Quotes I like

These are quotes are from a notebook where I write down quotes I have come across in the newspaper, or online or somewhere else I don't remember. Sorry I tend to write down only the quote and not the author's name. The posts  on the blog labeled "Quotes" and titled "Thought for the day" are my own thoughts.

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.

Its been a ctrl-alt-del kinda day.

Everyone makes and carries within him his own heaven or hell and you don't have to die to go there.

Its no use looking up to heaven with too much faith and too little struggle.

"Any kiddie in school can love like a fool but hating my boy is an art" - Ogden Nash

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it , I know I can achieve it.

In the depths of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Language is the dress of thought, everytime you talk, your mind is on parade.

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Sometimes the path you're on is not as important as the direction you're heading.

 This is what I tell myself : If you feel depressed, sing. If you feel sad, laugh. If you feel ill, double your labor. If you feel fear, plunge ahead. If you feel inferior, wear new garments. If you feel uncertain, raise your voice. If you feel poverty, think of wealth to come. If you feel incompetent, think of past success. If you feel insignificant, remember your goals. Today be the master of your emotions.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.

If the world didn't suck, we'd all fall off.

If your heads tells you one thing, and your heart tells you  another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart.

How people treat you, is their karma ; how you react is yours.

The will to win is worthless if you don't have the will to prepare.

Dreams come true ; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

Conventionality is not morality. Self righteousness is not religion.

Whether a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.

The only reason we need the body is to carry the brain around.

Ask yourself if you are happy, and you cease to be so.

There are three ingredients to a happy life: learning, earning and yearning.

A room without books is like a body without soul.

Let existence be proud of you.

Don't let what you can't do stop you from doing what you can do.

Once the game or test or project is underway, it is too late to prepare to win. The actual game or test or project is just the end of a long process of getting ready in which the outcome was already determined. So if you want to win, you must prepare to win.

To be a champion, the will must be stronger than the skill.

No law on this planet can save your heart from breaking.

Allow the world to live as it chooses and allow yourself to live as you choose.

If there is no solution to the problem, don't waste thinking about it. If there is a solution to the problem, then don't waste time thinking about it.

You don't need extra ordinary talent, you just need extra ordinary motivation.

One is not born, rather becomes, a woman.

Not I, nor anyone else, can travel that road for you. You must travel it yourself. - Whitman

Leave the world more interesting for you being here. - Neil Gaiman

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life. - Virginia Woolf


That is, there are not two distinct genders, but instead there are linear gradations of variables associated with sex, such as masculinity or intimacy, all of which are continuous.” Analyzing 122 different characteristics from 13,301 individuals in 13 studies, the researchers concluded that differences between men and women were best seen as dimensional rather than categorical. In other words, the differences between men and women should be viewed as a matter of degree rather than a sign of consistent differences between two distinct groups. - Journal of Personality and Social Psychology



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