3 Words of Wisdom

"The measure of love is to love without measure." Saint Augustine

"There is more to life than increasing it's speed." Mahatma Gandhi

"Work like you don’t need the money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no one is watching." Satchel Paige

"The earth on which we live silently remembers the catastrophies of our history; but if we listen to the silence of the earth it will remind us of the fate of those who lived before us, and from whose suffering we may yet learn." -Anon

"Knows but doesn't know he knows... asleep, wake him up.
Knows he doesn't know... teach him, good man.
Doesn't know he doesn't know... a fool, avoid him.
Knows he knows... wise, follow him... " -Anon

"Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are." -Chinese Proverb

"To be great, be whole; exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is you.
Be whole in everything. Put all you are into the smallest thing you do.
The whole moon gleams in every pool, it rides so high."

"As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we must all be aware of changes in the air, however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness"
- Justice William O. Douglas

"I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life, as by the obstacles overcome whilst trying to succeed"

- Booker T Washington

"To Speak or NOT to Speak
If it is not truthful and not helpful don't say it
If it is Truthful and not helpful don't say it.
If it is Not truthful and helpful don't say it
If it is both Truthful and Helpful ...Wait for the right time"
- Buddhist Quote

"Roots are the branches down in the earth. Branches are roots in the air."
"The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful."
-Stray Birds by Rabindranath Tagore


"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong " Mahatma Gandhi"Life must be understood backward. But it must be lived forward "
-Soren Kierkegaard


"If you’re going through hell, keep going!" -Winston Churchill

"Peace will come when we replace the love of power with the power of love." -Sri Chinmoy

"The only thing necessary for evil to triumph.....is for good men to do nothing." -Winston Churchill

"You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him learn it within himself." -Galileo


"Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them." -Albert Enstein

"The pioneers of peace are the young people who refuse to take up arms."- Albert Enstein

"The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities,
But to know someone who thinks and feels with us,
And who, though distant, is close to us in spirit,
This makes the earth for us, an inhabited garden." 

- Goethe

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." 

-Mark Twain

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect."

- Mark Twain

"Never underestimate the power of a few committed people to change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." 

-Margaret Mead

"Remember you were not put on this earth because you deserved to be here. You were put on this earth to smell the roses." Anon"I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either."

- Jack Benny

"Let the beauty we love be what we do." 

-Rumi

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

-Albert Einstein

"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love." Albert E

"The greatness of a nation and it's moral progress can be judged by the way it's animals are treated." Mahatma Gandhi

"When elephants fight, ants get killed." Cambodian Proverb

"War what is it good for? It's good for business." Billy Bragg

“Many things in life will catch your eye but few will catch your heart... Pursue those”

- Anon

"A mind that has been stretched will never return to it's original dimension." -Albert Einstein

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." -Aesop

"I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud"
-Jung

"Nothing is worth more than this day."- Goethe

"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain."
-Kahlil Gibran

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
-Mahatma Gandhi

"Driving ambition is the last refuge of the failure."
-Oscar Wilde

"You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you."
- Dale Carnegie

"Character is doing the right thing when nobody is looking."
-J. C. Watts

"Love means to love that which is unloveable. Otherwise it is no virtue at all."
-G. K. Chesterton

"Dreams are essential to life." -Anais Nin"


It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, than you are indeed a man of true wisdom." 

-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." 

-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"To revel in the wonders of life, to think, to remember, to dream - this is to know happiness."
- Giancarlo Di Gratsi

"This world is but a canvas to our imaginations."
- Henry David Thoreau

"I've dreamt dreams in my life that have stayed with me ever after."
- Emily Bronte

"Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Whenever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe."

- Elie Wiesel

"The only thing I know, is that I know nothing." Socrates

"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?"
- Robert Browning 

"Life is a cycle, always in motion, if good times have moved on so will times of trouble!" 

- Indian Proverb

"The best things in life are not things." Louis

"When you've seen beyond yourself - then you may find peace of mind, is waiting there - And the time will come when you see we're all one, and life flows on within you and without you."
'Within You Without You'
by George Harrison (The Beatles)

"Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and stars; you have a right to be here, and whether or not it is clear to you; no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should."
- 'Desiderata', Max Ehrmann

"Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before."
- Mae West

"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness."
- The Dalai Lama

"If you cannot be kind, at least have the decency to be vague."
-Unknown

"Living on Earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around the sun every year." 

- Louis

"To me it seems that to give happiness is a far nobler goal than to attain it: and that what we exist for is much more a matter of relations to others than a matter of individual progress: much more a matter of helping others to heaven than of getting there ourselves."
- Lewis Carroll

"Life is like a finger, pointing to the Moon. If you look at the finger... you will miss all the heavenly glory." Enter the Dragon, Bruce Lee 

"Humility is not a punishment. It is a Virtue."
- Anon

"Hold on to what is good, even if it is a handful of earth.
And hold on to what you believe, even if it is a tree which stands by itself.
Hold on to what you must do, even if it is a long way from here.
Hold on to life, even when it is easier to let go.
Hold on to my hand, even when I have gone away from you."

 - Pueblo Verse