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Love
the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital.
It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is
to succeed.
—
Corina Kent
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 10/15/07
The
season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
—
Paramahansa
Yogananda
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 10/15/07
You
are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is
it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play and run around all day long? Never
in his life will he be so busy again.
—
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 8/6/07 God
grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change
the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's ME.
—
Author Unknown
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 4/16/07 We
act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all
that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
—
Charles
Kingsley
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 1/1/07 Celebrate
the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate
just living!.
—
Amanda
Bradley
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 12/11/06 A
grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without
as a fixed hope and affection, or as the consciousness of a right life, can quicken
us from within.
—
George
Santayana
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 11/20/06 If
you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself,
but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
—
Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor (121-180)
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 10/16/06 Inaction
breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer
fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
—
Dale Carnegie
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line9/25/06 Each
morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I — not events — have the
power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday
is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going
to be happy in it.
—
Groucho Marx
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line5/15/06 A
million tomorrows shall all pass away 'ere I forget all the joy that is mine,
today."
—
Randy Sparks
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line5/15/06 Happiness
calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world
without yours ... never doubt the excellence and permanence of what is yet to
be. Join the great company of those who make the barren places of life fruitful
with kindness.
—
Helen Keller
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line2/27/06 Throughout
my life, I've managed to feel young by maintaining an open mind and continually
knowing, at a deep level, that all is well in my universe. I stay awake to 'signs'
around me and am generally proactive. With time and perspective things always
turn out to be worthwhile — often in unexpected ways. For, as Henry David
Thoreau said, "There is no value in life except what you choose to place
upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself."
—
Harry Thomas, Editor of Inspiration Line
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line7/25/05 It
is never too late to become what you might have been.
—
George Elliot
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 6/6/05
One of my most important realizations was that all life is a process, NOT an event.
We often play devil's advocate to our greater good when we become impatient with
the natural and gradual blossoming of our own consciousness.
—
Harry Thomas, Editor
of Inspiration Line
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 8/16/04 Music
washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
—
Berthold Auerbach, German Novelist (1812-1882)
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 6/21/04 The
Laws of Reasoning consist of the ground, the path, and the result. ...Suffering
is in the mind. How we perceive happiness determines our suffering or not.
— His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 5/24/04 For
almost forty years I relied heavily upon my sense of deductive reasoning and logic.
Thankfully, I chose to shift my approach to life and gradually learned to be guided
by my intuitive nature. Today, I consciously operate in 'The Flow.' I avoid analyzing
and dissecting most of the time ... which brings me more happiness than I've ever
known.
—
Harry Thomas, Editor
of Inspiration Line
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 12/15//03 The
greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it,
but that it is too low and we reach it.
—
Michelangelo,
Italian Painter, Sculptor, Architect and Poet (1475-1564)
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 6/30//03 It
is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it
elsewhere.
—
Agnes Repplier,
American Essayist (1855-1950)
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 2/10//03 Each
choice we make causes a ripple effect in our lives. When things happen to us,
it is the reaction we choose that can create the difference between the sorrows
of our past and the joy in our future.
—
Harry Thomas, Editor of Inspiration Line
©
2003 Inspiration Line To
get up each morning with the resolve to be happy . . . is to set our own conditions
to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of
being conditioned by them.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Happiness
is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving
open.
— Rose Lane All
who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.
—
Lord Byron An
act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event
can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.
—
Maurice Maeterlinck Almost
all unhappiness in life comes from the tendency to blame someone else.
—
Brian Tracey (The Treasury of Quotes) The
art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
— Henry Ward Beecher The
art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood
of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed
by the change; for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.
—
Charles Langbridge Morgan Caring
about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people brings
happiness.
— Rabbi Harold Kushner The
chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what
you want now.
— Zig Ziglar (Zig Ziglar's Little Book
of Big Quotes) Cultivate
your garden... Do not depend upon teachers to educate you ... follow your own
bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony…
In the end, education, like happiness, is individual, and must come to us from
life and from ourselves. There is no way; each pilgrim must make his own path.
"Happiness," said Chamfort, "is not easily won; it is hard to find
it in ourselves, and impossible to find it elsewhere.
—
Will Durant The
foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.
— James Oppenheim Happiness
consists not in having, but of being, not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is
the warm glow of a heart at peace with itself.
— Norman
Vincent Peale Happiness
is to take up the struggle in the midst of the raging storm and not to pluck the
lute in the moonlight or recite poetry among the blossoms.
—
Ding Ling I
think I began learning long ago that those who are happiest are those who do the
most for others.
— Booker T. Washington
I've
learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends
on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
—
Martha Washington Joy
does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every
day.
— Henri Nouwen No
matter how much madder it may make you, get out of bed forcing a smile. You may
not smile because you are cheerful; but if you will force yourself to smile, you'll
end up laughing. You will be cheerful because you smile. Repeated experiments
prove that when man assumes the facial expressions of a given mental mood —
any given mood — then that mental mood itself will follow.
—
Kenneth Goode Simply
put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
— Wayne Dyer
There
is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in
any place except what you bring to it yourself.
— Henry
David Thoreau There
is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which
are beyond the power of our will.
— Epictetus This
is the true joy in life — being used for a purpose
recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being thoroughly worn out before you are
thrown on the scrap heap; being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish
little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote
itself to making you happy.
— George Bernard Shaw
To
be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
— Bertrand Russell True
happiness is ... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
— Seneca We
act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all
that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
—
Charles Kinglsey We
choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
—
Kahlil Gibran Where
fear is, happiness is not.
— Seneca You
will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of.
You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
—
Albert Camus
I
have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
—
Arthur Rubinstein We
either make ourselves happy or miserable. The amount of work is the same.
— Carlos Castaneda All
happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think
that being unhappy leads people to complain, but it’s truer to say that complaining
leads to people becoming unhappy.
— Dennis Prager
Be
happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There
is enough sadness in the world without yours.... never doubt the excellence and
permanence of what is yet to be. Join the great company of those who make the
barren places of life fruitful with kindness.... Your success and happiness lie
in you.... The great enduring realities are love and service.... Resolve to keep
happy and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
— Helen Keller I
have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness
to himself from the exercise of power over others.
—
Thomas Jefferson If
we only wanted to be happy it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other
people, which is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they
are."
— Charles-Louis de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu
The
talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what
you don't have.
— Woody Allen
Seek
to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.
—
James Freeman Clarke Happiness
does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.”
—
Count Leo Tolstoy In
our concern for others, we worry less about ourselves. When we worry less about
ourselves an experience of our own suffering is less intense. What does this tell
us? Firstly, because our every action has a universal dimension, a potential impact
on others’ happiness, ethics are necessary as a means to ensure that we do
not harm others. Secondly, it tells us that genuine happiness consists in those
spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness and
so on. For it is these which provide both for our happiness and others’ happiness.
— His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama All
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