Quotes: Collection from blihua Google Notebook

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong. ~Peter T. Mcintyre

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. ~Anaïs Nin, Diary, 1969

Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves. ~William Hazlitt

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance. ~Bruce Barton

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. ~Guilaume Apollinair

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable. ~Wendy Wasserstein

If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. ~Author Unknown

Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours. ~Richard Bach, Illusions

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. ~Michael Jordan

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. ~Edmund Hillary

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others. ~Mark Twain

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort. ~Sydney Smith

Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway. ~Mary Kay Ash

The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves. ~Ellen Goodman

I was thinking of my patients, and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of their own fate. It was not a matter of bad or good luck. When they could no longer blame fate, they were in despair. ~Anaïs Nin

Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness. ~Ram Dass

Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself. ~Michel de Montaigne

It's me who is my enemy
Me who beats me up
Me who makes the monsters
Me who strips my confidence.
~Paula Cole, "Me," This Fire

Make happy those who are near and those who are far will come. ~Chinese Proverb

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one. ~Chinese Proverb

There is nothing either good or bad
but thinking makes it so. ~William Shakespeare

By:Shakespeare

To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing. ~Eva Young

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes. ~Antoine Rivarol

Know thyself! A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly. ~Andre Gide

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. ~Maya Angelou

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop. ~Vita Sackville-West

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing. ~Marie Stopes

There are things that we don't want to happen but have to accept, things we don't want to know but have to learn, and people we can't live without but have to let go. ~Author Unknown

Jealousy is simply and clearly the fear that you do not have value. Jealousy scans for evidence to prove the point - that others will be preferred and rewarded more than you. There is only one alternative - self-value. If you cannot love yourself, you will not believe that you are loved. You will always think it's a mistake or luck. Take your eyes off others and turn the scanner within. Find the seeds of your jealousy, clear the old voices and experiences. Put all the energy into building your personal and emotional security. Then you will be the one others envy, and you can remember the pain and reach out to them. ~Jennifer James

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The Main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away. ~John Steinbeck, 10 November 1958

Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. ~Dinah Craik, A Life for a Life, 1859

Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough. ~Dinah Shore

Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers. ~Mary Tyler Moore

“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.”–Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, do your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.”–Susan B. Anthony

Carrie: That's the thing about needs. Sometimes when you get them met, you don't need them anymore.