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Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling.
- Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam
Better never to have met you
In my dream
Than to wake and reach
For hands that are not there.
- Otomo No Yakamochi
Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer.
- Morihei Ueshiba, The Art of Peace
Why should I be bitter
About someone who was
A complete stranger
Until a certain moment
In a day that has passed.
- Saigyo
When I gathered flowers
For my girl
From the top of the plum tree
The lower branches
Drenched me with dew.
- Kakinomoto No Hitomaro
When one rows, it is not the rowing which moves the ship. Rowing is only a magical ceremony by means of which, one compels a demon to move the ship.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
There are no such things as strangers, only friends that we have not yet met.
- Anonymous
Someday
My friend:
We will
know Love -
Of its existence.
In time
Existing within it:
becoming part of it.
You and I.
- Jonivan
The sum of man's problems come from
His inability to be alone in a silent room.
- Pascal
If we do discover a complete theory of the universe It should in time be understood in broad principle by everyone, not just a few scientists. Then we, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people will be able to take part in the discovery of why it is that we and the universe exist. If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason: for then we would know the mind of God.
- Stephen W. Hawking, A Brief History of Time
I cannot forget
The perfumed dusk inside the
Tent of my black hair
As we woke to make love
After a long night of love.
- Marichiko
To love somebody
Who doesn't love you,
Is like going to a temple
And worshipping the behind
Of a wooden statue
Of a hungry devil.
- Lady Kasa
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In Thy Light, Shall We See Light
- Columbia University's Alma Mater
A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you . . . Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself alone, one question . . . Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it is of no use.
- Carlos Castaneda, The Teachings of Don Juan
And when the future hinges on the next words that are said, Don't let logic interfere, believe your heart instead.
- Philip Robison
No purifier equals knowledge,
and in time
the man of perfect discipline
discovers this in his own spirit.
Faithful, intent, his senses
subdued, he gains knowledge;
gaining knowledge,
he soon finds perfect peace.
- Bhagavad-Gita 4:38
One should remember
man's spirit as the guide,
the primordial poet,
smaller than an atom,
granter of all things,
in form inconceivable,
the color of the sun
beyond darkness.
- Bhagavad-Gita 8:9
This is the use of memory:
For liberation-not less of love but expanding
Of love beyond desire, and so liberation
From the future as well as the past.
- T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding III, The Four Quartets
I met a solid rowing friend and asked about the Race. How fared it with the wind, I said, When stroke increased the pace? You swung it forward mightily, you heaved it greatly back. Your muscles rose in knotted lumps, I almost heard the crack. And while we roared and rattled too, your eyes were fixed like glue. What thought went flying through your mind, how fared it, Five, with you? But Five made answer solemnly, I heard them fire a gun, No other mortal thing I heard until the Race was done.
- R.C. Lehman
The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say.
- Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam
The Earth has music for those who listen.
- ? Some Lit. Hum. Student should know ?
Nuke A Gay Whale For Christ.
- American Bumper Sticker
If we shadows have offended,
Think but this and all is mended,
That you have but slumber'd here
While these visions did appear.
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding but a dream,
Gentles, do not reprehend:
If you pardon we will mend.
And, as i am an honest puck,
If we have unearned luck
Now to 'scape to serpent's tongue,
We will make ammends, ere long;
Else the Puck a liar call.
So, goodnight unto you all.
Give me your hands, if we be friends,
And Robin shall restore ammends.
- Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream (V, 1)
She should have died hereafter;
There would have beem a time for such a word.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps on this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candel!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
- Shakepeare, Macbeth (V, 5)
Friends, Romans, countrymen
Lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus
hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault;
And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it.
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest, -
For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men, -
Come i to speak in Caesar's funeral.
- Shakespeare, Caesar
Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took
And each doth good turns now unto the other.
When that mine eye is famish'd for a look,
Or heart in love with sighs himself doth smother,
With my love's picture then my eye doth feast
And the painted banquet bids my heart.
Another time mine eye is my heart's guest
And in his thoughts of love doth share a part.
So, either by thy picture or my love,
Thyself away art present still with me;
For thou not father than my thoughts canst move,
And I am still with them and they with thee;
Or, if they sleep, thy picture in my sight
Awakes my heart to heart's and eye's delight.
- Shakespeare, Sonnet XLVII
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou are more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd:
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
- Shakespeare, Sonnet XVIII
The more you sweat in Peacetime, The less you bleed during War.
- Chinese Proverb
Even the greatest of men cannot rejoice in a friend's triumph without envy.
- ???, Excerpt from Man Enough by Dr. Frank Pittman
Rowing is a sport for dreamers. As long as you put in the work, you can own the dream. When the work stops, the dream disappears.
- Jim Dietz, Rowing Coach, USCGA
Razors pain you;
Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you;
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smells awful;
You might as well live.
- Dorothy parker
Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
- Oscar Wilde
The true Black Belt is the white belt of a beginner, stained by the dried blood and sweat of the owner.
The willingness to sacrifice is the prelude to freedom.
- Pesach Seder
Flatter me, and I may not believe you.
Criticize me, and I may not like you.
Ignore me, and I may not forgive you.
Encourage me, and I may not forget you.
- William Arthur Ward
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Wisest is he who knows he does not know.
- Old Eastern Saying
Greif and sorrow do not come to us by chance, they are sent to us by the Divine Mercy for our own Perfecting.
- 'Abdu`l Baha'
To touch is to experience, but to feel is to live.
- Loren Klein
I go by many names, under many skies, doing many things, yet am always at the same place. I eat up its power, reveling in anguish. I love, I lie, I am only a human. This is my life, no trespassing. Please.
- The Lord Greycloak of Raven's Hill
I'm sure I take rowing too seriously by many peoples standards- but, they are not rowing people.
- Stuyvesant B. Pell (Princeton '53)
When I Die, I want to go like my grandfather did, peacefully in his sleep. Not yelling and screaming, like all the passengers in his car!
- It's a joke!
Read a rowing story..."In the beginning..."
When will I learn? The answers to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle! They're on TV!
- Homer Simpson
Read "Half Crazed Rower" by M. Sullivan...
Keep your face to the sunshine and you can never see the shadow.
- Helen Keller
Read English is Tough Stuff...
If you move from what is to what may be, you pass over a bridge which takes you from Hell to Paradise. And the strangest thing: a Paradise made of precisely the same material of which Hell is made. It is only the perception of the order of the materials that differs...
- Odysseas Elytis from Open Book
But if you build your life on dreams it's prudent to recall; a man with moonlight in his hands has nothing there at all.
- Don Quixote N.B. This truth sucks.
I am impregnated with myself, and when I know myself, I'll deliver.
- Anna Gross
All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
For S.B.
If ever you should need my life, come and take it.
- The Sea Gull
No problem is so big and complicated that it can't be run away from.
- Peanuts
I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness,
that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.
- F. Sagan
Fear not growing old, it is a priveledge granted to far too few... too few.
That which was hard to endure is sweet to remeber.
What's enough love?
A little more than anyone ever gets.
- Charly
Each one stands on the heart of the earth,
impaled by a ray of sunlight. And suddenly,
it's evening.
- S. Quasimodo
There's nothing wrong with building dream castles
as long as you don't try to move in.
We are torn between a craving to
know and the despair of having known.
- F. Sagan
Qui paient ses dettes, sont riches.
Life is but a walking shadow,
a poor player that struts and
frets his hour upon the stage
and then is heard of no more.
It is a tale told by an idiot,
full of sound and fury,
signifying nothing.
- Shakespeare
There are two tragedies in life.
One is not to get your heart's desire.
The other is to get it.
- Shaw
The more sorrow one encounters,
the more joy one can contain.
- The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran
Wasting time won't make any difference to eternity.
When first born we cry for coming
into this stage of fools.
- Lear
Take the clouds from your eyes
and see me as I really am.
- Don Quixote
What makes life worth living?
To be born with the gift of laughter
and sense that the world is mad.
- S. Searamouche
Yesterday is a cancelled check.
Tomorrow is a promisary note.
Today is cash...
Spend it wisely.
Love without reason lasts the longest.
To be a woman's first lover means nothing-
To be the last is the important thing.
Every man beareth the whole
stamp of the human condition.
- Montaigne
Often it is the most deserving people
who cannot help loving
those who destroy them.
- Gertrude, Herman Hesse
On a clear day you can see a long long time ago.
There is no such thing as happiness,
just lesser shades of melancholy.
Happiness is the shadow of things past
which the fools shall take for that
which is to be.
- Francis Thompson
A man is a god in ruins.
- R. W. Emerson
A man is a little soul
carrying around a courpse.
- M. Aurelius
Don't waste your youth growing up.
Those who flow through life
as life flows, feel no wear...
feel no tear... need no mending...
no repair.
- Laotzu
The question is no longer between violence and non-violence; It is between non-violence and non-existance.
- Martin Luther King Junior
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
I would rather labor on earth in service to another;
To a man who is landless, with little to live on,
Than be king over all the dead.
- Odyssey, Homer
The strong do what they have the power to do
and the weak accept what they have to accept.
- History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides
Do not be led astray by a false sense of honour-- a thing which often brings men to ruin when they are faced with an obvious danger that somehow affects their pride.
- History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides
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Read this interesting point of view.....
Every week we ought to have one hour for recieving letters, then go take a bath.
- Nietzsche
Shallow water easily becomes disturbed and murky.
I see no virtue where I smell no sweat.
Somewhere, someone is practicing, and when you meet him in face to face competition, he will win.
Rivers of truth taste the same.
- Old Tibetan (Buddhist) Saying
Badness can be caught in great abundance, easily;
the road to her is level, and she lives near by.
But Good is harder, for the gods have placed
in front of her much sweat; the road is steep
And long and rocky atr the first, but when
You reach the top, she is not hard to find.
- Hesiod, Works and Days
Love they to live that honor and love have.
-Shakespeare, 'Richard II'
As a rule,
Man's a fool.
When it's hot
He wants it cool;
When its cool
He wants it hot.
Always wanting
What is not.
We must accept the truth, even if it changes our point of view.
If it makes you happy, It can't be that bad.
When I was young, I could remember anything, Whether it happened or not.
- Mark Twain
The term "incorporeal" is properly applied only to the void, which cannot act or be acted on. Since the soul can act and be acted upon, it is corporeal.
- Epicurus
Men imagine that celestial bodies are divine yet ascribe to them purposes inconsistent with divinity; and they anticipate eternal suffering after death. Peace of mind follows freedom from such fears, and will be gained if we trust to our immediate feelings and sensations.
- Epicurus
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you have now was once among the things you only hoped for.
- The Vatican Sayings, Epicurus
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
- The Vatican Sayings, Epicurus
We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help when in need.
- The Vatican Sayings, Epicurus
Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
- The Vatican Sayings, Epicurus
We alternate between desire and regret.
- On the Private life, Seneca
God is in the details.
Necessity is an evil; but there is no necessity for continuing to live subject to necessity.
- The Vatican Sayings, Epicurus
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin
Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.
- Matthew, 19.24
If you gaze for long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Nietzsche
Making love with you
Is like drinking sea water.
The more I drink
The thirstier I become,
Until nothing can slake my thirst
But to drink the entire sea.
- Marichiko
Anything more than the truth would be too much.
- Robert Frost
The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.
- Albert Einstein
One world at a time.
- Thoreau, when asked about the hereafter
I like reality.
It tastes of bread.
