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"Mountain is mountain.
water is water.
Golf is golf.
All is tao."
-My word
Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses.
-Adlai Stevenson
You don't know what real pressure is until you play for five bucks with only two in your pocket.
-Lee Trevino
It could be worse; I could be allergic to beer
-Greg Norman, on discovering his allergy to grass
Golf is like a grindstone: whether it grinds you down or polishes you up depends on what you're made of. -English saying
Practice Tee: the place where golfers go to convert a nasty hook into a wicked slice. -Henry Beard and Roy McKie
Be patient. Acquiring finesse takes time. -Amy Alcott
Palmer and Player played superbly, but Nicklaus played a game with which I am not familiar. -Bobby Jones
Some players would complain if they were playing on Dolly Parton's bedspread. -Jimmy Demaret
An amateur golfer is one who plays for honor. In my mind, that's tougher than playing for money. -Willie Turnsea
Golfers don't fist fight. They cuss a lot. But they wouldn't punch anything or anybody. They might hurt their hands and have to change their grip. -Dan Jenkins
Golf is the equivalent of crack for middle-aged white men. -Mike Barnicle
An American tourist playing St. Andrews sliced his tee shot out of bounds and immediately hit another ball.
"In our country we call that a mulligan," he told his caddie. "What do you call it over here?"
"A three," the caddie replied.
Never bet against anyone you meet on the first tee who has a deep suntan, a one-iron in his bag, and squinty eyes.
-Dave Marr If you want to beat somebody on the golf course, just get him mad.
-Dave Williams What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.
-Arnold Palmer One of the advantages bowling has over golf is that you very seldom lose a bowling ball.
-Don Carter I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
-G. K. Chesterton But since I cannot play at golf
Unless I swear a wee,
I'll give it up.
"What, golf?" they cried.
Nae, mon - the ministry.
-19th century Scottish rhyme If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.
-Paul Gallico Many a husband has a secret craving to use his golf clubs in a way the manufacturer didn't intend.
The trouble with some golfers is that they stand too close to the ball - after they hit it.
Once when I was golfing in Georgia I hooked the ball into a swamp.
I went in after it and found an alligator wearing a shirt with a picture of a little golfer on it.
-Buddy Hackett If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
-Jack Lemmon You tend to get impatient with poor shots or less-than-perfect shots, but you have to remember less-than-perfect shots win Opens.
They are part of the game, and you have to learn to deal with them.
-Curtis Strange If you pick up a golfer and hold it close to your ear, like a conch shell, and listen, you will hear an alibi.
-Fred Beck Where I play, the greens always break toward the bar.
-George Gobel Only one golfer in a thousand grips the club lightly enough.
-Jonny Miller. When you reflect on the combination of characteristics that golf demands of those who would presume to play it, it is not surprising that golf has never had a truly great player who was not also a person of extraordinary character.
-Frank D. (Sandy) Tatum, Jr. Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-Mark Twain Always throw clubs ahead of you.
That way you don't have to waste energy going back to pick them up.
-Tommy Bolt The man who never falls asleep in church on Sunday is probably out on the golf course.
If you can't outplay them, outwork them.
-Ben Hogan The better you putt, the bolder you play.
-Don January Great champions learn from past experiences, whether those be good or bad.
A lot of times a guy needs to be knocked down before he gets up and fights.
-Paul Azinger It's good sportsmanship not to pick up lost balls while they are still rolling.
-Mark Twain Golf taught me perseverance, it taught me not to cheat - no easy thing for a boy when he's two down and his ball is deep in the woods.
-James "Scotty" Reston In case you don't know very much about the game of golf, a good one-iron shot is about as easy to come by as an understanding wife.
-Dan Jenkins May you live long enough to shoot your age.
-Traditional English Golf Toast My game is so bad I gotta hire three caddies: one to walk the left rough, one for the right rough, and one down the middle.
And the one in the middle doesn't have much to do.
-Dave Hill I won't try to describe A.R.'s game, beyond saying the way he played it would have taken him three years of solid practice to work up to where he could be called a duffer.
-Paul Gallico Augusta National is like playing a Salvador Dali landscape.
I expected a clock to fall out of the trees and hit me in the face.
-David Feherty Real golfers don't cry when they line up their fourth putt.
-Unknown Never give a golfer an ultimatum unless you're prepared to lose.
-"Dear Abby", to a wife complaining of her husband's golf addiction Perhaps the best way of curing yourself of the tendency to become irritable and morose when you are playing badly is to pull yourself up and think how objectionable and ridiculous other people look when they are in the same state.
-H. J. Whigham The good chip is like the good sand trap shot: it's your secret weapon.
It allows you to whistle while you walk in the dark alleys of golf.
-Tommy Bolt In competition, firing gunfire or while bombs are falling, players may take cover without penalty for ceasing play.
The positions of known delayed-reaction bombs are marked by red flags at a reasonably, but not guaranteed, safe distance therefrom ... A ball moved by enemy action may be replaced, or if lost or "destroyed" a ball may be dropped not nearer the hole without penalty.
A player whose stroke is affected by the simultaneous explosion of a bomb may play another ball from the same place.
Penalty, one stroke.
-Temporary World War II rule at the Richmond Golf Club, outside London. Golf has taught me there is a connection between pleasure and pain.
"Golf" spelled backwards is "flog."
-Phyllis Diller The more I practice, the luckier I get.
-Gary Player A long time ago I asked my teacher what the best exercise was for golf.
He said simply, "hitting golf balls."
-Larry Miller The number one thing about trouble is... don't get into more.
-Dave Stockton I don't play well enough to be allowed to throw my clubs.
-Lou Holtz A golfer is a man who keeps his elbows straight for eighteen holes, but bends it on the nineteenth.
The only thing you should force in a golf swing is the club back into the bag.
-Byron Nelson I stayed in the bunker until I made one.
They had to bring me cocktails and dinner.
-JoAnne Carner, on how she developed her sand game A bad attitude is worse than a bad swing.
-Payne Stewart Good-looking form is one of the secrets of good golf.
Look beautiful and you'll play beautiful.
However, some old codgers with whom I play, play mighty ugly and beat the pants off me.
-Don Herold If you call on God to improve the results of a shot while it is still in motion, you are using "an outside agency" and are subject to appropriate penalties under the rules of golf.
-Henry Longhurst Real golfers don't miss putts, they get robbed.
-Unknown Playing with your spouse on the golf course runs almost as great a marital risk as getting caught playing with someone else's anywhere else.
-Peter Andrews I've quit worrying about poor shots.
I just tell myself, "Relax, Bozo. If you can't have fun, you shouldn't be out here."
-Patty Sheehan Actually, the only time I ever took out a one-iron was to kill a tarantula.
And it took a seven to do that.
-Jim Murray There's no game like golf: you go out with three strangers, play eighteen holes, and return with three enemies.
It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.
-Robert Lynd I like to say I was born on the 19th hole, the only one I ever parred.
-George Low, Jr. Winning has always meant much to me, but winning friends has meant the most.
-Babe Didrikson Zaharias Practicing is my meditation.
Some golfers like to fish and others read.
I like to hit golf balls.
-Lee Trevino It doesn't much matter what kind of a clubhead is on one end of that shiny metal shaft if a fat head is on the other.
-Robinson Murray
I expect to make at least seven mistakes a round.
Therefore, when I make a bad shot, I don't worry about it.
It's just one of those seven.
-Walter Hagen Moderation is essential in all thing, madam,
but never in my life have I failed to beat a teetotaler.
-Harry Vardon Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick.
-P. J. O'Rourke Gentleman play golf.
And if you aren't a gentleman when you start, after the crushing events of the game, you surely become one.
-Bing Crosby It's still embarrassing.
I asked my caddie for a sand wedge, and ten minutes later he came back with a ham on rye.
-Chi Chi Rodriguez, on his long-standing accent problems If I died ... I couldn't play golf.
No way was I giving up golf, so I gave up drinking.
-Bob Hope The best way to get a man to dig in a garden would be to call it a sand trap.
The one-iron is almost unplayable.
You keep it in your bag the way you keep a Dostoyevsky novel in you bookcase - with the vague notion that you will try it some day.
In the meantime, it impresses your friends.
-Tom Scott and Geoffrey Cousins First you teach a golfer to hook the ball by using his hands and arms properly.
Then you teach him how to take the hook away by using his body and legs properly.
-Harvey Penick Corey Pavin plays the game of golf as if he has a plane to catch - as if he were double-parked and left the meter running.
Guys move slower leaving hotel fires.
-Jim Murray Golf's three ugliest words: still your shot.
-Dave Marr I'll take a two-shot penalty, but I'll be damned if I'm going to play the ball where it lies.
-Elaine Johnson, when her ball bounced from a tree into her bra Golf is based on honesty.
Where else would someone admit to a seven on an easy par three?
-Jimmy Demaret You can buy a country but you can't buy a golfswing.
It's not on the shelf.
-Gene Sarazen If you keep shooting par at them, they all crack sooner or later.
-Bobby Jones Let the ball get in the way of the swing, instead of making the ball the object.
-Jack Burke, Sr The only way of really finding out a man's true character is to play golf with him. In no other walk of life does the cloven hoof so quickly display itself.
-P. G. Wodehouse A good golf course makes you want to play so badly you hardly have time to change your shoes.
-Ben Crenshaw Between the banks of pain and pleasure the river of life flows.
It is only when the mind refuses to flow with life, and gets stuck at the banks, that it becomes a problem.
-Manuel Hernandez Wit is often a mask.
