Useful Quotations

Collection of good quotations to ponder

My favorite quotes from the bottlecaps of Honest Tea

A common mistake people make to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools—Douglas Noel Adams

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace–Jimi Hendrix

The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization—Sigmund Freud

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out—John Wooden

Stop living life for what’s around the corner and start enjoying the walk down the street—Grant L. Miller

The ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve—Albert Schweitzer

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience—Archibald MacLeish

If you’re going through hell, keep going—Winston Churchill

How people treat you is their Karma: how you react is yours—Dr. Wayne Dyer

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good—Samuel Johnson

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so—William Shakespeare

If we don’t change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going—Chinese Proverb

If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere—Frank A. Clark

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it—Maya Angelou

Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen but understanding it for the first time—Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit—Nelson Handerson

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear—Ambrose Redmoon

You never conquer a mountain. Mountains can’t be conquered: you conquer yourself—your hopes, your fears—Jim Whittaker

My goal in life is to be as good a person as my dog thinks I am—Unknown author

To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself—Soren Kierkrgaard

Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where the fruit is?—Frank Scully

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare—Mark Twain

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

Only a person who risks is free—Anonymous

The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don’t even know you’re making—Douglasa Noel Adams

Love quotes

We love because it’s the only true adventure—Nikki Giovanni

The way to fill your life with love is very simple: if you want more love, give more love—Deepak Chopra

When you’re away I feel like I’m only wearing one shoe—Alta

Love doesn’t make the world go ‘round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile—Franklin P. Jones

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we can never give enough of is love—Henry Miller

Love is the answer, but while you’re waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions—Woody Allen

The road to the heart is the ear—Voltaire

If you press me to say why I love him, I can say no more than it was because he was he and I was I—Michel de Montaigne

When love beckons you, follow him, though his ways are hard and steep—Kahlil Gibran

Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction—Antoine de Saint-Exupery

From Good Stuff Magazine and from Kol Haneshamah Prayerbook and Assorted Places

Some people make victims of their disadvantage, while others are victimized by their disadvantages—Robert Schuller

The problem with Life is that it is so daily—unknown author

Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit—Kahlil Gibran

You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old—unknown author

Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof—John Kenneth Galbraith

There is nothing we receive with so much reluctance as advice—Joseph Addison

It has long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sit and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things—Elinor Smith

If all pulled in one direction, the world would keel over—Yiddish Proverb

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare. It is because we do not dare that things are difficult—Seneca

The noisiest drum has nothing in it but air—unknown author

Comedy is tragedy plus time—Carol Burnett

If you have to stand on your head to make somebody happy, all you can expect is a big headache—Irene Beckerman

The American artist Chester Harding, painting Daniel Boone’s portrait, asked the old frontiersman, then in his eighties, if he had ever been lost. Boone replied “No I can’t say I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.”

Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead.—Benjamin Franklin

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope—Martin Luther King

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that in the dinner, the sweets come last.—Robert Lewis Stevenson

A half-truth is a whole lie—Yiddish proverb

If you’re not failing every now and then, it’s a sign you’re not being very innovative in what you’re doing.—Hugh Allen

Nine-tenths of the serious controversies in life result from misunderstanding. — Louis Brandeis

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared to death.—General Omar Bradley

We make our decisions, then our decisions turn around and make us.—F.W. Boreham

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.—Robert Quillan

A good leader takes a little more than his share of blame, a little less than his share of credit.—Arnold Glasgow

People who cannot find time for recreation are obligated sooner or later to find time for illness—John Wanamaker

We ought to be able to do some things second hand. There is not enough time to make all the mistakes ourselves. — Harriet Hall

One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time—Andre Gide

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacle which he has overcome while trying to succeed—Booker T. Washington

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what must be done and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it—Theodore Roosevelt

It’s the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance;

It’s the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance;

It’s the one who won’t be taken who cannot seem to give;
And the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live—Bette Midler

There are three wants which can never be satisfied: that of the rich, who want something more; that of the sick, who want something different; and that of the traveler, who says, “Anywhere but here.”–Ralph Waldo Emerson

