The difference between must and should is the life you want and the life you have.
Knowledge is power,
Understanding is using it,
Wisdom is controlling it,
Magic is knowing how.
They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?
– Princess Diana
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
– Benjamin Franklin
Be the type of person you want to meet.
Toothache reminds us that even the sweetest things on earth can cause pain.
Learn to give without saying anything, but when receiving say something.
Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, it’s the Only Time You Can See the Stars..
Talk to people about what they want to hear and they’ll stay for more.
Talk to them about what you want them to hear and they’ll soon turn away.
When I count other people’s blessings I lose sight of mine
This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice. It’s not how innocent you are but how you put your case. (jurisprudence)
If you are being compared, it means you are not what you are.
Never chase love, affection or attention, if it isn’t given freely by another person, it isn’t worth having.
If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not, you’ll find an excuse.
Our actions shout what our mouths can’t utter.
Sometimes we need to be:
Hurt – In order to grow
Fail – In order to know
Lose – In order to gain
Some lessons are learned best through pain.
Smart people build businesses, wise people build relationships.
Be like the flower that gives its fragrance to even the hand that crushes it.
Forgiveness doesn’t make the past better, but it makes better the future.
If you wanna be thankful for this day, Don’t fill your heart with regrets from yesterday and worries of tomorrow.
Not where I am born is my home, but there, where I am happy and well.
I am responsible for what I say to you, not for what you understand.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
– George Washington
Never hunt those things that you can’t kill.
When you look good, you feel good.
When you feel good, you do good.
When you do good, you are good.
The wind cannot shake a mountain. Neither praise nor blame moves the wise man.
– Buddha
Don’t be upset that your roses have thorns, celebrate that your thorns have got roses.
Freedom begins from the mind and imprisonment also begins from the mind. That is to say, your thoughts can imprison your whole life or free you.
The more excuses you make, the less you will accomplish.
– Dr T.P.Chia
Young people need to vote. They need to get out there. Every vote counts. Educate yourself too. Don’t just vote. Know what you’re voting for, and stand by that.
Nature is slow, but sure; she works no faster than need be; she is the tortoise that wins the race by her perseverance.
– Henry David Thoreau
Don’t always be funny, don’t lose your character.
What you think, you create. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you become.
We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
– Alan Watts
If you think only of yourself, You will be the only one thinking of you.
When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
– Japanese Proverb
A real lion doesn’t have to roar to let everyone to know he’s the king.
Everyone in this world is selfish, the only difference is that who is LESS!
The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
– Alexander Pope
Beginning is easy – Continuing is hard.
– Japanese Proverb
Be careful what you wish for, you might just get it.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
– Ashleigh Brilliant
Money is not everything but everything needs money.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
– Mark Twain
A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.
Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
– Rumi
That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.
You don’t drown by falling in the water you drown by staying there.
Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
– Lao Tzu
Read widely, think broadly, judge wisely.
– Dr T.P.Chia
The mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work unless it’s open.
– Jordan Maxwell
He who does not vote has no right to complain.
There comes a time in life when you have to let go of all the pointless drama & the people who create it & surround yourself with people that make you laugh so hard that you forget the bad and focus solely on the good. After all, life is too short to be anything but happy.
Never start a thing that you can’t finish
A father who teaches his son how to lie, will one day lie to him.
The satisfaction you receive from doing things that benefits others greatly exceeds the satisfaction you receive from doing things that only benefit yourself.
A man is not judged by when he is around his friends: he is judged when no one is around.
In a negotiation, we must find a solution that pleases everyone, because no one accepts that they must lose and that the other must win. Both must win!
Don’t judge people on what they do or say to others judge them on how well that treat you.
– Blake Jones
Selfishness leads to violence, and violence leads to more violence. Violence leads to revenge, which again leads to selfishness.
The wise realizes that the chain of hatred needs to be broken.
Those who criticize our generation forget who raised it.
If you don’t know your worth, people will put a cheap price tag on you.
– Matshona Dhliwayo
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
– Rabindranath Tagore
Happy is the person who knows how to love his own life.
Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.
– Confucius
What elders can see sitting under a tree, children will not see sitting on the top of the roof of the house.
Never count your riches by the sound of coins in your pocket but by the number of knocks on your door.
We spend too much time thinking and not enough time doing.
Maybe it’s not about the happy ending. Maybe it’s about the story.
The past is practice.
