BENJAMIN DISRAELI

Youth is a blunder
Manhood a struggle
Old Age a regret.

CARL SCHURZ

Ideals are like stars.
You will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but, like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them reach your destination.

Cherokee Saying

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

The DALAI LAMA

What is religion?
As far as I am concerned, any deed done with good motivation is a religious act.
On the other hand, a gathering of people in a temple or church who do not have good motivation are not performing a religious act when they pray together.

FRANCIS GRAY

Look well to this day.
Yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision. But today well-lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well therefore to this day.

Salvador de Madariaga

Considering how bad men are, it is wonderful how well they behave.

Ven.K.Sri. DHAMMANANDA

Happy is he who has lofty and noble aspirations.
Happy is he who enriches the lives of others.
Happy is he who allows others to live in peace.
Happy is he who makes this world a better place to live in.
Happy is he whose work, chores and daily tasks are labours of love.
Happy is he who loves love.

PIET HEIN

He that lets the small things bind him
Leaves the great undone behind him.

North American Indian Saying

Inside me dwell ten thousand stars,
One for each of my ancestors.
The elk, the raven, the moose, the man, the flower, the coyote, the lion, the fish,
Ten thousand different stars am I,
But only one spirit connecting all.

BUDDHA

Happiness never decreases by being shared.

ANON

Blessed are those that can give without remembering and receive without forgetting.

ROBERT LYND

Most beings are quite likeable if you do not see too much of them.

DALE CARNEGIE

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.

From the Dhammapada

Hold not a sin of little worth, thinking "This is little to me."
The falling drops of water will in time fill a water-jar.
Even so the foolish man becomes full of evil, although he gather it little by little.

Hold not a deed of little worth, thinking "This is little to me."
The falling drops of water will in time fill a water-jar.
Even so the wise man becomes full of good, although he gather it little by little.

DENG MING-DAO

You may be capable of great things, but life consists of small things.

MARY KAY ASH

Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as the mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve.

GANDHI

We must not, like the frog in the well who imagines that the universe ends with the wall surrounding his well, think that our religion alone represents the whole truth and all others are false.

CHARLES SCHULTZ

Don’t worry about the world coming to an end.
It’s already tomorrow in Australia.

ANON

Do not pretend you know.
Start the day fresh and new.
The only thing you know is that you do not know.

THE DALAI LAMA

My religion is very simple -
My religion is kindness.

CROWFOOT

What is life?
It is the flash of a firefly in the night.
It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime.
It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

(Crowfoot 1830-1890 Chief of Blackfoot First Nation, Canada)

BERTRAND RUSSELL

The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

ANON

Every day is a good day.

LAMA SURYA DAS

Truth is everywhere. It knows no religious, cultural, temporal or ethnic bounds.
Truth is the perfect circle. Its centre is everywhere; its circumference stretches into infinite space.

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

BUDDHA

Do not pursue the past - the past no longer is.
Do not lose yourself in the future - the future has not yet come.
Looking deeply at life as it is in the very here and bow, the practitioner dwells in stability and freedom.

ANON

If you are waiting for someone to come along and save you from yourself, you have a long wait.

TENNYSON

If I could understand a flower, root and all, I would have understood the whole existence.