1. Happiness is the experience of living every moment with love, grace and gratitude.
2. A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
3. The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.
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Excerpt from official site of Denis Waitley, author of “The Psychology of Winning“, one of America’s most respected authors, keynote lecturers and productivity consultants on high performance human achievement. 10 million audio programs sold in 14 languages, Denis Waitley is one of the most listened-to voices on personal and career success.
He is the author of 16 non-fiction books, including several international best sellers, “Seeds of Greatness,” “Being the Best,” “The Winner’s Edge,” “The Joy of Working“, and “Empires of the Mind.”
1. Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
2. Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.
3. You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.
4. If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won’t, you most assuredly won’t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
5. There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
6. Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.
7. Get excited and enthusiastic about your own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire – you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
8. It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.
9. The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
10. The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.
11. The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives.
12. We are supposed to forgive everyone; everyone includes ourselves.
13. Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.
14. I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.
15. Chase your passion, not your pension.
16. Everything that is past is either a learning experience to grow on, a beautiful memory to reflect on, or a motivating factor to act upon.
17. We’ve got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
18. When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb.
19. Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.
20. Virtually nothing on earth can stop a person with a positive attitude who has his goal clearly in sight.
21. Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
22. There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.
23. It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
24. Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what’s happening out there. It’s how you take it that counts.
25. Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.
26. Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the ‘someday I’ll’ philosophy.
27. Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.
28. One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project.
29. A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
30. Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
31. Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.
32. A life lived with integrity – even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
33. Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.
34. Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.
35. Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
36. Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
37. Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
1. The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.
2. If you create any open space within yourself, love will fill it.
3. Love doesn’t need reason. It speaks from the irrational wisdom of the heart.
4. Love is the beginning of the journey, its end, and the journey itself.
5. The reason that ego and love are not compatible comes down to this: you cannot take your ego into the unknown, where love wants to lead. If you follow love, your life will become uncertain, and the ego craves certainty.
6. The path to love isn’t a choice, for all of us must find out who we are. This is our spiritual destiny. The path can be postponed; you can lose faith in it or even despair that love exists. None of that is permanent; only the path is.
7. Up to the point when they merged, two lovers walked separate paths. Together they create a new path that has no past, where every step moves into the unknown, and no amount of experience can light the way.
8. Negativity is born in the gap where love has been excluded.
9. Asking for love is one of the most difficult things for anyone to risk, and by risking it first in your heart, you open a door that will never close again.
10. The energy born of love is creative – it makes everything it touches new. To see how passionate you are, look around at what you have created.
11. The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others. They are open to gestures of love. They think about love, and express their love in every action. They know that love is not a mere sentiment, but the ultimate truth at the heart of the universe.
12. It isn’t love when another person cannot give you the space to live your own life.
13. People who feel loved live longer; have fewer colds, lower blood pressure and lower cancer rates; and have fewer heart attacks.
——————————— Excerpt from Wikipedia: Deepak Chopra (Hindi: दीपक चोपड़ा; born October 22, 1946) is an Indian medical doctor, public speaker, and writer on subjects such as spirituality, Ayurveda and mind-body medicine. Chopra began his career as an endocrinologist and later shifted his focus to alternative medicine. Chopra now runs his own medical center, with a focus on mind-body connections. He is also a lecturer at the Update in Internal Medicine event, sponsored by Harvard Medical School’s Department of Continuing Education and the Department of Medicine.
Chopra was a top assistant to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi before launching his own career in the late 1980s by publishing self-help books on New Age spirituality and alternative medicine.
A friend of Michael Jackson for 20 years, Chopra came to widespread public attention in July 2009 when he criticized the “cult of drug-pushing doctors, with their co-dependent relationships with addicted celebrities,” saying he hoped Jackson’s death, attributed to an overdose of a prescription drug, would be a call to action.
1. In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.
2. There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.
3. If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge. Those are the three things the ego is doing all the time. It’s very important to be aware of them every time they come up.
4. Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.
5. If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world.
6. You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.
7. The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.
8. There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
9. Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.
10. Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.
11. The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real for everyone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. It involves little more than changing our ideas about what is normal.
12. The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.
13. It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.
14. No matter how much of a mess we may have made of our lives, it is always possible to tap into the part of the soul that is universal, the infinite field of pure potential, and change the course of our destiny.
15. We must never pretend appreciation, but if we feel it, then we must express it.
16. The first step towards change is recognition. Recognize that you have had at least a few hopes and wishes come true.
17. Take a little time every day to notice the contents of your mind. This act of noticing, although very simple, is one of the most powerful steps to bringing about change. What you don’t see you cannot change.
