Aspiring Thoughts

Be the Follower Of Your Dreams

noreply@blogger.com (Bijal) — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 03:18:00 -0700

I have spread my dreams beneath your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
W.B. Yeats

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
Harriet Tubman

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
Pamela Vaull Starr

All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible.
T.E. Lawrence

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
Henry David Thoreau

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough not to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
William Faulkner

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Patrick Henry

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Lanston Hughes

You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself into one.
Henry D. Thoreau

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

Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.
Marcia Wieder

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
Henry David Thoreau

The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence and educational advantages; the question is what he will do with the things he has. The moment a young man ceases to dream or to bemoan his lack of opportunities and resolutely looks his conditions in the face, and resolves to change them, he lays the corner-stone of a solid and honorable success.
Hamilton Wright Mabie

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Paul Valery

A skillful man reads his dreams for self-knowledge, yet not the details but the quality.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our waking hours form the text of our lives, our dreams, the commentary.
Anonymous

Hope is the dream of the waking man.
French Proverb

To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.
William Shakepeare

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

Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.
Marcia Wieder

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
Henry David Thoreau

The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence and educational advantages; the question is what he will do with the things he has. The moment a young man ceases to dream or to bemoan his lack of opportunities and resolutely looks his conditions in the face, and resolves to change them, he lays the corner-stone of a solid and honorable success.
Hamilton Wright Mabie

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Paul Valery

A skillful man reads his dreams for self-knowledge, yet not the details but the quality.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our waking hours form the text of our lives, our dreams, the commentary.
Anonymous

Hope is the dream of the waking man.
French Proverb

To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.
William Shakepeare

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

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

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
T. E. Lawrence

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
James Dean

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
Edgar Allan Poe

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
Harriet Tubman

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
Colin Powell

Frienship

noreply@blogger.com (Bijal) — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 04:41:00 -0700

A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying,but the never needing to say is what counts.

- MARGARET LEE RUNBECK

Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish Proverb

It is better to be in chains with friends , than to be in a garden with strangers.

- Persian Proverb

Thoughts Forever

noreply@blogger.com (Bijal) — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 04:13:00 -0700

Thoughts forever:
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"Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the
talent that has been entrusted to you." -Henri-Frederic Amiel

"Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can
live." -John Dewey

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8 Rules to Produce Happiness

noreply@blogger.com (Bijal) — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 01:42:00 -0800

8 Rules to Produce Happiness

Happiness is the admiration of best people. But the cardinal of association who absence it is appalling.

Instead of active in the sunshine of happiness, they are abode beneath the billow of gloom. The alley they chase leads to the swamp of anguish instead of the garden of happiness. This charge not be.

There are a few simple rules that, if followed, will aftermath happiness.

They are:

Keep your mind stored with constructive thoughts.
Look for the beautiful and pleasant things in life.
Adjust yourself to whatever happens in life so as to make the best of it.
Have no regrets — live in the present instead of the past.
Give every man a square deal, whether he be prince or pauper.
Do your job, no matter how humble it may be, with the best efforts you can give.
Do something for someone every day.
Have faith in yourself, your fellows and God.

Reference Site: http://www.happypublishing.com/blog/8-rules-to-produce-happiness/

Daring Quotes

noreply@blogger.com (Bijal) — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 22:39:00 -0800

Daring quotes to help you dare more:

Devote today to something so daring even you can’t believe you’re doing it. -Oprah Winfrey

Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see. -William Newton Clarke

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. -Helen Keller

No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity. -Winston Churchill

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed. -Mahatma Gandhi

No crime is so great as daring to excel. -Winston Churchill

Fortune sides with him who dares. -Virgil

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. -Seneca

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly. -Robert F. Kennedy

It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle. -Richard M. DeVos

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be. -May Sarton

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. -Mary Kay Ash

Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing. -Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared. -Homer

Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything. -Henry Miller

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back. -Publilius Syrus

All glory comes from daring to begin. -Eugene F. Ware

We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring. -David Grayson

Reference from: http://www.happypublishing.com/blog/daring-quotes/

Christmas Quotes

noreply@blogger.com (Bijal) — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 01:05:00 -0800

Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we’re here for something else besides ourselves. -Eric Sevareid

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. -Roy L. Smith

Christmas – that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance – a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved. -Augusta E. Rundel

Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect. -Oren Arnold

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other. -Burton Hillis

Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most. -Ruth Carter Stapleton

Christmas! The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given, when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes. -Joan Winmill Brown

I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month. -Harlan Miller

Wish u all a very Happy Christmas.

