LUTHER BURBANK

There is no other door to knowledge than the door Nature opens, and there is no truth but the truth we discover in Nature.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Every artist was first an amateur.

CHARLES DICKENS

Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many, not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

BUDDHA

Nobody is condemned in Buddhism,
For greatness is latent even in the seemingly lowliest,
Just as lotuses spring from muddy ponds.

JANE GOODALL

What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

SOPHOCLES

Kindness will always attract kindness.

St. MATTHEW

The star they had seen in the east went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was. When they saw the star they were overjoyed. On coming to the house they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshipped him.

Sir WALTER SCOTT

Oh, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practice to deceive!

ANON

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the number of moments that take our breath away.

from the Bodhidharma

When mortals are alive, they worry about death.
When they're full, they worry about hunger.
Theirs is the Great Uncertainty.
But sages don't consider the past.
And they don't worry about the future.
Nor do they cling to the present.
And from moment to moment they follow the Way.

THE DALAI LAMA

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something,
and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

FRANZ SCHUBERT

Let us take men as they are, not as they ought to be.

WALT DISNEY

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

PRENTICE MULFORD

Goodwill to others helps build you up. It is good for your body, it makes your blood purer, your muscles stronger, and your whole form more symmetrical in shape. It is the real elixir of life.

AMANDA McBROOM

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

RABINDRANATH TAGORE

My eyes have seen too much, but they are not weary.
My ears have heard much, but they thirst for more.

BERTRAND RUSSELL

The secret of happiness is this - let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

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.

LAO TSU

Knowing others is wisdom,
Knowing the self is enlightenment.
Mastering others requires force,
Mastering the self needs strength.

St. AUGUSTINE

Audi partem alterum. (Hear the other side)

THOMAS MANN

Hold fast the time! Guard it, watch over it, every hour, every minute!

STEWART UDALL

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.

ELBERT HUBBARD

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

ANON

At twenty we worry about what others think of us.
At forty we don’t care what others think of us.
At sixty we discover they haven’t been thinking about us at all.

STACIA TAUSCHER

We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

BUDDHA

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past,
nor to worry about the future, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Things don’t change, we do.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it - will do anything but live for it.

H.L. MENCKEN

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

LAO TSU

Surrrender yourself humbly,
Then you can be trusted to care for all things.
Love this world as yourself,
Then you can truly care for all things.

ERMA BOMBECK

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one - Helen Keller is the other.

SITTING BULL

Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.

JAMES J. WALSH

People who laugh actually live longer than those who don’t laugh. Few persons realize that health varies according to the amount of laughter.

The DALAI LAMA

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness. The important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

JESUS of NAZARETH

You have heard that it hath been said - thou shalt love thy neighbor and hate thy enemy. But I say unto you, love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which spitefully use you and persecute you.

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

Old minds are like old horses. You must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order

SAMUEL JOHNSON

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

ALBERT SCHWEITZER

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

INDIRA GHANDI

You can’t shake hands with a clenched fist.

PLATO

Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness and life to everything.

Old Japanese Proverb

Fall down seven times, stand up eight.

BUDDHA

Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to Truth as a lamp. Hold fast to the truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone beside yourselves. And those, who shall be a lamp unto themselves, shall betake themselves to no external refuge, but holding fast to the Truth as their lamp, and holding fast to the Truth as their refuge, they shall reach the topmost height.

TIM HAMES

There are times when a man has to choose between apples and oranges.
He cannot keep ordering fruit salad.

MARTIN LUTHER

Faith, like light, should always be simple and unbending, while love, like warmth, should beam forth on every side and bend to every necessity of our brethren.

LAO-TSU

The best of people are like water. Water benefits all things and does not compete with them. It dwells in the lowly places that all disdain.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Many people die at twenty-five and aren’t buried till they are seventy-five.

ANON

You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.

Hindu Proverb

The most amazing thing is that we live as if we are going to live forever.

CHADE MENG

When I started to learn, I thought I was smart.
The more I learned, the smarter I thought I was.
Then, one day, I realized that the more I learn,
the more I know, the more I know that I do not know.
I stopped thinking that I was smart.
In fact, I began to realize that I was a fool.
The more I learned, the more foolish I realized I was.
One day, I realized how complete my foolishness was.
On that day, I felt liberated.

JOHN BURROUGHS

I go to nature to be soothed and healed and to have my senses put in order.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honour it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.

H. H. Sri SWAMI SIVANANDA

Serve, love, give, purify, meditate, realize.
Be good, do good, be kind, be compassionate.

CHUANG TSU

Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without,
for much knowledge is a curse.

VOLTAIRE

The only problem with common sense is that it is not very common.

BOB COSBY

"Don't worry about senility," my grandfather used to say. "When it hits you, you won't know it."

GARY BARNES

You don't grow old and stop dancing. You stop dancing and grow old.

'ABDU' L-BAHA

To be a Baha’i simply means to love all the world, to love humanity and try to serve it, to work for universal peace and universal brotherhood.

BUDDHA

Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.

ANON

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Ancient Hawaiian Saying

May the earth continue to live.
May the heavens above continue to live.
May the rains continue to dampen the land,
Then the flowers shall bloom,
And we people shall live again.

MOSHI DYAN

If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

LAO TZU

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL

Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to help make others so.

ALBERT SCHWEITZER

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

SAMUEL BUTLER

Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

JIMI HENDRIX

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

MARTIN LUTHER KING Jr.

Everybody can be great, because anybody can serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love.

LAO-TZU

Kindness in words creates confidence, kindness in thinking creates profoundness, kindness in giving creates love.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
O, no! it is an ever fixed-mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken.

BUDDHA

When a man has pity on all living creatures, only then is he noble.

FRANCES BACON

The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one. Nay, it is obvious that the more active and swift the latter is, the further he will go astray.

MARCUS AURELIUS

Do every act of your life as if were your last.

ELBERT HUBBARD

If you can’t answer a man’s argument, all is not lost. You can still call him vile names.

ANAIS NIN

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

THICH NHAT HANH

Aware of the suffering caused by the destruction of life, I am committed to cultivate compassion, and learning ways to protect the lives of people, animals, plants and minerals.
I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to support any act of killing in the world, in my thinking, and in my way of life.

RON ATCHISON

And this is your assignment for today. Look for the magic everywhere you go - it's everywhere. Make some magic - it's fun. And for extra credit, throw a lightning bolt across the sky just because you can.
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JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

PUBLILIUS SYRUS

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

TENNYSON

There is more faith in an honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

CHUANG-TZU

I cannot tell if what the world considers happiness is happiness or not. All I know is that when I consider the way they go about attaining it, I see them carried away headlong, grim and obsessed, in the general onrush of the human herd, unable to stop themselves or to change their direction. All the while they claim to be just on the point of attaining happiness.

BILL COSBY

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

W.C. FIELDS

Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.

BUDDHA

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

RAM DASS

Amid the whirlwind of each chaotic moment there is a quiet peaceful centre. Awaken this centre and you’ll discover peace of mind, abundant joy, unlimited satisfaction and freedom from anxiety.

DAVID RUSSELL

The hardest thing in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

JESUS

He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone.

LAMA ZOPA RINPOCHE

Living your life for others, cherishing them with loving kindness and compassion is the door to happiness, the door to enlightenment.

Duc de la ROCHEFOUCAULD

It’s easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

KOFI ANNAN

If we are to go on living together on this earth, we must all be responsible for it.

OSHO

This is what enlightenment is all about - a deep understanding that there is no problem. Then, with no problem to solve, what will you do? Immediately you start living. You will eat, you will sleep, you will love, you will work, you will have a chit-chat, you will sing, you will dance - what else is there to do?

JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

HENRY JAMES

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

The Dhammapada

All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts we make the world.
Speak or act with an impure mind
And trouble will follow you
As the wheel follows the ox that draws the cart.
Speak or act with a pure mind
And happiness will follow you
As your shadow, unshakable.

from the Sutta Nipata

Learn this from the waters -
Loud gush the streamlets, but great rivers flow silently.

