EPICTETUS

To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of lack of education.
To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun.
To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.

ANON

FOR HIM
We men have many faults,
Poor women have but two.
There’s nothing good they say,
There’s nothing good they do.
.
FOR HER
Women’s faults are many,
Men have only two.
Everything they say
And everything they do.

ANDRE GIDE

Believe those who are seeking the truth.
Doubt those who find it.

THICH NHAT HANH

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong.
Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

GEORGE ELIOT

Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning. But give me the man who has pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing. There are many victories worse than defeat.

THOMAS A KEMPIS

We would have much peace if we would not busy ourselves with the sayings and doings of others.

Gaelic Saying

Chan ann leis a’chiad bhuille thuiteas a’chraobh.
(It is not with the first stroke that the tree falls.)

WINSTON CHURCHILL

Saving is a very fine thing, especially when your parents have done it for you.

BUDDHA

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts. It is a sword that kills.

ALFRED Lord TENNYSON

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Life must be lived forwards, but it can only be understood backwards.

LAO- TZU

For knowledge add a little every day
For wisdom erase a little every day

ANON

Life owes me nothing.
One clear morn
Is boon enough
For being born;
And be it ninety years or ten,
No need for me to question when,
While life is mine,
I’ll find it good
And greet each hour
With gratitude.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Wink at small faults. Remember, thou hast great ones.

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner. In the dinner the sweets come last.

CZESLAW MILOSZ

I would prefer to be able to say, “I am satiated,
What is given to taste in this life, I have tasted.“
But I am like someone in a window who draws aside a curtain
To look at a feast he does not comprehend.
[Czeslaw Milosz 1911-2004, Polish-American poet and writer, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980]

GOETHE

To think is easy.
To act is hard.
But the hardest thing in the world
is to act in accordance with your thinking.

German Rhyme

Morgen, morgen nur nicht heute
Sagan alle faule Leute.
Tomorrow, tomorrow but not today
All the lazy people say.

MOLIERE

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Once upon a time............

A student asked Buddha, "Are you the Messiah?"
"No" was the answer.
“Are you a healer?"
"No". "Are you a teacher?" "No”.
"Then what are you?" "I am awake", Buddha replied.

BENJAMIN MAYS

The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.

CONFUCIUS

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

ELMER G. LETTERMAN

A man may fall many times, but he won't be a failure until he says that someone pushed him.

Latin Proverb

He who sins when drunk will have to atone for it when sober.

St PAUL

Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

JAMES THURBER

There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.

OSHO

Don’t seek, don’t search, don’t ask, don’t knock, don’t demand - just relax. If you relax, it comes. If you relax, it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it.

LILY TOMLIN

For fast-acting relief, try slowing down.

CHARLES READE

Never a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.