BARON de MONTESQUIEU

Happiness is not the absence of problems but the ability to deal with them.

PETER T. McINTYRE

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.

DAVID FROST

Don’t aim for success if you want it - just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.

KAHLIL GIBRAN

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

RUSSELL LYNES

The only graceful 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 been deserved.

BYRD BAGGETT

Look at life through the windscreen, not the rear-view mirror.

SOPHOCLES

Kindness will always attract kindness.

HENRY FORD

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking

ANON

Every day must come to you as -
a new hope
a new promise
a new aspiration
a new energy
a new thrill
a new delight

PEARL S. BUCK

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

HORACE

Seize the day! Put no trust in the morrow.

GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't have many rivals.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. (The Merchant of Venice)

Turkish Proverb

Things never go so well that one should have no fear, and never so ill that one should have no hope.

MATTHEW PARRIS

The commonest big mistake the individual outside politics makes about the people inside is to suppose that they have a plan

ELBERT HUBBARD

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

St TERESA of AVILA

The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.

ORISON S. MARDEN

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before
them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.



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The Talmud

For the unlearned, old age is winter; for the learned it is the season of the harvest.

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ALBERT SCHWEITZER

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.

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 make me laugh.

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CONFUCIUS

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.



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HENRY FORD

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.



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DEEPEK CHOPRA

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

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LILY TOMLIN

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

ANON

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the number of moments that take our breath away.

MAHATMA GANDHI

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

THOMAS CARLYLE

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

ROBERT SOUTHEY

Home - there is a magic in that little word, it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never known beyond its hallowed limits.

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

OSHO

Love is not a passion, love is not an emotion.
Love is a very deep understanding that somebody somehow completes you.
The presence of the other enhances your presence.
Love gives freedom to be yourself; it is not possessiveness.

SAM LEVENSON

Somewhere on this globe every 10 seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.

Latin Proverb

Possessions dwindle. I mourn their loss. But I mourn the loss of time much more, for everyone can save his purse, but none can win back lost time.

THOMAS H. HUXLEY

Much can be done to change the nature of man himself. The intelligence which has converted the brother of the wolf into the guardian of the flock ought to be able to do something toward curbing the instinct of savaging in civilised man.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT

The man who makes no mistakes usually does not make anything

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

JAMES ALLEN

The greatest achievements were at first and for a time dreams. The oak sleeps in the acorn.

LAO TSU

Knowing others is wisdom,
Knowing the self is enlightenment.
Mastering others requires force,
Mastering the self needs strength.

CHARLOTTE WHITTON

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.

PUBLILIUS SYRUS

To do two things at once is to do neither.

DALE CARNEGIE

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon, instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

From the Dhammapada

Better than a thousand
Hollow words
Is one word that brings peace.

CHARLES DICKENS

Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many, not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

WALT DISNEY

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

St FRANCIS of ASSISI

Start by doing what is necessary, then do what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

DR. SEUSS

Think left and think right
And think low and think high.
Oh, the thinks you can think up
If only you try!

JANE GOODALL

What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

African Proverb

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.

CHARLES READER

Sow a thought, and you reap an act;
Sow an act, and you reap a habit;
Sow a habit, and you reap a character;
Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.

JOHN F. KENNEDY

We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.

G.K. CHESTERTON

The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.

ANON

Love while you’ve got love to give
Live while you’ve got life to live

-o0o- WISE MEN SAY is FIVE YEARS OLD today -o0o-

Looking back to the start of the project, I was astonished to see that on that first day I posted no less than 23 quotes! Among them was the one I chose for today. So here's to the next 5 years!!!

ANON

Some minds are like concrete - thoroughly mixed up and permanently set.


Today at John's Gallery - Five Paintings by Women Artists
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GEORGE ELIOT

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand. The angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

FRANZ SCHUBERT

Let us take men as they are, not as they ought to be.


Today at John's Gallery - Five famous paintings including the Mona Lisa
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THICH NHAT HANH

Whatever activity you do, do it slowly, with the attention it deserves. Do not rush to end it. Be relaxed in everything and bring your full attention to it.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.


Today at John's Gallery - Five Paintings by Adolphe-William Bouguereau
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ANON

Three things that make us human:
our longing to know the meaning of life, our capacity for love, and our ability to laugh.

ELLEN DeGENERES

The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren’t any space aliens. We can’t be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we’re not all there is. If so, we’re in big trouble.

MALCOLM FORBES

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Chinese Proverb

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will avoid one hundred days of sorrow.

WINSTON CHURCHILL

I have had to eat my own words many times, and I have found it a very nourishing diet.

MILTON GARLAND

Don't worry about anything. Worrying never solved anything. All it does is distort your mind.


Today at John's Gallery - Avenue at Middelharnis, by Meindert Hobbema
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PHYLLIS THEROUX

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

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 bring a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.

JOHN WAYNE

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

ANON

Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by stupidity.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Do not go where the path may lead. Go where there is no path and make a trail.

ALDOUS HUXLEY

Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

MARILYN VOS SAVANT

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent

THOMAS CARLYLE

Silence is deep as Eternity, speech is as shallow as Time.

JESUS of NAZARETH

You have heard that it hath been said - thou shalt love thy neighbour and hate thy enemy. But I say unto you, love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you.

JOHN C. WU

Spring has its flowers,
Autumn has its moon,
Summer has its cooling breezes,
Winter has its snow.
If you allow no idle concerns to weigh on your heart,
Your whole life will be one perennial good season.


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FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us

EPICTETUS

In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend, but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things

HUGH WHITE

The past cannot be changed. the future is yet in your power.

HELEN KELLER

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

ANON

Every day must come to you as -
a new hope,
a new promise,
a new aspiration,
a new energy,
a new thrill, and
a new delight

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.

PETER USTINOV

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best. They are merely the people who got there first.



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J.R.R. TOLKIEN

It is the job that is never started that takes the longest to finish.

The Talmud

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

SOCRATES

Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs. Therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.

MARY ANNE RADMACHER

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day, saying "I will try again tomorrow."

DAVID GRAYSON

Commandment Number One of any truly civilised society is this: let people be different.

RABINDRANATH TAGORE

My eyes have seen too much, but they are not weary.
My ears have heard much, but they thirst for more.



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ZENNA SCHAFFER

Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach him how to fish and you get rid of him all weekend.

WALT DISNEY

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing

THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are



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PUBLIUS SYRUS

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm

Maltese Proverb

The wallet of a timid man neither increases or decreases

HELEN FIELDING

It is a truth universally acknowledged that, as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it - will do anything but live for it.

MARK TWAIN

Man is the only animal that blushes or needs to.



A TOUCH OF CULTURE remembers LEWIS CARROLL
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JACOB BRONOWSKI

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

JEAN GIRAUDOUX

Only the mediocre are always at their best.



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MOLIERE

One should look long and carefully at oneself before one considers judging others.

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PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

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