The artist has one function - to affirm and glorify life. W. Edward Brown

New Year is every man's birthday. Charles Lamb

The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows. George William Curtis

God shares with the generous. Irish Proverb

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much. Amelia Edith Barr

The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness. Robert Bly

Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains so that we can cast them off or tighten them. Euripides

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. Saint Augustine

I am alive today by the grace of a higher being. Every day is extra. John Forbes Kerry

The web of our life is a mingled yarn, good and ill together. William Shakespeare

What lives, lives forever, only the shell perishes. Unknown

We are all time millionaires - for a rich life, invest wisely. Richard Andrews

The very ink with which all history is written is merely liquid prejudice. Mark Twain

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to bind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and a mystery. George Herbert Wells

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is nature's delight. Marcus Aurelius

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers. James Arthur Baldwin

Life comes before literature, as the material comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues. Phillip Brooks

Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. Al Capp

He who uses the spirit in him creatively is an artist. To make living itself an art, that is the goal. Henry Miller

True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure. Auguste Rodin

Never be so brief as to become obscure. Edward Tyron

Coats warm the body, quotes warm the soul. Ryan Erestain

We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest. Georg Cristoph Litchenberg

Feeding the hungry is greater work than raising the dead. Saint John Chrysotom

Love can turn the cottage into a golden place. German Proverb

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most. Dale Carnegie

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. Edward Bulwer-Lyton

In conversation, the game is, to say something new with old words. Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike. Sir Thomas Browne

Her face was her chaperone. Rupert Hughes

In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles. Henry Christopher Bailey

I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal. Emily Bronte

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them. Evelyn Waugh

A friend is someone who makes me feel totally acceptable. Ene Rilsna

Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London. Oscar Wilde

Feelings are everywhere - be gentle. J. Masai

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him. St Augustine

Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all. Seneca

Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time. Sydney Smith

Let none turn over books, nor roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man. Johann Kaspar Lavater

Seek to cultivate a buoyant joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life. Alexander Mclaren

To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn. Marcel Jouhandeau

Joy runs deeper than despair. Corrie Ten Boom

What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the sorrows they've taken away. Logan Pearsal Smith

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie. Aeschylus

Oh worse than everything is kindness counterfeiting absent love. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The more laws, the more offenders. Thomas Fuller

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself. Desiderius Erasmus

Our life is made by the death of others. Leonardo da Vinci

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory. Henry Giles

Nothing is more provocative of awe than is the night sky. Llwelyn Powys

The thought is the parent of the deed. Thomas Carlyle

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness, our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. John Jay Chapman

Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better. George Eliot

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. Frederick W. Faber

The morning hour has gold in its mouth. German Proverb

Words of love, are works of love. William R. Algar

There are places and moments in which one is so alone that one sees the world entire. Jules Renard

If we could perceive our angels for just a single day, the world would never be the same again, nor would it ever wish to be. Anonymous

Every breath of air and ray of light and heat, every beautiful prospect is, as it were, the skirts of their garments, the flowing robes of those whose faces see God. John Henry

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress. Charles F. Kettering

Man's character is his fate. Heraclitus

If you give money, spend yourself with it. Henry David Thoreau

When you say that a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God. Charles L. Allen

A sublime wish ever cheers the human heart, that elsewhere, in other regions of the universe, souls are now acting, daring and enduring, which can love us, and which we can love. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy. Leo Tolstoy

The joy of life is variety, the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence. Samuel Johnson

If you want to make a friend, let someone do you a favour. Benjamin Franklin

Chains do not hold people together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years. Simone Signoret

The joy of all mysteries is the certainty which comes from their contemplation, that there are many doors yet for the soul to open on her upward and inward way. Arthur Christopher Benson

There is nothing beautiful or sweet or great in life that is not mysterious. Francois Rene de Chateaubriande

Peace is the evening star of the soul, as virtue is its sun, and the two are never far apart. Charles Caleb Colton

The fewer words the better prayer. Martin Luther

While faith makes all things possible, it is love that makes all things easy. Evan H. Hopkins

The genius of Christianity is to have proclaimed that the path to the greatest mystery is the path of love. Agatha Christie