Even the best fall down sometimes.
Wake up every morning with the thought that something wonderful is about to happen.
Quiet people hear everything.
Loud people are too loud to hear anyone but themselves.
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
– Charles Spurgeon
Introduced to wisdom may make one man happy and another sad.
Being wise and cunning are two different things, split apart by a fine line.
Elders know best, they’ve seen more than you, so listen intently. It may prevent you from making the same mistakes they did.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
If you can solve the problem, why do you worry?
If you can’t solve the problem, again, why do you worry?
SOME PEOPLE AREN’T LOYAL TO YOU, THEY ARE LOYAL TO THE NEED OF YOU. ONCE THEIR NEED CHANGES, SO DOES THEIR LOYALTY.
– Leonardo DiCaprio
Don’t be the judge and jury of that of which you know nothing about…or of those who’s shoes you haven’t traveled in.
Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Some people know what to say. Smart people know when to say it.
Normal is an illusion. What is normal to the spider, is chaos to the fly.
If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.
– Vincent van Gogh
Realize your true nature. That is all there is to do. Know yourself as you are – infinite Spirit. That is practical religion. Everything else is impractical, for everything else will perish.
– Swami Vivekananda
The world is at WAR for Peace or is Peace The Reason the world is at WAR
In a relationship, the level of complexity depends on the character of the other.
Do not degrade yourself to upgrade anyone else.
What is done in the dark…will eventually come into the light.
Its the job that is never started that takes longest to finish.
– Tolkien
Don’t undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others, we are all different and that’s why everyone is special.
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
– Albert Einstein
Reality is a projection of your thoughts or the things you habitually think about.
– Stephen Richards
You can’t progress unless you learn not only to receive criticism, but also invite criticism.
– Gulzar
Never take time for granted…you never know when you’ll run out of it.
The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up.
– Albert Einstein
If the first grape you eat is bitter then you will not bother eating grapes again.
If the first grape you eat is a sweet one then you will be willing to eat a lot of bitter grapes in search of another sweet one.
Being persistent may lead you to the door but consistency is the key which unlocks it.
– Kenny Dasinger
Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.
– Roy Bennett
God doesn’t cushion every blow otherwise you will never grow.
May We Never let the things we can’t have spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have.
The Quality Of Your Life Is Determined By The Quality Of Your Thoughts.
Worry is only interest paid on trouble before you receive it.
There are those who deserve the way they are treated, and there are those who are treated the way they deserve!.
Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be.
If we were supposed to talk more than listen we would have two mouths and one ear.
Misquotations are the only quotes never misquoted.
(Hesketh Pearson)
Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring about what others think.
– Roy Bennett
Forgive but never forget.
Praying does not necessarily make you a good human being, but being a good human being makes you a good human being.
If you don’t fight to get what you want, you’ll be forced to like what you get.
Do not compare yourself to others because you do not know what they went through or what they did to be where they are.
Your mind creates your reality. If you expect nothing, you open up the universe to give you options. If you expect the worst, you usually get it.
What must happen will happen
If you want to see that how much rich you are, just count the number of people around you.
If I were to say, ”God, why me?” about the bad things, then I should have said, ”God, why me?” about the good things that happened in my life.
– Arthur Ashe
Nothing of importance can be built and expected to last without having a strong foundation to build upon.
Don’t use a cannon to kill a mosquito.
No one likes: Mondays, Homework, Fake friends, School, Being ignored, Drama, Liars, An empty fridge, Being replaced, Slow internet.
No one knows where the shoe pinches, but he who wears it.
– Irish Proverb
Money makes the world go round, but faith in God makes it go forward.
We are all different. Don’t judge, understand instead.
– Roy Bennett
If you can’t accept someone for who they are, you can’t accept yourself.
Glass half empty implies that there is room for improvement.
Most of the things that we desire in life are expensive. But truth is that the things that really satisfy us are absolutely free: love, joy and laughter.
– Dilip Kumar
Thoughts are like an open ocean, they can either move you forward within its waves, or sink you under deep into its abyss.
– Anthony Liccione
Noise proves nothing, Often a hen who has laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
– Mark Twain
He who boasts the loudest, often has the least to boast about.
Anything In Excess Is Poison
Stand tall and none can look down to you
bite and be hit; speak and confuse
You lose the battle as soon as you underestimate you opponent
A foolish man does the same thing the same way and expects a different result.
