Here is the complete list of the 101 quotes that inspire me. I wrote to most of these quotes and when I reread them, I can remember what the post was about. It is such an interesting journal of the last almost 1001 days.
- Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness. ~Seneca
- 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. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Resentment is one burden that is incompatible with your success. ~Dan Zadra
- Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul. ~Henry Ward Beecher
- Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end. ~Scott Adams
- The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter. ~Author Unknown
- Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~Elizabeth Stone
- Teachers who inspire realize there will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how we use them. ~Author Unknown
- Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water. ~Antoine Rivarol
- In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. ~Albert Schweitzer
- A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked. ~Author Unknown
- Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity. ~Gilda Radner
- Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal. ~Found on a headstone in Ireland
- Don't let your dreams go up in smoke - practice fire safety. ~Author Unknown
- Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne
- ...and when you exhale, release the thoughts and feelings that do not serve you... ~My yoga instructor
- The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start. ~John Bingham
- I want to do it by myself. ~Taelin Crowe
- Everyday might not be good, but there is good in every day. ~Author Unknown
- Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them. ~Author Unknown
- I have learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one. ~Maya Angelou
- May you live in interesting times. ~Chinese Proverb
- Words have weight. Stephen King
- Life is a long process of getting tired. ~Samuel Butler
- Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas. ~Peg Bracken
- The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart. ~Julien Green
- Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. ~Winston Churchill
- Peace. It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart. ~unknown
- The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. ~Hans Hofmann
- Gratitude is an art of painting an adversity into a lovely picture. ~Kak Sri
- So many books, so little time. ~Frank Zappa
- A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it. ~Frank A. Clark
- Action expresses priorities. ~Gandhi
- Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. ~Theodore Roosevelt
- Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it. ~Buddha
- There is no small act of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world. ~Mary Anne Radmacher
- Learn to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not. ~Henri Frederic Amiel
- Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor. ~Thich Nhat Hanh
- You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. ~Franklin P. Jones
- Gardening is about enjoying the smell of things growing in the soil, getting dirty without feeling guilty, and generally taking the time to soak up a little peace and serenity. ~Lindley Karstens
- Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. ~Unknown
- We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. ~Thornton Wilder
- Feelings are much like waves, we can't stop them from coming but we can choose which one to surf. ~Jonatan Mårtensson
- There is a choice you make in everything you do. In the end, the choice you make, makes you. ~Author Unknown
- Life is the sum of all your choices. ~Albert Camus
- Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. ~Walter Elliott
- The home should be the treasure chest of living. ~Le Corbusier
- Once in a young lifetime one should be allowed to have as much sweetness as one can possibly want and hold. ~Judith Olney
- You learn something every day if you pay attention. ~Ray LeBlond
- Life is a combination of magic and pasta. ~Federico Fellini
- A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future. ~Author Unknown
- What counts can't always be counted; what can be counted doesn't always count. ~Albert Einstein
- There are years that ask questions and years that answer. ~Zora Neale Hurston
- At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want. ~Lao Tzu
- Music is an outburst of the soul. ~Frederick Delius
- Learn to smile at every situation. See it as an opportunity to prove your strength and ability. ~Joe Brown
- The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas, and throw the bad ones away. ~Linus Pauling
- Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. ~Charles F. Kettering
- Opportunity is one of those things that depend greatly on the eye of the beholder. ~Andrew Sanchez
- A good snapshot stops a moment from running away. ~Eudora Welty
- Gratitude is the memory of the heart. ~Jean Baptiste Massieu
- It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts. ~K.T. Jong
- Time is an old firmly rooted tree; we are the breeze rustling its leaves. ~Terri Guillemets
- Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance - each beautiful, unique and too soon gone. ~Deborah Whipp
- The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child. ~Joe Houldsworth
- People that hate cats, will come back as mice in their next life. ~Faith Resnick
- Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul. ~William Hazlitt
- I will hold myself to a standard of grace, not perfection. ~Emily Ley
- How you climb up a mountain is just as important as how you get down the mountain. And so it is with life, which for many of us becomes one gigantic test followed by one gigantic lesson. In the end, it all comes down to one word. Grace.
- It's how you accept winning and losing, good luck and bad luck, the darkness and the light.
- Kids believe in Santa; adults believe in childhood. ~Cate Kennedy
- I am thankful for the mess to clean after a party because it means I have been surrounded by friends. ~Nancie J. Carmody
- I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. ~Maya Angelou
- Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. ~Joseph Addison
- Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back. ~Arthur Rubenstein
- Smile, breathe and go slowly. ~Thich Nhat Hanh
- Human life is purely a matter of deciding what's important to you. ~Anonymous
- If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies. ~Author Unknown
- Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. ~William Wordsworth
- As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way. ~Mary Anne Radmacher
- I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once. ~Jennifer Yane
- Live in the sunshine. Swim in the sea. Drink the wild air. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Though she be but little, she is fierce. ~William Shakespeare
- To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world. ~Charles Dudley Warner
- Be selective in your battles, sometimes peace is better than being right. ~unknown
- The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway. ~Henry Boye
- You teach people how to treat you by what you allow, what you stop and what you reinforce. ~Tony Gaskins
- Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because you character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. ~John Wooden
- Storms make trees take deeper roots. ~Dolly Parton
- At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want. ~Lao Tzu
- A good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures for anything. ~Irish proverb
- To invent your own life's meaning is not easy...but it's still allowed...and I think you'll be happier for the trouble. ~Bill Watterson
- Laughter is the fireworks of the soul. ~Josh Billings
- Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters. ~Margaret Peters
- Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. ~Arthur Ashe
- Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, it empties today of its strength. ~Corrie Ten Boom
- She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails. ~Elizabeth Edwards
- Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning how to dance in the rain. ~Vivian Greene
- Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. ~ Maya Angelou
- Words-so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne
