“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” – Buddha
“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
“It is not the length of life, but the depth.”
– Ralph Emerson
“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” – Mark Twain
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassion-ate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” – Ralph Emerson
“Find out who you are and do it on purpose.”
– Dolly Parton
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.” – Oprah Winfrey
“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.”- Dalai Lama
“Where there is love there is life.” – Gandhi
“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
– Stephen Chbosky
“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.” – Martin Luther King
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
– Winston Churchill
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
– Thomas Edison
“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”
– Henry Ford
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” – Henry Thoreau
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”
– Wayne Gretzky
5. On Courage and Strength
“It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” – Sir Edmund Hillary
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Courage is grace under pressure.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”
– Bruce Lee
“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama
“Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.” – Mark Twain
“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” – Aristotle
“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”- Einstein
“The mind is everything. What you think you become.” – Buddha
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others.” – Cicero
“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.”
– Oprah Winfrey
“Gratitude turns what we have into enough, and more.” – Melody Beattie
“It is not happy people who are thankful. It is thankful people who are happy.” – Unknown
“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.”
– Oprah Winfrey
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” – John F. Kennedy
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” – Alan Watts
“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” – Albert Einstein
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” – Aesop
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill
“You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.” – John Bunyan
“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” – Mark Twain
“It always seems impossible until it’s done.”
– Nelson Mandela
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson
“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.”
– Walter Elliot
“Fall seven times, stand up eight.”
– Japanese Proverb
“The true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching.” – John Wooden
“In the end, it’s not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.” – Ann Landers
“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“If you want to fly, give up everything that weighs you down.” – Buddha