If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling. - Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam Better never to have met you In my dream Than to wake and reach For hands that are not there. - Otomo No Yakamochi Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face
whatever the gods offer. - Morihei Ueshiba, The Art of Peace Why should I be bitter About someone who was A complete stranger Until a certain moment In a day that has passed. - Saigyo When I gathered flowers For my girl From the top of the plum tree The lower branches Drenched me with dew. - Kakinomoto No Hitomaro When one rows, it is not the rowing which moves the ship. Rowing is only
a magical ceremony by means of which, one compels a demon to move the ship. - Friedrich Nietzsche There are no such things as strangers, only friends that we have not yet
met. - Anonymous Someday My friend: We will know Love - Of its existence. In time Existing within it: becoming part of it. You and I. - Jonivan The sum of man's problems come from His inability to be alone in a silent room. - Pascal If we do discover a complete theory of the universe It should in time be
understood in broad principle by everyone, not just a few scientists. Then we,
philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people will be able to take part in the
discovery of why it is that we and the universe exist. If we find the answer to that, it
would be the ultimate triumph of human reason: for then we would know the mind of God. - Stephen W. Hawking, A Brief History of Time I cannot forget The perfumed dusk inside the Tent of my black hair As we woke to make love After a long night of love. - Marichiko To love somebody Who doesn't love you, Is like going to a temple And worshipping the behind Of a wooden statue Of a hungry devil. - Lady Kasa IN LVMINE TVO VIDEBIMVS LVMEN In Thy Light, Shall We See Light - Columbia University's Alma Mater A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others,
in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you . . . Look at every path closely and
deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself alone, one
question . . . Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it
is of no use. - Carlos Castaneda, The Teachings of Don Juan And when the future hinges on the next words that are said, Don't let
logic interfere, believe your heart instead. - Philip Robison No purifier equals knowledge, and in time the man of perfect discipline discovers this in his own spirit. Faithful, intent, his senses subdued, he gains knowledge; gaining knowledge, he soon finds perfect peace. - Bhagavad-Gita 4:38 One should remember man's spirit as the guide, the primordial poet, smaller than an atom, granter of all things, in form inconceivable, the color of the sun beyond darkness. - Bhagavad-Gita 8:9 This is the use of memory: For liberation-not less of love but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the future as well as the past. - T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding III, The Four Quartets I met a solid rowing friend and asked about the Race. How fared it with
the wind, I said, When stroke increased the pace? You swung it forward mightily, you
heaved it greatly back. Your muscles rose in knotted lumps, I almost heard the crack. And
while we roared and rattled too, your eyes were fixed like glue. What thought went flying
through your mind, how fared it, Five, with you? But Five made answer solemnly, I heard
them fire a gun, No other mortal thing I heard until the Race was done. - R.C. Lehman The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you but
in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to
what he says but rather to what he does not say. - Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam The Earth has music for those who listen. - ? Some Lit. Hum. Student should know ? Nuke A Gay Whale For Christ. - American Bumper Sticker If we shadows have offended, Think but this and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: If you pardon we will mend. And, as i am an honest puck, If we have unearned luck Now to 'scape to serpent's tongue, We will make ammends, ere long; Else the Puck a liar call. So, goodnight unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, And Robin shall restore ammends. - Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream (V, 1) She should have died hereafter; There would have beem a time for such a word. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps on this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candel! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. - Shakepeare, Macbeth (V, 5) Friends, Romans, countrymen Lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus hath told you Caesar was ambitious: If it were so, it was a grievous fault; And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it. Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest, - For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men, - Come i to speak in Caesar's funeral. - Shakespeare, Caesar Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took And each doth good turns now unto the other. When that mine eye is famish'd for a look, Or heart in love with sighs himself doth smother, With my love's picture then my eye doth feast And the painted banquet bids my heart. Another time mine eye is my heart's guest And in his thoughts of love doth share a part. So, either by thy picture or my love, Thyself away art present still with me; For thou not father than my thoughts canst move, And I am still with them and they with thee; Or, if they sleep, thy picture in my sight Awakes my heart to heart's and eye's delight. - Shakespeare, Sonnet XLVII Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou are more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd: And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd; But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st; Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st: So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. - Shakespeare, Sonnet XVIII The more you sweat in Peacetime, The less you bleed during War. - Chinese Proverb Even the greatest of men cannot rejoice in a friend's triumph without
envy. - ???, Excerpt from Man Enough by Dr. Frank Pittman Rowing is a sport for dreamers. As long as you put in the work, you can
own the dream. When the work stops, the dream disappears. - Jim Dietz, Rowing Coach, USCGA Razors pain you; Rivers are damp; Acids stain you; And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful; Nooses give; Gas smells awful; You might as well live. - Dorothy parker Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to
time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. - Oscar Wilde The true Black Belt is the white belt of a beginner, stained by the
dried blood and sweat of the owner. The willingness to sacrifice is the prelude to freedom. - Pesach Seder Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you. - William Arthur Ward Check out these great ads. Wisest is he who knows he does not know. - Old Eastern Saying Greif and sorrow do not come to us by chance, they are sent to us by the
Divine Mercy for our own Perfecting. - 'Abdu`l Baha' To touch is to experience, but to feel is to live. - Loren Klein I go by many names, under many skies, doing many things, yet am always
at the same place. I eat up its power, reveling in anguish. I love, I lie, I am only a
human. This is my life, no trespassing. Please. - The Lord Greycloak of Raven's Hill I'm sure I take rowing too seriously by many peoples standards- but,
they are not rowing people. - Stuyvesant B. Pell (Princeton '53) When I Die, I want to go like my grandfather did, peacefully in his
sleep. Not yelling and screaming, like all the passengers in his car! - It's a joke! Read a rowing story..."In the beginning..." When will I learn? The answers to life's problems aren't at the bottom
of a bottle! They're on TV! - Homer Simpson Read "Half Crazed Rower" by M. Sullivan... Keep your face to the sunshine and you can never see the shadow. - Helen Keller Read English is Tough Stuff... If you move from what is to what may be, you pass over a bridge which
takes you from Hell to Paradise. And the strangest thing: a Paradise made of precisely the
same material of which Hell is made. It is only the perception of the order of the
materials that differs... - Odysseas Elytis from Open Book But if you build your life on dreams it's prudent to recall; a man with
moonlight in his hands has nothing there at all. - Don Quixote N.B. This truth sucks. I am impregnated with myself, and when I know myself, I'll deliver. - Anna Gross All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for
enough good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke For S.B. If ever you should need my life, come and take it. - The Sea Gull No problem is so big and complicated that it can't be run away from. - Peanuts I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love. - F. Sagan Fear not growing old, it is a priveledge granted to far too few... too
few. That which was hard to endure is sweet to remeber. What's enough love? A little more than anyone ever gets. - Charly Each one stands on the heart of the earth, impaled by a ray of sunlight. And suddenly, it's evening. - S. Quasimodo There's nothing wrong with building dream castles as long as you don't try to move in. We are torn between a craving to know and the despair of having known. - F. Sagan Qui paient ses dettes, sont riches. Life is but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard of no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. - Shakespeare There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it. - Shaw The more sorrow one encounters, the more joy one can contain. - The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran Wasting time won't make any difference to eternity. When first born we cry for coming into this stage of fools. - Lear Take the clouds from your eyes and see me as I really am. - Don Quixote What makes life worth living? To be born with the gift of laughter and sense that the world is mad. - S. Searamouche Yesterday is a cancelled check. Tomorrow is a promisary note. Today is cash... Spend it wisely. Love without reason lasts the longest. To be a woman's first lover means nothing- To be the last is the important thing. Every man beareth the whole stamp of the human condition. - Montaigne Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them. - Gertrude, Herman Hesse On a clear day you can see a long long time ago. There is no such thing as happiness, just lesser shades of melancholy. Happiness is the shadow of things past which the fools shall take for that which is to be. - Francis Thompson A man is a god in ruins. - R. W. Emerson A man is a little soul carrying around a courpse. - M. Aurelius Don't waste your youth growing up. Those who flow through life as life flows, feel no wear... feel no tear... need no mending... no repair. - Laotzu The question is no longer between violence and non-violence; It is
between non-violence and non-existance. - Martin Luther King Junior The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. - Franklin Delano Roosevelt I would rather labor on earth in service to another; To a man who is landless, with little to live on, Than be king over all the dead. - Odyssey, Homer The strong do what they have the power to do and the weak accept what they have to accept. - History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides Do not be led astray by a false sense of honour-- a thing which often
brings men to ruin when they are faced with an obvious danger that somehow affects their
pride. - History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides Read about this awsome idea...... Read this interesting point of view..... Every week we ought to have one hour for recieving letters, then go take
a bath. - Nietzsche Shallow water easily becomes disturbed and murky. I see no virtue where I smell no sweat. Somewhere, someone is practicing, and when you meet him in face to face
competition, he will win. Rivers of truth taste the same. - Old Tibetan (Buddhist) Saying Badness can be caught in great abundance, easily; the road to her is level, and she lives near by. But Good is harder, for the gods have placed in front of her much sweat; the road is steep And long and rocky atr the first, but when You reach the top, she is not hard to find. - Hesiod, Works and Days Love they to live that honor and love have. -Shakespeare, 'Richard II' As a rule, Man's a fool. When it's hot He wants it cool; When its cool He wants it hot. Always wanting What is not. We must accept the truth, even if it changes our point of view. If it makes you happy, It can't be that bad. When I was young, I could remember anything, Whether it happened or not.
- Mark Twain The term "incorporeal" is properly applied only to the void,
which cannot act or be acted on. Since the soul can act and be acted upon, it is
corporeal. - Epicurus Men imagine that celestial bodies are divine yet ascribe to them
purposes inconsistent with divinity; and they anticipate eternal suffering after death.
Peace of mind follows freedom from such fears, and will be gained if we trust to our
immediate feelings and sensations. - Epicurus Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember
that what you have now was once among the things you only hoped for. - The Vatican Sayings, Epicurus It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the
power to obtain by himself. - The Vatican Sayings, Epicurus We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of
their help when in need. - The Vatican Sayings, Epicurus Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency. - The Vatican Sayings, Epicurus We alternate between desire and regret. - On the Private life, Seneca God is in the details. Necessity is an evil; but there is no necessity for continuing to live
subject to necessity. - The Vatican Sayings, Epicurus Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until
they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. - Anais Nin Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a
needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God. - Matthew, 19.24 If you gaze for long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. - Nietzsche Making love with you Is like drinking sea water. The more I drink The thirstier I become, Until nothing can slake my thirst But to drink the entire sea. - Marichiko Anything more than the truth would be too much. - Robert Frost The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he
has attained liberation from the self. - Albert Einstein One world at a time. - Thoreau, when asked about the hereafter I like reality. It tastes of bread. - Jean Anouilh When an ordinary man attains knowledge, he is a sage; when a sage attains understanding, he is an ordinary man. - Zen Saying Just before she died, Gertrude Stein asked: "What is the
answer?" No answer came. She laughed and said: "In that case what is the question?"
