1. Necessity is the mother of invention.-Jonathan Swift
2. Necessity does the work of courage.-George Eliot
3. Necessity teaches wisdom, while prosperity makes fools.-
Wellins Calcott
4. Our necessities are few but our wants are endless. -Josh Billings
5. Nothing has more strength than dire necessity. -Euripides
6. Make yourself necessary to somebody. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
7. Necessity is the author of change. -Tim Hansel
8. It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us. -Dante
9. Necessity is the mother of taking chances. -Mark Twain
10. Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. -Saint Augustine
11. Discontent is the first necessity of progress. -Thomas A. Edison
12. Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity. -Arnold H. Glasow
13. People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves. -Ivan Turgenev
14. Some people think happiness is a luxury, but it's a necessity. You need to make space for it in your life. -Christie Brinkley
15. Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity. -Hannah Arendt
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| Mind Full, or Mindful? |
1. 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
2. Mindfulness is simply being aware of what is happening right now without wishing it were different; enjoying the pleasant without holding on when it changes (which it will); being with the unpleasant without fearing it will always be this way (which it won’t). -James Baraz
3. The practice of mindfulness begins in the small, remote cave of your unconscious mind and blossoms with the sunlight of your conscious life, reaching far beyond the people and places you can see. -Earon Davis
4. The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers. -Thich Nhat Hanh
5. Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes. -Nhat Hanh
6. Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives. It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment. We also gain immediate access to our own powerful inner resources for insight, transformation, and healing. – Jon Kabat-Zinn
7. Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn’t more complicated than that. It is opening to or receiving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it. – Sylvia Boorstein
8. With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment. -Nhat Hanh
9. Mindfulness helps us freeze the frame so that we can become aware of our sensations and experiences as they are, without the distorting coloration of socially conditioned responses or habitual reactions. -Henepola Gunaratana
10. You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life of peace, you inspire hope for a future of peace. -Thich Nhat Hanh
11. Mindfulness is not just a word or a discourse by the Buddha, but a meaningful state of mind. It means we have to be here now, in this very moment, and we have to know what is happening internally and externally. It means being alert to our motives and learning to change unwholesome thoughts and emotions into wholesome ones. Mindfulness is a mental activity that in due course eliminates all suffering.-Ayya Khema
12. Mindfulness of oneself cultivates wisdom. Mindfulness of others cultivates compassion. -Stonepeace
13. Mindfulness practice means that we commit fully in each moment to be present; inviting ourselves to interface with this moment in full awareness, with the intention to embody as best we can an orientation of calmness, mindfulness, and equanimity right here and right now. - Jon Kabat-Zinn
14. When we perform an act mindfully--be it meditating, vacuuming or playing Scrabble with a child--we nourish ourselves, as well. Rather than scattering our concentration on a dozen things at once, we focus. We slow down. We give ourselves time to calm down from the inside out and the luxury of saying: Nothing is more important right now than this moment, this deed. We may not get as much done by day's end, but we can feel more peaceful and satisfied with the work itself. That's a good way to think of it: Mindfulness is quality time for the soul. -Shana Aborn
15. Mindfulness asks us to simply see, to open to ourselves and, in so doing, to open to the world, learning to be with whatever presents itself. - Saki Santorelli
1. You don’t stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing-Michael Pritchard
2. The most wasted of all days is that in which we have not laughed. -Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Chamfort)
3. A man isn't poor if he can still laugh. -Raymond Hitchcock
4. A good time to laugh is any time you can. -Linda Ellerbee
5. A laugh is a smile that bursts. -Mary H. Waldrip
6. Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. – Lord Byron
7. A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book. – Irish Proverb
8. You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness. -Brad Garrett
9. You should laugh everywhere you can find even the slightest glimmer of humour. -Doug Stanhope
10. Life is tough; and if you have the ability to laugh at it, you have the ability to enjoy it. -Salma Hayek
11. The best way of removing negativity is to laugh and be joyous.-David
12. Strong people make as many mistakes as weak people. Difference is that strong people admit their mistakes, laugh at them, learn from them. That is how they become strong. -Richard J. Needham
13. Life is short. You have to be able to laugh at our pain or we never move on.-Jeff Ross
14. Making people laugh is a really fabulous thing because it means you're getting deep inside somebody, into their psyche, and their ability to look at themselves.-Jane Lynch
15. It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
16. Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us. -Orison Swett Marden
17. We are never happy until we learn to laugh at ourselves.-Dorothy Dix
18. I try to find a reason to laugh each day. Somehow, if you can incorporate laughter into your day, every day, it really helps. It's the little things in life that make me happy. -Faith Hill
19. Be positive and laugh at everything. -Alexandra Roach
20. You must learn to take life less seriously and to laugh.-Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
1. Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. -Søren Kierkegaard
2. The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste. -Turkish Proverb
3. All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.-Livy
4. Haste makes waste. -Benjamin Franklin
5. Make haste slowly.-Augustus Caesar
6. Nothing is more vulgar than haste. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
7. Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error. -Moliere
8. Haste turns usually upon a matter of ten minutes too late, and may be avoided by a habit like that of Lord Nelson, to which he ascribed his success in life, of being ten minutes too early. -Bovee.
