Quotes on Life

Quotes on Life © rebecca-lily “The consequences of today are determined by the actions of the past. To change your future, alter your decisions today.” ~ Anonymous “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” – Albert Einstein “And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln “When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” – Alexander Graham Bell “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most importantly, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” - Steve Jobs “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience” – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin “We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.” – T. S. Eliot “There’s no next time. It’s now or never.” – Celestine Chua “For every effect there is a root cause. Find and address the root cause rather than try to fix the effect, as there is no end to the latter.” - Celestine Chua “When you don’t get what you want, you suffer. If you get it, you suffer too since you can’t hold on to it forever.” – Peaceful Warrior, on the fallacy of attachment “Every moment you get is a gift. Spend it on things that matter. Don’t spend it by dwelling on unhappy things.” - Celestine Chua “There are no ordinary moments. There is always something going on.” – Peaceful Warrior “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Everything around us is made up of energy. To attract positive things in your life, start by giving off positive energy. “Don’t put off living to next week, next month, next year or next decade. The only time you’re ever living is in this moment.” - Celestine Chua Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. – Mark Twain

“Life is a gift. Never forget to enjoy and bask in every moment you are in.” - Celestine Chua “The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.” – Art Van Der Leeuw “My life is my message.” – Gandhi “If wrinkles must be written upon our brow, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.” – James A. Garfield “Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.” ~ Anonymous “In the beginning you will fall into the gaps in between thoughts – after practicing for years, you become the gap.” – J.Kleykamp (Regarding meditation) “Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.” ~ Jim Rohn #Go back to top Quotes on Purpose Image © “Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life… Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated. Thus, everyone’s task is as unique as is his specific opportunity to implement it.” – Viktor Frankl “Your work is to discover your work and then, with all your heart, to give yourself to it.” – Buddha “One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.” – John Stuart Mill “Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.” ~ Victor Frankl “Make your life a mission – not an intermission” ~ Unknown “Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you’re alive, it isn’t.” ~ Richard Bach #Go back to top

Quotes on Past, Present and Future

“Don’t let the past steal your present” – Cherralea Morgen

“One has to live in the present. Whatever is past is gone beyond recall; whatever is future remains beyond one’s reach, until it becomes present. Remembering the past and giving thought to the future are important, but only to the extent that they help one deal with the present.” – S.N. Goenka “It doesn’t matter where you are, you are nowhere compared to where you can go.” ~ Bob Proctor “We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.” – Robin Sharma The more you take responsibility for your past and present, the more you are able to create the future you seek. “Be present – it is the only moment that matters.” Peaceful Warrior “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present.” – B. Olatunji “Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.” ~ Ann Landers “Holding on to anything is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate. The only way to get anything in the physical universe is by letting go of it. Let go & it will be yours forever”. – Deepak Chopra “Don’t put off living to next week, next month, next year or next decade. The only time you’re ever living is in this moment.” – Celestine Chua “There’s no next time. It’s now or never.” - Celestine Chua “One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.” – Dale Carnegie “Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.” – Doug Ivester “Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.” ~ Albert Einstein “To create more positive results in your life, replace ‘if only’ with ‘next time’.” “We think about all of our tomorrows, but we don’t know how many they are, so let’s start making the most of our Todays!” ~ Ivana Trump “The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.” ~ Herbert Spencer “What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now.” – Buddha “Everyone faces challenges in life. It’s a matter of how you learn to overcome them and use them to your advantage.” Celestine Chua #Go back to top

Quotes on Dreams and Passion

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot “If what you’re doing is not your passion, you have nothing to lose.” – Celestine Chua “At first dreams seem impossible, then improbable, then inevitable.” – Christopher Reeve “Remembering you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.” ~ Steve Jobs. “Do what you love and the money will follow.” – Marsha Sinetar “The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.” – Richard Bach “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who are alive.” – Howard Thurman “All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.” – Henry David Thoreau “No matter where you are in life right now, no matter who you are, no matter how old you are – it is never too late to be who you are meant to be.” – Esther & Jerry Hicks “There’s nothing capricious in nature, and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feels it.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson “Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.” – Belva Davis “I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.” ~ Tony Robbins Image © “The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson “Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.” – Les Brown “Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul.” – Niccolo Machiavelli “No dreamer is ever too small; no dream is ever too big.” – Anonymous “Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.” – Doug Ivester “You got a dream, you gotta protect it. People can’t do something themselves, they wanna tell you you can’t do it. If you want something, go get it. Period.” – Pursuit of Happyness (Movie)

“History shows us that the people who end up changing the world – the great political, social, scientific, technological, artistic, even sports revolutionaries – are always nuts, until they are right, and then they are geniuses.” – John Eliot “You will not do incredible things without an incredible dream.” – John Eliot “Instead of thinking about what you are going to do when you retire, think about how you can do that now and make a living from it.”

