101 Life Tips
Posted: Sunday, July 26, 2009
by Robin Newman
Robin J
- Not everyone is going to like you..get over it
- Stuff is going to happen.deal with it
- Faith is not what you hold onto but what you are prepared to let go off
- Ignorance is thinking you know, arrogance is believing you know and enlightenment is admitting you don't know
- Man who buries head in sand will eventually get butt kicked
- What you see on the surface rarely is what lies underneath
- Parents eventually hand the decision making over to you after that all blame for poor life choices lies with the management
- When arguing remember putting another log on the fire only fuels the flames
- You cannot change the past but you can create the future
- Assumptions are what we make when we already think we know the answer
- Creator has a "you break it you pay for it" policy for mankind
- The only things you take into the next life are those stored in your heart
- It is people not possessions which give life meaning
- Everyone you meet is a reflection of who you are so it's a good idea to look for the best in people
- A wise man sits in silence only then can he hear his own voice
- Without the destination there is no point to the journey
- When you step into judgment you step into ignorance
- Attitude didn't come with you when you were born it arrived later
- The difference between a happy man and sad man is not what he has but what he believes he has
- The greatest human need is the need to be heard the greatest human imperfection is the inability to listen
- Completion is the fullness of a life lived
- If you seek to control your life it will control you
- To forget where you began may mean you will not know how far you have come
- If all rivers lead to the same ocean mistakes are only detours
- If you haven't found the missing piece of the puzzle consider the possibility it doesn't exist yet
- To become attached is to give meaning and once this occurs nothing becomes something
- Mother Teresa was in the now she was "I am" so gave that she was to those she met
- The hardest things to let go off is our selves'
- If you are in the now you are neither reflecting on the past or trying to glimpse the future
- He who is medicine man comes from the stars to free us from the earth
- I chose to believe humanity is not flawed but still learning
- There can be no reality without belief
- If you cannot walk in the shoes of another and feel his world you are still walking in the illusion of your own reality
- If you walk a thousan d r oads in your mind you are going to get very tired
- What is grace but the man women or child who stands in their truth and has no need to be bigger or smaller than anyone else
- Turning back time wouldn't work because your adult eyes would see all the things your child eyes missed
- There is something wrong when you both believe you are right
- The difference between a child and a middle aged person is one is too busy living life to look at the finish line and the other is busy preparing for it
- Celebrity is word made up by someone with too much time on their hands
- Regrets are the weight in a fools pocket keeping him where he is
- Emotions are your bodies way of telling you.you are not paying attention
- It was the voices of the people which changed the world not their silence
- I am not the echo of my fathers words I am the seed of our fathers love
- The greatest gift you will ever give anyone is the knowledge they are not alone
- Life should not be a fast food meal eaten on the run but a banquet with each mouthful savored
- Contemplation can be a dangerous companion to loneliness
- When change knocks on your door it won't go away just because you do not invite it in
- Before you can be happy you have to figure out what makes you happy
- If you are someone's better half does that mean neither of you were whole to begin with?
- Love is not giving all that you are but accepting the other person and all that they are
- When you are gone only memories of where you have been will remain so think carefully about the impression you want to leave behind
- If you keep wishing you had someone else's life you won't make anything of your own
- Life doesn't wait for us but time does stand still when we are enjoying what we are doing
- It is easier to tear something down than it is to build it up
- In a fight remember you have to have an ending before you can have a new beginning
- You don't have to play with the hand life deals you..you can always shuffle the deck
- Being a poor imitation of someone else is not greatness it is sameness
- We celebrate the life of those we loved and loss by being all we can in the lifetime we have left
- Sameness is the security blanket we drag along with us through life we use it to create the illusion we are in control of our world
- Sacredness is not something to be defined but something to be felt
- Your perfect partner may not be the one you never argue with but the one whose presence pushes you into growth and understanding
- If you want to teach you have to practice what you preach
- You cannot lead the way if you are standing still
- sometimes it is easier to shift blame than accept it
- Always assume the words you speak are being spoken to you then ask yourself how does this make me feel?
