DAVID BOHM

The great strength of science is that it is rooted in actual experience. The great weakness of contemporary science is that it admits only certain types of experience as legitimate.

Old Gypsy Saying

Gypsy gold does not chink or glitter,
It gleams in the sun and neighs.

W. H. AUDEN

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can - all of them can make me laugh.

MOTHER TERESA

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

Confucian Saying

If thy strength will serve, go forward in the ranks. If not, stand still.

PIET HEIN

Whenever you're called on to make up your mind, and you're hampered by not having any, The best way to solve the dilemma, you'll find, is simply by spinning a penny. No, not so that chance shall decide the affair while you're passively standing there moping, But the moment the penny is up in the air, you suddenly know what you're hoping.

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

Native American Saying

A bowl belongs to whoever needs it.

BERNARD EDMONDS

To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind.
To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the human will.
To trust yourself, to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed.

BUDDHA

If you find a good companion, who is following the same spiritual path, travel together, overcoming obstacles as they arise.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

Only two things are infinite - the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

DAVID CARRADINE

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.

Gaelic Saying

Some people make things happen, some watch things happen, while others wonder what has happened.

ALEXANDER POPE

A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

LAO TZU

To know yet to think that one does not know is best.
Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

ARISTOTLE

Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

MARILYN FRENCH

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.

The Dalai Lama

Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

THOMAS COLE

I cannot but express my sorrow that the beauty of such landscapes are quickly passing away, the ravages of the axe are daily increasing, the most noble scenes are made desolate, and oftentimes with a wantonness and barbarism scarcely credible in a civilized nation. The wayside is becoming shadeless, desecrated by what is called improvement.
(from an essay on American Scenery 1835)

CATO the Elder

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument then why I have one.

Indian Saying

No one's head aches when one is comforting another

DUKE ELLINGTON

Grey skies are just clouds passing over.

BUDDHA

All conditioned things are impermanent. Work out your own salvation with diligence.

(these are said to be Buddha's last words)

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.

MAHARISHI MAHESH YOGI

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.

HELEN KELLER

Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

LAO TZU

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill.
Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.
Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench.
Care about other people's approval and you will be their prisoner.
Do your work - then step back. The only path to serenity.

St FRANCIS of ASSISI

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

GEORGE WASHINGTON

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

JOHN MILTON

Give me the liberty to know, to utter and to argue freely according to my conscience, above all liberties.

HERMANN HESSE

Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.

WILLIAM ARTHUR

Flatter me, and I may not believe you.
Criticise me, and I may not like you.
Ignore me, and I may not forgive you.
Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Learn from the mistakes of others.
You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

BUDDHA

Through zeal knowledge is gained. Through lack of zeal knowledge is lost. Let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss, thus place himself that knowledge may grow.

Gaelic Saying

Do not light a fire that you cannot yourself put out.

CONFUCIUS

Without that innate sense of human worth, a man cannot long endure adversity, nor can he long enjoy prosperity.

ALEXANDER POPE

Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the faults I see, That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.

St FRANCIS of ASSISI

Start by doing what's necessary. Then do what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

WILLIAM BLAKE

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

ALAN WATTS

There is, of course, no satisfactory way of arguing the merits of any one of the great world religions against the others. In all such debates the judge and the advocate are the same person, for a man judges his own religion the best simply because the standard he uses is that of his own religious upbringing.

CHARLES DICKENS

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

SENECA

While the fates permit, live happily. Life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

MAEZUMI

Have good trust in yourself, not in the one that you think you should be, but in the one that you are.

ANON

In order to create peace, you cannot think peace. You must be peace.

BUDDHA

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

THOMAS CARLYLE

Let me have my own way exactly in everything, and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.

LAO TZU

We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.

JOHN RUSKIN

Does a bird need to theorize about building it's nest, or boast of it when built? All good work is essentially done that way - without hesitation, without difficulty, without boasting.

MARTIN LUTHER KING

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.

The DALAI LAMA

We are all here on this planet, as it were, as tourists. None of us can live here forever. The longest we might live is a hundred years. So while we are here we should try to have a good heart and to make something positive and useful of our lives. Whether we live just a few years or a whole century, it would be truly regrettable and sad if we were to spend that time aggravating the problems that afflict other people, animals, and the environment. The most important thing is to be a good human being.

HENRY FORD

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

CHARLES M. SCHULTZ

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, and yet I’m happy. I can’t figure it out. What am I doing right?

CHARLES DICKENS

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

from the Tao Te Ching

Those who know do not talk.
Those who talk do not know.
Keep your mouth closed.
Guard your senses.
Temper your sharpness.
Simplify your problems.
Mask your brightness.
Be at one with the dust of the earth.
This is primal union.
He who has achieved this state
Is unconcerned with friends and enemies,
With good and harm, with honor and disgrace.
This, therefore, is the highest state of man.

HELEN KELLER

We would never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

GEORGE SAVILE

Most men’s anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

BERTRAND RUSSELL

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Energy and persistence conquers all things.

DUC de la ROCHEFOUCAULD

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

BUDDHA

My doctrine makes no distinction between high and low, or between rich and poor. It is like the sky. It has room for all, and like the rain it washes all alike.

ANON

The strength of a man isn't seen in the width of his shoulders.
It's in the width of his arms that encircle you.
The strength of a man isn't in the deep tone of his voice.
It's in the gentle words he whispers.
The strength of a man isn't how many buddies he has.
It's how good of buddies he is with his children.
The strength of a man isn't in how respected he is at work.
It's in how respected he is at home.
The strength of a man isn't in how hard he hits.
It's in how tender he touches.
The strength in a man isn't in the hair on his chest.
It's in his heart that lies within his chest.
The strength of a man isn't how many women he's loved.
It's if can he be true to one woman.
The strength of a man isn't in the weight he can lift.
It's in the burdens he can carry.

SOPHOCLES

One word frees us all of the weight and pain of life - that word is love.

ERIC HOFFER

It’s easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbour.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

Traditional Navajo Prayer

As I walk, as I walk
The universe is walking with me,
In beauty it walks before me,
In beauty it walks behind me,
In beauty it walks below me,
In beauty it walks above me,
Beauty is on every side.
As I walk, I walk with Beauty.

THE DALAI LAMA

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

EVEL KNIEVEL

A man can fall many times in his life, but he is not a failure until he refuses to get up.

HELEN KELLER

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

ALBERT SCHWEITZER

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

SHUNRYU SUZUKI

The most important thing is to find out
what is the most important thing.

An Indian Poem

This day is a special day, it is yours.
Yesterday slipped away, it cannot be filled anymore with meaning.
About tomorrow nothing is known.
But this day, today, is yours, make use of it.
Today you can make someone happy.
Today you can help another.
This day is a special day, it is yours.

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.