Indian Proverb

Every time you wake up, ask yourself, "What good things am I going to do today?" Remember that, when the sun goes down at sunset, it will take a part of your life with it.

MARTIN LUTHER KING

If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

HENRY VAN DYKE

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

ANAIS NIN

You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves you too full to embrace the present.

NANCY MITFORD

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

PLATO

There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.

JOHN RUSKIN

For most men an ignorant enjoyment is better than an informed one; it is better to conceive the sky as a blue dome than a dark cavity; and the cloud as a golden throne than a sleety mist.

ANON

Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man will not find peace.

THOMAS HARDY

A man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.

E. PHILLPOTS

Be civil to all, sociable to many, familiar with few, friend to one, enemy to none.

JAN GLIDEWELL

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.

Indian Proverb

Everyone is a house with four rooms - a physical, a mental, an emotional and a spiritual.
Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time, but unless we go in to every room every day, even if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete person.

CONFUCIUS

By three methods we may learn wisdom.
First, by reflection, which is noblest.
Second, by imitation, which is easiest.
Third, by experience, which is the bitterest.

JOSH BILLINGS

One-half the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift.

SWAMI VIVEKANADA

We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think.

OSCAR WILDE

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

MARLENE DIETRICH

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognised wiser than oneself.

BRIAN TRACY

Your attitude is an expression of your values, beliefs and expectations.

WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD

When we seek out the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

THICH NHAT HANH

While you are walking, smile and be in the here and now, and you will transform that place into paradise.

ANON

The easy way to teach children the value of money is to borrow from them.

MATTHEW ARNOLD

It is hard for a pure and thoughtful man to live in a state of rapture at the spectacle afforded him by his fellow-creatures.

MARK TWAIN

Humour is mankind's greatest blessing.

Chinese Saying

When someone shares something of value with you and you benefit from it, you have a moral obligation to share it with others.

DOROTHY SARNOFF

Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.

PLUTARCH

I don't need a friend who changes when I change or who nods when I nod. My shadow does that much better.

JOHN WESLEY

Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can.

The DALAI LAMA

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night.

STEPHEN LEACOCK

I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.