HELEN KELLER

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

MARCUS AURELIUS

Tell yourself each morning - today I shall meet an envious man, an ungrateful one and a bully, and if I had their life I could easily become one too.

Japanese Proverb

Fall seven times. Stand up eight.

PASCAL

All of Man's problems stem from his inability to sit quietly with himself.

ASHLEY COOPER

SEVEN DEADLY SINS
Truth, if it becomes a weapon against persons.
Beauty, if it becomes vanity.
Love, if it becomes possessive.
Loyalty, if it becomes blind, careless trust.
Tolerance, if it becomes indifference.
Self-confidence, if it becomes arrogance.
Faith, if it becomes self-righteous.

Ethiopian Saying

The fool speaks, the wise man listens.

ANON

There isn’t enough darkness in the world to quench the light of one small candle.

ROBERT HEINLEIN

Always listen to the experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.

MARCEL PROUST

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes
but in having new eyes.

JOHN C. MAXWELL

The 10 Commandments of Human Relations
1. Speak to people.
2. Smile at people.
3. Call people by name.
4. Be friendly and helpful.
5. Be cordial.
6. Have a genuine interest in people.
7. Be generous with praise.
8. Be considerate of the feelings of others.
9. Be thoughtful of the opinions of others.
10. Be alert to give service.

SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single church or temple.

NADINE STAIR

If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. I would go to more dances. I would ride more merry-go-rounds. I would pick more daisies.

ANON

Don’t torment yourself about tomorrow.
There’s no tomorrow.
It’s all here and now.

ST.AUGUSTINE

Audi partem alterum (Hear the other side)

MARCUS AURELIUS

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

THICH NHAT HANH

Everything we do is an act of poetry or painting, if we do it with Mindfulness.

EDWARD R. MURROW

To be persuasive, we must be believable.
To be believable, we must be credible.
To be credible, we must be truthful.

W.H.AUDEN

In moments of joy, all of us wish we possessed a tail we could wag.

HYMAN RICKOVER

Great minds discuss ideas,
Average minds discuss events,
Small minds discuss people.

Ethiopian Proverb

Smooth seas do not make skilful sailors.

ANON

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

DALAI LAMA

I believe there is an important distinction to be made between religion and spirituality. Religion I take to be concerned with belief in the claims to salvation of one faith tradition or another - an aspect of which is acceptance of some form of meta-physical or philosophical reality, including perhaps an idea of heaven or hell. Connected with this are religious teachings or dogma, ritual, prayers and so on. Spirituality I take to be concerned with those qualities of the human spirit - such as love and compassion, patience, tolerance, forgiveness, contentment, a sense of responsibility, a sense of harmony, which bring happiness to both self and others.

DAVE BARRY

People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.

Nicaraguan Proverb

Eyes that see don’t grow old

GILBERT ARLAND

When an archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull’s-eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim, improve yourself.

AMANDA McBROOM

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.
It's the dream afraid of waking that never takes a chance.
It's the one who won't be taken who cannot seem to give,
And the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.

URSULA LE GUIN

It is good to have an end to journey towards, but it is the journey that
matters in the end.

ANON

Five rules to be happy -
1. Free your heart from hatred
2. Free your mind from worries
3. Live simply
4. Give more
5. Expect less

ALBERT CAMUS

Autumn is a second spring
When every leaf is a flower

LAO TZU

Those who know, do not speak.
Those who speak, do not know.