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.