You’ll never truly understand something until it actually happens to you.
Never spoil what you have now by desiring what you don’t have, because what you have now is one among the many things you once prayed for.
People always seemed to know half of history, and to get it confused with the other half.
– Jane Haddam
No matter how you vanish and wax a car it’s the engine that matters.
The first step toward change is acceptance. Once you accept yourself, you open the door to change. That’s all you have to do. Change is not something you do, it’s something you allow.
– Will Garcia
Don’t ever label your thoughts as good or bad. Thoughts are always neutral. Your actions are what determine the type of person you are.
If you know that you are not wise, then you are wise knowing that you are not.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
– Plato
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
– Dale Carnegie
The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
– Clarence Jordan
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
– Lao Tzu
When you have to make hard decision, flip a coin.
Why? Because when that coin is in air, you suddenly know what you’re hoping for.:)
Wisdom is a great teacher and a fool can learn from no other.
People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.
– Stephen Hawking
It is better to fail at something that will ultimately succeed, than to succeed at something that will ultimately fail.
Some things are better left unsaid.
At the devil’s booth are all things sold. Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold.
– James Russell Lowell
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
In the end nobody will care about how rich or popular you were, they’ll care most about how you treated them.
If your absence makes no impact, then your presence is a joke.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional…………
The awkward moment when you accept a compliment that wasn’t meant for you.
A good heart is better than a good character; because a good character can be learned, but a good heart cannot be borrowed.
Nothing in this world is good or bad. Our thinking makes it so. A knife is good when a surgeon uses it to save a life & bad when a terrorist uses it to kill.
– RVM
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open!
The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life.
– Sadhguru
Don’t discount yourself, no matter what you’re doing.
– Mark Zuckerberg
The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth.
– Che Guevara
If you can’t beat them, then join them.
How they treat you is how they feel about you.
Rejecting negative temptations is a sign of courage. Doing what is right and good is a sign of wisdom.
– Dr T.P.Chia
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
– Nelson Mandela
You may look DOWN on your paper for DESPERATION,
Or look UP for INSPIRATION,
But never look SIDEWAYS for CONFIRMATION.
The one- eyed man doesn’t thank God until he sees a blind man.
You know when something is truly a part of you, when you feel pain from its removal.
Small mind talks about people;
Good mind talks about events;
Great mind talks about ideas;
Sound mind however talks, about the wisdom and deeper meaning of what people, events and/or ideas is all about.
Stop wishing for a good life. Start working for a successful life.
– Dr T.P.Chia
The one who wants to wear the crown, must bear its weight.
If you can’t change a situation, adjust to it.
Just because
Just because I don’t say anything, doesn’t mean I don’t know.
A negative mind will never give you a positive life.
Never underestimate your problem or your ability to deal with it.
– Robert H. Schuller
Don’t bother about the people who judge you, just do whatever makes you happy in your life. Because your happiness might be the reason for someone’s smile.
A truly wise man will learn more from a foolish question, than a true fool will learn from a wise answer.
Many things people can give or take from you, but character is your choice alone.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
– Benjamin Franklin
If you can’t say something nice about someone, don’t say anything at all.
Do not prove them wrong, but prove to yourself you can do it.
Life is worth learning and learning is worth a lifetime.
A man of words and not deeds is like a garden full of weeds.
Everyone likes a joker, but no one lends him money.
When you’ve got your hand in the lions mouth, work easy until you get it out.
There are stupids with stupidity, lunatics with lunacy. But why not humans with humanity?
The only constant thing in life is change . . . :- )
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
– Bob Marley
You can always make your talent your profession but never can you make you profession your talent.
The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.
– Stephen Hawking
Knowledge is realizing that the street is one- way, wisdom is looking both directions anyway.
Everyone is best at something but nobody is best at everything.
To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
– Rene Descartes
An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.
– Plato
Fishes are caught by their mouth.
Those who have the ability to be grateful are the ones who have the ability to achieve greatness.
– Steve Maraboli
He who talks about privacy is naive; God has been listening in on your conversations, and even reading your thoughts since the day you were born.
We often forget the things worth remembering, but remember the things worth forgetting.
I cried because I had no Shoes…….
Till I saw a man with no feet………
Life is full of blessings …….
Sometimes we are just too blind …..
To see them…..
The closer you get to the light the greater your shadow becomes.
Together we stand, divided we fall.
Creativity is more important then knowledge.