“Don’t be pushed by your problems; be led by your dreams.” “Everything you want should be yours: the type of work you want; the relationships you need; the social, mental, and aesthetic stimulation that will make you happy and fulfilled; the money you require for the lifestyle that is appropriate to you; and any requirement that you may (or may not) have for achievement or service to others. If you don’t aim for it all, you’ll never get it all. To aim for it requires that you know what you want” ~ Richard Koch “I am not my memories. I am my dreams.” ~ Terry Hostetler “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – Les Brown “Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.” ~ Albert Einstein “Every second you spend thinking about someone else’s dreams you take time away from your own.” – Yogi Ramen “What the mind can conceive, it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill “20 years from now you will be disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the one’s you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover” ~ Mark Twain #Go back to top Quotes on Goals Image © “In life, as in football, you won’t go far unless you know where the goalposts are.” – Arnold H. Glasgow “When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.” – Greg Anderson “The most important thing about goals is having one.” – Geoffry F. Abert “The only reason we don’t have what we want in life is the reasons we create why we can’t have them.” ~Tony Robbins

“The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.” – Bill Copeland “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” – Jim Rohn “Everything is always created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.” “You need a plan to build a house. To build a life, it is even more important to have a plan or goal.” – Zig Ziglar “The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.” ~ Benjamin Mays “People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.” “A goal is a dream with a deadline.” Napolean Hill #Go back to top Quotes on Hard Work I don’t believe in luck. Luck = Leaving things to chance and outside world. I believe in being harbingers of our fate, taking action and creating our own path and destiny in life. Your life is yours to create – Don’t let others do it for you. “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.”~ Colin Powell “The harder I work, the luckier I get.” – Gary Player Success is 99% attitude and 1% aptitude. “It is your attitude, not your aptitude, that determines your altitude.” – Zig Ziglar #Go back to top Quotes on Change

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” – Barack Obama “All great changes are preceded by chaos.” ~ Deepak Chopra “Change is not pleasant, But change is constant. Only when we change and grow, We’ll see a world we never know.” ~From Wisdom of The Orange Woodpecker

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you. ~ Sri Ram “Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” – Jim Rohn #Go back to top Quotes on Truth and Honesty “The greatest advantage of speaking the truth is that you don’t have to remember what you said.” “Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.” #Go back to top Quotes on Imagination and Creativity “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” ~ Albert Einstein. “Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.” ~ Albert Einstein “All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” ~ Pablo Picasso “Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes on Taking Action

© jurvetson “Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso “Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” – Jim Rohn “Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow.” – Doug Firebaugh “By changing nothing, nothing changes.” “Problems remain as problems because people are busy defending them rather than finding solutions. Stop wasting time defending your problems and work on addressing them instead.” “It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.” ~ Vaclav Havel “The secret of life isn’t what happens to you, but what you do with what happens to you.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale “We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.” – Stevie Wonder “As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say, I just watch what they do.” ~ Andrew Carnegie

“Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.” ~ Walter Anderson “It’s not what you’ve got; it’s what you do that makes the difference.” “If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.” ~ Nora Roberts “If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.” ~ Tony Robbins “Don’t get bogged down with all the details of how it’s going to come together. Just do the dishes. And watch the momentum build.” – Brian J “The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today’s work extremely well!” “The secret of getting ahead is getting started” – Mark Twain “The person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein “When nothing you do matters, the only thing that matters is what you do.” – Angel

“The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” —Will Rogers “There is no starting or stopping. Only doing.” – Peaceful Warrior “If you try, you might get exactly what you want. If you don’t, you don’t.” – Unknown You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it. – Paulo Coelho Unless you choose to take action on what you want, nothing is ever going to come out of it.” – Esther & Jerry Hicks “If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.” – Anthony J. D’Angelo “Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.” ~ Marcia Wieder “Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”~ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “Do or do not. There is no try.” – Yoda “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tze

I don’t believe in luck. Luck = Leaving things to chance and outside world. I believe in being harbingers of our fate, taking action and creating our own path and destiny in life. Your life is yours to create – Don’t let others do it for you. #Go back to top Quotes on Planning

Image © “He who fails to plan, plans to fail.” “Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.” – A. A. Milne “You need a plan to build a house. To build a life, it is even more important to have a plan or goal.” – Zig Ziglar “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” – Jim Rohn “Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul.” – Niccolo Machiavelli #Go back to top Quotes on Persistence

“The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time.” – Joe Girard “The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” – Mark Twain “The greater danger lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” – Michelangelo “The major difference between the big shot and the little shot is the big shot is just a little shot who kept on shooting.” – Zig Ziglar “When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt “The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place and I don’t care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard ya hit. It’s about how hard you can get it and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done! Now if you know what you’re worth then go out and get what you’re worth. But ya gotta be willing to take the

hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody! Cowards do that and that ain’t you! You’re better than that!” – Rocky Balboa “We are made to persist. That’s how we find out who we are.” -Tobias Wolff “Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius “Most of the important things in the world have been accompanied by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” – Dale Carnegie “Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” ~ Calvin Coolidge “If you get up one more time than you fall, you will make it through.” ~ Chinese Proverb #Go back to top Quotes on Time Management & Productivity

“Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back.” ~ Harvey MacKay “Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” – Life’s Little Instruction Book, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr. “I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.” ~ Henry David Thoreau “You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.” – Jim Rohn “Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things.” – Peter Drucker “Productivity = creating value and delivering it to people. All other busywork is unproductive fluff and should be minimized.” - Steve Pavlina “The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” – Stephen Covey “Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.” ~ Dale Carnegie “Ask yourself this question: ‘Will this matter a year from now?’” -Richard Carlson “It’s been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.” -Henry Ford #Go back to top Quotes on Wealth, Money & Finance

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“The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money.” ~ Unknown “Do what you love and the money will follow.” – Marsha Sinetar “Everything you want should be yours: the type of work you want; the relationships you need; the social, mental, and aesthetic stimulation that will make you happy and fulfilled; the money you require for the lifestyle that is appropriate to you; and any requirement that you may (or may not) have for achievement or service to others. If you don’t aim for it all, you’ll never get it all. To aim for it requires that you know what you want.” ~ Richard Koch “Becoming rich isn’t as much about getting rich financially as about whom you become, in character and mind, to get rich.” ~ T. Harv Eker #Go back to top Quotes on Happiness & Emotional Mastery

“Dance as though no one is watching you. Love as though you have never been hurt before. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth.” ~Souza “Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.” ~ Benjamin Franklin “I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.” ~ Oprah Winfrey “Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.” – Buddha “Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a method of traveling.” ~Margaret Runbeck “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson “Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.” ~ Mildred Barthel “If things depress you, it’s because you allow yourself to be affected by it. Results are results; Our emotions are our emotions. People draw attachment to outcomes and situations which affect their emotional state. Every situation there is always something to be learned, and if we are able to take away the important lessons, we will eventually achieve what we set out to do.”

“People think about what they don’t want and attract more of the same.” “Worrying is the same thing as banging your head against the wall. It only feels good when you stop.” John Powers “Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.” Ralph Waldo Emerson “Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image © “When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson “To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.” – Lewis Smedes “Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.” – Buddha “Angels can fly because they take themselves so lightly.” ~G.K. Chesterton “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” -Lao Tzu “Discontent is the first necessity of progress.” -Thomas A. Edison “You don’t stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.” – Michael Pritchard “Whenever you see something you dislike, it represents something you are repelling inside of you.” “To create more positive results in your life, replace “if only” with “next time”.” No one can hurt you without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt “Rather than waste time and energy worrying, use that time and energy to constructively deal with whatever is causing the worry.” “When you are totally at peace with yourself, nothing can shake you.” ~ Deepam Chaterjee “The best vitamin to be a happy person is B1.” ~ Author Unknown “Happiness is an effect of doing what you love, not an end goal to be achieved.” “The more you extend kindness to yourself, the more it will become your automatic response to others.” – Wayne Dyer “Worrying is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but it gets you nowhere.” ~ Glenn Turner “Some of the greater things in life are unseen; that’s why you close your eyes when you kiss, cry, or dream” ~ Unknown

“Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.” #Go back to top Quotes on Love © dev null “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” -Albert Einstein. “To say I love you’ one must first be able to say the ‘I.’” – Ayn Rand (Day 20 of 30DLBL – Loving Yourself) “You, as much as anyone in the universe, deserve your love and respect.” – Buddha “One does not fall ‘in’ or ‘out’ of love. One grows in love.” – Leo Buscaglia “If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action.” – Leo Buscaglia “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller “There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.” – Martin Luther King, Jr “Your task is not to seek for love but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it” – Rumi “The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.” – Henry Miller “It’s the little things done consistently over time, straight from your heart, that actually have the greatest impact.” “What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.”