50 Timeless Lessons of Life

1. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it.
2. In life, you usually get what you ask for, but it rarely comes in the package you think it’s supposed to come in.
3. Never let one bad day make you feel like you have a bad life.
4. Just because today is a terrible day doesn’t mean tomorrow won’t be the best day of your life.  You just got to get there.
5. Tell the truth, or eventually someone will tell it for you.  
6. A mistake is an accident.  Cheating and lying are not mistakes.  They are intentional choices.
7. Sometimes the person you want most is the person you’re better off without.
8. Some people cannot stand that you’re moving on with your life, and so they will try to drag your past to catch up with you.  Do not help them by acknowledging their behavior.  Keep moving forward.
9. Surround yourself with positive people who are going to push you toward greatness.  Eliminate those who are trying to keep you from it.
10. Don’t let something that doesn’t matter cause you to lose something thatdoes.
11. Sometimes people aren’t who they seem to be, and sometimes people are so much more than you originally thought.
12. Loving someone isn’t just about saying it every day, it’s showing it every day in every way.
13. Maturity is not when we start speaking about big things, it’s when we start understanding the small things.
14. Of all the things that can be stolen from you – your possessions, your youth, your health, your words, your rights – what no one can ever take from you is your freedom to choose what you will believe in, and who and what your heart will love.
15. When you can forgive yourself and others and stop the imprisonment, you’re creating the love of your life.
16. Not forgiving is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.
17. Age wrinkles the body.  Quitting on your dreams wrinkles the soul.
18. The past can’t hurt you anymore – not unless you let it.
19. Holding on to the unchangeable past is a waste of energy, and serves no purpose in creating a better future.
20. Sometimes you’ve got to emotionally let go of the things that once meant a lot to you, so you can move beyond the past and the pain it brings you, and open the next chapter in your life.
21. The path to our destination is not always a straight one.  We go down the wrong one, we get lost, and we turn back.  But maybe it doesn’t matter which road we embark on.  Maybe what matters is that we embark.
22. It doesn’t matter if you’ve failed or if you’ve been beaten.  All that matters is that you learn something, get back up, and try again.  Because winning is a good feeling, but winning when nobody else thought you could is an awesome feeling.
23. Knowing yourself is one thing, but truly believing and living as yourself is another.  With so much social conditioning in our society, we sometimes forget who we are.
24. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
25. You can grow stronger from the pain if you don’t let it destroy you.
26. Tell the negativity committee that meets inside your head to sit down and shut up.
27. The worst person to be around is the one who complains about everything and appreciates nothing.  Avoid these people at all costs.
28. Live in such a way that if someone decided to speak badly of you, no one would believe it.
29. If you love someone, tell them.  For hearts are often broken by words left unspoken.
30. Life is shorter than it often seems.  Sometimes we are only given a few minutes to be with the ones we love, and hundreds of hours to spend thinking of them.  Cherish the moments you have with your friends and family, because in one single second they can be taken away from you forever.
31. Things change, but the sun always rises the next day.  The bad news: nothing is permanent.  The good news: nothing is permanent.
32. It’s your road, and yours alone.  Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.
33. We often accept the love we think we deserve.
34. If someone can’t accept you at your worst, they don’t deserve you at your best.
35. Without communication there is no relationship; without respect there is no love; without trust there’s no reason to continue.
36. If you leave someone at least tell them why, because knowing you’re not worth an explanation is even more painful than being abandoned.
37. Speak when you are very angry, and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.
38. Choose your words carefully – they can’t be taken back once you give them away.  Harsh words are like bullets – they can leave deep wounds.  And most of the time saying “sorry” is not enough to heal the wounds you leave.
39. Never make a big decision when you’re angry, and never make a big promise when you’re overjoyed.
40. It makes no sense to be second in someone’s life when you know you’re good enough to be first in someone else’s.
41. Take all the time you need to heal emotionally.  Moving on doesn’t take a day; it takes lots of little steps to be able to break free of your broken self.
42. There is a difference between giving up and knowing when you have had enough.
43. Sometimes a break from your routine is the very thing you need.
44. When you find yourself cocooned in isolation and despair and cannot find your way out of the darkness, remember that this is similar to the place where caterpillars go to grow their wings.
45. Don’t count the number of friends you have; count the number of friends you can count on.
46. Sometimes, the people who are thousands of miles away from you, can make you feel better than people right beside you.  That’s a sign of love and true friendship.
47. There are times when family are like strangers, and strangers are like family.
48. Life is not about making others happy.  Life is about sharing your happiness with others.
49. When someone tells you, “You’ve changed,” it might simply be because you’ve stopped living your life their way.
50. If you’re lucky enough to have something that makes you different from everybody else, don’t ever change.

