Rosanne Cash - The key to...

“The key to change... is to let go of fear.”

Cicero - A thankful heart...

"A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues."

Henry Ward Beecher - The unthankful heart...

"The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!"

Erma Bombeck - Thanksgiving dinners take...

"Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence."

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Meister Eckhart - If the only prayer...

"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice."

Robert Caspar Lintner - Thanksgiving was never...

"Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day."

J.A. Shedd - He who thanks but...

"He who thanks but with the lips
Thanks but in part;
The full, the true Thanksgiving
Comes from the heart."

W.J. Cameron - Thanksgiving, after all...

"Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action."

Arthur Guiterman, The First Thanksgiving - So once in every year...

"So once in every year we throng
Upon a day apart,
To praise the Lord with feast and song
In thankfulness of heart."

Henry Ward Beecher - Remember God's bounty in the year...

"Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!"

John Fitzgerald Kennedy - As we express our gratitude...

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."

E.P. Powell - Thanksgiving Day is a jewel...

"Thanksgiving Day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of honest men; but be careful that you do not take the day, and leave out the gratitude."

Albert Einstein - Not everything that...

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."

Edward Sandford Martin - Thanksgiving Day comes...

"Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow."

Oliver Wendell Holmes - A mind that is...

“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”

Frederick Douglass - It is not light that...

“It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.”

George Patton - If you are going to...

“If you are going to win any battle, you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do… the body is never tired if the mind is not tired.”

Author Unknown - If everybody’s...

“If everybody’s thinking alike, somebody isn’t thinking.”

theblairwaldorf(tumblr) - To start a day is...

“To start a day is just like painting. Draw the line with prayers. Erase the error with forgiveness. Dip the brush with lots of patience, and color it with love.”

Jack Kerouac - Happiness consists...

“Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream”

T.S. Eliot - I don’t believe one...

“I don’t believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.”

Daphne Rose Kingma - Aliveness is energy...

“Aliveness is energy. It’s the juice, the vitality, and the passion that wakes up our cells every morning. It’s what makes us want to dance. It’s the energy that moves a relationship from the status quo to something grander and much more expansive, something that makes our hearts beat faster, our minds, and our eyes open wider than ever before. Everything is of interest to a person who is truly alive, whether it’s a challenge, a loving moment, a bucket of grief, or a glimpse of beauty.”

Grey’s Anatomy Monologue - There’s something to be...

“There’s something to be said about a glass half full. About knowing when to say “when.” I think it’s a floating line. A barometer of need and desire. It’s entirely up to the individual… and depends on what’s being poured. Sometimes, all we want is a taste. Other times, there’s no such thing as enough. The glass is bottomless.

And all we want… is more.”

Epicurus - Do not spoil what...

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”

Rafiki, The Lion King - Ah yes, the past...

"Ah yes, the past can hurt. But you can either run from it, or learn from it."

Dexter Kozen - Shadows of a thousand...

'Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen,
Voices whisper in the trees, "Tonight is Halloween!"'

William Shakespeare (a quote from "Macbeth") - Eye of newt...

"Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble."

J.M. Barrie - A house is never still...

"A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib of the window, the latch rises. Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night."

Sheriff Leigh Brackett - "It's Halloween...

"It's Halloween, everyone's entitled to one good scare."

Charles Swartz - I'll bet living...

"I'll bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween."

Shakespeare's "Macbeth" - Double, double...

"Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble."

Robert Kirby - Proof of our society's...

"Proof of our society's decline is that Halloween has become a broad daylight event for many."

Author Unknown - True love is...

"True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about but few have seen."

Author Unknown - A gypsy fire...

"A gypsy fire is on the hearth,
Sign of the carnival of mirth;
Through the dun fields and from the glade
Flash merry folk in masquerade,
For this is Hallowe'en!"

George Carlin - There are nights...

"There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls."

Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr. - Where there is...

"Where there is no imagination there is no horror."

Scottish Saying - From ghoulies and ghosties...