Apology Quotes

noreply@blogger.com (Bijal) — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 20:56:00 -0800

More people need to learn that it’s not weakness to apologize. The stronger person always apologizes. Hopefully these apology quotes can help you in some way:

An apology is a good way to have the last word. -Unknown

A stiff apology is a second insult…. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt. -G.K. Chesterton

An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything. -Lynn Johnston

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.
-Ella Wheeler Wilcox

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them. -P.G. Wodehouse

Never ruin an apology with an excuse. -Kimberly Johnson

Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused. -King Charles I

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology. -Red Auerbach

The only good thing about punctuality is that is usually gets you an apology. -Unknown

Apology is a lovely perfume; it can transform the clumsiest moment into a gracious gift. -Margaret Lee Runbeck

Keep your words soft and tender because tomorrow you may have to eat them. -Unknown

Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge. -Isaac Friedmann

Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand. -Emily Kimbrough

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth. -Benjamin Disraeli

Apologies only account for that which they do not alter. -Benjamin Disraeli

An apology might help, but you can change your life without one. -Robin Quivers

I don’t ask for an apology because it’s only tomorrow’s fish-and-chip paper. -Tracey Emin

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don’t go well. -Jim Rohn

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. -Paul Boese

When you realize you’ve made a mistake, make amends immediately. It’s easier to eat crow while it’s still warm. -Dan Heist

Innocent kids thoughts....

noreply@blogger.com (Bijal) — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 00:52:00 -0800

A first grade teacher collected well known proverbs. She gave each child in her class the first half of a proverb and asked them to come up with the remainder of the proverb. Their insight may surprise you.

Better to be safe than...punch a 5th grader.

Never underestimate the power of...termites.

You can lead a horse to water but...how?

Don't bite the hand that...looks dirty.

No news is... impossible.

A miss is as good as a... Mr.

You can't teach an old dog new... math.

If you lie down with dogs, you'll... stink in the morning.

Love all, trust... me.

The pen is mightier than the... pigs.

An idle mind is... the best way to relax.

Where there's smoke there's... pollution.

A penny saved is... not much.

Virtue Quotes

noreply@blogger.com (Bijal) — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 22:21:00 -0800

What is virtue? It is to hold yourself to your fullest development as a person and as a responsible member of the human community. -Arthur Dobrin

There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy. -Amos Bronson Alcott

For most men, and most circumstances, please--tangible material prosperity in this world--is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to ascetism. -Samuel Butler

Ethical living is the indispensable condition of all that is most worthwhile in the world. -Ernest Caldecott

When we live habitually with the wicked, we become necessarily their victims or their disciples; on the contrary, when we associate with the virtuous we form ourselves in imitation of their virtues, or at least lose, every day, something of our faults. -Agapet

The door to virtue is heavy and hard to push. -Chinese Proverb

The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious. -Cicero

He that has energy enough to root out a vice, should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place, otherwise he will have his labor to renew. A strong soil that has produced weeds may be made to produce wheat. -Charles Caleb Colton

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of tricks and duplicity than straightforward and simple integrity in another. -Charles Caleb Colton

Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal. ~Horace Mann, "Thoughts for a Young Man," 1859

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice. ~Henry David Thoreau

Blushing is the color of virtue. ~Diogenes

Virtue is praised, but hated. People run from it, for it is ice-cold and in this world you have to keep your feet warm. ~Denis Diderot, Rameau's Nephew, 1762

Virtue is insufficient temptation. ~George Bernard Shaw

Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. ~Henry David Thoreau

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place. ~Charles Caleb Colton

Modesty and unselfishness - these are virtues which men praise - and pass by. ~André Maurois, Ariel, 1924

Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

Virtue is its own revenge. ~E.Y. Harburn

All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance. ~Theodore M. Hesburgh

The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues. You can't separate them. They're wedded. ~Henry Miller

Virtue would not go to such lengths if vanity did not keep her company. ~François de la Rochefoucauld

A man hasn't got a corner on virtue just because his shoes are shined. ~Anne Petry

