Another set of human quotes, wisdom words, proverbs, sayings collection

Another set of beautiful Quotations, parables, wisdom quotes, proverbs, life reflections or I can say Manifesto for perfect living...

These lessons are so invaluable they offer such great insights from people's life experiences. These lessons are always afresh for any human generation.. Great is a human being, who learns from other people's lessons. World is so full of diversity in many things but, humans are driven by set of universal principles called Emotions.. I think understanding and applying such lessons will greatly enhance human life in every way. Wish, some where some one benefits from this collection.

• The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes.” 

• People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered: Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies: Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank people will try to cheat you: Be honest anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight: Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous of you: Be happy anyway. The good you do today, will often be forgotten by tomorrow: Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough: Give your best anyway. You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway

• Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
• Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.
• It is our choices ... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
• Celebrate endings - for they precede new beginnings.
• Let every day be the first day of the rest of your life, but especially let today be a new beginning.
• A break up is like a broken mirror. It is better to leave it broken than hurt yourself to fix it.
• Never be sad for what is over, just be glad that it was once yours.
• If you can’t save the relationship,  at least save your pride.
• The mind is everything - you become what you think. - Buddha
• Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves.
• If you let go a little, you will have a little peace. If you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace.
• Discipline weighs ounces, regret weighs tons.  ~Author Unknown
• Everyone must choose one of two pains: The pain of discipline or the pain of regret.  
• It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.  ~Buddha
• If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.  ~Benjamin Franklin
• A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
• Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
• The best thing is to be respected, the next, is to be loved; it is bad to be hated, but still worse to be despised.
• A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
• A foolish husband fears his wife; a prudent wife obeys her husband.
• Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
• Do not lift a rock only to drop it on your own foot
• Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
• Adopt the pace of nature:  her secret is patience.
• Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
• One minute of patience, ten years of peace.
• The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.
• Never run after a bus or a man. There will always be another one.
• Patience is the companion of wisdom.
• Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.
• In every girl’s life there will always be those three guys: the one she hates, the one she can't get enough of, and the one she loves--and in the end, they're all the same guy...
• If you really, truly love someone, you can't stay mad at them forever. As much as you want to hate them for what they've done, your heart won't let you.
• "There are things we don't want to happen but have to accept, things we don't want to know, but have to learn, and people whom we can't live without, but have to let go."
• In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends
• To silence another, first be silent yourself.
• True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
• Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
• A silent mouth is sweet to hear
• You will find that silence or very gentle words are the most exquisite revenge for insult.
• Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
• There is no reply to the ignorant like keeping silence
• The best answer to anger is silence.
• I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strangely, I am ungrateful to these teachers
• Silence is the true friend that never betrays.
• Better to bend in the wind than to break.
• Fortune has a fickle heart and a short memory
• Sow melon, reap melon; Sow beans, reap beans.
• Respect the gods and the devils but keep them at a distance
• He who depends on himself will attain the greatest happiness
• A fool judges people by the presents they give him.
• Silence is a source of great strength.
• We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
• Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.
• A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
• When in doubt, choose change.
• Dear Heart, fall in love only when you’re ready, not when you’re lonely
• Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it eludes you. But if you turn your attention to other things, It comes and sits softly on your shoulder.
• Feelings come and feelings go. There is no need to fear them and no need to crave them. Let them come, and then let them go. No feeling is your permanent reality, no matter how intense it is.
• We must let go of the life we had planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us
• When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves
• The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
• We cannot change our past. We cannot change the fact that people act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude
• The key to change... is to let go of fear
• Self-discipline begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. 
• Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.
• The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for
• In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over them... self-discipline with all of them came first.
• A man without decision of character can never be said to belong to himself... He belongs to whatever can make captive of him. 
• Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. 
• Be a hard master to yourself-and be lenient to everybody else.
• Rule your mind or it will rule you. 
• I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow.  It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.  
• As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see. 
• There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry... Yesterday and Tomorrow. 
• That the birds of worry and care fly over your head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.  ~Chinese Proverb
• When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.
• Worry a little every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.
• Don't waste your life in doubts and fears: spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it.
• Never let life's hardships disturb you ... no one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages.
• I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. "Never worry about your heart till it stops beating. 
• Whatever is going to happen will happen, whether we worry or not.
• I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them have never happened.
• Do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 
• Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? 
• And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in his entire splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ``what shall we eat?'' or ``what shall we drink?'' or ``what shall we wear?'' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 
• Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. 
• If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change.
• The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
• Worries are the most stubborn habits in the world. Even after a poor man has won a huge lottery prize, he will still for months wake up in the night with a start, worrying about food and rent.
• If men swear that they want to harm you when you are asleep, you can go to sleep. If women say so, stay awake
• There are two things over which you have complete dominion, authority and control of your mind and your mouth
• If you want to know the end, look at the beginning
• It is the calm and silent water that drowns a man
• Being happy is better than being king
• Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
• “We have no right to ask when a sorrow comes, 'Why did this happen to me?' unless we ask the same question for every joy that comes our way.”
• Rain does not fall on one roof alone
• Your bad words against me actually benefit me. When you incite others against me, you actually benefit me.When someone goes around spreading bad words against you, she may actually benefit you in a way. For example, the other people will realize that the other person is really bad for what she says about you. Or, the other people will come back to you and tell you what the person is saying against you and you will know that she is a person to avoid - hence a benefit to you.
• If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. 
• What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step
• Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience.
• “I don’t miss him, I miss who I thought he was”
• Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
• We don’t stop loving someone; we simply learn to live without them.
• Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
• Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option
• Instead of thinking about what you're missing, try thinking about what you have that everyone else is missing.
• There are two ways of being rich. One is to have all you want, and the other is to be satisfied with what you have.
• I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am in.
• When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” 
• For every effect there is a root cause. Find and address the root cause rather than try to fix the effect, as there is no end to the latter.
• When you don’t get what you want, you suffer. If you get it, you suffer too since you can’t hold on to it forever.
• What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
• Holding on to anything is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate. The only way to get anything in the physical universe is by letting go of it. Let go & it will be yours forever. 
• The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
• We see things not as they are, but as we are.
• If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed downhill.
• Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want.
• The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
• In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.
• The superior man is easy to serve, but difficult to please ... The inferior man is difficult to serve, but easy to please.
• To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.
• Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
• I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation.
• Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.
• Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?
• Relationships-of all kinds-are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold onto some of it, but most will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost.
• There's one sad truth in life I've found while journeying east and west - The only folks we really wound are those we love the best. We flatter those we scarcely know; we please the fleeting guest, and deal full many a thoughtless blow to those who love us best.

