Thursday, January 1, 2015

15 New Year’s Quotes to Usher a New Beginning

New Year 2015

1. Your success and happiness lie in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. -Helen Keller

2. Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.-Charles Kettering

3. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in a year – Ralph Waldo Emerson

4. The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time. All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months! -Edward Payson Powell

5. Approach the New Year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day. -Michael Josephson

6. We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day. -Edith Lovejoy Pierce

7. One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things. -John Burroughs

8. A happy New Year! Grant that I May bring no tear to any eye When this New Year in time shall end Let it be said I've played the friend, Have lived and loved and labored here, And made of it a happy year. -Edgar Guest

9. The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. -G.K. Chesterton

10. Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. - Oprah Winfrey

11. Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed. - Cavett Robert

 12. Follow your passions, believe in karma, and you won’t have to chase your dreams; they will come to you. -Randy Pausch

13.Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you have always wanted to do but could not find the time. Call up a forgotten friend. Drop an old grudge, and replace it with some pleasant memories. Vow not to make a promise you do not think you can keep. Walk tall, and smile more. You will look 10 years younger. Do not be afraid to say, I love you. Say it again. They are the sweetest words in the world. - Ann Landers

14. For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning.- T.S. Eliot

15. We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day. - Edith Lovejoy Pierce

Monday, December 29, 2014

20 Kindness Quotes to Bring Happiness to Others and You


1. You cannot do kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. -Ralph Waldo Emerson 

2. Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you — not because they are nice, but because you are. -Author Unknown 

3. Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness. -Seneca 

4. A kind word is like a Spring day. -Russian Proverb 

5. How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. -George Washington Carver 

6. You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. -John Wooden 

7. Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out. -Frank A. Clark 

8. 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 

9. One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. -Malayan Proverb 

10. Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. -Leo Buscaglia 

11. Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. -James Matthew Barrie 

12. In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy. -Karl Reiland 

13. I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again. -William Penn 

14. How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it!-George Elliston 

15. Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.- Mark Twain 

16. Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.- Khalil Gibran 

17. Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.- Lao Tzu 

18. No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.- Aesop 

19. This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.- Dalai Lama XIV, 

20. The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.- Khalil Gibran, The Essential Kahlil Gibran

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Thursday, December 25, 2014

15 Merry Quotes about Joy

Merry Christmas 2

1. Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.-Sarah Ban Breathnach 

2. Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. - Henri Nouwen 

3. If we try hard to bring happiness to others, we cannot stop it from coming to us also. To get joy, we must give it, and to keep joy, we must scatter it. -John Templeton

 4. Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment. - Anthony Robbins 

5. If we are not happy and joyous at this season, for what other season shall we wait and for what other time shall we look?
-Abdul-Baha 

6. Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.- Eleanor Roosevelt 

7. Such is human psychology that if we don't express our joy, we soon cease to feel it. -Lin Yutang 

8. The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. - Thich Nhat Hanh 

9. Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with. - Mark Twain 

10. The essence of life is not in the great victories and grand failures, but in the simple joys. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie 

11. It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy. - Jiddu Krishnamurti 

12. A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy. - Mother Teresa 

13. A thing of beauty is a joy forever.- John Keats 

14. No matter wherever you are, share your joy to make this world joyful and better. - Debasish Mridha 

15. If you walk in joy, happiness is close behind. - Todd Stocker

Monday, December 22, 2014

10 Illumination Quotes to Brighten Your Life


A glimmer of light is better  than no illumination at all (John James Cowperthwaite)

1. Your intelligence is a fire that can illuminate any darkness. Awaken and let your mind burn so brightly! You are alive for a reason! - Bryant McGill 

2. The only difference between you and the star is that you shine below, and the other shines above: Wherever you are located, you are a star! - Michael Bassey Johnson 

3. Our personal stories of perseverance contain immense wisdom that can assist others in finding their way to peace and illumination during difficult times. - Molly Friedenfeld,

4. It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.- Chinese proverb 

5. We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. -Ben Sweetland 

6. We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light. -Evelyn Dunbar 

7. A thousand candles can be lit from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness can be spread without diminishing that of yourself. -Budhha 

8. Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science. - Charles Darwin 

9. Just like the car headlights impressively illuminating the dark streets, wisdom words powerfully enlighten the dark minds!- Mehmet Murat ildan 

10. Outer Beauty can only please the Eye, but the Inner Beauty conquers the Heart. Inner Beauty is best seen in Diamonds, the most precious gemstones, which sparkle and shine when the Sun is out; but when the darkness sets in, they reveal their true beauty with illuminating light from within. No matter what others say or do, you must remember that you are a Diamond, and you must preserve your Divine Spark of Inner Beauty to illuminate the world.- Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate

Thursday, December 18, 2014

15 Hope Quotes to Keep you Going on in Life


Once you choose hope anything is possible
Christopher Reeve

1. Once you choose hope, anything's possible. -Christopher Reeve 

2. Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. -Anne Lamott 

3. Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. -Lin Yutang 

4. Never give up. Expect only the best from life and take action to get it. Catherine Pulsifer 

5. Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. Albert Einstein 

6. To be without hope is like being without goals, what are you working towards? - Catherine Pulsifer  

7. What is hope? Hope is wishing for a thing to come true; faith is believing that it will come true.-Norman Vincent Peale 

8. Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.- Thich Nhat Hanh 

9. Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.- Dale Carnegie 

10. The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.- Allan K. Chalmers 

11. Never let go of hope - dream, take action, and get that transfer to live the life you wish.-Catherine Pulsifer 

12. Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.- Vaclav Havel 

13. There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.-Orison Swett Marden 

14. To live without Hope is to Cease to live.-Fyodor Dostoyevsky 

15. It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.-Robert H. Goddard

Monday, December 15, 2014

10 Giving Quotes to Enlighten You



1. It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving. - Mother Teresa 

2. No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. - Charles Dickens 

3. Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give. - Ben Carson

4. You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving. - Amy Wilson-Carmichael

5. For it is in giving that we receive. - St. Francis of Assisi 

6. Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others. - Brian Tracy 

7. Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. - Lao Tzu 

8.Give cheerfully and freely. It is the energy behind the giving that matters so do not give grudgingly. The law of cause and effect guarantees that you shall receive plenty for what you give. -David Cameron Gikandi 

9. When you learn, teach. When you get, give.- Maya Angelou 

10. There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.- Harry Drummond

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Thursday, December 11, 2014

15 Delightful Family Quotes to Cherish



1. When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses. -Joyce Brothers

2. Having a place to go — is a home. Having someone to love — is a family. Having both — is a blessing. -Donna Hedges

3. The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works is the family. -Lee Iacocca

4. You can kiss your family and friends goodbye and put miles between you, but at the same time, you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.– Frederick Buechner

5. Family is the most important thing in the world.– Princess Diana

6. A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.– George Moore

7. I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.– Barbara Bush

8. What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.– Mother Teresa

9. When trouble comes, it’s your family that supports you.– Guy Lafleur

10. Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life!– Albert Einstein

11. Family is not an important thing. It's everything.- Michael J. Fox

12. This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.- Mitch Albom

13. The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. - Thomas Jefferson

14. I don’t care how poor a man is; if he has family, he’s rich. – Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford

15. Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a family. – Bernard Shaw

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