- Jean Anouilh
When an ordinary man attains knowledge, he is a sage;
when a sage attains understanding, he is an ordinary man.
- Zen Saying
Just before she died, Gertrude Stein asked: "What is the answer?" No answer came.
She laughed and said: "In that case what is the question?" Then she died.
Every day people are straying away from church and going back to God.
- Lenny Bruce
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
- Mark Twain
At the ancient pond
a frog plunges into
the sound of water.
- Basho
This world of dew
is only a world of dew,
and yet.
- Issa
Everybody laughs in the same language.
- Anonymous
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I have nothing, I owe much, the rest I leave to the poor . . .
- The last dying words of Oscar Wilde
Tomorrow or next life- which comes first, we will never know.
- Old Tibetan Buddhist Saying
Of all footsteps, that of the elephant is supreme; Of all mindfull meditations, that on death is supreme.
- Milarepa
If you want to know your past life, look into your present condition;
if you want to know your future, look into your present action.
- Padmisambha
Even though it's hard, it's easy.
- Hesiod
America is my country;
Paris is my home town.
- Gertrude Stein
Sometimes I just wish it were greener on my side.
- Chris Loncar
In the end, there will be no judges . . . only witnesses to my greatness.
- Anyone know? Bible?
Like - what's the point of poetry when you can like - uh - talk?
- Jon Spiegel
Virtue will take up arms against savagery,
And the battle will be short.
For the courage of old is not yet dead
In Italian hearts.
- Petrarch, Italia Mia, II. 93-6.
For the whole earth is the sepulcher of famous men,
not only are they commemorated in columns and
inscriptions in their own country but in foreign
lands there dwells also an unwritten memorial of
them graven not on stone but in the hearts of men.
- Pericles' Funeral Oration, V c. B.C.
If rulers take too much grain
People rapidly starve;
If rulers take too much freedom
People easily rebel;
If rulers take too much happiness.
People gladly die.
By not interfering the sage improves the people's lives.
- Tao Te Ching
The trade of governing has always been
monopolized by the most ignorant and the
most rascally individuals of mankind.
- Thomas Paine
The trouble with our times is that the
future is not what it used to be.
- Paul Valery
The saddest moment in a person's life comes but once.
It is well to remember that the entire universe,
with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
- John Andrew Holmes
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot;
others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
- Pablo Picasso
I've told you for the fifty-thousandth time,
stop exagerating.
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Lift the stone and you will find me.
Cleave the wood and I am there.
- Jesus
1. Out of clutter, find simplicity.
2. From discord, find harmony.
3. In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein, The Three Rules of Work
When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything.
- Shunryu Suzuki
Should you desire the great tranquility, prepare to sweat white beads.
- Hakuin
Knock, and he'll open the door.
Vanish, and he'll make you shine like the sun.
Fall, and he'll raise you to the heavens.
Become nothing, and he'll turn you into everything.
- Rumi
It is not the same to talk of bulls as to be in the Bullring.
- Spanish Proverb
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found it without it.
- G. K. Chesterton
Pai-chang wished to send a monk to open a new monastery. He told his pupils that whoever answered a question most ably would be appointed. Placing a water jug on the ground, he asked: "Who can say what this is without calling it its name?" The head monk said: "No one can call it a wooden sandal." Kuei-shan, the cooking monk, tipped over the jug with his foot and went out. Pai-chang laughed and said: "The head monk loses." And Kuei-shan became the Master of the new monastery.
- Zen Mondo
Our own life is the instrument with
which we experiment with truth.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Computers are useless.
They can only give you answers.
- Pablo Picasso
Meditation is not a means to an end.
It is both the means and the end.
- Krishnamurti
The more you know,
the less you understand.
- Tao Te Ching
From myself, I am copper,
Through you, friend, I am gold;
From myself I am a stone,
But through you I am a gem.
- Rumi
He who is calm disturbs neither himself nor others.
- Epicurus, The Vatican Sayings
Physicists define stress as force per unit area.
The rest of humanity defines stress as physics.
Today's jargon file addition: "Salmon Day"...
The experience of spending an entire day
swimming upstream only to get screwed in the end.
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Engineering: "How will this work?"
Science: "Why will this work?"
Management: "When will this work?"
Liberal Arts: "Do you want fries with that?"
Duct tape is like The Force:
it has a light side, a dark side,
and it holds the universe together.
Unix - it's a nice place to live, but you wouldn't want to visit there.
"In any non-trivial axiomatic system, there are
true theorems which cannot be proven."
-- Goedel
"Shit happens."
-- Ragman
"Let it be."
-- Lennon
Most men pursue pleasure
with such breathless haste
that they hurry past it.
- SØren Kierkegaard
LIFE: NOBODY GETS OUT ALIVE
- J. Q. Pelegano
Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished
by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.
- Doug Larson
Able was I, ere I saw Elba.
- Napoleon, upon his death bed.
Nature is mortal; we shall outlive her. When all the suns and nebulae have passed away, each one of you will still be alive. Nature is only the image, the symbol; but it is the symbol my beliefs invite me to use. We are summoned to pass through Nature, beyond her, into that splendour which she fitfully reflects. And in there, in beyond Nature, we shall eat of the tree of life...
- Peter B. Carroll
Women seem wicked when your unwanted.
- Jim Morrison
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man.
- Charles Alexander Eastman (Ohiyesa) Santee Sioux
Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
If you understand, things are as they are.
If you do not understand, things are as they are.
- Gensha
"God is dead."
- Nietzche
"Nietzche is dead."
- God
"Nietzche is God."
- The Dead
Once you have the means of life, you must practice virtue.
- Phocylides
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If God had meant for us to be naked, we'd have been born that way.
- Mark Twain
We mock the things we are to be.
Long and hard is the way that up towards heaven, leads us to the light.
- Dante
The heart has its reasons that reason cannot know.
- Pascal
It takes, on average, about fifteen years to become an over-night success.
"Freedom" is just another word for "nothing to lose".
- Janis Joplin
Don't say you don't have enough time.
You have exactly the same number of hours
per day that were given to Helen Keller,
Louis Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa,
Leonardo DaVinci, Thomas Jefferson, and
Albert Einstein.
Knowing is not enough;
We must Apply.
Willing is not enough;
We must Do.
- Goethe
This statement is false.
My house says to me, "do not leave me, for here dwells your past."
And the road says to me, "Come and follow me, for I am your future."
And I say to both my house and the road,
"I have no past, nor have I a future.
If I stay here, there is a going in my staying;
and if I go there is a staying in my going.
Only love and death change all things."
- Kahlil Gibran
Half of the world's misery comes from ignorance. The other half comes from intelligence.
- Bonar Thompson
... the palaces of kings are built on the
ruins of the bowers of paradise.
- Thomas Paine, Common Sense
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps
of the wise: seek what they sought.
- Basho
Loving is so short and forgeting so long.
- Pablo Neruda
Do not work too hard -- it's bad for the soul.
- a e b
No one can promise you tomorrow.
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the strength to change those I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Monitor your thoughts; they become words.
Monitor your words; they become actions.
Monitor your actions; they become habits.
Monitor your habits, they become character.
Keep track of your character,
For it becomes your future.
- ixoyc
You have to walk up each step to get to the top of the staircase.
The modifications mankind have undergone, and are still undergoing, result from a law underlying the whole organic creation; and provided the human race continues, and the constitution of things remains the same, those modifications must end in completeness. As surely as the tree becomes bulky when it stands alone, and slender if one of a group; as surely as a blacksmith's arm grows large, and the skin of a laborer's hand thick; as surely as the eye tends to become long-sighted in the sailor, and short-sighted in the student; as surely as a clerk acquires rapidity in writing and calculation; as surley as the musician learns to detect an error of a semitone amidst what seems to others a very babel of sound; as surely as a passion grows by indulgence and dimisishes when restrained; as surely as a disregarded conscience becomes inert, and one that is obeyed active; as surely as there is any meaning in such terms as habit, custom, practice; -- so surely must the human faculties be moulded into complete fitness for the social state; so surely must evil and immorality disappear; so surley must man become perfect.
- Herbert Spencer
Life is FULL; it's PEOPLE who are short.
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man.
- Charles Alexander Eastman (Ohiyesa) Santee Sioux
Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
- Sam Brown, Washington Post, January 26, 1977
Esthlos, signifies one who is, who possesses reality, who is actual.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Geneology of Morals
Not how one soul comes close to another
but how it moves away shows me their kinship
and how much they belong together.
- Nietzsche, Aphorism 251
A few hours of mountain climbing turn a villain
and a saint into two rather equal creature.
Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity --
and liberty is added eventually by sleep.
- Nietzsche, Aphorism 263
No victor believes in chance.
- Neitzsche, Aphorism 258
What is the seal of attained freedom?.--
No longer being ashamed in front of oneself.
- Neitzsche, Aphorism 275
I have given a name to my pain and call it "dog":
it is just as faithful, just as obtrusive and
shameless, just as entertaining, just as clever as
any other dog-- and I can scold it and vent my bad moods
on it, as others do with their dogs, servants, and wives.
- Neitzsche, Aphorism 312
It is only by not trusting that
you turn someone into a liar.
- Tao Te Ching
orchestra faintly...
the moonlight on her shoulder
never forgotten
- Brett Brady
Junge Hure, alte Betschwester.
A young whore makes an old nun.
Read James Brown's Man's World.
Captain Segura squeezed out a smaile. It seemed to come from the wrong place like toothpaste when the tube splits.
They both laughed, drinking daiquiries.
It is easy to laugh at the idea of torture on a sunny day.
No one cares what you know until they know how much you care.
- Micah
The best seeing is forgetting the names of things.
- Harvey Mudd
No, the opposite of love is indifference.
- Erin
While they were asleep, they did not realize they were dreaming... but when they awoke, they knew.
Some day will come a great awakening, when we will know this life was like a dream.
- Chuang-Tse
I'd trade all my tomorrows for one single yesterday.
- Me & Boby McGee
You know what charm is: a way of getting the awnswer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.
- Camus
Paul Slazinger says, incidentally, that the human condition can be summer up in just one word, and this is the word: Embarrassment.
- Kurt Vonnegut
No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
... once he drew with one long kiss my whole soul through my lips as sunlight drinketh dew.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Evil will always prevail, because good is dumb.
- Spaceballs
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in
creating out of void, but out of chaos.
- Frankenstein
The noble man is cheifly concerned with wisdom and friendship;
of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter an immortal one.
- Epicurus
Stir a cesspit and a foul stench arises; stir perfum and a delightful fragrance ascends. But the movement is identical.
- St. Augustine
For there is another problem: People are by nature inconstant. It is easy to persuade them of something, but it is difficult to stop them from changing their minds. So you have to be prepared for the moment when they no longer believe.
- Machiavelli
If life was a sitcom, I'd be cancelled in a week.
- Jeremy Sheff
- You complete me.
-Stop ... you had me at hello.
- Jerry Maguire
I think if there is a god, he doesn't exist in you or in me, but in the space in between.
- Before Sunrise
Her eyes were the color of far away love.
- Pablo Neruda
We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.
- Freud
Since feeling is first, who pays attention to the
syntax of things will never wholly kiss you.
- E. E. Cummings
The most violent element in society is ignorance.
- Emma Goldman
Religion is the opiate of the masses.
- Marx
Marxism is the philosophers' opiate.
At the bottom of this pyramid you are either at one side or the other.
But when you get to the top all the points converge into one.
There the eye of God opens.
He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.