• As you think so shall you be! Since you cannot physically experience another person, you can only experience them in your mind. Conclusion: All of the other people in your life are simply thoughts in your mind. Not physical beings to you, but thoughts. Your relationships are all in how you think about the other people of your life. Your experience of all those people is only in your mind. Your feelings about your lovers come from your thoughts. For example, they may in fact behave in ways that you find offensive. However, your relationship to them when they behave offensively is not determined by their behavior, it is determined only by how you choose to relate to that behavior. Their actions are theirs, you cannot own them, you cannot be them, you can only process them in your mind.
• Never tell your problems to anyone...20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them.
• Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
• You've got to take the good with the bad, smile with the sad, love what you've got, and remember what you had. Always forgive, but never forget. Learn from mistakes, but never regret.

• My best dreams and worst nightmares have the same people in them.The only people you need in life are the ones that need you in theirs

• We often fear the thing we want the most.
• The biggest lie on the planet: "When I get what I want I will be happy."
• Whatever you are willing to put up with is exactly what you will have.
• The choices we make, and the chances we take, determine our destiny.
• The biggest mistake I’ve made in my life is letting people stay in my life far longer than they deserve.
• Never make permanent decisions on temporary feelings....

• It's the rule of life: everything you've always waited for comes the very second you stop looking for it.

