Quotes for Everyday Life Lessons.

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Here are 75 Quotes for  Everyday Life Lessons, to brighten your day and move your mindset in a positive direction.
1. Smile every chance you get. Not because life has been easy, perfect, or exactly as you had anticipated, but because you choose to be happy and grateful for all the good things you do have and all the problems you know you don’t have.
2. Never let a bad day make you feel like you have a bad life.
3. Tell the negativity committee that meets inside your head to sit down and shut up.
4. A bad attitude is like a flat tire, you can’t get very far until you change it.
5. In a world where you can be anything you want, BE YOURSELF.
6. The more you love your decisions, the less you need others to love them.
7. It’s important to make someone happy, and it’s important to start with yourself.
8. Life is not about making others happy. Life is about sharing your happiness with others.
9. Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design into the present.
10. If you settle for just anything, you’ll never know what you’re truly worthy of.
11. Sometimes life gives you two options: losing yourself or losing someone else. Regardless of the situation, don’t lose yourself.
12. If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, you do have a pretty big problem.
13. Whatever someone did to you in the past has no power over the present. Only you give it power.
14. Don’t worry too much about people who don’t worry about you.
15. Know your worth! When you give yourself to someone who doesn’t respect you, you surrender pieces of your soul that you’ll never get back.
16. Sometimes you’ve got to emotionally let go of the things that once meant a lot to you, so you can move beyond the past and the pains they bring you, and open the next chapter in your life.
17. If you want to get over a problem, stop mulling it over and talking about it. Your mind affects your mouth, and your mouth affects your mind. It’s nearly impossible to move beyond something when you’re obsessing over it.
18. If it is detrimental to you emotionally, physically and spiritually, what choice do you have but to let go and flourish with self-respect.
19. Saying goodbye is one of the most painful ways to solve a problem. But sometimes it’s necessary.
20. Moving on doesn’t mean forgetting, it means you choose happiness over hurt.
21. Stop looking at what you have lost, so you can see what you have.
22. Someone else is happy with far less than what you have.
23. Talk about your blessings more than you talk about your problems.
24. Sometimes people throw away something good for something better, only to find out later that good was actually good enough and better never even came close.
25. In life, you get what you put in. Everything comes back around.
26. You can never change the past nor control the future, but you can change the mood of the day by touching someone’s heart with your smile.
27. The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.
28. Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
29. It’s nice to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s also important to make sure you haven’t lost track of the things that money can’t buy.
30. You don’t need a lot of money to lead a rich life. Good friends and a loving family are worth their weight in gold.
31. You will never fully believe in yourself if you keep comparing yourself to everyone else. Instead, compare yourself to who you were yesterday.
32. You won’t always be punished FOR your anger, but you will always be punished BY your anger.
33. Give yourself permission to immediately walk away from anything that gives you bad vibes. There is no need to explain or make sense of it. Just trust what you feel.
34. One of the greatest freedoms is truly not caring what everyone else thinks of you.
35. As long as you are worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them. Only when you require no approval from outside yourself can you own yourself.
36. Don’t let anyone walk through your mind with their dirty feet.
37. It hurts the most when you start pretending it doesn’t.
38. You are responsible for how you feel no matter what someone does to you. Remember, you are always in control of your thoughts so choose to feel confident and adequate rather than angry and insecure.
39. Being kind to yourself in thoughts, words and actions is as important as being kind to others.
40. Death is not the greatest loss in life; the greatest loss is what dies inside while you’re still alive.
41. Only when we begin to be awake do we realize just how asleep we have been.
42. You are always free to do something that makes you smile.
43. You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your life’s story for you.
44. Don’t be afraid of change. Oftentimes you will lose something good, and then gain something even better.
45. Worry is a massive waste of time and energy. It doesn’t change anything. All it does is steal your joy and hinder your ability to make positive changes.
46. If you want to be happy and bright, let go of your need to always be right.
47. In life, you usually get what you ask for and it rarely comes in the package you think it’s supposed to come in.
48. If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.
49. Life does NOT have to be perfect to be wonderful.
50. You look the best when you wear your smile. There is no beauty like the one that comes from inside you.
51. Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness.
52. The time spent on hating is the time lost for living a peaceful, happy life. It is a habit that controls what you see, what you say, what you do, and ultimately what you become.
53. Sometimes you need to be alone to reflect on life. Take time out to take care of yourself. You deserve it.
54. The good things we build end up building us.
55. You cannot change what you refuse to confront.
56. The difference between who you are and who you want to be, is what you do.
57. If you want your life to change, your choices and actions must change. Every day brings a chance to start over.
58. Good things don’t come to those who wait. Good things come to those who pursue the goals and dreams they believe in.
59. Don’t make a decision based solely on popularity. Just because other people are doing it doesn’t mean it’s the best choice for you.
60. Following all the rules leaves a completed checklist. Following your heart achieves a completed you.
61. Knowing yourself is one thing, but truly believing and living as yourself is another. With so much social conditioning in our society, we sometimes forget who we are. Don’t lose yourself out there.
62. Of all the things that can be stolen from you – your possessions, your youth, your health, your words, your rights – what no one can ever take from you is your freedom to choose what you will believe in, and who and what your heart will love.
63. When you find yourself cocooned in isolation and despair and cannot find your way out of the darkness, remember that this is similar to the place where caterpillars go to grow their wings.
64. Take all the time you need to heal emotionally. Moving on doesn’t take a day; it takes lots of little steps to be able to break free of your broken self.
65. When you can forgive, yourself and others, and stop the imprisonment, you’re creating the love of your life.
66. What you believe has more power than what you dream or wish or hope for. You become what you believe.
67. Keep your heart open to dreams. For as long as there’s a dream, there is hope, and as long as there is hope, there is joy in living.
68. When you try to control everything, you enjoy nothing. Sometimes you just need to relax, breathe, let go, and just live in the moment.
69. Even though you cannot control everything that happens, you can control your attitude toward what happens. And in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
70. Life will never be perfect, no matter how hard you try. Even if you pour your heart and soul into it, you will never have that perfection you seek. There will always be broken hearts, there will always be days where nothing goes right. But you must accept and learn that even the most imperfect things will always be made better with love and laughter.
71. Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.
72. Satisfaction is not always the fulfillment of what you want; it is the realization of how blessed you are for what you have.
73. Sometimes you just have to look back at your past and smile about how far you’ve come.
74. Just because it didn’t last forever, doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth your while.
75. It’s not that everything will be easy or exactly as you had expected, but you must just choose to be grateful for all that you have, and happy that you got a chance to live this life, no matter how it turns out.

