ALEXANDER POPE

A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

LAO TZU

To know yet to think that one does not know is best.
Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

ARISTOTLE

Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

MARILYN FRENCH

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.

The Dalai Lama

Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

THOMAS COLE

I cannot but express my sorrow that the beauty of such landscapes are quickly passing away, the ravages of the axe are daily increasing, the most noble scenes are made desolate, and oftentimes with a wantonness and barbarism scarcely credible in a civilized nation. The wayside is becoming shadeless, desecrated by what is called improvement.
(from an essay on American Scenery 1835)

CATO the Elder

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument then why I have one.

Indian Saying

No one's head aches when one is comforting another

DUKE ELLINGTON

Grey skies are just clouds passing over.

BUDDHA

All conditioned things are impermanent. Work out your own salvation with diligence.

(these are said to be Buddha's last words)

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.

MAHARISHI MAHESH YOGI

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.

HELEN KELLER

Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

LAO TZU

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill.
Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.
Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench.
Care about other people's approval and you will be their prisoner.
Do your work - then step back. The only path to serenity.

St FRANCIS of ASSISI

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

GEORGE WASHINGTON

How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.

JOHN MILTON

Give me the liberty to know, to utter and to argue freely according to my conscience, above all liberties.

HERMANN HESSE

Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.

WILLIAM ARTHUR

Flatter me, and I may not believe you.
Criticise me, and I may not like you.
Ignore me, and I may not forgive you.
Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Learn from the mistakes of others.
You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

BUDDHA

Through zeal knowledge is gained. Through lack of zeal knowledge is lost. Let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss, thus place himself that knowledge may grow.

Gaelic Saying

Do not light a fire that you cannot yourself put out.

CONFUCIUS

Without that innate sense of human worth, a man cannot long endure adversity, nor can he long enjoy prosperity.

ALEXANDER POPE

Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the faults I see, That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.

St FRANCIS of ASSISI

Start by doing what's necessary. Then do what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

WILLIAM BLAKE

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

ALAN WATTS

There is, of course, no satisfactory way of arguing the merits of any one of the great world religions against the others. In all such debates the judge and the advocate are the same person, for a man judges his own religion the best simply because the standard he uses is that of his own religious upbringing.