GOETHE

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. 

Chinese Proverb

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will avoid one hundred days of sorrow.

HELEN KELLER

Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.

WILLIAM BLAKE

Cruelty has a human heart,
And Jealousy a human face,
Terror the human form divine,
And secrecy the human dress.

BUDDHA

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

An Apache Blessing

May the sun bring you new energy by day, may the moon softly restore you by night, may the rain wash away your worries, may the breeze blow new strength into your being, may you walk gently through the world and know its beauty all the days of your life.

SPIKE MILLIGAN

Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy.

TERENCE*

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.

*Terence 195-159 BC, Roman dramatist

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

He that thinks himself the happiest man really is so, but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

WILLIAM CONGREVE

I am always of the opinion with the learned, if they speak first.

DESCARTES

Common sense is the best distributed commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

ANON

More powerful than the will to win is the courage to begin.

HENRY FORD

Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.

The DALAI LAMA

It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.

ANON

Instead of giving myself reasons why I can't, I give myself reasons why I can.

NORA ROBERTS

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

T.S. ELIOT

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

GOETHE

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

BLAISE PASCAL

Most of the evils of life arise from man’s inability to sit still in a room.

MOTHER TERESA

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

Gaelic Saying

Cha tèid nì sam bith san dòrn dùinte.
Nothing can get into a closed fist.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.