The only way to be a good talker is learn to listen.
A great mind talks about ideas, an average mind talks about event, and an small mind talks about people.
Words of the wise, spoken quietly, should be heard rather than the shout of a ruler.
Always be thankful for what you have, because you can always have less.
All human wisdom is contained in these two words – Wait and Hope.
– Alexandre Dumas
The more I see, the less I know for sure.
– John Lennon
Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.
– Denis Waitley
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
– Charles Darwin
Never flaunt anything you don’t have and never pretend to be somebody you’re not.
The efficiency of a man is determined by his ability to improve his attitude.
Don’t go for luxuries if you’ve not built assets that will take care of those luxuries.
Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
– George Eliot
Don’t judge my journey until you’ve walked my path.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
– Ashleigh Brilliant
Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.
– Benjamin Franklin
I would anytime choose to be wrong for the right reasons over being right for the wrong reasons
Be humble, be patient, be persistent.
– Dr T.P.Chia
By a sweet tongue and kindness, you can drag an elephant with a hair.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
– Albert Einstein
Unless you try to do something beyond you have already mastered, you will never grow.
Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.
– Anne Frank
The best relation is the one in which you feel free to show even your negative side and still have the hope that it will strengthen your relationship.
Grow everyday.
Be grateful.
Be respectful.
Be obedient.
Be wise.
You decide your habits, your habits decide your future.
LIVE as if your KIDS were watching…
Don’t take yourself too seriously. No one else will care as much as you do.
A man is the product of his thought.
A good advice is a second mother of a child who has no parent.
Do not claim to be wise, it is the people and the words of your mouth that will prove your wisdom.
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems
– Mahatma Gandhi
People only judge you because you have something they want.
– Blake Jones
To survive you must find yourself then it won’t matter where you are
The things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
You can’t blame the rain for not taking your umbrella.
– Kelvin Osaghae
Do not strive to shake great men; shake the world and great men will strive to shake your hands.
Only you know what you are, others only know who you are.
Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.
– George Carlin
Never force anything. Give it your best shot, and then let it be. If it’s meant to be, it will be.
The sharpest sword goes through the hottest fire.
Your mind is your own mirror. You are what you think you are. Self-belief is one of the fundamentals of achieving success in life.
– Dr Roopleen
It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.
– Malala Yousafzai
The main change is that I have greyed. Hopefully, I have become more mature. Along with that I am very comfortable with this dialogue with myself. I no longer want to impress anybody.
– Amol Palekar
Greatness requires sacrifice.
Even when you think you are the best, there is always someone better than you.
If it ain’t tough it ain’t worth it, good things come with great struggle.
Even if you don’t like me, the color of my blood will be red and even if you hate me, the color of our blood will be red.
– P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar
If there is no price to be paid, it is also not of value.
– Albert Einstein
Knowledge is the only asset that nobody can steal from you.
Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
– Socrates
Never walk on the travelled paths,it only leads you where others have already been
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
– Jonathan Kozel
Make your last words your true words.
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
– Maya Angelou
Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.
– Euripides
I would rather start at the bottom where the only way is up than start at the top where the only way is down
Remember when you see that man at the top of the mountain he wasn’t dropped there.
Minds are like parachutes: they both work best when open.
Good times become good memories and bad times become good lessons.
There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.
– George Shinn
Dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum.
(English: “I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am”)
– Rene Descartes
Nothing is more dangerous than a man who has nothing to loose.
To be old and wise, you must first have to be young and stupid.
The difference between possible and impossible lies in a man’s determination.
What belongs to everyone belongs to no one.
Don’t hesitate to be corrected because correction is best medicine for progress.
One who conquers himself is greater than one who conquers a city.
The secret to world peace, is to go home and love your babies.
– Mother Teresa.
When brothers fight to the death, a stranger inherits their father’s estate.
– African Proverb
No matter how tall you are, you can’t see tomorrow.
Lean on the stronger,
Support the weaker,
Everyone’s baggage doesn’t weigh the same.
It’s crazy how you can do nice things for people all the time and they never notice. But once you make one mistake. It’s never forgotten.
A wise man listens no matter how stupidly someone is talking.
Helping the weak will make you strong.
The angels are always near to those who are grieving, to whisper to them that their loved ones are safe in the hand of God.
– Eileen Elias Freeman
Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.
– Edward Abbey
I believe that business sophistication is a mix of good education, remarkable set of skills, hard work, good timing and wisdom to recognize which is required when.
Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine.
if you want to shine like sun first you have to burn like it.
– Adolf Hitler
Even the smartest man cannot make wise decisons without sufficient knowledge
A drama queen cannot exist without an audience.
When people get hurt they learn to hate, when people hurt others they become hated and are racked with guilt… But knowing pain allows people to be kind… Pain allows people to grow and how you grow it up to you, you know pain, you think about it and the answer to find it is up to you.
A man once told me. The only way to get wise is to get experienced.
There is no limitation on what we can do unless we put a limitation on what we think.
When I’m waiting in line for my food I tend to rehearse my order in my head.
Never apologize for saying how you feel that’s like saying “sorry for being real”.
Do not always follow the majority, the minority which is you, will be right.
You don’t have to be friends with everyone, but you should be freindly.
Watch the pennies, the dollars will take care of themselves.
There are too many people, and too few human beings.
The Moon doesn’t shine on its own: it reflects the light from the sun.
The worst battle you have to fight is between what you know and what you feel.
– Turcois Ominek
In our play we reveal what kind of people we are.
– Ovid
Do not mistake humility for stupidity.
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If you sleep on the floor, you don’t have to worry about falling of the bed.
The whole of nature cries out at our mistreatment of her. If the planet were a patient, we would have treated her long ago.
– Prince Charles
Liars never prosper
Promote what you love instead of bashing what you hate.
Do the same old thing, get the same old results.
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
It’s wise to listen more and talk less. It’s wise to talk pointedly and briefly.
– Dr T.P.Chia
The best things in life aren’t things.
– Art Buchwald
I would rather try and fail than never try and wonder.
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
– Edith Wharton
Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
– Dale Carnegie
Worrying is like a rocking horse. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you any where.
Heaven on earth, not a place to find but a decision to make.
It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.
– Thomas Fuller
A wise man thinks a lot but doesn’t say much.
– Dr T.P.Chia
If you’re feeling helpless, help someone.
– Aung San Suu Kyi
You’ll never miss a good thing till it’s gone.
Wisdom produces a wise man, but never a perfect man. The wisest man can also make mistakes.
– Dr T.P.Chia
Drama does not just walk into your life, you either create it, invite it, or you associate with people who love to bring it into your life.
Prudence, common sense and wisdom make a better life.
– Dr T.P.Chia
Never worry about the delay of success compared to others because the construction of a pyramid takes more time than ordinary building.
Don’t Make Permanent Decisions On Temporary Emotions!
A lot of problems in the world would disappear if we talk to each other instead of about each other.
It’s not where you start that matters. It’s how you finish that counts.
If you stay quiet when you disagree, you can’t complain about the outcome.
You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
– Barbara De Angelis
God is clever, but not dishonest.
– Albert Einstein
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
– Leo Aikman
Sometimes not knowing is better than knowing.
Don’t make someone a priority in your life if you’re only an option in theirs.
Never trust completely a stranger;neither do a friend. Because the later was once a stranger.
Not everyone things the way you think, knows the things you know, believes the things you believe, nor acts the way you would act. Remember this and you will go a long way in getting along with people.
– Arthur Forman
Bad times make you appreciate the good times.
Every man is the architect of his own future.
I believe we all have our wise and foolish moments.
Sometimes we actually have something to say and sometimes we just want to say something.
Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.
Don’t shape your character like a garden on which everyone can walk.. Shape it like a sky who everyone will try to reach..
Your heart is free, have courage to follow it.
Sometimes we don’t get what we want, we get what we’re supposed to have.
It’s always the ones who tell you what you are doing wrong…that have usually done worse.
One dollar earned is better than 5 dollars found.
You know something, it’s okay to be jealous of someone! As human beings, we always strive to be the best in everything. So,it’s perfectly normal to be jealous of people who are better than you.
As the twig is bent so shall the tree grow – the way we behave as adults is the result of the way we were brought up.
Everyone has the right to be wrong, but nobody has the right to knowingly commit what is wrong.
– Dr T.P.Chia
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
– Albert Schweitzer
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
– Abraham Lincoln
Don’t get too close to anything in life. Even your shadow leaves you in darkness.
Do not await Heaven Above if we have failed to create it on Earth.
Don’t trade passion for glory… Passion makes you who you are. (:
The best things about pictures are that they don’t change even though the people in them do.
