QUOTATIONS TO HELP YOU LIVE A GOOD LIFE

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Nisagardatta

The mind creates the abyss and the heart crosses it.

Mindfulness
Spirituality

Joe Frazier

Champions aren’t made in the ring, they are merely recognized there. What you cheat on in the early light of morning will show up in the ring under the bright lights.

Authenticity
Integrity
Success

Rabindranath Tagore

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

Energy
Presence
Spirituality

Viktor Frankl

“It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds. … The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a…

Energy
Health
Presence

Dalai Lama

‘Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.’

Love
Purpose

Rainer Maria Rilke

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.

Responsibility

Carl Sagan 

We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.

Perspective

Ben Okri

Beware the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.

Alignment
Values

Wendell Berry 

It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.

Authenticity
Outcomes

Alain de Botton

If we are not regularly deeply embarrassed by who we are, the journey to self-knowledge hasn’t begun.

Perspective

Rinpoche Jerry Gardner

“Without sequence, there is only chaos. Through sequence we create order. And through order arrive clarity of direction. And through clarity of direction, we accomplish our goals.”

Outcomes
Success

Epicurus 

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.

Perspective
Success
Values

Meister Eckhart 

For the person who has learned to let go and let be, nothing can ever get in the way again.

Emotions
Happiness

Vivekananda 

Plants always remain small under a big tree.

Perspective

Thomas á Kempis

Be what thou prayest to be made.

Action
Outcomes
Presence

Gandhi

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Emotions
Energy
Love

Rilke 

I want to unfold. I don’t want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.

Authenticity

Horace

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

Career
Perspective
Spirituality

TS Eliot

If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Action
Identity
Outcomes
Values

Tagore 

The stronger the imagination, the less imaginary the results.

Authenticity
Business
Outcomes
Success

Walt Whitman

We convince by our presence.

Authenticity
Energy
Leadership

Spanish poet A. Machado 

Wanderer, there is no path. You lay a path in walking.

Leadership
Perspective
Purpose

Emerson 

Beware of what you want for you will get it.

Energy
Mindfulness

W.B. Yeats 

Whatever we build in the imagination will accomplish itself in the circumstances of our lives.

Outcomes

Poimandres

I know what you desire and I am with you everywhere. Hold in your mind all you wish to know, and I will teach you.

Spirituality

Plato

Renouncing the honors at which the world aims, I desire only to know the truth.

Alignment
Values

Pablo Picasso 

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

Perspective

Joseph McClendon III

Confidence and faith are manufactured.

Authenticity

Rudyard Kipling  

If you don’t get what you want, it’s a sign either that you did not seriously want it, or that you tri d to bargain over the price.

Career
Outcomes
Perspective
Success

W. Clement Stone

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

Authenticity
Relationships
Values