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George Bernard Shaw was asked on his deathbed, “What would you do if you could live your life over again?” He reflected, then replied with a deep sigh: “I’d like to be the person I could have been but never was.”
Mahatma Gandhi noted: “Be the change that you wish to see most in your world.” And once you do, your life will change.
Aldous Huxley reflected on his entire life’s learning and then summed it up in seven simple words: “Let us be kinder to one another.”
Kindness, quite simply, is the rent we must pay for the space we occupy on this planet.
“Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.”
Remember, if your life is worth thinking about, it is worth writing about.
Every second you dwell on the past you steal from your future. Every minute you spend focusing on your problems you take away from finding your solutions.
success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.”
As Hazrat Inayat Khan said, “The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.”
“mens sana in corpore sano,” which is Latin for “in a sound body rests a sound mind.”
have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present, you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.
“We don’t laugh because we are happy. We are happy because we laugh.”
other side of fear lies freedom.
The real secret to a life of abundance is to stop spending your days searching for security and to start spending your time pursuing opportunity.
Remember, there are no real failures in life, only results. There are no true
tragedies, only lessons. And there really are no problems, only opportunities waiting to be recognized as solutions by the person of wisdom.
Time is your most precious commodity
The sage Confucius put it this way, “The person who chases two rabbits catches neither,”
Management guru Peter Drucker made the point of wisdom in yet another way when he wrote, “There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”
“So long as you live, keep learning how to live,”
One of the deepest of all the human hungers is the need to be understood, cherished and honored.
The mind is a strange creature in this regard: the things you want it to remember it forgets, but all those things you want it to forget, it remembers.
very true.
Winston Churchill, who once said, “It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear; about two, nothing can be done, so it’s no use worrying; and two perhaps can be settled.”
“Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it,” observed David Starr Jordan.
The smallest of actions is always better than the boldest of intentions.
“He who asks may be a fool for five minutes. He who doesn’t is a fool for a lifetime,”
By concentrating on the value your work adds and the contribution you make, you will see quantum improvements in your satisfaction and motivation levels.
Norman Cousins once noted that “The Tragedy of life is not death, but what we let die inside of us while we live.”
Persian proverb “I wept because I had no shoes until I saw a man who had no feet.”
The telephone is there for your convenience, not for the
convenience of your callers.
Recreation is tremendously important to a balanced life.
But recreation must serve to re-create you.
A great quote contains a wealth of wisdom in a single line.”
