JOHANN VON GOETHE

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

ROBERT SOUTHEY

I have told you of the Spaniard who always put on his spectacles when about to eat cherries, so that they might look bigger and more tempting. In like manner I make the most of my enjoyments; and though I do not cast my cares away, I pack them in as little compass as I can, and carry them as conveniently as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.

LILY TOMLIN

For fast acting relief try slowing down.

THOMAS JEFFERSON

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

ISAAC ASIMOV

Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up - well, maybe once!

Latin Proverb

Possessions dwindle and I mourn their loss. But I mourn the loss of time much more, for anyone can save his purse, but none can win back lost time.

VICTOR HUGO

He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.

HOMER

The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

ADAM GORDON

Life is mostly froth and bubble; two things stand like stone.
Kindness in another’s trouble; courage in our own.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

VIDAL SASSOON

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Turkish Proverb

Even a stopped clock is correct twice a day.

AESOP

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

HOMER SIMPSON

Three little sentences will get you through life -
1. Cover for me
2. Good idea, boss
3. It was like that when I got here

OPRAH WINFREY

I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint, and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

The quality of mercy is not strain'd,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. (from The Merchant of Venice)

GEORGE S. PATTON

Say what you mean and mean what you say.

BUDDHA

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but through persistence.

From a 1920s song

Keep on smiling,
For when you're smiling,
The whole world smiles with you.

NELSON MANDELA

One of the things I learnt when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself I could not change others.

17th century proverb

Who is more busy then he who hath least to do?

EMILY DICKINSON

Saying nothing sometimes says the most.

FRIEDRICH ENGELS

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

DESHAN

All the profound doctrines are but a speck of dust in a vast void.
All the great affairs of the world are but a drop of water cast into a bottomless chasm.

ALBERT CAMUS

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

RUDYARD KIPLING

Take everything you like seriously, except yourself.

Japanese Saying

Fall seven times -
stand up eight.

AGATHA CHRISTIE

Curious things, habits - people themselves never know they have them.

The DALAI LAMA

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

BERTRAND RUSSELL

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.