ELEVEN FACTS OF LIFE

It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return.

But what is more painful is to love someone and never

find the courage to let that person know how you feel.

A sad thing in life is when you meet someone who

means a lot to you, only to find out in the end that it was

never meant to be and you just have to let go.

The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a

porch swing with, never say a word, and then walk away

feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had.

It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose

it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been

missing until it arrives.

It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone, an

hour to like someone, and a day to love someone-but it

takes a lifetime to forget someone.

Don't go for looks, they can deceive. Don't go for wealth,

even that fades away. Go for someone who makes you

smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark day

seem bright.

Dream what you want to dream, go where you want to go,

be what you want to be. Because you have only one life and

one chance to do all the things you want to do.

Always put yourself in the other's shoes. If you feel that it

hurts you, it probably hurts the person too.

A careless word may kindle strife. A cruel word may wreck

a life. A timely word may level stress. But a loving word may

heal and bless.

The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best

of everything they just make the most of everything that comes

along their way.

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, ends with

a tear. When you were born, you were crying and everyone

around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die,

you're the one smiling and everyone around you is crying.

INSPIRING LIFE-LESSON QUOTES

The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and God-like. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it || Helen Keller

Ballet class is like Life Lessons 101. You learn some of life's most important lessons here that you will carry with you forever || Joanne H Morscher

When you're a beautiful person on the inside, there is nothing in the world that can change that about you. Jealousy is the result of one's lack of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance || Unknown

There are a group of people that wake up every day and go to work to learn nothing, get nowhere and wonder when and how things will ever change || Don Sabatini

Great minds discuss ideas;

Average minds discuss events;

Small minds discuss people || Unknown

Hot tubs are like relationships! They're almost too hot when you first get in, then after a while it's pure comfort... But if you try to stay in one forever, you will become dehydrated and die! But hey, somehow we all get to drinking and find ourselves waking up in one || Zach Taylor

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one || Mark Twain

My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you before you can move on || Forrest Gump

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase || Martin Luther King Jr

Failure does not exist. Failure is simply someone else's opinion of how a certain act should have been completed. Once you believe that no act must be performed in any specific other-directed way, then failing becomes impossible || Wayne Dyer

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared || Eddie Rickenbacker

Failure does not exist. Failure is simply someone else's opinion of how a certain act should have been completed. Once you believe that no act must be performed in any specific other-directed way, then failing becomes impossible || Wayne Dyer

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come || Joseph Campbell

The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors || Max Lerner

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up || Mark Twain

The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson || Tom Bodett

The starting point of all achievement is desire || Napoleon Hill

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood || Helen Keller

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience || George Washington

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am || Michelle Obama

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure || Bill Gates

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower || Hans Christian Anderson

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower || Hans Christian Anderson

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me” || Erma Bombeck

The purpose of life is a life of purpose || Robert Byrne

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day || Elwyn Brooks White

Life is simple, it's just not easy || Unknown

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't || Richard Bach

Life's not always fair. Sometimes you can get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow || Terri Guillemets

TOP ENCOURAGEMENT QUOTES

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.

|| Albert Schweitzer

A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track an inch between wreck and smooth, rolling prosperity.

|| Henry Ward Beecher

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

|| Charles Spurgeon

Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding.

|| Corrie Ten Boom

The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived; and I long daily to die more and more to it; even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire.

|| David Brainerd

We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.

|| Francis de Sales

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

|| G.K. Chesterton

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

|| George Macdonald

If I can put one touch of a rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

|| George Macdonald

If, instead of a gem or even a flower, we could cast the gift of a lovely thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

|| George Macdonald

Good words are worth much, and cost little.

|| George Herbert

Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.

|| George Washington Carver

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

|| Helen Keller

Once I knew only darkness and stillness - my life was without past or future - but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

|| Helen Keller

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

|| Helen Keller

Discouraged not by difficulties without, or the anguish of ages within, the heart listens to a secret voice that whispers: "Be not dismayed; in the future lies the Promised Land."