- Seneca
The successful people are the ones who can think up stuff for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
- Don Marquis
Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom.
- William Pitt
When I was a child, my mother said to me, "If you become a soldier you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope." Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
- Pablo Picasso
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Read This awsome page of Einstein's quotes.
The only posible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don't.
- Ernest Rutherford
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
- Ernest Rutherford
Float like a butterfly,
sting like an ICBM.
It is no longer adequate to say we will have revolution by any means necessary;
you have to begin to define the means necessary.
- Malcolm X
The road to hell was paved with good intentions.
You cannot rape the willing.
You cannot find yourself, only create yourself.
- Anne Sekel
Running away to get away... you're wearing out your shoes...
- Sly and the Family Stone
Tears are the rinse water of an unhappy heart.
- Raynor Schein
One Life--a gleam of Time between two eternities.
Never a tear bedimes the eye that time and patience cannot dry.
If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would man believe and adore.
To let a fool kiss you is stupid, to let a kiss fool you is worse.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life:
It Goes On.
- Robert Frost
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear
- Mark Twain
The friend I trusted failed me.
This was bad, but not so bad as
though I had failed my friend.
Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If you don't take action, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.
A man convinced against his will, is of the same opinion still.
And where we love is home,
Home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts,
The chain may lengthen, but it never parts.
Sometimes you fear the world is headed for destruction, then you read the ads in the newpaper and you don't care if it is.
Talking comes by nature, silence by wisdom.
The tiniest dewdrop hanging from a blade of grass in the morning is big enough to relect the sunshine and the blue of the sky.
The face is the index to the mind.
Our pleasures are shallow, our sorrows deep.
Happiness is the place between too little and too much.
Only after the last tree has been cut down,
Only after the last river has been poisoned,
Only after the last fish has been caught,
Only then will you realize that money cannot be eaten.
- Cree Indian Prophecy
Not in the clamor of the crowded street,
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng,
but in ourselves one finds triumphs and defeats.
Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you-
not because they are nice, but because you are.
But he who neither thinks himself not learns
From others, is a failure as a man.
- Hesiod, Works and Days
In work there is no shame;
shame is in idleness.
- Hesiod, Works and Days
To save yourself much pain: the bigger your plans
the smaller the group of friends should share in them.
- Hesiod, Elegies
Plenty's destroyed more men than famine's killed,
People who wanted more than was their due.
- Hesiod, Elegies
If you're not a liberal when you're twenty, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative when you're forty, you have no brain.
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
Gladness rules the shipment of new days that lie unopened at the foot of my heart.
- Janet Spivey
To successfully heal and forgive all wounds you must learn to cry, to laugh, and to pray. Each have healing powers of their own. Put all three together and you have the ultimate feelings.
You are but one small part of the Human Be-ing.
- Thunderhorse
Little is the number that think with their own mind and feel with their own heart
- Albert Einstein
Tis better to argue a point and not settle it, than to settle a point and not argue it.
- J. Joubert
Against boredom, even the gods themselves struggle in vain.
- Nietzsche
I used to complain because I had no shoes, then one day I mat a man who had no feet....
The soul would not be a rainbow, had the eyes no tears.
Nothing is as unqulifiedly good as a good will.
- Immanuel Kant
I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life composes.
- Kahlil Gibran
Even a fool knows we can't reach the stars, but that doesn't stop the wise man from trying.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
Those who in the midst of chaos can hold their heads together when no else can, can truly say they are a man.
Success is not defined by obtaining everything you want, but by appreciating everything you have.
If you say my eyes are beautiful, it's because they're looking at you.
Those who do not read..are no better off than those who can't.
- Old Chinese Proverb
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams...
- John Barrymore
You can trust the Americans to do the right thing,
after they have tried every other alternative.
- Winston Churchill, 1941
Everything that can be invented had been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commisioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
Integrity needs no rules.
- Albert Camus
Man is the only creature who has the ability to blush, or the need.
- Mark Twain
Computers have reaked more havoc on mankind than any other creation,
next to, perhaps, hand-grenades and tequila.
The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
The mind covers more ground than the heart, but goes less far.
Fools wander, the wise travel.
The fool does in the end what the wise do in the beginning.
Virtue consists not in abstaining from vice but in not desiring it.
Gustobus, Bustobus, et Coloribus non est disputandum.
Tastes, Busts, and Colors are not disputable.
People who only attempt the possible lack imagination.
The meaning of life is to give life meaning.
Luck is not chance, it's toil. Fortune's expensive smile is earned.
- Emily Dickinson
And think not, you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course
- Kahlil Gibran
Love is the fire of life; it either consumes or purifies.
Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Laughter is the best form of Medicine.
For when we laugh we neither grieve, think, or feel.
- Eugene Lam
Moderation in all things, including moderation.
- Larry S.
Life is short.
Play naked.
A wealthy man sits fishing. His mansion sits adjacent to a lake. Upon waking early, he eats breakfast and gathers his fishing rod and some bait. Sitting next to this lake he spends his time.
Every day, a few feet down the water he sees another man: a poor man, who lives in a rickety shack. Every day, the poor man fishes with a stick and some string. He sits only an hour or so, rarely catching more than two fish. He collects what the lake gives him and goes home.
The years passed, and frustrated from too much thinking, the rich man approached the poor:
"Please excuse me, but we have seen each other fishing here every day for the past few years, and I have been thinking. You see, every day, you sit here for only an hour or two catching only a few fish and then you head home. I could not help but wondering why you don't stay longer. You see, if you could just stay one or two hours more each day, you could sell your extra fish in town. You could get enough money to get a better fishing rod, and then catch more fish. You could eventually get a boat and a net. Then with even more fish, you could hire another man and another boat. Soon enough you would not even have to be on the boats all day; you could have a huge company earning you a lot of money. Then, you could easily spend you days fishing alone, for only as long as you would like. You would be able to sit here as long as you want, doing what you want."
"But, sir, I don't understand," said the poor man, "that's what I do now."
Every morning as a man eats his breakfast, he hears the whistling of a shepherd bringing his flock of sheep up a mountain. The man thinks of the long walk and the hard work the shepherd must have. Yet the shepherd's songs are more beautiful than any he has ever heard: they are filled with unmatched joy and inspiring enthusiasm. It is so amazing, he thinks, that someone with so hard a life could sing such beautiful melodies.
He decides to one day leave some money on the trail outside his house in a satchel for the shepherd. He wakes up early to place the gift and waits, peeking through a shudder to see if he will take it. Surely, the whistling shepherd comes up the trail, and without stopping, he picks up the bag and continues whistling on his way without opening it.
The next day he passed without a sound. The next week: not a sound. Months pass without a note of whistling. This troubled the man. So one day he waited by his door and when the shepherd passed on his daily route, the man ran outside:
"Excuse me, sir, excuse me. You see, I awoke every day to hear your whistling - the most beautiful sounds I have ever heard - filled with such spirit and joy - unmatched levels of happiness - and a few months ago, you stopped, and I have not heard you since. Where has that joy gone? What could make such feelings disappear?"
"You see, friend, a few months ago I was walking along when I came across a satchel on the ground which I picked up. When I got to the pastures, I opened it to find a huge amount of money. I have been thinking ever since of what to do with the money - I cannot sleep and I cannot figure out what to do."
The ones we call crazy for trying to change the world are the ones that do.
The cure for anything is salt water- sweat, tears, or the sea.
- Isak Dinesen
In this world of change, nothing which comes stays, and nothing which goes is lost.
- Anne Swetchine
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
- Hellen Keller
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
- Florence Nightingale
There is no place to hide when fear is the seeker.
- Lauren Bezaire
Beauty is not caused - it is, chase it and is ceases, chase it not and it abides.
-Emily Dickinson
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
- Jessamyn West
To achieve the possible you must attempt the impossible.
To be the best that you can be, you must dream of being more.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
- Archimedes
Trust in Allah, but tie your camel.
- Arabian Proverb
The 100% American is 99% idiot.
- Geurge Bernard Shaw
We, the willing
Led by the unknowing
Doing the impossible
For the ungrateful
We've done so much
For so long
With so little
We are now qualified
To do anything
With nothing
Honesty entails vulnerability. Learn to be more vulnerable.
-Lisa Sarma
The inconsitant enforcement of unrespected laws begets ressentiment and rebellion.
If the just do not repect their own code how can anyone else?
- A. H. Gelbard
Do not wait for leaders.
Do it alone, person to person.
- Mother Teresa,
It's O.K. to have a Rolls Royce ego as
long as you don't have a bicycle brain.
- Jesse Jackson
If money could talk, it would say goodbye.
If life were a novel, then dead would mark the end of the first chapter...(Kelly Nelson)
Great men may die, but there ideas won't. (Kelly Nelson)
Birds of the same feather flock together.
If you don't do it, you'll never know what would have happened if you had done it. (Ashleigh Brilliant) It's a
small world, but I wouldn't like to have to paint it.
If God had meant us to take showers he would have put our armpits on top of our shoulders.
Kindness has converted more sinners, than zeal, eloquence or learning. (F. W. Faber)
Knowing what to say is not always necessary; just the presence of a caring friend can make a world of difference. (Sheri Curry)
There is no such thing as government money, only taxpayer money. (William Weld)
Killing time murders opportunities.
You either have to be first, best, or different. (Loretta Lynn)
Make your life a mission, not an intermission. (Arnold Glasgow)
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. (Oprah Winfrey)
Don’t count the Days, Make the Days Count. (Muhammad Ali)
We can’t spell S CCESS without U.
Say what you mean, mean what you say, but don’t say it mean.
If at first you DO succeed, try something harder. (Ann Landers)
Pride is something we have. Vanity is something others have.
People who are often in a hurry imagine they are energetic, when in most cases they are simply inefficient. (Sydney J. Harris)
Sometimes the best helping hand you can give is a good, firm push. (Joann Thomas)
Trying to squash a rumour is like trying to unring a bell. (Shana Alexander)
Always ride your horse in the direction it is going.
If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything. (Mark Twain)
When everything seems to be going against you, remember the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. (Henry Ford)
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak.
Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. (Winston Churchill)
I used to be lost in the shuffle. Now I just shuffle along with the lost.
Tears will get you sympathy.
Sweat will get you results.
To belittle is to be little.
Don’t think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm. (Malayan proverb)
A good exercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up.
Great minds ... discuss ideas.
Average minds ... discuss events.
Small minds ... discuss people.
A dog thinks: Hey, these people I live with feed me, love me, provide me with a nice warm, dry house, pet me, and take good care of me... They must be Gods!
A cat thinks: Hey, these people I live with feed me, love me, provide me with a nice warm, dry house, pet me, and take good care of me... I must be a God!
The one who makes it, sells it. The one who buys it, never uses it. The one that uses it, never knows that he's using it. What is it?
A coffin.
Hospitality is making your guests feel at home -- even when you wish they were.
Hugs are not measured by quantity; they are measured by quality.
He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
Handicapped is not helpless.
I'd love to make up my mind, but I can't remember where I left it.
History repeats itself, but each time the price goes up.
I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion, I'd be irresponsible too.
I'm serious; it was a joke.
I know UNIX, PASCAL, C, FORTRAN, COBOL, and nineteen other high-tech words.
Fear doesn't overwhelm you; you let fear overwhelm you.
Fat people are harder to kidnap. Everything is possible; just not too probable.
Even the smallest candle burns brighter in the dark.
Even the boldest zebra fears the hungry lion.
