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My eclectic collection of useful and inspirational quotes
"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so"
"Speak what you feel, not what you ought to say"
"I am a good woman. I know it." - Arthur Miller from "The Crucible" (Elizabeth Proctor's response to unfounded accusations of witchcraft.)
"Man is what he believes." - Anton Chekhov
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." - Albert Einstein
"To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom." - Bertrand Russell
"Change is constant, the signal for rebirth. - Christina Baldwin
"Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on." - Bob Newhart
"I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else." - Sir Winston Churchill
"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly." - Buddha
"Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind." - Leonardo da Vinci
" Time does not change us. It just unfolds us." - Max Frisch
"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." - -Wayne Dyer
"We can learn lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it." - Lyndon B. Johnson
"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this .... I can take the next thing that comes along'.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Wisdom begins in wonder" - Socrates
"Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others" - Buddha
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." - Mohandas K. Gandhi
" Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." - Dale Carnegie
"If you're going through hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill
"Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength." - Frances de Sales
"They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." - Andy Worhol
"Three grand essentials to happiness in life are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." - Joseph Addison
"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." - James A. Baldwin
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong" - Mahatma Gandhi
"Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes." - Bette Midler.
"It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen." Mohammed Ali
"The thing always happens that you really belive in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen." - Frank Lloyd Wright
"Holding on to anger is like holding on to a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned." - Buddha
“While ther's life, there's hope" - Cicero
" Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses" - Confucius
"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be" - Abraham Lincoln
"You can't stop the waves but you can learn to surf." - Prof. Jon Kabat-Zinn
"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony," - Thomas Merton
"As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." - Proverbs 23:7
"If you hear a voice within you saying "You are not a painter," then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced." - Vincent Van Gogh
“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important." - Bertrand Russell
"Energy and persistence conquer all things.” - Benjamin Franklin
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent"- Elenor Roosevelt
"We doctors do nothing. We only help and encourage the doctor within“. - Albert Schweitzer, M.D.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge" - Albert Einstein
"Only when you are relaxed can you see what's going on." - Jane Campion, Film Director
"All we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think... we become." - Buddha (563-483 bc)
"Dreams come true; without that possibility nature would not incite us to have them.” - John Updike, Self - Consciousness
"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will." - George Bernard Shaw
"It is not the strongest of the species that survive , nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." - Charles Darwin
“Change is the law of life and those that look only at the past or present are certain to miss the future." - John F. Kennedy
"Blessed is he, who having nothing to say, refrains from giving wordy evidence of it" - George Eliot
"Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergancy." - Natalie Goldberg - Wild Mind
“The ability to be in the present moment is a major componant of mental wellness" - Abraham H. Maslow
"Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.' - Edward de Bono
"Faith is to believe what you cannot see; the reward is to see what you believe" - Saint Augustine
"You are only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.” - Robin Williams
“To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.” Gail Sheehy
“Passion not pedigree, will win in the end.” - Jon Bon Jovi
“While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple.”- Dr Gerald Grumet in Readings
“An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.” Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye
“Humour is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.” - Mary Hirsch
Plan for the future, because that is where you are going to spend the rest of your life." Mark Twain
"When you really want to do something, in your heart of hearts, you will find a way, but if you don’t want to do something, you will find an excuse." Pat Farmer - Australian Ultra Marathon runner
"Day by day in every way I am getting better and better." - Emile Coué
"If you are to succeed in anything, you must first be able to imagine it." - Emile Coué
"To conquer fear is the begining of wisdom" - Bertrand Russell
"I never ran 1000 miles. I could never have done that. I ran one mile 1000 times."
"No one can ride your back unless it's bent." - Martin Luther King jnr
"What we think..... we become" - Buddha 563 - 483 BC
"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." - Albert Einstein
Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Mead
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