- Balance does not come by motion but by stillness. When the water is poured into the glass it only becomes level when it is still
- Love is not a band aid to fix wounded hearts
- The past is a memory the moment has gone, the future is a dream the moment has yet to arrive, the now this moment is here and it will never come again
- In the moment you need be nothing more because you will always be enough
72. Life is simple it is. Life flows from one moment to the next how we fit into those moments may however be where the complexity comes into it
73. A lot of people are going to do this or that one day. One day I will get around to going on that trip or visiting my friend or learning how to paint. Regrets are the one days we stored up in our lives.
74. Hope is a hand that says you are not alone but you have to be willing to put pride aside to
reach for it
75 Sometimes shifting our position is enough to shift our view Does the voice of a child have to be carried with the sound of a gunshot to be heard?
76 Why do we have to turn children into us before they have had a chance to be themselves
77 If your feet are walking one way and your heart the other, if your eyes are looking back in regret instead forward in anticipation then chances are you didn't have the confidence in yourself to draw your own map
78 There is no feeling more soul destroying than the feeling of being totally alone
79 An alive hypochondriac than a dead martyr
80. Give
Give of yourself
Give of your time
Give your smiles your hugs your ears shoulders arms anything you can just give and this will make all the difference
81 A recipe for growth: an ounce of insight, a dash of wisdom, a sprinkle of humility and humanity all blended together with humor, compassion, unconditional love and light Insight and Wisdom
Give of yourself
Give of your time
Give your smiles your hugs your ears shoulders arms anything you can just give and this will make all the difference
81 A recipe for growth: an ounce of insight, a dash of wisdom, a sprinkle of humility and humanity all blended together with humor, compassion, unconditional love and light Insight and Wisdom
82 Meditation is teaching yourself to go to your happy place
83 The moment you were born you were greatness' 84 Put your hand over your heart feel it beat feel it pulsate life throughout your body and know with absolute certainty there was a reason Higher Power placed you on this Earth
85 When you let go of expectations you open yourself up to all possibilities
86 Take a second to link to every other person on this planet because some where in the world some one is going through the very same thing you are so send a prayer of courage in their direction they need your help too
87 If you come to someone brandishing should have's and waving around statements of guilt and shame you are infecting the wound not healing it
88 If every person became a healer if every person brought out their gifts and used them the world would change.
89 madness or simply the Higher Power saying time to for a change?
90 It doesn't matter who writes the words the only person who can give them power and meaning is you
91 The only way through something is to take one step at a time one day at a time one moment at a time
92 Here is what happens when you take a step you close the gap between where you want to be and where you are.
93 on the other hand if the embarrassment of discovering you are human after all
94 Grace is the inner beauty that shines as a guiding light for those coming behind to follow
95 Sometimes we have to let go of what we believe to be true about ourselves and the world around us, in order to discover what we don't know about ourselves and the world around us
96 Remember your greatness is not one thing but many and dreams do not come with a limit or use by date
97 If someone said to you "if you only had today what would you fill it with" What would you say?
98 We have the capacity to step back before we step forward and this allows us a moment where clarity can be gained
99 If you did it admit it own it and move on
100. Love will conquer fear
101 Don't believe everything you read This Article has been viewed 1,126 times. (Not updated in real-time.)
Top-level comments on this article: (5 total)Robin, these are great! Have you considered an ebook?I have almost finished an ebook called what about me but I am always looking for ideas for new ones :o)
Great article. Well done.If you were to write a page about each you would have a great book.
We would all do well to remember even just a few of the excellent points you've listed. Well done Robin!now if I could only remember to listen to my own words lol
hi robin,yup-the "practice what you preach" one is a little tricky...these were really great quotes, and i found all to be what i believe to be true. the one about talking and listening is good-i'm better at it since going to meetings where you have to wait your turn, but the other person listening is a problem sometimes!there's 101 great quotes, thanks for bringing them to us,my best regards,sue
Phew! What a great list. Will take me quite some time to take them all in! Thanks for compiling and posting!Cheers, HannahI can assure you it took a little while to think of them and I too went phew :o)
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