• Forget about me, erase me, don't even think back. Because one day when you let your mind slip, you'll remember me and realize that you should have held on
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• Never go back into an old love, no matter how strong it is, because its like reading a book over and over again when you already know how it ends....

• If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.
• “First we make our habits, then our habits make us.”
• “The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason”
• “We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.”
• He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.
• Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
• I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.
• You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
• You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.
• A friend to all is a friend to none.
• All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
• I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
• No one loves the man whom he fears.
• “The key to change... is to let go of fear.”
• “Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.”
• “What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.”
• “Always do what you are afraid to do.”
• “Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.”
• “Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!”
• “The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us”
• Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
• He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.
• Whores don't live in company of poor men, citizens never support a weak company and birds don't build nests on a tree that doesn't bear fruits.
• The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.
• We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.
• Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.
• Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
• Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

• There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
• There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "Truth is the daughter of Time."
• Sometimes, being quiet is the best weapon you have.
• The minute you think you're going to lose something, it suddenly becomes the most important thing in your life.
• Life becomes so much better when you decide not to care and just live for the moment and not let the drama bring you down
• Sometimes u have to distance yourself to certain people not because u don't love them, its because you have to move forward with your life
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• A well-known speaker started off his seminar by:Holding up a $20.00 bill in the room of 200, he asked, 'Who would like this $20 bill?' Hands started going up. He said, 'I am going to give this $20 to one of you but first, let me do this. He proceeded to crumple up the $20 dollar bill. He then asked, 'Who still wants it?' Still the hands were up in the air. Well, he replied, 'What if I do this?' And he dropped it on the ground and started to grind it into the floor with his shoe.He picked it up, now crumpled and dirty.'Now, who still wants it?'Still the hands went into the air.

          My friends, we have all learned a very valuable lesson.

No matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it did not decrease in value. It was still worth $20. Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into the dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way. We feel as though we are worthless. But no matter what has happened or what will happen, you will never lose your value. Dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, you are still priceless to those who DO LOVE you. The worth of our lives comes not in what we do or who we know, but by WHO WE ARE and WHOSE WE ARE.

You are special. Don't EVER forget it.' 

• If God brings you to it - He will bring you through it.
• Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.
• At some point in our lives, all of us experience the struggle of letting go. We tend to cling to old habits or resentments that make our progress forward difficult or even impossible. When we encounter impasses in our life, we summon our old stubbornness and pride and hopelessly thrash about. Fighting our defects means living from a “me” instead of “we” perspective. Old habits die slowly. We experience many old feelings of shame and remorse over past binges, as well as regrets about failed relationships. These feelings haunt us with an intensity we hadn’t known while we were medicating our feelings.
• When we are confronted with unpleasant feelings and the necessity to change, we may fall back on our deepest instinct – we fight. Whether the problem is to move on after a relationship ends, we cannot change as long as we struggle.
• Change is frightening. The past may have been miserable, but at least it was familiar. We become comfortable with old habits and thought patterns which keep us from growing. Our negative thoughts can snowball and, at times consume us. Negative thinking separates us from a sense of belonging, suffocates our hope and prevents us from gaining true happiness. Negativity has been a part of our lives for so many years; we need a great deal of practice to develop positive views.
• If we pause in the midst of our struggles and worries, we can give ourselves time to let a new realization sink in; we don’t have to fight anymore. We have another choice: we can surrender. Rather than manipulating situations, we can surrender control. Surrender is essentially an act of trust. When we let go, we can trust events to unfold on their own. Trust gives us a sense of acceptance, and through acceptance we find serenity. 
• Paradoxically, surrender is not the same as giving up. Surrender means exchanging “me” for “we”; letting go.
• Many of us cling to old habits and problems, even though we realize they cause more harm than good. Deep in our hearts we feel alone in the world. We should share our strengths, experiences and hopes. Listening to suggestions would be appropriate, instead of dismissing ideas that differed from ours. Gaining a sense of connection with others helps build a spiritual foundation that will sustain us in times of trouble.
• It may be easy to slip into old ways of thinking during times of stress and look for impulsive, desperate or easy solutions. We need to remember we now have more options than we had previously thought imaginable. We are humans, with all the freedom which that brings. When we are confronted with a problem, we feel afraid; but by cultivating a positive attitude of faith and hope we can put our problems in perspective.
• Times of pain are always opportunities for growth. We don’t need to solve all our problems in a day; we don’t have to solve all our problems by ourselves. All we need to do is reach upon ourselves, through meditation and prayer.
• Patterns of being overly critical and controlling usually mean we are avoiding taking a good look at ourselves. We may be ignoring a character defect. It’s easier to blame our problems on someone else. When we let go of our efforts to change other people, we take responsibility for our own growth and change. We can turn things around by realizing we are not the center of the universe. We are each separate and unique.
• Isolation is another warning that tells us to let go. We often isolate ourselves when we feel secretly ashamed about a problem. We may be in an abusive or overly dependent relationship. We should begin by being honest with ourselves and others, instead of telling them everything is fine. We need to be gentle with ourselves and patient with others.
• The pain of personal growth is part of the human experience. While going through painful periods, we can be good to ourselves.
• Always remember a person who talks to you about others, will also talk to others about you..
• Relationships do not need promises, terms, and conditions. It just needs two wonderful people; one who can trust and one who can understand.
• There's a point in your life when you get Tired of fixing everything and trying to make everyone happy. When you finally decide to quit Its not giving up Its realizing you don't need certain people and The bulls**t they bring to your life
• You know what? Yes, I have changed. I'm not as nice as I used to be because I don't want to get used or walked over. I don't trust everyone and tell them my secrets because behind every fake smile is a backstabbing b**ch. I distance myself from people because in the end, they're going to leave. I have changed because I have realized that I'm the only person I can depend on
• Don't lower your standards. Instead, wait for people to rise up to your expectations.
• Never get too attached to anyone because attachments leads to expectations and expectations lead to disappointments.
• Seriously, life is better when you decide you don't care.
• No need for revenge. Those who hurt you will eventually screw themselves up. And if you're lucky, God will let you watch.
• You will never be happy if you don't stop looking back, if you can't let go of your past. Things can only haunt you if you let them. People are only remembered if you refuse to forget them. You can either live or survive. You can either be the hero or the victim. It's your choice.
• Never give your secret to anyone because if you can't keep it to yourself don't expect others to.
• Life is too short. Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness. Laugh when you can, apologize when you should, and let go of what you can’t change. Love deeply, and forgive quickly. Take chances, give everything, and have NO regrets. Life is too short to be unhappy. You have to take the good with the bad, smile when you’re sad, love what you got, and always remember what you had. Always forgive, but *never* forget. Learn from your mistakes, but never regret. People change, and things go wrong, but always remember….life goes on 
• The second step to allowing yourself to move on is to ask yourself the reason for your pain. Avoid easy and simple answers such as you loved him/her or he/she was a great person. Delve deeper and analyze yourself to really discover what is making you so incredibly sad. Try making a list if his/her good and bad qualities and a list of the good and bad qualities of your relationship. For instance, are you upset because you really miss your ex, or because you do not want to be alone? Truly understanding what you miss so much will help you to focus your energies on exactly what you wish to overcome.
• Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

• It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
• A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.  
• If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. 
• Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.
• Your value is the product of your thoughts.  Do not miscalculate yourself worth by multiplying your insecurities.
• Do not doubt the goodness in you.  It is inappropriate.  
• Men harm others by their deeds, themselves by their thoughts.
• Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame. 
• The man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.
• What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

• Lone women, like to empty houses, perish.
• Never buy through your ears but through your eyes.
• Quiet people are well able to look after themselves.
• A quiet tongue shows a wise head.
• A quarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shake it, the more sour it grows.
• Great hate follows great love.
• Patience is poultice for all wounds.
• We'll never know the worth of water till the well go dry.
• "All things grow with time -- except grief."
• By a sweet tongue and kindness, you can drag an elephant with a hair
• The one who loves you will make you weep.