Because reason…is the only thing that makes us men, and distinguishes us from the beasts, I would prefer to believe that it exists, in its entirety, in each of us…
– Rene Descartes
No man was ever wise by chance.
When you are good to others you are best to yourself.
Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.
– Bruce Lee
Simplicity is the key to brilliance.
– Bruce Lee
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
– Bruce Lee
– Not a word passes between us.. Not because we have nothing to say, but because we don’t have to say anything- Amir Agha- The Kite Runner (book)
Thoughts are like burning stars, and ideas, they flood, they stretch the universe.
– Criss Jami
Where there is a creation, there should be a creator.
– Rajinikanth
Clean your mind, clean your heart, clean your soul and you will be at peace.
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
– Muhammad Ali
Nothing is cheap, nothing is expensive. People say it’s expensive because they have little in their pockets, and they say it’s cheap because they have more than enough in their pockets.
A truly wise man knows about himself, his weaknesses and limits, and has the power to master or control himself.
– Dr T.P.Chia
Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Angry words are true words expressed at the wrong time.
He who recognizes a wise person, himself is wise coz he himself is wise enough to find that the other is wise!
(read it slowly…if you r wise you will get it!)
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If you’re all wrapped up in yourself, it simply means you’re overdressed.
Be careful with your words. Once they are said, they can be only forgiven, not forgotten.
Beauty is like riches, keep it to yourself and you’ll be miserable, share it with another and both you and the person will be happy.
Little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
If you are not part of the cure, then you are part of the problem.
When on your high horse, please don’t trample on those who brought you to the stables.
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
– Helen Keller
Violence won’t solve a thing. It makes it more challenging to solve, though.
He who knows and know that he knows and still want to know is wise, follow him. He who knows not and knows that he knows not and wants to know, is a child teach him. He who knows not and knows not that he knows not and still don’t want to know is a fool… Let him be.
He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
– Lao Tzu
Anyone who makes up their mind about an issue before they hear the issue is a fool.
– Chris Rock
Humility comes before honor, Pride comes before the fall.
Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps if you are not willing to move your feet.
It is a great thing to do a little thing well.
What we know is very little, but what we are ignorant of is immense.
When you go out looking for honey, be expected to get stung by bees.
Fortune favors the brave.
Don’t underestimate you intuition and gut feelings!
– Dr T.P.Chia
A blind man can see as well as a man with heightened vision.
For seeing is not only looking, for it is also to understand.
Knowledge speaks, Wisdom listens.
He who laughs at others will soon be laughed at.
Don’t let the expectations and opinions of other people affect your decisions. It’s your life, not theirs. Do what matters most to you; do what makes you feel alive and happy. Don’t let the expectations and ideas of others limit who you are. If you let others tell you who you are, you are living their reality – not yours. There is more to life than pleasing people. There is much more to life than following others’ prescribed path. There is so much more to life than what you experience right now. You need to decide who you are for yourself. Become a whole being. Adventure.
– Roy Bennett
Rumors are carried by enemies, spread by ignorance and accepted by people without inquiries.
A wise man admits the wrong but a foolish man tries to justify himself…
It is better to have it and need it, than to need it and not have it.
– Theodore Roosevelt
All that is needed in this world for evil men to succeed is for good men to do nothing.
Words are powerful. They have the ability to create a moment and the strength to destroy it.
A fly that does not listen to advice follows the corpse to its grave.
A silent river runs deep.
How can one win the lottery, if they never buy a ticket.
Expect anything from anyone, the devil was once an angel.
The mind has the magical power of shaping and changing you and your life.
– Dr T.P.Chia
Imam Ali said : A person’s deeds must be better than his words, a person’s words must not be better than his deeds.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so i am changing myself.
– Rumi
If you follow the crowd you might get lost in it.
When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them.
– Plato
It’s not what you say. It’s how you say it.
Never be dependent on any one because even your own shadow leaves you in darkness.
Just because you don’t think it’s right, doesn’t mean it’s wrong.
The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.
– William McFee
People always have too good an opinion about themselves, and they often sabotage themselves without realizing it.
– Dr T.P.Chia
In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.
– William Penn
Everyone wants to be strong like the mighty oak, but when the great winds come the oak falls over.
Everyone should strive to be like bamboo, because bamboo is strong like the oak, but when the great winds come the bamboo bends, adjusts, and let’s it pass.
Even in the darkest days light will always win.