Then she died. Every day people are straying away from church and going back to God. - Lenny Bruce If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. - Mark Twain At the ancient pond a frog plunges into the sound of water. - Basho This world of dew is only a world of dew, and yet. - Issa Everybody laughs in the same language. - Anonymous Read Some very funny bumper stickers. I have nothing, I owe much, the rest I leave to the poor . . . - The last dying words of Oscar Wilde Tomorrow or next life- which comes first, we will never know. - Old Tibetan Buddhist Saying Of all footsteps, that of the elephant is supreme; Of all mindfull
meditations, that on death is supreme. - Milarepa If you want to know your past life, look into your present condition; if you want to know your future, look into your present action. - Padmisambha Even though it's hard, it's easy. - Hesiod America is my country; Paris is my home town. - Gertrude Stein Sometimes I just wish it were greener on my side. - Chris Loncar In the end, there will be no judges . . . only witnesses to my
greatness. - Anyone know? Bible? Like - what's the point of poetry when you can like - uh - talk? - Jon Spiegel Virtue will take up arms against savagery, And the battle will be short. For the courage of old is not yet dead In Italian hearts. - Petrarch, Italia Mia, II. 93-6. For the whole earth is the sepulcher of famous men, not only are they commemorated in columns and inscriptions in their own country but in foreign lands there dwells also an unwritten memorial of them graven not on stone but in the hearts of men. - Pericles' Funeral Oration, V c. B.C. If rulers take too much grain People rapidly starve; If rulers take too much freedom People easily rebel; If rulers take too much happiness. People gladly die. By not interfering the sage improves the people's lives. - Tao Te Ching The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind. - Thomas Paine The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. - Paul Valery The saddest moment in a person's life comes but once. It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. - John Andrew Holmes Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot; others transform a yellow spot into the sun. - Pablo Picasso I've told you for the fifty-thousandth time, stop exagerating. Read Another Good quotes page. Lift the stone and you will find me. Cleave the wood and I am there. - Jesus 1. Out of clutter, find simplicity. 2. From discord, find harmony. 3. In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity. - Albert Einstein, The Three Rules of Work When you understand one thing through and through, you understand
everything. - Shunryu Suzuki Should you desire the great tranquility, prepare to sweat white beads. - Hakuin Knock, and he'll open the door. Vanish, and he'll make you shine like the sun. Fall, and he'll raise you to the heavens. Become nothing, and he'll turn you into everything. - Rumi It is not the same to talk of bulls as to be in the Bullring. - Spanish Proverb You can only find truth with logic if you have already found it without
it. - G. K. Chesterton Pai-chang wished to send a monk to open a new monastery. He told his
pupils that whoever answered a question most ably would be appointed. Placing a water jug
on the ground, he asked: "Who can say what this is without calling it its name?"
The head monk said: "No one can call it a wooden sandal." Kuei-shan, the cooking
monk, tipped over the jug with his foot and went out. Pai-chang laughed and said:
"The head monk loses." And Kuei-shan became the Master of the new monastery. - Zen Mondo Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with truth. - Thich Nhat Hanh Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. - Pablo Picasso Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end. - Krishnamurti The more you know, the less you understand. - Tao Te Ching From myself, I am copper, Through you, friend, I am gold; From myself I am a stone, But through you I am a gem. - Rumi He who is calm disturbs neither himself nor others. - Epicurus, The Vatican Sayings Physicists define stress as force per unit area. The rest of humanity defines stress as physics. Today's jargon file addition: "Salmon Day"... The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed in the end. See: Another Good quotes page. Engineering: "How will this work?" Science: "Why will this work?" Management: "When will this work?" Liberal Arts: "Do you want fries with that?" Duct tape is like The Force: it has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together. Unix - it's a nice place to live, but you wouldn't want to visit there. "In any non-trivial axiomatic system, there are true theorems which cannot be proven." -- Goedel "Shit happens." -- Ragman "Let it be." -- Lennon Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. - S?en Kierkegaard LIFE: NOBODY GETS OUT ALIVE - J. Q. Pelegano Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. - Doug Larson Able was I, ere I saw Elba. - Napoleon, upon his death bed. Nature is mortal; we shall outlive her. When all the suns and nebulae
have passed away, each one of you will still be alive. Nature is only the image, the
symbol; but it is the symbol my beliefs invite me to use. We are summoned to pass through
Nature, beyond her, into that splendour which she fitfully reflects. And in there, in
beyond Nature, we shall eat of the tree of life... - Peter B. Carroll Women seem wicked when your unwanted. - Jim Morrison Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we
think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a
man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and
self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of
a man. - Charles Alexander Eastman (Ohiyesa) Santee Sioux Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families. To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail. If you understand, things are as they are. If you do not understand, things are as they are. - Gensha "God is dead." - Nietzche "Nietzche is dead." - God "Nietzche is God." - The Dead Once you have the means of life, you must practice virtue. - Phocylides See Another Good quotes page. If God had meant for us to be naked, we'd have been born that way. - Mark Twain We mock the things we are to be. Long and hard is the way that up towards heaven, leads us to the light. - Dante The heart has its reasons that reason cannot know. - Pascal It takes, on average, about fifteen years to become an over-night
success. "Freedom" is just another word for "nothing to
lose". - Janis Joplin Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Louis Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo DaVinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. Knowing is not enough; We must Apply. Willing is not enough; We must Do. - Goethe This statement is false. My house says to me, "do not leave me, for here dwells your
past." And the road says to me, "Come and follow me, for I am your
future." And I say to both my house and the road, "I have no past, nor have I a future. If I stay here, there is a going in my staying; and if I go there is a staying in my going. Only love and death change all things." - Kahlil Gibran Half of the world's misery comes from ignorance. The other half comes
from intelligence. - Bonar Thompson ... the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise. - Thomas Paine, Common Sense Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise: seek what they sought. - Basho Loving is so short and forgeting so long. - Pablo Neruda Do not work too hard -- it's bad for the soul. - a e b No one can promise you tomorrow. God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the
strength to change those I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Monitor your thoughts; they become words. Monitor your words; they become actions. Monitor your actions; they become habits. Monitor your habits, they become character. Keep track of your character, For it becomes your future. - ixoyc You have to walk up each step to get to the top of the staircase. The modifications mankind have undergone, and are still undergoing,
result from a law underlying the whole organic creation; and provided the human race
continues, and the constitution of things remains the same, those modifications must end
in completeness. As surely as the tree becomes bulky when it stands alone, and slender if
one of a group; as surely as a blacksmith's arm grows large, and the skin of a laborer's
hand thick; as surely as the eye tends to become long-sighted in the sailor, and
short-sighted in the student; as surely as a clerk acquires rapidity in writing and
calculation; as surley as the musician learns to detect an error of a semitone amidst what
seems to others a very babel of sound; as surely as a passion grows by indulgence and
dimisishes when restrained; as surely as a disregarded conscience becomes inert, and one
that is obeyed active; as surely as there is any meaning in such terms as habit, custom,
practice; -- so surely must the human faculties be moulded into complete fitness for the
social state; so surely must evil and immorality disappear; so surley must man become
perfect. - Herbert Spencer Life is FULL; it's PEOPLE who are short. Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we
think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a
man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and
self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of
a man. - Charles Alexander Eastman (Ohiyesa) Santee Sioux Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance. - Sam Brown, Washington Post, January 26, 1977 Esthlos, signifies one who is, who possesses reality, who is actual. - Friedrich Nietzsche, Geneology of Morals Not how one soul comes close to another but how it moves away shows me their kinship and how much they belong together. - Nietzsche, Aphorism 251 A few hours of mountain climbing turn a villain and a saint into two rather equal creature. Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity -- and liberty is added eventually by sleep. - Nietzsche, Aphorism 263 No victor believes in chance. - Neitzsche, Aphorism 258 What is the seal of attained freedom?.-- No longer being ashamed in front of oneself. - Neitzsche, Aphorism 275 I have given a name to my pain and call it "dog": it is just as faithful, just as obtrusive and shameless, just as entertaining, just as clever as any other dog-- and I can scold it and vent my bad moods on it, as others do with their dogs, servants, and wives. - Neitzsche, Aphorism 312 It is only by not trusting that you turn someone into a liar. - Tao Te Ching orchestra faintly... the moonlight on her shoulder never forgotten - Brett Brady Junge Hure, alte Betschwester. A young whore makes an old nun. Read James Brown's Man's World. Captain Segura squeezed out a smaile. It seemed to come from the wrong
place like toothpaste when the tube splits. They both laughed, drinking daiquiries. It is easy to laugh at the idea of torture on a sunny day. No one cares what you know until they know how much you care. - Micah The best seeing is forgetting the names of things. - Harvey Mudd No, the opposite of love is indifference. - Erin While they were asleep, they did not realize they were dreaming... but
when they awoke, they knew. Some day will come a great awakening, when we will know this life was
like a dream. - Chuang-Tse I'd trade all my tomorrows for one single yesterday. - Me & Boby McGee You know what charm is: a way of getting the awnswer 'yes' without
having asked any clear question. - Camus Paul Slazinger says, incidentally, that the human condition can be
summer up in just one word, and this is the word: Embarrassment. - Kurt Vonnegut No medicine cures what happiness cannot. - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ... once he drew with one long kiss my whole soul through my lips as
sunlight drinketh dew. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson Evil will always prevail, because good is dumb. - Spaceballs Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos. - Frankenstein The noble man is cheifly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter an immortal one. - Epicurus Stir a cesspit and a foul stench arises; stir perfum and a delightful
fragrance ascends. But the movement is identical. - St. Augustine For there is another problem: People are by nature inconstant. It is
easy to persuade them of something, but it is difficult to stop them from changing their
minds. So you have to be prepared for the moment when they no longer believe. - Machiavelli If life was a sitcom, I'd be cancelled in a week. - Jeremy Sheff - You complete me. -Stop ... you had me at hello. - Jerry Maguire I think if there is a god, he doesn't exist in you or in me, but in the
space in between. - Before Sunrise Her eyes were the color of far away love. - Pablo Neruda We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love. - Freud Since feeling is first, who pays attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you. - E. E. Cummings The most violent element in society is ignorance. - Emma Goldman Religion is the opiate of the masses. - Marx Marxism is the philosophers' opiate. At the bottom of this pyramid you are either at one side or the other. But when you get to the top all the points converge into one. There the eye of God opens. He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If
weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself. - Seneca The successful people are the ones who can think up stuff for the rest
of the world to keep busy at. - Don Marquis Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom. - William Pitt When I was a child, my mother said to me, "If you become a soldier
you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope." Instead I
became a painter and wound up as Picasso. - Pablo Picasso Read Another Good quotes page. Read This awsome page of Einstein's quotes. The only posible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do,
some don't. - Ernest Rutherford All science is either physics or stamp collecting. - Ernest Rutherford Float like a butterfly, sting like an ICBM. It is no longer adequate to say we will have revolution by any means
necessary; you have to begin to define the means necessary. - Malcolm X The road to hell was paved with good intentions. You cannot rape the willing. You cannot find yourself, only create yourself. - Anne Sekel Running away to get away... you're wearing out your shoes... - Sly and the Family Stone Tears are the rinse water of an unhappy heart. - Raynor Schein One Life--a gleam of Time between two eternities. Never a tear bedimes the eye that time and patience cannot dry. If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would man
believe and adore. To let a fool kiss you is stupid, to let a kiss fool you is worse. In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It Goes On. - Robert Frost Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear - Mark Twain The friend I trusted failed me. This was bad, but not so bad as though I had failed my friend. Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If you don't
take action, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained. A man convinced against his will, is of the same opinion still. And where we love is home, Home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts, The chain may lengthen, but it never parts. Sometimes you fear the world is headed for destruction, then you read
the ads in the newpaper and you don't care if it is. Talking comes by nature, silence by wisdom. The tiniest dewdrop hanging from a blade of grass in the morning is big
enough to relect the sunshine and the blue of the sky. The face is the index to the mind. Our pleasures are shallow, our sorrows deep. Happiness is the place between too little and too much. Only after the last tree has been cut down, Only after the last river has been poisoned, Only after the last fish has been caught, Only then will you realize that money cannot be eaten. - Cree Indian Prophecy Not in the clamor of the crowded street, Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves one finds triumphs and defeats. Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you- not because they are nice, but because you are. But he who neither thinks himself not learns From others, is a failure as a man. - Hesiod, Works and Days In work there is no shame; shame is in idleness. - Hesiod, Works and Days To save yourself much pain: the bigger your plans the smaller the group of friends should share in them. - Hesiod, Elegies Plenty's destroyed more men than famine's killed, People who wanted more than was their due. - Hesiod, Elegies If you're not a liberal when you're twenty, you have no heart. If you're
not a conservative when you're forty, you have no brain. As a man thinketh in his heart so is he. Gladness rules the shipment of new days that lie unopened at the foot of
my heart. - Janet Spivey To successfully heal and forgive all wounds you must learn to cry, to
laugh, and to pray. Each have healing powers of their own. Put all three together and you
have the ultimate feelings. You are but one small part of the Human Be-ing. - Thunderhorse Little is the number that think with their own mind and feel with their
own heart - Albert Einstein Tis better to argue a point and not settle it, than to settle a point
and not argue it. - J. Joubert Against boredom, even the gods themselves struggle in vain. - Nietzsche I used to complain because I had no shoes, then one day I mat a man who
had no feet.... The soul would not be a rainbow, had the eyes no tears. Nothing is as unqulifiedly good as a good will. - Immanuel Kant I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life
composes. - Kahlil Gibran Even a fool knows we can't reach the stars, but that doesn't stop the
wise man from trying. The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in
his heart. Those who in the midst of chaos can hold their heads together when no
else can, can truly say they are a man. Success is not defined by obtaining everything you want, but by
appreciating everything you have. If you say my eyes are beautiful, it's because they're looking at you. Those who do not read..are no better off than those who can't. - Old Chinese Proverb A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams... - John Barrymore You can trust the Americans to do the right thing, after they have tried every other alternative. - Winston Churchill, 1941 Everything that can be invented had been invented. - Charles H. Duell, Commisioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Integrity needs no rules. - Albert Camus Man is the only creature who has the ability to blush, or the need. - Mark Twain Computers have reaked more havoc on mankind than any other creation, next to, perhaps, hand-grenades and tequila. The direction of the mind is more important than its progress. The mind covers more ground than the heart, but goes less far. Fools wander, the wise travel. The fool does in the end what the wise do in the beginning. Virtue consists not in abstaining from vice but in not desiring it. Gustobus, Bustobus, et Coloribus non est disputandum. Tastes, Busts, and Colors are not disputable. People who only attempt the possible lack imagination. The meaning of life is to give life meaning. Luck is not chance, it's toil. Fortune's expensive smile is earned. - Emily Dickinson And think not, you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds
you worthy, directs your course - Kahlil Gibran Love is the fire of life; it either consumes or purifies. Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Laughter is the best form of Medicine. For when we laugh we neither grieve, think, or feel. - Eugene Lam Moderation in all things, including moderation. - Larry S. Life is short. Play naked. A wealthy man sits fishing. His mansion sits adjacent to a lake. Upon
waking early, he eats breakfast and gathers his fishing rod and some bait. Sitting next to
this lake he spends his time. Every day, a few feet down the water he sees another man: a poor man,
who lives in a rickety shack. Every day, the poor man fishes with a stick and some string.
