RACHEL CARSON

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of
strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something
infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature — the assurance
that dawn comes after night and spring after winter.

J.M. BARRIE

Shall we make a new rule of life from today? Always try to be a little kinder than necessary.

OSHO

You will find meaning in life only if you create it. It is not lying there somewhere behind the bushes, so you can go and you search a little bit and find it. It is not there like a rock that you will find. It is a poetry to be composed, it is a song to be sung, it is a dance to be danced.

RICHARD BACH

Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished - if you're alive, it isn't.

THICH NHAT HANH

No single tradition monopolizes the truth. We must glean the best values of all traditions and work together to remove the tensions between them. If we do, peace will have a chance.

ANON

Today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present.

OG MANDINO

If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labour.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.

CHARLOTTE JOKO BECK

Let us be respectfully reminded - life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by, and with it our only chance. Each of us must aspire to awaken. Be aware. Do not squander our life.

ALAN WATTS

Normally we do not so much look at things as overlook them.

HENRY DRUMMOND

I wonder why it is that we are not all kinder to each other than we are. How much the world needs it! How easily it is done!

RABINDRANATH TAGORE

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

SENGAI

To what shall I compare this life of ours?
Even before I can say it is like a lightning flash or a dewdrop, it is no more.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.

G.K. CHESTERTON

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

YOKO ONO

Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence
Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance
Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence
Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.

WILLIAM BLAKE

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity, and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

JANE SMILEY

The real mystery of life is not a problem to be solved. It's a reality to be experienced.

CID CORMAN

What's heaped too high spills
Emptiness just fills

J.J. VAN DER LEEUW

Whatever you love is beautiful. Love comes first, beauty follows. The greater your capacity for love, the more beauty you find in the world.

BUDDHA

Happy are they who have overcome their ego.
Happy are they who have attained peace.
Happy are they who have found the truth.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing

HORACE

Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own,
He who, secure within, can say
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
Be fair or foul or rain or shine
The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine.
Not Heaven itself upon the past has power,
But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

ANON

Don't ever save anything for a special occasion.
Every day you're alive is a special occasion.

Japanese Proverb

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

RYOKAN

Where there is beauty, there is ugliness.
When something is right, something else is wrong.
Knowledge and ignorance depend on each other.
It has been like this since the beginning.
How could it be otherwise now?
Wanting to toss out one and hold onto the other
makes for a ridiculous comedy.
You must still deal with everything ever-changing,
even when you say it’s wonderful.

ANON

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

CHUANG TSU

Our words fly off like arrows, as though we knew what was right and wrong. We cling to our point of view, as though everything depended on it. And yet our opinions have no permanence - like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.

THOMAS MOORE

When Time who steals our years away
Shall steal our pleasures too,
The mem'ry of the past will stay
And half our joys renew.

LAO TZU

Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river.

Sir ARTHUR HELPS

Wise sayings often fall
on barren ground,
but a kind word
is never thrown away.

STANLEY HOROWITZ

Winter is an etching, spring a watercolour, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.

JAVAN

I'm not very good
At this Game called Life
For I've not learned to see children crying
Without feeling pain
For I've not learned to watch animals destroyed
Without wondering why
For I've not yet met a king or a celebrity
That I would bow down to
Or a man so insignificant
That I would use for a stepping-stone
For I've not learned to be a 'yes man'
To narrow minded bosses
Who quote rules without reason
And I've not learned to manipulate
The feelings of others
To be used for my own advantages
Then cast aside as I see fit
No, I'm not very good
At this Game called Life
And if everything goes well
Maybe I never will be.

THOMAS CARLYLE

When the oak is felled, the forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown silently by an unnoticed breeze.

OMAR KHAYYAM

The moving finger writes and having writ
Moves on: nor all your piety nor wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your tears wash out a word of it.

GEORGE ELIOT

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

ANON

Everything can be my teacher
If I just let it be.
Not trying to push it away
Or clinging to it,
Wanting it to stay.

