Passion Quotes

“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”
― Jack Kerouac

“A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“Be the flame, not the moth.”
― Giacomo Casanova


“Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow,
That I shall say good night till it be morrow.”
― William Shakespeare, 

“She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, perhaps, or maybe quiet conversations in candlelit rooms, or perhaps something as simple as not being second.”
― Nicholas Sparks

“I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.”
― Aldous Huxley


“I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.”
― Jess C Scott

“If you have a strong purpose in life, you don’t have to be pushed. Your passion will drive you there.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement”
― Jess C Scott


“I threw myself into that fire, threw myself into it, into him, and let myself burn.”
― Sarah J. Maas

“Passion is…it’s fire. And fire is great, man. But we’re made of water. Water is how we keep living. Water is what we need to survive.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid

“There is scarcely any passion without struggle.”
― Albert Camus


“What if you find your soul mate… at the wrong time?”
― Lauren Kate

“We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.”
― Che Guevara

“I’ll always choose you.” Yes that was the word. “Every single lifetime, I’ll choose you. Just as you have always chosen me. Forever.”
― Lauren Kate


“Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.”
― Martha Graham

“Never trust people who don’t have something in their lives that they love beyond all reason.”
― Fredrik Backman

“There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.”
― Coco Chanel


“Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.”
― Criss Jami

“He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.”
― Anaïs Nin

“I’ll love you with all my heart, in every life, through every death. I
will not be bound by anything but my love for you.”
― Lauren Kate


“You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul.”
― Julie de Lespinasse

“Every day People straighten up the hair, why not the heart?”
― che guevara

“Every day People straighten up the hair, why not the heart?”
― che guevara


“Let all of life be an unfettered howl.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.”
― Nikola Tesla

“Let me love you, but don’t love me back. Do love me and let me hate you for a while. Let me feel like I have some control, because I know I never do. ”
― Ann Brashares


“There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.”
― Albert Camus

“Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.”
― Claude Monet

“An infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space.”
― Gustave Flaubert


“Perhaps all romance is like that; not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in everyday life. Only a drama will do and while the fireworks last the sky is a different colour.”
― Jeanette Winterson

“I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.”
― Candide

“He was jealous of her future, and she of his past.”
― Anaïs Nin


“To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable.”― Ludwig van Beethoven


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FORGIVENESS QUOTES

FORGIVENESS QUOTES

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.”
― J.K. Rowling

“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
― Jane Austen

“Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.”
― Robert Jordan

“One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.”
― Rita Mae Brown

“Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.”
― Corrie Ten Boom

“True forgiveness is when you can say, “Thank you for that experience.”
― Oprah Winfrey

“I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.”
― Khaled Hosseini

“Last night I lost the world, and gained the universe.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness. ”
― Ellen Goodman

“Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”
― Mark Twain

“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”
― Nelson Mandela

“Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.”
― Will Smith

“We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterward.”
― Alison Croggon

“I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.”
― John F. Kennedy

“To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.”
― Confucius

“Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.”
― Criss Jami

“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on.”
― Steve Maraboli

“When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines upon you.”
― Jon Krakauer

“Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.”
― Steve Maraboli

“Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.”
― Marvin J. Ashton

“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.”
― Thomas Szasz

“As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison.”
― Nelson Mandela

“Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.”
― Anne Lamott

“I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.”
― Barbara Kingsolver

“Forgiveness must be immediate, whether or not a person asks for it. Trust must be rebuilt over time. Trust requires a track record.”
― Rick Warren

“The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.”
― Marianne Williamson

“But we can’t go back. We can only go forward.”
― Libba Bray

“There isn’t time, so brief is life, for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving, and but an instant, so to speak, for that.”
― Mark Twain

“Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive.”
― Wm. Paul Young

“Always forgive, but never forget, else you will be a prisoner of your own hatred, and doomed to repeat your mistakes forever.”
― Wil Zeus

“Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.”
― Oprah Winfrey

“Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.”
― Emma Goldman

“I want to be the kind of person who can do that. Move on and forgive people and be healthy and happy. It seems like an easy thing to do in my head. But it’s not so easy when you try it in real life.”
― Susane Colasanti

“Love is forgiving, accepting, moving on, embracing, and all encompassing. And if you’re not doing that for yourself, you cannot do that with anyone else.”
― Steve Maraboli

“Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person’s throat.”
― Wm. Paul Young

“What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you’d never forget?”
― Jodi Picoult

“Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.”
― Siddhārtha Gautama



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HABITS QUOTES

HABITS QUOTES

“The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.”
― Albert Camus

“I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.”
― Warren Buffett

“The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old, conditioned mind-pattern. Ego implies unawareness. Awareness and ego cannot coexist.”
― Eckhart Tolle

“Change might not be fast and it isn’t always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped.”
― Charles Duhigg

“The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.”
― Samuel Johnson

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
― Will Durant

“An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.”
― Criss Jami

“We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.”
― Albert Camus

“You can’t make yourself feel positive, but you can choose how to act, and if you choose right, it builds your confidence.”
― Julien Smith

“A morning coffee is my favorite way of starting the day, settling the nerves so that they don’t later fray.”
― Marcia Carrington

“A nail is driven out by another nail; habit is overcome by habit.”
― Erasmus

“If our mind remains freeze-framed by inhibiting and hampering habits, in an ever-changing world, we won’t be able to get rid of that weird feeling of not belonging anywhere and not taking part in authentic life challenges. (“Not on the shortlist”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“If you believe you can change – if you make it a habit – the change becomes real.”
― Charles Duhigg

“Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.”
― Mark Twain

“There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.”
― William James

“All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits – practical, emotional, and intellectual – systematically organized for our weal or woe, and bearing us irresistibly toward our destiny, whatever the latter may be.” – William James”
― Charles Duhigg

“A man who can’t bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them.”
― Stephen King

“It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr.”
― Lewis Carroll

“Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit.”
― Gordon Parks

“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”
― Jim Ryun

“The best kind of happiness is a habit you’re passionate about.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Good habits are worth being fanatical about.”
― John Irving

“Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?”
― Idries Shah

“Some rules are nothing but old habits that people are afraid to change.”
― Therese Fowler

“She liked the life she had. She loved habits. She craved a day with nothing in it, a long, quiet stretch of hours in the studio.”
― Ann Brashares

“I am a Smedry, and we do ridiculous, unexpected, eccentric things like this all the time! Ha-ha!”
― Brandon Sanderson

“…it is not possible to create the opposite of what one has always known, simply because the opposite is believed to be desired. Human beings need what they already know, even horrors.”
― A.S. Byatt

“Habits stay with you even when you don’t have the motivation.”
― Neeraj Agnihotri

“You have a bad habit of listing anything that can go wrong, Volger.”
“I have always considered that a good habit”
― Scott Westerfeld

“Perbedaan antara bisa dengan tidak bisa itu sangat sederhana, yaitu habits.”
― Felix Y. Siauw

“Children should never have baths,’ my grandmother said. ‘It’s a dangerous
habit.’
‘I agree, Grandmamma.”
― Roald Dahl

“Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure.”
― Og Mandino

“Great people become great due to the framework, routines and habits they have set for themselves”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Sometimes I get the feeling that we’re just a bunch of habits. The gestures we repeat over and over, they’re just our need to be recognized. Without them, we’d be unidentifiable. We have to reinvent ourselves every minute.”
― Nicole Krauss

“Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts.”
― Mortimer Adler

“The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
― Marcel Proust

“Some women have been faking orgasms for so long that they sometimes fake one when they are masturbating.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Your little choices become habits that affect the bigger decisions you make in life.”
― Elizabeth George

“Let go of your old tired habits and plant new habits in fertile soil.”
― Harley King

“If breaking a habit has been hard for you to do, hard for you even to face, then a helping hand is in order.”
― Kenneth Schwarz

“I don’t like good habits. They strike me as being so easily broken.”
― Linnea Gelland

“Environment is the invisible hand that shapes human behavior.”
― James Clear

“Authenticity is the key to building trust and credibility in personal and professional relationships.”
― Felecia Etienne

“The habits that govern our lives determines if we will be victors or victims.”
― Benjamin Suulola

“Create a music playlist that fuels your passion and motivates you to be the best version of yourself.”
― Felecia Etienne

“Success doesn’t happen alone. Find someone who gets you, someone who’s got your back, and someone who cheers you on as you chase your dreams.”
― Felecia Etienne


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MINDFULNESS QUOTES

MINDFULNESS QUOTES

“Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.”
― Thich Nhat Hang

“If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.”
― Amit Ray


“Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.”
― Amit Ray

“If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it’s fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there’s an arrow in your heart…”
― Pema Chödrön


“Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.”
― Marcus Aurelius

“Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.”
― Robin Sharma


“Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.”
― Marcus Aurelius

“The mind is just like a muscle – the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets and the more it can expand.”
― Idowu Koyenikan


