Amazing Quotes on Gratitude

Amazing Gratitude Inspirational Quotes And Quotations

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?"
~William A. Ward


The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving.
~H.U. Westermayer

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.
~ Wayne Dyer

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
~ Marcel Proust

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.
~Buddha

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. ~Cicero

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
~ John F Kennedy

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person.
Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
~ Albert Schweitzer

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.
~ Melody Beattie

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
~G.B. Stern



If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice.
~Meister Eckhart


There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.
~Robert Brault,

Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
~Jean Baptiste Massieu, translated from French


When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
~G.K. Chesterton


The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you. ~John E. Southard


Gratitude is an art of painting an adversity into a lovely picture.
~Kak Sri


If you have lived, take thankfully the past.
~John Dryden


As each day comes to us refreshed and anew, so does my gratitude renew itself daily. The breaking of the sun over the horizon is my grateful heart dawning upon a blessed world. ~Terri Guillemets


I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. ~G.K. Chesterton


You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.
~G.K. Chesterton


For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson


If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get. ~Frank A. Clark


The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
~Henry Ward Beecher


Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live.
~Attributed to Jacqueline Winspear



Praise the bridge that carried you over.
~George Colman


If you count all your assets, you always show a profit.
~Robert Quillen


He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
~Epictetus


What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.
~Bertolt Brecht, Jungle of Cities, 1924


Gratitude is the best attitude.
~Author Unknown


Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.
~W.T. Purkiser


We thank Thee, O Father of all, for... all the soul-help that sad souls understand.
~Will Carleton


We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. ~Thornton Wilder


Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
~William Faulkner


If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily.
~Gerald Good


Gratitude is the least of the virtues, but ingratitude is the worst of vices.
~Thomas Fuller


There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance.
~Joseph Addison


Gratitude is the music of the heart, when its chords are swept by the breeze of kindness. ~Author Unknown


I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.
~Benjamin Disraeli


There is no greater difference between men than between grateful and ungrateful people.
~R.H. Blyth


Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.
~Henry Clay


Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.
~Estonian Proverb


All that we behold is full of blessings.
~William Wordsworth


Thou hast given so much to me,
Give one thing more, - a grateful heart;
Not thankful when it pleaseth me,
As if Thy blessings had spare days,
But such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.
~George Herbert


The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
~Eric Hoffer, Reflections On The Human Condition


Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
~Henry Ward Beecher


When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?
~George Canning


As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
~John Fitzgerald Kennedy


We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
~Cynthia Ozick


Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
~Horace


The grateful person, being still the most severe exacter of himself, not only confesses, but proclaims, his debts.
~Robert South


Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld


Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
~Aldous Huxley


When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them.
~Chinese Proverb


Thanks are justly due for boons unbought.
~Ovid


In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
~H.L. Mencken


Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
~William Arthur Ward


Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel.
~Author Unknown

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Amazing Love Quotes

The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


An old man in love is like a flower in winter. ~Portuguese Proverb


Will you love me in December as you do in May,
Will you love me in the good old fashioned way?
When my hair has all turned gray,
Will you kiss me then and say,
That you love me in December as you do in May?
~James J. Walker


Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane. ~Honoré de Balzac


Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear: it is there most pure, perfect, and unlimited where its votaries live in confidence, equality and unreserve. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley


Love is the poetry of the senses. ~Honoré de Balzac

It would be impossible to "love" anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object. ~Paul Valéry, Tel quel, 1943


The love game is never called off on account of darkness. ~Tom Masson


They who meet on an April night are forever lost in love, if there's moonlight all about and there's no moon above. ~E.Y. "Yip" Harburg and Fred Saidy, dialogue just before the song "Old Devil Moon" in the musical Finian's Rainbow (Thanks, Katherine!)


Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence. ~David Byrne


Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. ~Robert Frost


You know you're in love when you don't want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. ~Dr. Seuss


Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. ~Zora Neale Hurston


Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. ~Emily Brontë


Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds. ~William Shakespeare, "Sonnet CXVI"


He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began. ~Leo Tolstoy


It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken. ~Marguerite de Valois


You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from. ~Werner Erhard


Sometimes the shortest distance between two points is a winding path walked arm in arm. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Love me and the world is mine. ~David Reed

Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving. ~Kahlil Gibran


Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you'll take him anyway. ~Judith Viorst, Redbook, 1975


Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. ~W. Somerset Maugham, A Writer's Notebook, 1949


Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantière


When love is not madness, it is not love. ~Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke. ~Lynda Barry


Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless who know love's tragedies. ~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891


Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all of the time, made new. ~Ursula K. LeGuin


Love is not singular except in syllable. ~Marvin Taylor


Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old. ~John Ciardi


People who are sensible about love are incapable of it. ~Douglas Yates


Love never reasons but profusely gives; gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, and trembles lest it has done too little. ~Hannah More (Thanks, Steven)


The past is behind us, love is in front and all around us. ~Terri Guillemets


Ah me! why may not love and life be one? ~Henry Timrod


Take away love and our earth is a tomb. ~Robert Browning

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. ~Mother Teresa


Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. ~Albert Einstein


There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved. It is God's finger on man's shoulder. ~Charles Morgan


You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. ~Jonathan Carroll, "Outside the Dog Museum"


Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs. ~Ovid


Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. ~Eric Fromm


Love is no respecter of age or practicality
Neither morality: unabashed
She enters where she will
Unheeding that her immortal fires
Burn up human hearts...
~Phillip Pulfrey, from Beyond Me, www.originals.net


Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses. ~Lord Dewar


When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks. ~Natalie Clifford Barney


Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict. ~Rabindranath Tagore


It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves. ~John Bulwer



'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come. ~Lord Byron


A hundred hearts would be too few
To carry all my love for you.
~Author Unknown


Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots. ~Author unknown, as printed in The Hoosier Farmer

When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage. ~Bill Balance


Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. ~Rose Franken


Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat. ~Ben Hecht


A bell is no bell 'til you ring it,
A song is no song 'til you sing it,
And love in your heart
Wasn’t put there to stay -
Love isn’t love
'Til you give it away.
~Oscar Hammerstein, Sound of Music, "You Are Sixteen (Reprise)"
(Thanks, Krystel)


Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. ~Swedish Proverb


Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. ~Henry Van Dyke


Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. ~Judith Viorst, Redbook, 1975


Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place. ~Ice T, The Ice Opinion, quoted in Reader's Digest, "Quotable Quotes," February 2002


Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages. ~Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past: Cities of the Plain, 1922


In springtime, love is carried on the breeze. Watch out for flying passion or kisses whizzing by your head. ~Terri Guillemets


The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. ~G.K. Chesterton


I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night. ~Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes


Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. ~George Bernard Shaw


The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence. ~Edward Thomas


[W]hen you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. ~Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally

Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Come live in my heart and pay no rent. ~Samuel Lover


Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece. ~Lisa Simpson, The Simpsons


If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus. ~Emma Goldman, The Tragedy of Women's Emancipation


I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art. ~Thomas Moore


Love isn't blind, it's retarded. ~Don Foster and Susan Beavers, Two and a Half Men


Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. ~Emma Goldman, Marriage and Love


Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. ~Miguel de Unamuno


If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. ~Michel de Montaigne


I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone. ~Javan


Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun. ~Armistead Maupin, Maybe the Moon (Thanks, David)


Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that men's behavior is measured with a feminine ruler. ~Francesca M. Cancian


What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you. ~Author Unknown


If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. ~Claudia Ghandi


Falling in love is so hard on the knees. ~Aerosmith


In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged. ~Hans Nouwens


Today's Multiple Choice Thought
There is no place where a loving touch so completely compensates for an unskilled hand as in:
a. the bedroom
b. the nursery
c. the garden
d. all of the above.
I guess, when you get down to it, a loving touch compensates for an unskilled hand about everywhere except in an airplane cockpit. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


It's so easy to fall in love but hard to find someone who will catch you. ~Author Unknown


When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. ~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray


Candle light, moon light, star light,
The brightest glow is from love light.
~Grey Livingston

Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. ~Kay Knudsen


Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another. ~Henry Louis Mencken


You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry. ~Author Unknown


Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts. ~Author Unknown


True love is when you put someone on a pedestal, and they fall - but you are there to catch them. ~Author Unknown


You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well. ~Author Unknown


Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart. ~Author Unknown


Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever. ~Author Unknown


Love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image... otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. ~Author Unknown


Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. ~Julins Gordon


To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world. ~Author Unknown


No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes


Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. ~William Shakespeare


While God waits for His temple to be built of love, men bring stones. ~Rabindranath Tagore


Love is metaphysical gravity. ~R. Buckminster Fuller


Love is my religion - I could die for it. ~John Keats


Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex. ~Dan Greenburg


Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion. ~Author Unknown


Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have. ~Author Unknown


If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? ~Author Unknown


Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart. ~Author Unknown



What the world really needs is more love and less paper work. ~Pearl Bailey


Love is when you can be your true self with someone, and you only want to be your true self because of them. ~Terri Guillemets


Once a man has won a woman's love, the love is his forever. He can only lose the woman. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures. ~Germaine Greer


We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. ~W. Somerset Maugham


We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love. ~Author Unknown


Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. ~Voltaire

All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. ~François, duc de La Rochefoucauld


Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


Love, and a cough, cannot be hid. ~George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, 1651


Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Poetry spills from the cracks of a broken heart, but flows from one which is loved. ~Christopher Paul Rubero


A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. ~Latin Proverb


The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Southern Mail, 1929, translated from French by Curtis Cate

Ah! a blessing beyond all fate
My sole mate 'tis my soul mate.
~Pixie Foudre


The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. ~Victor Hugo


Love is the greatest refreshment in life. ~Pablo Picasso


I was half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, 1945


Love means nothing in tennis, but it's everything in life. ~Author Unknown


I need the starshine of your heavenly eyes,
After the day's great sun.
~Charles Hanson Towne


A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be. ~Nicholas de Chamfort


Love is not consolation. It is light. ~Friedrich Nietzsche


True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. ~Erich Segal


Love is the greatest touch-up artist of all. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Loving is never a waste of time. ~Astrid Alauda


Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. ~Fyodor Dostoevski


True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self. ~William Butler Yeats


Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. ~Author Unknown


We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. ~Tom Robbins


The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. ~Margaret Atwood


You really shouldn't say "I love you" unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget. ~Author unknown, attributed to an 8-year-old named Jessica


Some say that true love is a mirage; seek it anyway, for all else is surely desert. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


So dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life. ~John Milton


Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold. ~Zelda Fitzgerald


Men love because they are afraid of themselves, afraid of the loneliness that lives in them, and need someone in whom they can lose themselves as smoke loses itself in the sky. ~V.F. Calverton


Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too. ~Author unknown, attributed to an 8-year-old named Greg


Lust fades, so you'd better be with someone who can stand you. ~Alan Zweibel and Jessie Nelson, The Story of Us


Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable. ~Bruce Lee


Life only starts when love comes. ~From the movie Bill of Divorcement, 1932


Tell me how many beads there are
In a silver chain
Of evening rain,
Unravelled from the tumbling main,
And threading the eye of a yellow star: -
So many times do I love again.
~Thomas Lovell Beddoes


A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy. ~George Jean Nathan


Love makes time pass; time makes love pass. ~French Proverb


True love stories never have endings. ~Richard Bach (Thanks, Bonnie)


It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


When you're attracted to someone it just means that your subconscious is attracted to their subconscious, subconsciously, so what we know as fate is two neuroses knowing that they're a perfect match. ~Jeff Arch, Nora Ephron, and David S. Ward, Sleepless in Seattle


Platonic love is love from the neck up. ~Thyra Smater Winsolow




Love does not care to define and is never in a hurry to do so. ~Charles du Bos


I love you like crazy, baby
'Cuz I'd go crazy without you.
~Pixie Foudre


What "love" is I don't know if it's not the response of our deepest natures to one another. ~William Carlos Williams


I learned the real meaning of love. Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on certain people, you can set your watch by them. And that's love, even if it doesn't seem very exciting. ~Sylvester Stallone


Ah, lady, when I gave my heart to thee,
It passed into thy lifelong regency.
~Gilbert Parker


The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of. ~Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1670


At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. ~Plato


As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. ~William Shakespeare

Love is what you've been through with somebody. ~James Thurber, quoted in Life magazine, 1960


Love is being stupid together. ~Paul Valery


In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love. ~Charles Baudelaire


Open your heart and take us in,
Love - love and me.
~W.E. Henley


On a cloudy night, when nothing seems above, still, there is love. Always love. For something, from someone. It's never done. Never. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com


Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times. ~Rita Rudner

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Best Of Warren Buffet

Warren Buffett Quotes On Investing

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  ‘Never invest in a business you cannot understand.’




