LILLIAN DICKSON

Life is like a coin - you can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.

MARK TWAIN

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

EURIPIDES

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Look not mournfully into the past.
It comes not back again.
Wisely improve the present.
It is thine.
Go forth to meet the future without fear and with a manly heart.

WINSTON CHURCHILL

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

CATHERINE PULSIFER

When you find yourself stressed, ask yourself one question - will this matter in five years from now?
If yes, then do something about the situation.
If not, then let it go.

ANON

When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship.

NORMAN VINCENT PEALE

Believe in yourself!
Have faith in your abilities!
Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

ECCLESIASTES

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow. But woe unto him that is alone when he falleth, for he hath not another to help him up.

OSCAR WILDE

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.

INDIRA GANDHI

Where there’s love, there’s life.

Chinese Saying

A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses

WILL ROGERS

If you want to be successful, it's just this simple.
Know what you're doing.
Love what you're doing.
Believe in what you're doing.

RABINRANATH TAGORE

I slept and dreamt that life was Joy.
I woke and saw that life was Duty.
I acted, and behold, Duty was Joy.

THOMAS SOWELL

There is only a limited amount of damage that can be done by dull or stupid people. For creating a truly monumental disaster, you need people with high IQs.

ANON

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

PETER USTINOV

Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.

BUDDHA

Happiness never decreases by being shared.

MARY PICKFORD

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.


This week at HAIKU HOMESTEAD -
When is a Haiku not a Haiku?

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Gaelic Saying

Chan ann leis a’chiad bhuille thuiteas a’chraobh.

It’s not with the first stroke that the tree is felled.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

A mind that has been stretched will never return to its original dimension.

LAO-TZU

Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.

JOHN NUNLEY

The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it.
If you can't ignore it, top it.
If you can't top it, laugh at it.
If you can't laugh at it, it's probably deserved.

THOMAS CARLYLE

Silence is more eloquent than words.

SAI BABA

Life is a song - sing it.
Life is a game - play it.
Life is a challenge - meet it.
Life is a dream - realize it.
Life is a sacrifice - offer it.
Life is love - enjoy it.

Swedish Proverb

Worry often gives a small thing a gigantic shadow.

KAHLIL GIBRAN

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

SYDNEY HARRIS

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time.
It is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

SHUNRYU SUZUKI

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

ANON

It costs nothing, but creates much.
It enriches those who receive without impoverishing those who give.
It happens in a flash, and the memory of it sometimes lasts forever.
It cannot be begged, borrowed, or stolen, but it is of no earthly good to anyone until it's given away.
So if in your hurry you run across someone too weary to smile, leave one of yours.

MARY ANNE RADMACHER

Consider calling it a challenge rather than a crisis.

LORD BYRON

There is pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society where none intrudes,
By the deep sea and the music in its roar
I love not man the less, but Nature more.


There are more nature quotes today at JOHN’S QUIET CORNER
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WINSTON CHURCHILL

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

ARISTOTLE

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is Nature’s way.

MARY PICKFORD

What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

JOHN WESLEY

Beware you be not swallowed up in books.
An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

OSCAR WILDE

The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.

JASCHA HEIFETZ

No matter what side of an argument you’re on, you always find some people on your side that you wish were on the other side.

Taoist Saying

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



More Taoist sayings have been posted at John’s Quiet Corner.

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DENG MING-DAO

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



I was very pleased with the Haiku Homestead blog which re-started last week.

This Friday’s posting is already available and can be seen at -
http://haikuhomestead.blogspot.com

The theme is Autumn and I give some answers to the question “What exactly is a haiku?”

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Greek Proverb

A heart that loves is always young.

ERICA JONG

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer, but wish we didn't.

PUBLILIUS SYRUS

Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.

AESOP

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

GEORGE HERBERT

He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.

GOETHE

Daring ideas are like chess men moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

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KAHLIL GIBRAN

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

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.

ANON

Every day is a good day.

THOMAS MORE

Sweet is the dream, divinely sweet, when absent souls in fancy meet.

CONFUCIUS

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

LEWIS CARROLL

Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

BUDDHA

To meditate is to listen with a receptive heart.

PATRICIA NEAL

A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.

PIERRE NICOLE

We need a reason to speak, but none to keep silent.

from FragrantHeart.com

Today is not just the first day of the rest of my life. It is also the first moment of the rest of my life, and every moment after that in which I am fully present.

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.

ANON

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

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.



This week John’s Quiet Corner includes a painting by the Australian artist Frederick McGubbin, a poem by the Ettrick Shepherd (James Hogg) and a slide show of pictures of roses accompanied by the panpipes of Gheorghe Zamfir

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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.

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.

BERTRAND RUSSELL

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

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.

The next posting here will be on
MONDAY 24TH AUGUST

JAMES OPPENHEIM

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

ANON

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

NISARGADATTA

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

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

MOTHER TERESA

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

CHARLES LAMB

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

King James Bible - Proverbs

A soft answer turneth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger.

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.

LAURENS van der POST

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

JOHN’S QUIET CORNER today includes a poem by Robert Browning, a painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, the Romance from the Gadfly Suite by Shostakovich, plus something to think about...
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GEORGE ASAF

What's the use of worrying? It never was worthwhile.

[from the song “Pack up your troubles”]

JOHN’S QUIET CORNER tomorrow will include a poem by Robert Browning, a painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, the Romance from the Gadfly Suite by Shostakovich, plus something to think about…….
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LAO TSU

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

GOETHE

If you treat a man as he is, he will stay as he is. However, if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be, and could be, he will become that bigger and better man.

ANON

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

CAROL BURNETT

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

SAMUEL JOHNSON

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

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.


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OSCAR WILDE

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

BUDDHA

Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.

Spanish Proverb

He who knows nothing, doubts nothing.

FRANCIS BACON

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

CONFUCIUS

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

CHARLES BUXTON

You will never find time for anything. If you want the time, you must take it.

MOTHER TERESA

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in the ocean, I think
the ocean would be less, because of that missing drop.


This week John’s Quiet Corner includes a Chinese poem, a Turner painting, a 1940s love song and Clair de Lune (Debussy)
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WINSTON CHURCHILL

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

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.

MARIA ROBINSON

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.

from the Tao Te Ching

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

BERTRAND RUSSELL

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

ANON

Nothing lasts for ever, not even your troubles.

FRANCIS BACON

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.
That strain again! it had a dying fall:
O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing and giving odour!


There are more famous music quotes today on John’s Quiet Corner.
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CONFUCIUS

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

IVAN TURGENEV

If you wait for the moment when absolutely everything is ready, you will never begin.