SENECA

It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament it.

WILLIAM JAMES

Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.

Chinese Proverb

The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.

LEONARD H. ROBBINS

How a minority,
Reaching majority,
Seizing authority,
Hates a minority.

BUDDHA

Let no sleep fall upon thy eyes till thou hast thrice reviewed the transactions of the past day. Where have I turned aside from rectitude? What have I been doing? What have I left undone, which I ought to have done? Begin thus from the first act, and proceed, and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good.

HELEN KELLER

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding.
I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING

To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy - not respectable, to be wealthy - not rich, to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, hurry never - in a word, to let the spiritual unbidden and unconscious grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.

ROBERT HERRICK

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may
Old time is still a-flying
And this same flower that smiles today
Tomorrow will be dying.

G.K. CHESTERTON

The word “good” has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of 500 yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

MAHATMA GHANDI

I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Moslem, Jew, Buddhist and Confucian.

CHIKAN ZENJI

The shadow of the bamboo sweeps the stair
All night long.
Yet not a mote of dust is stirred.
The moonbeams penetrate
To the bottom of the pool,
Yet in the water not a trace is left.

ARTHUR C. CLARK

A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objections to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in the second edition to correct some faults of the first.

LAO-TZU

Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

There are only two ways to live your life - one is as though nothing is a miracle, the other is as if everything is.
I believe in the latter.

WILLIAM JAMES

A great many people think they are thinking, when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

JAMES HOWELL

Faults are thick where love is thin.

THICH NHAT HANH

If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this
sheet of paper. Without a cloud there will be no water; without water,
the trees cannot grow; and without trees, you cannot make paper. So
the cloud is in here. The existence of this page is dependent upon the
existence of a cloud. Paper and cloud are so close.

RICHARD BACH

You are never given a wish without being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.

ANON

Sometimes,
Behind all the noise and confusion
If you listen carefully
You can hear the silence

from a Zen Buddhist text

The person who is a master in the art of living makes little distinction between their work and their play, their labour and their leisure, their mind and their body, their education and their recreation, their love and their religion. They hardly know which is which. They simply pursue their vision of excellence and grace in whatever they do, leaving others to decide whether they are working or playing. To them, they are always doing both.

Layman PANG-YUN

When the mind is at peace, the world too is at peace.
Nothing real, nothing absent. Not holding on to reality, not getting stuck in the void, you are neither holy or wise, just an ordinary fellow who has completed his work.

RONALD REAGAN

There is no limit to what a man can do and where he can go, if he doesn’t mind who gets the credit.

ROBERT ALDEN

There’s not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.

GERTRUDE STEIN

There ain't no answer.
There ain't going to be an answer.
There never has been an answer.
That's the answer.

The DALAI LAMA

Every day, think as you wake up - today I am fortunate to have woken up, I am alive.

BUDDHA

Meditate, live purely, be quiet, do your work with mastery. Like the moon come out from behind the clouds. SHINE !

JIM RYUN

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

(referring to snowflakes)
How full of the creative genius is the air in which these are generated.
I should hardly admire more if real stars fell and lodged on my coat.

Chinese Proverb

Tell me and I'll forget. Show me and I may remember. Involve me and I'll understand.

ALBERT SCHWEITZER

The deeper we look into nature, the more we recognize that it is full of life, and the more profoundly we know that all life is a secret and that we are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone. We realize that all life is valuable and that we are united to all this life. From this knowledge comes our spiritual relationship with the universe.

CHARLES CHAPLIN

Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it needs is courage, imagination - and a little dough.

T.S. ELIOT

And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And to know the place for the first time.

BORIS PASTERNAK

When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.

DeSYLVA, BROWN and HENDERSON

The best things in life are free.

ANON

Stop waiting until you finish school,
until you go back to school,
until you lose ten pounds,
until you gain ten pounds,
until you have kids,
until your kids leave the house,
until you start work,
until you retire,
until you get married,
until you get divorced,
until Friday night,
until Sunday morning,
until you get a new car or home,
until your car or home is paid off,
until spring, until summer, until fall, until winter,
until you are off welfare,
until the first or fifteenth,
until your song comes on,
until you've had a drink,
until you've sobered up,
until you die,
until you are born again
to decide that there is no better time than right now to be happy.

