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[senior citizen]

Share your favorite inspirational quote with the rest of us............

By our age, most should have a clear view of where they've been, where they might like to be someday.......and how they basically choose to live their life...no matter where it is. By our age, most criticism should roll off effortlessly as we alone understand what we mean.......even when no one else does. For most of us, our primary achievements in life are having raised a happy family of now adult children.....enjoying the grandbabies and all the rest of the special people who have enriched our path....

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Words are powerful tools that inspire and connect human beings. Quotes from literary geniuses, leaders, writers, poets, and artists shape our lives and our world.

Ah-h words—they challenge and inspire. They take readers to faraway places, lend understanding, and evoke strong emotions. Writers string them together in the hope of communicating new ideas, exposing their deepest desires, fears and truth, and in doing so, make themselves immortal.

Below are just a few examples of quotations from famous people that touch an intangible part of the psyche.



Great Leaders and Philosophers


"Peace I leave with you; my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid."—Jesus Christ

"Be the change that you want to see in the world."— Gandhi

"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world."—Buddha

"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier."—Mother Theresa

"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."—Martin Luther King

"We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot."—Eleanor Roosevelt

"My religion is kindness."—The Dalai Lama

"At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want."—Lao Tzu



Authors and Poets


"Trust thyself; every heart vibrates to that iron string."—Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I exist as I am, that is enough."—Walt Whitman

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."—Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Your sacred space is where you find yourself again and again."—Joseph Campbell

"Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still."—Henry David Thoreau

"Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory."—Betty Smith

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."—Anais Nin

"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."—William Shakespeare

"If you want to be happy, be."—Leo Tolstoy

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."—George Eliot

"I want to love, to love heedlessly! To love for the sake of loving…"—Florbela Espanca



Artists and Entertainers


"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius." Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

"Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well."—Vincent Van Gogh

"Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time."—Pablo Picasso

"You study, you learn, but you guard the original naiveté. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover."—Henri Matisse

"Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it."—Brigitte Bardot

"Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: "Are you ready?""—Johnny Carson

[graciegirl]

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Where there is injury, pardon.
Where there is doubt, faith.
Where there is despair, hope.
Where there is darkness, light.
Where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master,
Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console;
To be understood, as to understand;
To be loved, as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive.
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
And it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.
Amen.

[Carl in Tampa]

POLICE WISDOM

"A man's got to know his limitations." - "Dirty" Harry Callighan

OLD WEST COWBOY WISDOM

"Never shake hands with a left handed draw." - Cowboy saying

(When the two right hands are tied up shaking hands, the man who draws his gun with his left hand can draw and shoot the other man.)

OLD MAN'S WISDOM

"Never pick a fight with an old man. He knows he can't whip you so he will have to shoot you. - One of life's lessons.

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[pwdasher]

For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, and whosoever believes in Him, shall have everlasting life! John 3;16

[Barefoot]

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Where there is injury, pardon.
Where there is doubt, faith.
Where there is despair, hope.
Where there is darkness, light.
Where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master,
Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console;
To be understood, as to understand;
To be loved, as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive.
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
And it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.
Amen.

Wayne Dyer's daughter sometimes sings that at one of his talks. It's just beautiful.

[kagney123]

Do not anger yourself about this world it does not care, whatever comes, assign it to its proper place in your little world and you will be happy. - Plutarch

[bkcunningham1]

Space and time are our own limitations. We must not impose them on God. -Unknown

Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment.
And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
- Jesus

Life is short. The older you get, the faster it goes. - My Mother

I saw a man pursuing the horizon;
Round and round they sped.
I was disturbed at this;
I accosted the man.
“It is futile,” I said,
“You can never —”
“You lie,” he cried,
And ran on. -Stephen Crane

[Ecuadog]

"If I'd known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself." -- Eubie Blake

[senior citizen]

Space and time are our own limitations. We must not impose them on God. -Unknown

Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment.
And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
- Jesus

Life is short. The older you get, the faster it goes. - My Mother

I saw a man pursuing the horizon;
Round and round they sped.
I was disturbed at this;
I accosted the man.
“It is futile,” I said,
“You can never —”
“You lie,” he cried,
And ran on. -Stephen Crane


We must be siblings. My mother said the same exact thing....very often.

The older we get, I keep saying the same exact thing to my husband.
He agrees. When we were children, each summer day was "endless".
Now, the most recent summer has FLOWN BY. Each week flies by.

[Patty55]

Never get into a pi$$ing contest with a skunk.

[graciegirl]

Never get into a pi$$ing contest with a skunk.

Oh Patty. That brought tears to my eyes.

[DangeloInspections]

"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose."- Jim Elliot

“Is there anyone here who, planning to build a new house, doesn’t first sit down and figure the cost so you’ll know if you can complete it? If you only get the foundation laid and then run out of money, you’re going to look pretty foolish. Everyone passing by will poke fun at you: ‘He started something he couldn’t finish.’- Luke 14: 28-30

(having designed and built my own home, a very complicated one, this bible verse WAS inspirational for me.)

[senior citizen]

"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose."- Jim Elliot

“Is there anyone here who, planning to build a new house, doesn’t first sit down and figure the cost so you’ll know if you can complete it? If you only get the foundation laid and then run out of money, you’re going to look pretty foolish. Everyone passing by will poke fun at you: ‘He started something he couldn’t finish.’- Luke 14: 28-30

(having designed and built my own home, a very complicated one, this bible verse WAS inspirational for me.)