Love kindled by virtue always kindles another, provided the flame appear outwardly. Dante Alighieri

They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas, they live in each other still. William Penn

Look round our world, behold the chain of love. Combining all below and all above. Alexander Pope

Do not resent growing old. Many are denied the privilege. Unknown

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is a mirror. Ken Keyes Jnr

It takes a genius to whine appealingly. F. Scott Fitzgerald

The greatest discovery of my life is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude. William James

Heal the past, live the present, dream the future. Mary Englebreit

Accept no one's definition of your life. Define yourself. Unknown

One thought fills immensity. William Blake

You never know what is enough unless you know more than enough. William Blake

The weak in courage is strong in cunning. William Blake

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest. William Blake

If the doors of perception were cleaned, everything would appear infinite. William Blake

A book holds a house of gold. Chinese Proverb

The longer the night lasts, the more our dreams will be. Chinese Proverb

A smile will gain you ten more years of life. Chinese Ptoverb

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sadness. Chinese Proverb

Virtue never dwells alone. It always has neighbours. Chinese Proverb

A guilty conscience knows continual fear. Chinese Proverb

He that once deceives is ever suspected. Chinese Proverb

God conceals himself from the mind of man, but reveals himself to his heart. African Proverb

One falsehood spoils a thousand truths. Ashanti of Ghana

Love is like a baby, it needs to be treated tenderly. Congo Proverb

Talking with one another is loving one another. Kenyan Proverb

Obeisance to the self that is a reflection of the eternal reality. Kashmiri Proverb

Angels bend down their wings to a seeker of knowledge. Moon over Morocco Proverb

It is a good storyteller that can turn a man's ears into eyes. Moon over Morocco Proverb

Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bone. Moon over Morocco Proverb

He who mocks the poor shows contempt for their maker. Moon over Morocco Proverb

What is past is gone, what is hoped for is absent, for you is the hour in which you are. Moon over Morocco Proverb

One who pervades the great universe is seen by none unless a man knows the unfolding of love. Moon over Morocco Proverb

There is no death, only a change of worlds. Duvamish Proverb

Don't be afraid to cry - it will free your mind of your sorrowful thoughts. Hopi Proverb

Poverty is a noose that strangles humility and breeds disrespect for both God and man. Sioux Proverb

Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance. Lakoto Proverb

Our first teacher is our own heart. Cheyenne Proverb

You already possess everything necessary to become great. Crow Proverb

A good mind possesses a kingdom. Seneca

The offender never forgives. Russian Proverb

A kind word is like a spring day. Russian Proverb

The whole world rests on the tip of the tongue. Yiddish Proverb

The whole world is a dream, and death the interpreter. Yiddish Proverb

As the dew is dried up by the morning sun, so are the sins of humankind by the sight of the Himalayas. Hindu Proverb

One of these days is none of these days. English Proverb

Love unlocks the mysteries of the universe. Rosicucian Proverb

Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, but adversity is often as the rain of spring. Chinese Proverb

The pure unadulterated love of one can nullify the hatred of millions. Mohandas Gandhi

Deprive a man of his happiness and you rob him of his life. Ibsen

When you do the common things in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. George Washingtpn Carver

Never mistake motion for action. Ernest Hemmingway

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it. Bill Bernbach

The only truly happy people are children or the creative minority. Jean Caldwell

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. Aristotle

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitrations of time. Lawrence Durrell

Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. Dr Karl Messinger

Don't forget to love yourself. Soren Kierkegaard

It's not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It's not how much we give, but how much love we put into the giving. Mother Teresa

Tolerance is the total acceptance of others' uniqueness. Unknown

To know someone here or there with whom one can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed - that makes life a garden. Johann von Goethe

I will speak ill of no man, and will speak all the good I know of everybody. Benjamin Franklin

The friendship that can cease never has been real. St Jerome

There is no hope of joy except in human relations. Antoine Sainte-Exupery

The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life. Edward Everest Hale

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter. Francois Sagan

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness. Richard Bach

Nothing should be prized more highly than the value of each day. Johann von Goethe

