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.
(from www.inspirationpeak.com)

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.