Inspiring Thoughts.

Anger is a condition in which 

the tongue works faster than the mind. 

You can’t change the past, 
but you can ruin the present 
by worrying over the future. 

Love…and you shall be loved. 

God always gives His best to those 
who leave the choice with Him. 

All people smile in the same language. 

A hug is a great gift… one size fits all. 
It can be given for any occasion 
and it’s easy to exchange. 

Everyone needs to be loved… 
especially when they do not deserve it. 

The real measure of a man’s wealth 
is what he has invested in eternity. 

Laughter is God’s sunshine. 

Everyone has beauty 
but not everyone sees it. 

It’s important for parents to live 
the same things they teach. 

Thank God for what you have, 
TRUST GOD for what you need. 

If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, 
you have no today to be thankful for. 

Man looks at outward appearance 
but the Lord looks within. 

The choice you make today 
will usually affect tomorrow. 

Take time to laugh, for it is 
the music of the soul. 

If anyone speaks badly of you, 
live so none will believe it. 

Patience is the ability to idle your motor 
when you feel like stripping your gears. 

Love is strengthened by working 
through conflicts together. 

The best thing parents can do 
for their children is to love each other. 

Harsh words break no bones 
but they do break hearts. 

To get out of a difficulty, 
one usually must go through it. 

We take for granted the things 
that we should be giving thanks for. 

Love is the only thing that can be 
divided without being diminished. 

Happiness is enhanced by others 
but does not depend upon others. 

For every minute you are angry with someone, 
you lose 60 seconds of happiness 
that you can never get back. 

Do what you can, for who you can, 
with what you have, and where you are. 

MOTIVATION

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your oldnonsense." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger (praise) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies." --Dale Carnegie 

Persistence

"Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educat ed derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan “Press On” has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race." ~Calvin Coolidge~

Step Out

"It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power." ~ Alan Cohen~

have faith

" When you have come to the edge of all light that you know and are about to drop off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly." ~Patrick Overton~

Prayer

Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud. ~Gerald Vann~

Inner Beauty

"Our inability to see beauty doesn’t suggest in the slightest that beauty is not there. Rather, it suggests that we are not looking carefully enough or with broad enough perspective to see the beauty." ~Rabbi Harold Kushner~

Achievement

Five minutes, just before going to sleep, given to a bit of directed imagination regarding achievement possibilities of the morrow, will steadily and increasingly bear fruit, particularly if all ideas of difficulty, worry or fear are resolutely ruled out and replaced by those of accomplishment and smiling courage.
~Frederick Pierce~

Can't have it all

Don't fool yourself that you are going to have it all. You are not. Psychologically, having it all is not even a valid concept. The marvelous thing about human beings is that we are perpetually reaching for the stars. The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all.             ~ Dr. Brothers~

Failure

"Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere." 
                         ~Barack Obama~

Be different

"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary." 

~Cecil Beaton~

Define 'rich'

"No one can tell whether they are richer or poor by turning to their ledger. It is the heart that makes a person rich. One is rich according to what one is, not according to what one has." ~ Henry Beecher

Motivate yourself

"People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents."
                     ~Andrew Carnegie~

Character

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved." 

~~=..Helen Keller

Attitude

"I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances." ~ Martha Washington~

courage

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. 
~ Eddie Rickenbacker

Positive Learning Quote

For the total development of the human being, solitude as a means of cultivating sensitivity becomes a necessity. One has to know what it means to be alone, what it is to meditate, what it is to die; and the implications of solitude, of meditation, of death, can be known only by seeking them out. These implications cannot be taught, they must be learnt. One can indicate, but learning by what is indicated is not the experiencing of solitude or meditation. To experience what is solitude and what is meditation, one must be in in a state of inquiry; only a mind that is in a state of inquiry is capable of learning. But when inquiry is suppressed by previous knowledge, or by the authority and experience of another, then learning becomes mere imitation, and imitation causes a human being to repeat what is learnt without experiencing it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti, Famous Indian Thinker