I love quotes and have been collecting them since I was in school. I remember the first that really touched my heart and which I treasure till this day :
"I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good thing, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not deter nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again." - Stephen Grellet (a French-born Quaker minister)These words of wisdom by great men and women serve as an inspiration to us and I take great pleasure in compiling some of my favorites here. Please feel free to copy and use them and link back to http://inspiringalways.blogspot.com/p/quotes.html or I will find you! (phrase borrowed from Jonathan Figaro, author of "Six Stupid Things People Do To Mess Up Their Lives")
They are categorized into various categories and it is a works in progress at the moment. I will add on more as time permits.
Enjoy!
Children
The trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher. - Robert Bault
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings. - Hodding Carter, Jr.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it. - Harold Hulbert
While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. - Angela Schwindt
Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything. - Giacomo Leopardi
The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be. - Fred G. Gosman
If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils. - P.D. James
If a child is given love, he becomes loving. If he's helped when he needs help, he becomes helpful. And, if he has been truly valued at home, he grows up secure enough to look beyond himself to the welfare of others. - Dr. Joyce Brothers
You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once. - Polish Proverb
Kids spell love .. T - I - M - E. - John Crudele
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. - Rabindranath Tagore
Your children need your presence more than your presents. - Jesse Jackson
I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself. - Joyce Maynard
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. - Frederick Douglass
I brought children into this dark world because it needed the light that only a child can bring. - Liz Armbruster
The greatest gift a parent can give a child during all the ups and downs of life is love. - Doc Childre
Kids are the all-time champions of questioning. What could you gain by imitating the innocence and curiosity of children who are completely determined to get an answer? - Anthony Robbins
Faith
God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars. - Elbert Hubbard
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. - Soren Kierkegaard
All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have faith. - Paulo Coelho
Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. - Elizabeth Gilbert
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. - Voltaire
Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. - Rabindranath Tagore
Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking. - Khalil Gibran
I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings. - William Sloane Coffin
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof. - Khalil Gibran
My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at His feet. - Mahatma Gandhi
The best way to know God is to love many things. - Vincent Van Gogh
I release into the universe my trust that my journey in life and all who walk my path with me are there by divine design. Therefore, I trust that along this path, others will always be there for me, even when I cannot see them waiting for me. And, I open myself to be of service to those who may provide me the gift of empowerment. - Caroline Myss
The best way to know God is to love many things. - Vincent Van Gogh
I release into the universe my trust that my journey in life and all who walk my path with me are there by divine design. Therefore, I trust that along this path, others will always be there for me, even when I cannot see them waiting for me. And, I open myself to be of service to those who may provide me the gift of empowerment. - Caroline Myss
Friendship
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar. - Robert Brault
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar. - Robert Brault
Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say. - Unknown
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. - Unknown
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. - Marlene Dietrich
Good friends are like stars; You don't always see them, but you know they are always there. - Unknown
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. - Dale Carnegie
Failure
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. - George Edward Woodberry
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war. - Donald Trump
When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars. - Robert Brault
Try and fail, but don't fail to try. - Stephen Kaggwa
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. - Confucius
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better. - Wendell Phillips
Forgiveness
Forgiveness is the key to happiness. - A Course in Miracles
The choice to follow love through to its completion is the choice to seek completion within ourselves. The point at which we shut down on others is the point at which we shut down on life. We heal as we heal others, and we heal others by extending our perceptions past their weaknesses. Until we have seen someone's darkness, we don't really know who that person is. Until we have forgiven someone's darkness, we don't really know what love is. Forgiving others is the only way to forgive ourselves, and forgiveness is our greatest need. - Marianne Williamson
Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on. - Les Brown
Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were. - Cherie Carter-Scott
When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge. - Gerald Jampolsky
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. - Lewis B Smedes
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Happiness
We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, under him the whole time. Your treasure - your perfection - is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the busy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart. - Elizabeth GilbertNow and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. - Guillaume Apollinaire
Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have. - Doris Mortman
Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within. - Helen Keller
Happiness comes from within. It is not dependent on external things or on other people. You become vulnerable and can be easily hurt when your feels of security and happiness depend on the beahvior and actions of other people. Never give your power to anyone else. - Brian Weiss
No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make. - Dean Koontz
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If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge. Those are the three things the ego is doing all the time. It's very important to be aware of them every time they come up." - Deepak Chopra
Hope
I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains. - Anne FrankIf you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so, today, I still have a dream. - Dr Martin Luther King Jr.
