BUDDHA

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

The ideas that have lightened my way have been
kindness, beauty, and truth.

HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN

Belief and disbelief have divided mankind into so many sects, blinding its eyes to the vision of the oneness of all life.

ALAN WATTS

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join in the dance.

JOHNNY MERCER

You've got to accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative, latch on to the affirmative, don't mess with Mr. In-Between.

MARCO MORROW

It is a glorious privilege to live, to know, to act, to listen, to behold, to love.
To look up at the blue summer sky, to see the sun sink slowly beyond the line of the horizon,
to watch the worlds come twinkling into view, first one by one, and the myriads
that no man can count, and lo! the universe is white with them. And you and I are here.

CHARLES CHAPLIN

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

SHENG-YEN

Be soft in your practice. Think of the method as a fine silvery stream,
not a raging waterfall.
Follow the stream, have faith in its course.
It will go its own way, meandering here, trickling there.
It will find the cracks, the crevices. Just follow it.
Never let it out of your sight. It will take you.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
Live the life you've imagined.
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
Solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

BUDDHA

Those who experience the unity of life see their own
selves in all beings, and all beings in their own selves,
and look on everything with an impartial eye.

Sir JAMES MURRAY

Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.

Sir WINSTON CHURCHILL

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

ANON

People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centred.
Love them anyway.

ANNE FRANK

Think of all the beauty left around you, and be happy.

THICH NHAT NANH

Our smile will bring happiness to us and to those around us. Even if
we spend a lot of money on gifts for everyone in our family, nothing
we buy could give them as much happiness as the gift of our awareness,
our smile. And this precious gift costs nothing.

CONFUCIUS

There is no spectacle more agreeable than to observe an old friend fall from a roof-top.

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.

"YOGI" BERRA

The game isn’t over till it’s over.

GEORGE ELIOT

The first condition of human goodness is something to love. The second is something to reverence.

OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates, and men decay.

Att. to many sources

Life is not meant to be easy.

JOSEPH CONRAD

Facing it, always facing it - that's the way to get through. Face it.

TAO TE CHING

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

The Talmud

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

ANON

Knowledge is like a garden. If it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested.

MARCUS AURELIUS

Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself.

BILL COSBY

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

ANON

Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold, but so does a hard-boiled egg.

LIN YUTANG

“I have done my best." That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.

BOUTRO BOUTROS-GHALI

Ever since my youth I have been inspired whenever I contemplate the Nile, the river-god my ancestors worshipped. The Nile flows on indifferent to mere events. It carries a message from the heart of Africa, our common home. It brings life to all who live near its banks. It contributes its water to the Mediterranean and the great civilizations which surround its shores. And ultimately it flows and merges with all the world’s oceans which link every continent and all people of our planet. To me, it is a constant reminder of our common humanity.

WOODY ALLEN

If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.

DENG MING-DAO

The good in you is like the water in a well. The more you draw from it, the more fresh water will seep in. If you do not draw from it, the water will only become stagnant.

BUDDHA

Hatreds do not ever cease in this world by hating, but by love; this is an eternal truth - overcome anger by love, overcome evil by good, overcome the miser by giving, overcome the liar by truth.

MARCUS AURELIUS

If there is a God, follow him. And if there isn’t, be godlike.

Gaelic Saying

Peace is the well from which the stream of joy runs.

St TERESA of AVILA

Do good anyway.
If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable.
Be honest and transparent anyway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.
People who really want help may attack you if you help them.
Help them anyway.
Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt.
Give the world your best anyway.

BILL COSBY

"Don't worry about senility," my grandfather used to say. "When it hits you, you won't know it."

ANON

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

BUDDHA

You will not be punished for your anger. You will be punished by your anger.

P'ANG YUN

When the mind is at peace, the world too is at peace.

ANON

In order to see the rainbow, you must first endure some rain.

DAVID GRAYSON

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.

MARTIN LUTHER KING

Hatred paralyzes life - love releases it. Hatred confuses life - love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life - love illuminates it.

Gaelic Saying

Do not judge by appearances - a rich heart may be under a poor coat.

JOHN BURROUGHS

Time does not become sacred to us
Until we have lived it.

JONATHAN SWIFT

Take as many half minutes as you can get, but never talk more than half a minute without pausing and giving others an opportunity to strike in. One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.

JANIS JOPLIN

Don't compromise yourself - you're all you've got.

MAHATMA GANDHI

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way
of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants,
and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in
the end they always fall. Think of it - always.

MARY PETTIBONE POOLE

He who laughs, lasts.

Taoist Saying

No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.

VOLTAIRE

In the midst of all the doubts which we have discussed for four thousand years in four thousand ways, the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear of death.

