Deep Thoughts

I use a Random Quote plugin to generate the Smart Thoughts you see in the sidebar on this blog. Below is the entire list of those:?

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

Fear less, hope more – Whine less, breathe more – Talk less, say more – Hate less, love more – And all good things are yours.

Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

Cherish your visions and you dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

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

When you learn, teach. When you get, give.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

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

If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him.

You don’t stop playing because you grow old, you grow old because you stop playing.

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, But great actions speak to all mankind.

You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die or when. You can only decide how you’re going to live.

We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

We are not rich by what we possess but rather by what we can do without.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

Life does not accommodate, it shatters you. It is meant to, and couldn’t do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.

t a good person do good deeds with the same zeal that an evil person does bad ones.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and impossible to find it elsewhere.

Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we’re here we should dance.

Opportunities are usually disguised by hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.

Follow your bliss, and doors will open where there were no doors before.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

We can not do great things — only small things with great love.

How simple it is to see that all the worry in the world cannot control the future. How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now. And that there will never be a time when it is not now.

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

The U.S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

Character is doing what is right when no one is looking.

We are what we repeatly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

In our daily lives, we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but the gratefulness that makes us happy.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

There is no end to what you can accomplish if (or when) you don’t care who gets the credit.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

It is better to believe than to disbelieve. In so doing you bring everything to the realm of possibility.

Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.

Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive.

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve in quality as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing it is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the others willing to let them.