MOTHER TERESA

Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.

ANON

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
The only way to get a friend is to be one.

THOMAS a KEMPIS

First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

CHARLES READER

Sow a thought, and you reap an act.
Sow an act, and you reap a habit.
Sow a habit, and you reap a character.
Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.

FRIEDRICH von SCHILLER

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

from Monty Python "The Meaning of Life"

The meaning of life is nothing very special. Try to be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations.

HERODOTUS

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.

JOHN BERRY

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS

There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Content makes poor men rich. Discontentment makes rich men poor.

LAO-TZU

Manifest plainness,
Embrace simplicity,
Reduce selfishness,
Have few desires.

ANATOLE FRANCE

To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.

HENRY MILLER

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

MARTIN FARQUAR TUPPER

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Chinese Saying

A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home.

ANON

The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

G.K. CHESTERTON

Don’t ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.

ANNE DILLARD

How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.

PIET HEIN

He that lets the small things bind him
Leaves the great undone behind him.

RAINER MARIA RILKE

This is the miracle that happens every time - to those who really love - the more they give, the more they possess.

DEEPEK CHOPRA

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside you.

ANON

If at the end of the day you feel dog-tired, maybe it's because you growled all day.

SAMUEL JOHNSON

Resolve not to be poor.
Whatever you have, spend less.

The DALAI LAMA

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

HENRY VAN DYKE

Time is
Too slow for those who wait
Too swift for those who fear
Too long for those who grieve
Too short for those who rejoice
But for those who love
Time is eternity

KATHERINE NORRIS

Life is easier to take than you would think. All that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.

Arabic Saying

Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Every man should be born again on the first day of January.
Start with a fresh page.
Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances.
But on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.