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  ‘Always invest for the long term.’




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  ‘Buy a business, don’t rent stocks.’




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  ‘Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.’




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  ‘I really like my life. I’ve arranged my life so that I can do what I want.’




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  ‘We will only do with your money what we would do with our own.’




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  ‘If you don’t feel comfortable owning something for 10 years, then don’t own it for 10 minutes.’




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  ‘I am a better investor because I am a businessman and a better businessman because I am an investor.’




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  ‘Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.’




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  ‘The Stock Market is designed to transfer money from the Active to the Patient.’




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  ‘Stop trying to predict the direction of the stock market, the economy, interest rates, or elections.’




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  ‘I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for ten years.’




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  ‘I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.’




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  "For some reason, people take their cues from price action rather than from values. What doesn’t work is when you start doing things that you don’t understand or because they worked last week for somebody else. The dumbest reason in the world to buy a stock is because it’s going up.’




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  ‘We don’t get paid for activity, just for being right. As to how long we will wait, we’ll wait indefinitely.’




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  ‘As Buffet said in the speech, “He’s not looking at quarterly earnings projections, he’s not looking at next year’s earnings, he’s not thinking about what day of the week it is, he doesn’t care what investment research from any place says, he’s not interested in price momentum, volume or anything. He’s simply asking: What is the business worth?’




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  ‘Buy companies with strong histories of profitability and with a dominant business franchise.’




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  ‘Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is. The time to get interested is when no one else is. You can’t buy what is popular and do well.’




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  When asked how he became so successful in investing, Buffett answered: ‘we read hundreds and hundreds of annual reports every year.’




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  ‘When a management team with a reputation for brilliance joins a business with poor fundamental economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.’




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  “Only those who will be sellers of equities in the near future should be happy at seeing stocks rise. Prospective purchasers should much prefer sinking prices.”




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  ‘Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes very little sense for those who know what they’re doing.’




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  ‘Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.’




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  ‘You’re neither right nor wrong because other people agree with you. You’re right because your facts are right and your reasoning is right – that’s the only thing that makes you right. And if your facts and reasoning are right, you don’t have to worry about anybody else.’




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  ‘It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.’




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  ‘The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.’




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  ‘Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.’




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  ‘I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful.’




• 
  
  ‘Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, ‘Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.’




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  ‘Our favorite holding period is forever.’




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  ‘Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.’




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  ‘Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.’




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  ‘Unless you can watch your stock holding decline by 50% without becoming panic-stricken, you should not be in the stock market.’




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  ‘The critical investment factor is determining the intrinsic value of a business and paying a fair or bargain price.’




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  ‘Investors making purchases in an overheated market need to recognize that it may often take an extended period for the value of even an outstanding company to catch up with the price they paid.’




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  ‘Risk can be greatly reduced by concentrating on only a few holdings.’




• 
  
  ‘It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.’




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  ‘An investor should ordinarily hold a small piece of an outstanding business with the same tenacity that an owner would exhibit if he owned all of that business.’




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  ‘Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.’




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  ‘In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.’




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  ‘If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.’




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  ‘Cash never makes us happy, but it’s better to have the money burning a hole in Berkshire’s pocket than resting comfortably in someone else’s.’




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  ‘A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.’




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  ‘I never buy anything unless I can fill out on a piece of paper my reasons. I may be wrong, but I would know the answer to that. “I’m paying $32 billion today for the Coca Cola Company because.” If you can’t answer that question, you shouldn’t buy it. If you can answer that question, and you do it a few times, you’ll make a lot of money.’




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  ‘The investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth.’




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  ‘You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.’




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  ‘It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.’




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  ‘You ought to be able to explain why you’re taking the job you’re taking, why you’re making the investment you’re making, or whatever it may be. And if it can’t stand applying pencil to paper, you’d better think it through some more. And if you can’t write an intelligent answer to those questions, don’t do it.’




