posted August 22, 2011 10:42 PM            

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor. ~Dr. Alexis Carrel

Know thyself, or at least keep renewing the acquaintance. ~Robert Brault

Change. It has the power to uplift, to
heal, to stimulate, surprise, open new doors,
bring fresh experience and create excitement
in life. Certainly it is worth the risk.
~Leo Buscaglia~

“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” — Harold Whitman

“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

The test of a good teacher
is not how many questions he can
ask his pupils that they will answer readily,
but how many questions he inspires them
to ask him which he finds it hard to answer.
~Alice Wellington Rollins~

You give but little when you give
of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself
that you truly give.
~Kahlil Gibran~

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return. ~Maya Angelou

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

Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine. ~Lord Byron

Here is the test
to find whether your mission on earth
is finished.
If you're alive, it isn't.
~Richard Bach~

Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak.
Sometimes it means
that you are strong enough to let go.
~Unknown~

If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived ?
Find your passion, whatever it may be.
Become it, and let it become you, and you will find great things
happen for you, to you and because of you.
T. Alan Armstrong

There is no passion to be found in being what others want you to be – you will be settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. Give yourself permission to live your life on purpose. Anna Parramore

“The really happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery when on a detour.” ~Anon

Anyway
By Mother Teresa
People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered.
Love them anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.
If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.
People really need help but may attack you if you help them.
Help people anyway.
Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you've got anyway.

I want to do the right thing, but often I don't know just what the right thing is. Every day I know I have come short of what I would like to have done. Yet as the years pass and I see the very world itself, with its oceans and mountains and plains, as something unfinished, a peculiar little satisfaction hunts out the corners of my heart. Sunsets and evening shadows find me regretful at task's undone, but sleep and the dawn and the air of the morning touch me with freshening hopes. Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.
~Carl Sandburg~

You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you just might find…you get what you need. ~Mick Jagger

“The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.”
~ Henry Miller

I am free because I know that
I alone am morally responsible
for everything I do.
~Robert A. Heinlein~

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change."
~ Carl Rogers

“The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping.” ~Claudius Claudianus

“A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.”
~ Helen Keller

“(Some people) have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.” ~ A.H. Maslow

When grace is joined
with wrinkles, it is adorable.
There is an unspeakable dawn
in happy old age.
~Victor Hugo~

‎"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it." ~Rumi

posted August 24, 2011 11:59 PM            

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Originally posted by Cancer/Scorpio729:
"Hated by many, wanted by plenty, disliked by some, confronted by none." - Anonymous

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein

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posted August 25, 2011 05:41 PM            

Before you can inspire with emotion,
you must be swamped with it yourself.
Before you can move their tears, your
own must flow. To convince them,
you must yourself believe.
~Winston Churchill~

Truth lifts the heart, like water refreshes thirst.~ Rumi

If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse….~Gelett Burgess

A wonderful way to look at yourself is the reflection in other people's response to you.
~ Leo Buscaglia ~

“You have to believe in yourself.” Sun Tzu

posted August 28, 2011 05:50 PM            

"A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle." Gloria Steinem

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." Eleanore Roosevelt

posted August 31, 2011 09:40 PM            

Such a love connection and knowing of God and God's love begins with loving oneself and therein lies the link with God ♥
~LEXX

posted August 31, 2011 11:05 PM            

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Originally posted by LEXX:

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
~Twig the Fairy

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posted August 31, 2011 11:21 PM            

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Originally posted by Cancer/Scorpio729:
Really? I heard that one in Kung Fu Panda from Master Oogway

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posted September 01, 2011 12:27 AM            

LEXX
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From: Still out looking for Schrodinger's cat.......& LEXIGRAMMING.¢¾.. is my Passion!
Registered: Apr 2009
posted August 31, 2011 09:51 PM
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The adventure of life is to learn. The purpose of life is to grow. The nature of life is to change. The challenge of life is to overcome. The essence of life is to care. The opportunity of life is to serve. The secret of life is to dare. The spice of life is to befriend. The beauty of life is to give...
~Anon

posted September 05, 2011 09:09 PM            

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.
~Franz Kafka

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.
~Anna Neagle

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
~Norman Cousins

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.
~Tom Wolfe

There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.
~Alexander Theroux

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.
~Albert Schweitzer

“We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.”
~Orson Welles

“It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.”
~Albert Einstein

“Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named, not good”
~John Milton

“I have friends who I get along with who I know get very uncomfortable being alone, unless they're with people, talking all the time. Whether it's on the phone, or in person, they're never by themselves. Whereas I could be alone for months”
~Viggo Mortensen

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
- George Washington

The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.
- Mason Cooley
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Quotes to Inspire and Motivate when Feeling Lonely

Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
- Helen Keller

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Every wall is a door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
- Mark Twain

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain

I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Forgiveness is the cleansing fire that burns away old regrets and resentments.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie