Friday, February 29, 2008

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.

Thursday, February 28, 2008

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.

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

ARISTOTLE

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

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

MARILYN FRENCH

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.

Monday, February 25, 2008

The Dalai Lama

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

Sunday, February 24, 2008

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)

Saturday, February 23, 2008

CATO the Elder

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

Friday, February 22, 2008

Indian Saying

No one's head aches when one is comforting another

Thursday, February 21, 2008

DUKE ELLINGTON

Grey skies are just clouds passing over.

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

BUDDHA

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

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

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

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

Monday, February 18, 2008

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

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

Sunday, February 17, 2008

MAHARISHI MAHESH YOGI

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

Saturday, February 16, 2008

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.

Friday, February 15, 2008

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.

Thursday, February 14, 2008

St FRANCIS of ASSISI

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

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

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.

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

JOHN MILTON

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

Monday, February 11, 2008

HERMANN HESSE

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

Sunday, February 10, 2008

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.

Saturday, February 09, 2008

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

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

Friday, February 08, 2008

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.

Thursday, February 07, 2008

Gaelic Saying

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

Wednesday, February 06, 2008

CONFUCIUS

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

Tuesday, February 05, 2008

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.

Sunday, February 03, 2008

St FRANCIS of ASSISI

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

Saturday, February 02, 2008

WILLIAM BLAKE

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

Friday, February 01, 2008

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.