OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN

A bell is no bell till you ring it,
A song is no song till you sing it,
And love in your heart
Wasn't put there to stay,
Love isn't love
Till you give it away.

GOETHE

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

Swedish Saying

Fear less, hope more
Moan less, breathe more
Talk less, say more
Hate less, love more
And all good things are yours.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.

BUDDHA

Never in the world does hatred cease by hatred. Hatred ceases by love.

MAYA ANGELOU

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

AKHENATON

To be satisfied with a little is the greatest wisdom, and he that increaseth his riches increaseth his cares, but a contented mind is a hidden treasure and trouble findeth it not.

GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE

Come to the edge! We can’t, we’re afraid.
Come to the edge! We can’t, we’ll fall.
Come to the edge!
And they came…….
And he pushed them…….
And they flew…….

JOSH BILLINGS

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

OSHO

Go out! The world is beautiful, adventurous,
It’s a challenge, it enriches.
Go out fearlessly! There’s nothing to lose,
There’s everything to gain.

CLAUD COCKBURN

Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.

Lord BYRON

There's music in the sighing of a reed,
There's music in the gushing of a rill,
There's music in all things if men had ears,
Their earth but an echo of the spheres.

ERICH FROMM

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

FRANCIS MAITLAND BALFOUR

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.

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.

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.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

WILLIAM JAMES

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

HOKUSAI

All that I have produced before the age of 70 is not worth taking into account.
When I am 80 I shall have made more progress.
At 90 I will penetrate the mystery of things.
At 100 I shall have reached a marvellous age, and when I am 110 everything I do, be it but a dot or a line, will be alive.

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.

HENRY VAN DYKE

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, and to work, and to play, and to look up at the stars.

MARK TWAIN

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

When I do good, I feel good.
When I do bad, I feel bad.
That's my religion.

CYNTHIA NELMS

Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.

The Book of Proverbs

A soft answer turneth away wrath.

BUDDHA

A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.

POOH BEAR

Friendship is a very Comforting sort of Thing.

KIRSTEN ZAMBUCKA

Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counterparts within all of us. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself - and your world will change.

ANON

If you want to feel rich, just count all the things you have that money can’t buy.

LAMA SURYA DAS

You are the spiritual treasure you are trying to discover and reveal

Sir WALTER RALEIGH

But true love is durable fire
In the mind ever burning;
Never sick, never old, never dead,
From itself never turning

BUDDHA

Do not disregard merit saying it will not come to me. By each drop of water is a water-jar filled. Similarly the wise man gathering little by little fills himself with good.

ASLAN

Why? Why Not? Why Not You? Why Not
Now?

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERY

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal. It will always be ahead of you.

VICTOR BORGE

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

DENG MING-DAO

You could labour ten years under a master
Trying to discern if the teachings are true.
But all you might learn is this -
One must live one’s own life.

THOMAS EDISON

I have not failed 10,000 times. I have successfully found 10,000 ways that do not work.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

Laugh and the world laughs with you. Weep and you weep alone.

NELSON HENDERSON

The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

KAHLIL GIBRAN

You give but little when you give of your possessions - it is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Swedish Proverb

Those who wish to sing, always find a song.

DOUGLAS ADAMS

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so

BERTRAND RUSSELL

I would never die for my beliefs for I might be wrong.

MAHATMA GANDHI

An Eye For An Eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

BUDDHA

Once a person is caught by belief in a doctrine, one loses all one's freedom. When one
becomes dogmatic, that person believes his or her doctrine is the only truth and that all other doctrines are heresy.
Disputes and conflicts all arise from narrow views. They can extend endlessly, wasting precious time and sometimes even leading to war. Attachment to views is the greatest impediment
to the spiritual path. Bound to narrow views, one becomes so entangled that it is no longer possible
to let the door of truth open.

MOTHER TERESA

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

GLADYS BRONWYN STERN

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.

The DALAI LAMA

The purpose of all the major religious traditions
is not to construct big temples on the outside,
but to create temples of goodness and compassion inside,
in our hearts.

PIET HEIN

Shun advice at any price, That's what I call good advice.

RABINDRANATH TAGORE

I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.

FRANK OUTLAW

Watch your thoughts for they become words.
Watch your words for they become actions.
Watch your actions for they become habits.
Watch your habits for they become character.
Watch your character for it becomes your destiny.

Att. to many sources

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good thing therefore that I can do now, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow-creature, let me do it now, for I shall not pass this way again.

MI TAKU OYASIN

I saw of course the cliff,
I saw the turbulent ocean blue,
but everyone else was going that way,
so I thought I would too. Lemmings?

e e cummings

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

The Koran

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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.