Its a beautiful day. A public holiday,few hours into October,as Nigeria marks her fifty-fifth independence anniversary. Reclined on your chair,lying face-up on your bed or standing at the balcony/pavement alone gazing at the open space and thinking,trying to understand the intent of life and the working of the universe? This excerpt written by Marc Chernoff would make your day. Here... In your quiet moments, what do
you think about? How far you’ve
come, or how far you have to
go? Your strengths, or your
weaknesses? The best that might
happen, or the worst that might
come to be? In your quiet
moments, pay attention to your
thoughts. Because maybe, just
maybe, the only thing that needs
to shift in order for you to
experience more happiness,
more love, and more vitality, is
your way of thinking.
Here are 60 thought-provoking
quotes gathered from our sister
site, Everyday Life Lessons, and
from our blog archive that will
help you adjust your way of
thinking.
1. You cannot change what
you refuse to confront.
2. Sometimes good things fall
apart so better things can
fall together.
3. Don’t think of cost. Think of
value.
4. Sometimes you need to
distance yourself to see
things clearly.
5. Too many people buy
things they don’t need with
money they don’t have to
impress people they don’t
know. Read Rich Dad, Poor
Dad .
6. No matter how many
mistakes you make or how
slow you progress, you are
still way ahead of everyone
who isn’t trying.
7. If a person wants to be a
part of your life, they will
make an obvious effort to
do so. Think twice before
reserving a space in your
heart for people who do
not make an effort to stay.
8. Making one person smile
can change the world –
maybe not the whole world,
but their world.
9. Saying someone is ugly
doesn’t make you any
prettier.
10. The only normal people you
know are the ones you
don’t know very well.
11. Life is 10% of what happens
to you and 90% of how you
react to it.
12. The most painful thing is
losing yourself in the
process of loving someone
too much, and forgetting
that you are special too.
13. It’s better to be alone than
to be in bad company.
14. As we grow up, we realize it
becomes less important to
have more friends and
more important to have
real ones.
15. Making a hundred friends is
not a miracle. The miracle
is to make a single friend
who will stand by your side
even when hundreds are
against you.
16. Giving up doesn’t always
mean you’re weak,
sometimes it means you
are strong enough and
smart enough to let go and
move on.
17. Don’t say you don’t have
enough time. You have
exactly the same number
of hours per day that were
given to Helen Keller,
Pasteur, Michaelangelo,
Mother Teresea, Leonardo
da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson,
Albert Einstein, etc…
18. If you really want to do
something, you’ll find a
way. If you don’t, you’ll find
an excuse.
19. Don’t choose the one who
is beautiful to the world;
choose the one who makes
your world beautiful.
20. Falling in love is not a
choice. To stay in love is.
21. True love isn’t about being
inseparable; it’s about two
people being true to each
other even when they are
separated.
22. While you’re busy looking
for the perfect person,
you’ll probably miss the
imperfect person who
could make you perfectly
happy.
23. Never do something
permanently foolish just
because you are
temporarily upset.
24. You can learn great things
from your mistakes when
you aren’t busy denying
them. Read The 7 Habits of
Highly Effective People
.
25. In life, if you don’t risk
anything, you risk
everything.
26. When you stop chasing the
wrong things you give the
right things a chance to
catch you.
27. Every single thing that has
ever happened in your life
is preparing you for a
moment that is yet to
come.
28. There isn’t anything noble
about being superior to
another person. True
nobility is in being superior
to the person you once
were.
29. Trying to be someone else
is a waste of the person you
are.
30. You will never become who
you want to be if you keep
blaming everyone else for
who you are now.
31. People are more what they
hide than what they show.
32. Sometimes people don’t
notice the things others do
for them until they stop
doing them.
33. Don’t listen to what people
say, watch what they do.
34. Being alone does not mean
you are lonely, and being
lonely does not mean you
are alone.
35. Love is not about sex, going
on fancy dates, or showing
off. It’s about being with a
person who makes you
happy
in a way nobody else can.
36. Anyone can come into your
life and say how much they
love you. It takes someone
really special to stay in your
life and show how much
they love you.
37. Burn the candles, use the
nice sheets, wear the fancy
lingerie. Don’t save it for a
special occasion; today is
special.
38. Love and appreciate your
parents. We are often so
busy growing up, we forget
they are also growing old.
39. When you have to start
compromising yourself and
your morals for the people
around you, it’s probably
time to change the people
around you.
40. Learn to love yourself first,
instead of loving the idea of
other people loving you.
41. When someone tells you,
“You’ve changed,” it might
simply be because you’ve
stopped living your life
their way.
42. Someone else doesn’t have
to be wrong for you to be
right.
43. Be happy. Be yourself. If
others don’t like it, then let
them be. Happiness is a
choice. Life isn’t about
pleasing everybody.
44. When you’re up, your
friends know who you are.
When you’re down, you
know who your friends are.
45. Don’t look for someone
who will solve all your
problems; look for
someone who will face
them with you.
46. If you expect the world to
be fair with you because
you are fair, you’re fooling
yourself. That’s like
expecting the lion not to
eat you because you didn’t
eat him.
47. No matter how good or bad
you have it, wake up each
day thankful for your life.
Someone somewhere else
is desperately fighting for
theirs.
48. The smallest act of
kindness
is worth more than the
grandest intention.
49. Many people are so poor
because the only thing they
have is money.
50. Learn to appreciate the
things you have before
time forces you appreciate
the things you once had.
51. When you choose to see
the good in others, you end
up finding the good in
yourself.
52. You don’t drown by falling
in the water. You drown by
staying there.
53. It’s better to know and be
disappointed than to never
know and always wonder.
54. There are things that we
don’t want to happen but
have to accept, things we
don’t want to know but
have to learn, and people
we can’t live without but
have to let go.
55. Happiness is not
determined by what’s
happening around you, but
rather what’s happening
inside you. Most people
depend on others to gain
happiness, but the truth is,
it always comes from
within.
56. If you tell the truth, it
becomes a part of your
past. If you lie, it becomes a
part of your future.
57. What you do every day
matters more than what
you do every once in a
while. Read The Power of
Habit .
58. You can’t start the next
chapter of your life if you
keep re-reading your last
one.
59. Things turn out best for
people who make the best
out of the way things turn
out.
60. If you don’t like something,
change it. If you can’t
change it, change the way
you think about it. http://www.marcandangel.com/2012/06/08/60-quotes-change-the-way-you-think/comment-page-3/#comment-13357189What Number really spoke to you? Its fourteen here. Cc Lalasticlala |
