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Irie Quote of the Day

Welcome to these Irie Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.

Urgency is a grim taskmaster.
Escape time, and life becomes irie.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
("Irie" is a Jamaican word for being at total peace
with your current state of being.)

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied
by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
- Iris Murdoch

Falling out of love is very enlightening.
For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
- Iris Murdoch

No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)

Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow

Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong

Say NO to the demands of the world.
Say YES to the longings of your own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu

Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb

No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha

He who can no longer pause to wonder
and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead;
his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein

Clouds come floating into my life,
no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky.
- Rabindranath Tagore

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
If we did not sometimes taste of adversity,
prosperity would not be so welcome.
- Anne Bradstreet

I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer

I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore

The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous

If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa

This isn't a rehearsal or a practice life.
This is your real life - your one and only real life.
There are no retakes - no second chances.
Begin now - live full out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinion for or against.
- Osho

No one knows what he can do until he tries.
- Publilius Syrus

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

No wind favors he who has no destined port.
- Montaigne

Where ignorance is our master,
there is no possibility of real peace.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

People in their handlings of affairs
often fail when they are about to succeed.
If one remains as careful at the end
as he was at the beginning,
there will be no failure.
- Lao Tzu

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
- George Washington Carver

Who never walks save where he sees
men's tracks, makes no discoveries.
- J. G. Holland

When an idea reaches critical mass
there is no stopping the shift
its presence will induce.
- Marianne Williamson

A "No" uttered from deepest conviction
is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please,
or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

None is more impoverished than the one who has no gratitude.
Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves,
and spend without fear of bankruptcy.
- Fred De Witt Van Amburgh

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Your informed, "no," to a particular service
allows another to offer their
gifted and unreserved, "yes."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

If you have no confidence in self,
you are twice defeated in the race of life.
With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
- Anonymous

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones;
to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson

Action is no less necessary than thought
to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

This is no time for ease and comfort.
It is time to dare and endure.
- Winston Churchill

Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa

Remember, there are no mistakes, only lessons.
Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible.
- Cherie-Carter Scotts

No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.
- Ram Dass

The River of Life has no judgments.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game,
and no matter how great your natural talent,
there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
- Jack Nicklaus

Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer

There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela

There is joy in work.
There is no happiness except in the realization
that we have accomplished something.
- Henry Ford

No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank

Never allow a person to tell you NO
who doesn't have the power to say YES.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything.
You are you and that is the beginning and the end -
no apologies, no regrets.
- Henry Kissinger

About leadership: No person can be a great leader
unless he takes genuine joy
in the successes of those under him.
- W. A. Nance

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered
with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
- Winston Churchill

If a warrior is to succeed at anything,
the success must come gently,
with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.
- Carlos Castaneda

Life is change. Without change, there is no life.
Why then do we so fight against change?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus

There are no right answers to wrong questions.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

Nearly everything you do is of no importance,
but it is important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

There is no love without forgiveness,
and there is no forgiveness without love.
- Bryant H. McGill

We cling to our own point of view,
as though everything depended on it.
Yet our opinions have no permanence;
like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
- Zhuangzi

No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus

Listen to all, plucking a feather
from every passing goose,
but, follow no one absolutely.
- Chinese Proverb

There is no substitute for hard work.
- Thomas Edison

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie