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We cannot choose our external circumstances,
but we can always choose how to respond to them.
- Epictetus

Related topics: Positive Inspirational Motivational Attitude

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow

All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney

People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott

Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln

Obstacles are like wild animals.
They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can.
If they see you are afraid of them...
they are liable to spring upon you;
but if you look them squarely in the eye,
they will slink out of sight.
- Orison Swett Marden

Truths and roses have thorns about them.
- Henry David Thoreau

Once we accept our limits, we can go beyond them.
- Albert Einstein

"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen

People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus

Motivation is the art of getting people to do
what you want them to do because they want to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

You will do foolish things,
but do them with enthusiasm.
- Colette

Problems cannot be solved at the same level
of awareness that created them.
- Albert Einstein

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Books can only reveal us to ourselves,
and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
- Henry David Thoreau

If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb

Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible
things you eliminate from your life, but by
the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.
- Neale Donald Walsch

Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love.
The real miracle is the love that inspires them.
In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
- A Course in Miracles

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants,
and to serve them one's self?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The things of this world exist;
they are; you can't refuse them.
- Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching - Book One #2 - version by Ursula K. Le Guin

People are not lazy.
They simply have impotent goals -
that is, goals that do not inspire them.
- Tony Robbins

The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man
are fixed upon the same creation;
but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.
- Albert Pike

Stand up to your obstacles
and do something about them.
You will find that they haven't
half the strength you think they have.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work,
so most people don't recognize them.
- Ann Landers

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better
to displease the people by doing what you know is right,
than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker

Eagles come in all shapes and sizes,
but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.
- E. F. Schumacher

I believe that anyone can conquer fear
by doing the things he fears to do,
provided he keeps doing them until he gets
a record of successful experience behind him.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

You can easily judge the character of others
by how they treat those who can
do nothing for them or to them.
- Malcolm S. Forbes

It had long since come to my attention
that people of accomplishment
rarely sat back and let things happen to them.
They went out and happened to things.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Men are disturbed not by things,
but by the view which they take of them.
- Epictetus

I do not believe in a fate that
falls on men however they act;
but I do believe in a fate
that falls on them unless they act.
- The Buddha

Hatred freezes hearts, while love warms them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- Benjamin Franklin

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.
And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Lovers embrace that which is between them
rather than each other.
- Khalil Gibran

I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony

I must uphold my ideals,
for perhaps the time will come
when I shall be able to carry them out.
- Anne Frank

Don't fight forces, use them.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

We cannot solve our problems with the same
thinking we used when we created them.
- Albert Einstein

If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.
- Henry David Thoreau

We deem those happy, who from the experience of life
have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
- Carl Jung

Go to the people
Live among them
Learn from them
Love them
Serve them
Plan with them
Start with what they know
Build on what they have.
- Jimmy Yen (Y. C. James Yen)

I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe

Love them as they are,
and forgive them everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation
and go to the grave with the song still in them.
- Henry David Thoreau

Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everyone is born a genius,
but the process of living de-geniuses them.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Intellectuals solve problems,
geniuses prevent them.
- Albert Einstein

The hardest of all, is learning to be
a well of affection, and not a fountain,
to show them that we love them,
not when we feel like it, but when they do.
- Nan Fairbrother

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
- Titus Livius

Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others,
I can see them as teachers.
- Gerald Jampolsky

If you can, help others;
if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

It is not the magnitude of our actions
but the amount of love
that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa

The only way to discover the limits of the possible
is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke

Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton

Winners must have two things:
definite goals and a burning desire to achieve them.
- Anonymous

To lead people walk behind them.
- Lao Tzu

In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west;
people create distinctions out of their own minds
and then believe them to be true.
- The Buddha

Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible
things you eliminate from your life,
but by the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.
- Neale Donald Walsch

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared
believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
- Bruce Barton

The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.
- Publilius Syrus

Do not seek to bring things to pass
in accordance with your wishes,
but wish for them as they are,
and you will find them.
- Epictetus

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care
for people will hear them and be influenced
by them for good or ill.
- The Buddha

We may have found a cure for most evils;
but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all,
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie