“God is a River of Wisdom and all religions are but wells into that River.”
"My religion is truth." Gandhi
"Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth." Ruth McKenney
"The highest wisdom is kindness." the Talmud
"If you want to make others happy, practice kindness. If you want to make yourself happy, practice kindness." His Holiness the Dalai Lama
“In the end, only kindness matters.” Jewell
“Perhaps the greatest reason to practice random kindness is that it brings great contentment into your life. Each act of kindness rewards you with positive feelings and reminds you of the important aspects of life-service, kindness, and love. If we all do our own part, pretty soon we will live in a nicer world.” Richard Carlson, Ph.D., Don't Sweat the Small Stuff...and It's All Small Stuff
"Humans are the only living things that can be, and often are, less than what they're capable of becoming." Dr. Angelo Pizelo
“The greatest prayer is patience.” The Buddha
"There is an instinctive seeking of all things for love." Emma Curtis Hopkins
"Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and under a just God, can not long retain it." Abraham Lincoln
"Freedom is the birthright of every living soul." Ernest Holmes, The Science of Mind
“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without it you can’t practice any of the others consistently.” Aristotle
"If you're interested in fighting evil, tell your children you love them every day this year. If you want to fight off evil, get involved in the school system and make it as good as it can be. Teach a child to read. If you want to fight evil, go to your church or synagogue or mosque and start a program that will love a neighbor. If you want to fight evil, go see a shut-in and say, what can I do to help." President George W. Bush
“Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist but in the ability to start over.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance.” Albert Einstein
“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.” Henry David Thoreau
“There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval.” George Santayana
“You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world. Show that God's creative principle works in you.” Paramahansa Yogananda
“Sometimes I go about with pity for myself and all the while Great Winds are carrying me across the sky.” Ojibway Saying
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." Mark Twain
“Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.” George Washington
"Real integrity stays in place whether the test is adversity or prosperity." Chuck Swindoll
“Embrace change. It's going to happen whether you like it or not.” Odette Pollar, writer
“So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.” Ben Franklin
"Those wise ones who see that the consciousness within themselves is the same consciousness within all conscious beings, attain eternal peace." The Upanishads
"You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." Mark Twain
“So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.” Ben Franklin
“Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.” Kahlil Gibran
“Forgiveness is man's deepest need and highest achievement.” Horace Bushnell
"Our choices become limited as we strive to be consistent with who we already are." Margaret Wheatley
"A mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimension." Oliver Wendell Holmes
"The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity." Zig Ziglar
"Whether you think you can, or you think you can't, you get to be right." Henry Ford
"May the work of your hands be a sign of gratitude and reverence to the human condition." Mahatma Gandhi
"This is the true joy of life, the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clot of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can." George Bernard Shaw
"Therefore you must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if you feel you should not follow it, you must not stay with it under any condition. Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart, the other doesn't. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you strong; the other weakens you." Don Juan from The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge by Carlos Casteneda
"God is in you as the ocean is in the wave." Eric Butterworth, "The Universe is Calling"
“Resolve to keep happy and your joy shall form a shield against difficulty.” Helen Keller
“A light heart lives long.” William Shakespeare
If you are feeling sorry for yourself, you are building a wall which shuts you out from the things you desire.” Edward E. Hale
The people who get on in the world are those who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they find them, make them.” George Bernard Shaw
“Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” Albert Einstein
"Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?" Ben Franklin
"You will never stub your toe by standing still, but the faster you go, the more chance you have of getting somewhere!" Charles Kettering
"Saying yes and no clearly builds confidence and rids us of the misconception that we are powerless." Marsha Sinetar
"The way we live our days, is the way we live our lives." Annie Dillard
"There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the first move—and he, in turn, awaits for you. The minute a person whose word means a great deal dares to take the openhearted and courageous way, many others follow.” Marian Anderson
“The most powerful force in the world is prayer.” unknown
“Courage is the judgment that something else is more important than fear.” unknown
"Let us learn together and laugh together and work together and pray together, confident that in the end we will triumph together in the right." President Jimmy Carter
“Sometimes people need to lose a lot to gain everything.” Don Loft
“To conquer death you only have to die.” From “Jesus Christ Superstar”
”Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.” Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
“To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.” Alan Cohen
“There's a kind of amplitude of human capacity that arises in the collective that's very difficult and may, in many cases, be impossible for us to discover on our own.”
Michael Jones
“Oh, for the wonder that bubbles into my soul.” D.H. Lawrence
"The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude." William James
"For many people, change is more threatening than challenging. They see it as the destroyer of what is familiar and comfortable rather than the creator of what is new and exciting." Nido Qubein
“I call that mind free which sets no bounds to its love – recognizing in all human beings the image of God.” Ellery Channing
”All comes at the proper time to him who knows how to wait.” Saint Vincent de Paul
“Jesus, from the calm depths of an undisturbed soul, spoke words of comfort to those of lesser understanding.” Ernest Holmes
"Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God." William Cowper, 17th
“All those who do great things for God will ultimately stand alone.” Martin Luther century hymn-writer
"All mankind are my brethren. To do good is my religion. I believe in one God and no more. The world is my country." Thomas Paine
“No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.” Brendan Francis
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.” Carl Rogers
“One cannot get through life without pain...What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.” Bernie Siegel
“All those who do great things for God will ultimately stand alone.” Martin Luther
"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." Abe Lincoln
"Every blade of grass has an angel over it, whispering, Grow." The Talmud
“There is no use in walking anywhere to preach if your walking isn't your preaching.” St. Francis of Assisi
"Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead
“To love is to approach each other center to center.” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
”Truth never damages a cause that is just.” Mahatma Gandhi
”Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.” Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness. Only light can do that." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender." Vince Lomardi
"We don't need more strengths or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need to use is what we have." Basil Walsh
"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything." Theodore Roosevelt
"As the world turns, so do you. When you change for the good, you change the world, too." Wings of Change
"What is the butterfly of you?" Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.
“I searched through rebellion, drugs, diets, mysticism, religions, intellectualism and much more, only to begin to find.that truth is basically simple-and feels good, clean and right.” Chick Corea
“There are two freedoms-the false, where man is free to do what he likes; the true, where a man is free to do what he ought.” Charles Kingsley
“As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” Marianne Williamson
“All you have shall some day be given; Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors.” Kahlil Gibran
“Study nature as the countenance of God.” Kingsley
“Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.” Dag Hammarskjöld
“One filled with joy preaches without preaching.” Mother Teresa
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." Helen Keller
“You may be only one person in the world, but you may also be the world to one person.”
“After advancing to the highest possible scientific discovery, the human being will finally confess that heart is the center of knowledge.” Shah Nazar Seyed Ali Kianfar
“Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.” Rainer Maria Rilke
“The universe is incredibly big; so if it’s just us, it seems like an awful waste of space.” From the movie Contact
“Embrace your uniqueness. Time is much too short to be living someone else's life.” Kobi Yamada
"Our technology has surpassed our humanity." Albert Einstein (also from the movie Powder)
“To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.” William Shakespeare
“One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.” Gail Godwin
“Begin with the possible; begin with one step. There is always a limit, you cannot do more than you can. If you try to do too much, you will do nothing.” P.D. Ouspensky & G.I. Gurdjieff
"Of all the dispositions and habits, which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens." From the farewell address of President George Washington (which is read in the Senate following the President's Day recess).
“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.” Aristotle
“Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.” Bhagavad Gita
“Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.” Thomas Carlyle
“You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.” St. Francis De Sales
“The sun and the moon are not mirrored in cloudy water. Thus the Almighty cannot be mirrored in a heart that is obsessed by the idea of me and mine.” Ramakrishna
"Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more." William Cowper (1731-1800); English poet.
“Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.” Edwin Hubbel Chapin
"In the swift rush of great events, we find ourselves groping to know the full sense and meaning of these times in which we live. In our quest of understanding, we beseech God's guidance." Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe. Religion is the basis and foundation of government." James Madison
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” Eleanor Roosevelt
“Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.” Albert Einstein
“Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.” Samuel Johnson
"An open ear is the only believable sign of an open heart." David Augsburger
"As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.” Josh Billings
"We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope." Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble.” Rudyard Kipling
“Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together.” Mother Teresa
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” Helen Keller
"You must do the thing you think you cannot do!" Eleanor Roosevelt
"If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin." Ivan Turgenev
“When the mind is pure, joy follows, like a shadow that never leaves.” The Buddha
“There is no circumstance greater than the power of God. Instead of telling God about your big problems, tell your problems about your big God.” Rev. Mary Manin Morrissey
"True joy and the exhilarating feeling of being at peace with yourself and your world comes to the person who lets his or her physical world flow from the pleadings of the soul." Wayne Dyer
"I believe that friends are quiet angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly." Anonymous
“A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.” George Prentice
“We always have enough to be happy if we are enjoying what we do have-and not worrying about what we don't have.” Key Keyes
“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The first love affair we need to consummate successfully is with ourselves, because only then will we be ready for relationships with others.” Nathaniel Branden
“Never lose a holy curiosity.” Albert Einstein
“There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.” John Andrew Holmes
"Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady." - Thomas H. Huxley
"The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it." Anatole France (1844-1924), French poet, novelist and critic.
"There is no need to run outside for better seeing. Nor to peer from a window. Rather reside in the center of your being. The more you leave it, the less you learn." Lao-Tze
"Mindfulness refers to keeping one's consciousness alive to the present reality. It is the miracle by which we master and restore ourselves." Thich Nhat Hanh
"The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees." Lyndon B. Johnson
"In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see." Elie Wiesel
"He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices in what he has." Epictetus
"Joy is the unmistakable evidence of the presence of God." Meister Eckhart
"My view of our planet was a glimpse of divinity." Astronaut Edgar Mitchell
"Character is the only secure foundation of the state." Calvin Coolidge
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one." Mark Twain
"Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. James Buckham
"The limits of soul you could not discover, though traversing every path." Heraclitus
"You do not make yourself love. You allow love to enter." James Redfield
"Looking back, I have this to regret: that too often when I loved, I did
not say so." David Grayson
"The essence of ritual is that something done in the physical realm is related to the higher worlds." A'evben Shimon Halevi
"Healing is inner peace. Therefore, healing is letting go of fear. To make changing the body our goal is to fail to recognize that our single goal is peace of mind." Gerald G. Jampolsky, MD,from Teach Only Love
"What I see is everyone treating every wrong thing like it's somebody else's problem. What I believe is that if we treated every wrong thing like it's our own problem, in short order they would all be nobody's problem." Perry Lanyard
"As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live." Pope John Paul II
“Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.” - J. Andrews
"Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The lesson that most of us on this voyage never learn, but can never quite forget, is that to win is sometimes to lose.” John Wooden
“Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it.
Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you.
You are all learners, doers, teachers.” Richard Bach, Illusions
"Life is no brief candle to me. It is sort of a splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations." George Bernard Shaw
"What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this." Epictitus
“May we pursue that right-without self-righteousness. May we know unity-without conformity. May we grow in strength-without pride of self. May we, in our dealings with all people of the earth, ever speak the truth and serve justice. May the light of freedom, coming to alldarkened lands, flame brightly-until at last the darkness is no more.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
“When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love.” Martin Luther King, Jr. .
“As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.” The Buddha
“To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.” Lao-Tzu
"I stand by the door...through which people walk when they find God...so I can show them the latch." Samuel Moor Shoemaker
“We are what our thoughts have made us: so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.” Swami Vivekananda
"All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough." Anna Quindlen
"I wish I could show you, When you are lonely or in darkness, The Astonishing Light Of your own Being!" Hafiz
“Always look on the bright side of life!” Monty Python
"I had rather attempt something great and fail, than to attempt nothing at all and succeed." Dr. Robert Schuller
"Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.” Harry Emerson Fosdick
“The indispensable first step to getting the things you want in this life is this: Decide what you want.” Ben Stein
“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters in the end.” Usula K. LeGuin
“If you always see the road ahead of you, it’s not worth the trip.” From Dante’s The Inferno
“To the Journey!” theme of “Star Trek Voyager”
"To go against one's conscience is neither safe nor right. Here I stand. I cannot do otherwise." Martin Luther
"Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart." Eleanor Roosevelt
“Help your brother's boat across, and your own will reach the shore.” Hindu proverb
“You might as well not be alive if you're not in awe of God.” Albert Einstein
"All of man's problems stem from his inability to sit alone in a room for any length of time." Pascal
"Our lives are based on what is reasonable and common sense; truth is apt to be neither." Timothy Frehe and Christmas Humphreys, Zen Wisdom
"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss the target but that it is too low and we reach it." Michelangelo
"Mindfulness refers to keeping one's consciousness alive to the present reality. It is the miracle by which we master and restore ourselves." Thich Nhat Hanh
“That best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.” William Wordsworth
”Soft sweet speech is the expression of genuine Love. Hate screeches, fear squeals, conceit trumpets, but love sings lullabies; it soothes, it applies balm. Practice the vocabulary of love.” Sathya Sai Baba
"The love inside, you take it with you." from the movie "Ghost"
"Take my life, please." Henny Youngman's last words
"Make life worth the price of admission." unknown
"Let the water settle; you will see the moon and stars mirrored in your being." Jelaluddin Rumi
"Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except the best." Henry Van Dyke
"When it gets dark, the stars come out." from "Touched By An Angel"
“You can’t shake hands with a closed fist.”
"We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us." Joseph Campbell
“Humans plan. God laughs.”
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." John Lennon
"A good traveler has no fixed plans. " Tao Te Ching, translated by Stephen Mitchell
"When you build bridges, you can keep crossing them." Rick Pitino, Lead to Succeed
"It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours." Sam Ewing
"Worrying about the future is like trying to eat the hole in a doughnut. It's munching on what isn't." Barry Neil Kaufman
"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." Milton Berle
"I know I'm searching for something, something so undefined
that it can only be seen by the eyes of the blind." Billy Joel, "The River of Dreams"
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use." Galileo Galilei
"There is what we seem to be, and what we really are . . . " Ernest Holmes, The Science of Mind
"Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours." Scandinavian proverb
"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." Winston Churchill
"The light around someone who speaks truth, who consistently acts with compassion for all, even in great difficulty, is visible to all around them." Jack Kornfield
"Out beyond the ideas of right-doing or wrong-doing there is a field--I'll meet you there." Jelaluddin Rumi
“The space between what’s wrong or right; that’s where you’ll find me.” The Dave Matthews Band
“We see ourselves as broken, and then set out on a long and frustrating journey to fill our emptiness. But it is not fixing that we require; it is awakening.” Alan Cohen
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by
people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." Dale Carnegie
"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering." St. Augustine
"To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable." Helen Keller
What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it." Johann von Goethe
"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, yet that candle loses nothing. Happiness never decreases by being shared." Chinese Proverb
"Spirituality cannot be something a person toys with, a little compartment of their lives. It has to be at the core, in a way that affects every other part of their lives." Stephen Covey
"The Spirit speaks directly to our hearts through music. That's why music has always had such power to move people into positive action." Kenny Loggins
"Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not." Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light." Felix Adler
"I am satisfied that when the Almighty wants me to do or not do any particular thing, He finds a way of letting me know it." Abraham Lincoln
"The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does the reverse." Confucius
"It may be that each individual consciousness is a brain cell in a universal mind." Sir James Jeans
“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
"He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age." Plato
"I would rather do and not promise than promise and not do." Arthur Warwick
"Most people don't really need advice. They just need support and discipline in doing what they already know works." Marianne Williamson
“See God in every person, place, and thing, and all will be well in your world.” Louise Hay
To Dream Of The Person You Would Like To Be, Is To Waste The Person You Are! Anonymous
"All I would tell people is to hold onto what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You've got to find it on your own terms." Harrison Ford
"Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in
some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not." Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey." Harold B. Melchart
"Never limit your view of life by any past experience." Ernest Holmes, The Science of Mind
"It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"I do not know what path in life you will take, but I do know this: If, on that path, you do not find a way to serve, you will never be happy." Albert Schweitzer
"If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have neglected much, and most of all yourself." A. Neilen
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." Helen Keller
"Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate accomplishments." Napoleon Hill
"In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong, honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes." John Ruskin
"To look at a thing is quite different from seeing the thing; and one does not see anything until one sees its beauty." From the movie, "An Ideal Husband"
"As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world -- that is the myth of the atomic age -- as in being able to remake ourselves. . . We must be the change we wish to see in the world." Mahatma Gandhi
"People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering." St. Augustine
"Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought." Napoleon Hill
"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you." Winnie the Pooh
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost." Charles Caleb Colton
"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I
may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend." Albert Camus
"The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly." Richard Bach
"Music is the pathway to the heart." Voltaire
"The older I grow, the more I trust in the law by which the Rose and the Lily bloom." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, from "Goethe's World View"
"And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make." The Beatles
"That best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love." William Wordsworth
"Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God." Ram Dass, Still Here : Embracing Aging, Changing, and Dying
"You can have anything you want - if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose." Abraham Lincoln
"All you have shall some day be given; Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors." Kahlil Gibran
"For a conscious person, to exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly." Henri Bergson
"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon,there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Now that the barn has burned down, I can see the moon." The Zen Cowboy
"All of man's problems stem from his inability to sit alone in a room for any length of time." Pascal
"The President in Washington sends word that he wishes to buy our land. But how can you buy or sell the sky, the land? The earth does not belong to man; man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself." Chief Seattle, 1852
"Reverence for life is the ethic of love expanded to embrace the universe." Albert Schweitzer
"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared." Chinese Proverb
"A little light in a dark room is still a great illumination." Ernest Holmes
"We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we
take a little of each other everywhere." Tim McGraw
"The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success." Vauvenargues
"Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, "This is the real me," and when you have found that attribute, follow it." William James
"Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand," Thomas Carlyle
"Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity." Edwin Hubbel Chapin
"The sun and the moon are not mirrored in cloudy water. Thus the almighty cannot be mirrored in a heart that is obsessed by the idea of me and mine." Ramakrishna
"To love life through labor is to be intimate with life's inmost secret. All work is empty save when there is love, for work is love made visible." Kahlil Gibran
"We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the
dove, a tough mind with a tender heart." Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of
immortality." John Quincy Adams
"There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough." Mother Teresa
"There are lessons to be learned in every place. The mark of spiritual mastery is the ability to remember God wherever we go, and through whatever we experience." Alan Cohen, The Dragon Doesn't Live Here Anymore
"That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end." Lise Hand, describing Irish journalist Veronica Guerin, who died while fighting organized crime in Ireland.
