JOHN BURROUGHS

Time does not become sacred to us
Until we have lived it.

JONATHAN SWIFT

Take as many half minutes as you can get, but never talk more than half a minute without pausing and giving others an opportunity to strike in. One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.

JANIS JOPLIN

Don't compromise yourself - you're all you've got.

MAHATMA GANDHI

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way
of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants,
and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in
the end they always fall. Think of it - always.

MARY PETTIBONE POOLE

He who laughs, lasts.

Taoist Saying

No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.

VOLTAIRE

In the midst of all the doubts which we have discussed for four thousand years in four thousand ways, the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear of death.

CONFUCIUS

If one’s mind is elsewhere, one will look but not see, listen but not hear.

ROBERT E. LEE

You must be careful how you walk, and where you go, for there are those following you who will set their feet where yours are set.

RALPH SOCKMAN

Nothing is so strong as gentleness ; nothing is so gentle as true strength.

Medieval Occitan Proverb

Time lost can never be regained

MARK TWAIN

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

SENECA

We should every night call ourselves to an account - what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptations resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they are brought every day to the shrift.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

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.

JOHN WESLEY

Do all the good you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can.

ANON

Since all of your troubles exist only in your mind, the only place you can solve them is in your mind.

JIMMY DEAN

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination

WOODY ALLEN

To love is to suffer.
To avoid suffering one must not love.
But then one suffers from not loving.
Therefore to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer.
To suffer is to suffer.
To be happy is to love.
To be happy then is to suffer.
But suffering makes one unhappy.
Therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness.
I hope you're getting this down.

RABINDRANATH TAGORE

He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open.

THICH NHAT HANH

All methods, in the search for truth, should be looked on as a means, rather than as ends in themselves or as absolute truth.

Chinese Proverb

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones

ANON

Remember, your successes make you clever.
Only your failures make you wise.

WILLIAM BLAKE

The truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent

The Dhammapada

Our minds shape our lives.
We become what we think.

ZHANG JIGANG

As long as you are kind and there is love in your heart,
A thousand hands will naturally come to your aid.
As long as you are kind and there is love in your heart,
You will reach out with a thousand hands to help others.