SAMUEL JOHNSON

Courage is the greatest of all the virtues. If you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

MUSO KOKUSHI

It is better to practice a little than talk a lot.

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Love is flower like. Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

ANON

Who never wept knows laughter but a jest,
Who never failed no victory has sought,
Who never suffered never lived his best,
Who never doubted, never really thought.

BUDDHA

To meditate is to listen
with a receptive heart.

JOSEPH ADDISON

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.

Zen Saying

Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong.

JOSEPH DISPENZA

Every time we leave home and go to another place, we open up the possibility of having something wonderful happen to us. When we move out of the familiar here and now, we set in motion a series of events which, taken together, bring about changes in the very depths of our being.

SIDNEY LOVETT

Every now and again take a good look at something not made with hands - a mountain, a star, the turn of a stream. There will come to you wisdom and patience and solace and, above all, the assurance that you are not alone in the world.

DALAI LAMA

When we feel love and kindness towards others, it helps us develop inner happiness and peace.

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

JEROME KERN

Look for the silver lining
When e'er a cloud appears in the blue.
Remember somewhere the sun is shining,
And so the right thing to do,
Is make it shine for you.

A heart, full of joy and gladness,
Will always banish sadness and strife.
So always look for the silver lining,
And try to find the sunny side of life.

(a popular song in the 1930s)

ARISTOTLE

In all things of nature there is something of the marvellous.

MATSUO BASHO

Who mourns makes grief his master.
Who drinks makes pleasure his master.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Finish each day and be done with it.
You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in,
forget them as soon as you can.
Tomorrow is a new day,
begin it well and serenely
and with too high a spirit
to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

BABA RAM DASS

The quieter you become, the more you can hear.

FRANCOIS de la ROCHEFOUCAULD

When we are unable to find tranquillity within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

I never think about the future. It comes soon enough.

ELBERT HUBBARD

Don’t take life too seriously - you’ll never get out of it alive.

ANON

If you want something very badly, let it go free.
If it comes back to you, it’s yours forever.
If it doesn’t, it was never yours to start with.

LAO-TSU

See the small and develop clear vision.
Practice yielding and develop strength.
Use the outer light to return to the inner light and save yourself from harm.

Gaelic Saying

Is fheàrr teine beag a gharas na teine mòr a loisgeas.
The little fire that warms is better than the big fire that burns.

ALBERT CAMUS

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

BUDDHA

This is what should be done
By one who is skilled in goodness,
And who knows the path of peace.
Let them be able and upright,
Straightforward and gentle in speech,
Humble and not conceited,
Contented and easily satisfied,
Unburdened with duties and frugal in their ways,
Peaceful and calm, and wise and skilful,
Not proud and demanding in nature.
Let them not do the slightest thing
That the wise would later reprove.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end, Each changing place with that which goes before In sequent toil all forwards do contend.

JEROME K. JEROME

I like work. It fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

ANNE HERBERT

Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.

Italian Rhyme

Chi va piano
Va lontano
E va sano.
He who travels slowly goes far and goes safely.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night.

THOMAS JEFFERSON

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

MOLIERE

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.