Great and deep quotes

 Hope you all enjoy these quotes, they happen to be some of my favorites. I keep them in a doc folder named inspiration and when ever I get the urge for a pick me up or even an occassional moment of wanting to inherit some wisdom, I click on my folder and walla! It always makes a positive difference in my life and in the way I view things.

Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure. - Joseph Sugarman

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique. -Walt Disney

This life’s dim windows of the soul, distorts the heavens from pole to pole, and leads you to believe a lie when you see with, not through, the eye. – William Blake

My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple. – John Lennon

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you plan to stop peddling. -Claude

Pepper

Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near. -Helen Rowland

Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don’t hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead surround yourself with optimistic people. - Zig Ziglar.

In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. -Albert Schweitzer

Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty. It merely moves from their faces to their hearts. - Martin Buxbaum.


To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. -Buddha

A wise man is more powerful than a strong man, and a man of knowledge than a man of might;
For it is by wise guidance that you wage your war, and the victory is due to a wealth of counselors. -Proverbs 24:5-6

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much. - Mother Teresa

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. - Melody Beattie

Some days you're the bug. Some days you're the windshield. – Price Cobb

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often just to save it from drying out completely. - Pam Brown

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him. -Abraham Lincoln

Jealousy is simply and clearly the fear that you do not have value. Jealousy scans for evidence to prove the point that others will be preferred and rewarded more than you. There is only one alternative self value. If you cannot love yourself, you will not believe that you are loved. You will always think it's a mistake or luck. Take your eyes off others and turn the scanner within. Find the seeds of your jealousy, clear the old voices and experiences. Put all the energy into building your personal and emotional security. Then you will be the one others envy, and you can remember the pain and reach out to them. -Jennifer James

We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions, it uses the same old basic principles over and over again. There is no real difference between the grass and the man who mows it. - Unknown

It’s not the critic that counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena. -Theodore Roosevelt

I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet. - Ancient Persian Saying