Luke 14: 28-30 is so very relevant to today........the present.

[Cedwards38]

"If you can dream it. you can do it."

[Villageshooter]

As you go through life keep your eye on the donut not the hole

[senior citizen]

"if you can dream it. You can do it."

excellent...........

[mac9]

Life's too short to worry if your socks match. - mac9

[keithwand]

Beauty is a light switch away.

[justjim]

"The difference between a smart person and a wise person is, a wise person has the ability to change his mind". Jim

[George Bieniaszek]

"Never argue with an idiot!!

They bring you down to their level and beat you with their experience!!"

[mrdarcy]

Strong men don't threaten. They need not. Gerry Spence, How to Win An Argument Every Time.

[Barefoot]

"I've seen better days, but I've also seen worse.
I don't have everything that I want, but I do have all I need.
I woke up with some aches and pains, but I woke up.
My life may not be perfect, but I am blessed."

quoted from "Lessons Learned in Life"

[rubicon]

POLICE WISDOM

"A man's got to know his limitations." - "Dirty" Harry Callighan

OLD WEST COWBOY WISDOM

"Never shake hands with a left handed draw." - Cowboy saying

(When the two right hands are tied up shaking hands, the man who draws his gun with his left hand can draw and shoot the other man.)

OLD MAN'S WISDOM

"Never pick a fight with an old man. He knows he can't whip you so he will have to shoot you. - One of life's lessons.

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Carl: You beat me to Clint Eastwood's famous line and one I use often

[Cloud Nine]

It's nice to be important but it's more important to be nice ! :-)

[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better.

[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

"...and in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make."

[tucson]

"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me" !!! :-)

[Bonnevie]

"you can't always get what you want, But if you try sometimes you just might find
You get what you need"

saw this on a church sign once and thought it was good:

"he who angers you, controls you"

[Carl in Tampa]

In terms of my career, I tried to hold to this paraphrase of Cicero:

Do not be deceived into believing that your advancement depends upon crushing others.

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Unfortunately, I often worked with people who did not take this view.

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[Patty55]

You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.

[shcisamax]

“It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity”
― Dag Hammarskjöld

[stroglass]

Do not burn you're bridges you will meet the same people on the way up as you do on the way down

[jblum315]

The only one I've always tried to live by:
Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.

[Challenger]

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil, is that good men do nothing.
Edmund Burke 1729-1797

[shcisamax]

all that is necessary for the triumph of evil, is that good men do nothing.
Edmund burke 1729-1797

i had forgotten about it but that is the winner.

[Golf View]

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

[The Wooz]

Good, better, best. May you never rest, until your good is better and your better, best.

You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friends' nose.

Experience is a wonderful thing. It helps you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

[2BNTV]

Desiderata
Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter;
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Be yourself.
Especially, do not feign affection.
Neither be critical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.

You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be,
and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy.

[2BNTV]

Another two:

1. Let us not grow weary while doing good as we will reap in due season,
if we do not lose heart. Galatians: 5:13

2. It doesn't cost nuttin to be nice. - Mom

[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

"I've seen better days, but I've also seen worse.
I don't have everything that I want, but I do have all I need.
I woke up with some aches and pains, but I woke up.
My life may not be perfect, but I am blessed."

quoted from "Lessons Learned in Life"

I think that is based on this quote from St Paul in his epistle to the Philippians

I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want.
Philippians 4:12

[Barefoot]

"Whoever said that diamonds are a girl's best friend ... never owned a dog". :doggie:

[tippyclubb]

"I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes -- until I met a man who had no feet."

Repeating this phrase to myself during difficult times changed the way I perceived the situation.

[Pepperhead]

It's five o'clock somewhere.

[NotGolfer]

From Matthew 25...parable of the talents...


"His master replied, 'Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master's happiness!'

[Maryland Girl]

You get what you get and you don't throw a fit.

Four year old granddaughter to her two-year old brother.

[Peachie]

Psalm 118:24

This is the day the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.


This reminds me to live in the moment.

[senior citizen]

Desiderata
Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter;
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Be yourself.
Especially, do not feign affection.
Neither be critical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.

You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be,
and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy.

Desiderata - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Desiderata)

Thank you. One of my very all time favorites.

Amazing that Max Ehrmann wrote Desiderata in 1927, yet it became famous in the 1970's and beyond.

Interesting info on Wikipedia. It refreshed my own memory.

It sounds like one of the great philosophers.......yet it was written in more modern times....1927. Still, before our time.......but relevant today and forever.

I think this is going to win number one prize for my favorite inspirational quote...

Again, thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Barefoot]

You get what you get and you don't throw a fit.
Four year old granddaughter to her two-year old brother.

Out of the mouth of babes ... good advice!

[SemiMike]

"We do not receive wisdom - we must discover it for ourselves, on a journey no one else can take for us, or spare us." Marcel Proust

[superuke]

Never pee on a spark plug when the engine is running!

[senior citizen]

"Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you, but not from you.
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
You may house their bodies, but not souls.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

The Archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness; for even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable."

Khalil Gibran * Poet, Artist, Writer; religion: Christian.


"But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls." - Kahlil Gibran


"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit." - Kahlil Gibran

"If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were." - Kahlil Gibran

　



　

　

　


　




　

[George Bieniaszek]

Always keep your words soft and sweet;

just in case you have to eat them!!

:)

[alc323]

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[renielarson]

Live each day as if it were your last