Wednesday, June 25, 2008

'The Secret' - Rhonda Byrne



Good Quotes About Life

"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, Champagne in one hand, strawberries in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO - what a ride!" - unknown

A good life quote for letting go of the past: If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. - Glenn Clark. Good life quote are about letting go.

Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. - Mark Twain

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next. - John Stuart Mill. A good quote about life involves knowing the past.

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable. - Paul Tillich

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter. - Martin Luther King, Jr. Good quotes about life involve encouraging people to speak up.

* Believe me: the secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously! - Friedrich Nietzsche

A good quote about life's stubborness: An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men. - Dr. Thomas Fuller.

* The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself. - Rita Mae Brown. Good quotes about life involves learning how to like yourself.

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. - John Kenneth Galbraith. Good life quotes encourage people to be thoughtful and deliberate.

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over the soul. - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

* Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out if they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you. - William James. Good quotes about life include trying as hard as you can.

A good quote about life's trivialities: For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin – real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. - Alfred D. Souza

* The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. - Anonymous. Good quotes about life mean starting now.

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true. - Woodrow Wilson

* This is to love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First, to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet. - Jelaluddin Rumi. A good quote about life encourages people to love others.

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