Five simple rules for happiness:
~ unknown
1. Free your heart from hatred
2. Free your mind from worries
3. Live simply
4. Give more
5. Expect less
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Quotes
A long long time ago I began collecting inspirational quotes and aphorisms which became my collection of quotes.
Motivation
Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels!
~ unknown
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Wonder and skepticism
Not only could nobody tell me, but nobody even had the sense that it was an interesting question. They looked at me funny. I asked my parents; I asked my parents’ friends; I asked other adults. None of them knew. My mother said to me, “Look, we’ve just got you a library card. Take it, get on the streetcar, go to the New Utrecht branch of the New York Public Library, get out a book and find the answer.”
~ Carl Sagan
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Gift of silence
“You have a grand gift of silence, Watson,” said he,
~ Arthur C. Doyle
“It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.”
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Too much information
I’ve seen the whole world six times over
~ The Police
Sea of Japan to the cliffs of Dover,
Overkill. Overview. Over my dead body.
Over me. Over you. Over everybody.
Too much information /
Runnin’ through my brain.
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Nice people
A person who is nice to you, but is not nice to the waiter, is not a nice person.
~ unknown
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Success
You will succeed because most people are lazy.
~ unknown
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Ethics, Integrity, Courage, Dignity
• A man does the job no one else wants to do.
~ “Atticus Finch”
• A man lives with integrity every day.
• The most important form of courage is moral courage.
• Live with quiet dignity.
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Entertaining
An educated man can…
~ Brett McKay
entertain himself;
entertain a friend;
entertain a new idea.
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Two important days
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born, and the day you find out why.
~ Mark Twain
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Past, Future, Present
If you are depressed, you are living in the past.
~ unknown
If you are anxious, you are living in the future.
If you are at peace, you are living in the present.
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Tired of chasing
There’s a point in life when you get tired of chasing everyone and trying to fix everything, but it’s not giving up. It’s realizing that you don’t need certain people and their crap.
~ unknown
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Improve your argument
My father used to say, “Don’t raise your voice. Improve your argument.”
~ Desmond Tutu
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Caring and understanding
Just because I don’t care doesn’t mean I don’t understand.
~ “Homer J. Simpson“
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Everything is temporary
Everything in life is temporary. So if things are going good, enjoy it because it won’t last forever. …and if things are going bad, don’t worry; It won’t last forever either.
~ unknown
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Adjust the sails
The pessimist complains about the wind;
~ William A. Ward
The optimist expects it to change;
The realist adjusts the sails.
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Royal road to simplicity
No character can be simple unless it is based on truth — unless it is lived in harmony with one’s own conscience and ideals. Simplicity is the pure white light of a life lived from within. It is destroyed by any attempt to live in harmony with public opinion. Public opinion is a conscience owned by a syndicate — where the individual is merely a stockholder. But the individual has a conscience of which he is sole proprietor. Adjusting his life to his own ideals is the royal road to simplicity. Affectation is the confession of inferiority; It is an unnecessary proclamation that one is not living the life he pretends to live.
~ William G. Jordan
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Put the moment on hold
You can’t stop nothin’
~ Jack Johnson
if you got no control.
…
You can’t stop wishin’
if you don’t let go.
…
You keep on rollin’
put the moment on hold.
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Through
The only way out is through.
~ Robert Frost
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Good luck
I find the harder I work,
~ unknown
the more luck I seem to have.
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