A Load Of #Quotes - Words Of #Wisdom + #Inspiration And #Motivation

Despite the fact most people love them, I'm not planning to do the quote posts next year (though I haven't officially announced that yet) so thought I'd use today to share the batch of quotes I've gathered that didn't end up used in posts on my blog before.  At least, I'm pretty sure none of these ended up used.  Although, with how many quote posts I've done over the past couple of years it's tough to be 100% certain without looking each one up in my archives, and I'm not about to do that, so it is possible there are duplicates somewhere along the way.  Either way, here they are.

 

 

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“The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.”

~Leo Buscaglia

    

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"Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open."

~Albus Dumbledore

 

"For most people, blaming others is a subconscious mechanism for avoiding accountability. In reality, the only thing in your way is YOU."

~Steve Maraboli
     

“The journey between what you once were and who you are now becoming is where the dance of Life really takes place.”

~Barbara De Angelis

 

“The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.”

~Madeleine L'Engle

          

 "In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart."
~Blaise Pascal

“All events are blessings given to us to learn from.”

~Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

  

"Look up at the stars & not down at your feet. Make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. However difficult life
may seem, there's always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don't just give up."
~Stephen Hawking

“When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.”

~George R.R. Martin

 

“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.”

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

“Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”

~E.B. White

 

“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”

~Anne Frank

 

“Beauty is not in the face; Beauty is a light in the heart.”

~Kahlil Gibran

 

“The quieter you become. The more you can hear.”

~Ram Dass

 

“Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.”

~Lionel Hampton

 

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”

~Marcus Aurelius

 

“Life is a learning experience only if you learn.”

~Yogi Berra

 

“Forgive yourself each night and start every morning with a plan to do better. Don't carry around any burden or pain. Let it all go.”

~Author unknown

 

“Taking good care of YOU means the people in your life will receive the best of you rather than what is left of you.”

~Lorraine Cohen

  

"An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by its own fullness, not by its reception."
~Harold Loukes

“Acknowledge, accept, and honor that you deserve your own deepest compassion and love.”

~Nanette Mathews

 

“I love myself for I am a beloved child of the universe and the universe lovingly takes care of me now.”

~Louise Hay

 

“When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.”

~Jodi Picoult

 

“Beware of Destination Addiction - a preoccupation with the idea that happiness is in the next place, the next job and with the next partner. Until you give up the idea that happiness is somewhere else, it will never be where you are.”

~Robert Holden, Ph.D.

 

“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”

~Dalai Lama

 

“Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.”

~Kahlil Gibran

 

“Push yourself to the edge of your limits. That's how they expand.”

~Robin Sharma

 

“Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular top up's.”

~Peter J. Davies

 

“Stay true to yourself, yet always be open to learn. Work hard, and never give up on your dreams, even when nobody else believes they can come true but you.”

~Phillip Sweet

 

“The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.”

~John Ruskin

 

“Don't be afraid to lose people. Be afraid of losing yourself by trying to please everyone around you.”

~Unknown

 

“Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of the seasons.”

~K Gibran

 

“The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.”

~Oprah Winfrey

 

“Sadness flies away on the wings of time.”

~Jean de la Fontaine

 

“The turtle makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.”

~James Bryant Conant

 

“You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.”

~Ayn Rand

 

“Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.”

~Anais Nin

 

“Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.”

~Eric Hoffer

 

“The greatest good we can do for others is not to share our riches with them but to reveal theirs to them.”

~Zig Ziglar

 

“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the ordinary.”

~Christina Baldwin

 

“Sometimes it's the toughest moments that you learn the most about yourself, and the more you know yourself, the less you are willing to give away.”

~Jennifer Love Hewitt

 

“To a great mind, nothing is little.”

~Sherlock Holmes

 

“Keep your hands open, and all the sands of the desert can pass through them. Close them, and all you can feel is a bit of grit.”

~Taisen Deshimaru

 

“Don't envy what people have, emulate what they did to have it.”

~Tim Fargo

 

“Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.”

~Anne Lamott

 

“How immensely important to us are those things in our life that are stable and unchanging. So much of our world is in motion. How welcome are the bits that stand still.”

~C.R. Milne

 

“Solitude shared with animals has a special quality and rarely turns into loneliness.”

~May Sarton

     

"Though we may come from different places and speak in different tongues, our hearts beat as one."

~Albus Dumbledore

 

"Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings and emotions."
~Will Smith
 

"Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing."
~Barry Finlay
    

“If light is in your heart, you will find your way home.”

~Rumi

     

“Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.”

~Anais Nin

     

“People change so that you can learn to let go, ...good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”

~Marilyn Monroe 

    

"I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter; it has made the world human and loveable, despite all its pain and wrong."
~W.E.B. Du Bois

     

"Always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don't think you are the most important being on earth."
~Harper Lee

 

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”

~Rumi

 

    "Don't wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel, stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself."
~Sara Henderson
 

"The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms."
~Edgar Allan Poe

     

“How we care for ourselves gives our brain messages that shape our self-worth so we must care for ourselves in every way, every day.”

~Sam Owen
     

 

 "Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs."
~Charlotte Bronte
    

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“Don't isolate.

"No one wants to talk to me and I don't want to talk to anyone" is a lie and you know it.

Reach out to people you care about, even if it's hard. Even if it's just to say "hey, thinking of you."

You are wanted.

You matter.”

~Meg Dowell