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.