Quotes For 2015

Very quickly a week of January has gone by. It will be Christmas soon. Time and tide they say wait for no man. I offer some quotes for you to ponder, wonder and think deeper.

Think globally, act locally. Change yourself to change the world.

Prevention is always better than the cure just as saving paper is easier than planting trees. 

There is enough to satisfy every man's need but not every man's greed.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Do not resist them as that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. - Lao Tzu

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both and you won't have to hunt for happiness. - William E. Gladstone

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. - Steve Jobs

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. - Oprah Winfrey

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is the noblest; Second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. - Confucius

Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. - Henry Ford

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Family is not an important thing. It is everything. - Michael J. Fox

Keep love in your heart. A life without love is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. - Oscar Wilde

Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish. - Barbara Smith

We gain strength, courage and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face...we must do that which we think we cannot. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Reach high for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. - Rabindranath Tagore

Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back and choose the path that leads to wisdom. - Buddha

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend. - Bruce Lee

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. - Buddha

The mind is everything. What you think you become. - Buddha

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When the mind goes beyond the thought of "the me", the experiencer, the observer, the thinker, then there is a possibility of a happiness that is incorruptible. - Jiddu Krishnamurthi

Snowflakes are one of the most fragile things but look at what they can do when they stick together. - Unknown

Your deepest roots are in nature. No matter who you are, where you live or what kind of life you lead, you remain irrevocably linked with the rest of creation. - Charles Cook

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it. - Lao Tzu

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one. - Vladimir Nobokov

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it is the grain of sand in your shoe. - Robert W. Service

People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did but people will never forget how you made them feel. - Maya Angelou

All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. - Blaise Pascal

There is no such thing as standing still. You either progress or regress. 

Let your dreams be bigger than your fears, your actions louder than your words and your faith stronger than your feelings.

There is hope in dreams, imagination and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that they can learn to let go. Things go wrong so that they will appreciate then when they are right.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. 

If you wish to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is an attitude.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in life - career or personal, you must first be that worthwhile person in self development.

Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable of. - John Wooden

Compassion, tolerance, forgiveness and sense of self-discipline are qualities that help us lead our daily lives with a calm mind. - Dalai Lama 

A man of calm is like a shady tree. People who need shelter come to it. - Toba Beta

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. - James Allen

To be at peace, does not mean that you are amiss of every storm, it only means that you can find a calm within the storm. - Tania Elizabeth

There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy. - Ralph H. Blum 

Set peace of mind as your highest goal and organise your life around it. - Brian Tracy

Being relaxed, at peace with yourself, confident, emotionally neutral loose and free-floating, these are the keys to successful performance in almost everything. - Wayne W. Dyer

Focus and Simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex; you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. - Steve Jobs

Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become. - Paramahansa Yogananda

Enjoy the simple things in life...for one day when you'll look back and realize they were the big things. - Robert Brault

Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. - Albert Einstein

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need. - Vernon Howard

If you go out looking for friends, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere. - Zig Zaglar

Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. - Lao Tzu

You'll never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of success is found in your daily routine. - John C. Maxwell

Life teaches you the art of letting go in every event. When you have learnt to let go, you will be joyful and as you start being joyful more will be given to you. - Sri Sri

Character/Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitation. - Peter Drucker

Discernment is the ability to grasp, comprehend and evaluate clearly. It means we can see the true nature of things; it allows us to distinguish between what is real and what is imitation. - Anonymous

Passion - Love what you do and do what you love. Passion is the key that opens the door to joy and abundance. - David Cushieri

Focus - Along with a strong belief in your own inner voice, you also need laser-like focus combined with unwavering determination. - Larry Flynt

Competence - It goes beyond words. It's the leader's ability to say it, plan it and do it in such a way that others know that you know how  and know that they want to follow you. - John C. Maxwell

Communication - Deep listening is miraculous for both listener and speaker. When someone receives us with open-hearted, non-judging, intensely interested listening, our spirits expand. - Sue Patton Thoele

Teachability - We have an innate desire to endlessly learn, grow and develop. Once we yield to this inclination for continuous and never-ending imrpovement, we lead a life of endless accomplishments and satisfaction. - Chuck Gallozzi

Responsibility - Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done and have not done. - Hubert Selby

Attitude - What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty and every difficulty has an opportunity. - J. Sidlow Baxter


Gratitude - Develop an attitude of gratitude and give thanks for everything that happens to you knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than you current situation. - Brian Tracy

Be of good cheer!