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish. (Michelangelo)
Hymns appropriate to the occasion.
Dentist's Hymn -- "Crown Him with Many Crowns"
TV Weatherman's Hymn -- "Showers of Blessing"
Contractor's Hymn -- "The Church's One Foundation"
Tailor's Hymn -- "Holy, Holy, Holy"
Golfer's Hymn -- "There Is a Green Hill Far Away"
Politician's Hymn -- "Standing on the Promises"
IRS Hymn -- "All to Thee"
Gossiper's Hymn -- "Pass it On"
Electrician's Hymn -- "Send the Light"
Shopper's Hymn -- "Sweet By and By"
If you MUST speed on the highway, sing these hymns loudly:
at 45 mph.... "God Will Take Care of Me"
at 55 mph.... "Guide me, O Great Jehovah"
at 65 mph.... "Nearer My God to Thee"
at 75 mph.... "Nearer Still Nearer"
at 85 mph.... "This World is Not My Home"
at 95 mph.... "Lord, I'm Coming Home"
at 100 mph.... "Precious Memories"
Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. -- Abraham Lincoln
When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing. It's the money. -- Kin Hubbard
Nothing is more rewarding than to watch someone who says it can't be done get interrupted by someone actually doing it. - Anon
Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability. --Flowers A. Newhouse
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal. --Hannah More
"To live is to have problems and to solve problems is to grow intellectually" -- J. P. Guilford
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. --Confucius
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. --Robert Frost
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. --Robert F. Kennedy
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. --Aristotle
Do not, on a rainy day, ask you child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching. --Fran Lebowitz
A friend knows how to allow for mere quantity in your talk, and only replies to the quality. --William Dean Howells
Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. --Anna Freud
Humankind has not woven the web of life.
We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
All things are bound together.
All things connect.
Chief Seattle
Follow Your Bliss.
Joseph Campbell
If you can DREAM it,
you can DO it.
Walt Disney
Your talent is God's gift to you.
What you do with it is your gift back to God.
Leo Buscaglia
Dream as if you'll live forever.
Live as if you'll die today.
James Dean
IT'S ALWAYS SOMETHING..
Gilda Radner
Help a worthy cause, support Gilda's Club!
Kindness is wisdom.
Phillip J. Bailey
Imagine...
John Lennon
Service is the rent we pay for being.
It is the very purpose of life,
and not something you do in your spare time.
Marion Wright Edelman
Go to the truth beyond the mind.
Love is the bridge.
Stephen Levine
Love means to love that which is unlovable;
or it is no virtue at all.
G.K. Chesterton
If you learn from your suffering, and really come to
understand the lesson you were taught,
you might be able to help someone else
who's now in the phase you may have just completed.
Maybe that's what it's all about after all...
Anonymous
[about the past]
...the way I see it,
you can either run from it,
or learn from it.
Rafikki to Simba in Disney's The Lion King
Freedom!
Mel Gibson as William Wallace in the Scottish epic Braveheart
The harder you fall,
the higher you bounce.
Anonymous
Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?
Marcel Marceau
People are like stained-glass windows.
They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when the darkness sets in,
their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children:
One is roots.
The other is wings.
Hodding Carter, Jr.
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
Robert Frost
Let your heart guide you.
It whispers, so listen closely.
The Land Before Time
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
Anonymous
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue,
a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Baruch Spinoza
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Knowledge is limited.
Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein
Every man dies.
Not every man truly lives.
Braveheart
Nothing endures but change.
Heraclitus
If I am not for myself, who will be for me?
If I am not for others, what am I?
And if not now, when?
Rabbi Hillel
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Gandhi
Don't smother each other.
No one can grow in the shade.
Leo Buscaglia.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
Eric Butterworth
Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages
to its present state of civilization.
Imagination led Columbus to discover America.
Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.
Imagination has given us the steam engine,
the telephone the talking-machine, and the automobile,
for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities.
So I believe that dreams -- daydreams, you know, with your eyes wide open
and your brain machinery whizzing
--are likely to lead to the betterment of the world.
The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman
most apt to invent, and therefore to foster, civilization.
L. Frank Baum
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius Antonius
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Walt Disney
For fast acting relief
try slowing down.
Lily Tomlin
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
We are what we repeatedly do.
Aristotle
"To laugh often and much,
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to earn the appreciation of honest critics
and endure the betrayal of false friends,
to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others,
to leave the world a bit better,
whether by a healthy child,
a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition;
to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded!"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm not a teacher, but an awakener.
Robert Frost
This above all:
to thine own self be true.
And it must follow as the night the day,
thou canst not then be false to any man.
William Shakespeare
(Hamlet)
Frank Morgan as the Wizard of Oz
To Cowardly Lion:
"As for you my fine friend,
you are a victim of disorganized thinking.
You are under the unfortunate delusion
that simply because you run away from danger,
you have no courage.
You're confusing courage with wisdom.
To Tin Man:
"..and remember, my sentimental friend,
that a heart is not judged by how much you love,
but by how much you are loved, by others.
"If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again,
I won't look any further than my own back yard.
Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with."
The lesson Dorothy learned..
People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
Dankyouveddymuch.
Andy Kaufman as Latka Gravas on Taxi
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
"You have a choice. It may not be a choice you like, but it is still a choice."
Michelle Pfieffer as LouAnne Johnson in Dangerous Minds
"There are no victims in this classroom!"
Michelle Pfieffer as LouAnne Johnson in Dangerous Minds
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
William Blake
When you follow your bliss...
doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors;
and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else.
Joseph Campbell
Shoot for the moon.
Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
Les Brown
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you
for what you are.
Gail Godwin
So many gods, so many creeds,
So many paths that wind and wind,
While just the art of being kind
is all the sad world needs.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
People deal too much with the negative,
with what is wrong.. Why not try and see
positive things, to just touch those things
and make them bloom?
Thich Nhat Hanh
Life is about not knowing, having to change,
taking the moment and making the best of it,
without knowing what's going to happen next.
Delicious ambiguity.
Gilda Radner
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserve your love and affection.
The Buddha
Peace is not something you wish for;
it's something you make,
something you do,
something you are,
and something you give away!
Robert Fulghum
A HUNDRED YEARS FROM NOW
...it will not matter what my bank account was,
the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove...
...but the world may be different
because I was important in the life of a child.
Kathy Davis
Obstacles don't have to stop you.
If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Michael Jordan
Love conquers all.
Virgil
Our real blessings often appear to us
in the shapes of pains, losses and disappointments;
but let us have patience,
and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
Joseph Addison
The meaning of things lies not
in the things themselves,
but in our attitude towards them.
Antoine de Saint Exupery
Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;
And all good things are yours.
Anonymous
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
Source Unknown
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Moliere
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Charles A. Beard
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else,
you will have succeeded.
Maya Angelou
Everyone needs recognition for his accomplishments,
but few people make the need known quite as clearly
as the little boy who said to his father:
"Let's play darts. I'll throw and you say 'Wonderful!'"
The Best of Bits and Pieces
And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
Grandma Moses
If you were going to die soon
and had only one phone call you could make,
who would you call and what would you say?
And why are you waiting?
Stephen Levine
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
And when the night is cloudy,
There is still a light that shines on me,
Shine on until tomorrow, let it be.
John Lennon/Paul McCartney
Then read from the treasured volume
The poem of thy choice,
And lend to the rhyme of the poet
The beauty of thy voice.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Embrace Life.
Source Unknown
A teacher affects eternity;
he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Brooks Adams
You may be deceived if you trust too much,
but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.
Frank Crane
Hey Jude, don't make it bad.
Take a sad song and make it better.
Remember to let her into your heart,
Then you can start to make it better.
John Lennon/Paul McCartney
Try to eliminate the word "SHOULD" from your vocabulary.
..but try doing so though without replacing "SHOULD" with
"OUGHT" or "YOU'D BETTER."
Anonymous
When the old mapmakers
got to the edge of the world,
they used to write,
"Beyond this place, there be dragons."
Barclay Cole (Out of Africa)
La perfection est atteinte non quand
il ne reste rien à ajouter, mais quand
il ne reste rien à enlever.
You know you've achieved perfection in design,
not when you have nothing more to add,
but when you have nothing more to take away.
Antoine de Saint Exupery
Vision: the art of seeing things invisible.
Jonathan Swift
Have faith in your dreams and someday
Your rainbow will come smiling through
No matter how your heart is grieving
If you keep on believing
the dream that you wish will come true
Cinderella
(A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes)
Men argue, Nature acts.
Voltaire
A heavy snowfall disappears into the sea.
What silence!
Folk ZEN Saying
In every woman there is a Queen.
Speak to the Queen and the Queen will answer.
Norwegian Proverb
I just don't have the need to change the way folks think about things.
Joe Lando
As Byron Sully on Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman
"Sometimes, no matter how much faith we have,
we lose people. But you never forget them.
And sometimes, it's those memories that give us the faith to go on."
Monologue from CBS' Early Edition
The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere
and the circumfrence is nowhere.
Empedocles
Ring the bells that still can ring.
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.
Leonard Cohen
The only ZEN you find on the tops of mountains is the ZEN you bring up there.
Robert M. Pirsig
Sometimes I go about in pity for myself,
and all the while
A great wind is bearing me across the sky.
Ojibwa Saying
Our life is frittered away by detail...
Simplify, simplify.
THOREAU
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more
than the metaphysics of books.
Walt Whitman
It is good to have an end to journey toward;
but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
Ursula K. Le Guin
If a man wishes to be sure of the road he treads on,
he must close his eyes and walk in the dark.
St. John of the Cross
Every exit is an entrance somewhere else.
Tom Stoppard
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Alfred North Whitehead
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.
Chinese Proverb
If my heart can become pure and simple,
like that of a child,
I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this.
Kitaro Nishida
A man walking across a field encountered a tiger.
He fled, the tiger chasing after him.
Coming to a cliff, he caught hold of a wild vine
and swung himself over the edge.
The tiger sniffed at him from above.
Terrified, the man looked down to where, far below,
another tiger had come, waiting to eat him.
Two mice, one white, one black, little by little
began to gnaw away at the vine.
The man saw a luscious strawberry near him.
Grasping the vine with one hand, he plucked
the strawberry with the other.
How sweet it tasted!
ZEN Parable
The whole of life lies in the verb seeing.
Tielhard de Chardin
Teach us to delight in simple things,
And mirth that has no bitter springs;
Forgiveness free of evil done,
And love to all men 'neath the sun.
Rudyard Kipling
Late on the third day,
at the very moment when, at sunset,
we were making our way
through a herd of hippopotamuses,
there flashed upon my mind,
unforeseen and unsought, the phrase
REVERENCE FOR LIFE.
Albert Schweitzer
Do I love you because you're beautiful,
Or are you beautiful be cause I love you?
Am I making believe I see in you
A girl (man) to lovely (perfect) to be really true?
Do I want you because you're wonderful
Or are you wonderful because I want you?
Are you the sweet invention of a lover's dream
Or are you really as beautiful as you seem?
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
Lyrics from Cinderella
This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it;
but man will never on his heap of mud keep still...
Joseph Conrad
It is as hard to see one's self
as to look backwards without turning around.
THOREAU
He who knows others is wise,
He who knows himself is enlightened.
Tao Te Ching
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something
but to be someone.
Coco Chanel
...see without looking,
...hear without listening,
...breathe without asking.
Auden
Out of clutter, find Simplicity.
From discord, find Harmony.
