quotes for life

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, “So what.” That’s one of my favorite things to say. “So what.” “My mother didn’t love me.” So what. “My husband won’t ball me.” So what. “I’m a success but I’m still alone.” So what. I don’t know how I made it through all the years before I learned how to do that trick. It took a long time for me to learn it, but once you do, you never forget.

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—	Andy Warhol (via pythons)

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

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—	Winston Churchill (via inspirinquotes)

Look at the word responsibility—“response-ability”—the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling.

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—	~ Stephen R. Covey Quotes from The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People p. 71 (via onherway)

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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

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—	Ralph Waldo Emerson (via kari-shma) (via eemiilyquotes, kari-shma)

love, motivation, wisdom: I Have Learned by Kathy Kane Hansen »

Copyright © 1971 Kathy Kane Hansen

I’ve learned -
that you cannot make someone love you.
All you can do is be someone who can be loved.
The rest is up to them.

I’ve learned -
that no matter how much I care,
some people just don’t care back.

I’ve learned -
that it takes years to build up…