“Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.” - Norman Mailer
“Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.” - Mark Twain
“When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.” - William Arthur Ward
“Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler.” - Albert Einstein
“Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.” - Albert Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.” - Henry Emerson Fosdick
“The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.” - Kahlil Gibran
“Persistent people begin their success where others end in failures.” - Edward Eggleston
“Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.” - Jonathan Kozol
“Show me a man with both feet on the ground, and I’ll show you a man who can’t put his pants on.” - Arthur K. Watson
“The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterward.” - Arthur Koestler
“Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.” - Mark Twain
“O senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm and yet will make Gods by the dozen!” - Michel de Montaigne
“Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.” - Marcus Aurelius
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” - Helen Adams Keller
“There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.” - Soren Kierkegaard
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Inside every large program is a small program struggling to get out.” - Tony Hoare
“Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.” - Heraclitus
“Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be.” - Abraham Lincoln
“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
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” - Helen Adams Keller
“If words are to enter men’s minds and bear fruit, they must be the right words shaped cunningly to pass men’s defenses and explode silently and effectually within their minds.” - J.B. Phillips
“A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.” - Sydney J. Harris
“War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.” - Thomas Jefferson
“It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.” - Bertrand Russell
“New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled, the humiliating question arises, ``Why then are you not taking part in them?’’” - H.G. Wells
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.” - Henry David Thoreau
“Noise proves nothing—often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.” - Mark Twain
“It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.” - Alfred Adler
“We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.” - Helen Adams Keller
“One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer.” - Stephen Hawking
“Knowing all truth is less than doing a little bit of good.” - Albert Schweitzer
“If a man points at the moon, an idiot will look at the finger.” - Sufi wisdom
“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.” - Chuang-tzu
“The refusal to choose is a form of choice; disbelief is a form of belief.” - Frank Barron
“There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.” - Francis Bacon
“Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.” - Paul Tournier
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.” - George Bernard Shaw
“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
“Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.” - Charles F. Kettering
“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.” - Marcus Aurelius
“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.” - Robert F. Kennedy
“You can achieve anything you want in life if you have the courage to dream it, the intelligence to make a realistic plan, and the will to see that plan through to the end.” - Sidney A. Friedman
“Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” - William Arthur Ward
“Life is a long lesson in humility.” - James Barrie
“The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.” - Hugh Black
“If I have seen farther than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants.” - Isaac Newton
“A man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of life getting his living.” - Henry David Thoreau
“Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.” - Rabindranath Tagore
“He who would travel happily must travel light.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers… Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.” - Francois Fenelon
“No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.” - Victor Hugo
“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 within.” - Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
“A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations.” - Bertrand Russell
“The journey into self-love and self-acceptance must begin with self-examination. … until you take the journey of self-reflection, it is almost impossible to grow or learn in life.” - Iyanla Van Zant
“Walking is also an ambulation of mind.” - Gretel Ehrlich
“The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.” - Giovanni Ruffini
“When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.” - Confucius
“The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.” - John Vance Cheney
“There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.” - Aristotle
“You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.” - Wayne Dyer
“Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk.” - Shirley Hufstedler
“Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely.” - Erma Bombeck
“Without danger you cannot get beyond danger.” - George Herbert
“If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul.” - Rabbi Harold Kushner
“It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.” - Tom Robbins
“If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?” - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
“All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.” - Adlai E. Stevenson
“No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.” - George Eliot
“Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.” - Carl Jung
“Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.” - Jack Canfield
“Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.” - Robert Anthony
“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.” - Mother Teresa
“You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.” - Henri Frederic Amiel
“What we wish, that we readily believe.” - Demosthenes
“Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.” - Demosthenes
“Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.” - Mark Twain
“There’s as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.” - Trammel Crow
“We must travel in the direction of our fear.” - John Berryman
“How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.” - Stephen Covey
“If you want happiness for an hour - take a nap. If you want happiness for a day - go fishing. If you want happiness for a month - get married. If you want happiness for a year - inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime - help someone else.” - Chinese Proverb
“Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.” - David Lloyd George
“Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.” - Brian Tracy
“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make a mistake.” - Elbert Hubbard
“Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.” - Germain de Stael
“Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
“It’s only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.” - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“The mind cannot long act the role of the heart.” - Francois de la Rochefoucauld
“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.” - Henry David Thoreau
“Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience.” - Victoria Holt
“We must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time; we can be responsible only for the one action of the present moment. But we can beg for an increase of love in our hearts that will vitalize and transform all our individual actions.” - Dorothy Day
“There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first. When you learn to live for others, they will live for you.” - Paramahansa Yogananda
“Playing it safe is the riskiest choice we can ever make.” - Sarah Ban Breathnach
“Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.” - Henry Van Dyke
“What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.” - Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
“When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with such applause in the lecture room, how soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick; Till rising and gliding out, I wandered off by myself, in the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, looked up in perfect silence at the stars.” - Walt Whitman
“People can’t live with change if there’s not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.” - Stephen R. Covey
“Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.” - Peace Pilgrim
“Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When you don’t know what harbor you’re aiming for, no wind is the right wind.” - Seneca
“The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.” - Herbert Sebastian Agar
“We must be the change we wish to see in the world.” - Mahatma Gandhi
“We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.” - Walter Savage Landor
“To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.” - Theophile Gautier
“One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.” - Andre Gide
“Figure out what your purpose is in life, what you really and truly want to do with your time and your life then be willing to sacrifice everything and then some to achieve it. If you are not willing to make the sacrifice, then keep searching.” - Quintina Ragnacci
“No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.” - Harry Emerson Fosdick
“Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain.” - Kahlil Gibran
“When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world we lose connection with one another and ourselves.” - Jack Kornfield
“Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.” - Albert Schweitzer
“I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.” - Erica Jong
“Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Caged birds accept each other but flight is what they long for.” - Tennessee Williams
“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.” - Norman Cousins
“They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.” - Francis Bacon
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction” - Albert Einstein
“Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.” - Buddha
“Most people are paralyzed by fear. Overcome it and you take charge of your life and your world.” - Mark Victor Hansen
“…if there is sin against life, it lies in hoping for another life and evading the implacable grandeur of the one we have.” - Albert Camus
“Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.” - Epicurus
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” - Charles Darwin
“One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past nor complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the very essence of life.” - Anatole France
“The first step toward change is acceptance. Once you accept yourself, you open the door to change. That’s all you have to do. Change is not something you do, it’s something you allow.” - Will Garcia
“If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will avoid one hundred days of sorrow.” - Chinese Proverb
“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” - Carl Bard
“The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.” - Harry Emerson Fosdick
“You will never find time for anything. You must make it.” - Charles Buxton
“Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.” - Benjamin Disraeli
“The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.” - Edwin Schlossberg
“Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.” - John Andrew Holmes
“A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.” - Barnett Cocks
“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
“It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do.” - Elbert Hubbard
“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” - John Muir
“An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.” - Cato The Elder
“The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.” - Moliere
“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.” - Edward Abbey
“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.” - Walt Whitman
“Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.” - Alan Alda
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.” - Ovid
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