Fisher/Goodwin/Shay

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

RABINDRANATH TAGORE

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

GOETHE

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

AGATHA CHRISTIE

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

BUDDHA

Forego everything that you have thought up to now meaningful, significant.
Sacrifice everything for this ultimate, because this is the only thing that will make you contented, that will make you fulfilled, that will bring spring to your being -
And you will blossom into a thousand and one flowers.

M.C. RICHARD

A knowledge of the path cannot be substituted for putting one foot in front of the other.

Japanese proverb

Fall seven times -
stand up eight.

ANON

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

KITARO NISHIDA

If my heart can become pure and simple like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this.

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.

Zen Saying

I cried because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet.

LEO BUSCAGLIA

Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!

Dr SAMUEL JOHNSON

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
The act of dying is not of importance - it lasts so short a time.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few
drops on yourself.

MOTHER TERESA

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.

CONFUCIUS

It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

ANON

As I lay down my thoughts, peace slips in.
Sitting quietly, nature comes to greet me.
Breathing consciously, tension falls away, worries creep over the edge of awareness.
But I gently push them over the side.
They swim off, unnecessary, unharmed,
For now - Peace.

DOLLY PARTON

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

CHANG PEI-CHENG

Lift up your clear bright thoughts to illuminate your destiny.
Lift up your spiritual conceptions to transcend your life.
Lift up your joyous heart to wash away the dusts of anxiety.

BEN SWEETLAND

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.

JOHN WESLEY

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

FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS

Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not be constrained by force.

From www.interluderetreat.com

Breathe in calmness.
Exhale your tension.
Smile gently to yourself.
Tell yourself, “This is time for calm, for peace.”
Let go of your stress, and invite your body to relax.
Feel yourself move into a state of calm awareness.
Stay there awhile…………….

GEORGE W. CHILDS

Do not keep the alabaster box of your friendship
sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives
with sweetness. Speak approving, cheering words
while their ears can hear them, and while their hearts
can be thrilled and made happier. The kind of things you
mean to say when they are gone, say before they go.

KAHLIL GIBRAN

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry,
the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness
which does not bow before children.

Chinese Proverb

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.

BUDDHA

My teaching is not a philosophy.
It is the result of direct experience. It is a means of practice, not something to hold on to, or worship. It is like a raft used to cross a river - only a fool would carry the raft around after he had reached the other shore.

EDITH WHARTON

If only we stopped trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

ANON

The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work.

ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so
regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.

HELEN KELLER

Turn your face to the sunshine and all shadows fall behind.

CONFUCIUS

Love thy neighbour as thyself. Do not do to others what thou wouldst not wish be done to thyself. Forgive injuries. Forgive thy enemy, be reconciled to him, give him assistance, invoke God in his behalf.

H.L. MENCKEN

We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

BUDDHA

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

MOTHER TERESA

Life is a promise - fulfil it.

from the Tao Te Ching

There is no greater sin than desire,
no greater curse than discontent,
no greater misfortune than wanting something for yourself.
Therefore he who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

JOSEPH STOREY

Have confidence that, if you have done a little thing well, you can do a
bigger thing well too.

An Irish Blessing

May there always be work for your hands to do.
May your purse always hold a coin or two.
May the sun always shine on your window-pane.
May a rainbow be certain to follow the rain.
May the hand of a friend be always near you.
May God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.

ROBERT. G. INGERSOLL

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

P'ANG YUN

The past is already past -
- don't try to regain it.
The present does not stay -
- don't try to touch it.
The future has not come -
- don't think about it.

ANON

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, only this time more wisely.

BENJAMIN DISRAELI

Youth is a blunder
Manhood a struggle
Old Age a regret.

CARL SCHURZ

Ideals are like stars.
You will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but, like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them reach your destination.

Cherokee Saying

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

The DALAI LAMA

What is religion?
As far as I am concerned, any deed done with good motivation is a religious act.
On the other hand, a gathering of people in a temple or church who do not have good motivation are not performing a religious act when they pray together.

FRANCIS GRAY

Look well to this day.
Yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision. But today well-lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well therefore to this day.

Salvador de Madariaga

Considering how bad men are, it is wonderful how well they behave.

Ven.K.Sri. DHAMMANANDA

Happy is he who has lofty and noble aspirations.
Happy is he who enriches the lives of others.
Happy is he who allows others to live in peace.
Happy is he who makes this world a better place to live in.
Happy is he whose work, chores and daily tasks are labours of love.
Happy is he who loves love.

PIET HEIN

He that lets the small things bind him
Leaves the great undone behind him.