9. What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation. -Malcolm Gladwell
10. God made time, but man made haste. Irish Proverb
11. All haste implies weakness. -George MacDonald.
12. Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure. -Byron.
13. Haste is needful in a desperate case. -Shakespeare.
14. The more haste, ever the worst speed. -Churchill.
15. Haste and rashness are storms and tempests, breaking and wrecking business; but nimbleness is a full, fair wind, blowing it with speed to haven. -Fuller.
1. I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.- G.K. Chesterton
2. Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy.- Fred De Witt Van Amburgh
3. Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts. - Henri Frederic Amiel
4. Gratitude also opens your eyes to the limitless potential of the universe, while dissatisfaction closes your eyes to it. - Stephen Richards
5. Gratitude is more of a compliment to yourself than someone else. - Raheel Farooq
6. Gratitude is an art of painting an adversity into a lovely picture. -Kak Sri
7. Gratitude is the least of the virtues, but ingratitude is the worst of vices. -Thomas Fuller
8. Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul. ~Henry Ward Beecher
9. We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. -Cynthia Ozick
10. Joy is the simplest form of gratitude. - Karl Barth
11.Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic. - John Henry Jowett
12. There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy. - Ralph H. Blum
13. Gratitude is one of the sweet shortcuts to finding peace of mind and happiness inside. No matter what is going on outside of us, there's always something we could be grateful for. - Barry Neil Kaufman
14. Act with kindness, but do not expect gratitude. - Confucius
15. Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. - Cicero
16. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. - Melody Beattie
17. Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty. - Doris Day
18. Joy is a heart full and a mind purified by gratitude. - Marietta McCarty
19. Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more. - David Steindl-Rast
20. To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kind that will stand behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude. -- Albert Schweitzer
21. Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings. -William Arthur Ward
22. Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation. -Brian Tracy
23. Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. -Aesop
24. Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for. -Zig Ziglar
25. It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up. -Eckhart Tolle
26. When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in. -Kristin Armstrong
27. Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude. -Joseph Wood Krutch
28. Nature's beauty is a gift that cultivates appreciation and gratitude. -Louie Schwartzberg
29. Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you. -Eileen Caddy
30. Take full account of the excellencies which you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not. — Marcus Aurelius
1. Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.- Simone de Beauvoir
2. Be prepared before you begin. You save yourself from delay if you are fully prepared. Preparation sets you for excellence. - Israelmore Ayivor
3. Delay is not a help-mate. The cemetary is full of people who thought they could DO IT tomorrow. Do It Now! - Israelmore Ayivor
4. Some of our important choices have a time line. If we delay a decision, the opportunity is gone forever. Sometimes our doubts keep us from making a choice that involves change. Thus an opportunity may be missed. -James E. Faust
5. You may delay, but time will not.-Benjamin Franklin
6. Delay in justice is injustice.-Walter Savage Landor
7. Delay is the enemy of progress. -Eliot Spitzer
8. One day's delay is another day's lack of progress.-Stuart Bowen
9. Delay is as hateful as it is dangerous. -Holcroft.
10. Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends. -Shakespeare.
11. Every delay is too long to one who is in a hurry. -Seneca
12. Away with delay—it always injures those who are prepared. Lucan
13. Do not delay, Do not delay: the golden moments fly!-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
14. Don't delay acting on a good idea. Chances are someone else has just thought of it, too. Success comes to the one who acts first.- H. Jackson Brown Jr.
15. Short cuts make long delays.-J.R.R. Tolkien
16. Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.- George Canning
17. Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days. Whatever you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
18. Delay is the deadliest form of denial. - C. Northcote Parkinson
19. Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. - Denis Waitley
20. Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection. -Mark Twain
1. A compromise is a settlement by which each side gets what neither side wanted. -EVAN ESAR
2. It is the weak man who urges compromise -- never the strong man. -Elbert Hubbard
3. Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got. -Janis Joplin
4. If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing. -Margaret Thatcher
5. Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now. -Zig Ziglar
6. There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it. -A. K. Antony
7. Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both. -Tryon Edwards
8. If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise. -Robert Fritz
9. I think a man becomes less than a man when he begins to compromise on what he believes is right. -Mike Singletary
10. Don't compromise even if it hurts to be yourself.-Toby Keith
11. To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right. -Joyce Meyer
12. Compromise is a word found only in the vocabulary of those who have no will to fight. - Josemaría Escrivá
13. Life, relationships and success is not for compromise. - Dee Dee Artner
14. Compromise is a sign you'll pass on the road to mediocrity. - Tim Fargo
15. Compromise, while at times morally necessary or at least justifiable, is more often only the first permission for a person (or society) to begin a long downhill descent. - Dennis Prager