"America is a land that is starving for love." Mother Teresa
"Happiness doesn't come from having things; it comes from being part of things." "Chris" on Northern Exposure
"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world." George Bernard Shaw
"In the galaxy, there's a mathematical probability of 3 million earth-type planets, and in all the universe, 3 million million galaxies like this. And in all of that, and perhaps more, only one of each of us." "Dr. McCoy" of "Star Trek"
"Fools look to tomorrow; wise men use tonight." Scottish Proverb
"We only do well the things we like doing." Colette
"To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind." William Hazlitt, "Characteristics", 1823
"You don't have to figure it all out; you just have to admit that you can't." From the movie "Courage Under Fire"
"The highest form of motion is to move freely in the place where one is, at last, at home." Alan Jones
"Distancing others does not bring detachment, but its opposite. Only when you let others into your heart do you become capable of releasing them." Paul Ferrini
“Every other beginning comes from some other beginning's end." Line from song “Closing Time”.
“The best mind-altering drug is truth.” Lily Tomlin
“The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything.” Lee Iacocca
"The struggle is in finding life is not a struggle." Shirley McClaine
“Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.” Lady Bird Johnson
“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” Theodore Roosevelt
“Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.” Christopher Morley
“Men can be stimulated to show off their good qualities to the leader who seems to think they have good qualities.” John Richelsen
“If you want to catch a fish, you must think like a fish.” From Northern Exposure
"Compare and despair.” 12 step program slogan
“There’s always tomorrow.” song sung by Gloria Estefan
"Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt." - Stewart L. Udall
“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost;
there is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.” Henry David Thoreau
“Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.” - Howard W. Newton
"You cannot tell which way the train went by looking at the track." --Anonymous
"Because I could not stop for death, he kindly stopped for me." Emily Dickenson
“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving,
and that's your own self.” Aldous Huxley
"The world is no longer a romantic place. But some people still are. Don't let the world win, Ali McBeal." Character John Cage on TV show "Ali McBeal"
"Make It Count." from "Titanic"
"Sometimes on the way to your dreams, you get lost and find a better one." Unknown
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." Eleanor Roosevelt
"A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than he was yesterday." Alexander Pope, "Miscellanies"
"The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing.
They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself." Wang Yang-Ming
"It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them." John J. McCloy
“Psychological courage entails a cleansing of the doors of perception, allowing us to see things as they really are rather than through the distorted lens of the past. The more we are cleansed of expectations, the more we see what is and the more we can respond to it creatively.” Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., Fire In The Soul
“The world is good-natured to people who are good-natured.” William Makepeace Thackeray
"The good, the bad, hardship, joy, tragedy, love, and happiness are all interwoven into one indescribable whole that one calls life. You cannot separate the good from the bad, and perhaps there is no need to do so." Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
“When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. . . . And what is it to work with love? It is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your heart, even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth.“ Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
"Spiritual courage grows through our willingness to keep on remembering, to keep on searching for the sacred behind all the seemingly mundane and even terrible facets of life." Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., Fire In The Soul
“Every destructive emotion is a wasteful emotion. They always waste your energy and make you less able to meet a situation, whatever it may be...encourage and develop your capacity to express love, happiness, contentment.” Venice Bloodworth, “Key To Yourself”
“The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.” Abraham Lincoln
“The most damaging phrase in the language is ‘We’ve always done it this way.’” Grace Hopper
“Nothing in life is to be feared. It’s only to be understood.” Marie Curie
“...everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.” Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search For Meaning
“When you're following your energy and doing what you want all the time, the distinction between work and play dissolves.” Shakti Gawain
“Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.” George Elliot
“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have.” Abraham Lincoln
“There are lessons to be learned in every place. The mark of spiritual mastery is the ability to remember God wherever we go, and through whatever we experience.” Alan Cohen, The Dragon Doesn't Live Here Anymore
“One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: "To rise above the little things." John Burroughs
“The one resolution, which was in my mind long before it took the form of a resolution, is the key-note of my life. It is this, always to regard as mere impertinences of fate the handicaps which were placed upon my life almost at the beginning. I resolved that they should not crush or dwarf my soul, but rather be made to blossom, like Aaron's rod, with flowers.” Helen Keller
“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There are moments when one feels free from one's own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments one imagines that one stands on some spot of a small planet, gazing in amazement at the cold yet profoundly moving beauty of the eternal, the unfathomable; life and death flow into one, and there is neither evolution nor destiny; only Being." Albert Einstein
“ What did Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. possess that was capable of
transforming nations? They had "soul force"-a belief that no force can overpower love in action. Your soul, too, can be trained as an agent for change.” Rev. Mary Manin Morrissey
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” Helen Adams Keller
In the path of your happiness shall you find the learning for which you have chosen this lifetime.” Richard Bach
“What you do may not seem important, but it is very important that you do it.”
