Thought for the day-Choose to be happy

You can choose to be happy or sad and whichever you choose that is what you get. No one is really responsible to make someone else happy, no matter what most people have been taught and accept as true.

Deep thoughts-When alive

Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.

Thoughts -A spider's life

You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.
- Charlotte, "Charlotte's Web"

Short quotes-Life

Always choose life.
- Regina Brett

Famous people quotes-The opposite

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel

Famous people quotes-Cease to be funny

"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."
- George Bernard Shaw

Thoughts on Life-Graduate

"Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!"
- Louisa May Alcott

Short quotes-Candle in the wind

Our lives are like a candle in the wind.
- Carl Sandburg

Good quotes-Flash

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it’s worth watching.

Positive thoughts-Gift

Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.
- Regina Brett

Famous people quotes-Audit

Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
- Regina Brett

Thoughts-Ethics

Ethics cannot be based upon our obligations toward people, but they are complete and natural only when we feel this Reverence for Life and the desire to have compassion for and to help all creatures insofar as it is in our power. I think that this ethic will become more and more recognized because of its great naturalness and because it is the foundation of a true humanism toward which we must strive if our culture is to become truly ethical.
- Albert Schweitzer

Famous people quotes-Reverence for Life

Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life and that to destroy, harm, or to hinder life is evil. Affirmation of the world -- that is affirmation of the will to live, which appears in phenomenal forms all around me -- is only possible for me in that I give myself out for other life.
- Albert Schweitzer

Thoughts on Life-Gratefulness

Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy - because we will always want to have something else or something more.
- Brother David Steindl Rast

Deep thoughts-Inner spirit

"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit".
-Albert Schweitzer

Thoughts on life-Cycle of song

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Romania.
- Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), Not So Deep as a Well (1937)

Thoughts on life-Who we really are

I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Thoughts-Made to fly

In olden days, a king who was fond of hunting birds received a gift of two magnificent falcons from another king. They were peregrine falcons, the most beautiful birds he had ever seen. He gave the precious birds to his head falconer to be trained.

Months passed and one day the head falconer informed the king that though one of the falcons was flying majestically, soaring high in the sky. But, the other bird had not moved from the single branch of a dried up tree since the day it had arrived.

The king summoned experts from all the land to tend to the falcon, but no one could make the bird fly from its perch. Having tried everything else, the king thought to himself, "May be I need someone more familiar with the countryside to understand the nature of this problem." So he cried out to his court, "Go and get a farmer."

In the morning, the king was thrilled to see the falcon soaring high above the palace gardens.

The king asked the farmer "How did you make the falcon fly?"

With a bow, he replied “I cut the branch which this falcon had come to like and preferred sitting on it, rather than fly. Moreso, as he was getting good food to eat and fresh water to drink through courtesy of the royal attendants.”

We are all made to fly -- to realize our incredible potential as human beings. But instead of doing that, we sit on our branches, clinging to the things that are easier or become familiar to us. The possibilities are endless, but for most of us, they remain undiscovered. We conform to the familiar, the comfortable, the mundane. So for the most part, our lives are mediocre instead of exciting, thrilling and fulfilling.

So let us learn to destroy the branch of fear we cling to and free ourselves to the glory of flight.

Thoughts on life-Squander time

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin

Thoughts on life-Exponent of Earth

Love - is anterior to Life
Posterior - to Death
Initial of Creation, and
The Exponent of Earth
- Emily Dickinson