HERMAN MELVILLE

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibres connect us with others; and along those fibres, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.

MAHATMA GANDHI

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.

EMILY DICKENSON

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

BUDDHA

Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.

W. S. GILBERT

Life’s a pudding full of plums,
Care’s a canker that benumbs.
Wherefore waste our elocution
On impossible solution?
Life’s a pleasant institution.
Let us take it as it comes.

ECCLESIASTICUS

Have regard for your name, since it will remain for you longer than a great store of gold.

Chinese Proverb

We count our miseries carefully, and accept our blessings without much thought.

ALFRED MONTAPERT

Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.

A.P. HERBERT

People must not do things for fun.
We are not here for fun.
There is no reference to fun in any Act of Parliament.

A.P.Herbert 1890-1971, English humorist, playwright, novelist and Member of Parliament

JOHN WOODEN

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.

DIOGENES

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

JOSEPH ADDISON

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure but, scattered along life's pathway the good they do is inconceivable.

EDDIE CANTOR

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast.You also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

ALBERT SCHWEITZER

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

BUDDHA

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth and faithfulness the best relationship.

ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS

How do geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we know when it’s time to move on? Just like the migrant birds, surely with us there is a voice within, if only we would listen to it, that tells us when to go forth into the unknown

[ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS 1926-2004 Swiss-born psychiatrist and author of “On Death and Dying”, moved to USA in 1958]

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

Reputation is only a candle of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

ANON

My grandpa notes the world's worn cogs
And says we're going to the dogs.
His grandpa in his house of logs
Said things were going to the dogs.
His grandpa in the Flemish bogs
Said things were going to the dogs.
His grandpa in his hairy togs
Said things were going to the dogs.
But this is what I wish to state.
The dogs have had a long, long wait.

MATSUO BASHO

Seek not the paths of the ancients.
Seek that which the ancients sought.

RABINDRANATH TAGORE

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door, or I'll make a door.

ROBERT C. EDWARDS

Never exaggerate your faults. Your friends will attend to that.

ANON

It has been found that in the worst of human degradation and suffering beauty can be found simply by changing one’s focus.

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

MARK TWAIN

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand.

Arab Proverb

Insults should be written in the sand, and praises carved in stone.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

BERTRAND RUSSELL

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

DIOGENES

He has the most who is most content with the least.