“The attempt to escape from pain, is what creates more pain.”
― Gabor Maté

“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.”
― C.G. Jung

“One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.”
― Alan Wilson Watts

“I don’t need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore,
like I always thought I would.”
― Charlotte Eriksson

“Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.”
― Mother Teresa

“Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.”
― Louis L’Amour


“I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.”
― Marilynne Robinson

“There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them sufficient”
― Marilynne Robinson


“To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.”
― James Baldwin

“Until you realize how easy it is for your mind to be manipulated, you remain the puppet of someone else’s game.”
― Evita Ochel


“I have never seen battles quite as terrifyingly beautiful as the ones I fight when my mind splinters and races, to swallow me into my own madness, again.”
― Nicole Lyons

“Without giving up hope—that there’s somewhere better to be, that there’s someone better to be—we will never relax with where we are or who we are.”
― Pema Chödrön


“True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.”
― Henry James

“Let go of your mind and then be mindful.
Close your ears and listen!”
― Rumi

“The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.”
― Jon Kabat-Zinn

“Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.”
― Jon Kabat-Zinn

“Don’t believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that – thoughts.”
― Allan Lokos

“Don’t let a day go by without asking who you are…each time you let a new ingredient to enter your awareness.”
― Deepak Chopra

“When you open your mind, you open new doors to new possibilities for yourself and new opportunities to help others.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“Mindfulness isn’t difficult, we just need to remember to do it.”
― Sharon Salzberg

“Treat everyone you meet as if they were you.”
― Doug Dillon

“The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on earth.”
― Línjì Yìxuán

“Enjoy the peace of Nature and declutter your inner world.”
― Amit Ray

“Suffering usually relates to wanting things to be different from the way they are.”
― Allan Lokos

“Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.”
― Sharon Salzberg

“It’s good to have an end in mind but in the end what counts is how you travel.”
― Orna Ross

“Above all, we cannot afford not to live in the present. He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“We’re capable of much more than mediocrity, much more than merely getting by in this world.”
― Sharon Salzberg

“Mindful leadership keeps you cool and energetic in any situation, so that you can make the best possible decisions.”
― Amit Ray

“We too should make ourselves empty, that the great soul of the universe may fill us with its breath.”
― Lawrence Binyon

“Happiness is not constant; it is cyclical. Happiness is broad and resilient, and the happiest people still experience negative feelings.”
― Robert Gill Jr

“Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives.”
― Sharon Salzberg

“We are constantly evolving as we are interacting with the world. Mindfulness and growth mindset drives our evolution faster and on right tracks.”
― Amit Ray

“My experience is that many things are not as bad as I thought they would be.”
― Mary Doria Russell

“All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others”
― Sharon Salzberg

“We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.”
― Sharon Salzberg

“Stay present for the “now” of your life. It’s your “point of power.”
― Doug Dillon

“A bird cried jubilation. In that moment they lived long. All minor motions were stilled and only the great ones were perceived. Beneath them the earth turned, singing.”
― Sheri S. Tepper

“Until you are clear nothing will be. The moment you are clear everything will be.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“We must look upon what is to occur as having already occurred, and see nothing but the present in the future, for the future is but the present a little farther on.”
― Jules Verne

“A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don’t do it.”
― Eric Schmidt

“Remind yourself that your mental & emotional health are important.”
― Allan Lokos


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SELF AWARENESS QUOTES [BLOG#23]


“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
― C.G. Jung


“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
― C.G. Jung

“When you’re different, sometimes you don’t see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn’t.”
― Jodi Picoult


“But you can’t get away from yourself. You can’t decide not to see yourself anymore. You can’t decide to turn off the noise in your head.”
― Jay Asher

“There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.”
― J. Michael Straczynski


“you can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“I think….you still have no idea. The effect you can have.”
― Suzanne Collins


“Strong people have a strong sense of self-worth and self-awareness; they don’t need the approval of others.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?”
― Marcus Aurelius


“Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.”
― André Malraux

“I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.”
― Muhammad Ali Jinnah


“The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.”
― Jim Morrison

“Find out who you are and do it on purpose.”
― Dolly Parton



“You’ve always been what you are. That’s not new. What you’ll get used to is knowing it.”
― Cassandra Clare

“Don’t compromise yourself. You’re all you’ve got.”
― Janis Joplin


“She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.”
― Jane Austen

“I like to have powerful enemies. Makes me feel important.”
― Leigh Bardugo


“Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again;
For I am like the Moon,
you will see me with new face everyday.”
― Rumi

