Monday, April 13, 2015

Some wisdom from the masters


1. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Gandhi

2. “When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.” – Helen Keller

3. “Challenges is what makes life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine

4. “Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.” – Viktor Frankl

5. “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

6. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius

7. “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” – Albert Einstein

8. “In seeking happiness for others, you will find it in yourself.” – Unknown

9. “Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for thosewho rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.” – Henry van Dyke

10. “I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.” – Corazon Aquino

11. “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” – Viktor Frankl

12. “Falling in love is not a choice. To stay in love is.” – Unknown

13. “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 the depths. These persons have an appreciation, sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

14. “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” –Albert Einstein

15. “He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because he fears.” – Michel De Montaigne

16. “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

17. “True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.” – Paul Sweeney

18. “The only way that we can live is if we grow. The only way we can grow is if we change. The only way we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we are exposed is if we throw ourselves into the open.” – C. Joybell

19. “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” – George Bernhard Shaw

20. “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.” – Bil Keane

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