Mohatma Gandhi
The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady resolution and persistence toward a predetermined goal. Those who succeed are those who have thoroughly learned the immense importance of plan in life, and the tragic brevity of time.” --W.J. Davison
“I am learning to patient and compassionate with myself as I gain the courage to be true to myself.” Shakti Gawain, Living in the Light
"Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved
off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very
shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are
Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand." Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good [people] to do nothing.” Edmund Burke
“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
"The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be common, nor the common heroic." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Whatever you can do or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it." The German philosopher Goethe
“It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the
one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true
religion. The other is mere business.” Mohandas K. Gandhi, Non-violence in Peace and War, V.2,ch.248
“The paradox of control is simple. The more we try to control life, the
less control we have.” Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., Minding The Body, Mending The Mind
“Truth never damages a cause that is just.” Mohandas K. Gandhi
“I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.” Mother Teresa
“May we pursue that right-without self-righteousness. May we know unity-without conformity. May we grow in strength-without pride of self. May we, in our dealings with all people of the earth, ever speak the truth and serve justice. May the light of freedom, coming to all darkened lands, flame brightly-until at last the darkness is no more.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
“As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.” The Buddha
“To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.” Lao-Tzu
"I stand by the door...through which people walk when they find God...so I can show them the latch." Samuel Moor Shoemaker
“We are what our thoughts have made us: so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.” Swami Vivekananda
"Hate is baggage. Life's too short to be pissed off all the time. It's just not worth it."
American History X
Spiritual hope is more likely to emerge when we let go of will and open”ourselves to trust.” Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., Fire In The Soul
“Once we know people's stories, we feel compassion instead of judgment. Today, practice remembering that everyone has a story.” Rev. Mary Manin Morrissey
"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." Teilhard de Chardin
"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." Lao Tzu
“The first love affair we need to consummate successfully is with ourselves, because only then will we be ready for relationships with others.” Nathaniel Branden
"I am learning to patient and compassionate with myself as I gain the courage to be true to myself." Shakti Gawain, Living in the Light
“War doesn’t enoble men. It turns them into dogs and poisons their souls.” from “The Thin Red Line”
“Unless someone truly has the power to say no, they never truly have the power to say yes.” Dan Millman
“We and God have business with each other, and in opening ourselves to
God's influence our deepest destiny is fulfilled.” William James
“I am that part of the rain forest recently emerged into thinking.” John Seed
“The head does not know how to play the part of the heart for long.” La Rochefoucauld
“The energy with which the most elementary and subtle particles of matter are bound with each other is Divine. The individual separation of those energy particles is absolutely precise and cannot be altered by anyone. Any separation or merger would mean the nonexistence of Creation. The Divine Energy is God.” Sri Sathya Sai Baba
"All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.” William Hazlitt
“Moral courage is a virtue of higher cast and nobler origin than physical. It springs from a consciousness of virtue and renders a man, in the pursuit or defense of right, superior to the fear of reproach, opposition, or contempt.” Samuel Goodrich
“How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.“ William Shakespeare, "Merchant of Venice"
“Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe
that something inside them was superior to circumstances.” Bruce Barton
“Change is not only ineviatable, it is sometimes necessary.” Frank Zappa
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” George Eliot
"If you ever think you are too small to be effective, just remember the last time you were bitten by a mosquito." unknown
“He liked to like people, therefore people liked him.” Mark Twain
“The INNOVATION point is the pivotal moment when talented and motivated people seek the opportunity to act on their ideas and dreams.” W. Arthur Porter
“You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.” G.K. Chesterton
“Riches don’t make a man happy. They only make him busier.” the character of Christopher Columbus in the movie“1492”
"It is our duty - as men and women - to behave as though limits to our
ability do not exist. We are co-creators of the Universe." Teilhard de Chardin
A prayer for all the difficult relationships in our lives: “God, grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the person I can, and the wisdom to know that the only person I can change is me.”
“Those who say there is only one road to Rome don't know Rome very well." Aristotle
“Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point
of view.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
“It is some fundamental certainty which a noble soul has about itself, something which is not to be sought, is not to be found, and perhaps, also, is not to be lost. The noble soul has reverence for itself. “ Friedreich Nietzsche, "Beyond Good and Evil"
“The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities, and to make the most of one's resources.” Vauvenargues
“Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.” Henry Ward Beecher
“To everyone is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell." Richard Feynman.
“You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?’" George Bernard Shaw
“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.” George Bernard Shaw
“One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than 50 preaching it.“ Knute Rockne
“To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.” Bette Davis
"Life is short, but art is eternal."
"Time has no meaning in the healing process." from Lou Diamond Phillips’ movie “Sioux City”
"Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting." from Henry V by William Shakespeare
“Courage is grace under pressure. Ernest Hemingway
"All I wanted was to walk in such a place with you, with friends, an earth without maps." from "The English Patient"
"They didn't listen, they're not listening still, perhaps they never will. . . I could have told you, Vincent, this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you." from the song "Vincent" by “Bread”
"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." Lao Tzu
"Don't use an ax to remove a fly from a friend's forehead." Chinese Philosopher.
"If we must judge, let us first use the mirror on the wall for practice." unknown
"Be a good listener, but be careful who you listen to."
A baby is a perfect example of minority rule.
“Children are those who are always ready to give to those older than themselves the full benefit of their inexperience.” Oscar Wilde
"Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire." from the Talmud and "Schindler's List"
"There are no problems--only opportunities to be creative." Dorye Roettger
“I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.” Booker T. Washington
"Your children come through you, not from you. They are not yours to possess, but rather gifts
from God." Kahlil Gibran in THE PROPHET
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” Mark Twain
“To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing.” Janet Erskine Stuart
“Once you familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage, you prepare your own limbs to wear them.” Abraham Lincoln
“It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.” John Steinbeck
“Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and them you destroy yourself.” unknown
"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones." Phillips Brooks
“Some creatures have the capacity to fill spaces in us we never knew were empty.” Jean Luc Picard in Star Trek, the Next Generation, referring to the horse.
“Lord, help me be as wonderful as my dog thinks I am.”
“If dogs don’t go to Heaven, I don’t want to go there either.”
"We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. " Sam Keen in "To Love and Be Loved"
“Love is a state of complete trust based on truth.” Gerald G. Jampolsky, MD, Teach Only Love
"Morality is truth in full bloom." Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
“Everyone does. Not everyone gets to really live.” from “Braveheart”
“We were moving mountains long before we knew we could.” song “There Can Be Miracles” sung by Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey
"What did Mahatma Gandhi have that transformed an empire? What did Martin Luther King, Jr. have that transformed a nation? And what is it you and I have that can transform the world? They had Soul Force, a belief that no force can overpower love in action. Your soul, too, can be trained as an agent for change." Mary Manin Morrissey
"If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well." Martin Luther King, Jr.
"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. " Helen Keller
“The full-grown modern human being...is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment...when he is consumed in the service of an idea, in the conquest of a goal pursued.” R. Briffault
“We have two suns: the one outside in the sky, the other inside ourselves.” Zen saying.
“Laugh, Pagliaccio, though your love lies in pieces. Laugh through your pain, the pain that poisons your heart.” from the opera “Pagliaccio”
"The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and
truth." Albert Einstein
"Religion is for those who believe in hell. Spirituality is for those who have been there." Anonymous
"Start wherever you are; do whatever you can.
Just a little or a lot, just give what you got." from the movie "The Future of Man"
"It's never too late to be what you might have been." George Eliot
"Here is a test to see if your mission on earth is finished.
If you are alive, it isn't." Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The most beautiful rose is considered a weed in a field of corn. How sad that people forget it
simply needs to be transplanted into a garden, or that they fail to do so because they are afraid of
its thorns." A Vickie original.
"Your children come through you, not from you. They are not yours to possess, but rather gifts from God." Kahlil Gibran in THE PROPHET
"Wasn't life WONDERFUL . . . and AWFUL!" From the graveyard scene in "Our Town"
"Life is a one-way street. No matter how many detours you take, none of them leads back.
