Quirky Quotes

All of these quotes are inspirational in some way or another - giving us encouragement and challenging us to focus on our goals, find out who we are and ENJOY THE JOURNEY! ~Susan Langridge~

" No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite"

 Nelson Mandela

"Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he
counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough
happiness provided for it."

Fyodor Dostoevsky

"We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognising and appreciating what we do have."

Frederick Keonig

"A man interrupted one of the Buddha's lectures with a flood of abuse. Buddha waited until he had finished and then asked him, "If a man offered a gift to another but the gift was declined, to whom would the gift belong?" "To the one who offered it," said the man. 

"Then," said the Buddha, "I decline to accept your abuse and request you to keep it for yourself." 

"Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind."

"If you fix in your mind the idea that your earning ability is limited, then indeed it is. You will never earn more than that self-set limit. The subconscious will create and maintain the limits you set."

"Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into."

If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life"

The habit of always putting off an experience until you can afford it, or until the time is right, or until you know how to do it is one of the greatest burglars of joy. Success is not the key to happiness - Happiness is the key to success If you love what you are doing, you will be successful 

 I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all I knew) - Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who

"It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it." 

"Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth."

"Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C s. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy"

  "Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;
And all good things are yours."   

"All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed waste-paper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing" 

  "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away."

  "Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."

  "Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve."

  "If you're the smartest person in your group - find a new group!"

  “Holding on to anything is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate. The only way to get anything in the physical universe is by letting go of it. Let go & it will be yours forever”.   

"If you can dream it, you can believe it.  If you can believe it, you can achieve it"

"No matter where you are in life right now, no matter who you are, no matter how old you are – it is never too late to be who you are meant to be.”

  “Your work is to discover your work and then, with all your heart, to give yourself to it"

  “Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you’re alive, it isn’t.”

"You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you"

  "Watch your thoughts, they become words Watch your words, they become actions, Watch your actions, they become your character, We must become the change we want to see"

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us"

"One joy scatters a hundred griefs"

"When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?"

"Joy is the feeling of grinning inside"

"Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of travelling"

 "Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have"

"Belief creates the actual fact"

"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul"

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars"

  "Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours."

  "Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right" 

"There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you "

  “Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy”

  "To do more for the world than the world does for you – that is success "

  "A good exercise for the heart is bending down and helping someone to get up"

"Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail"

"The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react"

"Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us"

  "Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory."

“Failure is an event, never a person.” 

"Watch your character, it becomes your destiny"

"Being miserable is a habit. Being happy is a habit. The choice is yours."

"Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family"

"I love myself for I am a beloved child of the universe and the universe lovingly takes care of me now"

  "Your thoughts and beliefs of the past have created this moment, and all the moments up to this moment. What you are now choosing to believe and think and say will create the next moment and the next day and the next month and the next year"

  "You are here to enable the divine purpose of the universe to unfold. That is how important you are"

  "Self-esteem and self-love are the opposites of fear; the more you like yourself, the less you fear anything"

  "Listen to your heart above all other voices"

  "One person can make a difference. You don’t have to be a big shot. You don’t have to have a lot of influence. You just have to have faith in your power to change things"

 'When I thought I couldn't go on, I forced myself to keep going. My success is based on persistence, not luck."

"Confidence comes from not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong"

"Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined."

Learning is Lovely

Like success, failure is many things to many people.  With positive mental attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again 

"Someday, somehow, somewhere, when you least expect it, the Universe will orchestrate something significant that changes your life forever. So step through the doorways of opportunity into a new beginning in your personal reality everyday."

"You don't really need someone to complete you. You only need to accept yourself completely. Then you are complete in every way you can be." - Dr Jeff Mullan

 "Your mind is the architect of the life you want to live, so lead your life by choice and not by chance. Head in the direction of the kind of life you want and live it as if it is moments away from being realized." ~ Dr Jeff Mullan