Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Favorite Quotes 2

As human beings we have a tendency to focus on the negative.....You can have all this wonderful stuff and this one little thing is going wrong and we tend to focus on that. It's not about that. It's about being grateful.

"Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is."

 "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, and most fools do." Benjamin Franklin

“The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” – Allan K. Chalmers

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” – Dalai Lama

“That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.” – Henry David Thoreau

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever …
- Isak Dinesen

People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within.
- Ramona L. Anderson

If half a century of living has taught me anything at all, it has taught me that nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
- Dale Carnegie

“If it isn’t life threatening, if the house is not ablaze, if it is not an emergency, or if the child you are yelling to is not half a mile away, then yelling is the wrong choice in parenting.”

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