Favorite Quotes

My grandparents got me started at quite a young age collecting quotes that resonated with me for whatever reason. Here, I share my growing collection with you. They are arranged in no particular order, unless perhaps as I’ve heard them and jotted them down.

• If I’m not truly helping my visitors, I’m wasting their time. –Steve Pavlina (regarding his blog, entitled Personal Development for Smart People)
• Our attention is one of the most important tools we can use for self-improvement, without it we are unaware of our dissatisfactions and shortcomings. –Steven Handel
• A man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, can never regain its original dimension. –Oliver Wendell Holmes
• Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. –Dr. Seuss
• When the mind is absorbed with religious trivia, too often the really important questions of morality and integrity are ignored and religion deteriorates into a matter of form and theory. –SDA Bible Commentary, vol. 7, p. 356.
• Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. –Henry Ford
• What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage. –Bruce Barton
• My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants. –J. Brotherton
• If in your Christian experience everything is an issue, you’ve got issues. –Jerry Arnold
• We generate the results in life that we think we deserve. –Dr. Phil
• Begin each day as if on purpose. –Alex Hitchins, in the movie Hitch
• The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. –Walt Disney
• The meeting of two personalities is like a chemical equation; if there is any reaction, both are transformed. –Carl Jung
• Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. –Rumi
• If you want to be happy, be. –Leo Tolstoy
• It is easy to mope when I look at the struggles of those around me, the dim future, and the ceaseless grind of responsibility. However, if I just look at right now, minute by minute, it’s not that bad. In fact, it’s pretty good. –Ron Graves
• Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. –Dalai Lama, 14^th
• There is a kernel of truth in every criticism. Look for it, and when you find it, rejoice in its value. –Dawson Trotman
• It’s one thing to have a God to live with; it’s an entirely different thing to have a God to die with. –Jerry Arnold
• Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain. –Mark Twain 
• My main purpose was to be where I was. –Peter Jenkins, A Walk Across America
• …In closing off to pain we also close off to the experience of being fully alive. –Chris Johnstone, The Lens of Deep Ecology
• Ninety percent of human relationship problems would be fixed if we would stop waiting for the other one to change. –Jerry Arnold
• The finest health care in the world is proper self-care. –Joel Fuhrman, M.D. in Dr. Fuhrman’s Healthy Times Newsletter, No. 12 March 2004
• Be careful when speaking; you create the world around you when you speak. –Navajo quote
• If your church dried up and withered away, who in the community, outside your Adventist circles, would feel an impact? –Unknown
• Qualities that don’t go out of style: enthusiasm, gratitude, giving, loving the people around you, persistence. –James S. Netherton
• Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, the providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way. –William Murray, The Scottish Himalayan Expedition (1951)
• You can solve almost any problem in life if you love the people involved in the problem. –James S. Netherton
• No one can go back and make a brand new start, my friend, but anyone can start from here and make a brand new end. –Dan Zadra
• If you’re not careful, the urgent will crowd out the important. –James S. Netherton
• For God to let these things happen, as bad as they may appear, seems to me to indicate that we take it too seriously. –Jesse Melton