Dr Seuss Wisdom

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1.     Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.

2.     Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.

3.     Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

4.     Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.

5.     You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

6.     Think and wonder, wonder and think.

7.     Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So… get on your way.

8.     Unless!

9.     THINK! You can think any THINK that you wish…

10.   If you never did, you should. These things are fun and fun is good.

11.   You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.

12.   You are you. Now, isn’t that pleasant?

13.   Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

14.   It is better to know how to learn than to know.

15.   Everything stinks till it’s finished.

16.   The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

17.   A person’s a person, no matter how small.

18.   I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

19.   Only you can control your future.

20.   Be awesome! Be a book nut. 

21.   Be who you are and say what you mean. Because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.

22.   Oh, the things you can find if you don’t stay behind!

23.   It’s opener, out there, in the wide, open air.

24.   Teeth are always in style.

25.   Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.

26.   Will you succeed? Yes you will indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed.

27.   From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.

28.   Step with care and great tact. And remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.

29.   Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

30.   You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go…

Hope

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

 ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

Dream Big

Seasons

Live in each season as it passes;
breathe the air,
drink the drink,
taste the fruit,
and resign yourself to the influences of each.

- Henry David Thoreau

Relationships

The light shed by any good relationship illuminates all relationships.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh 

Anger

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

- Buddha

To be Yourself

To be nobody but

yourself in a world
which is doing its best day and night to make you like
everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.

E.E. Cummings

Simple Life

To find the universal elements enough;
to find the air and the water exhilarating;
to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter...
to be thrilled by the stars at night;
to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring -
these are some of the rewards of the simple life.

- John Burroughs

Risks

A ship is safe in harbor; but that's not what ships are for.

- John Shedd

What I Learned from my Mother

I learned from my mother how to love the living... to look in their eyes and offer sympathy. I learned that whatever we say means nothing, whatever anyone will remember is that we came.  I learned to create from another's suffering my own usefulness, and once you now how to do this, you can never refuse.
To every house you enter you must offer healing, a chocolate cake you baked yourself, the blessing of your voice, your chaste touch.

In honour of all mothers, today, and every day.

Excerpts from  the poem, What I learned from my mother by Julia Kasdorf

Living Through Difficulty

Right in the difficult we must have our joys,
our happiness, our dreams:
there against the depth of this background,
they stand out,
there for the first time we see
how beautiful they are.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

Gardeners

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy;
they are the charming gardeners
who make our souls blossom.

- Marcel Proust

No Mistakes

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.


- Richard Bach

Wisdom

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past,
but by the responsibility for our future.

- George Bernard Shaw

Fearless

Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to
try new things.
The saddest summary of a life
contains three descriptions:
could have,
might have, and
should have.

- Louis E. Boone

Wisdom

The greatest wisdom is in simplicity.

Love, respect, tolerance, sharing, gratitude, forgiveness.

It's not complex or elaborate.

The real knowledge is free.

It's encoded in your DNA.

All you need is within you.

Great teachers have said that from the beginning.

Find your heart, and you will find your way.

- Carlos Barrios, Mayan elder

It's International Women's Day

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.

Our deep fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves,
"Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?"
Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God.

Your playing small does not serve the world!
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that
other people won't feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.

It is not just in some of us
It is in everyone!

As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fears, our presence automatically liberates others.

- Marianne Williamson (for Nelson Mandela's inaugural speech)

Women

Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives.

The struggle for equality continues unabated,

and the woman warrior who is armed with

wit and courage

will be among the first to

celebrate victory.

- Maya Angelou

How to Live

This is what you shall do;
Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.

 ― Walt Whitman

Tranquility

What is first seen as a loss is now seen as a gain. For he finds solitude, not in far off, quiet places; he creates it out of himself, spreads it around him, wherever he may be, because he loves it and slowly he ripens in this tranquility. For the inner process is beginning to unfold, stillness is extraordinarily important.

- Janwillem van de Wetering