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  ‘Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.’




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  ‘An investor needs to do very few things right as long as he or she avoids big mistakes.’




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  ‘Do a lot of reading’ (On how to determine the value of a business)




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  ‘Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.’




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  ‘The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable.’




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  ‘You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.’




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  ‘Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.’




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  ‘I do not like debt and do not like to invest in companies that have too much debt, particularly long-term debt. With long-term debt, increases in interest rates can drastically affect company profits and make future cash flows less predictable.’




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  ‘We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet.’




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  ‘I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute.’




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  ‘Turnarounds seldom turn.’




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  ‘If at first you do succeed, quit trying on investing.’




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  ‘I don’t measure my life by the money I’ve made. Other people might, but certainly don’t.’

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  ‘Anything can happen in stock markets and you ought to conduct your affairs so that if the most extraordinary events happen, that you’re still around to play the next day.’




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  ‘You shouldn’t own common stocks if a 50 per cent decrease in their value in a short period of time would cause you acute distress.’




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  ‘With few exceptions when a manager with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for poor economics, it is the reputation of the business which remains intact.’




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  ‘The business schools reward complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.’




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  ‘It’s not debt per say that overwhelms an individual corporation or country. Rather it is a continuous increase in debt in relation to income that causes trouble.’




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  ‘A great investment opportunity occurs when a marvelous business encounters a one-time huge, but solvable problem.’




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  ‘You do not adequately protect yourself by being half awake when other are sleeping.’
  ‘We like to buy businesses, but we don’t like to sell them.’




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  ‘Money to some extent sometimes let you be in more interesting environments. But it can’t change how many people love you or how healthy you are.’




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  ‘It’s us fun being a gorse when the tractor comes along, or the blacksmith when the car comes along.’




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  ‘Enjoy your work and work for whom you admire.’




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  ‘With enough insider information and a million dollars, you can go broke in a year.’




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  ‘Read Ben Graham and Phil Fisher read annual reports, but don’t do equations with Greek letters in them.’




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  ‘In a commodity business, it’s very hard to be smarter than your dumbest competitor.’




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  ‘A hyperactive stock market is the pickpocket of enterprise.’




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  ‘Valuing a business is part art and part science.’




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  ‘Chains of habits are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.’ Lovely Thoughts for Lovely People Just Like You

It is with our passions as it is with fire and water

Irrigators lead the waters.

Fletchers bend the shafts.

Carpenters bend wood.

The virtuous control themselves.
Dhammapada

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With the conquest of my mind,

I have conquered the whole world.

Adi Granth, Japuji

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Fight with yourself;

why fight with external foes?
He who overcomes himself through himself
will obtain happiness...
Difficult to overcome is oneself;

but when that is overcome,

everything is conquered.
Uttaradhyayana Sutra

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If passion drives you,

let reason hold the reins.
Benjamin Franklin

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Love is often gentle,
desire always a rage.
Mignon McLaughlin

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It is with our passions as it is with fire and water;
they are good servants, but bad masters.
Roger L'Estrange,
Aesop's Fables

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Amazing Quotes Wisdom and Inspirational Quotes Some of The Best

• It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.
  —Albert Einstein


• Eighty percent of success is showing up.
  —Woody Allen


• I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
  —Wilson Mizner


• The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge.
  —Daniel J. Boorstin


• The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
  —William Arthur Ward


• If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake.
  —Frank Wilczek


• You can never get enough of what you don’t really need.
  —Eric Hoffer


• Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
  —Albert Einstein


• Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.
  —Alfred A. Montapert


• I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
  —Bill Cosby


• Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
  —Spanish Proverb


• Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
  —Oscar Wilde


• There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem.
  —Harold Stephens


• It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.
  —Alfred Adler


• I hear: I forget / I see: I remember / I do: I understand
  —Chinese Proverb


• Discipline is just choosing between what you want now and what you want most.
  —Unknown Author


• The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.
  —Wallace Wattles


• Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
  —Barry LePatner


• When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
  —Abraham Lincoln


• Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
  —Winston Churchill

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You Learn

“After a while you learn the subtle difference
Between holding a hand and chaining a soul,

And you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning
And company doesn’t mean security.

