I seek to love
Not hate

I seek to serve
and not exact due service

I seek to heal
not hurt

Perhaps these words can help you find focus when you are feeling on the tired side.

Quotes on Life

1. “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.” – Albert Einstein
2. “And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln
3. “When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” – Alexander Graham Bell
4. “Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinion drowned your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” – Steve Jobs
5. “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience” – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
6. “We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.” – T. S. Eliot
7. “There’s no next time. It’s now or never.”
8. “For every effect there is a root cause. Find and address the root cause rather than try to fix the effect, as there is no end to the latter.”
9. “When you don’t get what you want, you suffer. If you get it, you suffer too since you can’t hold on to it forever.” – Peaceful Warrior, on the fallacy of attachment
10. “There are no ordinary moments. There is always something going on.” – Peaceful Warrior
11. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
12. Every moment you get is a gift. Spend it on things that matter. Don’t spend it by dwelling on unhappy things.
13. Everything around us is made up of energy. To attract positive things in your life, start by giving off positive energy.
14. Don’t put off living to next week, next month, next year or next decade. The only time you’re ever living is in this moment.
15. Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. – Mark Twain
16. Life is a gift. Never forget to enjoy and bask in every moment you are in.
17. The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced – Art Van Der Leeuw
18. “My life is my message.” – Gandhi
19. “If wrinkles must be written upon our brow, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.” – James A. Garfield
20. “Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”
21. “In the beginning you will fall into the gaps in between thoughts – after practicing for years, you become the gap.” – J.Kleykamp (Regarding meditation)

Quotes on Change

1. “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” – Barack Obama
2. All great changes are preceded by chaos. ~ Deepak Chopra
3. Change is not pleasant, But change is constant. Only when we change and grow, We’ll see a world we never know. ~From Wisdom of The Orange Woodpecker

Quotes on Past, Present and Future

1. “Don’t let the past steal your present” – Cherralea Morgen
2. “One has to live in the present. Whatever is past is gone beyond recall; whatever is future remains beyond one’s reach, until it becomes present. Remembering the past and giving thought to the future are important, but only to the extent that they help one deal with the present.” – S.N. Goenka
3. “We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.” – Robin Sharma
4. The more you take responsibility for your past and present, the more you are able to create the future you seek.
5. “Be present – it is the only moment that matters.” Peaceful Warrior
6. “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present.” – B. Olatunji
7. Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.~ Ann Landers
8. “Holding on to anything is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate. The only way to get anything in the physical universe is by letting go of it. Let go & it will be yours forever”. – Deepak Chopra
9. Don’t put off living to next week, next month, next year or next decade. The only time you’re ever living is in this moment.
10. “There’s no next time. It’s now or never.”
11. “One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.” – Dale Carnegie
12. “Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.” – Doug Ivester
13. Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions ~ Albert Einstein
14. To create more positive results in your life, replace “if only” with “next time”.

Quotes on Purpose

1. “Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life… Therein he cannot be re­placed, nor can his life be repeated. Thus, everyone’s task is as unique as is his specific opportunity to implement it.” – Viktor Frankl
2. “Your work is to discover your work and then, with all your heart, to give yourself to it.” – Buddha
3. “One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.” – John Stuart Mill

