Words To Live By
Here are some quotes and prayers I have gathered from friends, fortune cookies, billboards, commercials, etc. over the years that I find inspiring, thoughtful, fun...
| A friend asks of your time, not your money. - Fortune Cookie |
| As a rule of thumb, involve everyone in everything. - Tom Peters |
| Be straight forward and honest and success will be yours. - Fortune Cookie |
| Be your own boss and resist the temptation to follow the leader. - Fortune Cookie |
| Bury your unworkable dreams. Or they will surely bury you. - Fortune Cookie |
| Develop your critical edge. - Fortune Cookie |
| Do something beautiful. - Button |
| Even through rough times, keep your head up...consistency will get you far. - good friend Sue Stroebel |
| Everyone smiles in the same language. - Anonymous |
| Find release from your cares. Have a good time. - Fortune Cookie |
| Finite Games Can Be Won. But Life Is An Infinite Game. - Fortune Cookie |
| Grant, O merciful God, that I may ardently desire, prudently examine, truthfully acknowledge, and perfectly accomplish what is pleasing to Thee, for the praise and glory of Thy name. - Prayer of St. Thomas Aquinas |
| He or she who seeks a friend without fault remains without one. - Old Turkish Proverb |
| HumanKind...be both. - Pallotta TeamWorks |
| I beg you...to have patience with everything
unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't
search for the answers, which could not be given you now, And the point is, to live everything. Live the
questions now. |
| I hated every minute of training, but I said, "Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life a champion. - Muhammad Ali |
| I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will allow my fear to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone I will turn my inner eye to see its path. And where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. - Bene Gesserit litany against fear |
| I understand
responsibility begins with response. Touched, I respond. Moved, I act. To soothe injury and pain, with all the powers at my disposal, no matter how modest. I commit myself, body and soul, to this singular mission. Where there are wounds of spirit, I will volunteer my encouragement and my hardest labors. I will not be deterred by the enticements of despair, nor swayed by the voices of discouragement. I ride for you, friend and stranger, in love and kindness, without questions or conditions. When clouds of doubt gather to blot out the light, I will be the wind that scatters them. When the tide of events rises to threaten you, I will be the wall that repels it. I will ride on. - Positive Peddler Bob |
| I will do the impossible. - Pallotta TeamWorks |
| If you meet someone who has no smile, just give him one of yours. - Keynote |
| If you promise someone something, keep it. - Fortune Cookie |
| If you're filled with you, you preach without preaching. - Fortune Cookie |
| I'mpossible (It's the way you look at it.) - Pallotta TeamWorks |
| It's time to start living the life you've imagined. - Henry James |
| Life is either a daring adventure, or it is nothing at all. - Helen Keller |
| Life is not measured by the number of
breaths we take, but by the number of moments that take our breath away. - Anonymous |
| Life shrinks and expands in proportion to one's courage. - Anais Nin |
| Lord, grant me patience with others; teach me tolerance and forgiveness. Please give me the grace to never unfairly judge a friend. Amen. |
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Lord, make me a channel of Thy peace that where there is hatred, I may bring love that where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness that where there is discord, I may bring harmony that where there is error, I may bring truth that where there is doubt, I may bring faith that where there is despair, I may bring hope that where there are shadows, I may bring light that where there is sadness, I may bring joy. God, grant that I may seek rather to comfort than to be comforted to understand, than to be understood to love, than to be loved. For it is by self-forgetting that one finds. It is by forgiving that one is forgiven. It is by dying that one awakens to Eternal Life. Amen. - Prayer of St. Francis of Assissi |
| Measure your friends around the heart. - English Proverb |
| Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Mead |
| Never give up. Never give up. Never give up. - Winston Churchill (entire commencement address to British Naval Academy) |
| Never resist a mad impulse to do something nice for me. - Ashleigh Brilliant via Bill Larson |
| Never separate the lives you live from the words you speak. - Paul Wellstone |
| Others are anxious to get to know you better. - Fortune Cookie |
| Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty. - Fortune Cookie |
| Prejudice is the child of ignorance and the mother of hate. - Fortune Cookie |
| Rules are for the dictates of fools and guidance of wise people. - Marketing Professor from UST |
| Speak only well of people and you need never whisper. - Fortune Cookie |
| Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. - Francis of Assisi |
| Success is a journey - not a destination. - Successories |
| Success is determined by how and what you think about. - Fortune Cookie |
| The best thing to hold on to in life is each other. - Audrey Hepburn |
| The best way to sell...make it convenient to buy. - Fortune Cookie |
| The experience of moving beyond your limits will change you forever. - good friend Sue Stroebel |
| The greatest protection in all the world is loving-kindness. - The Buddha |
| There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up. - John A. Holmes |
| To know you have a true friend is to take the chance and share your inner hurts and pleasures and see if they feel them also. - anonymous |
| Two wrongs don't make a right, but it may be fun to keep trying. - Laurence J. Peter |
| We all smile in the same language. - Fortune Cookie |
| What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible. - Theodore Roethke |
| 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 |
| You become mature when you become the authority for your own life. - Joseph Campell |
| You might be one person in the world, but you may be the world to one person. - someone online |
| Your many talents attract others, so be sure to use them. - Fortune Cookie |
| Your future will be happy and productive. - Fortune Cookie |
| Your love life will be happy and fulfilling. - Fortune Cookie |
| Your original ideas will get you well-deserved recognition. - Fortune Cookie |