Long > Long's Quotes

“Always do what you are afraid to do.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

(Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.")”
― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

“The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

“Television, radio, and all the sources of amusement and information that surround us in our daily lives are also artificial props. They can give us the impression that our minds are active, because we are required to react to stimuli from the outside. But the power of those external stimuli to keep us going is limited. They are like drugs. We grow used to them, and we continuously need more and more of them. Eventually, they have little or no effect. Then, if we lack resources within ourselves, we cease to grow intellectually, morally, and spiritually. And we we cease to grow, we begin to die.”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book

“If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you don't already possess”
― mortimer adler

“People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don’t have it, you cant give it.”
― Andrew Matthews

“To find, you have to seek. If you have lost your life direction, you probably won't find it between drinks at the local bar. Give yourself a break some time and space to examine what counts for you.”
― Andrew Matthews, Matthews@@ A: Happiness in a Nutshell

“The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it.”
― Thomas S. Monson

“Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?”
― Mary Manin Morrissey

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.”
― Walt Whitman

“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one”
― Bruce Lee

“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”
― John Wooden

“Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

“Before you speak, listen.
Before you write, think.
Before you spend, earn.
Before you invest, investigate.
Before you criticize, wait.
Before you pray, forgive.
Before you quit, try.
Before you retire, save.
Before you die, give.”
― William Arthur Ward

“Life’s a marathon, not a sprint.”
― Phillip C. McGraw

“Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“Always be fearless. Walk like lion, talk like pigeons, live like elephants and love like an infant child.”
― Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday

“Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good fucking life.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

“There's no need to wait for the bad things and bullshit to be over. Change now. Love now. Live now. Don't wait for people to give you permission to live, because they won't.”
― Kris Carr, Crazy Sexy Diet: Eat Your Veggies, Ignite Your Spark, and Live Like You Mean It!

“I've learned... . That being kind is more important than being right.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., Live and Learn and Pass It on: People Ages 5 to 95 Share What They'Ve Discovered About Life, Love, and Other Good Stuff

“Most important thing in life is learning how to fall.”
― Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses

“Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.”
― Denis Waitley

“You can’t make someone feel good about themselves until you feel good about
yourself.”
― Robin S. Sharma

“Too many people miss out on real love because they're too busy waiting for the ONE to show up”
― Alexandra Potter, You're (Not) the One

“You were born to win, but to be a winner you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.”
― Zig Ziglar

“You will never be who you want to be, until you are happy with who you are.”
― Thomas F. Shubnell

“Rejection makes you sad and cry, cry it out but not for long because the tears will block good things coming ahead of you”
― Akinwumi jarule

“Better to be strong than pretty and useless.”
― Lilith Saintcrow, Strange Angels