Quotes from around the World – Compiled and sent by Oscar E V Fernando
To be more childlike, you don’t have to give up being an adult. The fully integrated person is capable of being both an adult and a child simultaneously. Recapture the childlike feelings of wide-eyed excitement, spontaneous appreciation, cutting loose, and being full of awe and wonder at this magnificent universe.
My Cup Has Overflowed
I’ve never made a fortune, and it’s probably too late now.
But I don’t worry about that much, I’m happy anyhow
And as I go along life’s way,
I’m reaping better than I sowed.
I’m drinking from my saucer,
Cause my cup has overflowed.
Haven’t got a lot of riches,
and sometimes the going’s tough
But I’ve got loving ones all around me,
and that makes me rich enough.
I thank God for his blessings,
and the mercies He’s bestowed.
I’m drinking from my saucer,
Cause my cup has overflowed.
I remember times when things went wrong,
My faith wore somewhat thin.
But all at once the dark clouds broke,
and the sun peeped through again.
So Lord, help me not to gripe,
about the tough rows I have hoed.
I’m drinking from my saucer,
Cause my cup has overflowed.
If God gives me strength and courage,
When the way grows steep and rough.
I’ll not ask for other blessings,
I’m already blessed enough.
And may I never be too busy,
to help others bear their loads.
Then I’ll keep drinking from my saucer,
Cause my cup has overflowed.
Author: John Paul Moore
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Salutation to the Dawn
Look to this day!
For it is life, the very life of life.
In its brief course
Lie all the verities and realities of your existence:
The bliss of growth
The glory of action
The splendor of beauty
For yesterday is but a dream
And tomorrow only a vision
But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well, therefore to this day!
Such is the salutation to the dawn.
Kalidasa, Indian Poet
“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.”John Muir
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
I love you neither with my heart, nor with my mind. My heart might stop, my mind can forget. I love you with my soul because my soul never stops or forgets. Rumi
“In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives a message of beauty, hope, cheer, and courage – so long are you young. When the wires are all down and our heart is covered with the snow of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, are you grown old.” Douglas MacArthur
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.Leo Buscaglia
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. George S. Patton
The sublime and ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately. One step below the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again.Thomas Paine
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”Nelson Mandela
Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things.Benjamin Franklin
“If you are going down a road and don’t like what’s in front of you, and look behind you and don’t like what you see, get off the road. Create a new path!”Maya Angelou
Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.Martin Luther
“Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence there would be no rhythm.”
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.Joseph Campbell
Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.Pope John Paul II
True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.William Penn
The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.Albert Schweitzer
Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.Joseph Campbell
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.”Nelson Mandela
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.Khalil Gibran
And I’d like to give my love to everybody, and let them know that the grass may look greener on the other side, but believe me, it’s just as hard to cut.Little Richard
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think. Benjamin Disraeli
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.Mark Twain
“Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.”
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.Mark Twain
I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that.Barack Obama
Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‘yours,’ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.Eckhart Tolle
“You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.”David Foster Wallace
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is an attribute of the strong.Mahatma Gandhi
Everything in life is speaking in spite of it’s apparent silence.Hazrat Inayat Khan
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.Ernest Hemingway
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.Robert Frost
“There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth… not going all the way, and not starting.” –Buddha
It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change, when one feels that resurrection of hope in the midst of despair and apathy.Hillary Clinton
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.Helen Keller
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.Nelson Mandela
I think, if you have enough inner resources, then you can live in isolation for long periods of time and not feel diminished by it.Aung San Suu Kyi
“Fear and anxiety many times indicates that we are moving in a positive direction, out of the safe confines of our comfort zone, and in the direction of our true purpose.”
We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.Thomas Merton
It was when I was happiest that I longed most…The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing…to find the place where all the beauty came from.S. Lewis
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Panic causes tunnel vision. Calm acceptance of danger allows us to more easily assess the situation and see the options.Simon Sinek
“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.”Henry David Thoreau
“Vanity pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymous. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
Jane Austen
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen Ernest Hemingway
Because I’ve spent most of my life with such a beautiful, talented, challenging female, I feel I’ve gained – and am still gaining – a great deal of knowledge about the feminine mystique and about personal relationships – knowledge which is so important to a writer.Stan Lee
There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all other courts.Mahatma Gandhi
“Do not waste time bothering whether you “love” your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone you will presently come to love him.”CS Lewis
“My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing. I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire. And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road though I may know nothing about it. Therefore will I trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.”
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.Leo Buscaglia
“EDUCATING THE MIND WITHOUT EDUCATING THE HEART, IS NO EDUCATION AT ALL.”—Unknown
“Life’s trials will test you, and shape you, but don’t let them change who you are.”
Aaron Lauritsen
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.Thomas Jefferson
“True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.”– David Tyson
“Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.”(Napoleon Bonaparte)
Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
S. Lewis
“There’s more to a person than flesh. Judge others by the sum of their soul and you’ll see that beauty is a force of light that radiates from the inside out.”
Aaron Lauritsen
“I’ve seen better days, but I’ve also seen worse. I don’t have everything that I want, but I do have all I need.I woke up with some aches and pains, but I woke up. My life may not be perfect, but I am blessed.” Anonymous
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.Kofi Annan
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.Petrarch
Look To This Day
Look to this day:
For it is life, the very life of life.