Mother Teresa

 Top 30 Favorite Quotes from Mother Teresa

"A life not lived for others is not a life."

"Each one of them is Jesus in disguise."

"God doesn't require us to succeed; He only requires that you try."

"I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples."

"I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?'"

"I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things."

"I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish He didn't trust me so much."

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

"If we pray, we will believe; If we believe, we will love; If we love, we will serve."

"If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are."

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."

"I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world."

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."

"Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
"Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it."

"Live simply so others may simply live."

"Peace begins with a smile."

"The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway."

"What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family."

"When you don't have anything, then you have everything."

"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."

"Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat."

"Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."

"I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love."

"If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one."

"It is a kingly act to assist the fallen."

"Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love."

"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile."

"Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand."

"One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody."

"We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love."

Each of these quotations from Mother Teresa merits pondering, rather than speed-reading or a quick scanning. Which of these words of simple wisdom touches your heart the most?

Love Quotes

“THE ONLY WORDS THAT TRULY HURT ARE THE ONES THAT COME FROM THE PEOPLE YOU MOST CARE ABOUT.”

“MISSING SOMEONE IS YOUR HEART’S WAY OF REMINDING YOU THAT YOU LOVE THEM.”

“I’D RATHER LOVE SOMEONE I CAN’T HAVE THAN HAVE SOMEONE I CAN’T LOVE.”

“REJECTION ISN’T WHAT MAKES ME BACK OFF, IT IS THE PURE SIGHT OF YOUR HAPPINESS WITHOUT ME, AS TO MEAN I AM NO LONGER NEEDED.”

“SOMETIMES FOLLOWING YOUR HEART MEANS LOSING YOUR MIND.”

“I LOVE YOU, WHETHER IT MEANS SOMETHING TO YOU, OR NOT.”

“I LOVED YOU, AND I STILL DO. I DON’T THINK ANYTHING WILL CHANGE THAT”

“WHERE THERE IS LOVE, THERE IS PAIN.”

“SOMETIMES I LIE TO MYSELF BECAUSE I DON’T WANT TO BELIEVE IN THE TRUTH.”

“SOMETIMES YOU DON’T KNOW HOW MUCH YOU CARE FOR SOMEONE UNTIL THEY STOP CARING FOR YOU.”

“SOMETIMES WE MUST GET HURT IN ORDER TO GROW; WE MUST FAIL IN ORDER TO KNOW.”

“I’M NOT SURE WHICH WAS THE BIGGER LIE, WHEN YOU SAID I COULD TRUST YOU OR WHEN YOU SAID YOU LOVED ME.”

“I’M JUST SICK OF PRETENDING TO BE HAPPY”

“ALTHOUGH I LOVED YOU IN EVERY POSSIBLE WAY, EVEN THOUGH I CARED FOR YOU SO MORE THAN I’LL EVER SAY; YOU BROKE MY HEART AND I’M GETTING STRONGER EACH AND EVERY DAY.”

“I WANT TO LOVE SOMEONE WHOSE HEART HAS BEEN BROKEN SO THAT THEY KNOW EXACTLY HOW IT FEELS AND WON’T BREAK MINE.”

“THERE’S ALWAYS THAT ONE PERSON WHO NO MATTER HOW LONG ITS BEEN OR HOW BADLY THEY HAVE HURT YOU, IF THEY SAY THEY LOVE YOU, YOU’LL SAY IT BACK.”

“THE ONLY THING WORSE THAN A BROKEN HEART IS KNOWING YOU WOULD GIVE HIM ANOTHER CHANCE.”

“IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHERE YOUR HEART IS, LOOK WHERE YOUR MIND GOES WHEN IT WANDERS.”

“DON’T THINK THE ONE YOU LOVE THE MOST WON’T HURT YOU, IN FACT THEY MIGHT JUST HURT YOU WORSE THAN ANYBODY ELSE EVER COULD.”

