Gain that which is worth having
“To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.” –Burnadette Devlin
Garth Brooks
“The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.” –Garth Brooks
Genetic heritage
“Our genetic heritage endows each of us with a series of emotional set-points that determines our temperament. But the brain circuitry involved is extraordinarily malleable; temperament is not destiny.” –Daniel Goleman
Getting harmony
“You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note.” –Doug Floyd
Gift of oneself
“Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.” –Jean Anouilh
Gifted leadership
“Gifted leadership occurs when heart and head–feeling and thought–meet. These are the two winds that allow a leader to soar.” –Daniel Goleman
Give ‘em hell
“I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.” –Harry S. Truman
Give people the latitude to
“Give people the latitude to be themselves. You would want someone to give that to you.” –Sara Paddison
Give some time
“You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it’s a little thing, do something for others -something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.” –Albert Schweitzer
Given up control of your life
“Every moment that you spend upset, in despair, in anguish, angry or hurt because of the behaviour of anybody else in your life is a moment in which you have given up control of your life.” –Dr. Wayne Dyer
Giving makes a life
“From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.” –Arthur Ashe
Go confidently
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” –Henry David Thoreau
God and the Artist
“Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.” –Andre Gide
God placed a comma
“Never put a period where God has placed a comma.” –Gracie Allen
God’s dream about man
“Whatever God’s dream about man may be, it seems certain it cannot come true unless man cooperates.” –Stella Terrill Mann
God’s plans
“I was expecting to be free, but God has His own plans.” –Mother Teresa
Golden moment
“Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.” –Henry Miller
Good morning, Lord
“Someone has said that there are only two kinds of people in the world. There are those who wake up in the morning and say, “Good Morning, Lord,” and there are those who wake up in the morning and say, “Good Lord, it’s morning.” –Unknown
Gossips
“Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.” –Spanish Proverb
Gratitude
“Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.” –Jacques Maritain
Gratitude is the rake
“Gratitude is the rake, and abundance is the field.” –heavenletters.org
Gratitude the greatest of virtues
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” –Marcus Tullius Cicero
Great services
“Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.” –Benjamin Disraeli
Great services
“Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.” –Benjamin Disraeli
Greatest gain in knowledge
“The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one’s life.” –Dalai Lama
Greatest science in the world
“The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love.” –Mother Teresa
Greatest Weapon Against Stress
“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” –William James
Gross habits
“My problem is reconciling my net income with my gross habits.” –Erroll Flynn
Grow happiness
“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.” –James Openheim
Grow in patience
“Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.” –Leonardo da Vinci
Growth means change
“Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown.” –George Shinn
Grudge
“It don’t take a very big person to carry a grudge.” –Unknown
Guidance of your heart
“With the guidance of your heart, you can make quality decisions and your life will be more fun. Being alive in the heart is what makes life worthwhile. When you are in touch with your heartfelt emotions, you find your true core values and enrich your life.” –Doc Childre
Guns and bombs
“The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. They are necessary symbols. They protect what we cherish. But they are witness to human folly.” –Lyndon B. Johnson
Hanging onto resentment
“Hanging onto resentment is like letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.” –Ann Landers
Happily ever after
“It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.” –Margaret Bonnano
Happiness and bad memory
“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.” –Albert Schweitzer
Happiness depends
“Happiness depends, as Nature shows, Less on exterior things than most suppose.” –William Cowper
Happy death
“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.” –Leonardo da Vinci
Happy in the moment
“Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.” –Mother Teresa
Happy in work
“In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: They must not do too much of it: And they must have a sense of success in it.” –John Ruskin
Happy thoughts
“A happy face does not come by chance. It comes by happy thoughts.” –Anonymous
Have it all
“You can have it all. You just can’t have it all at once.” –Oprah Winfrey
He that wrestles with us
“He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.” –Edmund Burke
Health is more than the absence of illness
Health is more than the absence of illness. It is the active state of physical, emotional, mental and social well being. –World Health Organization
Hearing your inner wisdom
“Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.” –Robbie Gass
Heart capacity
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.” –Zelda Fitzgerald
Heart of an artist
“A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.” –Louis Nizer
Here lies Jack Williams
“I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: ‘Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.’ I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have -When he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do.” –Harry S. Truman
Honesty
“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.” –Thomas Jefferson
Honesty is first chapter
“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.” –Thomas Jefferson
Horse sense
“Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.” –W. C. Fields
Horses in heaven
“God forbid that I should go to any heaven in which there are no horses.” –R.B. Cunningham Graham
How far you go in life
“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 life you will have been all of these.” –George Washington Carver
How high you bounce
“Success is how high you bounce after you hit bottom.” –George Patton
How much love we put in
“It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.” –Mother Teresa
How seldom they think of us
“We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.” –Ethel Barrett
How we meet events…
“I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.” –Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
How will you be polished?
