CHARLES DICKENS

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

SENECA

While the fates permit, live happily. Life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

MAEZUMI

Have good trust in yourself, not in the one that you think you should be, but in the one that you are.

ANON

In order to create peace, you cannot think peace. You must be peace.

BUDDHA

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

THOMAS CARLYLE

Let me have my own way exactly in everything, and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.

LAO TZU

We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.

JOHN RUSKIN

Does a bird need to theorize about building it's nest, or boast of it when built? All good work is essentially done that way - without hesitation, without difficulty, without boasting.

MARTIN LUTHER KING

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.

The DALAI LAMA

We are all here on this planet, as it were, as tourists. None of us can live here forever. The longest we might live is a hundred years. So while we are here we should try to have a good heart and to make something positive and useful of our lives. Whether we live just a few years or a whole century, it would be truly regrettable and sad if we were to spend that time aggravating the problems that afflict other people, animals, and the environment. The most important thing is to be a good human being.

HENRY FORD

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

CHARLES M. SCHULTZ

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, and yet I’m happy. I can’t figure it out. What am I doing right?

CHARLES DICKENS

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

from the Tao Te Ching

Those who know do not talk.
Those who talk do not know.
Keep your mouth closed.
Guard your senses.
Temper your sharpness.
Simplify your problems.
Mask your brightness.
Be at one with the dust of the earth.
This is primal union.
He who has achieved this state
Is unconcerned with friends and enemies,
With good and harm, with honor and disgrace.
This, therefore, is the highest state of man.

HELEN KELLER

We would never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

GEORGE SAVILE

Most men’s anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

BERTRAND RUSSELL

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Energy and persistence conquers all things.

DUC de la ROCHEFOUCAULD

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

BUDDHA

My doctrine makes no distinction between high and low, or between rich and poor. It is like the sky. It has room for all, and like the rain it washes all alike.

ANON

The strength of a man isn't seen in the width of his shoulders.
It's in the width of his arms that encircle you.
The strength of a man isn't in the deep tone of his voice.
It's in the gentle words he whispers.
The strength of a man isn't how many buddies he has.
It's how good of buddies he is with his children.
The strength of a man isn't in how respected he is at work.
It's in how respected he is at home.
The strength of a man isn't in how hard he hits.
It's in how tender he touches.
The strength in a man isn't in the hair on his chest.
It's in his heart that lies within his chest.
The strength of a man isn't how many women he's loved.
It's if can he be true to one woman.
The strength of a man isn't in the weight he can lift.
It's in the burdens he can carry.

SOPHOCLES

One word frees us all of the weight and pain of life - that word is love.

ERIC HOFFER

It’s easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbour.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

Traditional Navajo Prayer

As I walk, as I walk
The universe is walking with me,
In beauty it walks before me,
In beauty it walks behind me,
In beauty it walks below me,
In beauty it walks above me,
Beauty is on every side.
As I walk, I walk with Beauty.

THE DALAI LAMA

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

EVEL KNIEVEL

A man can fall many times in his life, but he is not a failure until he refuses to get up.

HELEN KELLER

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

ALBERT SCHWEITZER

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

SHUNRYU SUZUKI

The most important thing is to find out
what is the most important thing.

An Indian Poem

This day is a special day, it is yours.
Yesterday slipped away, it cannot be filled anymore with meaning.
About tomorrow nothing is known.
But this day, today, is yours, make use of it.
Today you can make someone happy.
Today you can help another.
This day is a special day, it is yours.