In its brief course
Lie all the verities and realities of your existence.
The bliss of growth,
The glory of action,
The splendour of achievement
Are but experiences of time.
For yesterday is but a dream
And tomorrow is only a vision;
And today well-lived, makes
Yesterday a dream of happiness
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well therefore to this day;
Such is the salutation to the ever-new dawn!
Kalidasa
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.Joseph Campbell
We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.Galileo Galilei
Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.Warren Buffett
Keep hoping,
Keep loving
Keep giving,
keep motivating,
Keep forgiving,
Keep praying,
Keep tithing,
Keep sharing your testimony.”
Lailah Gifty Akita
Pray without ceasing-Scripture.OF
Write it on your heart
that every day is the best day in the year.
He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day
who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.
Finish every day and be done with it.
You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in.
Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day;
begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit
to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
This new day is too dear,
with its hopes and invitations,
to waste a moment on the yesterdays.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self – giving is a personal power – releasing factor.Norman Vincent Peale
“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.” Plato
“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” —Thomas Jefferson
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.Thomas Carlyle
We may have bad weather in Ireland, but the sun shines in the hearts of the people and that keeps us all warm.Marianne Williamson
“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
Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy. Mahatma Gandhi
When the tides of life turn against you and the current upsets your boat, don’t waste those tears on what might have been, just lie on your back and float.Author unknown
G. K. Chesterton
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?
“How many observe Christ’s birthday! How few, His precepts!”
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“No matter how dysfunctional your background, how broke or broken you are, where you are today, or what anyone else says, YOU MATTER, and your life matters!”
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There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.C. S. Lewis
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.Martin Luther King, Jr.
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.Lao Tzu
Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.
Thomas A. Edison
A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.Benjamin Franklin
All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take-Mahathma Ghandhi
As I get older, the more I stay focused on the acceptance of myself and others, and choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear.
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
Lao Tzu
Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat and worry with laughter at your predicaments, thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution that is certain to come. Never take yourself too seriously.
– Og Mandino
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
(T.S. Eliot)
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. Socrates
Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.Aristotle
The essential lesson I’ve learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you’re not here as a human being only. You’re a spiritual being having a human experience.Wayne Dyer
Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.
Billy Graham
Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
Ernest Hemingway
Sunrise offered a very beautiful spectacle; the water was quite unruffled, but the motion communicated by the tides was so great that, although there was not a breath of air stirring, the sea heaved slowly with a grand and majestic motion.George Grey
The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.Mehmet Oz
Whenever I want to laugh, I read a wonderful book, ‘Children’s Letters to God.’ You can open it anywhere. One I read recently said, ‘Dear God, thank you for the baby brother, but what I prayed for was a puppy.’
Maya Angelou
You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.
Michelle Obama
“Leaders must draw the best out of people, and friendship does that far better than prolonged argument or mere logic.”
Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart to singing. When I sing, I can feel romance in everything around me.
Kailash Kher
Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.George Eliot
Life is all about evolution. What looks like a mistake to others has been a milestone in my life. Even if people have betrayed me, even if my heart was broken, even if people misunderstood or judged me, I have learned from these incidents. We are human and we make mistakes, but learning from them is what makes the difference.Amisha Patel
Stay focused on your mission, remain steadfast in your pursuit of excellence, and always do the right thing.Mark Esper
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.Helen Keller
You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.
Brad Garrett
It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.Zig Ziglar
Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.
Scott Hamilton
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
Og Mandino
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.Norman Vincent Peale
When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‘Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.’Dalai Lama
What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?E. M. Forster
A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.Edwin Hubbel Chapin
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song.” PLATO
An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person’s main task in life – becoming a better person.Leo Tolstoy
It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.Charles Dickens
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.Og Mandino
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.Albert Camus
“I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time, waking and sleeping. It doesn’t change God. It changes me.”C.S. Lewis
“Do not waste time bothering whether you “love” your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone you will presently come to love him.” – C. S. Lewis
The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.
Franz Kafka
“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained
S. Lewis
History isn’t just the story of bad people doing bad things. It’s quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.
C. S. Lewis
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
E. M. Forster
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones
William Faulkner
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
Mark Twain
The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
James Allen
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
W. Somerset Maugham
“Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.”
Zig Ziglar
F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.”
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. Mark Twain
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Dale Carnegie
“Everybody can be great…because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
Henry David Thoreau
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
“Follow your heart but take your brain with you.”
Alfred Adler
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How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars – when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know. Thomas Aquinas
The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.Albert Einstein
“Never let the things you want make you forget the things you have.” Anonymous
To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.Thomas Aquinas
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.Francis Bacon
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity. Albert Schweitze
Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.Pope Francis
O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive!Walter Scott
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.Ernest Hemingway
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.C. S. Lewis
I believe forgiveness is the best form of love in any relationship. It takes a strong person to say they’re sorry and an even stronger person to forgive. Yolanda Hadid
Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
God always has patience. Pope Francis
Life is a long lesson in humility. James M. Barrie
I’m just going to say it: I’m pro-guilt. Guilt is good. Guilt helps us stay on track because it’s about our behavior. It occurs when we compare something we’ve done – or failed to do – with our personal values. Brene Brown
Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. William Wordsworth
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