"From ghoulies and ghosties
And long-leggedy beasties
And things that go bump in the night,
Good Lord, deliver us!"

Author Unknown - When witches go...

"When witches go riding,
and black cats are seen,
the moon laughs and whispers,
‘tis near Halloween."

Shaggy from Scooby-Doo - Hold on, man. W...

"Hold on, man. We don't go anywhere with "scary," "spooky," "haunted," or "forbidden" in the title."

William Shakespeare - 'Tis now the very...

"'Tis now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world."

Nicholas Gordon - As spirits roam...

"As spirits roam the neighborhoods at night,
Let loose upon the Earth till it be light..."

Nikki Giovanni - We love because...

"We love because it's the only true adventure."

Elbert Hubbard - Responsibility...

"Responsibility is the price of freedom."

Margaret Thatcher - I do not know anyone...

"I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe."

Sydney J. Harris - The time to...

"The time to relax is when you don't have time for it."

Michael Phelps - You can't put...

"You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get."

Oprah Winfrey - I don't believe

"I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process."

Edward Rickenbacker - I can give...

"I can give you a six-word formula for success: "Think things through - then follow through."

Socrates - I cannot teach...

"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think."

James Russell Lowell - Not failure...

"Not failure, but low aim, is a crime."

Benjamin Disraeli - Nurture your...

"Nurture your mind with great thoughts."

Teilhard de Chardin - Our duty as...

"Our duty as men is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - The person born ...

"The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it."

Thomas Edison - I never did...

"I never did a day's work in my life- it was all fun."

Ralph Waldo Emerson - Self-trus

"Self-trust is the first secret of success."

Demosthenes - Small opportunities...

"Small opportunities are often the beginnings of great enterprises."

Lillian Dickinson - Life is like...

"Life is like a coin. You can spend it anyway you wish, but you only spend it once."

Ilka Chase - The only people...

"The only people who never fail are those who never try."

Nickelback - Each day's...

"Each day's a gift and not a given right"

Vincent Van Gogh - I put my heart

"I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process."

Georg C Lichtenberg - Some theories are...

"Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about."

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi - Discovery consists in...

"Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen, but understanding it for the first time."

Denis Waitley - The greatest achievemen...

"The greatest achievement is to outperform yourself."

Vincent Van Gogh - Great things are...

"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."

Orison Swett Marden - All men who...

"All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers."

Abraham Lincoln - Most of us...

"Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be."

Donald Trump - Money was never...

"Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game."

Plato - Every heart sings...

"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back."

Napoleon Hill - You can do...

"You can do it if you believe you can!"

George Eliot - It is never...

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

African Proverb - Do not look...

"Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped."

Winnie the Pooh - If there ever...

"If there ever comes a day when we cant be together, keep me in your heart; I'll stay there forever."

Mahatma Gandhi - The future depends...

"The future depends on what we do in the present."

Henry Longfellow - It takes less...

"It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong."

Fox Mulder (X Files) - A dream is

"A dream is an answer to a question we haven't yet learned to ask."

Yiddish Proverb

"What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul."

Hafiz - Love sometimes want...

“Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.

The Quote Garden - Tattoos are like

 "Tattoos are like marriage:  it's a lifelong commitment, it hurts like hell, and the color fades over time."

Alfred Hitchcock - Television has done...

“Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it."

Empowering thought...

"Say to yourself: I am who I am. I have nothing to prove and nothing to fear."

Anonymous - Life is too short to...

"Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise."

Jim Rohn - Motivation is what

"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."

Yoda - Do or do not...

"Do or do not, there is no try."

Unknown - A ship that sails...

"A ship that sails backward never sees the sunrise."

Mother Teresa - God doesn't require

"God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try."

P&P - Let us not say...

"Let us not say 'Goodbye' but as the french would have it 'Au Revoir'" I L-O-V-E the movie Pride and Prejudice, so I thought to share a favorite line from it this time rather than a traditional quote:)

Eleanor Roosevelt - You gain strength...