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Mary Jean Iron

The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created spring. Bern Williams

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. Pablo Picasso

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier. Katherine Norris

Compassion is the basis of morality. Arnold Schopenhauer

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle. Anais Nin

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe. Anatole France

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil. Benjamin Hayden

All seasons are beautiful to the person who carries happiness within. Horace Friess

To fill the hour - that is happiness. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of hell, or a hell of heaven. John Milton

The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference. Audre Lord

Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. Eleanor Roosevelt

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is that which makes you lonely. Lorraine Hansberry

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you meet every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform. Theodore H. White

True religion is real living, living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and rightousness. Albert Einstein

Where there is love there is life. Mahatma Gandhi

Life can be found only in the present moment. Thich Nhat Hanh

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life. William Blake

Everything in nature contains all the power of nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff. Ralph Waldo Emerson

For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked. Bill Cosby

Marriage is our last best chance to grow up. Joseph Barth

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love. Pearl S. Buck

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, though you never touch its coattails. Clarence Darrow

Truth is our element. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Establishing peace is the work of education. All politics can do is keep us out of war. Maria Montessri

The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. Felix Adle

Yes, there is meaning; at least for me, there is one thing that matters - to set a few words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people. Logan Pearsall Smith

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. William Wordsworth

I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever. Amy Tan

Who so loves, believes the impossible. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Gratitude seems such a small word for a life that contained your presence. Helen van Silke

Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them. Richard L. Evans

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find within yourself all the barriers that you have built against it. Rumi

Where there is love, there is pain. Spanish Proverb

Life becomes religious whenever we make it so, when some new light is seen, when some deeper appreciation is felt, when some larger outlook is gained, when some nobler purpose is formed, when some task is well done. Sophia Blanche Lyons-Fahs

Books are not men and yet they stay alive. Stephen Vincent Benet

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from reading a book. Henry David Thoreau

My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter. Thomas Helm

The wise man reads both books and life itself. Lin Yutang

We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate. Henry Miller

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. Henry David Thoreau

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decay that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. Muriel Spark

People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history. Dan Quayle

Nothing is so commonplace as the wish to be remarkable. Oliver Wendell Holmes

Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field, frozen with snow. Langston Hughes

Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream. Edgar Alan Poe

No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver. Kahlil Gibran

Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to the same mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player. Albert Einstein

Joy in looking and comprehending is life's most beautiful gift. Albert Einstein

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind. Albert Einstein

Bereavement is a darkness, impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved. Iris Murdoch

Death ends a life, not a relationship. Jack Lennon

Unable are the loved to die for love is immortality. Emily Dickenson

The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death. Anonymous

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom. George Washington Carver

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. Aristotle

The whole world opened to me when I learned to read. Mary McLeod Bethune

There is a brilliant child locked inside each student. Marva Collins

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. Ronald E. Osborne

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in yourself. Eric Hoffer

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration. William Ellery Channing

Laziness may seem attractive, but work brings satisfaction. Anne Frank

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. Victor Hugo

To her the name of her father was another name for love. Fanny Fern

Because I'm technologically able to find a like-minded person on the other side of the globe, I'm also more interested in making friends with my next-door neighbour. Jeffrey Klein

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom. Thomas Fuller

I have learned that true friendship continues to grow. Even over the longest distance. Same goes for true love. Anonymous

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family must become, in a special way, the servant of the others. Pope John Paul II

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. Orison Swett Marden

There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people. Anwar El-Sadat

An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be as charming as if she weren't. Sacha Guitry

One does not make friends. One recognises them. Garth Henrichs

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them. Francesco Guiciardini

The finest kind of friendship is between people who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it. Sylvia Bremer

Only the virtuous have friends. Voltaire

To be capable of steady friendship and lasting love are the two greatest proofs of, not only goodness of heart, but strength of mind. Paul Aubuchon

Ultimately, the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation. Oscar Wilde

It is better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves. Anonymous

Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied. Mark Twain

All of life's great lessons present themselves again and again until mastered. David Ashley Brewer

Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment - the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is. Jorge Luis Borges

