Master Quotes Flashcards by Vincent Aubry

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…the goal is not to change our activities but to change our state of mind as we carry out those activities. In particular, they don’t want us to stop thinking about or planning for tomorrow; instead they want us, as we think about and plan for tomorrow, to remember to appreciate today.

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A Guide to the Good Life, William Braxton Irvine

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..the more pleasures a man captures, the more masters will he have to serve.

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A Guide to the Good Life, William Braxton Irvine

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…it’s always been private occasions that make me feel connected to the joys and sorrows of the world, often in the form of communication with writers and musicians I’ll never meet in person

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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, Susan Cain

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Your heart is a compass, and it is your greatest gift. If you’re ever lost, you just open it up, and it will always steer you in the right direction.

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Into the Magic Shop, James Doty

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I had been chasing the wrong thing, and a heart ignored for too long will always make itself heard.

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Into the Magic Shop, James Doty

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How can you ever be prepared to die? “Do what the Buddhists do. Every day, have a little bird on your shoulder that asks, ‘Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be?’”

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Tuesday’s with Morrie, Mitch Albom

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…if you’re trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down at you anyhow. And if you’re trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it. They will only envy you. Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.

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Tuesday’s with Morrie, Mitch Albom

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Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to “die before you die” — and find that there is no death

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The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle

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“Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so”

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Shakespeare Conversationally Speaking, Alan Garner

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Yes, keep on degrading yourself, soul. But soon your chance at dignity will be gone. Everyone gets one life. Yours is almost used up, and instead of treating yourself with respect, you have entrusted your own happiness to the souls of others.

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Meditations, Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome

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Think of your beliefs as houseguests that are welcome to stick around for a while but might wear out their welcome.

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Andy Norman - Philosopher, JRE Podcast

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The precise person you are now is fleeting, just like all the other people you’ve been.

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Range, David Epstein

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…the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all.

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A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara

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You have a nature. You can play the tyrant to it, but you will certainly rebel. How hard can you force yourself to work to sustain your desire to work? How much can you sacrifice to your partner before generosity turns to resentment? What is it that you actually love? What is it that you genuinely want? Before you can articulate your own standards or value, you must see yourself as a stranger — and then you just get to know yourself. What do you find valuable or pleasurable? How much leisure, enjoyment, and reward do you require, so that you feel like more than a beast of burden? How must you treat yourself, so you won’t kick over the traces and smash up your corral? You could force yourself through your daily grind and kick your dog in frustration when you come home. You could watch the precious days tick by. Or you could learn how to entice yourself into sustainable, productive activity. Do you ask yourself what you want? Do you negotiate fairly with yourself? Or are you a tyrant, with yourself as slave?

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12 Rules For Life: An Antidote to Chaos, Jordan Peterson

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“Did what I want happen? No. Then my aim or my methods were wrong. I still have something to learn.” That is the voice of authenticity.

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12 Rules For Life: An Antidote to Chaos, Jordan Peterson

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For her, religion was a quiet thing. Her faith was all her own. God was her confidant, her hope. In his eyes, she was her true self, nothing more, nothing less. She was the person George would never see.

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All Things Cease to Appear, Elizabeth Brundage

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Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera

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Tomas came to this conclusion: Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman).

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera

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Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious. They are the questions with no answers. A question with no answer is a barrier that cannot be breached. In other words, it is questions with no answers that set the limits of human possibilities, describe the boundaries of human existence

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera

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I have said before that metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera

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“To fear death, gentleman, is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not; for it is to think one knows what one does not know. No man knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest of blessings for a human being; and yet people fear it as if they knew for certain that it is the greatest of evils.”

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Socrates Why People Believe Weird Things, Michael Shermer

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The line between self-deception and willpower is often blurred…

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Where Reasons End, Yiyun Li

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Sometimes it’s hard to explain why some men suddenly do the things they do…But we are always optimists when it comes to time; we think there will be time to do things with other people. And time to say things to them.

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A Man Called Ove, Fredrik Backman

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…better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

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The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini

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“Remember, Amir agha. There’s no monster, just a beautiful day.”

The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini

He belongs to time, and by the horror that seizes him, he recognizes his worst enemy. Tomorrow, he was longing for tomorrow, whereas everything in him ought to reject it. That revolt of the flesh is the absurd.

The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus

“It’s always a marvel when one’s pain doesn’t settle into bitterness, but brings forth kindness instead.”

The Book of Longings, Sue Monk Kidd

No assurance, no platitude, no promise of God’s mercy. Just a stark reminder that death was part of life. She offered me nothing but a way to accept whatever came—Let life be life.

The Book of Longings, Sue Monk Kidd

I've always been afraid of dying. I don't know why I thought this would jinx it from actually happening.

They Both Die at the End, Adam Silvera

In bed, I thought. I thought those thoughts all men think when a woman tells them she's pregnant: what would the baby look like? Would I like it? Would I love it? And then, more crushingly: fatherhood. With all its responsibilities and fulfillments and tedium and possibilities for failure.

A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara

She knew she should be experiencing pity and despair for her feline friend--and she was--but she had to acknowledge something else. As she stared at Voltaire's still and peaceful expression--that total a sense of pain--there was an inescapable feeling brewing in the darkness. Envy.

The Midnight Library, Matt Haig

She had thought, in her nocturnal and suicidal hours, that solitude was the problem. But that was because it hadn't been true solitude. The lonely mind in the busy city yearns for connection because it thinks human-to-human connection is the point of everything. But amid pure nature (or the 'tonic of wildness' as Thoreau called it) solitude took on a different character. It became in itself a kind of connection. A connection between herself and the world. And between her and herself.

The Midnight Library, Matt Haig

Maybe that's what all lives were, though. Maybe even the most seemingly perfectly intense or worthwhile lives ultimately felt the same. Acres of disappointment and monotony and hurts and rivalries but with flashes of wonder and beauty.

The Midnight Library, Matt Haig

She realized that you could be as honest as possible in life, but people only see the truth if it is close enough to their reality. As Thoreau wrote, 'It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.'

The Midnight Library, Matt Haig

It was interesting, she mused to herself, how life sometimes simply gave you a whole new perspective by waiting around long enough for you to see it.

The Midnight Library, Matt Haig

Here is what I learned: trying too hard makes it harder to get the results you want. Here is what I realized: behind almost every failure of my whole life I had made the same error. When I'd failed, it was rarely because I hadn't tried enough, it was because I'd been trying too hard.

Effortless, Greg McKeown

If there are processes in your life that seem to involve an inordinate number of steps, try starting from zero. Then see if you can find your way back to those same results, only take fewer steps.

Effortless, Greg McKeown

...most geniuses prosper not by deconstructing intricate complexities but by exploiting unrecognizable simplicities.

Effortless, Greg McKeown

So if you are feeling overwhelmed by an essential project because you think you have to produce something flawless from the outset, simply lower the bar to start. Whether it's writing a book, composing a song, painting a canvas, or any other creative pursuit that calls to you, inspiration flows from the courage to start with rubbish.

Effortless, Greg McKeown

Holding back when you still have steam in you might seem like a counterintuitive approach to getting important things done, but in fact, this kind of restraint is key to breakthrough productivity.

Effortless, Greg McKeown

Whatever has happened to you in life. Whatever hardship. Whatever pain. However significant those things are. They pale in comparison to the power you have to choose what to do now.

Effortless, Greg McKeown

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. –Robert Frost

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. –Wayne Gretzky

Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.

Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. –John Lennon

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover. –Mark Twain

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. –Chinese Proverb

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. –Pablo Picasso

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. –Christopher Columbus

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

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

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. –Mark Twain

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. –Aristotle

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me. –Erma Bombeck

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life. –John Lennon

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. –Maya Angelou

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. –Unknown

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money. –Abigail Van Buren

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. –Dalai Lama

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. –Henry Ford

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. –Albert Einstein

If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.

