Alexander Smith – recognition
“Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.” ~Alexander Smith
Category: Inspirational quotes
Inspirational quotes
Francis Gay – patience
“Patience can work wonders.” ~ Francis Gay, TFBFG 1979
Thought for Today – An Ancient Peace
“There is a silence into which the world cannot intrude. There is an ancient peace you carry in your heart and have not lost. There …
Henry Ward Beecher – airy hosts
“We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympatheticlookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and …
Ralph Waldo Emerson – best day
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Charles R. Swindoll – attitude and vision
“When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.” ~Charles R. Swindoll
Sam Keen – perfect person
“We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.” ~Sam Keen
Benjamin Franklin – be thankful
“Take one thing with another, and the world is a pretty good sort of a world, and it is our duty to make the best …
Margaret Fairless Barber – refresh the eye
“To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function …
Thought for Today – The Colour of Flowers
Leave worries aside and you will be surprised by the beauty of the sky and the colour of flowers, of the freshness of the breeze …
Francis Gay – encouragement
“We adults are equally sensitive when it comes to disapproval or a disheartening sneer. Lack of appreciation has made many a man abandon what might …
Prophet Muhammad – knowledge
“Seek knowledge from cradle to grave”~Prophet Muhammad
Eleanor Roosevelt – Dreams
“The future belongs to those who believe in their dreams.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt
Isabelle Eberhardt – Character
“The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.” ~Isabelle Eberhardt
Albert Einstein – attitude and character
“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.” ~Albert Einstein
Francis Gay – good-bye
“Selamat jalan!” (Peace be on your journey!)~ Malay The warmth of a parting handshake should always convey a genuine expression of concern.~Francis Gay, TFBFG 1979
Dolores Macas Demavivas – Pencil
“If you can’t be a pencil to write anyone’s happiness, then try at least to be a nice eraser to remove someone’s sadness.” ~Dolores Macas …
Helen Keller – happiness
“True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.” ~Helen Keller
Francis Gay – griefs
“One of the best ways of overcoming our own griefs and troubles is to go out and do something for someone else in need.”~Francis Gay …
Francis Gay – tact
“Sympathy, perception and, above all, kindness are ingredients of tact. They oil the wheels of life.”~Francis Gay, TFBFG 1984
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – words
“When ideas fail, words come in very handy.”~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
~Carl Jung – current of life
“Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.”~Carl Jung
Henry David Thoreau – dreams
“If one advances confidently in the direction of their dreams, and endeavors to lead a life which they have imagined, they will meet with a …
John Maxwell – choose and control
“We cannot choose how many years we will live, but we can choose how much life those years will have. We cannot control the beauty …
Robert W Burns – art of staying married
“The art of staying happily married is the greatest of all the arts, because everything that is fine and decent about our world depends on …
Martin Luther – marriage
“There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.”~Martin Luther
Albert Szent-Gyorgi – discovery
“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought.”~Albert Szent-Gyorgi
Hans Margolius – quiet mind
“Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.”~Hans Margolius
Francis Gay – power of friendship
“There is an extraordinary power of friendship and the strength that can flow from one person to another.”~Francis Gay, TFBFG 1980
Thought for Today-UK – Fill The Gap
“If anyone has has any weakness, make it your duty to fill that gap. To speak about someone’s weakness is not greatness. The greatness lies …
John Huston – picture
“The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture …
Thought for Today – Power To Tolerate
You have the power to tolerate anyone and any situation. But tolerance is not just suffering in silence. It means going beyond any personal discomfort …
Helen Keller – blind state
“I have walked with people whose eyes are full of light, but who see nothing in wood, sea or sky, nothing in the city streets, …
Francis Gay – place in life
“There is a place in life for forgetting, as well as for remembering. Resentments and slights, past misfortunes or handicaps, mistakes which cannot be remedied …
Martin Luther – done by hope
“Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.”~Martin Luther
Dr Barbara Becker Holstein- nature
“Nature provides enchantment all around us in the spring. The birds sing, the flowers bloom, animals have their babies, new birds learn to fly. If …