Why?
Because good quotes echo what you know in your heart to be true (but may have forgotten along the way). And they stay with you like the chorus to your favorite song.
Never underestimate the power of the right quote at the right time!
Health
The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
Abraham Maslow
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
Joseph Addison
Your body hears everything your mind says. Naomi Judd
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Buddha
Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance. Brian Tray
Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside. Albert Schweitzer
Failure
Winston Churchill
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. Helen Keller
If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.
Jim Rohn
Success isn't just about what you accomplish in your life; it's about what you inspire others to accomplish. Unknown
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying. Michael Jordan
You miss 100 percent of the shots you never took. Wayne Gretzky
Gratitude
William Arthur Ward
I write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity because I battle selfishness. I write about joy because I know sorrow. I write about faith because I almost lost mine, and I know what it is to be broken and in need of redemption. I write about gratitude because I am thankful - for all of it. Kristin Armstrong
To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment. Eckhart Tolle
Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe. Wayne Dyer
Risk Taking
The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live. Leo F. Buscaglia
Solo Dance
Love like you'll never be hurt.
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth. William W. Purkey
There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them. Vicki Baum
There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good. Edwin Denby
Loving Self
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with. Dr. Wayne Dyer
People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason the world is in chaos, is because things are being loved and people are being used. Unknown
Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked.
try approving of yourself and see what happens. Louise Hay
Your Mind
You cannot solve a problem with the same mind that created it. Albert Einstein
You are who you are and what you are because of what has gone into your mind. You can change who you are and what you are by changing what goes into your mind. Zig Ziglar
By changing nothing, nothing changes. Tony Robbins
Change the way you look at things and the things you look at will change. Wayne Dyer
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples. Mother Teresa
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. Aldous Huxley
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present. Lao Tzu
The Life You Live
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. George Bernard Shaw
Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like. Will Rogers
There are 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
In the end, it’s not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath away. Shing Xiong
A Different Serenity Prayer by Eleanor Brownn (A motivational speaker):
God, grant me the serenity to stop beating myself up for not doing things perfectly, the courage to forgive myself because I’m working on doing better, and the wisdom to know that you already love me just the way I am.