LUTHER BURBANK

There is no other door to knowledge than the door Nature opens, and there is no truth but the truth we discover in Nature.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Every artist was first an amateur.

CHARLES DICKENS

Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many, not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

BUDDHA

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

JANE GOODALL

What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

SOPHOCLES

Kindness will always attract kindness.

St. MATTHEW

The star they had seen in the east went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was. When they saw the star they were overjoyed. On coming to the house they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshipped him.

Sir WALTER SCOTT

Oh, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practice to deceive!

ANON

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the number of moments that take our breath away.

from the Bodhidharma

When mortals are alive, they worry about death.
When they're full, they worry about hunger.
Theirs is the Great Uncertainty.
But sages don't consider the past.
And they don't worry about the future.
Nor do they cling to the present.
And from moment to moment they follow the Way.

THE DALAI LAMA

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something,
and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

FRANZ SCHUBERT

Let us take men as they are, not as they ought to be.

WALT DISNEY

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

PRENTICE MULFORD

Goodwill to others helps build you up. It is good for your body, it makes your blood purer, your muscles stronger, and your whole form more symmetrical in shape. It is the real elixir of life.

AMANDA McBROOM

It is the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.
It is the dream afraid of waking that never takes a chance.
It is the one who won't be taken who cannot seem to give.
And the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.

RABINDRANATH TAGORE

My eyes have seen too much, but they are not weary.
My ears have heard much, but they thirst for more.

BERTRAND RUSSELL

The secret of happiness is this - let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

SENECA

We should every night call ourselves to an account. What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptations resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they are brought every day to the shrift.

LAO TSU

Knowing others is wisdom,
Knowing the self is enlightenment.
Mastering others requires force,
Mastering the self needs strength.

St. AUGUSTINE

Audi partem alterum. (Hear the other side)

THOMAS MANN

Hold fast the time! Guard it, watch over it, every hour, every minute!

STEWART UDALL

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.

ELBERT HUBBARD

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

ANON

At twenty we worry about what others think of us.
At forty we don’t care what others think of us.
At sixty we discover they haven’t been thinking about us at all.

STACIA TAUSCHER

We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

BUDDHA

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past,
nor to worry about the future, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Things don’t change, we do.