North American Indian Saying

Inside me dwell ten thousand stars,
One for each of my ancestors.
The elk, the raven, the moose, the man, the flower, the coyote, the lion, the fish,
Ten thousand different stars am I,
But only one spirit connecting all.

BUDDHA

Happiness never decreases by being shared.

ANON

Blessed are those that can give without remembering and receive without forgetting.

ROBERT LYND

Most beings are quite likeable if you do not see too much of them.

DALE CARNEGIE

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

From the Dhammapada

Hold not a sin of little worth, thinking "This is little to me."
The falling drops of water will in time fill a water-jar.
Even so the foolish man becomes full of evil, although he gather it little by little.

Hold not a deed of little worth, thinking "This is little to me."
The falling drops of water will in time fill a water-jar.
Even so the wise man becomes full of good, although he gather it little by little.

DENG MING-DAO

You may be capable of great things, but life consists of small things.

MARY KAY ASH

Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as the mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve.

GANDHI

We must not, like the frog in the well who imagines that the universe ends with the wall surrounding his well, think that our religion alone represents the whole truth and all others are false.

CHARLES SCHULTZ

Don’t worry about the world coming to an end.
It’s already tomorrow in Australia.

ANON

Do not pretend you know.
Start the day fresh and new.
The only thing you know is that you do not know.

THE DALAI LAMA

My religion is very simple -
My religion is kindness.

CROWFOOT

What is life?
It is the flash of a firefly in the night.
It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime.
It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

(Crowfoot 1830-1890 Chief of Blackfoot First Nation, Canada)

BERTRAND RUSSELL

The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

ANON

Every day is a good day.

LAMA SURYA DAS

Truth is everywhere. It knows no religious, cultural, temporal or ethnic bounds.
Truth is the perfect circle. Its centre is everywhere; its circumference stretches into infinite space.

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

BUDDHA

Do not pursue the past - the past no longer is.
Do not lose yourself in the future - the future has not yet come.
Looking deeply at life as it is in the very here and bow, the practitioner dwells in stability and freedom.

ANON

If you are waiting for someone to come along and save you from yourself, you have a long wait.

TENNYSON

If I could understand a flower, root and all, I would have understood the whole existence.

LAO TSU

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

A Gaelic blessing

Deep peace of the running wave to you,
Deep peace of the flowing air to you,
Deep peace of the shining stars to you,
Deep peace of the quiet earth to you.

CONFUCIUS

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising everytime we fall.

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.

GEORGE SAND

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning.
I think that is the only way to keep adding to one's talent, and one's inner happiness.

ANON

What is Zen?
Zen is nothing else but living life as it is.

LANGSTON HUGHES

Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow

GEORGE MOORE

There is always a right way and a wrong way,
and the wrong way always seems the more reasonable.

ANON

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

LU YU

The clouds above us join and separate,
The breeze in the courtyard leaves and returns;
Life is like that, so why not relax?
Who can stop us from celebrating?

TAOIST SAYING

Those who know do not speak;
those who speak do not know.

DOUG McLEOD

I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.

SAMUEL JOHNSON

A man had rather have a hundred lies told of him, than one truth which he does not wish should be told.

DALAI LAMA

I look on religion as medicine. For different complaints, doctors will prescribe different remedies. Therefore, because not everyone’s spiritual 'illness' is the same, different spiritual medicines are required.

ANON

Stop struggling for perfection, and recognise the perfection you already are.

H.L. MENCKEN

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

One lives and learns, doesn’t one? That is certainly one of the more prevalent delusions.

LAURENS van der POST

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right

JOHN MAGLIOLA

A small child looked at a star and began to weep.
And the star said "Child, why do you weep?"
The child said "You are so far away; I will never be able to touch you."
And the star answered "Child, if I were not already in your heart, you would not be able to see me now."

RUMI

I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons.
Knocking on a door, it opens -
I've been knocking from the inside.

ANON

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
The only way to get a friend is to be one.

A Zen Prayer

Breathing in, I cherish the life I have been given.
Breathing out, I cherish the life of others.
I breathe in, cherishing of the self.
I breathe out, cherishing of others.

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

NISARGADATTA

Wisdom tells me I'm Nothing.
Love tells me I'm Everything.
Between the two my life flows.

CHARLES LAMB

The greatest pleasure in life is to do good by stealth
and be found out by accident

ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU

When the white missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said “Let us pray.” We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

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

WILLIAM BLAKE

It is right it should be so,
Man was made for Joy and Woe,
And when this we rightly know,
Thro' the World we safely go.
Joy and Woe are woven fine,
A clothing for the Soul Divine

JAMES OPPENHEIM

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance.
The wise man grows it under his feet.

LUIS MARDEN

One lifetime isn't enough.
Just when you start to learn -
it's time to go.