Quotes on Dreams and Passion

1. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
2. “If what you’re doing is not your passion, you have nothing to lose.”
3. “At first dreams seem impossible, then improbable, then inevitable.” – Christopher Reeve
4. “Do what you love and the money will follow.” – Marsha Sinetar
5. “The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.” – Richard Bach
6. “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who are alive.” – Howard Thurman
7. “All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
8. “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.” – Henry David Thoreau
9. “No matter where you are in life right now, no matter who you are, no matter how old you are – it is never too late to be who you are meant to be.” – Esther & Jerry Hicks
10. “There’s nothing capricious in nature, and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feels it.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
11. “Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.” – Belva Davis
12. “The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
13. “Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.” – Les Brown
14. “Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul.” – Niccolo Machiavelli
15. “No dreamer is ever too small; no dream is ever too big.” – Anonymous
16. “Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.” – Doug Ivester
17. “You got a dream, you gotta protect it. People can’t do something themselves, they wanna tell you you can’t do it. If you want something, go get it. Period.” – Pursuit of Happyness (Movie)
18. “History shows us that the people who end up changing the world – the great political, social, scientific, technological, artistic, even sports revolutionaries – are always nuts, until they are right, and then they are geniuses.” – John Eliot
19. “You will not do incredible things without an incredible dream.” – John Eliot
20. “Instead of thinking about what you are going to do when you retire, think about how you can do that now and make a living from it.”
21. “Don’t be pushed by your problems; be led by your dreams.”
22. “Everything you want should be yours: the type of work you want; the relationships you need; the social, mental, and aesthetic stimulation that will make you happy and fulfilled; the money you require for the lifestyle that is appropriate to you; and any requirement that you may (or may not) have for achievement or service to others. If you don’t aim for it all, you’ll never get it all. To aim for it requires that you know what you want” ~ Richard Koch
23. “I am not my memories. I am my dreams.” ~ Terry Hostetler
24. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – Les Brown
25. “Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.” ~ Albert Einstein
26. “Every second you spend thinking about someone else’s dreams you take time away from your own.” – Yogi Ramen
27. “What the mind can conceive, it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill

Quotes on Imagination and Creativity

1. “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” – Albert Einstein.
2. “Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.” Albert Einstein

1. “In life, as in football, you won’t go far unless you know where the goalposts are.” – Arnold H. Glasgow
2. “When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.” – Greg Anderson
3. “The most important thing about goals is having one.” – Geoffry F. Abert
4. “The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.” – Bill Copeland
5. “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” – Jim Rohn
6. “Everything is always created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.”
7. “You need a plan to build a house. To build a life, it is even more important to have a plan or goal.” – Zig Ziglar

Quotes on Attitudes and Mindsets

1. “If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.” – Thomas A. Edison
2. “How you think is as important as as what you think”
3. “Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.” —Lao-Tze
4. “The only limits in your life are those that you set yourself.”
5. “Every second you spend thinking about someone else’s dreams you take time away from your own.” – Yogi Ramen
6. “The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your thoughts.”
7. “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and freedom.” – Viktor Frankl
8. “Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.” – William James
9. “Whether you think you can or think you can’t – you are right.” – Henry Ford
10. “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; An optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston Churchill
11. “The degree of responsibility you take for your life determines how much change you can create in it.”
12. “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.” – Seneca
13. The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
14. “A man can do all things if he will.” — Leon Battista Alberti (1404–72)
15. “You can’t get to a place that you don’t believe exists.”
16. “There is always room in your life for thinking bigger, pushing limits and imagining the impossible.” – Tony Robbins
17. “The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.” – Albert Ellis
18. (Tool+Training+Experience) x Mindset = Goal/Success —- BUT if your mindset is zero then equation is (100 + 100 +100) x 0 = Failure
19. “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
20. “Sometimes you have to lose your mind before you can come to your senses.” – Peaceful Warrior
21. “When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails.” ~ H. Jackson Brown
22. “If you believe you can, you can. If you believe you can’t, then, well you can’t.”
23. “Our life experiences often create a limited worldview of what is and what is not possible. Thus to maximize your experience of life, base your dreams outside of your life experiences.”
24. “To create more positive results in your life, replace “if only” with “next time”.”
25. “Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.” – Sir James Dewar
26. “Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.” ~Ernest Holmes
27. “When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.” –John Ruskin
28. “There is no teacher who can teach anything new. He can just help us to remember the things we always knew.” – Odyssey of the Mind, Enigma
29. “You have to ‘Be’ before you can ‘Do’ and ‘Do’ before you can ‘Have’.” – Zig Ziglar
30. “We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.” -Vince Lombarde
31. “Instead of thinking outside the box, just get rid of it.”
32. “Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” ~Winston Churchill
33. “You see things and you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were and I say ‘Why not?’” ~ George Bernard Shaw
34. “Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities” – Terry Josephson
35. “Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.” – Jim Rohn
36. If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself. -Norman Vincent Peale
37. The sky has never been the limit. We are our own limits. It’s then about breaking our personal limits and outgrowing ourselves to live our best lives.
38. If the grass is greener on the other side, maybe that’s because you’re not taking good care of your grass.
39. One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests. – John Stuart Mill
40. If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. Milton Berle

I just received this from a friend. A few of them really hit home.

