Bonnie's quotes

(showing 1-50 of 73)

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, those-who-matter
18,783 people liked it

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
16,508 people liked it

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling
15,210 people liked it

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
12,442 people liked it

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
11,860 people liked it

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
11,460 people liked it

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

tags: life
11,572 people liked it

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
10,718 people liked it

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
— Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
9,693 people liked it

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: dreams, love, reality, sleep
10,783 people liked it

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."
— Walt Disney Company

tags: inspirational
1,014 people liked it

"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."
— Dalai Lama XIV

tags: happiness, inspirational
1,140 people liked it

"I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?'"
— Mother Teresa

tags: inspirational, love
899 people liked it

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly."
— Siddhārtha Gautama

tags: inspirational
825 people liked it

"Your problem is how you are going to spend this one and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.

From her graduation commencement address to Berkeley."
— Anne Lamott

tags: inspirational
54 people liked it

"It is not so much the major events as the small day-to-day decisions that map the course of our living. . . Our lives are, in reality, the sum total of our seemingly unimportant decisions and of our capacity to live by those decisions."
— Gordon B. Hinckley

tags: inspirational, life, wisdom
56 people liked it

"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: inspirational
80 people liked it

"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender."
— Tupac Shakur

tags: inspirational
72 people liked it

"Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads to it; and this path is virtue, uprightness, faithfulness, holiness, and keeping all the commandments of God."
— Joseph Smith Jr.

tags: god, happiness, inspirational, mormonism, religion, virtue
45 people liked it

"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: inspirational, wrtiting
55 people liked it

"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?"
— Robert Browning (Men and Women and Other Poems)

tags: heaven, inspirational
44 people liked it

"People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.

If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.

For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."
— Mother Teresa

tags: catholicism, christianity, forgiveness, god, goodness, happiness, honesty, kindness, relgion, world
3,116 people liked it

"The caged bird sings with a fearful trill,
of things unknown, but longed for still,
and his tune is heard on the distant hill,
for the caged bird sings of freedom.
"
— Maya Angelou

tags: inspirational
52 people liked it

"If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever."
— Dalai Lama XIV

tags: inspirational
50 people liked it

"Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry or think badly about others. I am going to benefit others as much as I can."
— Dalai Lama XIV

tags: inspirational
55 people liked it

"The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy."
— Kalu Iche Kalu

tags: hope, inspiration, inspirational, life, truth
74 people liked it

"Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions."
— Anaïs Nin (Henry and June)

tags: inspirational
69 people liked it

"You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: inspirational, war
37 people liked it

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

tags: fear, inspirational, overcoming
36 people liked it

"Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine."
— Kathleen Norris

tags: inspirational, prayer
33 people liked it

""For he that diligently seeketh shall find; and the mysteries of God shall be unfolded unto them, by the power of the Holy Ghost, as well in these times as in times of old as in times to come; wherefore, the course of the Lord is one eternal round" - 1 Nephi 10:19"
— Joseph Smith Jr. (The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ)

tags: inspirational
28 people liked it

"Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny."
— Aristotle

tags: choice, inspirational
55 people liked it

"Never look back unless you are planning to go that way."
— Henry David Thoreau

tags: inspirational
54 people liked it

"Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: inspirational, luck
39 people liked it

"Obscurity and competence-that is the life that is best worth living."
— Mark Twain

tags: happiness, inspirational, life, truth, wisdom
48 people liked it

"We should never negotiate out of fear, but we should never fear to negotiate"
— JFK

tags: inspirational
23 people liked it

"It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs."
— Confucius

tags: inspirational
58 people liked it

"Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back."
— Peter S. Beagle (The Last Unicorn)

tags: inspirational, reminding
29 people liked it

"Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something."
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

tags: inspirational, life
43 people liked it

"The Reality of The Other Person Lies Not In What He Reveals To You, But What He Cannot Reveal To You.
Therefore, If You Would Understand Him, Listen Not To What He Says, But Rather To What He Does Not Say.
"
— Khalil Gibran

tags: inspirational
41 people liked it

"Life begins on the other side of despair."
— Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: inspirational
37 people liked it

"I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings." -from the Fox-"
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)

tags: communication, inspirational, philosophy
39 people liked it

"Life consists of what man is thinking about all day."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: inspirational
37 people liked it

"PEOPLE MAY NOT REMEMBER EXACTLY WHAT YOU DID, OR WHAT YOU SAID, ~BUT~THEY WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER HOW YOU MADE THEM FEEL.
"
— Maya Angelo

tags: inspirational
21 people liked it

"It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living."
— Simone de Beauvoir

tags: inspirational
15 people liked it

"Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not."
— Nathaniel Hawthorne

tags: inspirational
17 people liked it

"Jesus said several times, “Come, follow me.” His was a program of “do what I do,” rather than “do what I say.” His innate brilliance would have permitted him to put on a dazzling display, but that would have left his followers far behind. He walked and worked with those he was to serve. His was not a long-distance leadership. He was not afraid of close friendships; he was not afraid that proximity to him would disappoint his followers. The leaven of true leadership cannot lift others unless we are with and serve those to be led."
— Spencer W. Kimball

tags: inspirational, lds, leadership
22 people liked it

"A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you . . . Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself alone, one question . . . Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it is of no use."
— Carlos Castaneda

tags: inspirational
18 people liked it

"Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such"
— Henry Miller

tags: inspirational
27 people liked it

"You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love."
— Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace)

tags: inspirational, love
17 people liked it

« previous 1 2 next »

Bonnie's profile »

all quotes
add a quote

Bonnie's quotes

tags from Bonnie's quotes