HENRY DAVID THOREAU

I have learned,
that if one advances confidently
in the direction of one’s dreams,
and endeavours to live the life one has imagined,
one will meet with a success
unexpected in common hours.

DESMOND TUTU

Without memory, there is no healing.
Without forgiveness, there is no future.

LAO-TZU

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

J. M. BARRIE

Dreams do come true, if you only wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

ANTHONY De MELLO

Said the river to the seeker, “Does one really have to fret about enlightenment? No matter which way I turn, I’m homeward bound.”

VINCE LOMBARDI

The spirit, the will to win,
and the will to excel are the things that endure.
These qualities are so much more important
than the events that occur.

CHARLES CHAPLIN

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.

HUANCHU DAOREN

Calm in quietude is not real calm. When you can be calm in the midst of activity, this is the true state of nature. Happiness in comfort is not real happiness. When you can be happy in the midst of hardship, then you see the true potential of the mind.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it do singe yourself

(from HENRY VIII)

Gaelic Saying

Cha d’dhùin doras nach d’fhosgail doras.
No door ever closed, but another opened.

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.

WALTER LINN

It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't have to.

BUDDHA

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else. You are the one who gets burned.

CHIEF SITTING BULL

Every seed is awakened and so is all animal life. It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being. We therefore yield to our animal neighbours the same right as ourselves to inhabit this land.

[Sitting Bull, born between 1831 and 1837, died 1890, chief of the Dakota Sioux]

PROUST

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes but in having new eyes.

W. H. AUDEN

We are all here on earth to help others. What on earth the others are here for I don't know.

Japanese Saying

Vision without action is a daydream; action without vision is a nightmare.

ALBERT SCHWEITZER

One does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

HSI-TANG

Although gold dust is precious, when it gets in your eyes, it obstructs your vision.

GALILEO

You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him find it within himself.

KATHERINE MANSEFIELD

I must say I hate money, but it’s the lack of it I hate most.

The DALAI LAMA

I have three treasures which I guard and keep - the first compassion, the second economy, the third humility.
From compassion comes courage, from economy comes the means to be generous, from humility comes responsible leadership.

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

The best portion of a good man’s life -
his little, nameless, unremembered acts
of kindness and love.

MOTHER TERESA

All that we need to know and all the wisdom of the cosmos we will find in our own hearts.

LAO TZU

Knowing others is intelligence, knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

FRED ASTAIRE

Old age is like everything else - to make a success of it, you need to start young.

Native American Saying

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

CHARLES DICKENS

Whatever I have tried to do in life,
I have tried with all my heart to do it well.
Whatever I have devoted myself to,
I have devoted myself completely.
In great aims and in small
I have always been thoroughly in earnest.

SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, merely surface glitter, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

[Swami Vivekananda 1863-1902, Indian philosopher, lecturer and writer who brought Eastern ideas to the West]