I believe that God prays in us and through us. Malcolm Boyd

Live the life you've dreamed. Henry David Thoreau

Love always creates, it never destroys, in this lies man's only promise. Leo Buscaglia

We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who do most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them. Samuel Butler

Look deep into nature, and you will understand everything better. Albert Einstein

Philosophy is the highest music. Pluto

What you won't let yourself do, you refuse to tolerate in another living soul. Catherine Ryan Hyde

A message prepared in the mind reaches a mind; a message prepared by a life reaches a life. Bill Gothard

Adventure is worthwhile in itself. Amelia Eàrhart

No one ever does anything from a single motive. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. Les Browne

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness. Elbert Hubbard

Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower. Shigenori Kameoka

Life is 10% of what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. John Maxwell

Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all. G. K. Chesterton

Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. Buddha

Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. Emily Dickenson

Take heed: you do not find what you do not seek. English Proverb

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. Voltaire

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are aware of our treasures. Thornton Wilder

Be of love a little more careful than of anything. e.e. Cunnings

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence. Jacques Maritain

Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because when someone forgives you - out of love - he takes on the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice. Dag Hjalmar Carl Agne Hammarskjold

I love life because what more is there. Anthony Hopkins

I love those who yearn for the impossible. Goethe

I think I would rather possess eyes that know no sight, ears that know no sound, hands that know no touch than a heart that knows no love. Anonymous

It is only by striving for beauty and love in all our relationships that we can hope to become Guardians of our individual and collective futures. Roland Stabler

Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure. Anonymous

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. Oscar Wilde

Kindness comes very close to the benevolence of God. Randolph Ray

In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all. Mahatma Gandhi

Love builds bridges where there are none. R. H. Delaney

Love can hope where reason would despair. George Lord Lyttleton

Love only endures when the lovers love many things together and not merely each other. Walter J. Lippman

Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God must smile on it. Josh Billings

Never self-possessed or prudent, love is all abandonment. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live. Not where I love, but where I am, I die. Robert Southey

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love. George Eliot

Paradise is always where love dwells. Jean Paul Richter

Stimulate the heart to love, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord. W. T. Ussery

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

The human heart, at whatever age, opens to the heart that opens in return. Maria Edgeworth

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things. Plato

Love is meant to bring us closer to God. Deepak K. Choprah

There are never enough "I love you's". Lenny Bruce

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love. Oscar Wilde

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not. Duc Francois de la Rochefoucald

This is the miracle which happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess. Maria Rilke Rainer

To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Charles Lindbergh

To love is natural. To understand the variations of love is wisdom. Anonymous

To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved deeply by someone gives you courage. Lao-Tzu

We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair. Mignon McLaughlin

We are an arrogant` species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope and joy. Dean Koontz

We are not the same person this year as last, nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. Somerset Maughan

There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more who are dying for a little love. Mother Teresa

We have to realise that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die. Ronald David Laing

We love because it is the only true adventure. Nikki Giovanni

We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away. Walker Percy

We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love. Madame de Stael

We've got to convince our egos and our minds that if we want to live happy lives, love is more important than anything else. Ken Keyes

What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love. Victor Hugo

What brings joy to the heart is not so much the friend's gift as the friend's love. Saint Alfred

What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, is lost for all eternity. Leo Buscaglia

When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out. Elizabeth Bowen

When you find true friendship, you find true love. Anonymous

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law. Boethius

Why do we love the sea? Is it because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think. Robert Henri

Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven, a spark of that immortal fire, with angels shared, from Allah given, to lift from earth our low desire. Lord Byron

All ages are submissive to love. Russian Proverb

Blind belief is dangerous. African Proverb

A fool dreams of wealth, a wise man of happiness. Turkish Proverb

A kind word warms a man through three winters. Turkish Proverb

Different flowers look good to different people. Chinese Proverb

Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. Chinese Proverb

Guests bring good luck with them. Turkish Proverb

He gives twice who gives quickly. Turkish Proverb

He who does evil to others, does it to himself. Turkish Proverb

It is more difficult to contend with oneself than with the world. Turkish Proverb

