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.