Clement Freud

I cannot fiddle, but I can make a small town into a great state

Themistocles 514

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts

Soren kierkeguard

Love is all, it gives all and it takes all

Soren Kierkegaard

Be that self which one truly is

Soren Kierkegaard

Don't forget to live yourself

Soren Kierkegaard

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are

Soren Kierkegaard

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use

Soren Kierkegaard

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins

Soren Kierkegaard

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced

Soren Kierkegaard

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards

Soren Kierkegaard

Prayer does not change God but it changes him who prays

Soren Kierkegaard

The unexamined life is not worth living

Socrates

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent

Ludwig Wittgenstein

In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there wasbsomerhing not quite fair with it

Thucydides

Peace is an armistice in a war that is continually going on

Thucydides

It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men

Thucydides

Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily

William of Okham

The life of a man (In a star of nature) is solitary, nasty, brutish and short

Thomas Hobbes

Cogito, ergo sum

René Descartes

He who thinks great thoughts, often makes great errors

Martin Heidegger

We live in the best of all possible worlds

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

What is rational is actual, and what is actual is rational

G w f Hegel

God is dead! He remains dead! And We have killed him

Friedrich Nietzsche

There is but one truly philosophical question and that is suicide

Albert Camus

One cannot step twice in the same river

Heraclites

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation

Jeremy Benth

To be is to be perceived

Bishop George Berkeley

Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination

Immanuel Kant

No man's knowledge can go beyond his experience

John Locke

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us

Niccolo Machiavelli

Liberty consists of doing what one desires

John Stuart Mill

It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no groundwhatever for supposing it to be true

Bertrand Russell

Even while they teach, men learn

Seneca The Younger

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance

Socrates

If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent him

Voltaire

This is patently absurd but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn nor to be frightened by absurdities

Bertrand Russell

One cannot conceive anything so strange and implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another

Renè Descartes

Leisure is the mother of philosophy

Thomas Hobbes

Philosophy is the battle against the bewilderment of our intelligence by means of language

Ludwig Wittgenstein

There is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers

William James

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit

Aristotle

Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me

G W F hegel

The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone

John Locke

Life must be understood backwards but it must be lived forward

Soren Kierkegaard

Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don't know

Bertrand Russell

Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?

Friedrich Nietzsche

I would never down for my beliefs because I might be wrong

Bertrand Russell

Religion is the sign of the oppressed...it is the opium of the people

Karl Marx

The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it

Epicurus

Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable

G w f Hegel

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we make make ourselves worthy of happiness

Immanuel Kant

Man is condemned to be free

Jean Paul Sartre

I dont know whybwebare here but I'm pretty sure it is not in order to enjoy ourselves

Ludwig Wittgenstein

That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that hisbwisdom is worthless

Plato

The only thing I know is that I know nothing

Socrates

3 o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do

Jean Paul Sartre

If you are lonely when you are alone then you are in bad company

Jean Paul Sartre

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat

Jean Paul Sartre

There is only one day left, always starting over. It is given to us at dawn and taken away at dusk

Jean Paul Sartre

We do not judge the people we love

Jean Paul Sartre

Hell is - other people!

Jean Paul Sartre

Tjere may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours

Jean Paul Sartre

Words are loaded pistols

Jean Paul Sartre

It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live or what we are

Jean Paul Sartre

I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible

Ezra Pound

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old

Kafka

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtue

Kafka

In the fight between you and the world, back the world

Kafka

You are confined only by the walls you build yourself.

Andrew Murphy

Man has this unique ability to create limitations of his abilities. Unfortunately, the more self-aware we become, the more we focus on our weaknesses and therefore start limiting our ambitions. We convince ourselves that there are things beyond our reach and we should not pursue difficult tasks or else we would fail and feel miserable. Break all these mental shackles today as they are all lies we tell ourselves. Work on your dreams today no matter how delayed you are; you will be successful only if you believe so.

You are stronger than you think.

