POSITIVE THOUGHTS AND QUOTES

“The day is what you make it! So why not make it a great one?” ~ Steve Schulte

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There is nothing good or bad, only thinking makes it so.” ~ Hamlet

“I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.” ~ Og Mandino

“You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.” ~ Zig Ziglar

“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.” ~ Sun Tzu

“We can’t escape pain; we can’t escape the essential nature of our lives. But we do have a choice. We can give in and relent, or we can fight, persevere, and crete a life worth living, a noble life. Pain is a fact; our evaluation of it is a choice.” ~ Jacob Held

“Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity.” ~ Joseph Sugarman

“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” ~ Oprah Winfrey

“Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.” ~ Seth Godin

“Nothing truly stops you.  Nothing truly holds you back.  For your own will is always within your control.  Sickness may challenge your body. But are you merely your body? Lameness may impede your legs. But you are not merely your legs. Your will is bigger than your legs. Your will needn’t be affected by an incident unless you let it.” ~ Epictetus

“Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.” ~ Anthony Robbins

“Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.” ~ Groucho Marx

“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

“Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday. Be a self-starter. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don’t waste it with a false start or no start at all. You were not born to fail.” ~ Og Mandino

MOTHER TERESA : Love Life and Live Life Quotes

1. The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. 
2. We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
3. The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love.
4. It is not how much you do, but how much Love you put into the doing that matters.
5. Love is repaid by love alone!
6. I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
7. If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
8. Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own home. Give love to your children, to a wife or husband, to a next-door neighbor.
9. Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand.
10. Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other–it doesn’t matter who it is– and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.
11. Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
12. Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
13. What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.
14. If you think well of others, you will also speak well of others and to others. From the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. If your heart is full of love, you will speak of love.
15. It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.

Hurtful Quotes

Hurtful words can cut deep. But the deepest cut isn't really the hurtful words at all, but rather the lost relationship and love if you choose not to put the past to rest and begin fresh.

I still have feelings for you. Not enough to want you back, But enough to make it hurt.

I wish it were as easy to hate someone as it were to UNFRIEND them.

It's HARD if some one special ignores you but it's HARDER pretending that you just don't care.

Trying to forget someone who hurt you so much is like trying to remember someone you never met.

Someone can hurt you more than you deserve because you love them more than they deserve.

The worst feeling is not being lonely. It's when someone makes you feel special, then suddenly leaves you and you have to pretend you don't mind at all.

Don't over use your heart in loving someone... Sometimes you need to use your brain to stop the pain...

The worst part of being lied to, is knowing you were not worthy of the truth.

Never let the person that hurt you make you miss out on someone that wants to love you.

Happiness Quotes

1. In life, you get what you put in.  Everything comes back around.
2. You can never change the past nor control the future, but you can change the mood of the day by touching someone’s heart with your smile.
3. The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.
4. Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
5. It’s nice to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s also important to make sure you haven’t lost track of the things that money can’t buy.
6. You don’t need a lot of money to lead a rich life.  Good friends and a loving family are worth their weight in gold.
7. You will never fully believe in yourself if you keep comparing yourself to everyone else.  Instead, compare yourself to who you were yesterday. 
8. You won’t always be punished FOR your anger, but you will always be punished BY your anger.
9. Give yourself permission to immediately walk away from anything that gives you bad vibes.  There is no need to explain or make sense of it.  Just trust what you feel.
10. One of the greatest freedoms is truly not caring what everyone else thinks of you.
11. As long as you are worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them.  Only when you require no approval from outside yourself can you own yourself.
12. Don’t let anyone walk through your mind with their dirty feet.
13. It hurts the most when you start pretending it doesn’t.
14. You are responsible for how you feel no matter what someone does to you. Remember, you are always in control of your thoughts so choose to feel confident and adequate rather than angry and insecure.

Love Quotes

Love Quotes

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.” 
― Marilyn Monroe“

You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.” 
― William W. Purkey

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” 
― Dr. Seuss


“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” 
― Elbert Hubbard

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” 
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.” 
― André Gide, Autumn Leaves

Health Motivational Quotes

“Exercise is good for your mind, body, and soul.” – Susie Michelle Cortright

“Hear your heart. Heart your health.” – Faith Seehill

“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” – Albert Einstein

“Limitations are for people that have them and excuses are for people that need them.” – Unknown

“No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training… what a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.” – Socrates

“Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.” – John F. Kennedy

“Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity.” – Goethe

“The greatest wealth is health.” – Virgil

“The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.” – Buddha

“Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as soon as you can change your beliefs.” – Dr. Maxwell Maltz

“Act as if everything you do makes a difference. It does.” – William James

“Do you give as much energy to your dreams as you do to your fears?” – Unknown

“How am I to know what I can achieve if I quit?” – Jason Bishop

Inspirational Quotes

I have spread my dreams beneath your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-W.B. Yeats

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
-Henry David Thoreau

All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible.
-T.E. Lawrence

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
Henry David Thoreau

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough not to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
-William Faulkner

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
-Patrick Henry

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-Eleanor Roosevelt

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Lanston Hughes

You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself into one.
-Henry D. Thoreau

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-Eleanor Roosevelt

Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.
-Marcia Wieder

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
-Henry David Thoreau

The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence and educational advantages; the question is what he will do with the things he has. The moment a young man ceases to dream or to bemoan his lack of opportunities and resolutely looks his conditions in the face, and resolves to change them, he lays the corner-stone of a solid and honorable success.
-Hamilton Wright Mabie

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Paul Valery

A skillful man reads his dreams for self-knowledge, yet not the details but the quality.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our waking hours form the text of our lives, our dreams, the commentary.
-Anonymous

Hope is the dream of the waking man.
-French Proverb

To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.
-William Shakespeare
Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.
-Gail Devers quotes

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
- Oscar Wilde quotes

The only thing that will stop you from fulfilling your dreams is you.
- Tom Bradley quotes

Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
- Edgar Cayce quotes

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
- C.S. Lewis quotes