In the middle of difficulty lies Opportunity.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Three Rules of Work
He did each single thing as if he did nothing else.
Charles Dickens
...Wait for a time, exactly under the star.
Then, if a little man appears who laughs,
who has golden hair and who refuses to
answer questions, you will know who he is.
If this should happen, please comfort me.
Send me word that he has come back.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
the last words of The Little Prince
MERRILY MERRILY MERRILY MERRILY
Life is but a dream.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts.
Benjamin Disraeli
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
James Lowell
There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living
at what you love; there’s only a scarcity of resolve
to make it happen.
Wayne Dyer
And the wind said:
"May you be as strong as the oak,
yet flexible as the birch;
may you stand tall as the Redwood,
live gracefully as the willow;
and may you always bear fruit
all your days on this earth."
Native American prayer
He who laughs, lasts.
Mary Poole
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
Colin Powell
It is what you do from now on
that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else...
begin to march us steadily backward.
Patrick Stewart
Actor and star fleet captain,
Pomona College Graduation, 1995
We must use time creatively,
and forever realize that the time is always ripe
to do right.
Nelson Mandela
When I left home and faced the realities of the world,
I put my thoughts of God in cold storage for awhile,
because I couldn’t reconcile what I believed,
deep inside, with what was going on around me.
But that early period, when God was
as real as the wind that blew from the sea
through the pine trees in the garden;
left me with inner peace, which, as I grew older, swelled –
until, perforce, I had to open my mind to God again.
Jane Goodall
Make voyages.
Attempt them.
There's nothing else.
Tennesee Williams
Do what you can with what you have where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt
May the road rise to meet you.
May the wind always be at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
the rains fall soft upon your fields, and,
until we meet again,
may God hold you in the palm of his hand.
Irish Blessing
To generalize is to be an idiot.
William Blake
Many candles can be kindled from one candle
without diminishing it.
The Midrash
Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity.
It is what makes nations great and marriages happy.
Phyllis McGinley
Bloom where you are planted.
Nancy Reader Campion's Aunt Grace
You can complain because roses have thorns,
or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
ZIGGY
Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
Voltaire
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
William Blake
The great art of life is sensation,
to feel that we exist, even in pain.
Lord Byron
It is not the truth that makes man great,
but man who makes the truth great.
Confucius
Imagine there's no country.
It isn't hard to do.
Nothing to kill or die for.
And no religion too.
John Lennon
Visit Bagism Online
Our greatest glory is not in never failing,
but in rising up every time we fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Speak when you're angry,
and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Lawrence J. Peter
The way I see it,
if you want the rainbow,
you gotta be willing to put up with the rain.
Dolly Parton
When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
Joseph Heller
Art washes away from the soul
the dust of everyday life.
Pablo Picasso
The last of the human freedoms
is to choose one's attitudes.
Victor Frankl
What the world needs is some
do-give-a-damn pills.
William Menninger
What does not destroy me makes me strong.
Freidrich Nietzsche
Listen with your heart, you will understand.
Grandmother Willow
to Pocahontas in the Disney film, POCAHONTAS
Don't let life discourage you;
everyone who got where he is had to be where he was.
R.L. Evans
Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway
You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
LITTLE THINGS AFFECT LITTLE MINDS.
Benjamin Disraeli
There are some people that if they don't know,
you can't tell 'em.
Louis Armstrong
Appreciation is a wonderful thing;
it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
Voltaire
Age is of no importance
unless you are a cheese.
Billie Burke
God will only give you as much as you can handle.
Anonymous
Talk happiness.
The world is sad enough
Without your woe.
No path is wholly rough.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The one thing you cannot teach a person is COMMON SENSE.
Anonymous
Let the good times roll.
Cajun Motto
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination;
do not become the slave of your model.
Vincent Van Gogh
You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
Anonymous
Life is a big canvas, throw all the paint on it you can.
Danny Kaye
Find joy in simplicity, self-respect, and indifference
to what lies between virtue and vice.
Love the human race.
Follow the divine.
Marcus Aurelius
You have your brush, you have your colors,
you paint paradise, then in you go.
Nikos Kazantzakis
Be just and fear not.
Wolsey in Shakespeare's King Henry VIII
The true and nobel way to kill a foe,
Is not to kill him, -- you, with kindness, may
So change him, that he shall cease to be so,
And then he's slain.
Alain
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work,
from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
Henri Matisse
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little
and to endure much.
William Hazlitt
Life can only be understood backwards, but must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard
You don't get to choose how you're going to die.
Or when.
You can only decide how you're going to live.
NOW.
Joan Baez
Be a good listener.
Your ears will never get you in trouble.
Frank Tyger
CHILDREN LEARN WHAT THEY LIVE
If children live with criticism,
they learn to condemn.
If children live with hostility,
they learn to fight.
If children live with fear,
they learn to be apprehensive.
If children live with pity,
they learn to feel sorry for themselves.
If children live with ridicule,
they learn to be shy.
If children live with jealousy,
they learn what envy is.
If children live with shame,
they learn to feel guilty.
If children live with TOLERANCE,
they learn to be PATIENT.
If children live with ENCOURAGEMENT,
they learn to be CONFIDENT.
If children live with PRAISE,
they learn to appreciate.
If children live with APPROVAL,
they learn to BE THEMSELVES.
If children live with ACCEPTANCE,
they learn to find love in the world.
If children live with RECOGNITION,
they learn to have a goal.
If children live with SHARING,
they learn to be GENEROUS.
If children live with HONESTY and FAIRNESS,
they learn what TRUTH and JUSTICE are.
If children live with SECURITY,
they learn to have FAITH in themselves
and in those around them.
If children live with FRIENDLINESS,
they learn that the world is a nice place in which to live.
If children live with SERENITY,
they learn to have PEACE OF MIND.
With what are your children living?
Dorothy L. Nolte
If you want something very, very badly,
let it go free.
If it comes back to you,
it's yours forever.
If it doesn't, it was never yours to begin with.
Anonymous
If you have respect and consideration for one another, you'll make it.
Mary Durso (married 58 years)
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
Haida Indian Saying
You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.
Flip Wilson
An archer cannot hit the bullseye if he doesn't know where the target is.
Anonymous
Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life.
Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.
Don't let your special character and values,
the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth --
dont let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.
Meryl Streep
Begin somewhere.
You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.
Liz Smith
This has always been a motto of mine:
Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
Bette Davis
Should you yield the canyons from the windstorms,
you would not see the beauty of their carvings.
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
People only see what they are prepared to see.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Remember, there are no small parts, only small actors.
Konstantin Stanislavski
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves,
but in our attitude towards them.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
That love is all there is
is all we know of love.
Emily Dickinson
A CREED FOR THOSE WHO HAVE SUFFERED
I asked God for strength, that I might achieve.
I was made weak, that I might learn humbly to obey..
I asked for health, that I might do great things.
I was given infirmity, that I might do better things.
I asked for riches, that I might be happy.
I was given poverty, that I might be wise.
I asked for power, that I might have the praise of men.
I was given weakness, that I might feel the need of God.
I asked for all things, that I might enjoy life.
I was given life, that I might enjoy all things...
I got nothing I asked for -- but everything I hoped for.
Almost despite myself, my unspoken prayers were answered.
I am, among men, most richly blessed!
Roy Campanella
To show a child what once delighted you,
to find the child’s delight added to your own,
this is happiness.
J.B. Priestley
Whatever you can do or dream you can,
begin it. Boldness has genius, magic and
power in it. Begin it now.
Goethe
What is to give light must endure burning.
Viktor Frankl
Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself.
You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
Paramanhansa Yogananda
It takes a long time to become young.
Pablo Picasso
Although the world is full of suffering,
it is full also of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller
Life has a practice of living you, if you don’t live it.
Philip Larkin
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
Blaise Pascal
The worst bankrupt in the world is the person who has lost his enthusiasm.
H. W. Arnold
Tell me who admires and loves you,
and I will tell you who you are.
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beauve
We have just religion enough to make us hate,
but not enough to make us love one another.
Jonathan Swift
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry,
the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness
which does not bow before children.
Kahlil Gibran
Every work of art is the child of its time;
often it is the mother of our emotions.
Vassily Kandinsky
…be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart
and try to love the questions themselves..
Live the questions now.
Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it,
live along some distant day into the answer.
Ranier Maria Rilke
Unthankfulness is theft.
Martin Luther
As contagion of sickness makes sickness,
contagion of trust can make trust.
Marianne Moore
…if we wait for the moment when everything,
absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
Ivan Turgenev
Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
Sylvia Plath
Man walks the moon but his soul remains riveted to earth.
Once upon a time it was the opposite.
Elie Wiesel
In the secret recesses of the heart,
beyond the teachings of this world
calls a still, small voice
singing a song unchanged
from the foundation of the world.
Speak to me in sunsets and starlight
Speak to me in the eyes of a child
You Who call me from a smile
My cosmic beloved
Tell me who I am
And who I will always be.
Help me to remember.
Joan Borysenko
Four Rules For Life
Show up.
Pay attention.
Tell the truth.
Don’t be attached to the results.
Angeles Arrien
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
Agnes Repplier
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
Lauren Bacall
A master can tell you what he expects of you.
A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
Patricia Neal
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.
You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Lucille Ball
The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win,
you’re still a rat.
Lily Tomlin
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Helen Keller
You may be disappointed if you fail,
but you are doomed if you don’t try.
Beverly Sills
I am the woman who holds up the sky.
The rainbow runs through my eyes.
The sun makes a path to my womb.
My thoughts are in the shape of clouds.
But my words are yet to come.
Poem of the Ute Indians
My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
Bette Midler
"Stay" is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.
Louisa May Alcott
It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
Leslie Jeanne Sahler
Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
Oprah Winfrey
Never seem wiser, nor more learned than the people you are with.
Lord Chesterfield
He who angers you conquers you.
Elizabeth Kenny
Australian Nurse
We forgive to the extent that we love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Those that go searching for love
only make manifest their own lovelessness,
and the loveless never find love,
only the loving find love,
and they never have to seek for it.
D.H. Lawrence
Immortality is not a gift,
Immortality is an achievement;
And only those who strive mightily
Shall possess it.
Edgar Lee Masters
I’m not young enough to know everything.
James Barrie
..if one does not have wild dreams of achievement,
there is no spur even to get the dishes washed.
One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
May Sarton
When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness’ sake.
But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they can
spot an evasion quicker than adults, and evasion simply muddles ‘em.
Harper Lee
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes
strangers of people who should be friends.
Shirley MacLaine
Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often
when I loved, I did not say so.
David Grayson
I learned that it is the weak who are cruel,
and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.
Leo Rosten
Excessive competitiveness, anxiety, hostility, suspiciousness,
all originate in the nursery years. That is why, if we want a world
of peace and not violence, love and not hate,
cooperation and not murder, justice and not selfishness,
we have to learn how to make childhood more happy.
No nobler task could be pursued by our generation.
Joshua Loth Liebman
1907 - 1948
If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don’t worry about it,
that’s the way we learn.
Earl Warren
What I spent I had
What I saved I lost
What I gave I have.
George Moore
Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles;
but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles,
or a string of mould candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion?
The frost never paints my windows twice alike.
Lydia Maria Child
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Langston Hughes
Unless you choose to do great things with it,
it makes no difference how much you are rewarded,
or how much power you have.
Oprah Winfrey
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
Karen Sunde
WE CAN ONLY LEARN TO LOVE BY LOVING.
