Eclectic quotations accumulating in Hell's Kitchen, NY, USA.

20090831

"It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis."
-- Margaret Bonnano

20090830

"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve."
-- Albert Schweitzer

20090829

"Adventure is worthwhile in itself."
~Amelia Earhart

20090828

"You become the average of the five people you associate with most."
-- Jim Rohn

20090827

"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence."
--
Aristotle

20090826

"Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin."
~~ Grace Hansen

20090825

"The power of imagination makes us infinite."
~~ John Muir

20090824

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."
--
Maya Angelou

20090823

"You have to do it by yourself, And you can't do it alone."
-- Martin Rutte

20090822

"Whoever is happy will make others happy, too."
-- Mark Twain

20090821

"Don't follow your dreams; chase them."
-- Richard Dumb

20090820

“Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.”
~~ Robert Schuller

20090819

"Things do not change; we change."
-- Henry David Thoreau

20090818

"Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes."
~ Napoleon Hill

20090817

"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny."
-- Dr. Albert Ellis, psychologist. As quoted by Marci Shimoff, in her book Happy for No Reason.

20090816

"If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments."
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

20090815

"The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way."
-- Dale Carnegie

20090814

"Life must be lived as play."
~~ Plato

20090813

"Three primary ways to overcome old patterns... 1. Focus on the solution, 2. Look for the lesson and the gift 3. Make peace with yourself."
--
Marci Shimoff, Happy for No Reason

20090812

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
~~ Thomas Edison

20090811

"Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves."
-- J.M. Barrie

20090810

"Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling."
~ Margaret Lee Runbeck

20090809

"If you let go a little, you will have a little peace. If you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace. If you let go completely, you will have complete peace."
--
Ajahn Chah as quoted by Marci Shimoff, Happy for No Reason

20090808

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
-- Albert Einstein

20090807

"Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed."
~~ Storm Jameson

20090806

"There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why."
-- William Barclay

20090805

"Leap and the net will appear."
~ Julia Cameron

20090804

"To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude... because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions."
-- Deepak Choprah

20090803

"We are all of us richer than we think we are."
~~ Michel de Montaigne

20090802

"Don't believe everything you think."
-- Marci Shimoff, Happy for No Reason

20090801

"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."
~~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe