“The best way to keep relationships happy, healthy, and supportive can be summed up in one word: appreciation. What you appreciate, appreciates. When we demonstrate our appreciation for the support we receive from others, it reinforces that behavior and deepens our connection to them.”
Marci Shimoff
“The moment you commit and quit holding back, all sorts of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, will rise up to help you. The simple act of commitment is a powerful magnet for help.”
Napoleon Hill
1883-1970, Author
“Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.”
Maria Mitchell
1818-1889, Astronomer
“Most people are not going after what they want. Even some of the most serious goal seekers and goal setters, they’re going after what they think they can get. Set your sights higher.”
Bob Proctor
Author and Speaker
Imagine there is a bank account that credits your account each morning with $86,400. It carries over no balance from day to day. Every evening the bank deletes whatever part of the balance you failed to use during the day. What would you do? Draw out every cent, of course! Each of us has such a bank. It′s name is TIME. Every morning, it credits you with 86,400 seconds. Every night it writes off as lost, whatever of this you have failed to invest to a good purpose.
“The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little soon forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitessimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, Poet and Philosopher
“None of us has the power to make someone else love us. But we all have the power to give away love, to love other people. And if we do so, we change the kind of person we are, and we change the kind of world we live in.”
“The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.”
Barbara de Angelis
Relationship Consultant, Author and Speaker
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
Mark Twain
1835-1910, Author and Humorist
“You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.”
Oliver Goldsmith
1730-1774, Writer and Poet
“Youth is not a time of life – it is a state of mind. It is a temper of the will; a quality of the imagination; a vigor of the emotions; it is a freshness of the deep springs of life. Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over a life of ease… Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years; people grow old by deserting their ideals.”
Samuel Ullman
1840-1924, Businessman and Poet
“See that any time you feel pained or defeated, it is only because you insist on clinging to what doesn’t work. Dare to let go and you won’t lose a thing except for a punishing idea.”
“One hour per day of study will put you at the top of your field within three years. Within five years you’ll be a national authority. In seven years, you can be one of the best people in the world at what you do.”
Earl Nightingale
1921-1989, Author and Speaker
“It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, or so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere through which we look – to affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of the arts.”
Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, Author, Poet and Abolitionist
“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
1898-1993
“If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then you are an excellent leader.”
Dolly Parton
Singer/Songwriter
“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.”
Carl Sagan
1934-1996, Astrophysicist and Author
“Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.”
Willie Nelson
Singer-Songwriter
“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
Mother Teresa
1910-1997, Catholic Nun and Founder of Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta
“The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.”
Mark Caine
Author
“If you put off everything till you’re sure of it, you’ll never get anything done.”
Norman Vincent Peale
1898-1993, Minister and Author
There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way!
Laozi (the ‘Old Master’)
6th century BC
Author of Tao Te Ching
(I can strongly recomend this book. There are many translations into English.
The translation/intepretation i read was by Wayne Dyer)
“Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.”
Eileen Caddy
Author
“If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1749-1832, Author and Philosopher