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you
really stop to look fear in the face."

Jack London - Show me a man...

"Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past."

George Bernard Shaw - A gentleman is...

“A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.”

A few words on Friendship...

"One who looks for a friend without faults will have none." ~ Anon.

"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you"~ Anon.

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." ~ Anon.

"Friends show their love in times of trouble..." ~ Euripides (408 B.C.)

‎"My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private." ~ Solomon Ibn Gabirol

‎"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship." ~ La Rochefoucauld (1665)

‎"A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else." ~ Len Wein

"Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends." ~ Czech. Proverb

Me - As A Firm Belierver...

As a firm believer of 'The Secret' I have only this to say:

1. Ask
2. Believe
3. Receive
   

To your hearts content! Keep to the positive!

What's your favorite quote?

Check out the answers on Jenny Stradlings's 'My Truth'

Mine is: "Far too many people have no idea of what they can do because all they have been told is what they can’t do.”

What's Yours?

1Peter 4:8

Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.

Zig Ziglar - When you set

"When you set goals, something inside of you starts saying, "Let's go, let's go," and ceilings start to move up."

Anonymous - No matter where

"No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head."

Unknown - A diamond is

"A diamond is just a piece of charcoal that handled stress exceptionally well."

Marie Curie - Nothing in life

“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.”

Nelly Bush - People have told

“People have told me to listen to my heart, what do I do when it doesn’t speak up anymore? They then tell me to follow my gut, well what do I do if it gives bad directions?”

Socrates - The secret of happiness

“The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.”

Arthur Schopenhauer - Everyone takes th

“Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.”

E.B. White - Life’s meaning has

“Life’s meaning has always eluded me and I guess it always will. But I love it just the same.”

Life is not...

Oliver Wendell Holmes - we do not

"We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing."

Benjamin Disraeli - nuture your

“Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.”

Zig Ziglar - far too many

"Far too many people have no idea of what they can do because all they have been told is what they can’t do."

Friedrich Nietzsche - You have your way

“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”

Friedrich Nietzsche - I assess the power

“I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.”

Bo Bennett - Thoes who improve...

“Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.”

Siddhartha ‘Buddha’ Guatam - It is better to conquer

“It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.”

Diane Ackerman - I don't

'I don't want to get to the end of my life & find I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.'

From the mind of Dr. Seuss

'Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened'

'I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind.
Some come from ahead and some from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me.'

'Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.'

'Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.'

'You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.'

'Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.'

14 Inspirational Quotes on Understanding

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
- Carl Jung

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.
- Dale Carnegie

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.
- Aaron Burr

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
- Galileo Galilei

You don’t need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.
- Guy Finley

Everyone hears only what he understands.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
- Kahlil Gibran

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie

Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you’ll see the way to fly.
- Richard Bach

You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?
- Confucius

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
- H.H Williams

If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
- Lyndon Johnson

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather what he does not say.
- Kahlil Gibran

'Turn over a new leaf' -

to make a radical change for the better in one's way of living or doing.

William A. Ward - if you can

'If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.'

Hellen Keller - the best and most beautiful

Buddha - no one saves

'No one saves us but ourselves, no one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.'

Glenn Clark - if you wish to travel

“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.”

Bernadette Devlin - to gain that

“To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.”

Marcus Aurelius - it especially

It especially makes no sense to care what someone thinks of us when that person doesn't even like themselves…then, why do we care what they think of us

rawmonk - I am an open book

I am an open book, transparent, detached, full of stories, intimate, kind, uplifting in the words to myself and those keen to share, I am aware that my ego is not me, by knowing I have an ego I know that I am more…much more than just this flesh and bone…& if this is true - for it is…then, we are part of a greater purpose than 9-5, mortgages, vitamin tablets & pollution…

Kahlil Gibran - truth is a

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

Friedrich Nietzsche - we often refuse

'We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the way in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.'

Malcolm X - don't be in a hurry to

Don’t be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn’t do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn’t know what you know today.

