5 quotes

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

"For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward."
- Jim Rohn

"He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still"
~ Lao-Tzu


"Only those who risk going too far can possibly know how far they can really go."
-T.S. Eliot

"The man who moved a mountain is the one who started taking away the small stones."
- Old Chinese Proverb

"Fall down seven times, get up eight." Unknown

"Friendship with the upright, with the truthful and with the well informed is beneficial.
Friendship with those who flatter, with those who are meek and who compromise with principles,
and with those who talk cleverly is harmful."
- Confucius

"What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?" George Eliot


"The meaning of life is to find your gift, the purpose of life is to give it away." - Gulliver

"One touch is worth 10,000 words." Harold Bloomfield

"The turtle only makes progress when it's neck is stuck out"  - proverb

"To be young, really young, takes a very long time." - Pablo Picasso

"If you live your life out of memory, you live out of your history. That's what once was.
If you live out of your imagination, you live out of your potential. That's what can be."
 - Unknown
 
"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."
- e e cummings

"The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping."
- Louis

"Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you."
- Frank Tyger
 
"Miracles start to happen when you give as much energy to your dreams as you do to your fears."
- Richard Wilkins

"The imagination is a dream factory of which realities are a by-product."
-Richard Wilkins

"Wonderful things start to happen when you dream outside of your sleep." - Richard Wilkins

  
"Ignorance pardons nothing, but explains much." - proverb


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


"A man is but a product of his thoughts; what he thinks, that he becomes."
-Mohandas K. Gandhi


"Happiness is a way of travelling, not a destination."
-anon.

"Learn to bend. It's better than breaking." - Leo Buscaglia

"We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist, and forever will recreate each other." Teilhard de Chardin

"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it"
- Goethe

"Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs from climbing it." Author unknown

"Listen to your heart. Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you'll find your treasure."
- Paulo Coelho

"And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, then you risk even more."
- Erica Jong

They know enough who know how to learn.- Henry Adams

Give me a firm place to stand and I will move the earth. Archimedes

Life is rather like a tin of sardines. We're all of us looking for the key. ~Anon

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. - Theodore Roosevelt

"How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone."
- Coco Chanel

"The real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense of humour or irony pitched in exactly the same key."- Edith Wharton

"Go placidly amid the noise and haste and remember what peace there may be in silence." Max E


"Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees." - Schopenhauer

"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact."
- William James

"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."
- Voltaire (1694-1778)

"Be patient toward everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.. Do not search for the answers which could not be given to you now because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything... Live the questions now."
- Rainer Maria Rilke

"Don't ask ourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." - Thoreau


"Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." Cherokee saying


"It's no good running a pig farm for 30 years while saying 'I was meant to be a dancer.' By that time, pigs are your style." - Quentin Crisp

"What we want most is a secret that no one can tell us." Anonymous

"There are two eternities that can really break you down - yesterday and tomorrow. One is gone and the other doesn't exist yet...so live today." - Anon


"Growing old is a privilege denied to many." - Unknown

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
- Oscar Wilde

"If you believe in yourself enough and know what you want, you're gonna make it happen."
~ Mariah Carey

"If I had my life to live over I'd dare to make more mistakes next time."
- anon


"True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation." - George Washington

"Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness." ~ Chuang-tzu

"The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning."
- George Baker


"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
~ Albert Einstein


"An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness." Margaret Atwood


"A Native American elder described his inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time." When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, 'The one I feed the most'."
~ anon



"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."  -- Mark Twain

"Careful. We don't want to learn from this." Calvin

"The past is never dead. It's not even past." William Faulkner


"The deeper that sorrow carves into us, the more joy we can contain." - Kahlil Gibran


"If you weep because the sun has set, your own tears will never let you see the stars."
- Proverb


"Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results."  -anon

"What we need are more people who specialise in the impossible."- Theodore Roethke


"You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying round your head, but you can stop them making nests in your hair." Don Juan


"Never look down on a person unless you are picking them up." Unknown


"The one thing we can give and still keep is our word." - Unknown


"Doing nothing in fear of making a mistake, is the greatest mistake you'll make." - Anonymous


"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience."
 - Teilhard de Chardin


"We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time." T. S. Eliot


"Be kind to your friends, without them you'd be a stranger." - Anon

"If you want to make God laugh tell him your plans." -- Folk Proverb

"The reward of patience is patience." St. Augustine

"You should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster." Quentin Crisp

"Happiness is a how, not a what; a talent, not an object." Herman Hessse

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"There are some people that if they don’t know, you cant tell them." - Louis Armstrong

"We all may have come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now." Martin Luther King. Jr.

"Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we're down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is."
- Barbara Johnson

"The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it's the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." David Viscott


"Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps."
- David Lloyd George


"When you run out of red, use blue!" - Pablo Picasso on flexibility and imagination


"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live." Goethe

"Growth demands a temporary surrender of security." Gail Sheehy


"Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced."
- James Baldwin


"When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that the mighty oak grows strong in contrary winds, and diamonds are made from extreme pressure." - Peter Marshall



"Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure, Life is either a daring experiment or nothing at all." - anon

"The shell must break before the bird can fly." Tennyson


"There are two things to aim at in life: First, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second." - Logan Pearsall Smith