“The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.”
— BB King
“Be proud to wear you.”
-— Dodinsky
“As we grow in strength in our spiritual life, we give up the habit of worrying. It serves no purpose other than to make us feel tense and miserable. When I stop fretting about things that are beyond my control and focus instead on generating optimistic and kind thoughts, my life can begin to flow in ever more positive directions. Such a light and easy approach to life enables me to take everything in my stride.”
— Unknown
“Each person has his or her own reality. No one can judge from the outside what another person is experiencing or expressing. That is why it is so important for each person to find their own truth, to find what is so for them, because it is always individual.”
— John-Roger
“6 Ways to Get Better:
1. Be humble and hungry
2. Focus on your strengths and what matters most
3. Tune out distractions
4. See life and people as teachers you can learn from each day
5. Help others get better
6. Care more. Put more time, effort and passion into your work/life”
— Jon Gordon
“Practice positive nostalgia for the past, savor the goodness in the present, and eagerly anticipate the good things yet to come. Do this until it becomes your new default mental process, and then watch the gifts flow into your life.”
— William DeFoore
“Everything is scary if you look at it. So you just got to live it.”
— Mary J. Blige
“There is a god of opinion in the mind. That’s a lesser god. But you can make your opinions be cheerful and encouraging. There can be a better brand of opinion that comes around.”
— John Morton
“The greatest virtue is peace. Throughout the day, stop for a minute and ask yourself ‘How peaceful am I at this moment?’ If someone tries to make you peaceless, you mustn’t allow yourself to be peaceless, no. Instead, look for the virtues in everyone and pass these on to others.
Remain very sweet and peaceful.”
— Unknown
“What we see depends mainly on what we look for.”
— Sir John Lubbock
“The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
“A good character is the best tombstone.Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered.Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.”
— Albert Pike