Wednesday, June 30, 2010

MARVA COLLINS

Success doesn’t come to you - you go to it.

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

JOHN F. KENNEDY

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Monday, June 28, 2010

VOLTAIRE

Work banishes those three great evils - boredom, vice and poverty.

Sunday, June 27, 2010

GEORGE ELIOT

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticism.

Saturday, June 26, 2010

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Life shrinks and expands in proportion to one's courage.

Friday, June 25, 2010

16th century saying

Take time while time is, for time will away.

Thursday, June 24, 2010

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

WILLIAM JAMES

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

MAYA ANGELOU

When you do the best you can, you never know what miracle is wrought in your life, or in the life of another.

Monday, June 21, 2010

Chinese Proverb

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

Sunday, June 20, 2010

HAZRAT INAVAT KHAN

The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.

Saturday, June 19, 2010

ROBERT BENCHLEY

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

Friday, June 18, 2010

PLUTARCH

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

Thursday, June 17, 2010

GEORGE BURNS

I was always taught to respect my elders and now I’ve reached the age when I don’t have anybody to respect.

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

E. PHILLPOTS

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

From the Tao Te Ching

I hold and protect three treasures; benevolence, frugality and never trying to be Number One.

Monday, June 14, 2010

ALBERT SCHWEITZER

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Sunday, June 13, 2010

HELEN KELLER

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look at the stars.

Saturday, June 12, 2010

THEODORE ISAAC RUBIN

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

Friday, June 11, 2010

JEAN BAPTISTE LACORDAIRE

Life is too short to choose the second best.

Thursday, June 10, 2010

WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD

Time itself is an individual gift. It is wise to cherish it carefully and give it away generously.

Wednesday, June 09, 2010

ST.AUGUSTINE

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

Tuesday, June 08, 2010

CHUANG TZU

As rain falls on the just and the unjust alike, let your heart be untroubled by judgments and let your kindness rain on all.

Monday, June 07, 2010

Apache Saying

It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand.

Sunday, June 06, 2010

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (Hamlet)

This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.

Saturday, June 05, 2010

SANDRA CAREY

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.



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Friday, June 04, 2010

MEHER BABA

Live more and more in the present which is ever beautiful and stretches away before and beyond the limits of the past and the future.

Thursday, June 03, 2010

GEORGE ELIOT

There is sufficiency in the world for man's need, but not for man's greed.


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Wednesday, June 02, 2010

JOHN RUSKIN

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

Tuesday, June 01, 2010

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.


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