Always be Positive.

Quotes for Politics.

• Politicians and diapers should be changed frequently and all for the same reason. ~José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, translated from Portuguese
• We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. ~Martin L. Gross, A Call for Revolution, 1993
• We'd all like to vote for the best man, but he's never a candidate. ~Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard
• All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field. ~Albert Einstein
• Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right. ~H.L. Mencken, 1956
• What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried? ~Abraham Lincoln
• I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough. ~Clarie Sargent, Arizona senatorial candidate
• A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future. ~Leonard Bernstein, The New York Times, 30 October 1988
• Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize. ~Saul Bellow
• In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. ~Charles de Gaulle
• Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. ~Plato
• Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. ~Nikita Khrushchev
• Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. ~William E. Gladstone, 1866
• When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. ~Clarence Darrow
• George Washington is the only president who didn't blame the previous administration for his troubles. ~Author Unknown
• Truth is not determined by majority vote. ~Doug Gwyn
• An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. ~George Eliot, Felix Holt, Chapter 5 (Thanks Julie!)
• Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. ~Ernest Benn
• We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. ~Stewart Udall
• The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. ~John Kenneth Galbraith
• A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio speech, 26 October 1939
• Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. ~John Quinton
• A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead. ~Leo Rosten
• Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
• A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time. ~Alfred E. Wiggam
• Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving. ~Robertson Davies
• Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative. ~John Kenneth Galbraith, New York Times, 8 October 1989
• The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is... the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. ~Adlai Stevenson, speech, Democratic National Convention, 18 August 1956
• The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. ~Adlai E. Stevenson
• I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them. ~Adlai Stevenson, campaign speech, 1952
• Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. ~Doug Larson
• The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces. ~Maureen Murphy
• I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns, and women join the unqualified men in running our government. ~Cissy Farenthold
• Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. ~Oscar Ameringer
• Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right? ~Robert Orben
• Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. ~Author Unknown
• Conservatism is the policy of make no change and consult your grandmother when in doubt. ~Woodrow Wilson
• I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. ~Charles de Gaulle
• Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork. ~Harold Lowman
• Mankind will never see an end of trouble until... lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power... become lovers of wisdom. ~Plato, The Republic
• The problem with political jokes is they get elected. ~Henry Cate, VII
• The best thing about this group of candidates is that only one of them can win. ~Will Rogers
• There are far too many men in politics and not enough elsewhere. ~Hermione Gingold
• I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
• If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates. ~Jay Leno
• Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party. ~Winston Churchill
• If God had been a Liberal there wouldn't have been Ten Commandments, there would have been Ten Suggestions. ~Malcolm Bradbury, After Dinner Game, 1982
• There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries. ~Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt
• All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats. ~Groucho Marx
• In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. ~H.L. Mencken
• History is gossip but scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. ~Oscar Wilde
• Since the majority is always wrong, might we try one election day where all the losers take office? ~Robert Brault,
• The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face. ~Clare Boothe Luce
• Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
• If the person you are trying to diagnose politically is some sort of intellectual, the chances are two to one he is a Democrat. ~Vance Packard
• Mudslinging – In politics, anything bad the opponent says about our candidate; in contrast, when our candidate does this, it is called 'making a good point.' ~Richard Turner (1937-2011), The Grammar Curmudgeon, a.k.a. "The Mudge," from "The Curmudgeon's Short Dictionary of Modern Phrases"
• A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country. ~Texas Guinan
• Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary,1911
• Politics, n: [Poly "many" + tics "blood-sucking parasites"] ~Larry Hardiman
• If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal. ~Emma Goldman
• If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven. ~Will Rogers
• How come we choose from just two people to run for president and 50 for Miss America? ~Author Unknown
• A man that'd expict to thrain lobsters to fly in a year is called a loonytic; but a man that thinks men can be tur-rned into angels by an iliction is called a rayformer an' remains at large. ~Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley's Philosophy, 1900
• There ought to be one day - just one -when there is open season on senators. ~Will Rogers
• Overheard in a Washington D.C. confessional: "Bless me, Father, for sins have been committed." ~Robert Brault,
• Midas, they say, possessed the art of old Of turning whatsoe'er he touch'd to gold; This modern statesmen can reverse with ease -Touch themwith gold, they'll turn to what you please. ~John Wolcot
• We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our Confidence in. ~Will Rogers
• We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. ~Aesop
• A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question. ~André Malraux
• Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while nature is always and ever making efforts to bring us together. ~Sean O'Casey
• A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected. ~Carl Sandburg
• The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
• He's not a Republican, he's a Republican't. ~Author Unknown
• Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. ~Thomas Jefferson
• It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen. ~George E. MacDonald
• A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature. ~Murray Kempton
• They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. ~Clare Boothe Luce
• If the World Series runs until election day, the networks will run the first one-half inning and project the winner. ~Lindsey Nelson
• Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men. ~Walter Lippmann
• A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits. ~Woodrow Wilson
• Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. ~John Stuart Mill
• The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely. ~Lyman Bryson
• During a campaign the air is full of speeches - and vice versa. ~Author Unknown
• If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide. ~Meg Greenfield
• When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. ~P.J. O'Rourke
• Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. ~George Jean Nathan
• Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. ~Robert Byrne
• The Christian Right is neither. ~Author Unknown
• Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster. ~James Harvey Robinson, The Human Comedy, 1937
• A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation. ~James Freeman Clarke, Sermon
• I'm not a leftist; I'm where the righteous ought to be. ~M.M. Coady
• Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times. ~Winston Churchill
• In golf, you keep your head down and follow through. In the vice presidency, you keep your head up and follow through. It's a big difference. ~Dan Quayle
• Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose. ~George Will
• Nobody believes a rumor here in Washington until it's officially denied. ~Edward Cheyfitz
• When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. ~John Gardner
• Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed. ~Mao Zedong
• The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too. ~Oscar Levant

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25 Quotes designed to inspire you.

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Inspirational

“Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.” — Helen Keller

 

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

“Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” — Oprah Winfrey

 

“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” —Walt Disney

 

“For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.” — T.S. Eliot

 

“Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.” — William Shakespeare

 

“All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.” —Steven Spielberg

 

“Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.” — Cavett Robert

 

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

 

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” — Albert Einstein

 

 

Funny

 “First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

“I would say happy new year, but it's not happy; it's exactly the same as last year except colder.” ― Robert Clark

 

“Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year’s resolutions, and I’ve stuck with it ever since.” —Dave Beard

 

“The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. The drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you’re married to.” ― P.J. O’Rourke

 

“Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.” — Bill Vaughn

 

“New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot! Unless, of course, those tests come back positive.” — Jay Leno

 

 

Resolution

 “Let our New Year's resolution be this: We will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.” — Goran Persson

 

“New Year's resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.” — James Agate

 

“I made no resolutions for the new year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.” — Anaïs Nin

 

"One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: to rise above the little things." — John Burroughs

 

"I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the year's." — Henry Moore

 

“What the New Year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the New Year.” — Vern McLellan

 

“Follow your passions, believe in karma, and you won’t have to chase your dreams; they will come to you.” — Randy Pausch

 

“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” — Mother Teresa

 

“If you asked me for my New Year resolution, it would be to find out who I am.” — Cyril Cusack

 

 

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50 thought-provoking quotes about happiness.

Here are 50 thought-provoking quotes about happiness that will help you think on the bright side.

1. It only takes one person to make you happy and change your life: YOU.

2. Your life will improve only when you take small chances, and the first and most difficult chance you can take is to be honest with yourself.

3. Stop focusing on how stressed you are and remember how blessed you are. It could be so much worse.

4. It is not what happens to you, but how you respond to what happens to you. Count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

5. Look for something positive about this moment. Even if you have to look a little harder than usual, it still exists.

6. When you smile about the life you live, you end up living a life worth smiling about.

7. Remember, social comparison is the thief of happiness. You could spend a lifetime worrying about what others have, but it wouldn’t get you anything.

8. Happiness comes more easily when you feel good about yourself without feeling the need for anyone else’s approval.

9. Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet them again on your way back down.

10. Set an example. Treat everyone with kindness and respect, even those who are rude to you – not because they are nice, but because you are. (Read The Four Agreements.)

11. Kindness is not to be mistaken for weakness, nor forgiveness for acceptance. It’s about knowing resentment of any kind is not on the path to happiness.

12. Give as much as you can, but don’t allow yourself to be used. Listen to others closely, but don’t lose your own voice.

13. Say what you need to say. Speak your truth. There is no greater sadness than holding on to the words you never had the courage to speak.

14. You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react and who you choose to be around.

15. Negative company will never give you a positive life. Examine what you tolerate in the long-term.

16. What you allow is what will continue. It’s always better to spend more time alone than allow negative people and their opinions to derail you from your destiny.

17. When other people treat you poorly, walk away, smile and keep being YOU. Don’t ever let someone else’s bitterness change the person you are.

18. Your value doesn’t decrease based on someone’s inability to see your worth. It’s their loss, not yours.

19. One of the most freeing things we learn in life is that we don’t have to like everyone, everyone doesn’t have to like us, and that’s OK.

20. When someone says, “You’ve changed,” it’s not always a bad thing. Sometimes it just means you stopped living your life their way.

21. Never be ashamed of how you feel. You have the right to feel any emotion that comes to you, and to follow a path that makes you happy.

22. The unhappiest people in this world are the people who care the most about what everyone else thinks.

23. You can’t base your idea of success and happiness on other people’s opinions and expectations. (Read 1,000 Little Things Happy, Successful People Do Differently.)

24. Happiness and success is all about spending your life in your own way. Be yourself. No one can ever tell you you’re doing it wrong.

25. It’s always better to be at the bottom of the ladder you want to climb than the top of the one you don’t.

26. Work to create a life that feels right to YOU, not one that looks right to everyone else.

27. No amount of money will make you happy if you aren’t happy with yourself.

28. Maybe the thing you’re scared of is exactly what you should do. Sometimes life is about risking it all for a dream no one can see but you.

29. You can’t always wait for the perfect moment. Sometimes you must dare to do it because life is too short to regret and wonder what could have been.

30. The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it. Participate in life instead of just watching it pass you by.

31. Nothing’s more fun than doing what people say you can’t do.

32. Almost anything is possible if you’ve got enough time and enough nerve.

33. Great challenges make life interesting; overcoming them makes life meaningful. It’s how you deal with failure that determines your happiness and success.

34. Let your mistakes be your motivation, not your excuses. Decide right now that negative experiences from your past won’t predict your future.

35. What is coming is better than what is gone. Don’t give up hope. Good things often happen when you least expect it.

36. If you take another step, and another, you will be surprised to know how far you can go from the point you thought was the end.

37. Nothing is more beautiful and powerful than a smile that has struggled through the tears.

38. Any fool can be happy when times are good. It takes a strong soul with real heart to develop smiles out of situations that make us weep.

39. No matter how long it takes, it will get better. Tough situations build strong people in the end.

40. As we grow older and wiser, we begin to realize what we need and what we need to leave behind. Sometimes walking away is a step forward.

41. At the end of the day, you can either focus on what’s tearing you apart, or what’s holding you together.

42. One of the most rewarding moments in life is when you finally find the courage to let go of what you can’t change.

43. Whatever you do, don’t get stuck on the one thing that ruins your day. Smile and be grateful. Life is too short to waste on negativity.

44. The less you expect, the more pleasant life gets.

45. Patience can be bitter, but the seeds you plant now will bear sweet fruit. (Read Flourish.)

46. Live simply. Love generously. Speak truthfully. Breathe deeply. Do your best. Leave everything else to the powers above you.

47. Do not dwell so much on creating your perfect life that you forget to live.

48. The trick is to enjoy your life today. Don’t wish it away by waiting for better days ahead.

49. Pay attention to the little things, because when you really miss “the good old days,” you miss the little things the most, like just laughing with someone special.

50. Go for long walks. Indulge in great conversations. Pay attention to the moment. Count your blessings. Let go for a little while and just be and breathe

Sources:
http://www.marcandangel.com/2013/11/07/50-happiness-quotes-to-change-the-way-you-think/

QUOTES About, Adversity, Crying, Faith, Jealousy, and Missing You

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell. ~Edna St. Vincent Millay

Final comfort that is small, but not cold: The heart is the only broken instrument that works. ~T.E. Kalem

Sometimes I wish I were a little kid again, skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts. ~Author Unknown

God is closest to those with broken hearts. ~Jewish Saying

God can heal a broken heart, but He has to have all the pieces. ~Author Unknown

What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you. ~Richard Wilbur

Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go. ~Author Unknown

Sadness flies away on the wings of time. ~Jean de La Fontaine

I don't know why they call it heartbreak. It feels like every other part of my body is broken too. ~Missy Altijd

Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again. ~Rosa Parks

I thought when love for you died, I should die. It's dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on. ~Rupert Brooke

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. ~Jean Giraudoux

Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated. ~Lamartine

When love is lost, do not bow your head in sadness; instead keep your head up high and gaze into heaven for that is where your broken heart has been sent to heal. ~Author Unknown

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing. ~Mignon 

Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it's better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together. ~Author Unknown

I hate the day, because it lendeth light to see all things, but not my love to see. ~Edmund Spenser

With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence - o'er and o'er again Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain, And memory, like a drop that, night and day, Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away! ~Thomas Moore

Love is like a puzzle. When you're in love, all the pieces fit but when your heart gets broken, it takes a while to get everything back together. ~Author Unknown

If we must part forever, give me but one kind word to think upon, and please myself with, while my heart's breaking. ~Thomas Otway

Bad as I like you, it's worse without you. ~Irish Proverb

Count the garden by the flowers, never by the leaves that fall. Count your life with smiles and not the tears that roll. ~Author Unknown

Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free; Love me no more, but love my love of thee. ~Algernon Charles Swinburne

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The Main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away. ~John Steinbeck,

Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it. ~Samuel Johnson
Walking, working, barely breathing my thoughts, far away Heart aching, mind racing Sleep does not come easily, nor last long.... ~Peter Winstanley

Ask me why I keep on loving you when it's clear that you don't feel the same way for me... the problem is that as much as I can't force you to love me, I can't force myself to stop loving you. ~Author Unknown

I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink drops, and posting it. ~Amy Lowell, "The Letter"

Maybe part of loving is learning to let go. ~From the television show The Wonder Years
It's not love's going hurts my days but that it went in little ways. ~Edna St. Vincent Millay

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life.... You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love. ~Neil Gaiman, the Sandman

Lost in your heart, lost in your eyes Lost every day, no map to follow Entire days, weeks, a blur Flickers of light, in the darkness, only to be enveloped in shadows once more... ~Peter Winstanley

I never knew until that moment how bad it could hurt to lose something you never really had. ~From the television show The Wonder Years

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. ~Charlie Brown

How beautiful the yesterday that stood over me likes a rainbow! I am alone, the past is past. I see the future stretch all dark and barren as a rainy sea. ~Alexander Smith

Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. ~J.K. Rowling

I prithee send me back my heart, since I cannot have thine; for if from yours you will not part, why, then, shouldst thou have mine? ~John Suckling

Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces,

Let no one who loves be unhappy... even love unreturned has its rainbow. ~James Matthew Barrie

As soon as forever is through, I'll be over you. ~Toto

Top Bloggers Quotes.

• “Don’t focus on having a great blog. Focus on producing a blog that’s great for your readers.”
• As a blogger, everything that you do flows from understanding your audience and seeking to help them as much as possible.
• “Blogging is a conversation, not a code.”
• “Blogging is like work, but without coworkers thwarting you at every turn.”
•  “A blog is only as interesting as the interest shown in others.”
• “Blogging is just writing — writing using a particularly efficient type of publishing technology.”
• “Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out loud.”
• For most of human history, all published writing had been carefully inspected, edited, and approved.
• In the last decade, blogging has turned the publishing world on its head. A blog allows you to write and publish anything, from anywhere, and have it be immediately available to billions of people all around the world.
•  “Blogging is a communications mechanism handed to us by the long tail of the Internet.”
• “Blogs are whatever we make them. Defining ‘Blog’ is a fool’s errand.”
• “The first thing you need to decide when you build your blog is what you want to accomplish with it, and what it can do if successful.”
• “Don’t try to plan everything out to the very last detail. I’m a big believer in just getting it out there: create a minimal viable product or website, launch it, and get feedback.”
• “The casual conversational tone of a blog is what makes it particularly dangerous”
• “Not only are bloggers suckers for the remarkable, so are the people who read blogs.”
• When you write remarkable content, you stay engaged and excited with your blog. Your readers follow suit.
•  “I think I am about 5 for 500 when it comes to successful ideas vs flops.”
• “Where the Internet is about availability of information, blogging is about making information creation available to anyone.”
• “I think of us as journalists; the medium we work in is blogging.”
• “There are tons of different factors that go into ranking well, but the biggest is high-quality content.”
•  “Your ultimate consumers are your users, not search engines.”
• “Blogging is hard because of the grind required to stay interesting and relevant.”
• “If you want to continually grow your blog, you need to learn to blog on a consistent basis.”
• “You can work quite hard, in particular online, and do quite well independently, but if you really want to grow you need points of leverage and most of them come from knowing people.”
• “If you love writing or making music or blogging or any sort of performing art, then do it. Do it with everything you’ve got. Just don’t plan on using it as a shortcut to making a living.”
• “Selling to people through social media is like going to a party, meeting somebody for the first time, and then saying, ‘Hey, do you want to buy this Tupperware?’”
•  “Social media is not a fad because it’s human.”
• When blogging first became popular, many thought that it was just a passing trend. But it has stuck around – and more than that, only strengthened over time.
• Social media is around for the long haul because we value our relationships with one another above just about everything else. A blog entry isn’t just a block of text, but a slice of humanity and an opportunity to begin a real conversation.
• “Social media is not about one time hits. It’s about building a loyal following over time.”
• First-time bloggers often chase the big spikes in traffic that come with a viral post or a big media mention. Then lightning finally strikes… and they come to realize that those surges in traffic are made up mostly of people who aren’t very engaged and who don’t stick around for very long.
•  “There’s a lot of information out there for free, so you’ve got to figure out what makes your information different.”
•  “What you do after you create your content is what truly counts.”
• “The term ‘Professional Blogger’ is no longer an oxymoron.”
• “Making money from blogging requires you to do only two things: drive a lot traffic, then maximize the income from that traffic.”
• “I’ve long advised that bloggers seeking to make money from blogging spread their interests across multiple revenue streams so as not to put all their eggs in one basket.”
•  “The currency of blogging is authenticity and trust.”
• Most people think that the ‘currency’ of blogging is actual currency (money). They think, “I’ll give my readers authentic, valuable blog posts and they’ll give me money in return.”
•  “Blogging is not a business by itself. It is only a promotional platform.”
• According to Risley, the key to a six-figure income as a blogger is “a blog with a business backend.”
• “It should feel genuinely good to earn income from your blog –you should be driven by a healthy ambition to succeed. If your blog provides genuine value, you fully deserve to earn income from it.”
• Never try to trick somebody into giving you their money. Even if it works, it’s a short-term way to make money online.
• “Successful people don’t spam.”
• “Blogging is good for your career. A well-executed blog sets you apart as an expert in your field.”
• Increasingly, employers are interested in hiring people who’ve cultivated an influential online presence. So sometimes the best resume is a blog.
• A well-maintained blog establishes your authority in a niche by showcasing your knowledge and dedication to the topic.
• “The Internet destroyed most of the barriers to publication. The cost of being a publisher dropped to almost zero with two interesting immediate results: anybody can publish, and more importantly, you can publish whatever you want.”
• Blogger Liz Strauss explained in an interview why it’s so important to be conscientious about everything that you publish online: “Your children, your grandchildren, your future spouse, your future boss, and your future enemy will see what you write eventually. Speak the truth with your head connected to your heart.”
• Write with integrity and you never have to worry about your words coming back to haunt you.
• “There are no lines in the sand in the blogosphere except for those who draw those lines in an effort to get attention.”
• “If you accept all the praise, you have to accept all the critics.”
• “In truth, the real opportunities for building authority and buzz through social media have only just begun. You simply have to look and see where things are going instead of where they’ve been.”
• The opposite is actually true: the Internet is still relatively new and it’s expanding in popularity and scope each year. Looking back in twenty years, we will be able to see that the opportunities to benefit from social media (blogging included) “have only just begun