CONFUCIUS

If one’s mind is elsewhere, one will look but not see, listen but not hear.

ROBERT E. LEE

You must be careful how you walk, and where you go, for there are those following you who will set their feet where yours are set.

RALPH SOCKMAN

Nothing is so strong as gentleness ; nothing is so gentle as true strength.

Medieval Occitan Proverb

Time lost can never be regained

MARK TWAIN

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

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.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost - that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

JOHN WESLEY

Do all the good 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.

ANON

Since all of your troubles exist only in your mind, the only place you can solve them is in your mind.

JIMMY DEAN

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination

WOODY ALLEN

To love is to suffer.
To avoid suffering one must not love.
But then one suffers from not loving.
Therefore to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer.
To suffer is to suffer.
To be happy is to love.
To be happy then is to suffer.
But suffering makes one unhappy.
Therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness.
I hope you're getting this down.

RABINDRANATH TAGORE

He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open.

THICH NHAT HANH

All methods, in the search for truth, should be looked on as a means, rather than as ends in themselves or as absolute truth.

Chinese Proverb

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones

ANON

Remember, your successes make you clever.
Only your failures make you wise.

WILLIAM BLAKE

The truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent

The Dhammapada

Our minds shape our lives.
We become what we think.

ZHANG JIGANG

As long as you are kind and there is love in your heart,
A thousand hands will naturally come to your aid.
As long as you are kind and there is love in your heart,
You will reach out with a thousand hands to help others.

HELEN KELLER

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

MARCUS AURELIUS

Tell yourself each morning - today I shall meet an envious man, an ungrateful one and a bully, and if I had their life I could easily become one too.

Japanese Proverb

Fall seven times. Stand up eight.

PASCAL

All of Man's problems stem from his inability to sit quietly with himself.

ASHLEY COOPER

SEVEN DEADLY SINS
Truth, if it becomes a weapon against persons.
Beauty, if it becomes vanity.
Love, if it becomes possessive.
Loyalty, if it becomes blind, careless trust.
Tolerance, if it becomes indifference.
Self-confidence, if it becomes arrogance.
Faith, if it becomes self-righteous.

Ethiopian Saying

The fool speaks, the wise man listens.

ANON

There isn’t enough darkness in the world to quench the light of one small candle.

ROBERT HEINLEIN

Always listen to the experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.

MARCEL PROUST

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes
but in having new eyes.

JOHN C. MAXWELL

The 10 Commandments of Human Relations
1. Speak to people.
2. Smile at people.
3. Call people by name.
4. Be friendly and helpful.
5. Be cordial.
6. Have a genuine interest in people.
7. Be generous with praise.
8. Be considerate of the feelings of others.
9. Be thoughtful of the opinions of others.
10. Be alert to give service.

SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single church or temple.

NADINE STAIR

If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. I would go to more dances. I would ride more merry-go-rounds. I would pick more daisies.

ANON

Don’t torment yourself about tomorrow.
There’s no tomorrow.
It’s all here and now.

ST.AUGUSTINE

Audi partem alterum (Hear the other side)

MARCUS AURELIUS

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

THICH NHAT HANH

Everything we do is an act of poetry or painting, if we do it with Mindfulness.

EDWARD R. MURROW

To be persuasive, we must be believable.
To be believable, we must be credible.
To be credible, we must be truthful.

W.H.AUDEN

In moments of joy, all of us wish we possessed a tail we could wag.

HYMAN RICKOVER

Great minds discuss ideas,
Average minds discuss events,
Small minds discuss people.

Ethiopian Proverb

Smooth seas do not make skilful sailors.

ANON

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

DALAI LAMA

I believe there is an important distinction to be made between religion and spirituality. Religion I take to be concerned with belief in the claims to salvation of one faith tradition or another - an aspect of which is acceptance of some form of meta-physical or philosophical reality, including perhaps an idea of heaven or hell. Connected with this are religious teachings or dogma, ritual, prayers and so on. Spirituality I take to be concerned with those qualities of the human spirit - such as love and compassion, patience, tolerance, forgiveness, contentment, a sense of responsibility, a sense of harmony, which bring happiness to both self and others.

DAVE BARRY

People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.

Nicaraguan Proverb

Eyes that see don’t grow old

GILBERT ARLAND

When an archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull’s-eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim, improve yourself.

AMANDA McBROOM

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

URSULA LE GUIN

It is good to have an end to journey towards, but it is the journey that
matters in the end.

ANON

Five rules to be happy -
1. Free your heart from hatred
2. Free your mind from worries
3. Live simply
4. Give more
5. Expect less

ALBERT CAMUS

Autumn is a second spring
When every leaf is a flower

LAO TZU

Those who know, do not speak.
Those who speak, do not know.