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. ~Voltaire

Sin is commitable in thought, word or deed; so is virtue. ~Martin H. Fischer

To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them. ~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us. ~Robert S. Lynd

The excess of virtue is a vice. ~Greek Proverb

Unless I accept my faults I will most certainly doubt my virtues. ~Hugh Prather

They who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably deny a sun because it is not always day. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

Water which is too pure has no fish. ~Ts'ai Ken T'an

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. ~George Orwell

It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays. ~Edith Sitwell

Some folks wear their halos much too tight. ~Author Unknown

What, after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean. ~Christopher Fry

We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them. ~La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1665

Anxiety Quotes

noreply@blogger.com (Bijal) — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:24:00 -0800

"When a man won't listen to his conscience, it's usually because the
doesn't want advice from a total stranger." - Lindsey Stewart

"Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action." - Walter Anderson

“Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.” - Arthur Somers Roche

"Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they love." - Sigmund Freud

Reflection Quotes

noreply@blogger.com (Bijal) — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 20:12:00 -0800

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action. -Peter F. Drucker

When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine yourself. -Confucius
O, happy the soul that saw its own faults. -Mevlana Rumi
People of the world don’t look at themselves, and so they blame one another. -Mevlana Rumi
Only by much searching and mining are gold and diamonds obtained, and man can find every truth connected with his being if he will dig deep into the mine of his soul. -James Allen
Retire into yourself as much as possible. Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those whom you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one. People learn as they teach. -Seneca
People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering. -St. Augustine
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. -Leo Tolstoy
Know thyself. -Socrates
Most people’s lives are a direct relfection of their peer groups. -Anthony Robbins
Whatever results you’re getting, be they rich or poor, good or bad, positive or negative, always remember that your outer world is simply a reflection of your inner world. If things aren’t going well in your outer life, it’s because things aren’t going well in your inner life. It’s that simple. -T. Harv Eker
When you do the work, you see who you are by seeing who you think other people are. Eventually you come to see that everything outside you is a reflection of your own thinking. You are the storyteller, the projector of all stories, and the world is the projected image of your thoughts. -Byron Katie
The unexamined life is not worth living. -Socrates
The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. -William M. Thackeray
The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. -Thomas Paine
The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world. -Joseph Edward Murphy
Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away. -Barbara De Angelis
The object of reflection is invariably the discovery of something satisfying to the mind which was not there at the beginning of the search. -Ernest Dimnet

What Is Religion?

noreply@blogger.com (Bijal) — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 19:58:00 -0800

Religion is being honest seven days in the week,
Expressed in thought and action, and in the words you speak.

It is loving God and neighbor, and serving them each day;
It’s in the way and manner, and not in the times you pray.
It is treating others squarely, and living the Golden Rule,
Learning all the lessons given in life’s great school.

-unknown

Inspiration Thoughts

noreply@blogger.com (Bijal) — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 22:02:00 -0800

"Inspiration and genius--one and the same."
- Victor Hugo

Success Thoughts

noreply@blogger.com (Bijal) — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 22:00:00 -0800

"Try not to become a man of success but a man of value."
- Albert Einstein

Inspirational Thoughts

noreply@blogger.com (Bijal) — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 21:56:00 -0800

“God many times answers our prayers not by bringing down his will to ours, but by lifting us up to himself. We grow strong, so as we need no longer cry for relief. We can bear the heavy load without asking to have it lightened. We can keep the sorrow now and endure it. We can go on in quiet peace without the new blessing which we thought necessary. We have not been saved from the battle we shrank so from entering but we have sought and have gained the victory. Is not victoriousness in conflict better than being freed from the struggle? Is not peace in the midst of the storm and the strife better than to be lifted altogether over the strife?”

-Dr. J. R. Miller

To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says:
"Leave no stone unturned."
- Edward Bulwer Lytton

"If you would create something, you must be something. "

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Every artist was first an amateur."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be."
Horace Bushnell

"Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps, till the legend, over steep ways to the stars, fulfills itself."
W. C. Doane

"Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action."
Benjamin Disraeli

"Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?"
George Eliot

"No great man ever complains of want of opportunities."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can."
Thomas Carlyle

"Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true."
Leon J. Suenes

"The power of imagination makes us infinite."
John Muir

"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."
Epictetus

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
Author Unknown

"It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something."
Ornette Coleman

"Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true."
Richard Bach