Anonymous

This is a truly empowering motivational quote, especially for all those in the world who are suffering from an inferiority complex influenced elements in society and sometimes families. Just because the world around you is mediocre does not mean you’ll have to be one of them forever. You have every right to discover your true potential. Rise higher than your surrounding and achieve greatness no matter what people may tell you. Just believe that you are stronger than you feel and are meant for greater things.

The obstacle is the path.

Zen proverb

The struggles and problems we face at work and home should not be something to complain about. The very obstacle that we whine about is the path of life where we all have to walk. No one promised you that life would be a smooth ride or a cake-walk, it has its trials and tribulations. It also has its success and failures. You must enjoy this ride because there is no alternate way or short cut. It will all be over even before you realize it. So just stop whining and keep marching ahead.

Work hard in silence; let your success make noise.

Anonymous

This quote is meant to silence all your ill-wishers and critics who think that you are not capable enough. Yes, the path you choose may be unconventional and the results may not be immediate, but delay in your success does not mean you will be denied of it. Work silently and diligently under people’s noses without letting them know how hard you are working. Finally, when you succeed, that will be the time to roar to the world and scare the haters off your life for good.

Do it now. Sometimes later becomes never.

Anonymous

Procrastination is the biggest slayer of minds. Do not postpone anything that holds importance for you. A task, for example exams or fitness goals, may seem difficult at first but proper planning and efforts in that direction will help you complete it successfully. Just because a task seems arduous doesn’t mean it should be left to deal with later. Just take the first step and start with the tiniest job, to begin with. Once you have put the wheels in motion, the whole work will be accomplished even before you realize it.

A river cuts through rock not because of its power but because of its persistence.

Jim Watkins

Mighty mountains and great rocks have been shaped by flowing of rivers and streams. Although these streams of water may seem unlikely weapons, they still flow right through the hardest of rocks and boulders. The secret is in persistence, they have been on their course for millions of years without being diverted even once. Thus, the message is clear. If we are focused on our pursuits and remain persistent, we can run our way through the thickest of obstacles in the world and move ahead.

Sometimes you need to withdraw within to repair the inner you, the layer of yourself that soaks in your experiences needs peace and quietness like a balm on the soul.

QuotesEmpire.com

Man may be a social animal but socializing is not always ideal. There are times when you should be spending some alone time. Being alone with yourself at certain times of day to reflect on your life is the best way to understand and be aware of yourself. Moreover, in times of anguish or anxiety, if you find a suitable place to be alone like a park or a beach, or even a forest path, it can work wonders for your soul. You deserve that peace and quietness to be at one with your soul.

Earth’s crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God; But only he who sees takes off his shoes.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Our world is a paradise with wonders lurking in every corner of it. If you are just a bit more aware and grateful for the surroundings, you will discover beauty in everything. Life does not have to be dull or morose when there is a bright sun greeting you every morning, cool breeze caressing your face and lovely nature surrounding you. Take comfort in a starry night with moon to cradle you to sleep. This is nature’s love for us and it is present everywhere and every day.

If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

Dogen

Among inspirational quotes, this is quite heartening. It’s true that every profound truth about life is just waiting to be discovered. You do not need to scale high mountains or dive deep seas to find out the true meaning of life which is a sense of contentment and fulfilment. You can get it right where you are, sitting in front of a computer screen! Yes, all you need to do is to change the way you perceive your life and this world. If you start making peace with your struggles and look at things positively, life would be a paradise for sure.

If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

Lao Tzu

This is life in a nutshell for most of us. We are always worried about our future or past, day in and day out. The only way to break this vicious cycle is to live in the moment, right here, right now. This is the way God wants you to be. It’s good to cherish happy memories or make efforts to plan a better future but it’s toxic to regret what you couldn’t achieve or lose your present happiness and health in the worries of future. Perhaps that’s why, it’s called the present or a gift to us.

You will never always be motivated. You have to learn to be disciplined.

Anonymous

Motivation is a high which gives us the jumpstart and boost needed to take the leap of faith for our dream projects. This inspiring quotation implies that you may fall into a rut in the absence of motivation. That’s the time discipline rescues you from sinking. Yes, the cold regimen of hard discipline is what will wake you to work in the morning and keep you awake till late at night for relentlessly pursuing a dream. Discipline helps you achieve your daily targets and hence, the final and ultimate project which you began at the first place.

