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I have taken these quotes from 60 Quotes that Will Change the Way You Think

 

I copied and pasted and saved the ones from the list of 60 that really struck a chord with me. Ignore the numbers!

 

Those in bold are those that really struck a chord!

 

Just need to start actually applying them to my life now..

 

 

  1. Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
  2. No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying.
  3. If a person wants to be a part of your life, they will make an obvious effort to do so. Think twice before reserving a space in your heart for people who do not make an effort to stay.
  4. Making one person smile can change the world – maybe not the whole world, but their world.
  5. Life is 10% of what happens to you and 90% of how you react to it.
  6. The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
  7. It’s better to be alone than to be in bad company.
  8. Giving up doesn’t always mean you’re weak, sometimes it means you are strong enough and smart enough to let go and move on.
  9. Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, Albert Einstein, etc…
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  11. While you’re busy looking for the perfect person, you’ll probably miss the imperfect person who could make you perfectly happy.
  12. f you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.

 

  1. In life, if you don’t risk anything, you risk everything.
  2. Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for a moment that is yet to come.
  3. You will never become who you want to be if you keep blaming everyone else for who you are now.
  4. Sometimes people don’t notice the things others do for them until they stop doing them.
  5. Don’t listen to what people say, watch what they do.
  6. Love is not about sex, going on fancy dates, or showing off. It’s about being with a person who makes you happy in a way nobody else can.
  7. eing alone does not mean you are lonely, and being lonely does not mean you are alone.

 

 

  1. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don’t save it for a special occasion; today is special.
  2. Love and appreciate your parents. We are often so busy growing up, we forget they are also growing old

 

 

  1. Be happy. Be yourself. If others don’t like it, then let them be. Happiness is a choice. Life isn’t about pleasing everybody.

 

  1. If you expect the world to be fair with you because you are fair, you’re fooling yourself. That’s like expecting the lion not to eat you because you didn’t eat him.

 

  1. No matter how good or bad you have it, wake up each day thankful for your life. Someone somewhere else is desperately fighting for theirs.

 

  1. It’s better to know and be disappointed than to never know and always wonder.

 

  1. There are things that we don’t want to happen but have to accept, things we don’t want to know but have to learn, and people we can’t live without but have to let go.

 

  1. Learn to appreciate the things you have before time forces you appreciate the things you once had.

 

  1. Happiness is not determined by what’s happening around you, but rather what’s happening inside you. Most people depend on others to gain happiness, but the truth is, it always comes from within.

 

  1. You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading your last one.
  2. If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.

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The Invitation

By Oriah

 

It doesn’t interest me

what you do for a living.

I want to know

what you ache for

and if you dare to dream

of meeting your heart’s longing.

 

It doesn’t interest me

how old you are.

I want to know

if you will risk

looking like a fool

for love

for your dream

for the adventure of being alive.

 

It doesn’t interest me

what planets are

squaring your moon...

I want to know

if you have touched

the centre of your own sorrow

if you have been opened

by life’s betrayals

or have become shrivelled and closed

from fear of further pain.

 

I want to know

if you can sit with pain

mine or your own

without moving to hide it

or fade it

or fix it.

 

I want to know

if you can be with joy

mine or your own

if you can dance with wildness

and let the ecstasy fill you

to the tips of your fingers and toes

without cautioning us

to be careful

to be realistic

to remember the limitations

of being human.

 

It doesn’t interest me

if the story you are telling me

is true.

I want to know if you can

disappoint another

to be true to yourself.

If you can bear

the accusation of betrayal

and not betray your own soul.

If you can be faithless

and therefore trustworthy.

 

I want to know if you can see Beauty

even when it is not pretty

every day.

And if you can source your own life

from its presence.

 

I want to know

if you can live with failure

yours and mine

and still stand at the edge of the lake

and shout to the silver of the full moon,

“Yes.”

 

It doesn’t interest me

to know where you live

or how much money you have.

I want to know if you can get up

after the night of grief and despair

weary and bruised to the bone

and do what needs to be done

to feed the children.

 

It doesn’t interest me

who you know

or how you came to be here.

I want to know if you will stand

in the centre of the fire

with me

and not shrink back.

 

It doesn’t interest me

where or what or with whom

you have studied.

I want to know

what sustains you

from the inside

when all else falls away.

 

I want to know

if you can be alone

with yourself

and if you truly like

the company you keep

in the empty moments.

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