friends and friendship \| Dance \| Micro and Macro \| The Truth \| Life and Death \| Joy and Sorrow \| Time \| Success and Unsuccess \| Belief and Doubt \| Happiness Wisdom about life "I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires." --Kahlil Gibran:-- "Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need." -- Kahlil Gibran -- "Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance." -- Brian Tracy -- "Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do." -- Elvis Presley -- "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." -- Bertrand Russell -- "It isn't the burdens of today that drive men mad. It is the regrets over yesterday and the fear of tomorrow. Regret and fear are twin thieves who rob us of today." --Robert J. Hastings-- "We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way. " -- Gloria Gaither- "The only disability in life is a bad attitude." -- Scott Hamilton -- "Look at each day as a chance to invest life into life. A chance to share your experience and deposit it into someone else's conscience. Each day is a chance to work miracles in the lives of others." -- Jim Rohn-- "Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." -- Mark Twain -- "The genius of life is to carry the spirit of childhood into old age." -- Aldous Huxley -- "The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work." -- Oprah Winfrey -- "Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll still land among the stars." -- Author Unknown -- "Step into a new you each day. Reach out to greater health, happiness, fitness, friendship, love and greater pride in yourself." -- Mark Victor Hansen -- "Every situation can be a positive situation if you look upon it as an opportunity for growth and self-improvement." -- Brian Tracy -- "The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit." -- Jim Rohn -- "At the end of the game the king and the pawn go back in the same box." -- Italian Proverb -- "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 -- "To begin to think with purpose is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment." -- James Allen -- "I've learned ... That life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes." -- Andy Rooney -- "It's never too late to be what you might have been." -- George Eliot -- "No pleasure philosophy, no sensuality, no place nor power, no material success can for a moment give such inner satisfaction as the sense of living for good purposes, for maintenance of integrity, for the preservation of self-approval." -- Minot Simons -- "Our eyes were put in the front of our heads, so we look to where we are going not to where we have been." -- Author Unknown -- "Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark; professionals built the Titanic!" -- Author Unknown -- "The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it." -- Author Unknown -- "He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything." -- Arabian Proverb -- "There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?" -- Robert F. Kennedy-- "We never sit anything out. We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out." -- Ray Bradbury-- "A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- "The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." -- Dorothy Nervil -- "It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others." -- Author Unknown -- "Let yesterday be your lesson, today your study and tomorrow your test." -- Mary Jo Pham -- "You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight." -- Jim Rohn-- "...Sooner or later you're going to realize, just as I did, there's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path..." -- Morpheus, from the movie "The Matrix" -- "Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there." -- Will Rogers -- "I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity." -- Gilda Radner -- "All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." -- Pablo Picasso -- "A dreamer is one who finds his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world." -- Oscar Wilde -- "Live so that your friends can defend you, but never have to." -- Arnold Glasow -- "If you marry for money, you will earn every penny." -- Dr. Phil McGraw -- "Life isn't like a box of chocolates ... it's more like a jar of jalapenos. What you do today might burn your ass tomorrow. " -- Author Unknown -- "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." -- Dale Carnegie -- "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do ... Explore. Dream. Discover." --Mark Twain -- "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it." -- Ferris Bueller's Day Off -- "Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why." -- Eddie Canto -- "And life is what we make it, always has been and always will be." -- Grandma Moses -- "I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." -- Albert Einstein -- "Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. " -- Mark Twain -- "Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind." -- Bertrand Russell -- "Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there." -- Will Rogers -- "Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are driving taxi cabs and cutting hair." -- George Burns -- "Many things in life will catch your eye but few will catch your heart... Pursue those." -- Author Unknown -- "Character is doing the right thing when nobody is looking." -- J. C. Watts -- "Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going." -- Laurence J. Peter -- "I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning." -- J.B. Priestly -- "Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking." -- H.L. Mencken -- "Dreams are essential to life." -- Anais Nin -- "An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in every situation." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- "Far better to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory, nor defeat." -- Theodore Roosevelt -- "When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." --Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)-- "If you weep because the sun has set, your own tears will never let you see the stars." -- Hindu Proverb -- "One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions." --Cornelia Otis Skinner-- "It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them." -- George Elliot -- "Live so that you wouldn't mind selling your pet parrot to the town gossip." -- Will Rogers -- "Some things cannot be spoken or discovered until we have been stuck, incapacitated, or blown off course for awhile. Plain sailing is pleasant, but you are not going to explore many unknown realms that way." -- David Whyte -- "Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much." -- John Wayne -- "In a nutshell, just be good and kind to your children, because not only are they the future of the world, but they are the ones who can eventually sign you into the home." -- Dennis Miller-- "Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, "I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me." -- Ann Landers-- "Too often we under estimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around." -- Leo Buscaglia -- "I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness or abilities that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again." -- William Penn -- "My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am." -- Author Unknown -- "Think excitement, talk excitement, act out excitement, and you are bound to become an excited person. Life will take on a new zest, deeper interest and greater meaning. You can think, talk and act yourself into dullness or into monotony or into unhappiness. By the same process you can build up inspiration, excitement and surging depth of joy." -- Norman Vincent Peale -- "You are in charge of your feelings, beliefs, and actions. And you teach others how to behave toward you. While you cannot change other people, you can influence them through your own behaviors and actions. By being a living role model of what you want to receive from others, you create more of what you want in your life." -- Eric Allenbaugh -- "If you want your life to be a magnificent story, then begin by realizing that you are the author and every day you have the opportunity to write a new page." -- Mark Houlahan -- "Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions." -- Khalil Gibran --