SquirrelSpider's Favourite Quotations

"We suffer more in imagination than in reality." Seneca

"The way to do is to be." Lao Tzu

"Keep a green bough in your heart and a singing bird may come." Chinese proverb

"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom." Francis Bacon

"Be and not seem." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"My actions are my only true belongings." Buddha

"Stillness reveals what hurry hides." Pico Iyer

"If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room." Confucius

"Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values." Dalai Lama

"He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own." Confucius

"The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness." William Saroyan

"Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is." Albert Camus

"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom." Socrates

"To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear." Buddha

"Great acts are made up of small deeds." Lao Tzu

"Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant." Paulo Coelho

"Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must." Goethe

"Wisdom comes by disillusionment." George Santayana

"Beware the barrenness of a busy life." Socrates

"Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality." Ram Dass

"The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism." Norman Vincent Peale

"The temptation to give up is strongest just before victory." Zen Sayings

"Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools." Albert Einstein

"Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people." Socrates

"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit." Helen Keller

"We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far." Swami Vivekananda

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." Lao Tzu

"Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear." Anthony Robbins

"Do every act of your life as if it were your last." Marcus Aurelius

"No wise man ever wished to be younger." Jonathan Swift

"Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become." Paramahansa Yogananda

"The greatest prayer is patience." Buddha

"The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread." D. H. Lawrence

"Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late." Benjamin Franklin

"Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it." J.K. Rowling

"A loving heart is the truest wisdom." Charles Dickens

"Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness." Lao Tzu

"Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves." Benjamin Disraeli

"A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving." Lao Tzu

"Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form." Rumi

"Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life." Thich Nhat Hanh

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." Robert Anson Heinlein

"Once you label me, you negate me." Soren Kierkegaard

"Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens." Epictetus

"I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself." Aldous Huxley

"Looking at beauty in the world, it the first step of purifying the mind." Amit Ray

"Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true." Swami Vivekananda

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for." Epicurus

"We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness." Buddha

"Beware what you set your heart upon. For it surely shall be yours." Ralph Emerson

"Talent is a gift, but character is a choice." John Calvin Maxwell

"The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work." Richard Bach

"You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth." William W. Purkey

"Sometimes when we just stay still the grace finds us." Mary Davis

"Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences." Eckhart Tolle

"Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them." Dalai Lama

"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." Marcus Aurelius

"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time." Leo Tolstoy

"In every real man, a child is hidden that wants to play." Friedrich Nitzsche

"If you keep on trying, you will improve. A saint is a sinner who never gave up." Paramahansa Yogananda

"If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction the brought it back." Holly Black

"You know everything about the world, but you do not know anything about yourself. This is a ridiculous way to live." Sadhguru

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." George Bernard Shaw

"You know it's love when you want to keep holding hands even after you're sweaty." Anonymous

"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." Voltaire

"Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety or possessions - we cannot be free." Thich Nhat Hanh

"Be thankful for the infinitesimal thing that you have. Learn to value the blessings." Giridhar Alwar

"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today." Will Rogers

"Anger slowly. Forgive quickly. Trust cautiously. Love easily." Matshona Dhliwayo

"Don't allow your wounds to transform you into someone you are not." Paulo Coelho

"The greatest prison people live in, is the fear of what other people think." David Icke

"Love is when you sit beside someone doing nothing yet you feel perfectly happy." Anonymous

"Ten years from now, make sure you can say that you chose your life, you didn't settle for it." Mandy Hale

"Be like the tree, let the dead leave drop." Rumi

"The first act of insight is throw away the labels." Eudora Welty

"One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself." Leonardo da Vinci

"A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same." Elbert Hubbard

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open." John Barrymore

"The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work." Richard Bach

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." Robert Louis Stevenson

"The quieter you become, the more you can hear." Ram Dass

"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity." Buddha

"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you." Lao Tzu

"Lost Time is never found again." Benjamin Franklin

"Should you find a wise critic to point out your faults, follow him as you would a guide to hidden treasure." Buddha

"Our minds influence the key activity of the brain, which then influences everything; perception, cognition, thoughts and feelings, personal relationships; they're all a projection of you." Deepak Chopra

"This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him." William Lyon Phelps

"The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without even having to fight them." Lao Tzu

"The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury." Marcus Aurelius

"It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder." Albert Einstein

"History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce." Karl Marx

"You teach best what you most need to learn." Richard Bach

"He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough." Lao Tzu

"Don't speak if it doesn't improve on silence." Zen saying

"For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them." Thich Nhat Hanh

"It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up." Eckhart Tolle

"What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain." Victor Hugo