Iris Murdoch
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
David Viscott
UNIVERSAL Rx
No moving parts, no batteries,
No monthly payments and no fees;
Inflation-proof, non-taxable,
In fact it’s quite relaxable;
It can’t be stolen, won’t pollute,
One size fits all, do not dilute.
It uses little energy,
But yields results enormously.
Relieves your tension and your stress,
Invigorates your happiness;
Combats depression, makes you beam,
And elevates your self-esteem!
Your circulation it corrects,
Without unpleasant side effects.
It is, I think, the perfect drug;
May I prescribe, my friends,… the hug!
(And of course, fully returnable!)
Henry Matthew Ward
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night,
and in between he does what he wants to do.
Bob Dylan
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
Charles Buxton
The most exciting phrase to hear in science,
the one that heralds the most discoveries,
is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny...’
Isaac Asimov
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
They see things in the soft haze of a spring day
or in the red fire of a long winter's evening.
Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them;
nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light
which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.
Woodrow Wilson
At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.
It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.
You can love completely without complete understanding.
Norman Maclean
(A River Runs Through It)
Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
George Bernard Shaw
There is no point at which you can say,
'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
Carrie Fisher
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
Rush
(Lyrics from the song ‘Free Will’)
The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken:
The crown-less again shall be king.
J.R.R. Tolkein
You are all you will ever have for certain.
June Havoc
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
Leo Tolstoy
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are no short cuts to any place worth going.
Source Unknown
The worst prison would be a closed heart.
Pope John Paul II
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
General H. Norman Schwarzkopf
If you’re going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it,
you might as well laugh about it now.
Marie Osmond
The less you open your heart to others,
the more your heart suffers.
Deepak Chopra
Ageless Body, Timeless Mind
Look at everything as though you were seeing it either
for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be
filled with glory.
Betty Smith
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
From the film Rob Roy:
(starring Liam Neeson and Jessica Lange)
Son
Father, will the MacGregor’s ever be kings again?
RR
All men with honor are kings - but not all kings have honor.
Son
What is honor?
RR
Honor is.. what no man can give ye, and no one can take away.
Honor is a man’s gift to himself.
Son
Do women have it?
RR
Women are the heart of honor - and we cherish and protect it in them.
You must never mistreat a woman, or malign a man.
Or stand by and see another do so.
Son
How do you know if you have it?
RR
Never worry in the getting of it.
It grows in ye and speaks to ye.
All you need to do is listen.
Kindness is the inability to remain at ease in the
presence of another person who is ill at ease,
the inability to remain comfortable in the
presence of another who is uncomfortable,
the inability to have peace of mind
when one’s neighbor is troubled.
Rabbi Samuel H Holdenson
When you come to the edge of all the light you know,
and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown,
faith is knowing one of two things will happen:
There will be something solid to stand on,
or you will be taught how to fly.
Barbara J. Winter
Life isn’t a matter of milestones,
but of moments.
Rose Kennedy
Worry is an abuse of God’s gift of imagination.
Corrine Lajeunesse
The thing always happens that you really believe in;
and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.
John Evelyn
Being considerate of others will take your children further
in life than any college degree.
Marian Wright Edelman
The country clubs, the cars the boats,
Your assets may be ample,
But the best inheritance
You can leave your kids
Is to be a good example.
Barry Spilchuk
A bell’s not a bell ‘til you ring it
A song’s not a song ‘til you sing it
Love in your heart wasn’t put there to stay
Love isn’t love ‘til you give it away!
Oscar Hammerstein
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens
can change the world. Indeed its the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
If you really want something
you can figure out how to make it happen.
Cher
[My mother] said I must always be intolerant of ignorance
but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable
to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent
than college professors.
Maya Angelou
If every American donated 5 hours a week, it would equal the
labor of 20 million full-time volunteers.
Whoopi Goldberg
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness.
It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a
worthy purpose. Helen Keller
Cherokee Traditional Precepts
Have a good mind.
No matter what situation you’re in, find something good about it,
rather than the negative things.
And in dealing with other human beings, find the good in them as well.
We are all interdependent.
Do things for others and tribe.
Be aware that young people have to be able to make
their own mistakes and that times change.
Gina Shapira
Respect the child.
Be not too much his parent.
Trespass not on his solitude.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never say [to younger people] "that was before your time,"
because the last full moon was before their time!
Bill Cosby
The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth.
Goldie Hawn
Watch me, learn from me, and learn from my mistakes.
Judy Garland’s advice to her daughter, Liza Minnelli
You have to find it.
No one else can find it for you.
Bjorn Borg
Knowing is not enough;
We must apply.
Willing is not enough;
We must do.
Goethe
Find the seed at the bottom of your heart
and bring forth a flower.
Shigenori Kameoka
Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping him up.
The Reverend Jesse Jackson
You should not live one way in private
and another in public.
Publilius Syrus
Do not belong so wholly to others
that you do not belong to yourself.
Baltasar Gracian
As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway,
THINK BIG.
Donald Trump
The best way to become boring is to say everything.
Voltaire
Be mysterious.
John Bouvier’s advice to his daughter, Jacqueline.
You must learn to say no.
You do not know how to say no, Sophia,
and that is a serious deficiency.
Charlie Chaplin to Sophia Loren
Find out what you like doing best
and get someone to pay you for doing it.
Katherine Whitehorn
Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.
Sir Thomas Browne
Now that I’m gone, I tell you;
Don’t smoke.
Whatever you do, don’t smoke.
Yul Brynner
Don’t hold grudges; it’s pointless.
Jealousy too is a non-cathartic, negative emotion.
Liz Smith
He who is devoid of the power to forgive
is devoid of the power to love.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Remember to Live."
GOETHE
Treat your friends as you do your pictures,
and place them in their best light.
Jennie Jerome Churchill
Look for the good in everything and you will find it.
Anonymous
There are two ways of spreading light --
to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton
How To Be An Artist.
Stay loose.
Learn to watch snails.
Plant impossible gardens.
Invite someone dangerous to tea.
Make little signs that say YES!
and post them all over your house.
Make friends with freedom and uncertainty.
Look forward to dreams.
Cry during movies.
Swing as high as you can on a swingset,
by moonlight.
Cultivate moods.
Refuse to "be responsible."
Do it for love.
Take lots of naps.
Give money away.
Do it now.
The money will follow.
Believe in magic.
Laugh a lot.
Celebrate every gorgeous moment.
Take moonbaths.
Have wild imaginings, transformative dreams,
and perfect calm.
Draw on the walls.
Read every day.
Imagine yourself magic.
Giggle with children.
Listen to old people.
Open up.
Dive in.
Be free.
Bless yourself.
Drive away fear.
Play with everything.
Entertain your inner child.
You are innocent.
Build a fort with blankets.
Get wet.
Hug trees.
Write love letters.
Sark
The journey is the reward.
Tao Saying
Man can never be happy if he does not
nourish his soul as he does his body.
The Rebbe
The sun will set without thy assistance.
The Talmud
People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going.
Earl Nightingale
Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things,
but just look what they can do when they stick together.
Vista M. Kelly
You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note.
Doug Floyd
What you love is a sign from your higher self of what you are to do.
Sanaya Roman
Everybody can be great.
Because anybody can serve..
You only need a heart full of grace.
A soul generated by love.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Just to be is a blessing.
Just to live is holy.
Rabbi Abraham Heschel
Thinking: The talking of the soul with itself.
Plato
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.
Victor Hugo
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings
and the one which we take the least thought to acquire.
Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucald
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us.
That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.
Emily Kimbrough
The measure of a man’s real character
is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
T.B. Macaulay
Four things to learn in life:
To think clearly without hurry or confusion;
To love everybody sincerely;
To act in everything with the highest motives;
To trust God unhesitatingly.
Helen Keller
If I could wish for my life
to be perfect, it would be tempting but
I would have to decline, for life would
no longer teach me anything.
Allyson Jones
The more we give of anything,
the more we shall get back.
Grace Speare
A happy person is not a person in a certain
set of circumstances, but rather a person
with a certain set of attitudes.
Hugh Downs
If you have a true friend, you have more than your share.
Thomas Fuller
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy
to tell others how much they love them while they’re still alive.
O.A. Battista
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence.
It may be that you will not meet again in this life.
Jean Paul Richter
Stories are like fairy gold.
The more you give away, the more you have.
Polly McGuire
Children reinvent your world for you.
Susan Sarandon
You live longer
once you realize
that any time spent
being unhappy is wasted.
Ruth E. Renkl
To understand your parents’ love
you must raise children yourself.
Chinese Proverb
Don’t postpone joy.
Bumper Sticker
Persons thankful for little things are certain to be
the ones with much to be thankful for.
Frank Clark
There is a transcendent power in example.
We reform others unconciously when we walk uprightly.
Anne Sophie Swetchine
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh,
at yourself.
Ethel Barrymore
Don’t get your knickers in a knot.
Nothing is solved and it just makes you walk funny.
Kathryn Carpenter
No good deed goes unpunished.
Clare Boothe Luce
I hate housework!
You make the beds,
you do the dishes,
and six months later
you have to start all over again.
Joan Rivers
You don’t manage people;
you manage things.
You lead people.
Admiral Grace Hooper
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Effie Jones
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Helen Keller
Don’t be afraid your life will end;
be afraid that it will never begin.
Grace Hansen
I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
Rita Mae Brown
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say,
but what we are unable to say.
Anais Nin
There’s no place like home.
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Judy Garland
(Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz)
Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty.
Adair Lara
Look twice before you leap.
Charlotte Bronte
Seek not outside you,
heaven is within.
Mary Lou Cook
To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while,
that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
Barbara Walters
Sticks and stones are hard on bones
Aimed with angry art,
Words can sting like anything
But silence breaks the heart.
Phyllis McGinley
Silent gratitude isn’t much use to anyone.
Gladys Browyn Stern
Beauty comes in all sizes, not just size 5.
Roseanne
Love is a great beautifier.
Louisa May Alcott
Beauty’s where you find it.
Madonna (chorus from the song, Vogue)
We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat.
Queen Victoria
The only place you’ll find success before work is in the dictionary.
May B. Smith
All my life I’ve wanted to be somebody.
But I see now I should have been more specific.
Jane Wagner
I must govern the clock,
not be governed by it.
Golda Meir
Live with intention.
Mary Radmacher-Hershey
Back to the howling old owl in the woods;
Hunting the horny back toad --
Oh I've finally decided my future lies;
Beyond the yellow brick road.
Taupin
The only people for me are the mad ones,
the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk,
mad to be saved… the ones who never yawn
or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn,
like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like
spiders across the stars.
Jack Kerouac
Be yourself --- who else is better qualified?
Frank J. Giblin II
Goals that are not written down are just wishes.
Famous saying
We still do not know one-thousandth of one percent
of what nature has revealed to us.
Albert Einstein
Where there is great love
there are always miracles.
Willa Cather
We make a living by what we get,
but we make a life by what we give.
Sir Winston Churchill
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon,
but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Romance is about the little things.
Gregory J. Godeck
1001 Ways to Be Romantic
If you are pained by external things,
it is not they that disturb you, but your own
judgment of them. And it is in your power
to wipe out that judgment now.
Marcus Aurelius
I have learned from experience that
the greater part of our happiness or misery
depends on our dispositions
and not on our circumstances.
Martha Washington
The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule
is a person’s conscience.
Harper Lee
Learn to listen.
Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly.