18. No single decision you ever made has led in a straight line to where you find yourself now.
19. Every coincidence is an opportunity for you to become the person the universe intended you to be.
20. Everything is connected with everything else. In the spiritual world, those connections become visible. But in the physical world, we only glimpse the connections in the clues given to us through coincidence.
21. To commune with others involves commitment and a willingness to expose your deepest aspirations.
22. You will never feel better about yourself by making others look worse.
23. When you blame and criticize others, you are avoiding some truth about yourself.
24. When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself.
25. Questions answer themselves if you are aware enough.
26. Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given.
27. Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth to a new sense of belonging.
28. The expression of gratitude is a powerful force that generates even more of what we have already received.
29. When we seek money, or a good relationship, or a great job, what we are really seeking is happiness. The mistake we make is not going for happiness first. If we did, everything else would follow.
30. Focus on the quality of life. Add life to your years and then years will be added to your life.
1. Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person that loves you enough chance to love you enough.
——————————————– Excerpt from Wikipedia: Dinah Shore (born Frances Rose Shore; February 29, 1916 – February 24, 1994) was an American singer, actress, and television personality. She was most popular during the Big Band era of the 1940s and 1950s.
After failing singing auditions for the bands of Benny Goodman and both Jimmy Dorsey and his brother Tommy Dorsey, Shore struck out on her own to become the first singer of her era to achieve huge solo success. She enjoyed a long string of over 80 charted popular hits, lasting from 1940 into the late ’50s, and after appearing in a handful of films went on to a four-decade career in American television, starring in her own music and variety shows in the ’50s and ’60s and hosting two talk shows in the ’70s.
TV Guide magazine ranked her at #16 on their list of the top fifty television stars of all time. Stylistically, Dinah Shore was often compared to two popular singers who followed her in the mid-to-late ’40s and early ’50s, Doris Day and Patti Page.
1. And I’ve never taken up a sport just because it was a social fad.
2. Bing Crosby sings like all people think they sing in the shower.
3. Emmys are wonderful and I’m thrilled to death that I have mine. But they’re representative of a specific achievement, where this sort of thing is representative of how you’ve grown in your own industry.
4. I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t singing.
5. I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today.
6. I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me.
7. The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, ‘Don’t spend anything unless you have to.
8. When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don’t think the farmers could ever leave on Saturday afternoon until I had been placed up on the counter to sing.
9. Why should unmarried women be discriminated against – unmarried men are not.
1. Love is indescribable and unconditional. I could tell you a thousand things that it is not, but not one that it is.
—————————————————— Excerpt from Wikipedia: Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an African-American composer, pianist, and band leader.
Duke Ellington was known as one of the most influential figures in jazz, if not in all American music. His reputation increased when he died, and he received a special award citation from the Pulitzer Prize Board.
Ellington called his music “American Music” rather than jazz, and liked to describe those who impressed him as “beyond category.” These included many of the musicians who served with his orchestra, some of whom were considered among the giants of jazz and performed with Ellington’s orchestra for decades. While many were noteworthy in their own right, it was Ellington who melded them into one of the most well-known orchestral units in the history of jazz.
He often composed specifically for the style and skills of these individuals, such as “Jeep’s Blues” for Johnny Hodges, “Concerto for Cootie” (“Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me“) for Cootie Williams and “The Mooche” for Tricky Sam Nanton. He also recorded songs written by his bandsmen, such as Juan Tizol’s “Caravan” and “Perdido” which brought the “Spanish Tinge” to big-band jazz. After 1941, he frequently collaborated with composer-arranger Billy Strayhorn, whom he called his alter-ego.
One of the 20th century’s best-known artists, Ellington recorded for many American record companies, and appeared in several films. Ellington and his orchestra toured the United States and Europe regularly before and after World War II. Ellington led his band from 1923 until his death in 1974.
His son Mercer Ellington took over the band until his death from cancer in 1996. Paul Ellington, Mercer’s youngest son, took over the Orchestra from there and after his mother’s passing took over the Estate of Duke and Mercer Ellington.
2. Critics have their purposes, and they’re supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what they did.
3. Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
4. There are two kinds of worries – those you can do something about and those you can’t. Don’t spend any time on the latter.
1. Love is not something you feel. It’s something you do.
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Excerpt from Wikipedia: David Wilkerson (born May 19, 1931 in Hammond, Indiana) is an American Christian evangelist, most famous for his book The Cross and the Switchblade. He is also the founder of Times Square Church in New York, an interdenominational church.
