Useful and Interesting Stuff

All the gold in the world has no significance. That which is lasting are the thoughtful acts which we do for our fellow man.
Adolfo Prieto

Be generous! Give to those you love; give to those who love you; give to the fortunate; give to the unfortunate - yes, give especially to those you don't want to give. You will receive abundance for your giving. The more you give, the more you will have!
W. Clement Stone

Happiness is not in our circumstances, but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are.
John B. Sheerin

 Continue to love each other with true brotherly love. Don't forget to be kind to strangers, for some who have done this have entertained angels without realising it!
Hebrews 13:1

 A life without love, no matter how many other things we have, is an empty, meaningless one.
Leo Buscaglia

You really have to look inside and find your inner strength, and say, "I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself."
Mariah Carey

 A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
Christopher Reeve

If you have great wealth, give alms out of your abundance; if you have but little, distribute even some of that. But do not hesitate to give alms.
Apocrypha  

God is the friend of silence. Trees, flowers, grass grow in silence. See the stars, moon, and sun how they move in silence.
Mother Teresa  

You only lose energy when life becomes dull in your mind. Your mind gets bored and therefore tired of doing nothing. Get interested in something! Get absolutely enthralled in something! Get out of yourself! Be somebody! Do something. The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
Norman Vincent Peale 

 You have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things you never thought you could do. There are no limitations in what you can do except the limitations of your own mind.
Darwin P. Kingsley  

Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.
Greg Anderson

There's often no way you can look into the game of life and determine whether or not you'll get that big break tomorrow or whether it will take another week, month, year or even longer. But it will come!
Zig Ziglar

 Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Louis Pasteur

 Where I was born and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.
Georgia O'Keefe

 Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of his conscience, thus helping to bring the collective conscience to life.
Norman Cousins

 Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, they never get around to do what they want to do.
Kathleen Winsor

 Pray to God, but keep rowing to shore.
Russian Proverb

 Let's dare to be ourselves, for we do that better than anyone else.
Shirley Briggs

 If you let yourself be absorbed completely, if you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

 Most of my major disappointments have turned out to be blessings in disguise. So whenever anything bad does happen to me, I kind of sit back and feel, well, if I give this enough time, it'll turn out that this was good, so I shouldn't worry about it too much.
William Gaines

 Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.
Cathy Better

 Make each day useful and cheerful and prove that you know the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be happy, old age without regret and life a beautiful success.
Louisa May Alcott

 Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.
Oscar Wilde

 Life is not always what one wants it to be, but to make the best of it as it is, is the only way of being happy.
Jennie Jerome Churchill

 If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him, for an investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Joseph E. O'Donnell

 Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.
Blaise Pascal

 I will tell you that there have been no failures in my life. I don't want to sound like some metaphysical queen, but there have been no failures. There have been some tremendous lessons.
Oprah Winfrey

 If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
Chinese Proverb

 Let us realise that the privilege to work is a gift, that power to work is a blessing, that love of work is success.
David O. McKay

 If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.
Mary Pickford

 I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do. That is character!
Theodore Roosevelt

 I am responsible for my own wellbeing, my own happiness. The choices and decisions I make regarding my life directly influences the quality of my days.
Kathleen Andrus

 In all people there are two sets of feelings: One is fear, the other is love. If there is fear, then we shrink as a person. But love, wow! That can move mountains!
Jorgen Roed

 I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can, you can't do any better. So when I go to sleep I turn everything over to the Lord and forget it.
Harry S. Truman

 He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
Epictetus

 Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of travelling.
Margaret Lee Runback

 Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.
William Arthur Ward

 You can achieve anything you want in life if you have the courage to dream it, the intelligence to make a realistic plan, and the will to see that plan through to the end.
Sidney A. Friedman

 You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Beverly Sills

 You must see your goals clearly and specifically before you can set out for them. Hold them in your mind until they become second nature.
Les Brown

 When you worry about the problems of tomorrow, you are creating unhappiness for yourself today.
Shantidasa

 We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Kahlil Gibran

 We are not here to merely make a living. We are here to enrich the world, and we impoverish ourselves if we forget this errand.
Woodrow T. Wilson

 We always have enough to be happy if we are enjoying what we do have - and not worrying about what we don't have.
Ken Keyes, Jr.

 Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

 We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Virginia Satir

 To live as fully, as completely as possible, to be happy... is the true aim and end to life.
Llewelyn Powers

 There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
Wayne Dyer

 The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
Benjamin Mays

 The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organised or regulated. It isn't true that everybody should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.
Ram Dass

 The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who without a dream.
Harry Kemp

 The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart, head and hands.
Robert M. Pirsig

 The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Nicholas Butler

 The love we give away is the only love we keep.
Elbert Hubbard

 The fruit of peace is love and the fruit of love is forgiveness.
Mary of Mejugorje

 The future is simply infinite possibility waiting to happen. What it waits on is human imagination to crystallise its possibility.
Leland Kaiser

 The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good.
Ruth Benedict

 The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
Mark Caine

 Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake.
Paramahansa Yogananda

 No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?
Epictetus

 It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well.
Joseph Ross

 It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Charles Darwin

 It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
Mahatma Gandhi

 In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
Robert Frost

 He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche

 Dream big dreams, then put on your overalls and go out and make the dreams come true.
Fred Van Amburgh

 Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins

 Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

 Bigness comes from doing many small things well. Individually, they are not very dramatic transactions. Together, though, they add up.
Edward S. Finkelstein

 Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Chinese Proverb

 Be a friend to thyself, and others will be too.
Thomas Fuller

 As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Leonardo Da Vinci

 Always hold firmly to the thought that each one of us can do something to bring some portion of misery to an end.
Author Unknown

 All successful people, men and women, are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
Brian Tracy

 An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi

 Giving someone all your love is never an assurance that they'll love you back! Don't expect love in return, just wait for it to grow in their hearts. But if it doesn't, be content it grew in yours.
Author Unknown

 A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
St. Basil

 To get profit without risk, experience without danger and reward without work is as impossible as it is to live without being born.
A.P. Gouthey

 Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Confucius

 If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything.
Win Borden

 The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
Maureen Dowd

 Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realise.
Norman Vincent Peale

 Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Martin Luther King

 Winners have simply formed the habit of doing things losers don't like to do.
Albert Gray

 It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
Zig Ziglar

 The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill

 I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.
Walter Chrysler

 Your talent is God's gift to you; what you do with it is your gift to God.
Leo Buscaglia

 Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Warren Buffett

 It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Albert Einstein

 When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
William A. Ward

 Do one thing at a time and do that one thing as if your life depended upon it.
Eugene Grace

 You must have long range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short range failures.
Charles C. Noble

 Success is the sum of small efforts -- repeated day in and day out.
Robert Collier

 Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.
Martin Amis

 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

 Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things. Denis Diderot

 About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.
Rita Mae Brown

 You will recognise your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.
Jerry Gillies

 Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.
Les Brown

 All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realised that I was never going to grow up - that growing is an ever ongoing process.
M. Scott Peck

 Enthusiasm, like measles, mumps and the common cold, is highly contagious.
Emory Ward

 Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.
Christopher Morley

 Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Don Marquis

  Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
George Washington

 The only place where success comes before work is in a dictionary.
Vidal Sassoon

 Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.
Anne Lamott

 People do not lack strength; they lack will.
Victor Hugo

 I've believed ever since that living on the edge, living in and through your fear, is the summit of life, and that people who refuse to take that dare condemn themselves to a life of living death.
John H. Johnson

 Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then, do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
Margaret Young

 Out of difficulties grow miracles.
Jean De La Bruyere

  Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes time. Vision without action can change the world. A true leader must first see an idea as opportunity, then choose to act upon it.
Joel Barker

 Experience is not what happens to a man, it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Aldous Huxley

 Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln

 Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
William James

 Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Colin Powell

 The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying a way small stones.
Chinese Proverb

 Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.
Mother Teresa

 The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
Malcomb S. Forbes

 The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein

 Continuous effort -- not strength or intelligence -- is the key to unlocking our potential.
Liane Cardes

 I learned... that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic, striving, but it comes to us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.
Brenda Ueland

 Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.
Marcus Aurelius

 Until you get dissatisfied, you won't do anything to really move your life to another level. Dissatisfaction is a gem. If you're totally satisfied, you're going to get comfortable. And then your life begins to deteriorate.
Anthony Robbins

 How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
Stephen Covey

 In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.
Aristotle

 Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.
Greg Anderson

 If you wished to be loved, love.
Seneca

 If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.
Will Rogers

 One can go back toward safety or forward toward growth.
Abraham Maslow

 The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.
Orison Swett Marden

 The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King Jr.

 Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch--what makes you go beyond the norm.
Cicely Tyson

 Success is measured not necessarily by what others see, but what they don't see - personal self-worth. Success is accomplishing what you most wish for yourself.
Lillion Vernon

 Nothing of great value in life comes easily. The things of highest value sometimes come hard. The gold that has the greatest value lies deepest in the earth, as do the diamonds.
Norman Vincent Peale

 I have always found, when I was worrying, that the best thing to do was put my mind upon something, work hard and forget what was troubling me.
Thomas Edison

 The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.
Charles Caleb Colton

 The important thing is to dare to dream big, then take action to make it come true.
Joe Girard

 My policy is to learn from the past, focus on the present, and dream about the future. I'm a firm believer in learning from adversity. Often the worst of times can turn to your advantage - my life is a study of that.
Donald Trump

 Ideas without action are worthless.
Harvey Mackay

 Heaven never helps the men who will not act.
Sophocles

 If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul.
Rabbi Harold Kushner

 All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
Adlai E. Stevenson

 We can do anything we want if we stick to it long enough.
Helen Keller

 Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.
Jack Canfield

 We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
Stevie Wonder

 The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
Thomas A. Edison

 A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot

 Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.

 People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?
Thich Nhat Hanh

 The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
Robert H. Schuller

 You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.
Maxwell Maltz

 All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners... Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing... not moving toward excellence.
Denis Waitley

 The greatest problem you have is your greatest opportunity.
Michael Wickett

 Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue-to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak.
Socrates

 In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.
Eric Hoffer

 Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.
Barbara De Angelis

 Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain

 Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Lou Holtz

 No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.
Source Unknown

 Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.
Jim Rohn

 When we are willing to make peace within ourselves, and peace with the environment in which we live and peace with each other and the animals we love and peace with the world so there are no wars, we will begin to understand how blessed we humans really are while we're on this earth and among each other and the more we strive for this Peace on Earth the more we will leave Paradise behind for those that come after us.
Brenda Vaccaro

 Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Corinthians 13:4-7

 If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying. Would you sell both your eyes for a million dollars… or your legs… or your hands… or your hearing? Add up what you do have, and you'll find that you won't sell them for all the gold in the world. The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate yourself.
Dale Carnegie

 The sun is always shinning. Even though clouds may come along and obscure the sun for a while, the sun is always shining. The sun never stops shining. And even though the earth turns, and the sun appears to go down, it really never stops shining.
Louise L. Hay

 Just as a sunbeam can't separate itself from the sun and a wave can't separate itself from the ocean; we can't separate ourselves from one another. We are all part of a vast sea of love one indivisible divine mind.
Marianne Williamson

 Within each of us is a hidden store of energy. Energy we can release to compete in the marathon of life. Within each of us is a hidden store of courage. Courage to give us the strength to face any challenge. Within each of us is a hidden store of determination. Determination to keep us in the race when all seems lost.
Roger Dawson

 It is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause. Who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt

 It is not by accident that the happiest people are those who make a conscious effort to live useful lives. Their happiness, of course, is not a shallow exhilaration where life is one continuos intoxicating party. Rather, their happiness is a deep sense of inner peace that comes when they believe their lives have meaning and that they are making a difference for good in the world.
Ernest Fitzgerald

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