171 quotes
“The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.”
— Orison Swett Marden
“Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.”
— Margaret Lee Runbeck
“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin
“You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.”
— Pema Chodron
“An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight.”
— Albert Schweitzer
“One joy scatters a hundred griefs.”
— Chinese Proverb
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
— Unknown
“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.”
— Oscar Wilde
“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.”
— Erasmus
“When one door of happiness closes another opens but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
— Helen Keller
“With everything that has happened to you you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift”
— Wayne Dyer
“Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain. Short therefore is man's life, and narrow is the corner of the earth wherein he dwells.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes playing a poor hand well.”
— Jack London
“There are no facts, only interpretations.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive — to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”
“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.”
“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
“Nothing in life is as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it.”
— Daniel Kahneman
“The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
“What disturbs men's minds is not events but their judgments on events.”
— Epictetus
“The right time to dine is: for the rich man, when he is hungry; and for the poor man, when he has something to eat.”
— Seneca
“The wise man looks into space and does not regard the small as too little, nor the great as too big, for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.”
— Chuang Tzu
“A drowning man is not troubled by rain.”
“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
— Truman Capote
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world but then you read”
— James Baldwin
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
“Everything we hear is an opinion not a fact everything we see is a perspective not the truth”
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower”
— Albert Camus
— Albert Einstein
“People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.”
— Paul Tillich
“The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.”
— Joseph Roux
“Everything we experience depends on how we perceive it.”
“Enjoy the little things for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.”
— Robert Brault
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
— Marcel Proust
“Things do not change; we change.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.”
— Walt Whitman
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes”
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”
— Henri Matisse
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.”
— Harper Lee
“The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world.”
— Alexander von Humboldt
“Only to the white man was nature a wilderness and only to him was it infested with wild animals and savage people.”
— Luther Standing Bear
“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.”
— John Milton
“Life is simple everything happens for you not to you”
— Byron Katie
“I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet.”
— Persian Proverb
“If a problem is fixable we should fix it and if it is not fixable then there is no use worrying about it and faith gives this perspective”
— Dalai Lama
“I do not think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.”
— Anne Frank
“What we see depends mainly on what we look for.”
— John Lubbock
“You are the sky everything else is just the weather”
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”
“He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.”
— Thomas Carlyle
“Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness”
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“The world is a traveller's inn, not his dwelling place.”
— Rumi
“Whatever anybody says or does assume positive intent you will be amazed at how your whole approach to a person or problem becomes very different”
— Indra Nooyi
“It isnt what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
— Dale Carnegie
“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life.”
— Kahlil Gibran
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
“In this world we walk on the roof of heaven gazing at flowers”
— Kobayashi Issa
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.”
— Alphonse Karr
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from their point of view and approach them with kindness”
“The single story creates stereotypes. Creativity requires multiple stories and perspectives.”
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“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.”
— Epicurus
“Nothing others do is because of you what others say and do is a projection of their own reality”
— Don Miguel Ruiz
“Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.”
“A book is a mirror if an ass peers into it you cannot expect an apostle to look out”
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
“If all mankind were to disappear the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago if insects were to vanish the environment would collapse into chaos”
— E.O. Wilson
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
“I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”
— Mark Twain
“There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.”
— Walt Streightiff
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution”
— Hannah Arendt
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.”
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you.”
— Whitman
“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
— Soren Kierkegaard
“The single story creates stereotypes and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue but that they are incomplete”
“I will love the light for it shows me the way yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.”
— Og Mandino
“The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.”
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty”
— Winston Churchill
“If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore!”
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare it is because we do not dare that they are difficult”
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience we are spiritual beings having a human experience”
“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
“No object is so beautiful that under certain conditions it will not look ugly”
“Heaven and earth are not humane; they treat all things as straw dogs.”
— Laozi
“Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.”
— Chinua Achebe
“Clouds come floating into my life no longer to carry rain or usher storm but to add color to my sunset sky.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”
— William James
“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
— William Arthur Ward
“We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars”
“The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.”
— William Makepeace Thackeray
“I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet”
“Our life is what our thoughts make it.”
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.”
“When you change the way you look at things the things you look at change and healing begins”
“Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of them.”
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.”
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
— William Shakespeare
“Where would I possibly find enough leather with which to cover the surface of the earth? But wearing leather on the soles of my feet is equivalent to covering the earth with it.”
— Shantideva
“If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.”
“The true journey is to find a new perspective.”
“We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.”
— Thomas Fuller
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle.”
“We suffer more in imagination than in reality.”
“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life”
— Khalil Gibran
“Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause and of obstinacy in a bad one”
— Laurence Sterne
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”
“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
“In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.”
— Blaise Pascal
“If you count all your assets, you always show a profit.”
— Robert Quillen
“As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.”
“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”
— Richard Bach
“A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.”
— Catherine the Great
“If the only tool you have is a hammer you tend to see every problem as a nail”
— Abraham Maslow
“Almost every problem we face can be helped by our willingness to see it differently”
— Lori Gottlieb
“The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.”
“We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.”
“To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination.”
“The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.”
“It is not what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
“What is food to one man is bitter poison to others”
— Lucretius
“What we call the way you see the world determines art”
— Louise Nevelson
“Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.”
“There is a saying in Tibetan that at the door of the miserable rich man sleeps the contented beggar”
“Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet”
— Stephen Hawking
“Religion is regarded by the common people as true by the wise as false and by rulers as useful”
“Every wall is a door.”
“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
“All wonder is the effect of novelty upon ignorance.”
— Samuel Johnson
“Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.”
— James Russell Lowell
“If you change the way you look at things the things you look at change”
“Time is the wisest counsellor of all.”
— Pericles
“All my possessions for a moment of time.”
— Elizabeth I
“I am thankful for a lawn that needs mowing, windows that need cleaning and gutters that need fixing because it means I have a home…. I am thankful for the piles of laundry and ironing because it means my loved ones are nearby.”
— Nancie J. Carmody
“The longest day has its end.”
— Jean de La Fontaine
“The winner says it may be difficult but it is possible. The loser says it may be possible but it is too difficult.”
— Denis Waitley
“I do not think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains”
“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
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