You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.

Babe Ruth

It’s a harsh world out there ready to knock you down at every step of your journey to success. In the struggle to achieve, no one is a true friend as people are envious. You are your biggest friend as well as enemy because if you adopt a defeatist attitude after a couple of setbacks, you will never rise but the whole world together cannot keep you down if you rise up after every knock you get. So, do not give up, brush yourself and get back in the race.

Life is 10% of what happens to you and 90% of how you react to it.

Charles R. Swindoll

When an unpleasant incident occurs in our life, it is up to us how long we choose to grieve about it. Stronger is the man who feels the pain but decides to get up and move on. Life has much nicer gifts to offer in return of the losses you suffer. If you keep sitting and refuse to let go, how would you get those gifts just meant for you? So, take your time to heal and move on. Never stay down and relive the bad memories as they would just hold you back and not let you move forward.

Don’t stop when you are tired, stop when you are done.

Anonymous

Among inspirational quotes, this is one of those that give a message of hard work and determination. Struggles and trials in your life will make your body and soul exhausted. It is bound to tempt you to give up and believe that all this hard work is not worth it, so just let it go. This is exactly why you need to stay firm and promise yourself not to rest. You should celebrate only after you are done with the task and achieve your aim. Only then the world will dance with you to celebrate your victory and you will bask in the glory of success with much deserved rest.

Strive for progress not perfection.

Anonymous

This is an inspiring quote for young achievers working hard in their lives counting only certificates and salary slips. In this harsh judgmental world, it’s hard to prioritize what truly gives us a sense of achievement to make a difference. Rather we decide to conform to the rules of society to strive for prestigious college, high paying job and expensive house. This is not the progress of our mind and certainly not what we are really capable of doing; it’s just leading a turbulent life in order to get approved. We should move away from these deterrents and create a life that would make us proud when we look back at it.

It’s better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.

Anonymous

This is an interesting quote which throws light on the strength of a lion as compared to the meekness of a sheep and motivates us to follow the lifestyle of the former. Lion is the king of jungle, strong, confident, aware, self-sufficient, can hunt for itself and defend itself. Whereas sheep just eats, sleeps and follows the shepherd to be guided to food and water. Like a lion, each one of us has a fire within which is ready to devour the silly constraints created by weakling all around us. So if we can awaken the beast within us, why should we choose to live huddled up in a mediocre crowd, instead we must lead them.

It’s a slow process but quitting won’t speed it up.

Anonymous

Life’s greatest endeavours take time. Rome wasn’t built in a day. You cannot achieve success overnight as big achievements are a result of persistent, untiring efforts and hard work over a long period of time. Apart from constant efforts and ample time, every task and process requires efficiency, knowledge, wisdom and intelligence which cannot happen at lightning speed. If a task seems painful and monotonously slow, have patience and keep at it. By quitting, it won’t finish or speed up, rather you will lose the consistency in doing it. How many tasks will you quit from! So, when you go about your work with a calm and composed nature, you will get there eventually.

Excuses don’t get results.

Anonymous

Excuses are the lies we tell ourselves for our failures or inactivity. We often get so overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of the task ahead of us that we start procrastinating. When we are answerable for it, we make excuses. When we start making excuses to ourselves, knowing well that we cannot deceive our conscience, we wallow in self-pity and guilt. Why to go over that torture when we can just buckle up and swallow the frog the first thing in the morning! Perform the most unpleasant task first and rest of the day would be smooth sailing, so no more excuses.

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt coined many motivational quotations and this is one of those that build your self-esteem. Many people suffer from inferiority complex because a few silly bullies called them fat or ugly. However, superiority or inferiority is the product of your own psychological make-up. Nobody can govern your feelings unless you yourself give that power to them. Remember you are unique, no one can be you. Just find your true calling, realise your worth and be yourself. Take pride in yourself and your actions. Your confidence will keep your haters at bay. Never allow anyone to walk over you as you are no doormat.