JOHN MUIR

This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere, the dew is never all dried at once, a shower is forever falling, vapour is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset continues each in its turn.

BUDDHA

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

St PAUL

I know what it is to be in need. I know what it is to have plenty.
I have learned the secret of being content in every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want.

Rabbi HAROLD KUSHNER

You don't have to be religious to have a soul - everybody has one. You don't have to be religious to perfect your soul - I have found saintliness in avowed atheists.

MARIE CURIE

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

DAWNA MARKOVA

I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which comes to me as seed goes to the next as blossom and that which comes to me as blossom, goes on as fruit.

LAO-TZU

Water is fluid, soft and yielding. But water will wear away rock which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule whatever is fluid, soft and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox - what is soft is strong.

FRANK CRANE

The golden rule is of no use to you whatsoever unless you realize that it is your move.

The DALAI LAMA

Love and compassion are necessities not luxuries.
Without them humanity cannot survive.

PEMA CHODRON

The Three Noble Principles -
Good in the Beginning
Good in the Middle
Good at the End

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which would be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They gave him those words - And this, too, shall pass away.

ANON

Where there is great doubt there will be great awakening, small doubt small awakening, no doubt no awakening.

JOHANN WOLFGANG von GOETHE

Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.

MERLE SHAIN

It is better to light candles than to curse the darkness.
It is better to plant seeds than to accuse the earth.
The world needs all of our power and love and energy, and each of us has something that we can give. The trick is to find it and use it, to find it and give it away.
So there will always be more. We can be lights for each other, and through each other’s illumination we will see the way.
Each of us is a seed, a silent promise, and it is always spring.

BUDDHA

The man who foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the protection of my most ungrudging love, and the more evil comes from him, the more good shall go from me.

HARVEY FIERSTEIN

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life. Define yourself.

RUDYARD KIPLING

I keep six honest serving men, They taught me all I knew,
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.

THICH NHAT HANH

When you grow a tree, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the tree.
You look into the reasons it is not doing well.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

OSHO

Take hold of your own life.
See that the whole existence is celebrating.
These trees are not serious, these birds are not serious.
The rivers and the oceans are wild.
Everywhere there is fun.
Everywhere there is joy and delight.
Watch existence.
Listen to the existence and become part of it.

MUSO KOKUSHI

It is better to practice a little than talk a lot.

EMILY DICKINSON

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

JOHN RUSKIN

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating. There is really no such thing as bad weather - only different kinds of good weather.

ANON

When you reach the top of the mountain, keep climbing.

J.B. PRIESTLEY

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child’s delight added to your own - this is happiness.

BUDDHA

Teach this triple truth to all -
a generous heart, kind speech and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

A human being is a part of the whole that we call the universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical illusion of his consciousness. This illusion is a prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for only the few people nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living beings and all of nature.

Nicaraguan Proverb

Eyes that see don't grow old.

PIET HEIN

If you knew what you will know when your candle has burnt low, it would greatly ease your plight while your candle still burns bright.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.

ANON

All things are like the river. We never enter the same river twice.

from "The Golden Age of Zen"

Spring has its hundred flowers,
Autumn its moon,
Summer has its cooling breezes,
Winter its snow.
If you allow no idle concerns
To weigh on your heart,
Your whole life will be one
Perennial good season.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Direct your eye right inward, and you'll find a thousand regions of your mind yet undiscovered. Travel them and be expert in home-cosmography.

SHENG-YEN

Be soft in your practice. Think of the method as a fine silvery stream, not a raging waterfall.
Follow the stream, have faith in its course.
It will go its own way, meandering here, trickling there.
It will find the grooves, the cracks, the crevices.
Just follow it.
Never let it out of your sight.
It will take you.

TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS

The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy. Daily prayers are delivered on the lips of breaking waves, the whisperings of grasses, the shimmering of leaves.

LOY CHING-YUEN

An inch of time is an inch of gold. Treasure it.
Appreciate its fleeting nature.
Misplaced gold is easily found.
Misspent time is lost forever.

BENJAMIN DISRAELI

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five

ANON

Early to bed and early to rise
Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
After dinner sit awhile,
After supper walk a mile.

WALT WHITMAN

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, and so on, and have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear, what remains? Nature remains.

GEORGE ORWELL

If man cannot enjoy the return of spring, why should he be happy in a labour-saving Utopia?

RABINDRANATH TAGORE

Joy is everywhere.
It is in the Earth's green covering of grass,
In the blue serenity of the sky,
In the reckless exuberance of Spring,
In the severe abstinence of grey Winter,
In the living flesh that animates our bodily frame,
In the perfect poise of the human figure, noble and upright,
In living,
In the exercise of all our powers,
In the acquisition of knowledge,
in fighting evils.
Joy is there -
Everywhere.

LYDIA M. CHILD

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves.

MAX BEERBOHM

Nobody ever died of laughter.

MAYA ANGELOU

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

BUDDHA

Everything is extraordinarily clear. I see the whole landscape
before me. I see my hands, my feet, my toes, and I smell the rich
river mud. I feel a sense of tremendous strangeness
and wonder at being alive. Wonder of wonders.

SIGURD OLSON

In wilderness people can find the silence and the solitude and the noncivilized surroundings that can connect them once again to their evolutionary heritage, and through an experience of the eternal mystery, can give them a sense of the sacredness of all creation.

Chinese Proverb

If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Dr SEUSS

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

SOCRATES

Every person has full knowledge of ultimate truth contained within. The soul needs only to be spurred to conscious reflection in order to become aware of it.

RACHEL CARSON

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of
strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something
infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature — the assurance
that dawn comes after night and spring after winter.

J.M. BARRIE

Shall we make a new rule of life from today? Always try to be a little kinder than necessary.

OSHO

You will find meaning in life only if you create it. It is not lying there somewhere behind the bushes, so you can go and you search a little bit and find it. It is not there like a rock that you will find. It is a poetry to be composed, it is a song to be sung, it is a dance to be danced.

RICHARD BACH

Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished - if you're alive, it isn't.

THICH NHAT HANH

No single tradition monopolizes the truth. We must glean the best values of all traditions and work together to remove the tensions between them. If we do, peace will have a chance.

ANON

Today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present.

OG MANDINO

If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labour.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.

CHARLOTTE JOKO BECK

Let us be respectfully reminded - life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by, and with it our only chance. Each of us must aspire to awaken. Be aware. Do not squander our life.

ALAN WATTS

Normally we do not so much look at things as overlook them.

HENRY DRUMMOND

I wonder why it is that we are not all kinder to each other than we are. How much the world needs it! How easily it is done!

RABINDRANATH TAGORE

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

SENGAI

To what shall I compare this life of ours?
Even before I can say it is like a lightning flash or a dewdrop, it is no more.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.

G.K. CHESTERTON

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

YOKO ONO

Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence
Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance
Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence
Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.

WILLIAM BLAKE

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity, and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

JANE SMILEY

The real mystery of life is not a problem to be solved. It's a reality to be experienced.

CID CORMAN

What's heaped too high spills
Emptiness just fills

J.J. VAN DER LEEUW

Whatever you love is beautiful. Love comes first, beauty follows. The greater your capacity for love, the more beauty you find in the world.

BUDDHA

Happy are they who have overcome their ego.
Happy are they who have attained peace.
Happy are they who have found the truth.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing

HORACE

Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own,
He who, secure within, can say
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
Be fair or foul or rain or shine
The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine.
Not Heaven itself upon the past has power,
But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

ANON

Don't ever save anything for a special occasion.
Every day you're alive is a special occasion.

Japanese Proverb

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

RYOKAN

Where there is beauty, there is ugliness.
When something is right, something else is wrong.
Knowledge and ignorance depend on each other.
It has been like this since the beginning.
How could it be otherwise now?
Wanting to toss out one and hold onto the other
makes for a ridiculous comedy.
You must still deal with everything ever-changing,
even when you say it’s wonderful.