Frank Tyger
Take heed. You do not find what you do not seek.
English Proverb
Service is what life is all about.
Marian Wright Edelman
Follow your instincts. That’s where true wisdom manifests itself.
Oprah Winfrey
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.
And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.
The Dalai Lama
All marriages require adjustments.
There are so many changes to be made all at once.
Grace Kelly
I like who I am now.
Other people may not.
I feel freer now.
I don’t want growing older to matter to me.
Meryl Streep
I tried always to do better:
saw always a little further.
I tried to stretch myself.
Audrey Hepburn
Love and respect are the most important
aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.
Jodie Foster
When you come to a roadblock,
take a detour.
Mary Kay Ash
If you want a place in the sun,
you’ve got to put up with a few blisters.
Abigail Van Buren (Dear Abby)
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life
and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all;
This, too, shall pass.
Ann Landers
People change and forget to tell each other.
Lillian Hellman
A child is the root of the heart.
Carolina Maria de Jesus
Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart
don’t know how to laugh either.
Golda Meir
The ultimate goal should be doing your best and enjoying it.
Peggy Fleming
Adventure is worthwhile in itself.
Amelia Earhart
We are stardust.
We are golden
and we’ve got to get ourselves back to the garden.
Joni Mitchell
Spirit is the real and eternal;
matter is the unreal and temporal.
Mary Baker Eddy
If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you’ll get the best.
Begin to live as you wish to live.
Unknown
Love and you shall be loved.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If our American way of life fails the child,
it fails us all.
Pearl S. Buck
If we get a government that reflects
more of what this country is really about,
we can turn the century –
and the economy – around.
Bella Abzug
Be able to be alone.
Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
Sir Thomas Browne
Tis the motive exalts the action;
Tis the doing, and not the deed.
Margaret Preston
My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue,
an everlasting vision of the everchanging view.
Carole King
Life is a process of becoming, a
combination of states we have to go through.
Where people fail is that they wish to elect a
state and remain in it.
This is a kind of death.
Anais Nin
Cleaning your house while your kids are
still growing is like shoveling the walk
before it stops snowing.
Phyllis Diller
Most people live and die
with their music still unplayed.
They never dare to try.
Mary Kay Ash
Some people are moulded by their admirations,
others by their hostilities.
Elizabeth Bowen
Sometimes it takes years to really grasp
what has happened to your life.
Wilma Rudolph
You have to sniff out joy;
keep your nose to the joy-trail.
Buffy Sainte-Marie
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity,
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
Indira Ghandi
I was always looking outside myself for
strength and confidence but it comes from within.
It is there all the time.
Anna Freud
The more I traveled, the more I realized
that fear makes strangers of people who
should be friends.
Shirley MacLaine
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson
It’s the friends you can call up at 4 am that matter.
Marlene Dietrich
As a woman I have no country.
As a woman my country is the whole world.
Virginia Woolf
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Louisa May Alcott
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
Anne Frank
A closed mind is a dying mind.
Edna Ferber
Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
Barbara Walters
We don’t see things are they are,
we see them as we are.
Anais Nin
When people say: she’s got everything,
I’ve only one answer:
I haven’t had tomorrow.
Elizabeth Taylor
I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed,
then absolutely anything is possible.
From that moment my life changed.
Shirley MacLaine
The soul can split the sky in two,
and let the face of God shine through.
Edna St Vincent Millay
I was taught that the way of progress
is neither swift nor easy.
Marie Curie
I am not a has-been. I am a will be.
Lauren Bacall
I wasn’t afraid to fail.
Something good always comes out of failure.
Anne Baxter
Close Riggs?
Close is like a lingerie shop without a front window.
Rene Russo to Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon 3
I’ve never sought success in order to get fame and money;
it’s the talent and the passion that count in success.
Ingrid Bergman
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.
Helen Keller
Think of a big color – who cares if people call you Rothko.
Release your childhood. Release it.
Larry Rivers and Frank O’Hara
What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.
Thomas Sprat
Do not hold the delusion that your advancement
is accomplished is by crushing others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
What we call failure is not the falling down,
but the staying down.
Mary Pickford
It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
Rollo May
Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising up every time we fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
For the truly faithful, no miracle is necessary.
For those who doubt, no miracle is sufficient.
Nancy Gibbs
The best things in life aren’t things.
Art Buchwald
G-d gives every bird his worm,
but he does not throw it into the nest.
Swedish Proverb
Each day of our lives we make deposits in
the memory banks of our children.
Charles R. Swindoll
We worry about what a child will be tomorrow,
yet we forget that he is someone today.
Stacia Tauscher
To know others is wisdom,
to know oneself is enlightenment.
Tao Te Ching
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
General George Patton
Take time to be holy.
Howard Finster
The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.
Samurai maxim
If you want to kiss the sky,
you better learn how to kneel.
U2
"She Moves in Mysterious Ways"
Laughter is inner jogging.
Norman Cousins
When the sun rises, I go to work,
when the sun goes down, I take my rest
I dig the well from which I drink
I farm the soil that yields my food
I share creation. Kings can do no more.
Ancient Chinese Saying
Silence.
We need to find G-d, and He cannot be found in
noise and restlessness. G-d is the friend of
silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass
-- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and
the sun, how they move in silence...
We need silence to be able to touch souls.
Mother Teresa
(b. 1910), Albanian born Roman Catholic missionary.
A Gift for God, "Willing Slaves to the Will of God." (1975).
If we encounter a man of rare intellect,
we should ask him what books he reads.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters
of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
and though they are with you,
and yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love,
but not your thoughts.
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies
but not their souls,
for their souls dwell
in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit,
not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward,
not tarries with yesterday."
Kahlil Gibran,
"The Prophet"
It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
W. Somerset Maugham
It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
Mignon McLaughlin
It is common sense to take a method and try it.
If it fails, admit it frankly and try another.
But above all, try something.
Former US President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other
but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Wind, Sand, and Stars
"He only earns his freedom and his life
Who takes them every day by storm."
from Faust,
by Goethe
"To the query, "What is a friend?" his reply was
"A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
Aristotle
384-322 BC
Greek philosopher
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Far better it is to dare mighty things,
to win glorious triumphs,
even though checkered by failure,
than to take rank with those poor spirits
who neither enjoy nor suffer much,
because they live in the gray twilight
that knows neither victory nor defeat.
Keep your eyes on the stars,
and your feet on the ground.
"It is not the critic who counts,
nor the man who points out
where the strong man stumbled,
or where a doer of deeds
could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man in the arena
whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood,
who strives valiantly, who errs,
and who comes up short again and again,
who knows the great enthusiasms,
the great devotions,
and spends himself in a worthy cause.
The man who at best knows the triumph
of high achievement and who at worst,
if he fails, fails while daring greatly,
so that his place will never be
with those cold timid souls
who never knew victory or defeat."
"In all things it is a good idea to hang a question mark now and then
on the things we have taken for granted."
Bertrand Russell
(1872-1970)
English mathematician and philosopher
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
Bertrand Russell
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle
Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
Jean-Paul Sartre
You see things and say 'Why?';
but I dream things that never were and I say 'Why not?' "
George Bernard Shaw
(1856-1950)
British Playwright
"Wisdom begins in wonder."
Socrates
It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
Henry David Thoreau
(Walden)
There can be hope only for a society
which acts as one big family,
not as many separate ones.
Anwar Sadat
All men and women are born,
live suffer and die;
what distinguishes us
one from another
is our dreams,
whether they be dreams about
worldly or unworldly things,
and what we do to make them come about...
We do not choose to be born.
We do not choose our parents.
We do not choose our historical epoch,
the country of our birth, or the
immediate circumstances of our upbringing.
We do not, most of us, choose to die;
nor do we choose the time and conditions of our death.
But within this realm of choicelessness,
we do choose how we live.
Joseph Epstein
The greatest good you can do for another
is not just share your riches,
but reveal to them their own.
Benjamin Disraeli
If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be.
Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau
Life is about not knowing, having to change,
taking the moment and making the best of it,
without knowing what's going to happen next.
Delicious ambiguity.
Gilda Radner
Just do it.
NIKE
Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.
Gerry Sikorski
The day will come when,
after harnessing space,
the winds, the tides and gravitation,
we shall harness for G-d the energies
of love. And on that day, for the second
time in the history of the world,
we shall have discovered fire.
Tielhard de Chardin
We need 4 hugs a day for survival.
We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance.
We need 12 hugs a day for growth.
Virginia Satir
The Magic of Believing
I’m not old enough to play baseball or football. I’m not eight yet.
My mom told me when you start baseball, you aren’t going to be
able to run that fast because you had an operation. I told Mom I
wouldn’t need to run that fast. When I play baseball, I’ll just hit
them out of the park. Then I’ll be able to walk.
Edward J. McGrath, Jr.
"An Exceptional View of Life"
The big question is whether you are going to be able to
say a hearty yes to your adventure.
Joseph Campbell
Exuberance is beauty.
William Blake
All kids are gifted;
some just open their packages earlier than others.
Michael Carr
One who makes no mistakes never makes anything.
Source Unknown
If a thing loves, it is infinite.
William Blake
But now I have learned to listen to silence.
To hear its choirs singing the song of ages,
chanting the hymns of space, and disclosing
the secrets of eternity.
Kahlil Gibran
Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers;
it comes from being open to all the questions.
Earl Gray Stevens
Self-loving is not so vile a sin, my liege,
as self-neglecting.
William Shakespeare
"Grown men may learn from little children,
for the hearts of little children are pure, and,
therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them
many things which older people miss."
Black Elk
Native American Spiritual Leader
Yesterday is history,
tomorrow is a mystery,
and today is a gift;
that’s why they call it the present.
Source Unknown
Pursue worthy aims.
Solon
Think of what a better world it would be if we all – the whole world –
had cookies and milk about 3 o’clock every afternoon and then lay
down with our blankets for a nap. Or if we had a basic policy in our
nations to always put things back where we found them and cleaned
up our own messes. And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when
you go out into the world, it is better to hold hands and stick together.
Robert Fulghum
(All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten)
Never give up on anybody.
Hubert H. Humphrey
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
Lao-tzu
Everybody can be great… because anybody
can serve. You don’t have to have a college
degree to serve. You don’t have to make your
subject and verb agree to serve. You only need
a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
Aldous Huxley
Do not save your loving speeches
For your friends till they are dead;
Do not write them on their tombstones,
Speak them rather now instead.
Anna Cummins
Don’t Be Afraid To Fail
You’ve failed many times, although you may not remember.
You fell down the first time you tried to walk.
You almost drowned the first time you tried to swim, didn’t you?
Did you hit the ball the first time you swung a bat?
Heavy hitters, the ones who hit the most home runs, also strike out a lot.
R.H. Macy failed 7 times before his store in New York caught on.
English novelist John Creasy got 753 rejection slips
before he published 564 books.
Babe Ruth struck out 1,330 times, but he also hit 714 home runs.
Don’t worry about failure.
Worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.
A message published in the Wall Street Journal
Copyright 1981
United Technologies Corporation
Hartford, Connecticut 06101
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
George Herman ("Babe") Ruth
Be careful what you show – and what you don’t show.
Marlene Dietrich
Always hold your head up,
but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.
Max L. Forman
Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Becoming a star may not be in your destiny,
but being the best that you can be is a goal
you can set for yourselves.
Bryan Lindsay
He who proposes to be an author, should first be a student.
John Dryden
Promote yourself, but do not demote another.
