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Stranger, pause and look
From the dust of ages
Lift this little book,
Turn the tattered pages,
Read me, do not let me die
Search the fading letters, finding
Steadfast in the broken binding
All that once was I.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
My life is my message. - Gandhi
The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit. - Nelson Henderson
The way is long ~ let us go together. The way is difficult ~ let us help each other. The way is joyful ~ let us share it. - Joyce Hunter
Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it, and then move on. - Bob Newhart
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. - Freiderich Nietzche
Hey, kind friend, help me forget where I've been, help me remember who I am. - Amy Ray
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. - Julian of Norwich
If you don't enter the lion's den, you will never capture the lion. - Seung Sahn
With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see. - William Arthur Ward
I glory in this world of men and women, torn with troubles yet living on to love and laugh through it all. - Carl Sandburg
Time is the coin of your life. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. - Carl Sandburg
He who would learn to fly must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. - Friedrich Nietzche
We must not demean life by standing in awe of death. - David Sarnoff
Is not life a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves? - Friedrich Nietzche
Carpe Diem! Rejoice while you are still alive; enjoy the day;live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.
- Horace
So many Hopi songs are about rain because rain was scarce when it was needed. Is that why so many of our songs are about love? - Unknown
Meditate.
Live purely. Be quiet.
Do your work with mastery.
Like the moon, come out
from behind the clouds!
Shine.
- Buddha
The worst fear is the fear of living. - Theodore Roosevelt.
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
- Alan Watts
We look backward too much and we look forward too much; thus we miss the only eternity of which we can be absolutely sure ~ the eternal present, for it is always now. - William Phelps
Children learn so rapidly because they are neither afraid of not knowing nor convinced that they already know what they don't. The rest of us could take a lesson. - Laurence G. Boldt
We can be knowledgeable with another man's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with another man's wisdom. - Michel de Montaigne
A person with outward courage dares to die. A person with inward courage dares to live. - Lao-Tzu
Too often we think of ourselves as weak candles that can be blown out by the slightest wind of frustration or disappointment. How much better to say: "I will be a bonfire and dare the world to put me out." - Laurence G. Boldt
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. - William Shakespeare
Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men. - Benjamin Disraeli
Work banishes three great evils: bordom, vice, and poverty. - Voltaire
He who wants to do good knocks on the gate; he who loves finds the gate open. - Rabindranath Tagore
All that we behold is full of blessings. - William Wordsworth
The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts. - Marcus Aurelius
Within your own house dwells the treasure of joy; so why do you go begging from door to door? - Sufi Saying
It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top. - Arnold Bennett
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all. - Michelangelo
Scatter joy. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
For better or for worse, we give to others the fruits of our own thinking. - Laurence G. Boldt
There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience, or none at all. - Ogden Nash
There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, and all things in succession. That which grows slowly endures. - Joshua Holland
The only difference between a wise man and a fool is that the wise man knows he's playing. - Fritz Perls
You must lose a fly to catch a trout. George Herbert
The seed of mystery lies in muddy water. How can I perceive this mystery? Water becomes clear through stillness. How can I become still? By flowing with the stream. - Lao-tzu
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Literature is the memory of humanity. ~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
Every child is full of simple wonder. How have we become so numb?...We have accepted a cultural convention that to act "grown up" is to act jaded and cynical. - Laurence G. Boldt
Not knowing how near the truth is, people seek it far away, what a pity! They are like him who, in the midst of water, cries in thirst. - Hakuin
Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like. - Will Rogers
Every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
'Normal' is not something to aspire to, it is something to get away from. - Jodie Foster
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh and too self-full to seek other than itself. - Kahlil Gibran
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
If in a selfish world I remain compassionate, in a violent world I remain peaceful, in a shallow world I maintain depth and sincerity, in a world of ingratitude I celebrate the gift of life, then I have done what I can do. - Laurence G. Boldt
Much that I sought,
I could not find.
Much that I found,
I could not keep.
Much that I kept,
I could not free.
Much that I freed
Returned to me.
- Lord Byron
Friendship is the wine of life. - Edward Young
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. - William James
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