|| Helen Keller

This world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals of delight hidden in somber circumstances and irksome tasks.

|| Helen Keller

When it seems as if God is far away, remind yourself that He is near. Nearness is not a matter of geography. God is everywhere. Nearness is likeness. The more we become like the Lord, the nearer He is to us.

|| Warren Wiersbe

You will find, if you think for a moment, that the people who influence you are the people who believe in you.

|| Henry Drummond

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

|| Florence Nightingale

Christians are like the several flowers in a garden that have each of them the dew of heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they let fall at each other's roots, whereby they are jointly nourished, and become nourishers of each other.

||John Bunyan

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

|| John Quincy Adams

I'll lift you and you lift me, and we'll both ascend together.

|| John Greenleaf Whittier

If thou wouldst please the ladies, thou must endeavor to make them pleased with themselves.

|| Thomas Fuller

THOUGHTS WORTH THINKING

The experience to be gathered from books, though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom; and a small store of the latter is worth vastly more than a stock of the former || Samuel Smiles

It is astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone.... || John Maynard Keynes

I think that's the nature of discoveries, many times: that the reason they're difficult is that you've got to take a series of steps, three or four steps, which if you don't make them you won't get there, and if you're wrong in any one of them you won't get there. It isn't a matter of one jump - that would be easy. You've got to make several successive jumps. And usually the pennies drop one after another until eventually it all clicks. Otherwise it would be too easy || Francis Crick

For an ethic is not an ethic, and a value not a value, without some sacrifice to it. Something given up, something not taken, something not gained. We do it in exchange for a greater good, for something worth more than just money and power and position. The great paradox of this philosophy is that in the end it brings one greater gain than any other philosophy || Jerry Kohlberg

Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it. I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position. Attitude keeps me going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hope. When my attitudes are right, there is no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me || Charles R. Swindoll

If anything goes bad, I did it.

If anything goes semi-good, then we did it.

If anything goes really good, then you did it.

That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you || Bear Bryant

Many people will walk in and out of your life,

But only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.

To handle yourself, use your head;

To handle others, use your heart.

Anger is only one letter short of danger.

If someone betrays you once, it is his fault;

If he betrays you twice, it is your fault.

Great minds discuss ideas;

Average minds discuss events;

Small minds discuss people.

He who loses money, loses much;

He, who loses a friend, loses much more;

He, who loses faith, loses all.

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES

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

To find what you seek in the road of life,
the best proverb of all is that which says:
"Leave no stone unturned."
|| Edward Bulwer Lytton

If you would create something,
you must be something.
|| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.
|| Horace Bushnell

Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps, till the legend, over steep ways to the stars, fulfills itself.
|| W. C. Doane


No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
|| Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men do less than they ought,
unless they do all they can.
|| Thomas Carlyle

Men's best successes come after their disappointments.
|| Henry Ward Beecher

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
|| Leon J. Suenes

First say to yourself what you would be;
and then do what you have to do.
|| Epictetus

PICTORIAL QUOTES

WORDS TO INSPIRE YOU

If you are right then there is no need to get angry and if you are wrong then you don’t have any right to get angry.

Patience with family is love,

Patience with others is respect,

Patience with self is confidence,

Patience with God is faith.

Never think hard about the past, it brings tears

Never think too much about the future, it brings fears

Live the moment, as it comes, with a smile, it brings cheers!

Every test in life makes us bitter or better,

Every problem comes to make us or break us,

Choice is ours whether we become victim or victorious!

Search a beautiful heart not a beautiful face.

Beautiful things are not always good

But good things are always beautiful.

The happiest people don’t necessarily have the best of everything;

They just make the best of everything they have.

When a snake is alive, it eats ants.

But when a snake died, ants eat the snake.

Time can turn at any time.

