What really matters in life? The relationships, goals and passions that really deserve our most precious resource of all, energy?
Often with all the mundane to-do’s in life, it can be hard to keep what really matters in mind.
That is why I admire quotes like these below. Quotes are like little nudges in the side that keep us focused on what really matters. And you can quote that. :)
As a collector of great quotes, I like to publish some of the best ones I have found from time to time in the Intense Experiences newsletter. By "best" I mean those that capture what seems to be some profound insight for truly being happier, such as these exceptional ones below. I encourage you to copy your favorites and locate them where you'll be nudged in the side with their message.
I am also inviting you to subscribe to the no-cost IntenseExperiences.com newsletter where you can then use the Contact Us button to email me YOUR favorite quote or two. I will republish them in future editions of the newsletter so watch for yours!
The Top Motivational Quotes
In order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow -- and that is likely to hurt. -- Wei Wu Wei
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. –- Harry Truman
The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chance of disillusionment. -- Art Spander
Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count. - -Albert Einstein
The dreamers are the saviors of the world. -- James Allen
I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am in. -- The Bible, Phillipians 4:11 (NASB)
Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. -- Howard Thurman
It is never too late to be what you might have been. -- George Eliot
He who cannot forgive others destroys a bridge over which he himself must pass. -- George Herbert
It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. -- e.e. cummings
Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something. -- H. Jackson Brown Jr.
What may be done at any time will be done at no time. – Scottish Proverb
The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you. -- John E. Southard
How does one become a butterfly? You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar. -– Trina Paulus
In times like these it helps to recall there have always been times like these.
-- Paul Harvey
Say what you want to say when you have the feeling and the chance. My greatest regrets are the things I did not do, the opportunities missed and the things unsaid.
-- Jim Keller
We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.
--Rabindranth Tagore
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
--Carl Jung
You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can't have it.
--Robert Anthony
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
— Henry Ward Beecher
If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be too cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. --Annie Dillard
The true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good. -- Ann Landers
Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy.
-- Tim Hansel
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
-- Henry David Thoreau
And one extra for good luck:
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t.
-- Richard Bach
REMEMBER, I am also inviting you to subscribe to the no-cost IntenseExperiences.com newsletter where you can then use the Contact Us button to email me YOUR favorite quote or two. I will republish them in future editions of the newsletter so watch for yours!