What goes around comes around… Ten- fold.
How you live your life now, is how you lived your life in your pastlife and how you live your life now is how you will live your life in your future life.
There are no short cuts to any place worth going
I am 11 and these are some I came up with
Life is not about how many things you have in your possesion but how many friends you have by your side.
If all you do is complain about the bad times then you will never enjoy and remember the good times.
A winner listens, a loser just waits until it is their turn to talk.
Don’t be so quick to judge, you don’t know the hardships people don’t speak of.
Do the right thing, even though it’s difficult it sets you free and gives you peace of mind.
Compliment people. Magnify their strengths, not their weaknesses.
– Joyce Meyer
It’s stupid to boast about yourself. It’s foolish to flatter and pamper yourself. It’s wrong to be lenient with yourself.
– Dr T.P.Chia
Don’t bite off the hand that feeds you.
You only meet a handful of really good people in life. Hold on to them.
To be wise is to do more thinking and less talking.
– Dr T.P.Chia
If you want to get over OCD you need to be as strong as the disorder.
A man’s real strength is not based on how hard he hits but how much he can take and keep on going.
Low lifes are those who care only for themselves.
Regular people are those who care for not only themselves, but their family and close friends.
Great people are those who care for their extended family and those around them.
Heroes are those who would put their life at risk for people they don’t even know.
If you hang out with chickens, you’re going to cluck and if you hang out with eagles, you’re going to fly.
– Steve Maraboli
Those who can’t dance say the music is no good.
– Jamaican Proverb
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me!
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
– Bertrand Russell
If you ever find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is to quit digging.
When we’re valued, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
– John F. Kennedy
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
– Pearl Bailey
The (BEST) person to try to be is: (YOURSELF)
The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
– Charles Dickens
There is no substitute for hard work.
– Thomas A. Edison
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
– Oprah Winfrey
No one man can do everything, but everyone can do something.
Never say you can’t if you haven’t tried it.
A hungry man is an angry man.
– Bob Marley
Just because you don’t see it, doesn’t mean it’s not there.
No one can carry the weight of the world on their shoulders, lest they have another world to stand on.
Change does not require sacrifice. Change is sacrifice.
There’s no room for you in this world. Face it; if you want to fit in then you have to push others out.
Always act like the least people you want to be watching you are watching you, because they probably are.
It doesn’t matter where you stand, as long as you’re standing tall.
It’s always worth considering what you don’t know.
Sometimes, you can step up by backing down.
True knowledge isn’t about what others teach you, but what you learn on your own.
Don’t be serious, be sincere
Learning is a matter of gathering knowledge; wisdom is applying that knowledge.
– Dr Roopleen
Being cool, is not trying to be cool.
Don’t blame others for your misery, because you are the architect of your own life.
There can be neither today without yesterday nor tomorrow without today.
– Kim Jong-un
It is better to fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
When you’re in the middle of an argument: Sometimes it is better to be quiet than to prolong the argument even when you know you have a point and other person refuses to listen. Let it pass for there is always a time when that person would be in the same position you were in.
Knowledge is nothing without the wisdom to use it.
A real man treats his lady the same way he wants another man to treat his daughter.
Don’t worry about a thing, every little thing is gonna be alright.
– Bob Marley
Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.
– Bill Cosby
Sometimes, its not what you say that matters, its what you don’t.
Make your day count – do something worth doing every day.
– Dr T.P.Chia
Sometimes it is necessary to be lonely in order to prove that you are right.
– Vladimir Putin
Rocks are hard as anything, but the water still over comes it…
You gotta learn to follow before you can lead.
Every ending is a new beginning.
Tomorrow never comes.
Knowledge is power.
Past is the key to the future.
Remember your past, live in the present and plan for the future.
If you can’t hear the music then you think the dancer is mad.
Stay hungry, stay foolish.
– Steve Jobs
The first step of getting what you want is having the courage to get rid of what you don’t.
One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching.
A wise man knows he doesn’t know everything.
Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self esteem – check that you’re not just surrounded by jerks.
Idle hands are the Devil’s workshop.
Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.
– William Arthur Ward
A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.
Beware of a man of one book.
– St. Thomas Aquinas
What makes a man a man is not his body size nor his age but his sense of reasoning and his ability to make the right decision.
Whenever someone talks behind your back and it comes around back to you, go up to the person and say this… “Hey thanks for talking about me behind my back, it is nice to know that I have a fan club!”