Don’t neglect anyone in your life.

A good way to change someone’s attitude is to change your own.

Because, the same sun that melts butter, also hardens clay!

Life is as we think, so think beautifully.

Life is just like a sea,

We are moving without an end.

Nothing stays with us.

What remains is just memories of some people who touched us as waves.

Whenever you want to know how rich you are,

Never count your money,

Just drop a tear and count how many hands reach out to wipe it -

That is true riches.

Heart tells the eyes, “See less, because you see and I suffer a lot”.

Eyes reply, “Feel less and I will cry a lot less.”

A baby mosquito upon returning home after its first flight was asked,

“How do you feel?”

The reply, “It was wonderful, everyone was clapping for me!”

Now that’s what a positive attitude is!

PONDER ON THESE....

Prayer is not a spare wheel that you pull out when in trouble, but it is a steering wheel that directs the right path throughout.

Do you know why a car’s windshield is so large and the rear-view mirror is so small? Because the past is not as important as our future. Look ahead and move on!

Friendship is like a book.

It takes few seconds to burn,

But it takes years to write.

All things in life are temporary.

If it’s going well, enjoy it.

They will not last forever.

If things go wrong, don’t worry,

They can’t last long either.

Old friends are gold!

New friends are diamond!

If you get a diamond,

Don’t forget the gold!

Because to hold a diamond,

You always need a base of gold!

Often when we lose hope

And think it is the end,

Remember it’s just a bend,

Not the end!

When you pray for others,

God listens to you and blesses them,

And sometimes,

When you are safe and happy,

Remember that someone has prayed for you.

Worrying does not take away tomorrow’s troubles,

It can only take away today’s peace.

TAKE TIME OUT

Take time out to work

It is the price of success.

Take time out to think

It is the source of power.

Take time out to play

It is the secret of youth.

Take time out to read

It is the foundation of knowledge.

Take time out to help and enjoy friends

This is the source of happiness.

Take time out to laugh

It is the singing that eases life’s load.

Take time out to worship

It is the road to paradise.

FEW THINGS TO THINK ABOUT

1. Anger is a condition in which the tongue, works faster than the mind.

2. You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying over the future.

3. Love ... and you shall be loved.

4. God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with Him.

5. All people smile in the same language.

6. A hug is a great gift, one size fits all. It can be given for any occasion and it's easy to exchange.

7. Everyone needs to be loved, especially when they do not deserve it.

8. The real measure of a man's wealth is what he has invested in eternity.

9. Laughter is God's sunshine.

10. Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it.

11. It's important for parents to live the same things they teach.

12. Thank God for what you have, TRUST GOD for what you need.

13. If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.

14. Happy memories never wear out... Relive them as often as you want.

15. Home is the place where we grumble the most, but are often treated the best.

16. Man looks at outward appearance but the Lord looks within.

17. The choice you make today will usually affect tomorrow.

18. Take time to laugh for it is the music of the soul.

19. If anyone speaks badly of you, live so none will believe it.

20. Patience is the ability to idle your motor, when you feel like stripping your gears.

21. Love is strengthened by working through conflicts together.

22. The best thing parents can do for their children, is to love each other.

23. Harsh words break no bones but they do break hearts.

24. To get out of a difficulty, one usually must go through it.

25. We take for granted the things that we should be giving thanks for.

26. Love is the only thing that can be divided, without being diminished.

27. Happiness is enhanced by others but does not depend upon others.

28. You are richer today if you have laughed, given or forgiven.

29. For every minute you are angry with someone, you lose 60 seconds of happiness that you can never get back.

30. Do what you can, for who you can, with what you have, and where you are.

31.The best gifts to give:
 To your friend, loyalty;
 To your enemy, forgiveness;
 To your boss, service;
 To a child, a good example;
 To your parents, gratitude and devotion;
 To your mate, love and faithfulness;
 To all men and women, charity;
 and To God, your life.