He sits only an hour or so, rarely catching more than two fish. He collects what the lake
gives him and goes home. The years passed, and frustrated from too much thinking, the rich man
approached the poor: "Please excuse me, but we have seen each other fishing here every
day for the past few years, and I have been thinking. You see, every day, you sit here for
only an hour or two catching only a few fish and then you head home. I could not help but
wondering why you don't stay longer. You see, if you could just stay one or two hours more
each day, you could sell your extra fish in town. You could get enough money to get a
better fishing rod, and then catch more fish. You could eventually get a boat and a net.
Then with even more fish, you could hire another man and another boat. Soon enough you
would not even have to be on the boats all day; you could have a huge company earning you
a lot of money. Then, you could easily spend you days fishing alone, for only as long as
you would like. You would be able to sit here as long as you want, doing what you
want." "But, sir, I don't understand," said the poor man,
"that's what I do now." Every morning as a man eats his breakfast, he hears the whistling of a
shepherd bringing his flock of sheep up a mountain. The man thinks of the long walk and
the hard work the shepherd must have. Yet the shepherd's songs are more beautiful than any
he has ever heard: they are filled with unmatched joy and inspiring enthusiasm. It is so
amazing, he thinks, that someone with so hard a life could sing such beautiful melodies. He decides to one day leave some money on the trail outside his house in
a satchel for the shepherd. He wakes up early to place the gift and waits, peeking through
a shudder to see if he will take it. Surely, the whistling shepherd comes up the trail,
and without stopping, he picks up the bag and continues whistling on his way without
opening it. The next day he passed without a sound. The next week: not a sound.
Months pass without a note of whistling. This troubled the man. So one day he waited by
his door and when the shepherd passed on his daily route, the man ran outside: "Excuse me, sir, excuse me. You see, I awoke every day to hear your
whistling - the most beautiful sounds I have ever heard - filled with such spirit and joy
- unmatched levels of happiness - and a few months ago, you stopped, and I have not heard
you since. Where has that joy gone? What could make such feelings disappear?" "You see, friend, a few months ago I was walking along when I came
across a satchel on the ground which I picked up. When I got to the pastures, I opened it
to find a huge amount of money. I have been thinking ever since of what to do with the
money - I cannot sleep and I cannot figure out what to do." The ones we call crazy for trying to change the world are the ones that
do. The cure for anything is salt water- sweat, tears, or the sea. - Isak Dinesen In this world of change, nothing which comes stays, and nothing which
goes is lost. - Anne Swetchine One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. - Hellen Keller Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world
would never reach anything better. - Florence Nightingale There is no place to hide when fear is the seeker. - Lauren Bezaire Beauty is not caused - it is, chase it and is ceases, chase it not and
it abides. -Emily Dickinson Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. - Jessamyn West To achieve the possible you must attempt the impossible. To be the best that you can be, you must dream of being more. Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth. - Archimedes Trust in Allah, but tie your camel. - Arabian Proverb The 100% American is 99% idiot. - Geurge Bernard Shaw We, the willing Led by the unknowing Doing the impossible For the ungrateful We've done so much For so long With so little We are now qualified To do anything With nothing Honesty entails vulnerability. Learn to be more vulnerable. -Lisa Sarma The inconsitant enforcement of unrespected laws begets ressentiment and
rebellion. If the just do not repect their own code how can anyone else? - A. H. Gelbard Do not wait for leaders. Do it alone, person to person. - Mother Teresa, It's O.K. to have a Rolls Royce ego as long as you don't have a bicycle brain. - Jesse Jackson If money could talk, it would say goodbye. If life were a novel, then dead would mark the end of the first
chapter...(Kelly Nelson) Great men may die, but there ideas won't. (Kelly Nelson) Birds of the same feather flock together. If you don't do it, you'll never know what would have happened if you
had done it. (Ashleigh Brilliant) It's a small world, but I wouldn't like to have to paint it. If God had meant us to take showers he would have put our armpits on top
of our shoulders. Kindness has converted more sinners, than zeal, eloquence or learning.
(F. W. Faber) Knowing what to say is not always necessary; just the presence of a
caring friend can make a world of difference. (Sheri Curry) There is no such thing as government money, only taxpayer money.
(William Weld) Killing time murders opportunities. You either have to be first, best, or different. (Loretta Lynn) Make your life a mission, not an intermission. (Arnold Glasgow) Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is
someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. (Oprah Winfrey) Don’t count the Days, Make the Days Count. (Muhammad Ali) We can’t spell S CCESS without U. Say what you mean, mean what you say, but don’t say it mean. If at first you DO succeed, try something harder. (Ann Landers) Pride is something we have. Vanity is something others have. People who are often in a hurry imagine they are energetic, when in most
cases they are simply inefficient. (Sydney J. Harris) Sometimes the best helping hand you can give is a good, firm push.
(Joann Thomas) Trying to squash a rumour is like trying to unring a bell. (Shana
Alexander) Always ride your horse in the direction it is going. If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything. (Mark
Twain) When everything seems to be going against you, remember the airplane
takes off against the wind, not with it. (Henry Ford) Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. (Winston
Churchill) I used to be lost in the shuffle. Now I just shuffle along with the
lost. Tears will get you sympathy. Sweat will get you results. To belittle is to be little. Don’t think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.
(Malayan proverb) A good exercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up. Great minds ... discuss ideas. Average minds ... discuss events. Small minds ... discuss people. A dog thinks: Hey, these people I live with feed me, love me, provide me
with a nice warm, dry house, pet me, and take good care of me... They must be Gods! A cat thinks: Hey, these people I live with feed me, love me, provide me
with a nice warm, dry house, pet me, and take good care of me... I must be a God! The one who makes it, sells it. The one who buys it, never uses it. The
one that uses it, never knows that he's using it. What is it? A coffin. Hospitality is making your guests feel at home -- even when you wish
they were. Hugs are not measured by quantity; they are measured by quality. He has Van Gogh's ear for music. Handicapped is not helpless. I'd love to make up my mind, but I can't remember where I left it. History repeats itself, but each time the price goes up. I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion, I'd be irresponsible too.
I'm serious; it was a joke. I know UNIX, PASCAL, C, FORTRAN, COBOL, and nineteen other high-tech
words. Fear doesn't overwhelm you; you let fear overwhelm you. Fat people are harder to kidnap. Everything is possible; just not too
probable. Even the smallest candle burns brighter in the dark. Even the boldest zebra fears the hungry lion. Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
(Michelangelo) Hymns appropriate to the occasion. Dentist's Hymn -- "Crown Him with Many Crowns" TV Weatherman's Hymn -- "Showers of Blessing" Contractor's Hymn -- "The Church's One Foundation" Tailor's Hymn -- "Holy, Holy, Holy" Golfer's Hymn -- "There Is a Green Hill Far Away" Politician's Hymn -- "Standing on the Promises" IRS Hymn -- "All to Thee" Gossiper's Hymn -- "Pass it On" Electrician's Hymn -- "Send the Light" Shopper's Hymn -- "Sweet By and By" If you MUST speed on the highway, sing these hymns loudly: at 45 mph.... "God Will Take Care of Me" at 55 mph.... "Guide me, O Great Jehovah" at 65 mph.... "Nearer My God to Thee" at 75 mph.... "Nearer Still Nearer" at 85 mph.... "This World is Not My Home" at 95 mph.... "Lord, I'm Coming Home" at 100 mph.... "Precious Memories" Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove
all doubt. -- Abraham Lincoln When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing.