Wilkerson’s widely distributed sermons, such as “A Call to Anguish,” are known for being direct and frank. He emphasizes Christian beliefs, such as: God’s holiness and righteousness, God’s love toward humans and especially Christian views of Jesus. Wilkerson tries to avoid categorizing Christians into distinct groups according to the denomination they belong to, and as such he is an evangelist with broad-based appeal.
1. Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
2. When we fell love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and care for, but it also helps us develope inner happiness and peace.
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Excerpt from Wikipedia: The Dalai Lama is a lineage of religious officials of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism. “Lama” is a general term referring to Tibetan Buddhist teachers. In religious terms, the Dalai Lama is believed by his devotees to be the rebirth of a long line of tulkus who descend from the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara. Traditionally, His Holiness is thought of as the latest reincarnation of a series of spiritual leaders who have chosen to be reborn in order to enlighten others. The Dalai Lama is often thought to be the director of the Gelug School, but this position belongs officially to the Ganden Tripa, which is a temporary position appointed by the Dalai Lama (who in practice exerts much influence).
Between the 17th century and 1959, the Dalai Lamas were the directors of the Tibetan Government, administering a large portion of the area from the capital Lhasa, although the extent of that lineage’s historical authority, legitimacy and claim to territory has been recently contested for political reasons. Since 1959, the Dalai Lama has been president of the Tibetan government-in-exile, or Central Tibetan Administration (CTA)
1. All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
2. Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
3. Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
4. If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.
5. If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
6. It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
7. Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.
8. There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.
9. We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
10. If you have fear of some pain or suffering, you should examine whether there is anything you can do about it. If you can, there is no need to worry about it; if you cannot do anything, then there is also no need to worry.
11. To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else. Rather than speaking badly about people and in ways that will produce friction and unrest in their lives, we should practice a purer perception of them, and when we speak of others, speak of their good qualities.
12. The very purpose of our life is Happiness.
13. Compassion is something really worthwhile. It is not just a religious or spiritual subject, not a matter of ideology. It is not a luxury, it is a necessity.
14. Giving material goods is one form of generosity, but one can extend an attitude of generosity into all one’s behavior. Being kind, attentive, and honest in dealing with others, offering praise where it is due, giving comfort and advice where they are needed, and simply sharing one’s time with someone – all these are forms of generosity, and they do not require any particular level of material wealth.
15. Disturbing emotions not only disturb our own state of mind, they also disturb the minds of others. Self-centredness gives rise to fear and insecurity, which in turn creates distrust. This is why having an altruistic attitude brings a great sense of happiness and peace of mind.
1. To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
2. The highest love a person can have for you is to wish for you to evolve into the best person you can be.
——————————————- Excerpt from Wikipedia: David Viscott (May 24, 1938 – October 10, 1996), was an American psychiatrist, author, businessman, and media personality. He was a graduate of Dartmouth (1959), Tufts Medical School and taught at University Hospital in Boston. He started a private practice in psychiatry in 1968 and later moved to Los Angeles in 1979 where he was a professor of psychiatry at UCLA. He founded and managed the Viscott Center for Natural Therapy in Beverly Hills, Newport Beach and Pasadena, California.
1. If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.
2. In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.
3. The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
4. You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.
5. To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.
6. The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.
7. The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – and never knowing.
8. There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It’s up to you to find it, and you can.
9. Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
1. Our true identity is to love without fear and insecurity. Our higher potential finds us when we set our course in that direction. The power of love and compassion transforms insecurity.
1. Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
2. Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
——————————————- Excerpt from Wikipedia: Dorothy Parker (August 22, 1893–June 7, 1967) was an American writer and poet, best known for her wit, wisecracks, and sharp eye for 20th century urban foibles.
From a conflicted and unhappy childhood, Parker rose to acclaim, both for her literary output in such venues as The New Yorker and as a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table, a group she later disdained. Following the breakup of that circle, Parker traveled to Hollywood to pursue screen-writing. Her successes there, including two Academy Award nominations, were curtailed as her involvement in left-wing politics led to a place on the infamous Hollywood blacklist.
Parker went through three marriages (two to the same man) and survived several suicide attempts, but grew increasingly dependent on alcohol. Dismissive of her own talents, she deplored her reputation as a “wisecracker”. Nevertheless, her literary output and her sparkling wit have endured.
1. I don’t care what is written about me so long as it isn’t true.
2. The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant–and let the air out of the tires.
3. Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
4. Lips that taste of tears, they say, are the best for kissing.
5. I wish I could drink like a lady. I can take one or two at the most. Three and I’m under the table. Four and I’m under the host.
6. Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
7. I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money.
______________________________ Poetry by Dorothy Parker
Resumé
Razors pain you;
Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you;
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren’t lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smells awful;
You might as well live.
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