If you wish to do a good deed, consult no one. Turkish Proverb

Kind words will unlock an iron door. Turkish Proverb

Old age is not a joy, but old age is a gain. Russian Proverb

One is equally indebted to one's teacher and to God. Turkish Proverb

One who sees something good must narrate it. African Proverb

The death of the heart is the saddest thing that can happen to you. Chinese Proverb

The end of passion is the beginning of repentance. French Proverb

The pillar of the world is hope. African Proverb

The poor man and the rich man do not play together. African Proverb

We are all born to sparkle. Caroline Hofstede

I believe that there is something wonderful and that we are all part of something magical. Caroline Hofstede

The sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness. French Proverb

Evil doers are evil dreaders. English Proverb

Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy. Abraham Joshua Hetschel

Life's most urgent question is: what are you doing for others. Martin Luther King

The religious community is essential for alone our vision is too narrow to see all that must be seen. Mark Morrisson-Reed

Our souls should be like a transparent crystal through which God can be perceived. Mother Teresa

We must all fill our hearts with great love. Don't imagine that love to be true and burning, must be extraordinary. Mother Teresa

God manifests himself in what is hidden. Thomas Merton

Trust be in the moment, and live in joy.

True loss is for him whose days have been spent in utter ignorance of his true self. David Anvari

If you meet solitude do not be afraid. She is a precious help to become a friend to yourself. Tibetan Saying

If you find the mirror of the heart dull the rust has not been cleared from its face. Jelaluddin Rumi

The higher the thought the deeper the humility because we are but an infinite thought of love.

Happiness derives from the ability to deeply feel, to simply enjoy, to think freely, to risk life and to help one another.

O God, put a light in my heart and in my soul. Give me light, strengthen my light, let me become light. Mohammed - The Koran

Let the Beloved Beauty show in your actions. There are countless ways to kiss the earth. Jelaluddin Rumi

The more people you can get on with the wiser you prove to be. Hazrat Inayat Khan

All the riches of this world are too less a price for a single word which enlightens the soul. Hazrat Inayat Khan

Humility is the food which grants serenity.

A new life begins for us with every second. Jerome K. Jerome

I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first. Thomas Jefferson

The man who tries to prove his belief superior to the faith of another does not know the meaning of religion. Hazrat Inayat Khan

May our lives be filled with the ongoing truth in which we are saturated with love, caring and kindness. And may we serve the world from this level of awareness. Rabbi David Cooper

Each individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not. Hawthorne

Human beings who leave behind them no great achievements but only a sequence of small kindnesses have not had wasted lives. Charlotte Gray

The mind is everything. What we think we become. Buddha

I don't know how anyone can have time to sleep when there's so much to stay awake for. Willa Cather

Imagine a life so rich in thought, in feeling, and in meaning. Such has been my experience. Angela Minton

The glory of God is a human being fully alive. St Ireneus of Lyons

Every artist dips his brush into his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures. Henry Ward Beecher

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his work, the greatest number of the greatest ideas. John Ruskin

The moment we engage our affections, the whole earth is metamorphasised, there is no winter and no night, all ennuis, all tragedies vanish - all duties even. Ralph Waldo Emerson

A real book is not one that we read, bur one that reads us. W. H. Auden

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something. Jean Rostand

Age carries all things away, even the mind. Vergil

Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love. Robert Southey

One problem with gazing too frequently into the past ii that we may turn around to find that the future has run out on us. Michael Cibenko

The future is purchased by the present. Samuel Johnson

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so at the moment after death. Nathaniel Hawthorne

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me. Michel Montaigne

We are bound to our bodies like an oyster is to its shell. Plato

That which is so universal as death must be a benefit. Johann Von Schiller

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. Ralph Walso Emerson

If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like. William Feather

It is amazing what God can do with a broken heart when given all the pieces. Anonymous

Many people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could. Unknown

In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students. Edward Abbey

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness in changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in futile efforts. Samuel Johnson

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature. William Hazlitt

Great hopes make great men. Thomas Fuller

All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine. Socrates

I imagine, therefore I belong and am free. Lawrence Durrell

Few people have the imagination for reality. Johan von Goethe

To love one who is great, is almost to be great one's self. Suzanne Necker

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. Pythagoras

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we require. Anne Swetchine

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and…the state in which you will find solid happiness. Benjamin Franklin