It's the money. -- Kin Hubbard Nothing is more rewarding than to watch someone who says it can't be
done get interrupted by someone actually doing it. - Anon Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or
ability. --Flowers A. Newhouse Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off
the goal. --Hannah More "To live is to have problems and to solve problems is to grow
intellectually" -- J. P. Guilford I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
--Confucius A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better
lawyer. --Robert Frost Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. --Robert
F. Kennedy What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. --Aristotle Do not, on a rainy day, ask you child what he feels like doing, because
I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching. --Fran Lebowitz A friend knows how to allow for mere quantity in your talk, and only
replies to the quality. --William Dean Howells Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad
training. --Anna Freud Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. Chief Seattle Follow Your Bliss. Joseph Campbell If you can DREAM it, you can DO it. Walt Disney Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. Leo Buscaglia Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. James Dean IT'S ALWAYS SOMETHING.. Gilda Radner Help a worthy cause, support Gilda's Club! Kindness is wisdom. Phillip J. Bailey Imagine... John Lennon Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time. Marion Wright Edelman Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge. Stephen Levine Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. G.K. Chesterton If you learn from your suffering, and really come to understand the lesson you were taught, you might be able to help someone else who's now in the phase you may have just completed. Maybe that's what it's all about after all... Anonymous [about the past] ...the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it. Rafikki to Simba in Disney's The Lion King Freedom! Mel Gibson as William Wallace in the Scottish epic Braveheart The harder you fall, the higher you bounce. Anonymous Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words? Marcel Marceau People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. Elizabeth K?ler-Ross I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart. Anne Frank There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: One is roots. The other is wings. Hodding Carter, Jr. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Albert Einstein In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes
on. Robert Frost Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen closely. The Land Before Time A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. Anonymous Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. Baruch Spinoza I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. Albert Einstein Every man dies. Not every man truly lives. Braveheart Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when? Rabbi Hillel There is more to life than increasing its speed. Gandhi Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade. Leo Buscaglia. Don't go through life, grow through life. Eric Butterworth Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams -- daydreams, you know, with your eyes wide
open and your brain machinery whizzing --are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to invent, and therefore to foster, civilization. L. Frank Baum Our life is what our thoughts make it. Marcus Aurelius Antonius It's kind of fun to do the impossible. Walt Disney For fast acting relief try slowing down. Lily Tomlin It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. Antoine de Saint-Exup?y We are what we repeatedly do. Aristotle "To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!" Ralph Waldo Emerson I'm not a teacher, but an awakener. Robert Frost 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. William Shakespeare (Hamlet) Frank Morgan as the Wizard of Oz To Cowardly Lion: "As for you my fine friend, you are a victim of disorganized thinking. You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom. To Tin Man: "..and remember, my sentimental friend, that a heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. "If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with." The lesson Dorothy learned.. People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be. Abraham Lincoln Dankyouveddymuch. Andy Kaufman as Latka Gravas on Taxi No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt "You have a choice. It may not be a choice you like, but it is
still a choice." Michelle Pfieffer as LouAnne Johnson in Dangerous Minds "There are no victims in this classroom!" Michelle Pfieffer as LouAnne Johnson in Dangerous Minds It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. William Blake When you follow your bliss... doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else. Joseph Campbell Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. Les Brown One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are. Gail Godwin So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong.. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom? Thich Nhat Hanh Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. Gilda Radner You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. The Buddha Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away! Robert Fulghum A HUNDRED YEARS FROM NOW ...it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove... ...but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child. Kathy Davis Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. Michael Jordan Love conquers all. Virgil Our real blessings often appear to us in the shapes of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience, and we soon shall see them in their proper figures. Joseph Addison The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them. Antoine de Saint Exupery Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours. Anonymous Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Source Unknown The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it. Moliere When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. Charles A. Beard If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. Maya Angelou Everyone needs recognition for his accomplishments, but few people make the need known quite as clearly as the little boy who said to his father: "Let's play darts. I'll throw and you say 'Wonderful!'" The Best of Bits and Pieces And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be. Grandma Moses If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting? Stephen Levine We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. Martin Luther King, Jr. And when the night is cloudy, There is still a light that shines on me, Shine on until tomorrow, let it be. John Lennon/Paul McCartney Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Embrace Life. Source Unknown A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. Henry Brooks Adams You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough. Frank Crane Hey Jude, don't make it bad. Take a sad song and make it better. Remember to let her into your heart, Then you can start to make it better. John Lennon/Paul McCartney Try to eliminate the word "SHOULD" from your vocabulary. ..but try doing so though without replacing "SHOULD" with "OUGHT" or "YOU'D BETTER." Anonymous When the old mapmakers got to the edge of the world, they used to write, "Beyond this place, there be dragons." Barclay Cole (Out of Africa) La perfection est atteinte non quand il ne reste rien ?ajouter, mais quand il ne reste rien ?enlever. You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away. Antoine de Saint Exupery Vision: the art of seeing things invisible. Jonathan Swift Have faith in your dreams and someday Your rainbow will come smiling through No matter how your heart is grieving If you keep on believing the dream that you wish will come true Cinderella (A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes) Men argue, Nature acts. Voltaire A heavy snowfall disappears into the sea. What silence! Folk ZEN Saying In every woman there is a Queen. Speak to the Queen and the Queen will answer. Norwegian Proverb I just don't have the need to change the way folks think about things. Joe Lando As Byron Sully on Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman "Sometimes, no matter how much faith we have, we lose people. But you never forget them. And sometimes, it's those memories that give us the faith to go
on." Monologue from CBS' Early Edition The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumfrence is nowhere. Empedocles Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. Leonard Cohen The only ZEN you find on the tops of mountains is the ZEN you bring up
there. Robert M. Pirsig Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while A great wind is bearing me across the sky. Ojibwa Saying Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, simplify. THOREAU A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. Walt Whitman It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. Ursula K. Le Guin If a man wishes to be sure of the road he treads on, he must close his eyes and walk in the dark. St. John of the Cross Every exit is an entrance somewhere else. Tom Stoppard We think in generalities, but we live in detail. Alfred North Whitehead Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. Chinese Proverb If my heart can become pure and simple, like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this. Kitaro Nishida A man walking across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger chasing after him. Coming to a cliff, he caught hold of a wild vine and swung himself over the edge. The tiger sniffed at him from above. Terrified, the man looked down to where, far below, another tiger had come, waiting to eat him. Two mice, one white, one black, little by little began to gnaw away at the vine. The man saw a luscious strawberry near him. Grasping the vine with one hand, he plucked the strawberry with the other. How sweet it tasted! ZEN Parable The whole of life lies in the verb seeing. Tielhard de Chardin Teach us to delight in simple things, And mirth that has no bitter springs; Forgiveness free of evil done, And love to all men 'neath the sun. Rudyard Kipling Late on the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset, we were making our way through a herd of hippopotamuses, there flashed upon my mind, unforeseen and unsought, the phrase REVERENCE FOR LIFE. Albert Schweitzer Do I love you because you're beautiful, Or are you beautiful be cause I love you? Am I making believe I see in you A girl (man) to lovely (perfect) to be really true? Do I want you because you're wonderful Or are you wonderful because I want you? Are you the sweet invention of a lover's dream Or are you really as beautiful as you seem? Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II Lyrics from Cinderella This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on
it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still... Joseph Conrad It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around. THOREAU He who knows others is wise, He who knows himself is enlightened. Tao Te Ching How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. Coco Chanel ...see without looking, ...hear without listening, ...breathe without asking. Auden Out of clutter, find Simplicity. From discord, find Harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies Opportunity. ALBERT EINSTEIN Three Rules of Work He did each single thing as if he did nothing else. Charles Dickens ...Wait for a time, exactly under the star. Then, if a little man appears who laughs, who has golden hair and who refuses to answer questions, you will know who he is. If this should happen, please comfort me. Send me word that he has come back. Antoine de Saint-Exupery the last words of The Little Prince MERRILY MERRILY MERRILY MERRILY Life is but a dream. Nurture your mind with great thoughts. Benjamin Disraeli A weed is no more than a flower in disguise. James Lowell There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there’s only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen. Wayne Dyer And the wind said: "May you be as strong as the oak, yet flexible as the birch; may you stand tall as the Redwood, live gracefully as the willow; and may you always bear fruit all your days on this earth." Native American prayer He who laughs, lasts. Mary Poole Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. Colin Powell It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or
else... begin to march us steadily backward. Patrick Stewart Actor and star fleet captain, Pomona College Graduation, 1995 We must use time creatively, and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right. Nelson Mandela When I left home and faced the realities of the world, I put my thoughts of God in cold storage for awhile, because I couldn’t reconcile what I believed, deep inside, with what was going on around me. But that early period, when God was as real as the wind that blew from the sea through the pine trees in the garden; left me with inner peace, which, as I grew older, swelled – until, perforce, I had to open my mind to God again. Jane Goodall Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else. Tennesee Williams Do what you can with what you have where you are. Theodore Roosevelt May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields, and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of his hand. Irish Blessing To generalize is to be an idiot. William Blake Many candles can be kindled from one candle without diminishing it. The Midrash Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy. Phyllis McGinley Bloom where you are planted. Nancy Reader Campion's Aunt Grace You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. ZIGGY Man is free at the moment he wishes to be. Voltaire No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. William Blake The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. Lord Byron It is not the truth that makes man great, but man who makes the truth great. Confucius Imagine there's no country. It isn't hard to do. Nothing to kill or die for. And no religion too. John Lennon Visit Bagism Online Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. Ralph Waldo Emerson Speak when you're angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret. Lawrence J. Peter The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta be willing to put up with the rain. Dolly Parton When I grow up I want to be a little boy. Joseph Heller Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. Pablo Picasso The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes. Victor Frankl What the world needs is some do-give-a-damn pills. William Menninger What does not destroy me makes me strong. Freidrich Nietzsche Listen with your heart, you will understand. Grandmother Willow to Pocahontas in the Disney film, POCAHONTAS Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to be where he was. R.L. Evans Most people never listen. Ernest Hemingway You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt LITTLE THINGS AFFECT LITTLE MINDS. Benjamin Disraeli There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell 'em. Louis Armstrong Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. Voltaire Age is of no importance unless you are a cheese. Billie Burke God will only give you as much as you can handle. Anonymous Talk happiness. The world is sad enough Without your woe. No path is wholly rough. Ella Wheeler Wilcox The one thing you cannot teach a person is COMMON SENSE. Anonymous Let the good times roll. Cajun Motto Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model. Vincent Van Gogh You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Anonymous Life is a big canvas, throw all the paint on it you can. Danny Kaye Find joy in simplicity, self-respect, and indifference to what lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race. Follow the divine. Marcus Aurelius You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint paradise, then in you go. Nikos Kazantzakis Be just and fear not. Wolsey in Shakespeare's King Henry VIII The true and nobel way to kill a foe, Is not to kill him, -- you, with kindness, may So change him, that he shall cease to be so, And then he's slain. Alain Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us. Henri Matisse The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much. William Hazlitt Life can only be understood backwards, but must be lived forwards. Soren Kierkegaard You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. NOW. Joan Baez Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble. Frank Tyger CHILDREN LEARN WHAT THEY LIVE If children live with criticism, they learn to condemn. If children live with hostility, they learn to fight. If children live with fear, they learn to be apprehensive. If children live with pity, they learn to feel sorry for themselves. If children live with ridicule, they learn to be shy. If children live with jealousy, they learn what envy is. If children live with shame, they learn to feel guilty. If children live with TOLERANCE, they learn to be PATIENT. If children live with ENCOURAGEMENT, they learn to be CONFIDENT. If children live with PRAISE, they learn to appreciate. If children live with APPROVAL, they learn to BE THEMSELVES. If children live with ACCEPTANCE, they learn to find love in the world. If children live with RECOGNITION, they learn to have a goal. If children live with SHARING, they learn to be GENEROUS. If children live with HONESTY and FAIRNESS, they learn what TRUTH and JUSTICE are. If children live with SECURITY, they learn to have FAITH in themselves and in those around them. If children live with FRIENDLINESS, they learn that the world is a nice place in which to live. If children live with SERENITY, they learn to have PEACE OF MIND. With what are your children living? Dorothy L. Nolte If you want something very, very badly, let it go free. If it comes back to you, it's yours forever. If it doesn't, it was never yours to begin with. Anonymous If you have respect and consideration for one another, you'll make it. Mary Durso (married 58 years) We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. Haida Indian Saying You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in