Stop wishing, start doing.

Anonymous

Everyone has certain dreams. And it’s a good thing as they keep you motivated to turn them to reality and do something in life. But how many people are able to achieve everything they desire? Most of the people in the world are underachievers for their standards, the reason being big planning and little work. Today most of the super successful people are basically mediocre who strive relentlessly. So more than anything else, your efforts will make you fulfil your dreams. Understand the things that need to be done and start putting your best possible efforts in the direction as soon as possible.

Celebrate even small victories.

Anonymous

These are truly inspiring words. In today’s world, we are made to see big dreams and encouraged to be greatly ambitious by our teachers and parents. In this quest of being super achievers, we forget to value small victories and accomplishments which are essential to make us happy, motivate us to keep going and build our self-confidence. These serve as a foundation for those high, long-term targets we set for ourselves. So never make the mistake of ignoring these small, unplanned gains. Celebrate them to the utmost every day.

It is not our job to be everything to everyone.

Anonymous

The bane of our lives is to live up to the expectations of the whole world, starting from our parents, to our teachers, our peers and family. It’s like the weight of the entire world is on our shoulders as everyone seems to have such lofty expectations from us. Once we fall into this trap of pleasing others, we are trapped for life. After trying all our life, we still manage to disappoint many of them. Thus, what is the need of pleasing everyone in the first place? Your duty is to yourself first. Be loyal to your dreams and aspirations and when you reap success, you’ll realize everyone is clapping for you.

Change comes from self-love, not self-loathing.

Lauren Fleshman

The easiest way to vent out your frustration of any failure is to beat yourself up, victimize yourself and be cruel to yourself. But why? Self-blaming is the most dangerous thing you can do next to self-harm. Everyone makes mistakes; you have made one too proving you aren’t idle but striving towards your goal. That makes you a thousand times better than 90% of the people around you. You will be a self-made hero and there is nothing to loath about the mistakes you will commit on the way. Rather pride should be the feeling you need to wear on your neck as you face the world.

Remember why you are doing this.

Anonymous

In the struggle to achieve your goal, there may be times when you are tired and just want to stop and sit down, there may be times when the world forces you to bend down or divert you from track. It’s easy to lose sight of the original plan and the reason behind working towards it. In that case, ask yourself why you are doing this and use the reason to pick yourself up, motivate yourself, focus on your goal, push yourself forward and be successful.

Don’t ruin a good day by thinking about a bad yesterday.

Russell Simmons

This is one of the best quotes to inspire the over analysers and pessimists across the world. Bad days and bad people happen to all of us. You cannot change the past but you can choose to make your present better. It would be a torture if you let your past experiences affect your present happiness each day. Just let it go and look forward. A bad yesterday is a lesson learnt, so use it to do better today; only brooding won’t help.

Where does the fire go...

When it goes out?

I'm not worried about the deficit...

It's big enough to care for itself.

A bargain is something you don't need...

At a price you can't resist.

The sole purpose of a child's middle name...

Is so he can tell when he's really in trouble.

A bank is a place that will lend you money...

If you can prove you don't need it.

The sooner you fall behind...

The more time you'll have to catch up.

It's impossible for an optimist...

To be pleasantly surprised.

You always find something...

The last place you look.

Talk is cheap because...

Supply exceeds demand.

Friends may come and go, but

Enemies tend to accumulate.

If at first you don't succeed,

Then skydiving isn't for you.

How do you know when you've run out

Of invisible ink?

A conclusion is the place where...

You got tired of thinking.

If the police arrest a mime...

Do they tell him he has the right to remain silent?

Time may be a great healer,

But it's a lousy beautician.

I like your approach...

Now let me see your departure.

Don't let your mind wander

Its to small to be let out alone

Amnesia is nature's way of saying

Forget it!

Birthdays are good for you...

The more you have, the longer you live.

Here I am!

What are your other two wishes?

Eat one live toad first thing in the morning...

And nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

Where does the fire go...

When it goes out?