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible. Carolyn Heilbrun

For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone. Edgar Watson Howe

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship. Friedrich Nietzsche

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out. Jean Paul Richter

One atom of the plane where He functions would shatter the world. Ibn Al- 'Arabi

Heaven means to be one with God. Confucius

The power of Thought, the magic of the Mind. Lord Byron

The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts. Christian Nestell Bowee

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline. Seneca

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart. Theodore Parker

God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is. Giordano Bruno

If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch Him. Denis Diderot

The only limits to our realisation of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Franklin D. Roosevelt

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. Aristotle

In his private heart no man much respects himself. Mark Twain

In the province of the mind, what one believes either is true or becomes true. John Lilly

There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know. Tupper

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly back to their native seat. Marcus Aurelius

There are souls in the world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere, and of leaving it behind them when they go. Fredrick Faber

One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul will ever be destroyed. Gita Bhagavad

If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn. Robert Southey

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. Alfred Lord Tennyson

Alas for those who never sing but die with all their music within them. Oliver Wendell Holmes

Hide your body in the Big Dipper. Zen Saying

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding. Tao te Ching

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Philosophy triumphs over past and present evils, but future evils triumph over it. Duc Francois de la Rochefoucald

Men seldom give pleasure when they are not pleased themselves. Samuel Johnson

Pleasure is the bait of sin. Plato

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. J. M. Barrie

Levity is the soul of wit. Melville D. Landon

Education alone can conduct us to the enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity. Horace Mann

Those who educate children well are more to be honoured than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well. Aristotle

Why should society feel responsible for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age. Erich Fromm

The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the present world of our consciousness is only one of many worlds of consciousness that exist. William James

All real education is the architecture of the soul. William J. Bennett

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love, it is the prerogative of the brave. Mahatma Gandhi

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation. Samuel Osgood

Love and dignity cannot share the same abode. Ovid

Love, free as air at sight human ties spreads his light wings and in a moment flies. Alexander Pope

They do not love that do not show their love. William Shakespeare

You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues. Goethe

Friends are the thieves of time. Francis Bacon

There is nought better than to be with noble souls in company. Mahabharata

He who hath many friends, hath none. Aristotle

To lose a friend is the greatest of all losses. Syrus

That friendship will not continue until the end, which has begun for an end. Quarles

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. Henry David Thoreau

How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy! Robert Browning

Life is but thought. Samuel T. Coleridge

It's All a Miracle. Arthur Rubinstein

Is life worth living? That depends on the liver. Anonymous

Hold fast to dreams for when dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Langston Hughes

Life is wasted on the living. Zaphod Beeblebrox IV

To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life. Eric Hoffer

Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure. Theodore Roosevelt

A grave, wherever found, preaches a short, pithy sermon to the soul. Nathaniel Hawrhorne

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. James Stephens

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others. Haim Ginott

Maybe this world is another planet's hell. Aldous Huxley

Attitude - one of life's choices.

Read because it will take you beyond yourself. Love…Give… Create for the same reason.

Give the world the best you have, and the best will come back to you.

Make yourself a blessing to someone. Carmelia Eliot

One is taught by experience to put a premium on the few people who can appreciate you for what you are. Gail Godwin

There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential. Rusty Berkus

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be. Voltaire

Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. Voltaire

You will never find time for anything. If you want the time, you must make it. Charles Buxton

Persons thankful for little things are certain to be the ones with much to be thankful for. Frank Clark

What we do today, right now, will have an accumulated effect on all our tomorrows. Alexandra Stoddard

Adventure is worthwhile in itself. Amelia Earhart

Beware, as long as you live, of judging people by appearances. Jean de la Fontaine

Reality can destroy the dream, why shouldn't the dream destroy reality? George Moore

Be a friend to thyself, and others will be too. Thomas Fuller

Could we know when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye. Marie Louise de la Ramee

The highest result of education of is tolerance. Helen Keller

Vision enables you to glimpse into the future, to sense its hope and power, because you yourself are the means of that future's creation. Sara Paddison