the machine. Flip Wilson An archer cannot hit the bullseye if he doesn't know where the target
is. Anonymous Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else,
too. Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth -- dont let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency. Meryl Streep Begin somewhere. You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do. Liz Smith This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. Bette Davis Should you yield the canyons from the windstorms, you would not see the beauty of their carvings. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross People only see what they are prepared to see. Ralph Waldo Emerson Remember, there are no small parts, only small actors. Konstantin Stanislavski The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them. Antoine de Saint-Exupery That love is all there is is all we know of love. Emily Dickinson A CREED FOR THOSE WHO HAVE SUFFERED I asked God for strength, that I might achieve. I was made weak, that I might learn humbly to obey.. I asked for health, that I might do great things. I was given infirmity, that I might do better things. I asked for riches, that I might be happy. I was given poverty, that I might be wise. I asked for power, that I might have the praise of men. I was given weakness, that I might feel the need of God. I asked for all things, that I might enjoy life. I was given life, that I might enjoy all things... I got nothing I asked for -- but everything I hoped for. Almost despite myself, my unspoken prayers were answered. I am, among men, most richly blessed! Roy Campanella To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child’s delight added to your own, this is happiness. J.B. Priestley Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, magic and power in it. Begin it now. Goethe What is to give light must endure burning. Viktor Frankl Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along. Paramanhansa Yogananda It takes a long time to become young. Pablo Picasso Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. Helen Keller Life has a practice of living you, if you don’t live it. Philip Larkin We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart. Blaise Pascal The worst bankrupt in the world is the person who has lost his
enthusiasm. H. W. Arnold Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are. Charles Augustin Sainte-Beauve We have just religion enough to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. Jonathan Swift Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children. Kahlil Gibran Every work of art is the child of its time; often it is the mother of our emotions. Vassily Kandinsky …be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer. Ranier Maria Rilke Unthankfulness is theft. Martin Luther As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust. Marianne Moore …if we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin. Ivan Turgenev Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children. Sylvia Plath Man walks the moon but his soul remains riveted to earth. Once upon a time it was the opposite. Elie Wiesel In the secret recesses of the heart, beyond the teachings of this world calls a still, small voice singing a song unchanged from the foundation of the world. Speak to me in sunsets and starlight Speak to me in the eyes of a child You Who call me from a smile My cosmic beloved Tell me who I am And who I will always be. Help me to remember. Joan Borysenko Four Rules For Life Show up. Pay attention. Tell the truth. Don’t be attached to the results. Angeles Arrien We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. Agnes Repplier Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. Lauren Bacall A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations. Patricia Neal Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. Lucille Ball The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat. Lily Tomlin One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. Helen Keller You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try. Beverly Sills I am the woman who holds up the sky. The rainbow runs through my eyes. The sun makes a path to my womb. My thoughts are in the shape of clouds. But my words are yet to come. Poem of the Ute Indians My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors. Bette Midler "Stay" is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary. Louisa May Alcott It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned. Leslie Jeanne Sahler Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity. Oprah Winfrey Never seem wiser, nor more learned than the people you are with. Lord Chesterfield He who angers you conquers you. Elizabeth Kenny Australian Nurse We forgive to the extent that we love. Francois de La Rochefoucauld Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it. D.H. Lawrence Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it. Edgar Lee Masters I’m not young enough to know everything. James Barrie ..if one does not have wild dreams of achievement, there is no spur even to get the dishes washed. One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being. May Sarton When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness’ sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they
can spot an evasion quicker than adults, and evasion simply muddles
‘em. Harper Lee The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends. Shirley MacLaine Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. David Grayson I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong. Leo Rosten Excessive competitiveness, anxiety, hostility, suspiciousness, all originate in the nursery years. That is why, if we want a world of peace and not violence, love and not hate, cooperation and not murder, justice and not selfishness, we have to learn how to make childhood more happy. No nobler task could be pursued by our generation. Joshua Loth Liebman 1907 - 1948 If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don’t worry about
it, that’s the way we learn. Earl Warren What I spent I had What I saved I lost What I gave I have. George Moore Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of
marbles, or a string of mould candles. Why should we all dress after the same
fashion? The frost never paints my windows twice alike. Lydia Maria Child Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. Langston Hughes Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have. Oprah Winfrey To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. Karen Sunde WE CAN ONLY LEARN TO LOVE BY LOVING. Iris Murdoch To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. David Viscott UNIVERSAL Rx No moving parts, no batteries, No monthly payments and no fees; Inflation-proof, non-taxable, In fact it’s quite relaxable; It can’t be stolen, won’t pollute, One size fits all, do not dilute. It uses little energy, But yields results enormously. Relieves your tension and your stress, Invigorates your happiness; Combats depression, makes you beam, And elevates your self-esteem! Your circulation it corrects, Without unpleasant side effects. It is, I think, the perfect drug; May I prescribe, my friends,… the hug! (And of course, fully returnable!) Henry Matthew Ward A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at
night, and in between he does what he wants to do. Bob Dylan You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make
it. Charles Buxton The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny...’ Isaac Asimov We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect
them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and
light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will
come true. Woodrow Wilson At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding. Norman Maclean (A River Runs Through It) Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius. George Bernard Shaw There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.' Carrie Fisher If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. Rush (Lyrics from the song ‘Free Will’) The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say. All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken: The crown-less again shall be king. J.R.R. Tolkein You are all you will ever have for certain. June Havoc There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth. Leo Tolstoy The sky is the daily bread of the eyes. Ralph Waldo Emerson There are no short cuts to any place worth going. Source Unknown The worst prison would be a closed heart. Pope John Paul II The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. General H. Norman Schwarzkopf If you’re going to be able to look back on something and laugh
about it, you might as well laugh about it now. Marie Osmond The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers. Deepak Chopra Ageless Body, Timeless Mind Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory. Betty Smith A Tree Grows in Brooklyn From the film Rob Roy: (starring Liam Neeson and Jessica Lange) Son Father, will the MacGregor’s ever be kings again? RR All men with honor are kings - but not all kings have honor. Son What is honor? RR Honor is.. what no man can give ye, and no one can take away. Honor is a man’s gift to himself. Son Do women have it? RR Women are the heart of honor - and we cherish and protect it in them. You must never mistreat a woman, or malign a man. Or stand by and see another do so. Son How do you know if you have it? RR Never worry in the getting of it. It grows in ye and speaks to ye. All you need to do is listen. Kindness is the inability to remain at ease in the presence of another person who is ill at ease, the inability to remain comfortable in the presence of another who is uncomfortable, the inability to have peace of mind when one’s neighbor is troubled. Rabbi Samuel H Holdenson When you come to the edge of all the light you know, and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly. Barbara J. Winter Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments. Rose Kennedy Worry is an abuse of God’s gift of imagination. Corrine Lajeunesse The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. Frank Lloyd Wright Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world. John Evelyn Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree. Marian Wright Edelman The country clubs, the cars the boats, Your assets may be ample, But the best inheritance You can leave your kids Is to be a good example. Barry Spilchuk A bell’s not a bell ‘til you ring it A song’s not a song ‘til you sing it Love in your heart wasn’t put there to stay Love isn’t love ‘til you give it away! Oscar Hammerstein Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed its the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen. Cher [My mother] said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors. Maya Angelou If every American donated 5 hours a week, it would equal the labor of 20 million full-time volunteers. Whoopi Goldberg Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Helen Keller Cherokee Traditional Precepts Have a good mind. No matter what situation you’re in, find something good about it, rather than the negative things. And in dealing with other human beings, find the good in them as well. We are all interdependent. Do things for others and tribe. Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change. Gina Shapira Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude. Ralph Waldo Emerson Never say [to younger people] "that was before your time," because the last full moon was before their time! Bill Cosby The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth. Goldie Hawn Watch me, learn from me, and learn from my mistakes. Judy Garland’s advice to her daughter, Liza Minnelli You have to find it. No one else can find it for you. Bjorn Borg Knowing is not enough; We must apply. Willing is not enough; We must do. Goethe Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower. Shigenori Kameoka Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping him up. The Reverend Jesse Jackson You should not live one way in private and another in public. Publilius Syrus Do not belong so wholly to others that you do not belong to yourself. Baltasar Gracian As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, THINK BIG. Donald Trump The best way to become boring is to say everything. Voltaire Be mysterious. John Bouvier’s advice to his daughter, Jacqueline. You must learn to say no. You do not know how to say no, Sophia, and that is a serious deficiency. Charlie Chaplin to Sophia Loren Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it. Katherine Whitehorn Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich. Sir Thomas Browne Now that I’m gone, I tell you; Don’t smoke. Whatever you do, don’t smoke. Yul Brynner Don’t hold grudges; it’s pointless. Jealousy too is a non-cathartic, negative emotion. Liz Smith He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. "Remember to Live." GOETHE Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light. Jennie Jerome Churchill Look for the good in everything and you will find it. Anonymous There are two ways of spreading light -- to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. Edith Wharton How To Be An Artist. Stay loose. Learn to watch snails. Plant impossible gardens. Invite someone dangerous to tea. Make little signs that say YES! and post them all over your house. Make friends with freedom and uncertainty. Look forward to dreams. Cry during movies. Swing as high as you can on a swingset, by moonlight. Cultivate moods. Refuse to "be responsible." Do it for love. Take lots of naps. Give money away. Do it now. The money will follow. Believe in magic. Laugh a lot. Celebrate every gorgeous moment. Take moonbaths. Have wild imaginings, transformative dreams, and perfect calm. Draw on the walls. Read every day. Imagine yourself magic. Giggle with children. Listen to old people. Open up. Dive in. Be free. Bless yourself. Drive away fear. Play with everything. Entertain your inner child. You are innocent. Build a fort with blankets. Get wet. Hug trees. Write love letters. Sark The journey is the reward. Tao Saying Man can never be happy if he does not nourish his soul as he does his body. The Rebbe The sun will set without thy assistance. The Talmud People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going. Earl Nightingale Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together. Vista M. Kelly You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note. Doug Floyd What you love is a sign from your higher self of what you are to do. Sanaya Roman Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve.. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy. Rabbi Abraham Heschel Thinking: The talking of the soul with itself. Plato The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved. Victor Hugo A true friend is the greatest of all blessings and the one which we take the least thought to acquire. Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucald Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand. Emily Kimbrough The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. T.B. Macaulay Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly. Helen Keller If I could wish for my life to be perfect, it would be tempting but I would have to decline, for life would no longer teach me anything. Allyson Jones The more we give of anything, the more we shall get back. Grace Speare A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. Hugh Downs If you have a true friend, you have more than your share. Thomas Fuller The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they’re still alive. O.A. Battista Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life. Jean Paul Richter Stories are like fairy gold. The more you give away, the more you have. Polly McGuire Children reinvent your world for you. Susan Sarandon You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted. Ruth E. Renkl To understand your parents’ love you must raise children yourself. Chinese Proverb Don’t postpone joy. Bumper Sticker Persons thankful for little things are certain to be the ones with much to be thankful for. Frank Clark There is a transcendent power in example. We reform others unconciously when we walk uprightly. Anne Sophie Swetchine You grow up the day you have your first real laugh, at yourself. Ethel Barrymore Don’t get your knickers in a knot. Nothing is solved and it just makes you walk funny. Kathryn Carpenter No good deed goes unpunished. Clare Boothe Luce I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes, and six months later you have to start all over again. Joan Rivers You don’t manage people; you manage things. You lead people. Admiral Grace Hooper Failing to plan is planning to fail. Effie Jones One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. Helen Keller Don’t be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. Grace Hansen I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it. Rita Mae Brown The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. Anais Nin There’s no place like home. [click click click] There’s no place like home. [click click click] There’s no place like home. [click click click] Judy Garland (Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz) Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty. Adair Lara Look twice before you leap. Charlotte Bronte Seek not outside you, heaven is within. Mary Lou Cook To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling. Barbara Walters Sticks and stones are hard on bones Aimed with angry art, Words can sting like anything But silence breaks the heart. Phyllis McGinley Silent gratitude isn’t much use to anyone. Gladys Browyn Stern Beauty comes in all sizes, not just size 5. Roseanne Love is a great beautifier. Louisa May Alcott Beauty’s where you find it. Madonna (chorus from the song, Vogue) We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. Queen Victoria The only place you’ll find success before work is in the
dictionary. May B. Smith All my life I’ve wanted to be somebody. But I see now I should have been more specific. Jane Wagner I must govern the clock, not be governed by it. Golda Meir Live with intention. Mary Radmacher-Hershey Back to the howling old owl in the woods; Hunting the horny back toad -- Oh I've finally decided my future lies; Beyond the yellow brick road. Taupin The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved… the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars. Jack Kerouac Be yourself --- who else is better qualified? Frank J. Giblin II Goals that are not written down are just wishes. Famous saying We still do not know one-thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. Albert Einstein Where there is great love there are always miracles. Willa Cather We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. Sir Winston Churchill The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer. Oliver Wendell Holmes Romance is about the little things. Gregory J. Godeck 1001 Ways to Be Romantic If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now. Marcus Aurelius I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. Martha Washington The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience. Harper Lee Learn to listen. Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly. Frank Tyger Take heed. You do not find what you do not seek. English Proverb Service is what life is all about. Marian Wright Edelman Follow your instincts. That’s where true wisdom manifests itself. Oprah Winfrey Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them. The Dalai Lama All marriages require adjustments. There are so many changes to be made all at once. Grace Kelly I like who I am now. Other people may not. I feel freer now. I don’t want growing older to matter to me. Meryl Streep I tried always to do better: saw always a little further. I tried to stretch myself. Audrey Hepburn Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships. Jodie Foster When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. Mary Kay Ash If you want a place in the sun, you’ve got to put up with a few blisters. Abigail Van Buren (Dear Abby) Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; This, too, shall pass. Ann Landers People change and forget to tell each other. Lillian Hellman A child is the root of the heart. Carolina Maria de Jesus Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either. Golda Meir The ultimate goal should be doing your best and enjoying it. Peggy Fleming Adventure is worthwhile in itself. Amelia Earhart We are stardust. We are golden and we’ve got to get ourselves back to the garden. Joni Mitchell Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal. Mary Baker Eddy If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you’ll get the best.
Begin to live as you wish to live. Unknown Love and you shall be loved. Ralph Waldo Emerson If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all. Pearl S. Buck If we get a government that reflects more of what this country is really about, we can turn the century – and the economy – around. Bella Abzug Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself. Sir Thomas Browne Tis the motive exalts the action; Tis the doing, and not the deed. Margaret Preston My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue, an everlasting vision of the everchanging view. Carole King Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. Anais Nin Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. Phyllis Diller Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. Mary Kay Ash Some people are moulded by their admirations, others by their hostilities. Elizabeth Bowen Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life. Wilma Rudolph You have to sniff out joy; keep your nose to the joy-trail. Buffy Sainte-Marie You must learn to be still in the midst of activity, and to be vibrantly alive in repose. Indira Ghandi I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time. Anna Freud The more I traveled, the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends. Shirley MacLaine To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. Emily Dickinson It’s the friends you can call up at 4 am that matter. Marlene Dietrich As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world. Virginia Woolf 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. Louisa May Alcott We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same. Anne Frank A closed mind is a dying mind. Edna Ferber Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt. Barbara Walters We don’t see things are they are, we see them as we are. Anais Nin When people say: she’s got everything, I’ve only one answer: I haven’t had tomorrow. Elizabeth Taylor I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed, then absolutely anything is possible. From that moment my life changed. Shirley MacLaine The soul can split the sky in two, and let the face of God shine through. Edna St Vincent Millay I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy. Marie Curie I am not a has-been. I am a will be. Lauren Bacall I wasn’t afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure. Anne Baxter Close Riggs? Close is like a lingerie shop without a front window. Rene Russo to Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon 3 I’ve never sought success in order to get fame and money; it’s the talent and the passion that count in success. Ingrid Bergman Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows. Helen Keller Think of a big color – who cares if people call you Rothko. Release your childhood. Release it. Larry Rivers and Frank O’Hara What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself. Thomas Sprat Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished is by crushing others. Marcus Tullius Cicero What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down. Mary Pickford It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost
our way. Rollo May Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising up every time
we fail. Ralph Waldo Emerson For the truly faithful, no miracle is necessary. For those who doubt, no miracle is sufficient. Nancy Gibbs The best things in life aren’t things. Art Buchwald G-d gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw it into the nest. Swedish Proverb Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. Charles R. Swindoll We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today. Stacia Tauscher To know others is wisdom, to know oneself is enlightenment. Tao Te Ching Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. General George Patton Take time to be holy. Howard Finster The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life. Samurai maxim If you want to kiss the sky, you better learn how to kneel. U2 "She Moves in Mysterious Ways" Laughter is inner jogging. Norman Cousins When the sun rises, I go to work, when the sun goes down, I take my rest I dig the well from which I drink I farm the soil that yields my food I share creation. Kings can do no more. Ancient Chinese Saying Silence. We need to find G-d, and He cannot be found in noise and restlessness. G-d is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass -- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls. Mother Teresa (b. 1910), Albanian born Roman Catholic missionary. A Gift for God, "Willing Slaves to the Will of God." (1975). If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. Ralph Waldo Emerson "Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you, and yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward, not tarries with yesterday." Kahlil Gibran, "The Prophet" It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. W. Somerset Maugham It's the most unhappy people who most fear change. Mignon McLaughlin It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. Former US President Franklin D. Roosevelt Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. Antoine de Saint-Exup?y Wind, Sand, and Stars "He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm." from Faust, by Goethe "To the query, "What is a friend?" his reply was "A single soul dwelling in two bodies." Aristotle 384-322 BC Greek philosopher THEODORE ROOSEVELT Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground. "It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out where the strong man stumbled, or where a doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man in the arena whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs, and who comes up short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause. The man who at best knows the triumph of high achievement and who at worst, if he fails, fails while daring greatly, so that his place will never be with those cold timid souls who never knew victory or defeat." "In all things it is a good idea to hang a question mark now and
then on the things we have taken for granted." Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. Bertrand Russell We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. Aristotle Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. Jean-Paul Sartre You see things and say 'Why?'; but I dream things that never were and I say 'Why not?' " George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) British Playwright "Wisdom begins in wonder." Socrates It is never too late to give up your prejudices. Henry David Thoreau (Walden) There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones. Anwar Sadat All men and women are born, live suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether they be dreams about worldly or unworldly things, and what we do to make them come about... We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time and conditions of our death. But within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live. Joseph Epstein The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own. Benjamin Disraeli If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. Henry David Thoreau Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. Gilda Radner Just do it. NIKE Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do. Gerry Sikorski The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for G-d the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire. Tielhard de Chardin We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth. Virginia Satir The Magic of Believing I’m not old enough to play baseball or football. I’m not eight
yet. My mom told me when you start baseball, you aren’t going to be able to run that fast because you had an operation. I told Mom I wouldn’t need to run that fast. When I play baseball, I’ll
just hit them out of the park. Then I’ll be able to walk. Edward J. McGrath, Jr. "An Exceptional View of Life" The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure. Joseph Campbell Exuberance is beauty. William Blake All kids are gifted; some just open their packages earlier than others. Michael Carr One who makes no mistakes never makes anything. Source Unknown If a thing loves, it is infinite. William Blake But now I have learned to listen to silence. To hear its choirs singing the song of ages, chanting the hymns of space, and disclosing the secrets of eternity. Kahlil Gibran Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions. Earl Gray Stevens Self-loving is not so vile a sin, my liege, as self-neglecting. William Shakespeare "Grown men may learn from little children, for the hearts of little children are pure, and, therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss." Black Elk Native American Spiritual Leader Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift; that’s why they call it the present. Source Unknown Pursue worthy aims. Solon Think of what a better world it would be if we all – the whole
world – had cookies and milk about 3 o’clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankets for a nap. Or if we had a basic policy in our nations to always put things back where we found them and cleaned up our own messes. And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world, it is better to hold hands and stick
