“Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now; and if the past cannot prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?”

-Eckhart Tolle3 weeks ago

26) It’s better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret. Jackie Joyner Kersee.

27) I will prepare and some day my chance will come. Abraham Lincoln

28) Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

29) Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for a moment that is yet to come.

30) Don’t listen to what people say, watch what they do. 1 month ago

20) It’s never too late to become what you might have been. George Elliot.

21) Discipline is the bridge between goals & accomplishment. Jim Robb.

22) The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. Thomas Paine.

23) I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest. Audrey Hepburn.

24) Your beliefs become your values. Your values become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits.Your habits become your destiny. Gandhi.

25) You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody. Maya Angelou. 2 months ago

There are three types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who wonder what happened.
- Mary Kay Ash 2 months ago

17) There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness. Han Suyin.

18) It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. Onassis.

19) When deeds speak, words are nothing. Pierre -Joseph Proudhon.

20) The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. Thomas Paine. 2 months ago

So don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most importantly, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truely want to become. Everything eles is secondary…Steve Jobs. 3 months ago

We`re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we`re not alone – Orson Wells

I found this quote after hearing it paraphrased in a movie called The Art of Getting By in which the kid who is being all existential angsty says he has read a quote once that “we are born alone, we die alone and everything else is an illusion” and uses it as justification for a slacker lifestyle of underachieving.

I like Wells’ quote itself better, its more like Erich Fromm’s quote about love being the only real sane solution to the dilemma posed by existence. 3 months ago

11) How delicious is the winning of a kiss at love’s beginning.
Thomas Campbell.

12) In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
Janos Armature.

13) The more I give to thee,the more I have, for both are infinite.
William Shakespeare.

14) I become a waterwheel, turning and tasting you, as long as water moves.

15) Within you I lose myself. Without you I find myself wanting to become lost again. Author unknown. 3 months ago

6) Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate & define you. Thomas Jefferson.

7) Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope & confidence. Helen Keller.

8) The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. Epictetus.

9) Things do not happen. Things are made to happen. John F. Kennedy

10) Never complain & never explain. Benjamin Disraeli. 3 months ago

1) Nothing is impossible, the word itself says “I’m possible!
Audrey Hepburn.

2) Belief creates the actual fact.
William James.

3) Change your thoughts and change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale

4) Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson.

5) A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.
Joyce Meyer. 4 months ago

which collects quotations and permits you to select favourites, its got quotations from all sorts of authors and thinkers.

There’s lots of different apps available, it appears this goal or ones like it are very popular and people have spent a lot of time developing the means for people to search or log their favourites in online. 4 months ago

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) 4 months ago

You can get more of what you want with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word.

- Al Capone 4 months ago

Liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself.
That, in its essence, is fascism—ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. – Franklin D. Roosevelt 4 months ago

“Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.”

~Sir Winston Churchill 4 months ago

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
- Bruce Lee 4 months ago

“Freedom is not a constant attribute which we either “have” or “have not.” In fact, there is no such thing as “freedom” except as a word and an abstract concept. There is only one reality: the act of freeing ourselves in the process of making choices. In this process the degree of our capacity to make choices varies with each act, with our practice of life.”
― Erich Fromm, El Corazon del Hombre: Su Potencia Para el Bien y Para el Mal 4 months ago

“If other people do not understand our behavior—so what? Their request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate to us. If this is being “asocial” or “irrational” in their eyes, so be it. Mostly they resent our freedom and our courage to be ourselves. We owe nobody an explanation or an accounting, as long as our acts do not hurt or infringe on them. How many lives have been ruined by this need to “explain,” which usually implies that the explanation be “understood,” i.e. approved. Let your deeds be judged, and from your deeds, your real intentions, but know that a free person owes an explanation only to himself—to his reason and his conscience—and to the few who may have a justified claim for explanation.”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Being 4 months ago

“A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who is not yet “for sale”, who can still suffer over the suffering of others, who has not acquired fully the having mode of existence – briefly, a person who has remained a person and not become a thing – cannot help feeling lonely, powerless, isolated in present-day society. He cannot help doubting himself and his own convictions, if not his sanity. He cannot help suffering, even though he can experience moments of joy and clarity that are absent in the life of his “normal” contemporaries. Not rarely will he suffer from neurosis that results from the situation of a sane man living in an insane society, rather than that of the more conventional neurosis of a sick man trying to adapt himself to a sick society. In the process of going further in his analysis, i.e. of growing to greater independence and productivity,his neurotic symptoms will cure themselves.”
― Erich Fromm 4 months ago

““A master at the art of living makes no distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his religion – he hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues with excellence what he is about and leaves others to determine, whether he is working or playing. He himself always knows, he is doing both.” – Wilfred A. Peterson 4 months ago

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.

- Socrates (470-399 B.C.) 5 months ago

“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”
~Buddha 5 months ago

There is so much good in the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it hardly behooves any of us
To talk about the rest of us.
Edward Wallis Hoch, Marion (Kansas) Record
(1849 – 1925) 6 months ago

Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean. Who is neither tarnished or afraid – Raymond Chandler

What holds true of religions holds true for faith in its secular form… ideas… deteriorate… once they are not based upon the productive experience of each individual – Eric Fromm, Man For Himself, Faith as a Character Trait, Problems of Humanistic Ethics.

“There are some upon this earth of yours,” returned the Spirit, “who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name, who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us.” Spirit of Christmas Present – A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens

Sundays really are great when u know your off for the week :) – Aisha Sloan

“There are too many Tories in this bar” – war cry of Falkirk Labour Party :D

I particularly like the one from A Christmas Carol, it immediately resonates with me and gives me heart. Although I liked the Falkirk politician who thumped and heatbutted all the tories in the bar. 6 months ago

Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid… He is the hero, he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor, by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world.

Chandler, Raymond

Along with the poem If by Kipling I think there’s a lot to be learned by this quote. 7 months ago

Think I’ll be able to get some quotes for this, its hilarious, some of them are otherwise serious quotes but taken out of context and made funny, which I like knowing the original source material.

Like there was one from Erich Fromm, I dont know if it was from Art of Loving or which of his books but it was something along the lines that “Giving is the greatest sign of potency”, now knowing Fromm this was not meant as the form of innuendo it appeared to be.

Then there was another saying that he believed that everyones conception of heaven today was probably a giant department store, stocked with new stock daily, with plenty of money to buy things and probably more money than the neightbours. Knowing Fromm again this was probably meant to be more sharply critical than it turned out to be.

There was another quote in relation to the bible saying that the bible teaches to forgive your enemies, not your friends. :D :D

Great stuff, its hundreds of pages long and so probably is, in a way, this goal accomplished but I am going to keep it around for a while yet I think. I’ve always collected quotations, from when I was a kid and probably always will. 7 months ago

“Through violence you may murder a murderer, but you can’t murder murder. Through violence you may murder a liar, but you can’t establish truth. Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can’t murder hate. Darkness cannot put out darkness. Only light can do that…. Difficult and painful as it is, we must walk on in the days ahead with an audacious faith in the future. When our days become dreary with low-hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let us remember that there is a creative force in this universe, working to pull down the gigantic mountains of evil, a power that is able to make a way out of no way and transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows. Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice”.
~ Martin Luther King Jr 7 months ago

Fill your days with life, not your life with days.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

All men die, not all men live.

“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one”
― Bruce Lee

“Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.”
― Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do

“If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”
― Bruce Lee

“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.”
― Bruce Lee 7 months ago