David Edwards - hate can only exist

“Hate can only exist in the absence of understanding; where understanding is present, hate cannot exist. … Very often hate is the result of a determination not to understand, and this is why hate is so dangerous: it actually resists understanding.”

Q: What makes a person good or bad?

A: (heartmindspirit) What’s good or bad, or moral or immoral, is highly subjective, this means the actually definition varies from person to person, perception to perception. To me, there is only true or false. Is the person honoring truth in their lives? Are they deceiving for personal advantage? People live lies, and those around them also suffer for it.

Voltaire - animals have these

“Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.”

Elbert Hubbard - the greatest mistake...

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Gerry Spence - I would rather...

"I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than closed by belief."

T.S. Elliot - only thoes

“Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.”

Corita Kent- life is

Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.

Henry Adams- chaos...

Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit.

Dr. Seuss- Adults...

“Adults are just obsolete children, and to hell with them.”

Jim Morrison - I like...

“I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.”

Christopher Moore - If you think

“If you think anyone is sane you just don’t know enough about them.”

Albert Einstein- if you...

Eckhart Tolle - the single most vital step...

“So the single most vital step on your journey toward enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind. Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger. One day you may catch yourself smiling at the voice in your head, as you would smile at the antics of a child. This means that you no longer take the content of your mind all that seriously, as your sense of self does not depend on it.”

Love will see you through your most troublesome times...

Everyone needs Love. Most forgot what it is like...

Love comes in many forms, but true love will never leave you alone. Just recognize it by how your body reacts to it, then you'll know if it is true or not!

Jiddu Krishnamurti - You must understand the whole...

“You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.”

Door to Anywhere

Let the world around you inspire your own quotes and words of wisdom...think of something good? Post it in the comments to share with others.

Nathaniel Hawthorne: Happiness is like...

Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight
upon you.

Plato: be kind...

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Margaret Young: Often people attempt to live...

'Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.'

Action and reaction...

Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error,
change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear;
out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.

Will Durant - Education is

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Change and Acceptance

“Life can either be accepted or changed. If it is not accepted, it must be changed. If it cannot be changed, then it must be accepted.”

William Makepeace Thackeray - Mother is the name...

"Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children."
--William Makepeace Thackeray

One must still

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. -Nietzsche

For Our Mothers...

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.
- Anonymous

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
- Abraham Lincoln

Mothers have as powerful an influence over the welfare of future generations as all other earthly causes combined.
- John S.C. Abbott

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
- Sophia Loren

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men – from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

'One can't believe impossible things...'

A few quotes for the weekend....

'Count your age with friends but not with years.'

'Always laugh when you can. It is cheaper than medicine.'

'Normal is only a cycle on a washing machine.'

'The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.'

'To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.'

'I should keep my words soft and sweet in case I have to eat them.'

Arthur C. Clark - it has yet...

Brenda Ueland- Listening is a magnetic...

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force...When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life...When we listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other...and it is this little creative fountain inside us that begins to spring and cast up new thoughts and unexpected laughter and wisdom. ...Well, it is when people really listen to us, with quiet facinated attention, that the little fountain begins to work again, to accelerate in the most surprising way.

George Washington - Be courteous to all

'Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence'

Jan Ashford: There is no such thing as can't

'There is no such thing as can't, only wont. If you're qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes. But you can't blame other people or society in general. It all comes from your mind. When we do the impossible we realize we are special people.'

Oliver Wendel Holmes, Jr.- A Mind Stretched...

"A mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions"

A. Powell Davies - Religion is not something...

Religion is not something separate and apart from ordinary life. It is life -- life of every kind viewed from the standpoint of meaning and purpose: life lived in the fuller awareness of its human quality and spiritual significance.

Hamilton Wright Mabie - Motherhood

“The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants, but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his best.”

Joseph Edward Murphy - The Law of Attraction...

The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.

Albert Einstein

Anthony Robbins - Live life fully...

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Confucius - Our greatest glory...

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall."