Food for Thought (Quotes)

“We are all the product of our past and the perception of our future.” – VK

“My job is to inspire others to live full lives. Whether I do that through my writing or my actions are one in the same.” – VK

“Emotions make us human. Denying them makes us beasts.” – VK

“If everything is important, then nothing is.” – Anonymous

“Sometimes when things are falling apart, they are just falling into place.” – Anonymous

“Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.” – Anonymous

“Passion is easy; commitment is tough.” – Celia Barbour

“Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think.” – Buddha

“Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.” – Chinese proverb

“Use it up. Wear it out. Make it do. Or do without.” – Anonymous

“If we don’t get lost, we’ll never find a new route.” – Joan Littlewood

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” – Lao Tzu

“Self-acceptance leads to success, not the other way around.” – Deepak Chopra

“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.” – Muhammad Ali

“There is more to life than increasing its speed.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.” – Paul Coelho

“We spend money we don’t have, on things we don’t need, to make impressions that don’t last, on people we don’t care about.” – Tim Jackson

“The only pressure I’m under is the pressure I’ve put on myself.” – Mark Messier

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle

“People who urge you to be realistic generally want you to accept their version of reality.” – Anonymous

“There are only 2 responses to the world, fear or love. Your life depends on which one you choose.” – Deepak Chopra

“Yoga is the practice of tolerating the consequences of being yourself.” – Bhagavad Gita

“How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.” – Benjamin Disraeli

“You have the right to the action itself, but not to its fruits.” – Bhagvad Gita

“Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time.” – Betty Smith

“Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.” – Doug Larson

“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” – Maya Angelou

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu

“Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos: the trees, the clouds, everything.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it.” – Jonathan Winters

“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.” – Charlie Chaplin

“Imagination means nothing without doing.” – Charlie Chaplin

“If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape one hundred days of sorrow.” – Chinese Proverb

“Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.” – Rumi

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” – Anonymous

“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.” – Judy Garland

“Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.” – James Thurber

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” – Oscar Wilde

“We shouldn’t spend money on things we don’t need when others don’t have the things they do.” – The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer

“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” – Michelangelo Buonarroti

“Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.” – Og Mandino

“A wabi sabi approach to life isn’t about giving way to carelessness or seeing a junk pile through rose-colored glasses. It’s about appreciating, showcasing, and sustaining the beauty of what’s natural.” – Gretchen Roberts

“Why do we need money beyond a point? If we are free of ill health, enmity, and debt, is that not enough? Too much money only leads to less peace.” – Sri T. Krishnamacharya

“He who gossips with you will also gossip about you.” – Spanish proverb

“Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations, and small needs.” – H. Stein

“Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.” – Sir Francis Bacon

“What we all must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are.” – Edgar Z. Friedenberg

“I know very little about acting. I’m just an incredibly gifted faker.” – Robert Downey Jr.

“We grow the aspects of our lives that we feed – with energy and engagement – and choke off those we deprive of fuel. Your life is what you agree to attend to.” – Jim Loehr, Ed.D.

“Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.” – Alan Watts

“What happens is fact, not truth. Truth is what we think about what happens.” – Robert McKee

“I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.” – Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“I think of inspiration as desire infused with spirit and topped with an almost reckless optimism.” – Fred White

“The maxim that the ‘best is the cheapest’ does not apply to food.” – W. O. Atwater, Ph.D.

“Almost nothing beautiful or brilliant happens unless a person has thought about it a lot.” – Eric Maisel, Ph.D.

“If nature intended us to talk more than listen, she would have given us two mouths and one ear.” – Anonymous

“An empirical fact about our lives is that we do not and cannot know what will happen a day or moment in advance.” – Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art by Stephen Nachmanovitch

“The desire to be desire-less is but another desire. The thought that, because this desire purports to be spiritual, it is superior to more mundane desires shows how skilled the mind is at justifying any desire it is attached to.” – The Passionate Mind Revisited: Expanding Personal and Social Awareness by Joel Kramer & Diana Alstad

“We know from our own experience that we can never derive pure peace and happiness from material things. In fact, it often seems that the more emphasis we place on material development, the more problems we encounter. Pure happiness can only be attained through developing our mind. Through improving our qualities of love, compassion, and wisdom we can gradually eliminate all our suffering and problems, and eventually attain the everlasting joy of full enlightenment.” – Eight Steps to Happiness by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

“Unless someone like you
cares a whole awful lot,
nothing is going to get better.
It’s not.” – Dr. Seuss