Great Thoughts

A "Golden False Acacia" in the Swiss Garden at Old Warden. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.

Life is beauty, admire it.

Life is bliss, taste it.

Life is a dream, realize it.

Life is a challenge, meet it.

Life is a duty, complete it.

Life is a game, play it.

Life is a promise, fulfill it.

Life is sorrow, overcome it.

Life is a song, sing it.

Life is a struggle, accept it.

Life is a tragedy, confront it.

Life is an adventure, dare it.

Life is luck, make it.

Life is too precious, do not destroy it.

Life is life, fight for it.

Mother Teresa

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

William Blake

Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.

Jeremy Collier

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

Charles Caleb Colton

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.

Marquis de Condorcet

Age is a matter of feeling not of years.

George W. Curtis

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tomorrow.

James Dean

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Jimmy Dean

If you can dream it, you can do it.

Walt Disney

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,

And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.

-Zig Ziglar

Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service and character.

William A. Ward

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. -Unknown

One eye-witness is better than ten hear-Sayers.

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed.  And the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep trying!

Tom Hopkins

There is no shame in having fallen.  Nor any shame in being born into a lowly estate.  There is only shame in not struggling to rise.  And also shame for not wishing to attain the better.  Or not dreaming about it and praying for it. 

Samuel Amalu

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Leo Tolstoy

It is little that one gains by cleverness.

Unknown

Fields are won by those who believe in winning.

T.W. Higginson

A joy that's shared is a joy made double.

John Ray

He who can conceal his joys is greater than he who can hide his griefs.

Lavater

There is sweet joy that comes to us through sorrow.

Spurgeon

Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”

― Bernard M. Baruch

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.”

― Dr. Seuss

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

― Eleanor Roosevelt, This is My Story

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”

― Mark Twain

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”

― Oscar Wilde

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”

― Elbert Hubbard

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”

 Mark Twain

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. 

~Chili Davis

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Albert Einstein

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

Kahlil Gibran

Never regret what made you smile. Just learn from the tears that followed.

Author Unknown

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

- Confucius

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

- Aristotle

If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself.

- Albert Einstein

The mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work unless it’s open.

- Jordan Maxwell

Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.

- Lord Chesterfield

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

- Henry Ward Beecher

Guns don’t kill people — people do.

If you are not part of the cure, then you are part of the problem.

He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise.

- Lao Tzu

The ability to compromise makes one noble…


Contributed by: Arzu Arora