The Foundation for a Better Life creates public service campaigns through various forms of media. You might recognize their work on billboards all over the country. Part of their philosophy is that people are inherently good, but just need some reminding sometimes. I have begun to receive their daily quote feed and since I know I can often use reminders and thought I would pass the messages along to you as well. Enjoy!
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world..."
Mohandas Karamchand Ghandhi (1869-1948)
Indian political and spiritual leader
"Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward."
C. S. Lewis (1898-1963)
Writer, theologian, scholar
Writer, theologian, scholar
"You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life. And you will have set in motion an ancient spiritual law: the more you have and are grateful for, the more will be given you."
Sara Ban Breathnach
Writer
Writer
"Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time."
Chilon of Sparta
Philosopher
Philosopher
"All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why."
James Thurber (1894-1961)
American author, cartoonist
American author, cartoonist
"Accept what is, let go of what was, and have faith in what will be."
Sonia Ricotti
Author, motivational speaker
Author, motivational speaker
"To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself."
Thich Nhat Hanh (born 1926)
Vietnamese Buddhist monk, teacher, author, peace activist
Vietnamese Buddhist monk, teacher, author, peace activist
"A diamond is just a piece of charcoal that handled stress exceptionally well."
Unknown -
"The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention."
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Novelist, playwright
Novelist, playwright
"Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures."
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
35th US President
35th US President
"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy."
Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918)
Poet, playwright, art critic
Poet, playwright, art critic
"For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others."
Nelson Mandela (born 1918)
Former president of South Africa
Former president of South Africa
"Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings."
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
Poet, novelist, playwright
Poet, novelist, playwright
"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."
African Proverb
"Set you life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames."
Jalal ad-Din Rumi (1207-1273)
Persian poet, mystic
Persian poet, mystic
"You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having."
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)
Architect
Architect
"Sometimes your only available transportation is a leap of faith."
Magaret Shepherd
Author, artist
Author, artist
"We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness."
Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977)
Comic actor, filmmaker, writer
Comic actor, filmmaker, writer
"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy."
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
Poet, playwright, essayist
Poet, playwright, essayist
"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well."
Diane Ackerman
American Writer
American Writer
"Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowning what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity..."
Gilda Radner (1946-1989)
American comedian, actress
American comedian, actress
"You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself."
Alan Alda (born 1936)
Actor, director, screenwriter
Actor, director, screenwriter
"We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground - for we have all been babies."
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
[Sam Clemens] Humorist, essayist, novelist
"We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground - for we have all been babies."
Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993)
Actress, humanitarian
Actress, humanitarian
"We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better."
J.K. Rowling (born 1965)
Novelist
Novelist
"Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future."
Elie Wiesel (born 1928)
Writer, humanitarian
Writer, humanitarian
"Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gifts I have - life itself."
Walter Anderson (1903-1965)
American artist
American artist
"To thrive in life you need three bones. A wishbone. A backbone. And a funny bone."
Reba McEntire (born 1955)
American country music artist
American country music artist
"For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream."
Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890)
Post-impressionist painter
Post-impressionist painter
"When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this hear is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there as well as how much space."
Pema Chodron (born 1936)
Buddist Nun
Buddist Nun
