So I've been an inspirational kinda mood, ya know because of this whole marathon training and being around motivated people. So here's some quotes I like, my favorites are italicized :)
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go." -T. S. Eliot
Nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die; or when. You can only decide how you're going to live; NOW. - Joan Baez -
"A year from now you may wish you had started today."
"Use what talents you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." - Henry van Dyke -
"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another." - Charles Dickens
"One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. " - Henry Ford -
"Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting." - Napolean Hill -
"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you." - Dale Carnegie -
"If you are not using your smile, you're a man with a million dollars in the bank and no checkbook." - Les Giblin -
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead -
"I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself." - Aldous Huxley -
"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of that candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared." - Buddha -
"If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it." - William Arthur Ward -
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them." - Mother Teresa -
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt -
Dalai Lama's 19 instructions for life
1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
2. When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
3. Follow the three Rs: respect for self, respect for others and responsibility for all your actions.
4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
6. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
7. When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
8. Spend some time alone every day.
9. Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
11. Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time
12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
13. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.
14. Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.
15. Be gentle with the earth.
16. Once a year, go someplace you've never been before.
17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
19. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.
- Dalai Lama -
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." - Theodore Roosevelt -
"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for." - Epicurus -
"We sometimes feel that what we do is just a drop in the ocean, but the ocean would be less because of that missing drop." - Mother Teresa -
"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step." - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. -
"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough" - Joe Lewis -
"Tell me and I`ll forget, show me and I may remember, involve me and I`ll understand." - Chinese Proverb -
Resentment is like drinking poison and expecting someone else to die! - Anon -
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up." - Mark Twain -