Israel Salanter
Accustom children to a true notion of things.
George Shelley
Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house.
Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor…
Let no one ever come to you without leaving better or happier. Be the living
expression of G-d’s kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes,
kindness in your smile; kindness in your warm greeting.
Mother Teresa
Keep gude company, and you’ll be counted one of them.
Scottish Proverb
Straighten your problems out before you go to bed.
That way you will wake up smiling.
Louis Fromm
(married 55 years)
YOU ARE A MARVEL
Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment
that will never be again… And what do we teach our children? We teach
them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France.
When will we also teach them what they are?
We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel.
You are unique. In all the years that have passed, there has never been another
child like you. Your legs, your arms, your clever fingers, the way you move.
You may become a Shakespeare, a Michaelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the
capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. And when you grow up, can you
then harm another who is, like you, a marvel?
You must work – we must all work – to make the world worthy of its children.
Pablo Casals
…learn by practice.
Martha Graham
Straighten your problems out before you go to bed.
That way you will wake up smiling.
Louis Fromm
(married 55 years)
Twelve Things To Remember:
(1) The value of time.
(2) The success of perseverance.
(3) The pleasure of working.
(4) The dignity of simplicity.
(5) The worth of character.
(6) The power of kindness.
(7) The influence of example.
(8) The obligation of duty.
(9) The wisdom of economy.
(10) The virtue of patience.
(11) The improvement of talent.
(12) The joy of origination.
Marshall Field
Look around you!
This is where the path of hatred has brought us.
Pocahontas
Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal,
a rejection to obliterate the whole sky.
Confucius
Talk about a dream – try to make it real.
Bruce Springsteen
If you can give your son or daughter only one gift,
let it be Enthusiasm.
Bruce Barton
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive.
He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the
power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and
some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are
less prone to hate our enemies.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Think it more satisfaction to live richly than die rich.
Sir Thomas Browne
Be All That You Can Be.
U.S. Army Slogan
Drink it all in… there is no way to happiness; happiness IS the way.
Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
Once you can laugh at your own weaknesses, you can move forward.
Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you’re good, you
can fill up those openings with something positive. Maybe you can
combat some of the ugliness in the world.
Goldie Hawn
Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower.
Shigenori Kameoka
You don’t just stumble into the future.
You create your own future.
Roger Smith
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
William Makepeace Thackeray
We need to listen to one another.
Chaim Potok
The goal of a peaceful world must, today and tomorrow,
shape our decisions and inspire our purposes.
John F. Kennedy
You’ve got to say, "I think that if I keep working at this and
want it badly enough I can have it." It’s called perseverance.
Lee J. Iacocca
Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
Where there’s love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.
Ella Fitzgerald
My favorite quote is "Life is too short to be little," written by Disraeli…
Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget.
We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year’s time,
will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile
actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings.
Andre Maurois
1. Don’t sweat the small stuff.
2. It’s all small stuff.
Unknown
There’s good in everybody. Boost. Don’t knock.
Warren G. Harding
Keep company with those who may make you better.
English saying
Never think that G-d’s delays are G-d’s denials
"A lone shipwreck survivor on an uninhabited island managed to build
a rude hut in which he placed all that he had saved from the sinking ship.
He prayed to G-d for deliverance, and anxiously scanned the horizon each
day to hail any passing ship. One day, he was horrified to find his hut in
flames. All that he had was gone. To the man’s limited vision, it was the worst
that could happen and he cursed G-d. Yet the very next day, a ship arrived.
"We saw your smoke signal," the captain said.
Walter A. Heiby
Resolve, and thou art free.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If there is light in the soul,
There will be beauty in the person.
If there is beauty in the person,
There will be harmony in the house.
If there is harmony in the house,
There will be order in the nation.
If there is order in the nation,
There will be peace in the world.
Chinese Proverb
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers. --Nikita Khrushchev
To know you have enough is to be rich.
Tao
You can’t depend on your judgment when
your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
G.K. Chesterton
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
François Mauriac
The love of liberty is the love of others.
The love of power is the love of ourselves.
William Hazlit
The day a person becomes a cynic
is the day he loses his youth.
Marvin D. Levy
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
C. Archie Danielson
Control your emotion or it will control you.
Samurai maxim
Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone.
Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.
Tim McMahon
Nothing is so strong as gentleness,
and nothing is so gentle as real strength.
Ralph W. Sockman
Super-cali-fragil-istic-expi-ali-docious
from Mary Poppins
Prayer is not asking.
It is a language of the soul.
Mohandas Gandhi
Better to bend than to break.
Scottish Proverb
Although the world is full of suffering,
it is full also of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller
Give sorrow words…
Shakespeare
Be what you are.
This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
Julius Charles Hare and Augustus William Hare
Let us not look back in anger or forward in
fear, but around in awareness.
James Thurber
What poison is to food, self-pity is to life.
Oliver C. Wilson
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Augustine
All serious daring starts from within.
Eudora Welty
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Enthusiasm is G-d within.
Alexandra Stoddard
Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
Lord Chesterfield
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
Henry David Thoreau
All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
Buddha
Sublime – the soaring of the spirit into joy.
Peter Megargee Brown
Synergy means behaviour of whole systems
unpredicted by the behaviour of their parts.
Buckminster Fuller
It’s good to be just plain happy;
it’s a little better to know that you’re happy;
but to understand that you’re happy
and to know why and how… and still be happy,
be happy in the being and the knowing,
well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss.
Henry Miller
The duty to be alive is the same as the duty to
become oneself, to develop into the individual
one potentially is.
Erich Fromm
Nobody ever died of laughter.
Max Beerbohm
Hear the meaning within the word.
William Shakespeare
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
Charles Dickens
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with
yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less
than the trees or the stars; you have a right to be here.
From Desiderata
Patience is power.
With time and patience,
the mulberry leaf becomes silk.
Chinese Proverb
Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.
Faith Baldwin
If the first button of one’s coat is wrongly buttoned,
all the rest will be crooked.
Giordano Bruno
Always do right.
This will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain
You can if you think you can.
George Reeves
Sixth Grade Teacher of Norman Vincent Peale
Action is eloquence.
William Shakespeare
Beware, as long as you live,
of judging people by appearances.
Jean de la Fontaine
It is a wonderful seasoning of all enjoyments
to think of those we love.
Moliere
Paradise is where I am.
Voltaire
We never listen when we are eager to speak.
Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld
The great mind knows the power of gentleness.
Robert BrowningTo know you have enough is to be rich.
Tao
You can’t depend on your judgment when
your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
G.K. Chesterton
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
François Mauriac
The love of liberty is the love of others.
The love of power is the love of ourselves.
William Hazlit
The day a person becomes a cynic
is the day he loses his youth.
Marvin D. Levy
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
C. Archie Danielson
Control your emotion or it will control you.
Samurai maxim
Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone.
Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.
Tim McMahon
Nothing is so strong as gentleness,
and nothing is so gentle as real strength.
Ralph W. Sockman
Super-cali-fragil-istic-expi-ali-docious
from Mary Poppins
Prayer is not asking.
It is a language of the soul.
Mohandas Gandhi
Better to bend than to break.
Scottish Proverb
Although the world is full of suffering,
it is full also of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller
Give sorrow words…
Shakespeare
Be what you are.
This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
Julius Charles Hare and Augustus William Hare
Let us not look back in anger or forward in
fear, but around in awareness.
James Thurber
What poison is to food, self-pity is to life.
Oliver C. Wilson
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Augustine
All serious daring starts from within.
Eudora Welty
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Enthusiasm is G-d within.
Alexandra Stoddard
Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
Lord Chesterfield
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
Henry David Thoreau
All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
Buddha
Sublime – the soaring of the spirit into joy.
Peter Megargee Brown
Synergy means behaviour of whole systems
unpredicted by the behaviour of their parts.
Buckminster Fuller
It’s good to be just plain happy;
it’s a little better to know that you’re happy;
but to understand that you’re happy
and to know why and how… and still be happy,
be happy in the being and the knowing,
well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss.
Henry Miller
The duty to be alive is the same as the duty to
become oneself, to develop into the individual
one potentially is.
Erich Fromm
Nobody ever died of laughter.
Max Beerbohm
Hear the meaning within the word.
William Shakespeare
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
Charles Dickens
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with
yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less
than the trees or the stars; you have a right to be here.
From Desiderata
Patience is power.
With time and patience,
the mulberry leaf becomes silk.
Chinese Proverb
Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.
Faith Baldwin
If the first button of one’s coat is wrongly buttoned,
all the rest will be crooked.
Giordano Bruno
Always do right.
This will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain
You can if you think you can.
George Reeves
Sixth Grade Teacher of Norman Vincent Peale
Action is eloquence.
William Shakespeare
Beware, as long as you live,
of judging people by appearances.
Jean de la Fontaine
It is a wonderful seasoning of all enjoyments
to think of those we love.
Moliere
Paradise is where I am.
Voltaire
We never listen when we are eager to speak.
Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld
The great mind knows the power of gentleness.
Robert Browning
Hitch your wagon to a star.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson
One world at a time.
Henry David Thoreau
Where there is sunshine the doctor starves.
Flemish Proverb
Behold the turtle.
He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out.
James Bryant Conant
And what is a weed?
A plant whose virtues have not been discovered.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You ain’t heard nothin’ yet, folks.
Al Jolson
When I do good, I feel good.
When I do bad, I feel bad.
That’s my religion.
Abraham Lincoln
Some people walk in the rain,
others just get wet.
Roger Miller
We boil at different degrees.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
G-d has put something noble and good into
every heart* which His hand created.
Mark Twain
Ah my friends, therein* lies a wonderful challenge indeed,
to seek out that noble and good. Seek it and you shall find it.
Unknown
All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.
Alexander Pope
Change favors the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteur
You can’t eat your friends and have them too.
Budd Schulberg
Living is like licking honey off a thorn.
Unknown
Let the past drift away with the water.
Japanese saying
Believing where we cannot prove.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
He who would leap high must take a long run.
Danish proverb
Jump.
Joseph Campbell.
To look up is joy.
Confucius
Look not down but up!
Robert Browning
The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost
Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering
what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is.
Alan Watts
The ideals which have always shown before me
and filled me with the joy of living
are goodness, beauty and truth.
Albert Einstein
The secret of success is consistency of purpose.
Benjamin Disraeli
When you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.
Joseph Campbell
What a man thinks of himself…
determines, or rather, indicates his fate.
Henry David Thoreau
Desire nothing for yourself,
which you do not desire for others.
Spinoza
Surprised by joy.
C.S. Lewis
I believe… that every human mind
feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Thomas Jefferson
Labor to keep alive in your breast
that spark of celestial fire called conscience.
George Washington
I do the very best I know how,
the very best I can.
Abraham Lincoln
It is not of so much consequence what you say,
as how you say it.
Alexandra Smith
What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
William Shakespeare
Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
Lewis Carroll
I got a simple rule about everybody.
If you don’t treat me right – shame on you.
Louis Armstrong
Every dewdrop and raindrop had a whole heaven within it.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When you are content to be simply yourself and
don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
Lao-Tzu
I leave you with this quote. Enjoy, and pass it on. -mk
As the hand held before the eye
hides the tallest mountain, so this
small earthly life hides from our gaze
the vast radiance and secrets of which
the world is full, and whoever can take life
from before his eyes, as one takes away one’s hand,
will see the great radiance within the world.
Martin Buber
To Hallow This Life
"The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved."