More Than Cleverness, We Need Kindness And Gentleness

When you are used to the kind of life of never getting anything you want, you stop knowing what it is you want. 
( Haruki Murakami )

Sometimes on the way to the dream you get lost and find a better one.

I’m not afraid of dying.
I’m afraid I’ll never get a chance to live.
( A.A. Bell )

What we do for ourselves dies with us.
What we do for others and the world, is and remains immortal.
( Albert Pine )

The perfectly unselfish person is the most successful. 
( Swami Vivekananda )

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown.
It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.
( Charlie Chaplin )

Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing. 
( L.M. Montgomery ) 

If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.
( Betty Reese )

The world lies in the hands of those that have the courage to dream and who take the risk of living out their dreams each according to his or her own talent.
( Paulo Coelho )

Sometimes you’ve got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding.
( Christopher Barzak )

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.
( Charlie Chaplin )

It is better to fill your head with useless knowledge than no knowledge at all.
( Jim Hinckley )

Don’t sit at tables where they talk about other people, because when you get up, you will be the one they talk about.

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.
( Ellen DeGeneres )

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
( Les Brown )

So many things are possible as long as you don’t know they are impossible. 
( Mildred D. Taylor )

A women can run, hide, play and have fun, but she will shine far better when she just smiles without none.
( Santosh Kalwar )

More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.
( Charlie Chaplin )

We all want progress.
But progress means getting nearer to the place where you want to be.
And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer.
If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road.
And in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man. 
( C.S. Lewis )

A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream.
He is undeceived only when he is awakened from his slumber.
( Mahatma Gandhi )

Your life is always under construction.
It is your job to learn how to untangle the threads and weave a tapestry that matches your desires. 
( Dannye Williamsen )

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.
( Gene Roddenberry )

Know that the same spark of life that is within you, is within all of our animal friends, the desire to live is the same within all of us.
( Rai Aren )

No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it.
( Robin Hobb )

Worry more about your conscience than your reputation.
Because your conscience is what you are, your reputation is what others think of you.
And what others think of you is their problem.
( Charlie Chaplin )

We may never really discover the meaning of life, but the knowledge we gain in our quest to discover it is truly more valuable.
( Jack Canfield )

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
( C.G. Jung )

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.
( Gregory Peck )

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
( Terri Garey )

Anything that you learn becomes your wealth, a wealth that cannot be taken away from you.
Whether you learn it in a building called school or in the school of life.
To learn something new is a timeless pleasure and a valuable treasure.
And not all things that you learn are taught to you, but many things that you learn you realise you have taught yourself.
( C. JoyBell C. )

I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now.
It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.
( Oscar Wilde )

My only enemy is time.
( Charlie Chaplin )

I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn’t matter.
That would be my life.
( Jasper Johns )

Few of us ever live in the present.
We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.
( Louis L’Amour )

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
( Robert A. Heinlein )

The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error of age is to believe experience is a substitute for intelligence.
( Lyman Bryson )

All of us have a path to follow and the path begins on earth.
( Richard Matheson )

Stop searching the world for treasure.
The real treasure is in yourself.
( Pablo )

It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received.
It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters.
( Amit Ray )

Be wise enough not to be reckless, but brave enough to take great risks.
( Frank Warren )

Live today as if you were going to live forever, for you surely shall.
( Gordon B. Hinckley )

You and your purpose in life are the same thing.
Your purpose is to be you.
( George Alexiou )

We have been moving along at such a fast pace that we no longer know what we are doing, now we have to wait until our soul catches up with us.
( Paulo Coelho )

Failure?
I never encountered it.
All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
( Dottie Walters )

I attribute my success to this; I never gave or took any excuse.
( Florence Nightingale )

You can’t base your life on other people’s expectations.
( Stevie Wonder )

It’s okay to be afraid.
It’s not okay to let the fear stop you.
( Cupcake Brown )

Because they have no faith, atheists are more cynical and only want to know things that will help them get by day by day.
( Florence Emily Hookins, 1896-1962 )

In some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.
( Martin Luther King Jr. )

I just never let anything bother me, man.
I know myself really well.
Nobody’s opinion of me can shake my opinion of myself.
( Ruben Studdard )

When you stop being afraid you feel good.
( Spencer Johnson )

Tomorrow the birds will sing.
Be brave.
Face life.
( Charlie Chaplin )

Summon the strength and lead yourself to a place where you want to be.
( Rose Winfold )

Hope and courage and risk dwell inside of us on an uncharted island and if we learn to look for it and tap into it, our possibilities are endless.
( Katie Kacvinsky )

Follow your heart.
Just don’t get lost.
( Ilsa J. Bick )

It’s not over if you’re still here.
It’s not a tragedy if you’re still alive.
( Patrick Rothfuss )

Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it.
Without the alternation of sound and silence there would be no rhythm.
( Thomas Merton )

It is only when the mind and imagination are enriched from exposure to the world of beauty, that artistic creativity and inspiration truly becomes manifest.
( Mark Woollacott )

The successful person and the unsuccessful person are looking at the same world.
The difference between them is what they see.
( Steve Maraboli )

I am not a political man and I have no political convictions.
I am an individual and a believer in liberty.
That is all the politics I have.
( Charlie Chaplin )

Break the rules, stand apart, ignore your head, and follow your heart.
( Paula Abdul )

Money and success don’t change people.
They merely amplify what is already there.
( Will Smith )

I have failed many times, and that’s why I am a success.
( Michael Jordan )

Success to me is being happy, truly fulfilled, being proud of myself, and doing different things all the time.
( Leighton Meester )

There are no one-man teams, either by definition or natural law.
Success is a cooperative effort.
It’s dependent upon those who stand beside you.
( Jon M. Huntsman Sr. )

A series of failures may culminate in the best possible result.
( Gisela Richter )

Do little things every day that no one else seems to want to do, be patient, and success will find you.
( Brandi L. Bates )

You need Power only when you want to do something harmful, otherwise love is enough to get everything done.
( Charlie Chaplin )

The man who has done his level best is a success, even though the world write him down a failure.
( B. Forbes )

More powerful than the will to win is the courage to begin.
( Orrin Woodward )

People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness.
Just because they are not on your road, does not mean they are lost.
( Dalai Lama )