Post quotes I find relevant or motivational

The family you come from isn’t as important as the family you’re going to haveor have.

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as soon as you can change your beliefs.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter

Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us

Love is life’s end, but never ending. Love is life’s wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love’s life’s reward, rewarded in rewarding.

I have been remiss making my entries but today I will make up for it :-) something MsM has said has made me reflect and these i think are very apt.

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

There are only two roads that lead to something like human happiness. They are marked by the words: love and achievement. In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy. The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.

Don’t let anything keep you from struggling and seeking to be a decent, striving human being. It’s where you’re headed not where you’re from that will determine where you end up

What you think of yourself is much more important than what others think of you.

And dont let what others think of you tarnish what you think of yourself

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. And the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost always a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.

The real problem between the sexes is that for men, sex is a gender-underliner, they need it for their egos. We don’t need sex to make us feel we are the person we need to be. But for the man who has found himself and found his true partner sex is no longer a necessity.It has become an act to be shared without ego, it no longer is needed to prove that all is well rather the sheer fact it is no longer needed is a sure sign that all is wonderful.

We do not inherit the land from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

( I find these ones so simple yet so profound)