I’ve been collecting quotations for many years, and it seems that I keep finding new ones that I’d like to add to the collection for ToBeWise. Here are a few recent ones that I found AFTER the collection was finalized:
“Giving from the heart can lift depression, improve health, reduce fear, anxiety and pain. Life’s healing elixir.” – Bodhi Jeffreys
“Wherever you are, be all there.” —Jim Elliot
“A dream written down becomes a Goal. A Goal broken down into steps becomes a Plan. A Plan backed by action makes your dreams come true.” – Greg Sl. Reid
“Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.” – Sholom Aleichem
“Who has certainty, even if they’re wrong, will lead other people.” – Tony Robbins, Inc Magazine 10/2016
“Visual programming is like trying to get to the moon by climbing a tree. You make a lot of good early progress, at first, but pretty soon you have to go back to your funding agency and ask for a bigger tree.” — Unknown
“Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.” – Mother Teresa
“We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all.” — Steve Jobs
“Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress; working hard for something we love is called passion.” – Simon Sinek
“Giving from the heart can lift depression, improve health, reduce fear, anxiety and pain. Life’s healing elixir.” – Bodhi Jeffreys
“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” – Stephen King
“The shorter way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.” – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” – Buddha
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.” ― Marcus Aurelius contributed by Kristin Ciocca
“I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.” — John Locke
“We rise by lifting others.” — Robert Ingersoll
“I quote others only in order the better to express myself.” — Michel de Montaigne
“We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.” – John Archibald Wheeler
“Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower.” – Albert Camus
“Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about.” – Winston Churchill (contributed by Jerry Schneider)
“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson.
“You all laugh at me because I’m different, I laugh at you because you’re all the same.” —John Davis
“Racing is life. Anything before or after is just waiting.” – Steve McQueen
“Choose being kind over being right, and you’ll be right every time.” — Richard Carlson
“The end of labor is to gain Leisure” – Aristotle (contributed by my brother Jim McC)
“Time off is an investment in future productivity” – Sir Richard Branson (contributed by my brother Jim McC)