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
– Vince Lombardi
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot loose.
– Jim Elliot
Wisdom doesn’t come with age but with experience.
A wise man talks less and says more.
God did not give me ears to hear lies, but also gave me eyes to see the truth & ignorance in the world…
People can’t go wrong if you don’t let them & they can’t go right if unless you let them.
A foolish dog barks at a flying bird.
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living.
– Roy Bennett
Most things are difficult before they are easy.
You’ll appear to get worse before you truly get any better.
Intelligence is not measured by words but is measured by actions.
People are often compared to as a river. Rough is shallow, calm is deep.
Bring a man down to his knees, and fear him more than any other enemy.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from the top of a mountain.
War is old men talking, and young men dying.
Don’t find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain
– Henry Ford
Wisdom attracts honor. Foolishness invites disgrace.
– Dr T.P.Chia
For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool.
– A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Don’t kill doves in the garden. You kill one and the others won’t come.
– Malala Yousafzai
Patience is not a virtue, it is a waste of time.
Wisdom is more than knowledge, intelligence and experience – it is the sum of good sense, understanding, insightful judgment and brilliant farsightedness.
– Dr T.P.Chia
A bad habit is like a comfortable bed, easy to get in difficult to get out.
The best mind- altering drug is truth.
– Lily Tomlin
Everything in life is relative – and I do mean everything. Some will always have more than you and you will always have more than someone else.
Being weird or different should only be defined by location. The next time you see someone weird or different, remember that you could pick them up and put them somewhere else on the earth and they would be considered normal – AND you might be considered weird or different.
Fish and visitors smell in three days.
– Benjamin Franklin
Should you find yourself knee deep in problematic troubles, remember these two things: You will never see the solution if you keep your eye on the problem; The type of thinking that got you into trouble is NOT the type of thinking that will get you out!
You will not miss the water until the well runs dry.
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
– Horace Mann
Pick your fights;
lose the battle,win the war.
I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
– Abraham Lincoln
Add patience, subtract hatred and anger, multiply hope and divide love for everyone to share.
Knowledge is power.
A wise person doesn’t speaks a lot. A fool always speaks a lot.
When you are in light everything follows you but if you are darkness, even your shadow does not follow.
What you believe is not nearly as important as you how you live your life.
– Dr T.P.Chia
Make your own rules or be a slave to another man’s.
– William Blake
The Thief who has no opportunity to steal, thinks he is an Honest man.
– Anupam Kher
In order to really hurt sometimes feelings, that person must really care about your opinion.
Sometimes we need to see the bad side, to appreciate the good side.
– Anthony Liccione
Be like the river, for if you do so, just like the river, you shall be able to move mountains.
If you enemy stands in your path you must go around him, but if he is in your way he must be removed.
What is weird? Someone who is different, or someone who is different than you?
Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A tiny leak can sink a great ship.
Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving.
Do it now. Sometimes “later” becomes “never”.
Worry less, hope more; eat less, chew more; complain less, breathe more; speak less, tell more; hate less, love more; and everything good in your life will be yours.
Only those women see clearly, whose eyes had been washed by tears.
Words are dwarfs, examples are giants.
One man’s criticism worth more than a million men approval.
Whoever can make his mother cry, is the only one who can dry up her tears.
If you are determined to learn a teacher will appear!
You won’t find a way, you will be the way!
Nobody is perfect, the sun has its spots too.
The way to defeat a river is to follow its turns.
The real power is to rule over your own anger.
A problem talked about is halfway solved.
The truth can be bent, but never broken.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going
– Helen Keller
Knowledge is nothing, without the conviction to use it.
All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.
– Alexandre Dumas
To rise above greed and technology , that would be a great achievement. – Anonymous
If you do not sow in the spring you will not reap in the autumn.
– Irish Proverb
Don’t ever take a fence down if you don’t know why it was built.
A thief is always angry with another thief!
It is better to mind drugs that can put us in prison, than to be a prisoner of your own mind
alternative
It is better to mind drugs that can put us in prison, than allow them to make you a prisoner of your own mind
There is a deaper meaning to everything if you take the time to look
A friend is someone who has the same enemies you have.
– Abraham Lincoln
If you spend your whole life waiting for the right moment, it may never come. Instead, make it happen. If it doesn’t work out, at least you tried.
I hate being sent mixed signals. I be having confused emotions…
The best never rest.