Inspirational quotes/sayings etc

[lone*star]

What is the purpose of life?
Is it not to learn...
About the universe, other people and, ultimately, about oneself?
You reply, "Ok, but then what?"
But can you not see that there is no 'then what'?
The destination is the journey itself.
Why? Because the truth is, you can never know about all those things,
And so your journey merely continues;
Learning all the time as you go.
And so the purpose of life is this;
Right here, right now.
Simply learn to savour and appreciate
The specialness and uniqueness
Of each and every little moment in life,
For it will all too soon be gone,
Never to be experienced again.

[Mr. Nobody]

What is the purpose of life?
Is it not to earn...
get a paper-round, deliver pizzas, and a full-time day job.
You reply, "Ok, but then what?"
But can you not see that there is no 'then what'?
The destination is the journey itself.
Why? Because the truth is, you can never have too much money
And so your journey merely continues;
earning all the time as you go.
And so the purpose of life is this;
Right here, right now.
Simply earn and savour and appreciate your money
The specialness and uniqueness
Of each and every little moment in life, earning money.
For it will all too soon be gone,
Never to be experienced again

Sir Alan Sugar

[Tembo]

Saw this and it made me think...

"Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."

[limey123]

FAVES

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
--Abraham Lincoln

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
--George Bernard Shaw

If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.
--Chinese proverb

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
--Aristotle

If you want something you never had, you have to do something you've never done.
--Thomas Jefferson

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually fear you will make one.
--Navjot Singh Sidhu

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
--Leo Tolstoy

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
--Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey. He who blames himself is halfway there. He who blames no-one has arrived.
--Chinese proverb

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
--Eleanor Roosevelt

There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.
--Gautama Buddha

Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge.
--Carl jung

Ein Kluger bemerkt alles; ein Dummer macht über alles eine Bemerkung.
--Heinrich Heine

It's OK if people don't like you. Most people don't even like themselves.
--Source unknown

If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.
--Lao Tzu

Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know.
--Pema Chodron

Life's biggest tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
--Benjamin Franklin

In school you're given the lesson, then the test. In life you're given the test, then the lesson.
--Source unknown

Life is the most difficult exam. Many people fail because they try to copy others, not realising that everyone has a different question paper.
--Source unknown

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OTHER GOOD ONES

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature...Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
--Helen Keller

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.
--H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching.
--Gerard Way

Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.
--Denis Waitley

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
--Vince Lombardi

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
--Albert Einstein

Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.
--Shari R. Barr

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
--Arthur Schopenhauer

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
--Robert Brault

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

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
--Jonathan Safran Foer

The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. The first to forget is the happiest.
--Source unknown

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
--Charles Bukowski

If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.
--Maxwell Maltz

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
--Plutarch

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
--Marcus Aurelius

The one who falls and gets up is so much stronger than the one who never fell.
--Source unknown

If you are still looking for that one person who will change your life, take a look in the mirror.
--Roman Price

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
--Lao Tzu

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.
--Benjamin Disraeli

If you try something you risk failure. If you don't you ensure it.
--Source unknown

A pretty face gets old. A nice body will change. But a good heart will always be good.
--Source unknown

A mistake repeated more than once is a decision.
--Paulo Coelho

When you're tempted to lose patience with someone, think about how patient God has been with you.
--Source unknown

Perfekt aussehen muss man nur, wenn man sonst nichts kann!
--Source unknown

Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.
--Gautama Buddha

If you have no struggles, you'll have no strength.
--Tim Fargo

[annelliot]

Sometimes you just have to let it go.
-- Life

[Rocket Spud]

Ha, i don't spend enough time with anyone to quantify that!

[Amara 94]

[Amara 94]

[Laurel]

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great worker you might have been
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great friend you might have been/might have made
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great relationship you might have had
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been"
-Robert H. Schuller

[Amara 94]

[twosocks]

bit fancier than i would normally go to but i like it and currently have it as my laptop background

[Introspheric87]

"When people show you who they are, believe them". Maya Angelou.
"Fall down seven times, get up eight times".

[I_love_otters]

Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.”

― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

[choirgirl]

^Ah good one. I've had that thing of trying to get back to the person I used to be while knowing I can't get back there and it's weird and a waste of time. And I wasn't even myself fully while I was that person, so that's ... what it is.

On a similar note: 'Happiness is the lucky pane of glass you carry in your head. It takes all your cunning just to hang onto it, and once it's smashed you have to move into a different sort of life.'

-Carol Shields, Unless

[Amara 94]

"The opposite of play is not work - the opposite of play is depression." Says Dr. Stuart Brown

[MissKatie]

I can't find the quote but it goes something like

I might be ugly but I have a great personality, just kidding, I have an awful personality too. I might be ugly and have an awful personality but I can cook. Just kidding, I burnt a coffee once. Feck you.

I found it very inspiring lol

[girlinterrupted]

^ Can I just say I love that 'Feck you' gets you through a lot of life

[MissKatie]

Originally Posted by girlinterrupted

^ Can I just say I love that 'Feck you' gets you through a lot of life

Haha it definitely does : laughing:

[Amara 94]

The most arrogant people are the most ignorant people.

Something I was thinking.

[Ronnie_Pickering]

[cymruambyth26]

'Don't waste your time with jealousy...sometimes your ahead...sometimes you're behind...the race is long and, in the end, its only with yourself!'

From the Baz Luhrmann track Everybody's Free to Wear Sunscreen. To be fair that track is full of wise words! I could quote most of the song.

[limey123]

Some days you're the statue, and some days you're the pigeon.

[Ronnie_Pickering]

ha Limey123, good one.

[Hollie]

^ hehe I like that one, thanks for posting

[limey123]

Originally Posted by NeverWas

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Is that one from "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu? I could google it I guess...

[limey123]

^ googled it, apparently it was Napoleon. He said some clever things. I've collected a few. He was right about China, for example.

“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”

“If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.”

“The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.”

“Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.”

“China is a sleeping giant; let him sleep, for if he wakes, he will shake the world.”

“The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.”

“Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.”

“Ability is of little account without opportunity.”

“Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.”

“It requires more courage to suffer than to die.”

“Success is the most convincing talker in the world.”

“From triumph to downfall there is but one step. I have noted that, in the most momentous occasions, mere nothings have always decided the outcome of the greatest events.”

[anxiouslondoner]

"You can take a horse to water, but you can't climb a ladder with a bell in each hand" - Vic Reeves

[Ronnie_Pickering]

'A quiet man is either planning his success or in unthinkable pain.'

[Ronnie_Pickering]

hmm the orange book this morning:

"Smart people who lack the courage to take risks often end up bitter, as they keep witnessing less smart people with more courage do much better than them"

[Ronnie_Pickering]

"Your fears, your critics, your heroes, your villains: They are fictions you perceive as reality. Choose to see through them. Choose to let them go."
— Isaac Lidsky