Once you know and accept that, life becomes much simpler. Because then you know you must do
the best you can with what you have and what you are and what you have become." Isabel Moore
"You can't plant a seed and pick the fruit the next morning." Jesse Jackson
"We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give." Winston
Churchill
"For we are all bound together, and our touch upon one travels through all
to return to us again." Frank Waters, The Man Who Killed the Deer
"When shall all men's good be each man's rule, and universal peace lie like a shaft of light across the land . . . " Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"I'd rather be subjected to injustice than to be the one who inflicts it on others. The price they pay is so much higher. They may survive, but they will never recover. . . And maybe the worst thing is that they won't know it; that they'll mistake what they are for being human." Referring to the Nazi's in "Stones From the River."
"Caring for things that don't care for us; that's what makes us human." from "L.A. Doctors"
"Genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum." Earl Charles Spencer at the funeral of his sister, Diana, Princess of Wales
"Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back, if only they had the chance." Diana, Princess of Wales, in a 1995 speech at a benefit for the homeless.
"The greatest disease is the lack of love." Mother Teresa
"People die if you don't love them enough." Ursula Hegi in "Stones From the River"
"'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." Alfred Lord Tennyson, "In Memorium"
"Suffering itself does not do us in or sabotage the will to live, but rather living our lives in isolation. Without the comfort and love of other human beings, none of us is very strong. Aligned with others who accept us and support us, we can survive most anything." Ann Kaiser Stearns
"The only feelings that do not heal are the ones you hide." Henri Nouwen
"Someone who's already soaked doesn't fear the rain." Unknown
"We live our lives in chains, never knowing we already have the key." The Eagles
"We roll by like water, and I guess we never learn.
We go through life parched and empty,
Standing knee-deep in a river, yet dying of thirst."
Song sung by Trisha Yearwood
"When in doubt, tell the truth." Mark Twain
"A lie is most cleverly hidden between two truths." from "The X-Files"
"If liberty means anything, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." George Orwell
"Even walls fall down." Tom Petty
"Alcoholics and Addicts don't have relationships . . . they take hostages." unknown
"A good plan today is better than the perfect plan tomorrow." from the movie "The Edge"
"One man gathers what another man spills." The Grateful Dead
"You can't speak of ice to a summer insect." unknown
"For those who understand, no explanation is necessary; for those who do not understand, no explanation is possible." unknown
"The most incomprehensible part of the universe is that it's comprehensible." Albert Einstein
"Man builds no structure that outlives a book." unknown
"We need not so much to learn as to be reminded." Socrates
"If we do not learn from our past, we are doomed to relive it." unknown
"I still prefer the sound of the wind and the birds across the brook more than the tinkling of crystal." Anne in "Anne of Avonlea"
"There are no sides. Most problems are round." Unknown
"You can't move forward until you let go of where you are." unknown
"Let go of what you are and you might become what you could be." unknown
"You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf." unknown
"If something works, don't fix it." Unknown
"Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight." Thomas Carlyle
"Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things." Former Vice-President Dan Quayle
"'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak
and remove all doubt." Abraham Lincoln
"Listen to the song of life." Katherine Hepburn
"Life will find a way." from "Jurassic Park"
"The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook". Unknown
"The greatest cause for anger on the planet is unfulfilled expectations." Oliver North
“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere, Before him, I may
think aloud.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friendship
"I know what I want to be when I grow up. I'm just not sure how or when I will achieve it. I'm 52 years old, but much of the time I still feel about 18." A Vickie Original
"A broken heart may die alone, but a broken mind will take someone with it." Jann Eller
"Sometimes there just aren't enough rocks." Forrest Gump
"When a person is wrapped up in himself, he makes a very small package." unknown
"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not." Walter Bagehot, "Physics and Politics," 1879
“Patriotism and philanthropy consist, not so much in altering laws and modifying institutions, as in helping and stimulating men to elevate and improve themselves by their own free and independent individual action.” Samuel Smiles (1812-1904) from the Victorian era best-selling book Self-Help.
“The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be.” Socrates
“Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means.” from Barnaby Rudge, by Charles Dickens, 1841.
“Good friendships are fragile things and require as much care as any other fragile and precious thing.” Randolph Bourne
"I've always considered chocolate one of the basic food groups." A Vickie original.
“True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess. “ Louis Nizer
Reporter, “What is your message?” Gandhi, “How I live my life, that is my teaching.”
“I’m not just the messenger; I am the message.” Dr. Angelo Pizelo
"A good person is one who exalts, by his example, all mankind." Ralph Waldo Emerson
li> "Intelligence, when left to it's own devices, will act intelligently. It's in its nature." Ernest Holmes
"People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do." MacIntosh Commercial
"You only go around once in life, but if you work it right, once is enough." A Vickie original.
"Nature makes no provision for an ending, so life must be eternal." Werner Von Braun
