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.