My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here. - Jim Henson
While there's life, there's hope. - Cicero
Once you choose hope, anything's possible. - Christopher Reeve
Hope knows no fear.
Hope dares to blossom even inside the abysmal abyss.
Hope secretly feeds and strengthens promise. - Sri Chinmoy
Law of Attraction
Whatever you're thinking about is literally like planning a future event. When you're worrying, you are planning. When you are appreciating, you are planning. What are you planning? - Esther Abraham-Hicks
When we complain, our lives get worse. When we trust in the natural goodness around us, we open ourselves for the blessings of life to flow toward us. - John Assaraf
There's enough for everyone. If you believe it, if you can see it, if you act from it, it will show up for you. - Michael Beckwith
The universe is always mirroring back to us our beliefs about ourselves and the world. If we believe the world is a loving and friendly place, then most of the time that will be our experience. - Arielle Ford
Whatever you appreciate and give thanks for will increase in your life. - Sanaya Roman
Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful. - Norman Vincent Peale
A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things. - Plato
Abundance can be had by simply consciously receiving what has already been given. - Sufi Proverb
Trust that out of every situation, good will come. When you choose to believe that good will come out of every experience, you'll soon discover that perceived obstacles are really blessings in disguise. - Denise Marek
Recognize how you view others. If there's a pattern of seeing others as failures, you need to notice this pattern as evidence of what you're attracting into your life. - Dr Wayne Dyer
Life
Today is life -- the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto. - Dale Carnegie
Life is short, break the rules. Forgive quickly. Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably and never regret anything that makes you smile. - Mark Twain
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want. - Ben Stein
The past does not equal the future. All that matters is: What are you going to do, RIGHT NOW?? - Anthony Robbins
Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best. - Andrew Carnegie
Life is not fair; get used to it. - Bill Gates
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. - Dale Carnegie
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. - Norman Cousins
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. - Joseph Chilton Pearce
As you breathe in, cherish yourself. As you breathe out, cherish all beings. - Dalai Lama XIV
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. - Marie Curie
Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway. - Emory Austin
We rarely hear the inward music, but we're all dancing to it nevertheless. - Tao Te Ching
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it. - Charles Swindoll
Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. - Mary Tyler Moore
Love
Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable. - Dr Joyce Brothers
Be kind to yourself and others. Come from love every moment you can. - Dr Deepak Chopra
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Mindset
If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. - Henry Ford
We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do. - Dale Carnegie
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? - Robert H Schuller
It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not. - Unknown
I am in tune with my inner light and wisdom
I am guided always by love
I energetically share my light and wisdom with others
I am one with the Earth and stars
The guidance I receive is free from the limitations of time and space. - Tony Carmine Salerno
I can be changed by what happens to me but I refuse to be reduced by it. - Maya Angelou
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be. - Harvey Mackay
Success
Don't let the noise of others' opinion drown out your own inner voice. - Steve Jobs
Behind me is infinite power. Before me is endless possibility. Around me is boundless opportunity. Why should I fear. - The Nature of Success
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare. - Japanese Proverb
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. - Anatole France
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. - David Brinkley
Action is the foundational key to all success. - Pablo Picasso
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. - Bill Cosby
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. - Bill Cosby
Without passion you don't have energy, without energy you have nothing. - Donald Trump
A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others. - Chin-Ning Chu
Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. - Pamela Vaull Starr
Don't put any restrictions on your dreams. If you catch yourself saying, "That would be nice, but it's too much to ask for." Stop. Ask for it anyway! - Sanaya Roman
Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward. - Amar Gopal Bose
Remember that it is not where you come from, or not even where you are; it is where you are going that matters most. - Bo Bennett
If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. - Bruce Lee
Wisdom
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. - Goethe
To the question of your life you are the answer, and to the problems of your life you are the solution. - Joe Cordare
Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment. - Tao Te Ching
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. - Thich Nhat Hanh
Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark. - Zen Proverb
The burden of the self is lightened when I laugh at myself. - Rabindranath Tagore
Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it. - Buddha
If you can improve on silence, don't speak. - Zen quotes
If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will. - Abraham Lincoln
Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality. - Les Brown
Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up. - Jesse Jackson
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing. - Theodore Roosevelt
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. - Stephen Covey
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain. - Maya Angelou
An objection is not a rejection; it is simply a request for more information. - Bo Bennett
Nothing will work unless you do. - Maya Angelou
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. - Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. - Jim Rohn
To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity. - William Award
Have a strong mind and a soft heart. - Anthony D'Angelo
Things pass, and the best thing to do is to really let them go. - Paolo Coelho
Let go of your ego's need to be right. When you are in the middle of an argument, ask yourself: "Do I want to be right or be happy?" - Dr Wayne Dyer
People are motivated more by love and joy then anything else. - Henry H Mitchell
Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself. - Deborah Rebe
Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater. - Mary Morrissey
Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. - Aesop
We cannot change anything until we accept it. - Carl Jung
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as you own unguarded thoughts. - Buddha
By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear. - Gerge Herbet
If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one. - Cavett Robert
Do not mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly. - Buddha
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. - Erica Jong
Be curious, not judgmental. - Walt Whitman
There is only one sin; and that is theft -- when you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. - Khaled Hosseini
Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected. - Ghandi
A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. - Solomon
Never let a problem to be solved becomes more important than a person to be loved. - Barbara Johnson
Goodness in words creates trust, goodness in thinking creates depth, goodness in giving creates love. - Tao Te Ching
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently. - Warren Buffet
No mirror ever become iron again;
No bread ever become wheat;
No ripened grape ever become sour fruit.
Mature yourself and be secure from a change for the worse.
Become the light. - Tao Te Ching
I prayed for change, so I changed my mind.
I prayed for guidance and learned to trust myself.
I prayed for happiness and realized I am not my ego.
I prayed for peace and learned to accept others unconditionally.
I prayed for abundance and realized my doubt kept it out.
I prayed for wealth and realized it is my health.
I prayed for a miracle and realized I am the miracle.
I prayed for a soul mate and realized I am the one.
I prayed for love and realized it's always knocking, but I have to allow it in.
- Jackson Kiddard
Don't undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others,
It is because we are different that each of us is special.
Don't set your goals by what other people deem important,
Only you know what is best for you.
Don't take for granted the things closest to your heart;
Cling to that as you would your life, for without them life is meaningless.
Don't let your life slip through your fingers by living in the past or the future;
By living your life one day at a time, you live all the days of your life.
Don't give up when you still have something to give;
Nothing is really over ... until the moment you stop trying.
Don't be afraid to admit that you are less than perfect;
It is the fragile thread that binds us to each other.
Don't be afraid to encounter risks;
It is by taking chances that we learn how to be brave.
Don't shut love out of your life by saying it's impossible to find;
The quickest way to receive love is to give love.
The fastest way to lose love is to hold on too tightly;
and the best way to keep love is to give it wings.
Don't dismiss your dreams;
To be without dreams is to be without hope;
To be without hope is to be without purpose.
Don't run through life so fast that you forget where you've been,
But also know where you're going.
Life is not a race but a journey to be savored every step of the way.
(Author Unknown)
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