You are Special! You are Beautiful! You are Unique! You are Important! And because you deserve it, here for you, a quote or thought of the day to help you through life. The collection is curated from our own treasury of wisdom and from several web platforms, such as Reddit, Quora and Project Gutenberg.
December 2, 2016 | Word of the Day by Marianne Williamson
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest 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, 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 are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
December 1, 2016 | Reflection of the Day by Henri J.M. Nouwen
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
November 30, 2016 | Note of the Day by John Green
Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (…) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.
November 29, 2016 | Showerthought of the Day by The Reddit Community
Waterboarding at Guantanamo Bay sounds super rad if you don’t know what either of those things are.
The object of golf is to play the least amount of golf.
Last night my friend asked to use a USB port to charge his cigarette, but I was using it to charge my book. The future is stupid.
April Fool’s Day is the one day of the year when people critically evaluate news articles before accepting them as true.
There should be confetti in tires so when there is a blow out it’s still kind of an okay day.
November 28, 2016 | Thought of the Day by Darren Beattie, Quora
What helps you grow stronger? In one word? Stress. Then consequent adaptation. People have this firm belief that all ‘stress’ = Bad. But stress is merely a force acting upon you. Otherwise known as a stimulus. This could be expressed as ‘being outside of your comfort zone’ or dealing with ‘change.’ Ultimately it’s adaptation to stress that determines how we advance as people, the same way a plant generally grows towards the stress of sunshine, or adapts to the chemical makeup of the soil it’s in, or responds to rain.
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November 27, 2016 | Inspiration of the Day by Nate Moore, Quora
If you want a person to grow stronger, you have to challenge said person. When you want to strengthen yourself in some realm, you have to challenge yourself in order to grow. This is almost like saying getting out of your comfort zone, but a challenge has a purpose. I can make myself uncomfortable doing anything undesired, but what is the end goal?
November 26, 2016 | Thought of the Day by Sean Mullen, Quora
Too many leaders, especially new ones, fall into the trap of thinking that they have to be the ones doing everything, coming up with all the new ideas, “running the show”, fixing things, dispensing good advice right and left. Because after all, why else are you in charge, right? Wrong. The best leaders are not those who try to do it themselves, but those who can inspire, guide, and motivate others to do their best, and even bring out things in others that they didn’t think they were capable of. A good leader shines. A great leader makes other people shine.
November 25, 2016 | Word of the Day by Garrick Saito, Quora
How people perceive you is not based soley upon looks.
I have a very good friend whom I’ve known for many, many years. He is not a good looking man and while not extraordinarily grotesque looking, you’d never look at him twice if you walked past him on the street. But he’s the funniest guy I’ve ever met. Very friendly, cares about people and one of the nicest guys you’d ever want to meet. Everywhere he goes, he has this instant rapport with people he doesn’t know and can talk about virtually anything. His stories are off-the-wall entertaining and he just has a unique ability to ‘connect’ with people. Never a problem attracting the opposite sex. When we’ve met his very good-looking dates, we’d jokingly ask her, “What are you doing with this ugly bastard?”
When I met him, we were still in college working part time in direct sales. To encourage new recruits, the sales manager would ask them to get up in front of the group at sales meetings and describe why they think they made the sale.
This was his first meeting. He didn’t know a soul there. I asked him as he was standing before the group, “Why do you think you made the sale?” He replied, “Because I’m handsome!”
The entire room was in stitches and that was the start of a friendship that would last a lifetime. The moral of the story is: Don’t be so fixated on the things that you can do nothing about. You’ll make yourself crazy, if you do.
Instead, work towards continually improving yourself, be friendly and kind to people, further developing your self-esteem and personality. It goes a very long way. These things are far more important than outward appearances (which will inevitably fade in time anyway).
November 24, 2016 | Reflection of the Day by The Quora Community
Even if most people do care more than they can assume about your looks, not everyone is like that. And even to people who are very influenced by beauty, you surely have many other qualities that make you a perfectly loveable and valid person, so you should be able to find a significant other, or a career, or, well, live a happy life. The point is highlighting them, and using them to make you confident. Self-esteem is more important than looks to have a plentiful life; I have seen very attractive people ruin their lives for lack of it.
Work on your self-esteem. Work it out, just like a muscle. Find rewards that cement it, be it intellectual or social achievements or whatever, and work hard for them. Society is constantly placing value on beauty, but a sassy, confident, intelligent, self-loving woman will be a better partner, in business or life, than the cutest bimbo.
November 23, 2016 | Note of the Day by Ethan Hein, Quora
Dress well, be well-read and well-spoken, develop talents and a sense of humor. Looks aren’t everything. Musical ability in particular has a way of making people much more attractive than just their facial bone structure or physique would suggest. Ella Fitzgerald was a plain-looking person who became gorgeous by virtue of being, well, Ella Fitzgerald. She was never pretty, but she was certainly beautiful, and she only became more beautiful as she got older.
November 22, 2016 | Showerthought of the Day by The Reddit Community
The Bachelor” is a show about a man dating multiple women at once that is primarily watched by women who hate men who date multiple women at once.
Of all the bodily functions that could be contagious, thank god it’s the yawn.
Your dog doesn’t know you can make mistakes. When you trip over him in the dark, he thinks you got up just to kick him in the head.
Shrek is a movie about loving yourself for who you are despite your physical appearance, but during the entire film they are making fun of Lord Farquaad for being short instead of all his other detestable qualities.
If you go to jail for tax evasion, you’re living off of taxes as a result of not paying taxes.
November 21, 2016 | Thought of the Day by Lemony Snicket
Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the world, and that nobody loves them now and that nobody will ever love them, and that they will never have a decent night’s sleep again and will spend their lives wandering blearily around a loveless landscape, hoping desperately that their circumstances will improve, but suspecting, in their heart of hearts, that they will remain unloved forever. The best thing to do in these circumstances is to wake somebody else up, so that they can feel this way, too.
November 20, 2016 | Inspiration of the Day by Sarah Dessen
No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater…The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And that’s the key. It’s like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship has to be the biggest piece. Love can make up for a lot.
November 19, 2016 | Thought of the Day by Lady Gaga
Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn’t love you anymore.
November 18, 2016 | Word of the Day by Robert Fulghum
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
November 17, 2016 | Reflection of the Day by C. JoyBell C.
You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won’t mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever…. connections are made with the heart, not the tongue.
November 16, 2016 | Note of the Day by John Green
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
November 15, 2016 | Showerthought of the Day by The Reddit Community
When people think about travelling to the past, they worry about accidentally changing the present, but no one in the present really thinks they can radically change the future.
If you aren’t at least a little ashamed of your country’s history, you don’t know your country’s history.
American journalism has gotten to the point that readers are criticized for not fact checking news articles.
Every time you like, upvote or thumb up someone’s post or comment, you are making their day better, at the cost of nothing.
There should by a gym where the membership fee is extremely high at the beginning of the month but you earn money back for every day you end up going and working out for at least an hour.
November 14, 2016 | Thought of the Day by Alexandre Dumas
There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, ‘Wait and Hope.
November 13, 2016 | Inspiration of the Day by Ayn Rand
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it’s yours.
November 12, 2016 | Thought of the Day by Chad Sugg
If you’re reading this…
Congratulations, you’re alive.
If that’s not something to smile about,
then I don’t know what is.
November 11, 2016 | Word of the Day by Mother Teresa
I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, ‘How many good things have you done in your life?’ rather he will ask, ‘How much love did you put into what you did?
November 10, 2016 | Reflection of the Day by Haruki Murakami
Once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.
November 9, 2016 | Note of the Day by Theodore Roosevelt
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
November 8, 2016 | Showerthought of the Day by The Reddit Community
Bushing your teeth is the only time you clean your skeleton.
Making fun of an overweight person at the gym is like making fun of a homeless person at a job fair.
The person who would proof read Hitler’s speeches was a grammar Nazi.
A bachelor party is more appropriate after a divorce than before a wedding.
On any given day in a hospital, you can find people having the best day of their life, the worst day of their life, the first day of their life, and the last day of their life all under one roof.
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