MEMORABLE QUOTES AND ADVICE

'With all blessings you are fortunate  enough to take from this life, be always prepared to put them back occassionaly for someone else to use'...Lorrette Young (2007)

This page is devoted to all things said to encourage, uplift, advise, amuse and even sometimes irritate or infuriate us.

You may find some you already know and use, you may find news ones that are useful.  Where the originator is known they have been acknowledged otherwise the are -Unknown.  If you know the name of one of the Unknown authors, please let us know and we will include their identity.

Our selection is listed under the following titles:

• The Spiritual
• The Uplifting
• On Life
• On You
• Plain Good Advice
• Humor

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If you have some of your own you would like to see added to our list, please use the email link on our Contact Page. Please remember to either disclose your source, and/or where necessary give credit where it is due.

THE SPIRITUAL

You deserve as many blessings as you gratefully give to others.
- Dr John Demartini

Prayer offers you a way to leave the perspective of scarcity for a moment and commune at the level of God.
-Unknown

When we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that’s present…we experience heaven on earth.
-Sarah Breathnach

Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place you must find.
- Wayne Dyer

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-Paul Boese

THE UPLIFTING

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes it is a quiet voice at the end of the day, saying…“I will try again tomorrow.”
-Unknown

A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
-Chinese Proverb

Rain and sun are to plants as praise and encouragement are to the human spirit.
-Unknown

Words To Live By
An excerpt from No Glass Ceiling, Just Blue Sky By Marcy Blochowiak

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.

May you have enough happiness to make you sweet,
Enough trials to make you strong,
Enough sorrow to keep you human and
Enough hope to make you happy.

The happiest of people don't necessarily
Have the best of everything;
They just make the most of
Everything that comes along their way.

The brightest future will always
Be based on a forgotten past;
You can't go forward in life until
You let go of your past failures and heartaches.

When you were born, you were crying
And everyone around you was smiling
Live your life so at the end
You're the one who is smiling and everyone
Around you is crying.

- Anonymous

ON LIFE

Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
- Irving Berlin

The future depends on what we do in the present.
- Gandhi

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.
- Rose Lane

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
-Henry Ford

Laughter is an instant vacation.
-Milton Berle

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
-Benjamin Franklin

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

Wrong turns are as important as right turns. More important sometimes.
-Richard Bach

Change always comes bearing gifts.
-Price Pritchett

One of the most beautiful compensations in life is that no person can help another without helping themselves
-Unknown

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein

Goals are dreams with deadlines.
-Unknown

Many things will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart…pursue those
-Unknown

Wisdom is knowing the right path to take…Integrity is taking it!
-Unknown

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
-Unknown

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
-Unknown

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
-Unknown

Attitude is everything.
-Unknown

Live simply, Love generously, Care deeply, Speak kindly......
-Unknown

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, It's about learning to dance in the rain.
-Unknown

Peace, love, and light all-ways,
-Unknown

Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.
-Unknown

Embrace change, sometimes in the winds of change we find our direction
-Unknown

Fail Forward!!  Failure is the only opportunity to begin again more intelligently
-Unknown

When you go take love with you Life is like a mirror, smile and it smiles back at you
-Unknown

If you love life, life will love you right back
-Unknown

Learn to listen, opportunity sometimes knocks very softly
-Unknown

No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
-Aesop

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
-Charles Lamb

No one needs a smile as much as a person who fails to give one.
-Unknown

A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That’s why they don’t get what they want.
-Madonna

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate.
-Albert Schweitzer

Prosperity belongs to those who learn new things the fastest.
— Paul Zane Pilzer

First things first; Second things never.
-Unknown

Relationships are the glue that holds everything together.  In business, the quality of the relationship will determine the stability of your team
-Unknown

The true measure of a person is how they treat someone who can do them absolutely no good
-Unknown

People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges
-Unknown

Arguing with a fool proves there are two.
-Doris M. Smith

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
-Andrew Carnegie

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
-Aristotle

A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.
-Russell H. Ewing

The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood.
-Ralph Nichols

I make progress by having people around who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.
-Henry J. Kaiser

When you were born, you were crying, and everyone else was smiling.  Live your life so that at the end, you’re the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.
-Unknown

I'm not suffering from insanity. I love every minute of it.
-Unknown

Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and abilities were used in a way that served others.
- Marianne Williamson

ON YOU

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
- Leonard Cohen

You wouldn't even get the message if you didn't have the potential to be that person.
- James Arthur Ray

Think big thoughts, but relish small pleasures.
- H. Jackson Brown

If you think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself.
- Woodrow Wilson

What you are now comes from what you have been, and what you will be is what you do now.
- Buddha

You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.
- Jim Rohn

You've made your bed, now go bounce on it.
- Peter Scott

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.
- Dutch Proverb

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive it isn't.
- Richard Bach

Anger is a very destructive force and does more damage then good. Remember when you are angry, it is your weakness( not your strength) as the person is completely controlling you.
-Unknown

