Why not escape the noise and rat race, escape the grind, and read some inspirational words…

Everyone Needs A Source of Motivation and Wisdom

You need a break…and a daily source of inspiration. Life is too serious, hectic and stressful at times, and the situations and people we deal with can sometimes zap our strength & motivation!

In fact, our jobs can even numb our minds as we fulfill mundane tasks day after day in the same grind. We’re either bored, or challenged in the wrong way, so…

Feeling Overwhelmed? Escape to a Good Coffee or Tea and Some Quotes…

When I went to Barnes and Noble book store the other day, I’ve got to admit I was a bit overwhelmed by all of the books there. Who has the time and the years to read them all?

I think what we need is a more or less useful tidbits or bare snippets type of resource, rather than volumes of great books that just go unread.

Quotes Fill That Void!

How? Because they are like pictures, a little says a lot. A quote is worth a thousand words. And hey, quote me if I am the first to have said it!

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This way you have endless and boundless wisdom. Who can beat that? I’ll even provide a short comment or two, a story or a lesson that is valuable for life.

Once I get enough posted, you’ll have quotes to ponder for every day of the year. So keep coming back for more – subscribe now!

To me, it means that you are not always going to be able to plan, control or influence where you end up.  However, this saying is a way of expressing that this lack of control of where we end up doesn’t matter or shouldn’t matter.

Instead, we should be content and happy where we end up.  There we are.  WHEREVER we go.  Glad to be us, glad to be alive, glad to be able to be glad.  Wherever you go, there you are is a quote about contentment!

-Sir Winston Churchill

A quick comment about this quote:

If you don’t believe this one, then you must not know the life of Malcolm X. Malcolm X read quotes from Mahatma Ghandi amongst others. This made him educated and helped him to intelligently communicate with his contemporaries. This teaches us a valuable lesson about the value of quotes.

Quotes are a summary of a lesson on the knowledge and learning of something important. In one short sentence, a quote gives us thousand words.

Just like a picture, which is said to be worth a thousand words, “a quote is worth a thousand words” just as a picture is worth a thousand words.

The Bible is translates as a “book of books”. It is the ultimate book of quotes that God gave man. Each quote it with a thousand words.

Entire commentaries have been written on the Bible, to include entire books for a single book, chapter or even verse.

The wisdom of Churchill’s words tell us that education can begin to take place through quotations and provide an inspiring foundation for the beginning of someone’s education.

What to do with this famous saying:

Teach your kids a quote, ask them if they know what it means, then teach them what it means. I did this once with my nephew who was 13 at the time.

The quote was the title of a book, and it said “beware the naked man who offers you his shirt” I asked my nephew if he knew what that meant and he just gave me a strange look like what on earth are you doing reading a book with a title like that”?

I told him, think about it for a moment…beware…a naked man….yet offers you a shirt. What is that trying to say? He thought about it for a bit and said, the naked man doesn’t have a shirt to give. I said “Good!…you’re absolutely right!”

So what is this saying? He came back with, if the naked man offers you a shirt he doesn’t have, then he’s lying. I said exactly. The naked man wouldn’t have a shirt to offer…so that’s like someone making a promise they can’t keep. Then he understood.

The point of all of this is simply that a single quote can tell us a lot while stating a little. Such efficiency of words is wise and that’s what makes quotes so unique.

- Anonymous

Who originated the “No pain, no gain” quote?  Does anyone know?  If so, please comment and share.