together. Robert Fulghum (All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten) Never give up on anybody. Hubert H. Humphrey To see things in the seed, that is genius. Lao-tzu Everybody can be great… because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. Martin Luther King, Jr. Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him. Aldous Huxley Do not save your loving speeches For your friends till they are dead; Do not write them on their tombstones, Speak them rather now instead. Anna Cummins Don’t Be Afraid To Fail You’ve failed many times, although you may not remember. You fell down the first time you tried to walk. You almost drowned the first time you tried to swim, didn’t you? Did you hit the ball the first time you swung a bat? Heavy hitters, the ones who hit the most home runs, also strike out a
lot. R.H. Macy failed 7 times before his store in New York caught on. English novelist John Creasy got 753 rejection slips before he published 564 books. Babe Ruth struck out 1,330 times, but he also hit 714 home runs. Don’t worry about failure. Worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try. A message published in the Wall Street Journal Copyright 1981 United Technologies Corporation Hartford, Connecticut 06101 Never let the fear of striking out get in your way. George Herman ("Babe") Ruth Be careful what you show – and what you don’t show. Marlene Dietrich Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level. Max L. Forman Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first. Arthur Schopenhauer Becoming a star may not be in your destiny, but being the best that you can be is a goal you can set for yourselves. Bryan Lindsay He who proposes to be an author, should first be a student. John Dryden Promote yourself, but do not demote another. Israel Salanter Accustom children to a true notion of things. George Shelley Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door
neighbor… Let no one ever come to you without leaving better or happier. Be the
living expression of G-d’s kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in
your eyes, kindness in your smile; kindness in your warm greeting. Mother Teresa Keep gude company, and you’ll be counted one of them. Scottish Proverb Straighten your problems out before you go to bed. That way you will wake up smiling. Louis Fromm (married 55 years) YOU ARE A MARVEL Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again… And what do we teach our children? We
teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of
France. When will we also teach them what they are? We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a
marvel. You are unique. In all the years that have passed, there has never been
another child like you. Your legs, your arms, your clever fingers, the way you
move. You may become a Shakespeare, a Michaelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. And when you grow up, can
you then harm another who is, like you, a marvel? You must work – we must all work – to make the world worthy of
its children. Pablo Casals …learn by practice. Martha Graham Straighten your problems out before you go to bed. That way you will wake up smiling. Louis Fromm (married 55 years) Twelve Things To Remember: (1) The value of time. (2) The success of perseverance. (3) The pleasure of working. (4) The dignity of simplicity. (5) The worth of character. (6) The power of kindness. (7) The influence of example. (8) The obligation of duty. (9) The wisdom of economy. (10) The virtue of patience. (11) The improvement of talent. (12) The joy of origination. Marshall Field Look around you! This is where the path of hatred has brought us. Pocahontas Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky. Confucius Talk about a dream – try to make it real. Bruce Springsteen If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be Enthusiasm. Bruce Barton We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Think it more satisfaction to live richly than die rich. Sir Thomas Browne Be All That You Can Be. U.S. Army Slogan Drink it all in… there is no way to happiness; happiness IS the
way. Dr. Wayne W. Dyer Once you can laugh at your own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you’re good, you can fill up those openings with something positive. Maybe you can combat some of the ugliness in the world. Goldie Hawn Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower. Shigenori Kameoka You don’t just stumble into the future. You create your own future. Roger Smith Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. William Makepeace Thackeray We need to listen to one another. Chaim Potok The goal of a peaceful world must, today and tomorrow, shape our decisions and inspire our purposes. John F. Kennedy You’ve got to say, "I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it." It’s called perseverance. Lee J. Iacocca Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there’s love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go
wrong. Ella Fitzgerald My favorite quote is "Life is too short to be little," written
by Disraeli… Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise
and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a
year’s time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to
worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring
undertakings. Andre Maurois 1. Don’t sweat the small stuff. 2. It’s all small stuff. Unknown There’s good in everybody. Boost. Don’t knock. Warren G. Harding Keep company with those who may make you better. English saying Never think that G-d’s delays are G-d’s denials "A lone shipwreck survivor on an uninhabited island managed to
build a rude hut in which he placed all that he had saved from the sinking
ship. He prayed to G-d for deliverance, and anxiously scanned the horizon each day to hail any passing ship. One day, he was horrified to find his hut
in flames. All that he had was gone. To the man’s limited vision, it
was the worst that could happen and he cursed G-d. Yet the very next day, a ship
arrived. "We saw your smoke signal," the captain said. Walter A. Heiby Resolve, and thou art free. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow If there is light in the soul, There will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, There will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, There will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, There will be peace in the world. Chinese Proverb Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even
when there are no rivers. --Nikita Khrushchev To know you have enough is to be rich. Tao You can’t depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus. Mark Twain Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. G.K. Chesterton To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others. Fran?is Mauriac The love of liberty is the love of others. The love of power is the love of ourselves. William Hazlit The day a person becomes a cynic is the day he loses his youth. Marvin D. Levy Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. C. Archie Danielson Control your emotion or it will control you. Samurai maxim Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking. Tim McMahon Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as real strength. Ralph W. Sockman Super-cali-fragil-istic-expi-ali-docious from Mary Poppins Prayer is not asking. It is a language of the soul. Mohandas Gandhi Better to bend than to break. Scottish Proverb Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. Helen Keller Give sorrow words… Shakespeare Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are. Julius Charles Hare and Augustus William Hare Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. James Thurber What poison is to food, self-pity is to life. Oliver C. Wilson Patience is the companion of wisdom. Augustine All serious daring starts from within. Eudora Welty Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. Ralph Waldo Emerson Enthusiasm is G-d within. Alexandra Stoddard Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. Lord Chesterfield The bluebird carries the sky on his back. Henry David Thoreau All that we are is the result of what we have thought. Buddha Sublime – the soaring of the spirit into joy. Peter Megargee Brown Synergy means behaviour of whole systems unpredicted by the behaviour of their parts. Buckminster Fuller It’s good to be just plain happy; it’s a little better to know that you’re happy; but to understand that you’re happy and to know why and how… and still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss. Henry Miller The duty to be alive is the same as the duty to become oneself, to develop into the individual one potentially is. Erich Fromm Nobody ever died of laughter. Max Beerbohm Hear the meaning within the word. William Shakespeare Friendship is a sheltering tree. Samuel Taylor Coleridge I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Charles Dickens Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees or the stars; you have a right to be here. From Desiderata Patience is power. With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes silk. Chinese Proverb Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations. Faith Baldwin If the first button of one’s coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked. Giordano Bruno Always do right. This will gratify some and astonish the rest. Mark Twain You can if you think you can. George Reeves Sixth Grade Teacher of Norman Vincent Peale Action is eloquence. William Shakespeare Beware, as long as you live, of judging people by appearances. Jean de la Fontaine It is a wonderful seasoning of all enjoyments to think of those we love. Moliere Paradise is where I am. Voltaire We never listen when we are eager to speak. Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld The great mind knows the power of gentleness. Robert BrowningTo know you have enough is to be rich. Tao You can’t depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus. Mark Twain Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. G.K. Chesterton To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others. Fran?is Mauriac The love of liberty is the love of others. The love of power is the love of ourselves. William Hazlit The day a person becomes a cynic is the day he loses his youth. Marvin D. Levy Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. C. Archie Danielson Control your emotion or it will control you. Samurai maxim Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking. Tim McMahon Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as real strength. Ralph W. Sockman Super-cali-fragil-istic-expi-ali-docious from Mary Poppins Prayer is not asking. It is a language of the soul. Mohandas Gandhi Better to bend than to break. Scottish Proverb Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. Helen Keller Give sorrow words… Shakespeare Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are. Julius Charles Hare and Augustus William Hare Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. James Thurber What poison is to food, self-pity is to life. Oliver C. Wilson Patience is the companion of wisdom. Augustine All serious daring starts from within. Eudora Welty Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. Ralph Waldo Emerson Enthusiasm is G-d within. Alexandra Stoddard Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. Lord Chesterfield The bluebird carries the sky on his back. Henry David Thoreau All that we are is the result of what we have thought. Buddha Sublime – the soaring of the spirit into joy. Peter Megargee Brown Synergy means behaviour of whole systems unpredicted by the behaviour of their parts. Buckminster Fuller It’s good to be just plain happy; it’s a little better to know that you’re happy; but to understand that you’re happy and to know why and how… and still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss. Henry Miller The duty to be alive is the same as the duty to become oneself, to develop into the individual one potentially is. Erich Fromm Nobody ever died of laughter. Max Beerbohm Hear the meaning within the word. William Shakespeare Friendship is a sheltering tree. Samuel Taylor Coleridge I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Charles Dickens Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees or the stars; you have a right to be here. From Desiderata Patience is power. With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes silk. Chinese Proverb Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations. Faith Baldwin If the first button of one’s coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked. Giordano Bruno Always do right. This will gratify some and astonish the rest. Mark Twain You can if you think you can. George Reeves Sixth Grade Teacher of Norman Vincent Peale Action is eloquence. William Shakespeare Beware, as long as you live, of judging people by appearances. Jean de la Fontaine It is a wonderful seasoning of all enjoyments to think of those we love. Moliere Paradise is where I am. Voltaire We never listen when we are eager to speak. Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld The great mind knows the power of gentleness. Robert Browning Hitch your wagon to a star. Ralph Waldo Emerson Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all. Emily Dickinson One world at a time. Henry David Thoreau Where there is sunshine the doctor starves. Flemish Proverb Behold the turtle. He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out. James Bryant Conant And what is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not been discovered. Ralph Waldo Emerson You ain’t heard nothin’ yet, folks. Al Jolson When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion. Abraham Lincoln Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet. Roger Miller We boil at different degrees. Ralph Waldo Emerson G-d has put something noble and good into every heart* which His hand created. Mark Twain Ah my friends, therein* lies a wonderful challenge indeed, to seek out that noble and good. Seek it and you shall find it. Unknown All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye. Alexander Pope Change favors the prepared mind. Louis Pasteur You can’t eat your friends and have them too. Budd Schulberg Living is like licking honey off a thorn. Unknown Let the past drift away with the water. Japanese saying Believing where we cannot prove. Alfred, Lord Tennyson He who would leap high must take a long run. Danish proverb Jump. Joseph Campbell. To look up is joy. Confucius Look not down but up! Robert Browning The best way out is always through. Robert Frost Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is. Alan Watts The ideals which have always shown before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty and truth. Albert Einstein The secret of success is consistency of purpose. Benjamin Disraeli When you are required to exhibit strength, it comes. Joseph Campbell What a man thinks of himself… determines, or rather, indicates his fate. Henry David Thoreau Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others. Spinoza Surprised by joy. C.S. Lewis I believe… that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another. Thomas Jefferson Labor to keep alive in your breast that spark of celestial fire called conscience. George Washington I do the very best I know how, the very best I can. Abraham Lincoln It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Alexandra Smith What wound did ever heal but by degrees? William Shakespeare Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. Lewis Carroll I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don’t treat me right – shame on you. Louis Armstrong Every dewdrop and raindrop had a whole heaven within it. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you. Lao-Tzu I leave you with this quote. Enjoy, and pass it on. -mk As the hand held before the eye hides the tallest mountain, so this small earthly life hides from our gaze the vast radiance and secrets of which the world is full, and whoever can take life from before his eyes, as one takes away one’s hand, will see the great radiance within the world. Martin Buber To Hallow This Life "The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling
unloved."