If at first you don't succeed, it only means you're getting closer.
-Unknown

Nothing we can do can change the past, but everything we do changes the future.
- Ashleigh Brilliant

What could you achieve in life if you decided to become totally and blissfully impervious to hostile criticism and to rejection?
- Gary S Goodman

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
— James Allen

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
-Pericles

Burn brightly without burning out.
-Richard Biggs

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
-Albert Schweitzer

There are no limitations except those you acknowledge. Whatever you can conceive
and believe, you can achieve.
— Napoleon Hill

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
- Paulo Coelho

It's always too early to quit.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Some people think it's holding on that makes one strong. Sometimes it's letting go.
-Unknown

May you be blessed

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word – ‘Excellence’ -  To know how to do something well is to enjoy it!
-Unknown

A good goal should scare you a little and excite you a lot.
-Unknown

Your attitude not your aptitude will determine your altitude.
- Zig Zigler

Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent
-Unknown

The less you speak, the more you will hear.
-Alexander Solshenitsen

The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the man you want to be. Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.
-Wilfred Peterson

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
-Og Mandino

You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. Which is just another way of saying that the way to make a friend is to be one.
-Dale Carnegie

If you envy successful people, you create a negative force field of attraction that repels you from ever doing the things that you need to do to be successful. If you admire successful people, you create a positive force field of attraction that draws you toward becoming more and more like the kinds of people that you want to be like.
-Brian Tracy

The people with whom you work reflect your own attitude. If you are suspicious, unfriendly and condescending, you will find these unlovely traits echoed all about you. But if you are on your best behavior, you will bring out the best in the persons with whom you are going to spend most of your working hours.
-Beatrice Vincent

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
- Robert H. Schuller

PLAIN GOOD ADVICE

The following three-word phrases can enrich every relationship.
Read them; contemplate on them; and use them. They are very powerful.

I'll Be There

If you have ever had to call a friend in the middle of the night, to take a sick child to hospital, or when your car has broken down some miles from home, you will know how good it feels to hear the phrase " I'll be there. "
Being there for another person is the greatest gift we can give. When we're truly present for other people, important things happen to them & us.
We are renewed in love and friendship. We are restored emotionally and spiritually. Being there is at the very core of civility.

I Miss You

Perhaps more marriages could be saved & strengthened if couples simply & sincerely say to each other "I miss you." This powerful affirmation tells partners they are wanted, needed, desired & loved.
Consider how ecstatic you would feel, if you received an unexpected phone call from your spouse in the middle of your workday, just to say "I miss you."

I Respect You / I Trust You

Respect and trust is another way of showing love. It conveys the feeling that another person is a true equal. If you talk to your children as if they were adults you will strengthen the bonds & become close friends. This applies to all interpersonal relationships

Maybe You're Right

This phrase is highly effective in diffusing an argument and restoring frayed emotions. The flip side to "maybe you're right" is the humility of admitting maybe "I'm wrong". Let's face it. When you have a heated argument with someone, all you do is cement the other person's point of view. They, or you, will not change their stance and you run the risk of seriously damaging the relationship between you. Saying "maybe you're right" can open the door to further explore the subject, in which you may then have the opportunity to get your view across in a more rational manner.

Please Forgive Me

Many broken relationships could be restored and healed if people would admit their mistakes and ask for forgiveness. All of us are vulnerable to faults and failures. A man should never be ashamed to own up that he has been in the wrong, which is saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

I Thank You

Gratitude is an exquisite form of courtesy. People who enjoy the companionship of good, close friends are those who don't take daily courtesies for granted. They are quick to thank their friends for their many expressions of kindness. On the other hand, people whose circle of friends is severely constricted often do not have the attitude of gratitude.

Count On Me

A friend is one who walks in when others walk out. Loyalty is an essential ingredient for true friendship; it is the emotional glue that bonds people. Those that are rich in their relationships tend to be steady and true friends. When troubles come, a good friend is there indicating "you can count on me."

Let Me Help

The best of friends see a need and try to fill it. When they spot a hurt they do what they can to heal it. Without being asked, they pitch in and help.

Go For It

We are all unique individuals. Don't try to get your friends to conform to your ideals. Support them in pursuing their interests, no matter how weird they seem to you. Everyone has dreams, dreams that are unique to that person only. Support and encourage your friends to follow their dreams. Tell them to "go for it."

I Love You

Perhaps the most important three words that you can say. Telling someone that you truly love them satisfies a person's deepest emotional needs. The need to belong, to feel appreciated and to be wanted. Your spouse, your children, your friends and you, all need to hear those three little words "I love you."

-Unknown

HUMOR

The average healthy, well adjusted adult gets up at around 7.30am every morning feeling just plain terrible
-Jean Kerr

I am at the age where my back goes out more than I do
-Phyllis Diller

To a man sitting beside her - Do you know why God withheld the sense of humor from women? So that we could love men instead of laughing at them
-Mrs Patrick Campbell

I like a man who is good, but not too good - the good die young and I hate a dead one
-Mae West

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles
- George Eliot

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