“If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?” –Mevlana Rumi
How you made them feel
“People may not remember exactly what you did, or what you said, but they will always remember how you made them feel.” –Unknown
Human beings want to be good
“On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time.” –George Orwell
Human choice
“The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.” –George Eliot
Humility
“Life is a long lesson in humility.” –James M. Barrie
Hunger for love
“There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.” –Mother Teresa
I argue very well
“I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don’t even invite me.” –Dave Barry
I became a scientist
“As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life -so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.” –M. Cartmill
I believe in God
“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.” –Frank Lloyd Wright
I have learned through bitter
“I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.” –Mahatma Gandhi
I think you’re better
“I think you’re better than you think you are.” –Bill Parcells
I was in darkness
“I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.” –Nietzche
I went ahead without success
“I couldn’t wait for success, so I went ahead without it.” –Jonathan Winters
I’ll be happy when…
“The great Western disease is, ‘I’ll be happy when. . . .’ ” he says. “When I get the money. When I get a BMW. When I get this job. Well, the reality is, you never get to when. The only way to find happiness is to understand that happiness is not out there. It’s in here. And happiness is not next week. It’s now.” –Marshall Goldsmith
I’m not fat
“I’m not fat. I am a nutritional overachiever.” –Weight watcher
Idiotic discrimination
“In neither the purchase of goods nor the hiring of personnel, do we ever consider the religious views, the gender, the race or the sexual orientation of the persons we are dealing with. It would not only be wrong to do so, it would be idiotic. We need all of the talent we can find, and we have learned that able and trustworthy managers, employees and suppliers come from a very wide spectrum of humanity.” –Warren Buffet
If God had wanted people to walk around naked
“If God had wanted people to walk around naked, He would have made them that way!” –Unknown and Confused Prude
If God isn’t dead yet
“If God isn’t dead, he hasn’t stopped speaking to us yet. I would hate for my kids to read letters I’d written to them YEARS ago, over and over again and never CALL!” –Rev. Suzy
If God puts you on hold
“If God puts you on hold, just don’t hang up!” –Unknown
If you ain’t the lead dog…
“Life is like a dog-sled team. If you ain’t the lead dog, the scenery never changes.” –Lewis Grizzard
If you could not fail?
“What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?” –Dr. Robert Schuller
If you do not risk anything
“And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.” –Erica Jong
If you have a talent
“If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don’t hoard it. Don’t dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.” –Brendan Francis
If you limit yourself
“If you limit yourself only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.” –Robert Fritz
If you trust too much
“You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.” –Frank Crane
If your mind goes blank
“If your mind goes blank, don’t forget to turn off the sound.” –Red Green
Ignore things
“Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.” –Robert J. Sawyer
Illimitable superior spirit
“My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.” –Albert Einstein
Illiterate of the 21st century
“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” –Alvin Toffler
Illustrious ancestry
“The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato -the best part under ground.” –Thomas Overbury
Imagination
“Imagination is more important than knowledge…” –Albert Einstein
Improve the world
“The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.” –Robert M. Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, 1974)
Improving yourself
“You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.” –John Ruskin
In a new way
“That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way.” –Doris Lessing
In American elections there are no losers
“In American elections there are no losers, because whether or not our candidates win or lose, the next morning we wake up as Americans.” –John Kerry
In the midst of the crowd
“It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the service of others
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” –Mahatma Gandhi
In touch with the silence within
“Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.” –Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
Inside myself
“Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up.” –Pearl Buck
Inside their shell
“She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She talked as if she were already in the shell. In their very shell.” –Marita Bonner
Inspired by some great purpose
“When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds; your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.” –Patanjali
Intellect
“We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.” –Albert Einstein
Intimidated about selling
“I think people who are intimidated about selling should recategorize or reclassify their paradigm. I look at it as the most wonderful opportunity you have to build lifelong, rich, dear, multi-dimensional friendships – and in the process to discover and learn about all sorts of fascinating things about all sorts of fascinating aspects of people and life that you would not have ever known before.” –Jay Abraham
Intuitive mind
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. –Albert Einstein
Invisible to the eye
“Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.” –H. Jackson Browne, Jr.
Invite God to lead
“When you invite God to lead what happens in a relationship, the results are out of this world.” –Rick Wilkes
It must be lived forwards
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” –Soren Kierkegaard
It took each and every situation
“Your journey has molded you for your greater good, and it was exactly what it needed to be. Don’t think that you’ve lost time. There is no short-cutting to life. It took each and every situation you have encountered to bring you to the now. And now is right on time.” –Asha Tyson
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