Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. ~Samuel Ullman
You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair. ~Douglas MacArthur
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. ~John Barrymore
How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were? ~Satchel Paige
Everyone is the age of their heart. ~Guatemalan Proverb
The key to successful aging is to pay as little attention to it as possible. ~Judith Regan
Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
Does age poison us, or do we poison age? ~Astrid Alauda
Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts. ~Martin Buxbaum
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. ~Henry David Thoreau
I've never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful. ~Author Unknown
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. ~Kahlil Gibran
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. ~Chinese Proverb
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. ~Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Beauty comes as much from the mind as from the eye. ~Grey Livingston
Do I love you because you're beautiful, Or are you beautiful because I love you? ~Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Cinderella
Beauty is the promise of happiness. ~Stendhal
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. ~Walt Whitman
Beauty... when you look into a woman's eyes and see what is in her heart. ~Nate Dircks
Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets. ~Baltasar Gracian
The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. ~Daniel Webster
The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. ~Madeleine L'Engle
A man is not old as long as he is seeking something. ~Jean Rostand Bucella
The other day a man asked me what I thought was the best time of life. "Why," I answered without a thought, "now." ~David Grayson
What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years. ~John Fischer
When it comes to staying young, a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day. ~Marty
Beauty - in projection and perceiving - is 99.9% attitude. ~Grey Livingston
Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic. ~Rosalind Russell
He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away. ~Raymond Hull
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another. ~James Matthew Barrie
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. ~Judy Garland
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves. ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. ~Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel
I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part. ~Shirley MacLaine
Wherever you go, go with all your heart. ~Confucius
Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness. ~Shakti Gawain
The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own. ~Johann von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther, 1774
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. ~Oscar Wilde
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~Dr. Seuss
No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos. ~D.H. Lawrence
Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do. ~Eric Hoffer
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. ~Desiderius Erasmus
All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are. ~Julius Charles Hare
We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin. ~André Berthiaume, Contretemps
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence. ~Honoré de Balzac, "Scnes de la vie Parisienne," La Maison Nucingen, 1838
There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself. ~Samuel Johnson
You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand. ~Irene C. Kassorla
Is life not a hundred times too short for us to stifle ourselves. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
You were born an original. Don't die a copy. ~John Mason
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not. ~Andre Gide
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them. ~François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1665
Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it. ~Louis Kronenberger, Company Manners, 1954
The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. ~Charles R. Brown
If you woke up breathing, congratulations! You have another chance. ~Andrea Boydston
MEDITATION 101 - Inhale, and God approaches you. Hold the inhalation, and God remains with you. Exhale, and you approach God. Hold the exhalation, and surrender to God. ~Krishnamacharya
Smile, breathe and go slowly. ~Thich Nhat Hanh
Breath is Spirit. The act of breathing is Living. ~Author Unknown
For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth. ~Sanskrit Proverb
Focusing on the act of breathing clears the mind of all daily distractions and clears our energy enabling us to better connect with the Spirit within. ~Author Unknown
I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart: I am, I am, I am. ~Sylvia Plath
Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking. ~William E. Simon
Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. ~Swedish Proverb
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure. ~Oprah Winfrey
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. ~Harold Wilson
If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it. ~Mary Engelbreit
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. ~W. Edwards Deming
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. ~Anatole France
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. ~Victor Frankl
Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer. ~Shunryu Suzuki
The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble. ~Henry Miller
Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine. ~Robert C. Gallagher
When you are through changing, you are through. ~Bruce Barton
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. ~John Kenneth Galbraith
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. ~Confucius
Change always comes bearing gifts. ~Price Pritchett
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions. ~Ellen Glasgow
Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril. ~Laurens van der Post
Growth is the only evidence of life. ~John Henry Newman, Apologia pro vita sua, 1864
Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed. ~Irene Peter
The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. ~William Blake
You can avoid having ulcers by adapting to the situation: If you fall in the mud puddle, check your pockets for fish. ~Author Unknown
Stubborness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow. ~Glen Beaman
If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies. ~Author Unknown
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes. ~Sally Field
Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance. ~Author Unknown
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. ~David Brinkley
It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not. ~Author Unknown
We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies. ~Roderick Thorp, Rainbow Drive
It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to. ~W.C. Fields
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right. ~Henry Ford
I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down. ~Allen H. Neuharth
If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. ~Vincent Van Gogh
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly. ~Buckminster Fuller
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable. ~Wendy Wasserstein
Success comes in cans, not cant's. ~Author Unknown
Put your future in good hands - your own. ~Author Unknown
What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty! I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle. ~John Bunyan
I am not a has-been. I am a will be. ~Lauren Bacall
If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. ~Author Unknown
Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong. ~Peter T. Mcintyre
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. ~Anaïs Nin, Diary, 1969
Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours. ~Richard Bach, Illusions
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. ~Michael Jordan
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. ~Edmund Hillary
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others. ~Mark Twain
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance. ~Bruce Barton
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort. ~Sydney Smith
Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway. ~Mary Kay Ash
Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. ~Norman Vincent Peale
Always act like you're wearing an invisible crown. ~Author Unknown
Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. ~Michel de Montaigne
It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. ~Sally Kempton, Esquire, 1970
When the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, it may be that they take better care of it there. ~Cecil Selig
Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality. ~Les Brown
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go.~Dr. Seuss
Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got. ~Sophia Loren
They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers. ~Christian Bovee
We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground. ~Henrik Ibsen
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves. ~Ellen Goodman
I was thinking of my patients, and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of their own fate. It was not a matter of bad or good luck. When they could no longer blame fate, they were in despair. ~Anaïs Nin
Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness. ~Ram Dass
Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself. ~Michel de Montaigne
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled. ~Andrew Carnegie
Don't let anyone steal your dream. It's your dream, not theirs. ~Dan Zadra
If I am not for myself, who will be? ~Pirke Avoth
All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them. ~Charles Dickens
Self-love seems so often unrequited. ~Anthony Powell
Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Men harm others by their deeds, themselves by their thoughts. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows. ~John Powell
Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. ~Veronica A. Shoffstall, "After a While," 1971
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself. ~Epicurus
If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor. ~Nicholas de Chamfort
Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic. ~Jean Sibelius
When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. ~African Proverb
Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame. ~Thomas à Kempis
Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people. ~André Dubus
We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do. ~Olin Miller
The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others. ~Sonya Friedman
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. ~Albert Einstein
Curiosity is a willing, a proud, an eager confession of ignorance. ~S. Leonard Rubinstein, Writing: A Habit of Mind
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. ~Albert Einstein
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. ~James Stephens, The Crock of Gold
Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly. ~Arnold Edinborough
Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
There are no foolish questions, and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions. ~Charles Proteus Steinmetz
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. ~Ralph W. Sockman
The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions. ~Bishop Mandell Creighton
A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish. ~W.H. Auden
If you've never stared off in the distance, then your life is a shame. ~Adam Duritz, "Mrs. Potter's Lullaby," performed by Counting Crows
One man's daydreaming is another man's day. ~Grey Livingston
Dreams are answers to questions we haven't yet figured out how to ask. ~X-Files
Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you. ~Marsha Norman
The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. ~Jim Rohn
How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling. ~Claude Debussy
Sadness flowers to the next renewing joy. ~Jareb Teague
When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion. ~Dale Carnegie
The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse. ~Jules Renard
The person who really wants to do something finds a way; the other person finds an excuse. ~Author Unknown
The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. ~Simone de Beauvoir
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. ~Adlai Stevenson, speech, Detroit, 1952
Freedom is the oxygen of the soul. ~Moshe Dayan
Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves. ~Author Unknown
Who speaks of liberty while the human mind is in chains? ~Francis Wright, 1828
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better. ~Albert Camus
The future is called "perhaps," which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the only important thing is not to allow that to scare you. ~Tennessee Williams, Orpheus Descending, 1957
The past can't see you, but the future is listening. ~Destin Figuier
The future is always beginning now. ~Mark Strand, Reasons for Moving
If you want to be happy, be. ~Leo Tolstoy
And in today already walks tomorrow. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy. ~Robert Anthony
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
What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner. ~Colette
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. ~H. Jackson Browne
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. ~St. Augustine
Pleasure is spread through the earth. In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find. ~William Wordsworth, 1806
Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness is a direction, not a place. ~Sydney J. Harris
A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour. ~Author Unknown
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. ~Dalai Lama
Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower. ~Author Unknown
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. ~Lady Blessington
The best vitamin to be a happy person is B1. ~Author Unknown
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. ~Immanuel Kant
Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe. ~Doug Larson
Happiness is the feeling you're feeling when you want to keep feeling it. ~Author Unknown
Joy is a flower that blooms when you do. ~Author Unknown
A man's as miserable as he thinks he is. ~Seneca
One filled with joy preaches without preaching. ~Mother Teresa
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate. ~Thornton Wilder
Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness. ~Frederich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy. ~Anton Chekhov
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. ~Douglas Jerrold
Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it. ~Don Herold
If you are not happy here and now, you never will be. ~Taisen Deshimaru
Happiness is a function of accepting what is. ~Werner Erhard
On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so. ~William R. Inge
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others. ~Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. ~Mahatma Gandhi
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. ~Guilaume Apollinaire
Some pursue happiness, others create it. ~Author Unknown
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. ~Epictetus
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. ~Charles Kingsley
Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response. ~Mildred Barthel
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. ~Margaret Lee Runbeck
Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve. ~Robert S. Lynd
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it. ~C.P. Snow
Every survival kit should include a sense of humor. ~Author Unknown
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place. ~Mark Twain
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide. ~Mahatma Gandhi
Warning: Humor may be hazardous to your illness. ~Ellie Katz
Humor is... despair refusing to take itself seriously. ~Arland Ussher
Many a true word is spoken in jest. ~English Proverb
I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it. ~Frank A. Clark
Above all else: go out with a sense of humor. It is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life. ~Hugh Sidey
Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. ~Max Eastman
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs - jolted by every pebble in the road. ~Henry Ward Beecher
There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth. ~Victor Borge, London Times, 3 January 1984
Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out. ~Michael Burke
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. ~Benjamin Spock, Baby and Child Care, 1977
Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness. ~John Sterling
Instinct is untaught ability. ~Bain
Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. ~Joyce Brothers
Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way. ~Florence Scovel Shinn
Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray. ~William Cowper
Instinct is the nose of the mind. ~Madame De Girardin
I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason. ~Stanley Baldwin
At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. ~Jean Houston
Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. ~Henry Ward Beecher
Even if there is nothing to laugh about, laugh on credit. ~Author Unknown
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. ~e.e. cummings
Laughter is an instant vacation. ~Milton Berle
If you cannot be a poet, be the poem. ~David Carradine
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