And you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts
And presents aren’t promises,

And you begin to accept your defeats
With your head up and your eyes open
With the grace of a woman, not the grief of a child,

And you learn to build all your roads on today
Because tomorrow’s ground is too uncertain for plans
And futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight.

After a while you learn…
That even sunshine burns if you get too much.

So you plant your garden and decorate your own soul,
Instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

And you learn that you really can endure…

That you really are strong

And you really do have worth…

And you learn and learn…

With every good-bye you learn.”Lovely Thoughts for Lovely People Just Like You

Everything is Perfect

"When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky”
Buddha

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Act with God

Act with God in the greatest simplicity.

Speak to Him frankly and plainly.

Implore His assistance in your affairs just as they are happening:

He will never fail to grant it.

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Follow the wisdom provided by nature

For the one who is moderate in eating, recreation, working, sleeping, and waking, this yoga of meditation destroys all sorrow.

Bhagavad Gita 6.17

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Follow the wisdom provided by nature. Everything in moderation - sunlight, water, nutrients. Too much of a good thing will topple your structure. You can't harvest what you don't sow. So plant your desires, gently nurture them, and they will be rewarded with abundance.

Vivian E Glyck

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Moderation is the only rule of a healthful life. This means moderation in all things wholesome.

Herbert M Shelton

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A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.

Donald Trump

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Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavour of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks.

Robert A Heinlein

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The source of a true smile is an awakened mind

Let us live happily, without hate amongst those who hate.

Let us dwell not hating amidst hateful men.

Let us live happily, in good health amongst those who are sick.

Let us dwell in good health amidst ailing men.

Let us live happily, without yearning for sensual pleasures amongst those who yearn for them. Let us dwell without yearning amidst those who yearn.

Dhammapada 197-200

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Thou dost show me the path of life; in Thy presence there is fullness of joy, in Thy right hand are pleasures for evermore.

Bible, Psalm 16.11

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Your days are your life in miniature. As you live your days you create your hours, so you create your years, as you live your days, so you craft your life.

Robin Sharma

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If in our daily lives we can smile,

if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we,

but everyone will profit from it.

The source of a true smile is an awakened mind.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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Take Good Care Of Time

Take good care of time, how you spend it, for nothing is more precious than time. In one little moment, short as it is, heaven may be won or lost.

The Cloud of Unknowing

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Time management is life management.
Robin Sharma

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The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Rabindranath Tagore

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Time is equal to life; therefore, waste your time and waste your life, or master your time and master your life.

Alan Lakein

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Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savoured.

Earl Nightingale

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Know the true value of time; snatch, seize and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Earl of Chesterfield

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Intelligence is impartial

He who is the same to friend and foe...

that man is dear to Me.

Bhagavad Gita 12:15-19
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There is no enemy out of your soul.

The real enemies live inside yourself,

they are anger, proud, cussedness, greed, attachments and hate...

It is better to win over self than to win
over a million enemies.

Mahavira
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No one is my enemy,
nor is anyone a stranger to me;

I am a friend of all.

Guru Arjan De
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An insincere friend is more to be feared than a wild beast;

a wild beast may wound your body, but an insincere friend
will wound your mind.

Gautama Buddha
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Keep your friends close... and your enemies closer.
Sun Tzu

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Intelligence is impartial;

no man is your enemy, no man is your friend.

All alike are your teachers.

Mabel Collins

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I Have Learned

I’ve learned that you cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up to them.

I’ve learned that no matter how much I care, some people just don’t care back.

I’ve learned that it takes years to build up trust, and only seconds to destroy it.

I’ve learned that no matter how good a friend is, they’re going to hurt you every once in a while and you must forgive them for that.

I’ve learned that it’s not what you have in your life but who you have in your life that counts.

I’ve learned that you should never ruin an apology with an excuse.

I’ve learned that you can get by on charm for about fifteen minutes. After that, you’d better know something.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t compare yourself to the best others can do.

I’ve learned that you can do something in an instant that will give you heartache for life.

I’ve learned that it’s taking me a long time to become the person I want to be.

I’ve learned that you should always leave loved ones with loving words. It may be the last time you see them.

I’ve learned that you can keep going long after you can’t.

I’ve learned that we are responsible for what we do, no matter how we feel.