God is that aspect of reality which elicits from us the best that is in us and enables us to bear the worst that can befall us—Mordecai Kaplan

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong—Mahatma Gandhi

Middle age is when your classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald they don’t recognize you—Bennett Cerf

I wish, I wish that I could know the places I have yet to go, the ways I’ll change, the things I’ll do, the special dreams I’ll make come true. I wish, I wish that I could see the life that lies ahead of me—Anonymous

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever—Gandhi

No amount of riches can atone for poverty of character—Anonymous

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong—Peter T. McIntyre

There is a fountain of youth: It is your mind and talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age—Sophia Loren

An eye for an eye makes everyone blind—Martin Luther King, Jr.

Try to imagine a time of true peace and tranquility, and think about your part in helping this time to come about. What can you do? What can you commit to? How will you be a peacemaker?—Leila Berner

To make a difference in the world, you must first dare to be different. When the truth needs to be said, when the work needs to be done, when the help needs to be given…you can make a difference—Anonymous

If you can go through life without experiencing pain, you probably haven’t been born yet—Neil Simon

I hope my achievements in life shall be these—that I will have fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered, that I will have given help to those who were in need….that I will have left the earth a better place for what I have done and who I have been—Anonymous

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security—Gail Sheehy

Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it or work around it—Michael Jordan

Every person and people that feel they have something to live for, and that are bent on living that life in righteousness, are true witnesses of God—Mordecai Kaplan

As the hand held before the eye hides the tallest mountains, so this small earthly life hides from our gaze the vast radiance and secrets of which the world is full, and if we can take life from before our eyes, as one takes away one’s hands, we will see the great radiance within the world—Martin Buber

Don’t forget to glance up from your keyboard and see how blue the sky is now and then.

Don’t forget to put away your cell phone and spend some time alone with paintbrush or pen.

Don’t forget to seek the sound of silence and let the daily traffic rush on by. Remember that the secret of success is how happily you climb and not how high—Anonymous 

The courage of conviction, the strength to persevere, the hope that survives disappointment—these are the keys to success—Anonymous

There was a time I seemed to sail upon a vast, blue sea, scanning the horizon from some distant, golden shore, imagining that happiness lay just ahead of me in some wondrous, perfect place I’d never seen before…But as the days and years passed by, I came to comprehend that joy is in the journeying, not at journey’s end—Anonymous

From Brene Brown

“GETTING CURIOUS

Choosing to be curious is choosing to be vulnerable because it requires us to surrender to uncertainty. It wasn’t always a choice; we were born curious. But over time, we learn that curiosity, like vulnerability, can lead to hurt. As a result, we turn to self-protecting—choosing certainty over curiosity, armor over vulnerability, and knowing over learning. But shutting down comes with a price—a price we rarely consider when we’re focused on finding our way out of pain.

Einstein said, “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence.” Curiosity’s reason for existing is not simply to be a tool used in acquiring knowledge; it reminds us that we’re alive. Researchers are finding evidence that curiosity is correlated with creativity, intelligence, improved learning and memory, and problem solving.

There is a profound relationship—a love affair, really—between curiosity and wholeheartedness. How do we come to those aha moments if we’re not willing to explore and ask questions?

And…

. For experiences and information to be integrated into our lives as true awareness, they have to be received with open hands, inquisitive minds, and wondering hearts.

A critical piece of my wholehearted journey has been moving from judgment to curiosity about my own path. Poet and writer William Plomer wrote, “Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.” Connecting the dots of our lives, especially the ones we’d rather erase or skip over, requires equal parts self-love and curiosity: How do all of these experiences come together to make up who I am?

Curiosity led me to adopt and live by the belief that “nothing is wasted”—a belief that shapes how I see the world and my life. I can now look back at my often rough-and-tumble past and understand how dropping out of school, hitchhiking across Europe, bartending and waiting tables, working as a union steward, and taking customer service calls in Spanish on the night shift at AT&T taught me as much about empathy as my career as a social worker, teacher, and researcher. I used to look back at those far-flung dots as mistakes[…]”

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