JAVAN

I often wonder
If I am the man
That I would be
If I were a boy
Dreaming of the man
That I would be.

JANE WAGNER

For fast acting relief, try slowing down.

WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.

OSHO

Once you have started seeing the beauty of life,
ugliness starts disappearing.
If you start looking at life with joy,
sadness starts disappearing.
You cannot have heaven and hell together,
you can have only one.
It is your choice.

Layman P'ANG

The past is already past,
Don’t try to regain it.
The present does not stay,
Don’t try to touch it.

ROBERT BYRNE

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

MARCEL PAGNOL

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.

THE DALAI LAMA

Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

I am content in my later years - I have kept my good humour and take neither myself nor the next person seriously.

LIN-CHI

When hunger comes, I eat my rice.
When sleep comes, I close my eyes.
Fools laugh at me, but
The wise man understands.

ANON

Remember that anger is only one letter short of danger.

ABRAHAM MASLOW

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

KAHLIL GIBRAN

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

ALICE ROOSEVELT LONGWORTH

I have a simple philosophy - fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.

BUDDHA

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

FLAVIA

Cut not the wings of your dreams, for they are the heartbeat and the freedom of your soul.

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

O, with what freshness,
What solemnity and beauty,
Is each new day born;
As if to say to insensate man,
'Behold, thou hast one more chance!
Strive for immortal glory!

ALBERT SCHWEITZER

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind Is all this sad world needs.

SOCRATES

Wisdom begins with wonder.

St. AUGUSTINE

People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.

ARTHUR RUBENSTEIN

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

OSHO

Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars, and if you have eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful. Everything is simply happy. Trees are happy for no reason - they are not going to become prime ministers or presidents and they are not going to become rich and they will never have any bank balance. Look at the flowers - it is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are.

GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong, because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

LAO TSU

Men today have abandoned compassion in order to be bold, discarded economy to be big spenders and rejected humility in order to be first.

WILL ROGERS

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

ANON

When in danger or in doubt
Run in circles, scream and shout.

BUDDHA

In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss.
Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and
ease with which we move through change.

ALBERT SCHWEITZER

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while the pessimist sees only the red stoplight. The truly wise person is colour blind.

The Bhagavad Gita

He excels who has sameness of appreciation towards well-wishers, friends, enemies, strangers, neutrals, haters, and kinsmen, and even saints and sinners.

WALT WHITMAN

Love the earth and sun and animals,
Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks,
Stand up for the stupid and crazy,
Devote your income and labour to others
And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrong.

Poor Robin's Almanack

The first of April, some do say
Is set apart for All Fool's Day;
But why the people call it so
Nor I, nor they themselves, do know,
But on this day are people sent
On purpose for pure merriment.

MAYA ANGELOU

If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning and saying "Good morning" to total strangers.

REBECCA HARDING DAVIS

We are all of us from birth to death
guests at a table which we did not spread.
The sun, the earth, love, friends,
our very breath are parts of this banquet.

ANON

Good wine maketh good blood,
Good blood causeth good humours,
Good humours cause good thoughts,
Good thoughts bring forth good works,
Good works carry a man to heaven.
Ergo, good wine carrieth a man to heaven.

HENRY VAN DYKE

Use what talent you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.

PAUL of TARSUS

Love is patient, love is kind, does not envy, does not boast, is not proud, is not rude, is not self-seeking, is not easily angered, keeps no record of wrongs, does not delight in evil but rejoices in the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.

BUDDHA

There is only one time when it is essential to awaken - that time is now.

KURT VONNEGUT

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

ELEONORA DUSE

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.

THE DALAI LAMA

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

Indian Saying

Every time you wake up and ask yourself, "What good things am I going to do today?", remember that when the sun goes down at sunset, it will take a part of your life with it.

WINSTON CHURCHILL

Success is never final.

THOMAS CARLYLE

Here hath been dawning
Another blue day;
Think, wilt thou let it
Slip useless away?

MOTHER TERESA

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

GEORGE ELIOT

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

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.