SOPHOCLES

Look and you will find it.

What is unsought will go undetected.

ANON

To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.

HELEN KELLER

The best and the most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart

OSCAR WILDE

Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others

ROBERT LOUIS STEPHENSON

No man is useless while he has a friend.

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WHEN OUR PARENTS WERE YOUNG

(An octogenarian turns back the clock)

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CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

Read every day something no one else is reading.

Think every day something no one else is thinking.

Do every day something no one else would be silly enough to do.

It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.

JOHN LENNON

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

SIR FRANCIS DRAKE

There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.

GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE

Now and then its good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

ANON

Life is a precious gift. Don’t waste it being unhappy, dissatisfied, or anything else you can be.

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.

OPRAH WINFREY

Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it, by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus.

JOHN KEATS

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty."
That is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

Chinese Proverb

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

JOHN MASEFIELD

I have seen flowers come in stony places
And kind things done by men with ugly faces,
And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races,
So I trust, too.

ROBERT C. EDWARDS

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

BUDDHA

Nobody is condemned in Buddhism,
For greatness is latent even in the seemingly lowliest,
Just as lotuses spring from muddy ponds.

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.

ALBERT SCHWEITZER

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

THERE HAVE BEEN PROBLEMS AT BLOGGER.COM, AND THE RESULT HAS BEEN THAT EVERYTHING I HAVE POSTED TO MY BLOGS SINCE WEDNESDAY HAS BEEN LOST.

I WILL NOW PUT THEM BACK ON

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Arab Proverb

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

JOHN WOODEN

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.

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.

ECCLESIASTICUS

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

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.

ALFRED MONTAPERT

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

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

From the Tao Te Ching

Clay is moulded in a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that makes it useful.

Now online - That Was Another Good Read
(Great Moments from Classic Fiction)
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RICHARD BACH

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

St. FRANCIS de SALES

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.

WILLIAM LOUDEN

To be sure of good health - eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.

WILLIAM LOUDEN

To be sure of good health - eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.

PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY

If you have had no pleasure in yourself, look about you. Go to the people; see how they can enjoy life; rejoice in the happiness of others and you can still live.