To love is like playing the piano. First, you must learn to play by the rules. Then, you must forget the rules and play from your heart.
—Unknown
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
—Unknown
The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.
—Margaret Atwood (b.1939) Canadian Writer, Poet, Critic
In the fall, you don’t grieve because the leaves are falling and dying. You say, “Isn’t it beautiful!” Well, we’re the same way. There are seasons. We all fall sooner or later. It’s all so beautiful. And our concepts, without investigation, keep us from knowing this. It’s beautiful to be a leaf, to be born, to fall, to give way to the next, to become food for the roots. It’s life, always changing its form and always giving itself completely. We all do our part. No mistake.
—Byron Katie (b.1942) American Speaker, Author
The successful man is the average man, focused.
—Unknown
You haven’t failed until you quite trying.
—Unknown
I also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use it, or get rid of it, and thus have forged their own golden or silver fetters.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher
In my experience, getting rich takes focus, courage, knowledge, expertise, 100 percent of your effort, a never-give-up attitude and of course a rich mind-set.
—T. Harv Eker (b.1954) American Motivational Speaker, Lecturer, Author
You’re on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
—Unknown
A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.
—English Proverb
Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all.
—G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English Journalist, Novelist, Essayist, Poet
Some love lasts a lifetime. True love last forever.
—Unknown
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom.
Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon.
They stay in our lives for awhile, leave footprints on our hearts, nd we are never ever the same.
—Flavia Weedn
The Unseen One, featureless, unthinkable, undefinable by name. Whose Substance is the certitude of One Self, in Whom world-existence is stilled, Who is all peace and bliss – that is the Self, that is what be known.
—The Upanishads Sacred Books of Hinduism
Love is hard work; and hard work sometimes hurts.
—Unknown
As far as I know, everyone feels fear as he or she moves forward through life. It is absolutely possible that there are some evolved souls in this world who never experience fear, but I have not met them.
—Susan Jeffers (1938–2012) American Psychologist, Self-Help Author
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
—Unknown
Attitude determines altitude.
—Unknown
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.
—Confucius (551–479 BCE) Chinese Philosopher
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
—Unknown
Do you want to be right more than you want to know the truth? It’s the truth that set me free. Acceptance, peace, and less attachment to a world of suffering are all effects of doing The Work. They’re not the goals. Do The Work for the love of freedom, for the love of truth.
—Byron Katie (b.1942) American Speaker, Author
He whose pure mind turns inward and searches whence does this ‘I’ arise, knows the Self and merges in You, the Lord, as a river into the sea.
—Ramana Maharshi (1879–1950) Indian Hindu Mystic
I know I’ll handle it. I have nothing to worry about.
—Susan Jeffers (1938–2012) American Psychologist, Self-Help Author
The knowledge that you can handle anything that comes your way is the key to allowing yourself to take healthy, life-affirming risks.
—Susan Jeffers (1938–2012) American Psychologist, Self-Help Author
A man is known by his company.
—Irish Proverb
Everything I need to know is revealed to me. Everything I need comes to me. All is well in my life.
—Louise Hay (1926–2017) American Self-Help Author, Speaker
If you listen to the Chatterbox, your experience of life is fear-producing, and you stop yourself from expanding. If you listen to the Higher Self, your experience of life is joyful and abundant and devoid of fear. You, like everyone else, are an expert at listening to your Chatterbox. Your task is now to become an expert at listening to your Higher Self. Then true choice will be possible.
—Susan Jeffers (1938–2012) American Psychologist, Self-Help Author
If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you’ve made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand.
—Anonymous
May your glass be ever full.
May the roof over your head be always strong.
And may you be in heaven half an hour
Before the devil knows you’re dead.
—Irish Blessing
From now on, I want you to practice reframing other people’s negativity as a reminder of how not to be.
—T. Harv Eker (b.1954) American Motivational Speaker, Lecturer, Author
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