EVAN ESAR

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and Jill a rich widow.

CONFUCIUS

When you see a good man, think of emulating him; when you see a bad man, examine your own heart.

THOMAS MERTON

One person can make a difference, and every person must try.

KATHERINE HEPBURN

If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.

ANON

Some time in the future you will be more disappointed by the things you didn‘t do than by the ones you did.

JOSEPH ADDISON

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are - something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

OSCAR WILDE

Some people cause happiness wherever they go, others whenever they go.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (Twelfth Night)

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

STEPHEN LEACOCK

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

AUSONIUS

He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak

ANON

The plough goes not well if the ploughman holds it not

MARVA COLLINS

Success doesn’t come to you - you go to it.

JOHN F. KENNEDY

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

VOLTAIRE

Work banishes those three great evils - boredom, vice and poverty.

GEORGE ELIOT

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticism.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Life shrinks and expands in proportion to one's courage.

16th century saying

Take time while time is, for time will away.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

WILLIAM JAMES

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

MAYA ANGELOU

When you do the best you can, you never know what miracle is wrought in your life, or in the life of another.

Chinese Proverb

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

HAZRAT INAVAT KHAN

The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.

ROBERT BENCHLEY

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

PLUTARCH

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

GEORGE BURNS

I was always taught to respect my elders and now I’ve reached the age when I don’t have anybody to respect.

E. PHILLPOTS

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

From the Tao Te Ching

I hold and protect three treasures; benevolence, frugality and never trying to be Number One.

ALBERT SCHWEITZER

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

HELEN KELLER

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

THEODORE ISAAC RUBIN

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

JEAN BAPTISTE LACORDAIRE

Life is too short to choose the second best.

WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD

Time itself is an individual gift. It is wise to cherish it carefully and give it away generously.

ST.AUGUSTINE

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

CHUANG TZU

As rain falls on the just and the unjust alike, let your heart be untroubled by judgments and let your kindness rain on all.

Apache Saying

It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (Hamlet)

This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.

SANDRA CAREY

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.



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MEHER BABA

Live more and more in the present which is ever beautiful and stretches away before and beyond the limits of the past and the future.

GEORGE ELIOT

There is sufficiency in the world for man's need, but not for man's greed.


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JOHN RUSKIN

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.


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Indian Proverb

Every time you wake up, 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.

MARTIN LUTHER KING

If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

HENRY VAN DYKE

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

ANAIS NIN

You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves you too full to embrace the present.

NANCY MITFORD

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

PLATO

There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.

JOHN RUSKIN

For most men an ignorant enjoyment is better than an informed one; it is better to conceive the sky as a blue dome than a dark cavity; and the cloud as a golden throne than a sleety mist.

ANON

Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man will not find peace.

THOMAS HARDY

A man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.

E. PHILLPOTS

Be civil to all, sociable to many, familiar with few, friend to one, enemy to none.

JAN GLIDEWELL

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.

Indian Proverb

Everyone is a house with four rooms - a physical, a mental, an emotional and a spiritual.
Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time, but unless we go in to every room every day, even if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete person.

CONFUCIUS

By three methods we may learn wisdom.
First, by reflection, which is noblest.
Second, by imitation, which is easiest.
Third, by experience, which is the bitterest.

JOSH BILLINGS

One-half the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift.

SWAMI VIVEKANADA

We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think.

OSCAR WILDE

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

MARLENE DIETRICH

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognised wiser than oneself.

BRIAN TRACY

Your attitude is an expression of your values, beliefs and expectations.

WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD

When we seek out the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

THICH NHAT HANH

While you are walking, smile and be in the here and now, and you will transform that place into paradise.

ANON

The easy way to teach children the value of money is to borrow from them.

MATTHEW ARNOLD

It is hard for a pure and thoughtful man to live in a state of rapture at the spectacle afforded him by his fellow-creatures.

MARK TWAIN

Humour is mankind's greatest blessing.

Chinese Saying

When someone shares something of value with you and you benefit from it, you have a moral obligation to share it with others.

DOROTHY SARNOFF

Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.

PLUTARCH

I don't need a friend who changes when I change or who nods when I nod. My shadow does that much better.

JOHN WESLEY

Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can.

The DALAI LAMA

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night.

STEPHEN LEACOCK

I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

MARCEL PROUST

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Swedish proverb

Love me when I least deserve it, because that is when I need it the most.

ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.

CONFUCIUS

Learning without thought is labour lost.
Thought without learning is perilous.

JOE GIRARD

The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs, one step at a time.

THOMAS CARLYLE

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle - wonderful, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

LAURENCE J. PETER

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.

ANON

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

ARISTOTLE

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

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.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

How poor are they that have not patience.
What wound did ever heal but by degrees? (From Othello)

HERBERT HOOVER

About the time we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

DOROTHEA BRANDE

To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Chinese Proverb

Enjoy yourself. It’s later than you think.

FRANCIS BACON

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humour to console him for what he is.


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BUDDHA

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast. A wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future.

GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.

ANON

Life lives, life dies,
Life laughs, life cries,
Life gives up and life tries,
But life looks different through everyone’s eyes.

PEARL S. BUCK

The young do not know enough to
be prudent, and therefore they attempt
the impossible - and achieve it,
generation after generation.

GEORGE WASHINGTON

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

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.


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ROBERT BENCHLEY

You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it.

DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

MICHELANGELO

The greater danger for most of us is not
that our aim is too high and we miss it,
but that it is too low and we reach it.

G.K. CHESTERTON

The way to love anything is to realise that it might be lost.

WILLIAM JAMES

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.