Thanksgiving quote.

The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving. ~H.U. Westermayer

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice. ~Meister Eckhart

Thanksgiving Day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of honest men; but be careful that you do not take the day, and leave out the gratitude. ~E.P. Powell

So once in every year we throng Upon a day apart, To praise the Lord with feast and song In thankfulness of heart. ~Arthur Guiterman, The First Thanksgiving

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. ~John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude! ~Henry Ward Beecher

Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow. ~Edward Sandford Martin

Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labour when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain. ~Alexander Pope

What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving? ~Erma Bombeck, "No One Diets on Thanksgiving," 26 November 1981

Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action. ~W.J. Cameron

He who thanks but with the lips Thanks but in part; The full, the true Thanksgiving Comes from the heart. ~J.A. Shedd

Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day. ~Robert Caspar Lintner

For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence. ~Erma Bombeck

For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum of bee; For all things fair we hear or see, Father in heaven, we thank Thee! ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day. ~Irv Kupcinet

Thou hast given so much to me, Give one thing more, - a grateful heart; Not thankful when it pleaseth me, As if Thy blessings had spare days, But such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise. ~George Herbert

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings! ~Henry Ward Beecher

Some hae meat and canna eat, -And some wad eat that want it; But we hae meat, and we can eat, Sae let the Lord be thankit. ~Robert Burns

It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it. ~Alistair Cooke

Ah! on Thanksgiving day.... When the care-wearied man seeks his mother once more, And the worn matron smiles where the girl smiled before. What moistens the lips and what brightens the eye? What calls back the past, like the rich pumpkin pie? ~John Greenleaf Whittier

Thanksgiving comes to us out of the prehistoric dimness, universal to all ages and all faiths. At whatever straws we must grasp, there is always a time for gratitude and new beginnings. ~J. Robert Moskin

There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home to eat saleratus biscuits and marvel how much nearer to the porch the old pump looks than it used to. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American. ~O. Henry

Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds. ~Theodore Roosevelt

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. ~Thornton Wilder

Thanksgiving is the holiday of peace, the celebration of work and the simple life... a true folk-festival that speaks the poetry of the turn of the seasons, the beauty of seedtime and harvest, the ripe product of the year - and the deep, deep connection of all these things with God. ~Ray Stannard Baker (David Grayson)

Heap high the board with plenteous cheer and gather to the feast, And toast the sturdy Pilgrim band whose courage never ceased. ~Alice W. Brotherton

On Thanksgiving Day, all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - halftime. ~Author Unknown

Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving. ~Joseph Auslander

On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence. ~William Jennings Bryan

It is literally true, as the thankless say, that they have nothing to be thankful for. He who sits by the fire, thankless for the fire, is just as if he had no fire. Nothing is possessed save in appreciation, of which thankfulness is the indispensable ingredient. But a thankful heart hath a continual feast. ~W.J. Cameron

Lord, 'tis Thy plenty-dropping hand That soils my land, And giv'st me for my bushel sowne Twice ten for one. All this, and better, Thou dost send Me, to this end, That I should render, for my part, A thankful heart. ~Robert Herrick

Thanksgiving is America's national chow-down feast, the one occasion each year when gluttony becomes a patriotic duty. ~Michael Dresser

Forever on Thanksgiving Day The heart will find the pathway home. ~Wilbur D. Nesbit

Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live. ~Attributed to Jacqueline Winspear

Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. ~Native American Saying

To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven. ~Johannes A. Gaertner

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. ~Cicero

But see, in our open clearings, how golden the melons lie; Enrich them with sweets and spices, and give us the pumpkin-pie! ~Margaret Junkin Preston

Coexistence: what the farmer does with the turkey - until Thanksgiving. ~Mike Connolly

Thanksgiving is possible only for those who take time to remember; no one can give thanks who has a short memory. ~Author Unknown

God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart. ~Izaak Walton

I have strong doubts that the first Thanksgiving even remotely resembled the "history" I was told in second grade. But considering that (when it comes to holidays) mainstream America's traditions tend to be over-eating, shopping, or getting drunk, I suppose it's a miracle that the concept of giving thanks even surfaces at all. ~Ellen Orleans

Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants. ~Kevin James

Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now. ~A.W. Tozer

Stand up, on this Thanksgiving Day, stand upon your feet. Believe in man. Soberly and with clear eyes, believe in your own time and place. There is not, and there never has been a better time, or a better place to live in. ~Phillips Brooks

Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart. ~Seneca

All that we behold is full of blessings. ~William Wordsworth

For what I give, not what I take, For battle, not for victory, My prayer of thanks I make. ~Odell Shepard

Happy We-Stole-Your-Land-and-Killed-Your-People Day! ~Thanksgiving toast, from the movie Sweet November

If I have enjoyed the hospitality of the Host of this universe, Who daily spreads a table in my sight, surely I cannot do less than acknowledge my dependence. ~G.A. Johnston Ross

O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness. ~William Shakespeare

None is more impoverished than the one who has no gratitude. Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy. ~Fred De Witt Van Amburgh

Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel. ~Author Unknown

The funny thing about Thanksgiving, or any huge meal, is that you spend 12 hours shopping for it and then chopping and cooking and braising and blanching. Then it takes 20 minutes to eat it and everybody sort of sits around in a food coma, and then it takes four hours to clean it up. ~Ted Allen

And though I ebb in worth, I'll flow in thanks. ~John Taylor

The thing I'm most thankful for right now is elastic waistbands. ~Author Unknown

For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread. The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.... Shall we think of the day as a chance to come nearer to our Host, and to find out something of Him who has fed us so long? ~Rebecca Harding Davis

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. ~Aesop

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. ~William Arthur Ward

May your stuffing be tasty May your turkey plump, May your potatoes and gravy Have nary a lump. May your yams be delicious And your pies take the prize, And may your Thanksgiving dinner Stay off your thighs! ~Grandpa Jones

I suppose I will die never knowing what pumpkin pie tastes like when you have room for it. ~Robert Brault

Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving. ~Charles Lamb, 1821

But whether we have less or more, Always thank we God therefor. ~Author Unknown

Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast. ~William Shakespeare

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?" ~William A. Ward

Turkey: A large bird whose flesh, when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow. ~Melody Beattie

Thanksgiving-day, I fear, If one the solemn truth must touch, Is celebrated, not so much To thank the Lord for blessing o'er, As for the sake of getting more! ~Will Carleton

For hearts that are kindly, with virtue and peace, and not seeking blindly a hoard to increase; for those who are grieving o'er life's sordid plan; for souls still believing in heaven and man; for homes that are lowly with love at the board; for things that are holy, I thank thee, O Lord! ~Walt Mason

It is delightfully easy to thank God for the grace we ourselves have received, but it requires great grace to thank God always for the grace given to others. ~James Smith

When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep? ~George Canning

Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often. ~Johnny Carson

Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year. ~P. J. O'Rourke

Thanksgiving Day, a function which originated in New England two or three centuries ago when those people recognized that they really had something to be thankful for - annually, not oftener - if they had succeeded in exterminating their neighbors, the Indians, during the previous twelve months instead of getting exterminated by their neighbors, the Indians. Thanksgiving Day became a habit, for the reason that in the course of time, as the years drifted on, it was perceived that the exterminating had ceased to be mutual and was all on the white man's side, consequently on the Lord's side; hence it was proper to thank the Lord for it and extend the usual annual compliments. ~Mark Twain

We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning. ~Albert Barnes

Thanksgiving is nothing if not a glad and reverent lifting of the heart to God in honor and praise for His goodness. ~Robert Casper Lintner

Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night. ~Irving Berlin

If you count all your assets, you always show a profit. ~Robert Quillen

Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. ~W.T.