Innovation Quotes

Nothing works better changing a mindset than a great quote. Here you find 25 of my personal favorites on innovation. Use them to think different in 2013:

1. Nothing is stronger than habit. [Ovid]

2. If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got. [Albert Einstein]

3. It’s tough when markets change and your people within the company don’t. [Harvard Business Review]

4. They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. [Andy Warhol]

5. We cannot solve a problem by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. [A. Einstein]

6. Necessity is the mother of invention. [Anonymous]

7. Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open. [T. Dewar]

8. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. [George Bernard Shaw]

9. There are no old roads to new directions. [The Boston Consulting Group]

10. You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. [Andre Gide]

11. Innovation is anything, but business as usual. [Anonymous]

12. The best way to predict the future is to invent it. [Alan Kay]

13. If at first the idea is not absurd, then there will be no hope for it. [A. Einstein]

14. The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. [Arthur Koestler]

15. A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. [A. von Szent-Gyorgyi]

16. Innovation is the ability to convert ideas into invoices. [L. Duncan]

17. Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. [Demosthenes]

18. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by and that has made all the difference. [Robert Frost]

19. The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. [A. Clarke]

20. The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear. [Vincent Van Gogh]

21. The impossible is often the untried. [J. Goodwin]

22. An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. [Oscar Wilde]

23. Ideas are useless unless used. [T. Levitt]

24. It is not how many ideas you have. It’s how many you make happen. [Advertisement of Accenture]

25. The best ideas lose their owners and take on lives of their own. [N. Bushnell]

Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist) Quotes

May love be your guide in every moment of your life.

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

What happens once will never happen again. But what happens twice will surely happen a third time.

"When someone sees the same people every day, they wind up becoming part of that person's life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

Don't think about what you've left behind.

"When each day is the same as the next, it's because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises."

There is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe.... The soul of the world is nourished by people's happiness.

Great Saying

In the end, it's not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath away
- shing xiong

When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile.
- Unknown

"Eleven Hints for Life"

1. It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return.
But what is more painful is to love someone and never
find the courage to let that person know how you feel.

2. A sad thing in life is when you meet someone who
means a lot to you, only to find out in the end that it was
never meant to be and you just have to let go.

3. The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a
porch swing with, never say a word, and then walk away
feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had.

4. It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose
it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been
missing until it arrives.

5. It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone, an
hour to like someone, and a day to love someone-but it
takes a lifetime to forget someone.

6. Don't go for looks, they can deceive. Don't go for wealth,
even that fades away. Go for someone who makes you
smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark day
seem bright.

7. Dream what you want to dream, go where you want to go,
be what you want to be. Because you have only one life and
one chance to do all the things you want to do.

8. Always put yourself in the other's shoes. If you feel that it
hurts you, it probably hurts the person too.

9. A careless word may kindle strife. A cruel word may wreck
a life. A timely word may level stress. But a loving word may
heal and bless.

10. The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best
of everything they just make the most of everything that comes
along their way.

11. Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, ends with
a tear. When you were born, you were crying and everyone
around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die,
you're the one smiling and everyone around you is crying.
- Unknown

Never tell your problems to anyone...20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them.
- Lou Holtz

"I always knew looking back on the tears would make me laugh, but I never knew looking back on the laughs would make me cry."
- Unknown

Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching.
- Randall G Leighton

Valentine Day Quotes :

Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!  ~Thomas Hood


When love is not madness, it is not love.  ~Pedro Calderon de la Barca


Many are the starrs I see, but in my eye no starr like thee.  ~English saying used on poesy rings


Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.  ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand, and Stars, 1939


Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.  ~Albert Einstein


I don't understand why Cupid was chosen to represent Valentine's Day.  When I think about romance, the last thing on my mind is a short, chubby toddler coming at me with a weapon.  ~Author Unknown


For you see, each day I love you more
Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
~Rosemonde Gerard


Love is a symbol of eternity.  It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.  ~Author Unknown


Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker.  ~Author Unknown


I claim there ain't
Another Saint
As great as Valentine.
~Ogden Nash


Trip over love, you can get up.  Fall in love and you fall forever.  ~Author Unknown


Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart.  ~Author Unknown


A hundred hearts would be too few
To carry all my love for you.
~Author Unknown


You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.  ~Jonathan Carroll, "Outside the Dog Museum"


We're all a little weird.  And life is a little weird.  And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness - and call it love - true love.  ~Robert Fulghum,True Love


Must, bid the Morn awake!
Sad Winter now declines,
Each bird doth choose a mate;
This day's Saint Valentine's.
For that good bishop's sake
Get up and let us see
What beauty it shall be
That Fortune us assigns.
~Michael Drayton


Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.  ~William Shakespeare


kisses are a better fate
than wisdom.
~e.e. cummings


If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?  ~Author Unknown


Who, being loved, is poor?  ~Oscar Wilde


In melody divine,
My heart it beats to rapturous love,
I long to call you mine.
~Author Unknown


Grow old with me!  The best is yet to be.  ~Robert Browning


Without love, what are we worth?  Eighty-nine cents!  Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely.  ~M*A*S*H, Hawkeye


The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it.  You and you alone make me feel that I am alive.  Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.  ~George Moore


We loved with a love that was more than love.  ~Edgar Allan Poe


Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.  ~Ben Hecht


Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.  ~Henry Van Dyke


Are we not like two volumes of one book?  ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore


A bell is no bell 'til you ring it,
A song is no song 'til you sing it,
And love in your heart
Wasn’t put there to stay -
Love isn’t love
'Til you give it away.
~Oscar Hammerstein, Sound of Music, "You Are Sixteen (Reprise)"


I've fallen in love many times... always with you.  ~Author Unknown


Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.  ~Judith Viorst, Redbook, 1975


What I need to live has been given to me by the earth.  Why I need to live has been given to me by you.  ~Author Unknown


I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.  ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning


When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.  ~Natalie Clifford Barney


Take away love and our earth is a tomb.  ~Robert Browning

True Love Quotes

True love is not how you forgive, but how you forget, not what you see but what you feel, not how you listen but how you understand, and not how you let go but how you hold on.


You are my soul mate, my sweetheart, you are my dream come true, from now until the end of time I give my heart and soul to you.


True love is not about the hugs and kisses, the 'I love you's' or the 'I miss you's', but about the chills that hit every part of your spine when you think about him.


It's not who you are to the world, it's who you are to me. It's not how many times I say I love you... it's how much I really do.


When we love, it isn't because the person's perfect, it's because we learn to see an imperfect person perfectly.


You know you truly love somebody when they hurt you so badly, but all you can think about it is the times when they made you smile.


I love you because you bring out the best in me, and holding on to that thought, I sincerely believe that just by being with you shall bring out the best life I ever could live.


You may hold my hand for a while, but you hold my heart forever.


A priceless moment is when the person that you have fallen in love with, looks you right in the eyes to tell you that they have fallen in love with you.


Last night I looked up at the stars and matched each one with a reason why I love you. I was doing great until I ran out of stars.

If Your asking if I Need U the answer is 4Ever.. If Your askin if I'LL Leave U the answer is Never.. If Your askin what I vaLue the Answer is U.. if Your askin if I Love U the answer is I do...


True Love is loving that someone one even with their worst faults and flaws. Forgiving and Forgetting their wrong doings, Enduring and being Kind always trusting and not easily angered, always trusting and hoping and never failing.


There may be many flowers in a man's life, but there is only one rose.


True love is not being with someone because you think you can be happy with that person, but because without that person you know you can never be.


I never knew what love was until I met you, then when distance pulled us apart, I found out what true love is.


Never leave the one you LOVE for the ONE you LIKE because the one you LIKE will one day LEAVE you for the one they LOVE!!


True love is like a teardrop in a rainstorm; you're lucky enough to find it once, but you will never find it again.

Albert Einstein Quotes

Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 – April 18, 1955), the famous theoretical physicist, developed the theory of relativity and is considered the father of modern physics.   The nuclear physicist Robert Oppenheimer shared his impressions of Einstein by saying, “He was almost wholly without sophistication and wholly without worldliness . . . There was always with him a wonderful purity at once childlike and profoundly stubborn.”

Due to his brilliance Einstein was often called upon to offer opinions on topics beyond the realm of physics; thus the wide range of inspired quotations.

“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.”

“Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.”

“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”

“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.” –

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”

“The splitting of the atom has changed everything except for how we think.”

“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

“A human being is part of a whole called by us the universe.”

“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.”

“If there is any religion would cope with modern scientific needs, it would be Buddhism.”

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”

“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”

“A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be. “

“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”

“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?”

“A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?”

“All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.”

“Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.”

“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”

“Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.”

“Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.”

“Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.”

“All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.”

“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.”

“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.”

“I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.”

“I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.”

“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.”

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”

“Information is not knowledge.”

“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”

“Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.”

“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.”

“Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.”

Upon refusing surgery at the age of 76, he said:  “I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.”