I’ve learned that either you control your attitude or it controls you.

I’ve learned that regardless of how hot and steamy a relationship is at first, the passion fades and there had better be something else to take its place.

I’ve learned that heroes are the people who do what has to be done when it needs to be done, regardless of the consequences.

I’ve learned that money is a lousy way of keeping score.

I’ve learned that my best friend and I can do anything or nothing and have the best time.

I’ve learned that sometimes the people you expect to kick you when you’re down will be the ones to help you get back up.

I’ve learned that sometimes when I’m angry I have the right to be angry, but that doesn’t give me the right to be cruel.

I’ve learned that true friendship continues to grow, even over the longest distance. Same goes for true love.

I’ve learned that just because someone doesn’t love you the way you want them to doesn’t mean they don’t love you with all they have.

I’ve learned that maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you’ve had and what you’ve learned from them and less to do with how many birthdays you’ve celebrated.

I’ve learned that you should never tell a child their dreams are unlikely or outlandish. Few things are more humiliating, and what a tragedy it would be if they believed it.

I’ve learned that your family won’t always be there for you. It may seem funny, but people you aren’t related to can take care of you and love you and teach you to trust people again. Families aren’t biological.

I’ve learned that it isn’t always enough to be forgiven by others. Sometimes you are to learn to forgive yourself.

I’ve learned that no matter how bad your heart is broken the world doesn’t stop for your grief.

I’ve learned that our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we are responsible for who we become.

I’ve learned that a rich person is not the one who has the most, but is one who needs the least.

I’ve learned that just because two people argue, it doesn’t mean they don’t love each other. And just because they don’t argue, it doesn’t mean they do.

I’ve learned that we don’t have to change friends if we understand that friends change.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t be so eager to find out a secret. It could change your life forever.

I’ve learned that two people can look at the exact same thing and see something totally different.

I’ve learned that no matter how you try to protect your children, they will eventually get hurt and you will hurt in the process.

I’ve learned that even when you think you have no more to give, when a friend cries out to you, you will find the strength to help.

I’ve learned that credentials on the wall do not make you a decent human being.

I’ve learned that the people you care about most in life are taken from you too soon.

I’ve learned that it’s hard to determine where to draw the line between being nice and not hurting people’s feelings, and standing up for what you believe.

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, and people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

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Past Present Future

Do not dwell in the past, do not dwell in the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Gautama Buddha

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There is neither past nor future. There is only the present. Yesterday was the present to you when you experienced it, and tomorrow will be also the present when you experience it.

Ramana Maharshi

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We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

Chanakya

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Swami Vivekananda

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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

Henry D Thoreau

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Peace for One And Peace For All

Peace be to earth and to airy spaces!
Peace be to heaven, peace to the waters,
peace to the plants and peace to the trees!

Atharva Veda

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Real peace of mind has no ups and downs; it cannot be partial in adversity and whole in prosperity.

Sri Sathya Sai Baba

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Pleasure and pain are the two kinds of modifications of the mind. They are relative terms. That which gives pleasure to one man gives pain to another. That sage who identifies himself with the imperishable Self and stands as a spectator of the mental modifications enjoys supreme peace and infinite bliss.

Swami Sivananda

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If a man sings of God and hears of Him,/ And lets love of God sprout within him/ All his sorrows shall vanish,/ And in his mind, God will bestow abiding peace.

Adi Granth

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All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.

Eckhart Tolle

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When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.

George Harrison

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You may never know what results come of your actions

The awakened sages call a person wise when all his undertakings are free from anxiety about results; all his selfish desires have been consumed in the fire of knowledge. The wise, ever satisfied, have abandoned all external supports. Their security is unaffected by the results of their action; even while acting, they really do nothing at all. Stay free from expectations and from all sense of possession, with mind and body firmly controlled by the Self.

Bhagavad Gita 4.19-21

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When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves or some immediate convenience. When we are able to recognise and forgive ignorant actions of the past, we gain strength to constructively solve the problems of the present.

The XIV Dalai Lama

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You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.

M K Gandhi

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What do you want to achieve or avoid? The answers to this question are objectives. How will you go about achieving your desired results? The answer to this you can call strategy.

William Rothschild

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