ANON

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

CHUANG TSU

Our words fly off like arrows, as though we knew what was right and wrong. We cling to our point of view, as though everything depended on it. And yet our opinions have no permanence - like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.

THOMAS MOORE

When Time who steals our years away
Shall steal our pleasures too,
The mem'ry of the past will stay
And half our joys renew.

LAO TZU

Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river.

Sir ARTHUR HELPS

Wise sayings often fall
on barren ground,
but a kind word
is never thrown away.

STANLEY HOROWITZ

Winter is an etching, spring a watercolour, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.

JAVAN

I'm not very good
At this Game called Life
For I've not learned to see children crying
Without feeling pain
For I've not learned to watch animals destroyed
Without wondering why
For I've not yet met a king or a celebrity
That I would bow down to
Or a man so insignificant
That I would use for a stepping-stone
For I've not learned to be a 'yes man'
To narrow minded bosses
Who quote rules without reason
And I've not learned to manipulate
The feelings of others
To be used for my own advantages
Then cast aside as I see fit
No, I'm not very good
At this Game called Life
And if everything goes well
Maybe I never will be.

THOMAS CARLYLE

When the oak is felled, the forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown silently by an unnoticed breeze.

OMAR KHAYYAM

The moving finger writes and having writ
Moves on: nor all your piety nor wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your tears wash out a word of it.

GEORGE ELIOT

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

ANON

Everything can be my teacher
If I just let it be.
Not trying to push it away
Or clinging to it,
Wanting it to stay.

JAVAN

I often wonder
If I am the man
That I would be
If I were a boy
Dreaming of the man
That I would be.

JANE WAGNER

For fast acting relief, try slowing down.

WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.

OSHO

Once you have started seeing the beauty of life,
ugliness starts disappearing.
If you start looking at life with joy,
sadness starts disappearing.
You cannot have heaven and hell together,
you can have only one.
It is your choice.

Layman P'ANG

The past is already past,
Don’t try to regain it.
The present does not stay,
Don’t try to touch it.

ROBERT BYRNE

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

MARCEL PAGNOL

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.

THE DALAI LAMA

Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

I am content in my later years - I have kept my good humour and take neither myself nor the next person seriously.

LIN-CHI

When hunger comes, I eat my rice.
When sleep comes, I close my eyes.
Fools laugh at me, but
The wise man understands.

ANON

Remember that anger is only one letter short of danger.

ABRAHAM MASLOW

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

KAHLIL GIBRAN

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

ALICE ROOSEVELT LONGWORTH

I have a simple philosophy - fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.

BUDDHA

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, nor to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

FLAVIA

Cut not the wings of your dreams, for they are the heartbeat and the freedom of your soul.

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

O, with what freshness,
What solemnity and beauty,
Is each new day born;
As if to say to insensate man,
'Behold, thou hast one more chance!
Strive for immortal glory!

ALBERT SCHWEITZER

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind Is all this sad world needs.

SOCRATES

Wisdom begins with wonder.

St. AUGUSTINE

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.

ARTHUR RUBENSTEIN

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

OSHO

Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars, and if you have eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful. Everything is simply happy. Trees are happy for no reason - they are not going to become prime ministers or presidents and they are not going to become rich and they will never have any bank balance. Look at the flowers - it is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are.

GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong, because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

LAO TSU

Men today have abandoned compassion in order to be bold, discarded economy to be big spenders and rejected humility in order to be first.

WILL ROGERS

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

ANON

When in danger or in doubt
Run in circles, scream and shout.

BUDDHA

In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss.
Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and
ease with which we move through change.

ALBERT SCHWEITZER

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while the pessimist sees only the red stoplight. The truly wise person is colour blind.

The Bhagavad Gita

He excels who has sameness of appreciation towards well-wishers, friends, enemies, strangers, neutrals, haters, and kinsmen, and even saints and sinners.

WALT WHITMAN

Love the earth and sun and animals,
Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks,
Stand up for the stupid and crazy,
Devote your income and labour to others
And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrong.

Poor Robin's Almanack

The first of April, some do say
Is set apart for All Fool's Day;
But why the people call it so
Nor I, nor they themselves, do know,
But on this day are people sent
On purpose for pure merriment.

MAYA ANGELOU

If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning and saying "Good morning" to total strangers.

REBECCA HARDING DAVIS

We are all of us from birth to death
guests at a table which we did not spread.
The sun, the earth, love, friends,
our very breath are parts of this banquet.

ANON

Good wine maketh good blood,
Good blood causeth good humours,
Good humours cause good thoughts,
Good thoughts bring forth good works,
Good works carry a man to heaven.
Ergo, good wine carrieth a man to heaven.

HENRY VAN DYKE

Use what talent you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.

PAUL of TARSUS

Love is patient, love is kind, does not envy, does not boast, is not proud, is not rude, is not self-seeking, is not easily angered, keeps no record of wrongs, does not delight in evil but rejoices in the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.

BUDDHA

There is only one time when it is essential to awaken - that time is now.

KURT VONNEGUT

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

ELEONORA DUSE

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.

THE DALAI LAMA

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

Indian Saying

Every time you wake up and ask yourself, "What good things am I going to do today?", remember that when the sun goes down at sunset, it will take a part of your life with it.

WINSTON CHURCHILL

Success is never final.

THOMAS CARLYLE

Here hath been dawning
Another blue day;
Think, wilt thou let it
Slip useless away?

MOTHER TERESA

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

GEORGE ELIOT

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN

A bell is no bell till you ring it,
A song is no song till you sing it,
And love in your heart
Wasn't put there to stay,
Love isn't love
Till you give it away.

GOETHE

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.

Swedish Saying

Fear less, hope more
Moan less, breathe more
Talk less, say more
Hate less, love more
And all good things are yours.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.

BUDDHA

Never in the world does hatred cease by hatred. Hatred ceases by love.

MAYA ANGELOU

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

AKHENATON

To be satisfied with a little is the greatest wisdom, and he that increaseth his riches increaseth his cares, but a contented mind is a hidden treasure and trouble findeth it not.

GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE

Come to the edge! We can’t, we’re afraid.
Come to the edge! We can’t, we’ll fall.
Come to the edge!
And they came…….
And he pushed them…….
And they flew…….

JOSH BILLINGS

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

OSHO

Go out! The world is beautiful, adventurous,
It’s a challenge, it enriches.
Go out fearlessly! There’s nothing to lose,
There’s everything to gain.

CLAUD COCKBURN

Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.

Lord BYRON

There's music in the sighing of a reed,
There's music in the gushing of a rill,
There's music in all things if men had ears,
Their earth but an echo of the spheres.

ERICH FROMM

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

FRANCIS MAITLAND BALFOUR

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.

BUDDHA

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent
of throwing it at someone else - you are the one who gets burned.

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.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

WILLIAM JAMES

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

HOKUSAI

All that I have produced before the age of 70 is not worth taking into account.
When I am 80 I shall have made more progress.
At 90 I will penetrate the mystery of things.
At 100 I shall have reached a marvellous age, and when I am 110 everything I do, be it but a dot or a line, will be alive.

RABINDRANATH TAGORE

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

HENRY VAN DYKE

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, and to work, and to play, and to look up at the stars.

MARK TWAIN

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

When I do good, I feel good.
When I do bad, I feel bad.
That's my religion.

CYNTHIA NELMS

Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.

The Book of Proverbs

A soft answer turneth away wrath.

BUDDHA

A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.

POOH BEAR

Friendship is a very Comforting sort of Thing.

KIRSTEN ZAMBUCKA

Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counterparts within all of us. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself - and your world will change.

ANON

If you want to feel rich, just count all the things you have that money can’t buy.

LAMA SURYA DAS

You are the spiritual treasure you are trying to discover and reveal

Sir WALTER RALEIGH

But true love is durable fire
In the mind ever burning;
Never sick, never old, never dead,
From itself never turning

BUDDHA

Do not disregard merit saying it will not come to me. By each drop of water is a water-jar filled. Similarly the wise man gathering little by little fills himself with good.

ASLAN

Why? Why Not? Why Not You? Why Not
Now?

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERY

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal. It will always be ahead of you.

VICTOR BORGE

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

DENG MING-DAO

You could labour ten years under a master
Trying to discern if the teachings are true.
But all you might learn is this -
One must live one’s own life.

THOMAS EDISON

I have not failed 10,000 times. I have successfully found 10,000 ways that do not work.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

Laugh and the world laughs with you. Weep and you weep alone.

NELSON HENDERSON

The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

KAHLIL GIBRAN

You give but little when you give of your possessions - it is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Swedish Proverb

Those who wish to sing, always find a song.

DOUGLAS ADAMS

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so

BERTRAND RUSSELL

I would never die for my beliefs for I might be wrong.

MAHATMA GANDHI

An Eye For An Eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

BUDDHA

Once a person is caught by belief in a doctrine, one loses all one's freedom. When one
becomes dogmatic, that person believes his or her doctrine is the only truth and that all other doctrines are heresy.
Disputes and conflicts all arise from narrow views. They can extend endlessly, wasting precious time and sometimes even leading to war. Attachment to views is the greatest impediment
to the spiritual path. Bound to narrow views, one becomes so entangled that it is no longer possible
to let the door of truth open.

MOTHER TERESA

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

GLADYS BRONWYN STERN

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.

The DALAI LAMA

The purpose of all the major religious traditions
is not to construct big temples on the outside,
but to create temples of goodness and compassion inside,
in our hearts.

PIET HEIN

Shun advice at any price, That's what I call good advice.

RABINDRANATH TAGORE

I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.

FRANK OUTLAW

Watch your thoughts for they become words.
Watch your words for they become actions.
Watch your actions for they become habits.
Watch your habits for they become character.
Watch your character for it becomes your destiny.

Att. to many sources

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good thing therefore that I can do now, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow-creature, let me do it now, for I shall not pass this way again.

MI TAKU OYASIN

I saw of course the cliff,
I saw the turbulent ocean blue,
but everyone else was going that way,
so I thought I would too. Lemmings?

e e cummings

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

The Koran

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

BUDDHA

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

The ideas that have lightened my way have been
kindness, beauty, and truth.

HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN

Belief and disbelief have divided mankind into so many sects, blinding its eyes to the vision of the oneness of all life.

ALAN WATTS

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join in the dance.

JOHNNY MERCER

You've got to accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative, latch on to the affirmative, don't mess with Mr. In-Between.

MARCO MORROW

It is a glorious privilege to live, to know, to act, to listen, to behold, to love.
To look up at the blue summer sky, to see the sun sink slowly beyond the line of the horizon,
to watch the worlds come twinkling into view, first one by one, and the myriads
that no man can count, and lo! the universe is white with them. And you and I are here.

CHARLES CHAPLIN

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

SHENG-YEN

Be soft in your practice. Think of the method as a fine silvery stream,
not a raging waterfall.
Follow the stream, have faith in its course.
It will go its own way, meandering here, trickling there.
It will find the cracks, the crevices. Just follow it.
Never let it out of your sight. It will take you.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
Live the life you've imagined.
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
Solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

BUDDHA

Those who experience the unity of life see their own
selves in all beings, and all beings in their own selves,
and look on everything with an impartial eye.

Sir JAMES MURRAY

Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.

Sir WINSTON CHURCHILL

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

ANON

People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centred.
Love them anyway.

ANNE FRANK

Think of all the beauty left around you, and be happy.

THICH NHAT NANH

Our smile will bring happiness to us and to those around us. Even if
we spend a lot of money on gifts for everyone in our family, nothing
we buy could give them as much happiness as the gift of our awareness,
our smile. And this precious gift costs nothing.

CONFUCIUS

There is no spectacle more agreeable than to observe an old friend fall from a roof-top.

Sir FRANCIS DRAKE

There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.