No Good Thing Ever Dies

You are today where your thoughts have brought you.
You will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
( James Allen )

In one minute you can change your attitude and in that minute you can change your entire day.
( Spencer Johnson )

As you travel through life you learn a lot of great lessons from idiots and stupid people.

Our attitude in the face of life’s challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.
( Tara Brach )

Happiness comes when you believe in what you are doing, know what you are doing, and love what you are doing.
( Brian Tracy )

It isn’t the things that happen to us in our lives that cause us to suffer, it’s how we relate to the things that happen to us that causes us to suffer.
( Pema Chodron )

A positive mind finds a way it can be done.
A negative mind looks for all the ways it can’t be done.
( Napoleon Hill )

When one door of happiness closes, another opens.
But often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
( Helen Keller )

The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
( Donald Williams )

Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
( Stephen King )

The more we know, the better we forgive.
Those who feel deeply feel for all living beings.
( Madame De Stael )

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies.
But not the madness of people.
( Isaac Newton )

No one wants to die.
Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there.
And yet, death is the destination we all share.
No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be.
Because death is very likely the single best invention of life.
It’s life’s change agent.
It clears out the old to make way for the new.
( Steve Jobs )

Once you have to carry your own water, you will learn the value of every drop.

At the end of the day, the questions we ask of ourselves determine the type of people that we will become.
( Leo Babauta )

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
( Mahatma Gandhi )

Whatever we are doing, there is very often someone telling us that we are doing it wrong.

I am not impressed by money, social status, job title, or what car you drive.
I am impressed by the way you treat other living beings, both animals and humans.
( Rose Winfold )

We connect to each other with our heart, not with our tongue.

It does not serve us well when the digital equivalent of a sneering, judgemental whispering campaign becomes accepted fact because enough people pass it on.
( Paul McNamee )

Time passes by quickly for those who spend it wisely.

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them.
( John Ruskin )

The older you get, the more you realise that it isn’t about the material things, or pride or ego.
It’s about our hearts and who they beat for.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
( Albert Einstein )

Life should be enjoyed and not endured.
Be who you are and smile.
It may solve some of the problems you have.

The highest reward for a man’s toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.
( John Ruskin )

How did the molecules of life form and acquire their amazing abilities without an intelligent designer?
Evolutionary research fails to provide adequate explanations or satisfying answers to questions about the origin of life.
In effect, those who deny the purposeful intervention of a Creator attribute god-like powers to mindless molecules and natural forces.

I think the reason we sometimes have the false sense that God is so far away is because that is where we have put him.
We have kept him at a distance, and then when we are in need and call on him in prayer, we wonder where he is.
He is exactly where we left him. 
( Ravi Zacharias )

The deepest wounds aren’t the ones we get from other people hurting us.
They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.
( Isobelle Carmody )

If someone insults you, pause for a second and look at them and say, “are you okay”.

Sharing tales of those we’ve lost is how we keep from really losing them.
( Mitch Albom )

All I know is I make sense to me.
It’s other people who seem complicated.
( Tara Kelly )

Freedom of speech is something you should never allow government to take from you.
Your children will never get it back.

One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
( Gustave Flaubert )

When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.
( Anthony De Mello )

Our enemy are not the refugees.
Our enemy are those who made them refugees.

Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
( George Eliot )

We never realise just how many other lives we can help when their paths cross our own.
( Wil Zeus )

We are in charge of our own life’s destiny and what we do and become can only be validated by our accomplishments and failures.
Not by what others may think of us.
( Dahveed )

Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it.
Don’t allow his anger to become your anger.
( Bohdi Sanders )

That is how we become wise.
By living each day attending to the lessons God put in our path.
( Emma Campion )

God gave us the gift of life.
It is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
( Voltaire )

Prayer is not asking.
It is a longing of the soul.
It is daily admission of one’s weakness.
It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
( Mahatma Gandhi )

God and nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be.
Follow always that great law.
Let the sky and God be our limit and eternity our measurement.
( Marcus Garvey )

Atheism turns out to be too simple.
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.
( C S Lewis )

God has no religion.
( Mahatma Gandhi )

Science and religion are not at odds.
Science is simply too young to understand.
( Dan Brown )

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realise and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God’s creation.
( Maya Angelou )

My religion is very simple.
My religion is kindness.
( Dalai Lama )

A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.
( C S Lewis )

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
( Mahatma Gandhi )

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live my life as if there isn’t and die to find out there is.
( Albert Camus )

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church.
For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
( Kahlil Gibran )

Never force religious instruction on your child.
If your faith is really living in you, you will not need to depend on pious words.
Your children will sense it in daily life and in your contact with them.

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
( Ronald Reagan )

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
( Albert Einstein )

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
( C S Lewis )

Have a heart that never hardens.
A temper that never tires.
A touch that never hurts.
( Charles Dickens )

Never let a problem to be solved become more important than the person to be loved.
( Barbara Johnson )

Don’t hold on to past issues.
Keep your eyes forward and concentrate on the future.

Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own.
You may both be wrong.
( Dandemis )

To finish the moment.
To find the journey’s end in every step of the road.
To live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.
( Ralph Waldo Emerson )

In the hopes of reaching the moon, men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
( Albert Schweitzer )

Never make your home in a place.
Make a home for yourself inside your own head.
You’ll find what you need to furnish it.
Memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things.
That way it will go with you wherever you journey.
( Tad Williams )

If you look to others for fulfilment, you will never be fulfilled.
If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself.
Be content with what you have.
Rejoice in the way things are.
When you realise there is nothing lacking, the world belongs to you.
( Lao Tzu )

Life is a journey.
And if you fall in love with the journey, you will be in love forever.
( Peter Hagerty )

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything.
( Coco Chanel )

There are clubs you can’t belong to.
Neighbourhoods you can’t live in.
Schools you can’t get into.
But the roads are always open.
( Nike )

It’s not what you have been through in your life that defines who you are.
It’s how you get through it that has made you the person you are today.

Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.
( John Ruskin )

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.
( Edward Gibbon )