“You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!”
― John Lennon


“It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.”
― Abraham Harold Maslow

“Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will reduce you to one.”
― Ashly Lorenzana


“I mean, I feel secure in my masculinity, too. Being secure in your masculinity isn’t the same as being straight.”
― Becky Albertalli

“Only you can take inner freedom away from yourself, or give it to yourself. Nobody else can.”
― Michael A. Singer


“A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.”
― David Sedaris

“I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.”
― Socrates


“Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.”
― G.I. Gurdjieff

“My friend…care for your psyche…know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves” -Socrates”
― Socrates


“We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful.”
― Eric Micha’el Leventhal

“I think that’s the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential.”
― Steve Toltz


“The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.”
― Theodor W. Adorno

“Have love for your inner Self and everything else is done for you.”
― Amit Ray


“It is in the healing of self-blame and judgement, that the self is liberated from the constraints of binding emotions…And you come to remember your true authentic self.”
― Wendy E. Slater

“At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.”
― Albert Camus


“She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important.”
― Patrick Rothfuss

“The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW.”
― Shannon L. Alder


“There is a God part in you. The consciousness. The pure Self. Learn to listen the voice of that Power.”
― Amit Ray

“It is not the the bruises on the body that hurt. It is the wounds of the heart and the scars on the mind.”
― Aisha Mirza


“At the core of your heart, you are perfect and pure. No one and nothing can alter that.”
― Amit Ray

“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should’ve behaved better.”
― Anne Lamott


“Write it on your heart you are the most beautiful soul of the Universe. Realize it, honor it and celebrate the life.”
― Amit Ray

“We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist?”
― Samuel Beckett


“I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.”
― Douglas Adams

“It is not until you change your identity to match your life blueprint that you will understand why everything in the past never worked.”
― Shannon L. Alder


“Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true.”
― Cheryl Strayed

“Purpose gives perspective to your pain and powers you through it. Without it, your pain can paralyze you.”
― Gregory Dickow


“One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.”
― Rollo May

“I will no longer wound myself with the thoughts and questions that have surrounded me like thorns: that is a penance You do not ask of me.”
― Thomas Merton


“When we see a mountain too hard to climb, God helps us climb it but in His own time.”
― Carolyn Cutler Hughes

“How shall I ever learn who I am when there is so much of me that belongs to someone else?”
― Madeline Claire Franklin


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KINDNESS QUOTES [BLOG#11]

KINDNESS QUOTES

“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”
― J.K. Rowling

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
― Plato


“Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“Life becomes easier and more beautiful when we can see the good in other people.”
― Roy T. Bennett


“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
― Henry James

“Acts of Kindness:
A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact on someone else’s life.”
― Roy T. Bennett


“Always find opportunities to make someone smile, and to offer random acts of kindness in everyday life.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
― Mark Twain


“Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
― Desmond Tutu

“No one has ever become poor by giving.”
― Anne Frank


“And so I try to be kind to everything I see, and in everything I see, I see him.”
― Hanya Yanagihara

“Be a little kinder than you have to.”
― E. Lockhart


“Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.”
― George Sand

“A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.”
― Nelson Mandela


“Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.”
― R.J. Palacio

“The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mole,but true beauty in a Woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she knows.”
― Audrey Hepburn


“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword.”
― Rick Riordan


“Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.”
― Terry Pratchett

“Kindness is not a business. True kindness expects nothing in return and should never act with conditions.”
― Roy T. Bennett


“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
― Aesop


“This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“To belittle, you have to be little.”
― Kahill Gibran


“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.”
― Lao-Tzu

“All I’m saying is, kindness don’t have no boundaries.”
― Kathryn Stockett


“People shouldn’t have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty.”
― Maggie Stiefvater

“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.”
― Kahlil Gibran


“I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.”
― Mother Teresa

“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
― Franklin D



“The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.”
― Andy Rooney

“The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”
― Mahatma Gandhi


“One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.”
― Jack Kerouac

“It only takes a split second to smile and forget, yet to someone that needed it, it can last a lifetime.”
― Steve Maraboli


“The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.”
― Albert Einstein

“Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts, and don’t put up with people that are reckless with yours.”
― Mary Schmich


“I must be cruel only to be kind;
Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.”
― William Shakespeare 

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.”
― Wendy Mass


“…treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can’t
until you do understand.”
― Kim Harrison

“Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.”
― Brian Tracy


“I have found that it is the small everyday deed of ordinary folks that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien,

“What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.”
― Barbara Kingsolver


“Everyone on Earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.”
― Michelle Obama

“Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind. Always.”
― Brad Meltzer


“He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.”
― Dante Alighieri

“Knowing the truth is not always a kindness.”
― Rosamund Hodge

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LUCK QUOTES [BLOG#8]

LUCK QUOTES

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
― Cormac McCarthy

“You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don’t help.”
― Bill Watterson


“Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson


“I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“The sun doesn’t just hang on one family’s tree”
― Anchee Min


“Why hasn’t anyone killed him yet?”
“Dumb luck,” Wit said. “In that I’m lucky you’re all so dumb.”
― Brandon Sanderson,

“Nanny Ogg looked under her bed in case there was a man there. Well, you never knew your luck.”
― Terry Pratchett


“Luck has a way of evaporating when you lean on it.”
― Brandon Mull

“Here’s the thing about luck…you don’t know if it’s good or bad until you have some perspective.”
― Alice Hoffman


“Luck is a woman. She’s drawn to those that least deserve her.”
― Joe Abercrombie

“Truly being lucky is defying the very idea of luck because you never need it.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich


“WORK AND RESPONSIBILITY BRINGS THE BEST LUCK”
― J. Lepika

“He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have.”
― Ernest Hemingway, 


“The price must be paid if you want to go beyond mediocrity. Simply put, pure luck does not exist. It’s about planning and doing. Nothing happens by chance.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“Success is only possible to those who rely least on luck.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo


“Don’t just accept bad luck or misfortune as inevitable fate. Destiny is mostly the result of living your life by design.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“When you work your tail off for something, it isn’t luck.”
― Frank Sonnenberg,


“I have observed that in most of badluck cases, word “luck” is equal to ‘’effort’’.”
― Hassnain Malik

“THE LUCKIEST PART OF YOUR LIFE IS YOU GOT A BRAIN BUT THE UNLUCKIEST PART OF YOUR LIFE IS YOU DON’T MIND IT”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar


“Your luck doesn’t decide your future. Your hard work does.”
― Garima Soni

“The more you wish, the more you increase your level of expectation.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo


“Nothing happens by chance. Luck does not exist. Whether it’s good or bad luck or karma, everything has a because behind it.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“Concentration attracts luck factor.”
― Amit Ray, 


“Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.”
― James Baldwin

“We are all a great deal luckier that we realize, we usually get what we want – or near enough.”
― Roald Dahl,


“People always call it luck when you’ve acted more sensibly than they have. ”
― Anne Tyler

“Most young women do not welcome promiscuous advances. (Either that, or my luck’s terrible.)”
― Groucho Marx,


“When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.”
― Mark Twain,

“The harder I work, the luckier I get.”
― Samuel Goldwyn


“Trust your luck, Taran Wanderer. But don’t forget to put out your nets!”
― Lloyd Alexander,

“Luck is a word the bitter teach to the ignorant.”
― Steve Maraboli


“There are, he assures her, no such things as curses. There is luck, maybe, bad or good. A slight inclination of each day towards success or failure. But no curses.”
― Anthony Doerr

“Old people really do have a secret though. You wanna know what it is? Luck.”
― craig ferguson


“I still prepare and create my luck, because I know that it only exists after creation.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“The concept of luck flew in the face of the Omnissiah’s divine plan and was therefore a falsehood.”
― Aaron Dembski-Bowden


“Thus Lucky finders way to True Luckiest Beholder Mother of Good Luck, Chance happen to them All”
― Ben Jr Grey

“Celebrating our luck, we’re celebrating someone’s failure.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov


“I am lucky to be born empty and die empty, the remaining are unlucky.”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Life goes on and on after one’s luck has run out. Youthfulness persists, alas, long after one has ceased to be young.”
― Glenway Wescott, 


“You don’t get lucky without preparation, and there’s no sense in being prepared if you’re not open to the possibility of a glorious accident.”
― Twyla Tharp,

“You don’t need luck. You are powerful, clever, and fearless.”
― Shannon Hale, 


“To know a very different person from ourselves is a great luck for us!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The worm’s bad luck is the bird’s good fortune.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo


“Sitting there, it is impossible to change your luck. But, you can always change the machine you are at!”
― James Hauenstein

“Bad luck is what results when bad things happen to you unprepared, or when you neglect to do what you have to do when you are supposed to do it.”
― Saidi Mdala


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