Health:
1. Drink plenty of water.
2. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a beggar.
3. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured in plants.
4. Live with the 3 E’s — Energy, Enthusiasm and Empathy.
5. Make time to pray.
6. Play more games.
7. Read more books than you did in 2009.
8. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day.
9. Sleep for 7 hours.
10. Take a 10-30 minutes walk daily. And while you walk, smile.

Personality:
11. Don’t compare your life to others’. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
12. Don’t have negative thoughts or things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.
13. Don’t over do. Keep your limits..
14. Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
15. Don’t waste your precious energy on gossip.
16. Dream more while you are awake.
17. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
18. Forget issues of the past. Don’t remind your partner with his/her mistakes of the past. That will ruin your present happiness.
19. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Don’t hate others.
20. Make peace with your past so it won’t spoil the present.
21. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
22. Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.
23. Smile and laugh more.
24 . You don’t have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

Society:
25. Call your family often.
26. Each day give something good to others.
27. Forgive everyone for everything.
28. Spend time w/ people over the age of 70 & under the age of 6
29. Try to make at least three people smile each day.
30. What other people think of you is none of your business.
31. Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch.

Life:
32. Do the right thing!
33. Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or joyful.
34. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
35. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
36. The best is yet to come.
37. Your Inner most is always happy. so, be happy.

Every now and then I wish I had something more profound to say to a client in order to help them through  a tough time.   For that reason, I collected these quotes.  They can be really useful at the right time.  I also framed a few of them to decorate my clinic.  Here are a few of them.  I hope you find them useful too.

Love Life

As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more. – Jules Renard

A loving heart is the truest wisdom. – Charles Dickens

Motivation

Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right. – Aldous Huxley

If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else. – Yogi Berra

It is the want of diligence, rather than the want of means, that causes most failures. – Alfred Mercier

Every artist was first an amateur.

“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled.  For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts, and start searching for different ways or truer answers.”

Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. – Vince Lombardi

Failure

Failure teaches success. – Japanese Saying

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

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one. – Elbert Hubbard

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them. – Washington Irving

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. – Theodore Roosevelt

Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems. – Nelson A. Rockefeller

A man’s life is interesting primarily when he has failed–I well know. For it’s a sign that he tried to surpass himself. – Georges Clemenceau

We learn wisdom from failure much more than success. We often discover what we will do, by finding out what we will not do. – Samuel Smiles

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. – Confucius

Be Yourself

Insist on yourself. Never imitate. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure–which is:  “Try to please everybody.”

No man is happy who does not think himself so. – Publilius Syrus

There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.

Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots. – Edward Bulwer Lytton

Carpe Diem

It is never too late to become the person you could’ve been.

Try to be happy in this present moment and not put it off until another time…. As if that future time could be of another make from this which has already come and is ours right now – Thomas Fuller

“Always do what you are afraid to do.”

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes. – St. Clement of Alexandra

If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away? – Lord Chesterfield

There is only one success–to be able to spend your life in your own way. – Christopher Morley

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. – Helen Keller

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. – Aristotle

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. – William B. Sprague

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

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

Half of the failures in life come from pulling one’s horse when he is leaping. – Thomas Hood

Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don’t think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire. – Samuel Johnson

I hope that when I die, my body will be completely used up.

The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us. – Hamerton

What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail? Robert Schuller

You’ve got to sing like you don’t need the money, love like you’ll never get hurt. You’ve got to dance like no one is watching. It’s gotta come from the heart, if you want it to work. – Susannah Clark

Don’t be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. – Hansen, Grace

Stress

Ask yourself this question: “Will this matter a year from now?” – Richard Carlson

I never think of the future – it comes soon enough. – Albert Einstein

It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more on a man than he can bear. But worry is rust upon the blade. It is not movement that destroys the machinery, but friction.  – Henry Ward Beecher

There is more to life than increasing its speed. – Mahatma Ghandi

There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.

In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. – Albert Schweitzer