Time spent laughing is time spent with the gods. Japanese Proverb

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell. Andre Malraux

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. Confucius

A kiss to or from a woman we love is far too delicate a pledge of love to bear the gaze of strangers. Christopher Myrop

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind. Emily P. Bissel

A different world cannot be built by indifferent people. Peter Marshall

You will not become a saint through other people's sins. Anton Chekhov

It is not love of self but hatred of self which lies at the root of the troubles that afflict our world. Eric Hoffer

We are nearer to loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish. Duc Francois de la Rochefoucald

What a lovely surprise to discover how unlonely being alone can be. Ellen Burnstyn

A man who dares to waste an hour of time has not learned the value of life. Charles Darwin

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful. Thich Nhat Hanh

When a man mints coins - they are all alike, but when God mints people, each of them is uniquely different even though they all come from the same mould. Jewish Saying

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life through conscious endeavour. Henry David Thoreau

I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun. Thomas Edison

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. Ludwig von Beethoven

The meaning of life is that it stops. Franz Kafka

The worst sorrows of life are not in its sorrow and misfortune, but in its fears. A. C. Benson

You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason rejects it. Sir Oliver Wendell Holmes

That which one learns with laughter, is never forgotten. Unknown

If you believe that discrimination exists, it will. Anthony J. Angelo

Education is not a preparation for life, it is life itself. John Dewey

What a day can bring, a day can take away. Thomas Fogarty

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back. Arthur Rubinstein

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. Henry David Thoreau

Life is made up of years that mean nothing and the moments that mean it all. Unknown

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself. Sir Winston Churchill

There are two statements about human beings that are true: that all human beings are the same and that all human beings are different. On those two facts all human wisdom is founded. Mark von Doren

I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and feel genuinely sorry for the poor browns. Sir Winston Churchill

Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few. Pythagoras

If God had meant for today to be perfect he wouldn't have invented tomorrow. Unknown

What Youth deemed Crystal, Age finds out was dew. Robert Browning

One realises the full importance of time only when there is little left of it. Every man's greatest capital asset is his years of unexpired productive life. P. W. Litchfield

Time and thinking tame the strongest grief. English Proverb

Let the past drift away with the water. Japanese Proverb

To be happy, you must learn to forget yourself. Edward Bulmer-Lytton

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. Ralph Waldo Emerson

There can be no happiness equal to finding a heart that understands. Victor Robinson

The good life, as I perceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy, I mean that if you are happy you will be good. Bertrand Russell

People treat us the way we teach them to treat us. Wayne Dyer

We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies. Roderick Thorpe

Life's truest happiness is found in friendships we make along the way. Unknown

Thoughts come through people, not from them. Anthony J. d'Angelo

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. Issac Bashevis Singer

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. Ralph Waldo Emerson

So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world. Isadora Duncan

A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it. Frank A. Clark

Man makes holy what he believes in, as he makes beautiful what he loves. Ernest Reman

Beauty that dies the soonest has the longest life. Bertha Damon

I love to lose myself in other men's minds. Charles Lamb

Wear the old coat and buy the new book. Austin Phelps

God within us is communicating with God above us, and we know that this communication is pure and powerful. Judson Cornwall

The need for devotion to something outside ourselves is even more profound than the need for companionship. Ross Paramenter

Have you noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations have almost always been truer than your harsh ones. Lawrence G. Lovasik

Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recipient, at least it benefits the bestower. S. H. Simmons

The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves. Lawrence G. Lovasik

As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind. Isabelle Holland

The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to forgive in another. Joseph Roux

Life is an adventure in forgiveness. Norman Cousins

Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most. Ruth Carter Stapleton

The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Phillip Brooks

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is near at hand. Kahlil Gibran

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment is a secret which but few discover. Joseph Addison

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward. Kahlil Gibran

Service has no meaning unless one takes pleasure in it. Mahatma Gandhi

It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope. Ursula LeGuin

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. Carl Jung

Do what you can to show that you care about other people, and you will make our world a better place. Rosalynn Carter

Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings. Margaret Atwood

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age shows up all by itself. Tom Wilson

All men are prepared to accomplish the impossible if their ideals are threatened. Hermann Hesse

Every dogma has its day, but ideas are eternal. Israel Zangwill

Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals. Ralph Bunche

Ideas, like people, flourish when they are welcomed and embraced. Barbara J. Windsor

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. Carl Jung

The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialised. Mary Caroline Richards

His laughter…sparkled like a splash of water in sunlight. Joseph Lelyveld

One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment. Merle Shain

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light. Helen Keller

Let there be many windows to your soul, that all the glory in the world might beautify it. Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Be faithful to your love and you will be recompensed beyond measure. Albert Schweitzer

Love carries easily through many difficulties and makes heavy burdens light. John Cotton Jnr

Love has the innate ability to look past the human and see the godly. Colette Burnham

There is only one path to heaven. On Earth, we call it Love. Emma Goldman

Happiness is the realisation of God in the heart. White Eagle

Happiness…it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. Franklin D. Roosevelt

Be aware of wonder. Robert Fulghum

Everything can speak passionately to your soul if you will be still enough to listen. Sarah Ban Brethnach

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life. Buddha

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others. Helen Keller

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live. Robert Heinlein

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. Antoine de Saint Exupiery

What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him. Louis L. Mann

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole world would change. Buddha

…life itself is the miracle of miracles. George Bernard Shaw

Nature always wears the colours of the soul. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset. St Francis de la Sales

Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind. Gerard Jampolsky

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill theirs. Elbert Hubbard

An answer is always a form of death. John Fowles

If "thank you" is the only prayer you say, that will be enough. Meister Eckhart

Let your thoughts meander towards a sea of ideas. Leo D. Minnigh

And what if you were told one more hour? Elias Canetti

Every person who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they exist, to make life full, significant and interesting. Aldous Huxley

When you arise in the morning, think what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. Marcus Aurelius

No one has yet realised the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock this treasure. Emma Goldman

There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one is to treat others with respect, kindness and generosity. Nathaniel Branden

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason. Henry Fielding

Affluence creates poverty. Marshall McLuhan

Expose yourself to the possibility of doing something remarkable. C. Cunningham

There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude - a quiet joy. Ralph H. Blurn

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. Melody Beattie

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks. St Ambrose

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. Mikhail Baryshnikov

To have great poets, there must be great audiences. Walt Whitman

Words make you think thoughts, music makes you feel a feeling, but a song makes you feel a thought. E. Y. Harburg

Read as you taste fruit or savour wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life. Holbrook Jackson

Tis the good reader that makes the good book. Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good. Samuel Johnson

When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next. Dolly Parton

A good writer is basically a story-teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind. Issac Singer

Storytelling is the most powerful way of putting ideas into the world today. Robert McKee

The timing of death, like the end of a story, gives a changed meaning to what precedes it. Mary Catherine Bakeson

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe. David Hare

The quality of what is said, inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer. Robertson Davis

The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Terry Southern

Except for a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book. Charles Kingsley

A man's gift will make a way for him. The Bible

The person born with a talent they were meant to use will find great happiness in using it. Johann von Goethe

To become what we are capable of becoming is our only end in life. Robert Louis Stevenson

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. Rumi

Everyone is made for some particular work, and the desire for that work is in every heart. Rumi

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God. G. K. Chesterton

Forgiving releases you from the punishment of a self-made prison where you are both the inmate and the jailer. Doc Childre and Howard Martin

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace. Buddha

We should be lenient in our judgement, because often the mistakes of others would have been ours had we had the opportunity to make them. Dr Alsaker

A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgement. Liz Carpenter

Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights. Henry David Thoreau

Once we discover how to appreciate the timeless values in our daily experiences, we can enjoy the best things in life. Harry Hepner

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that. Joseph Campbell

Nothing is as real as a healthy dose of magic which restores our spirits. Nancy Long

Men honour what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realise how dependent they are on what lies beyond it. Chuang-tse

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds. Robert Green Ingersoll

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Ralph Waldo Emerson

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of church-going. Aldous Huxley

You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body. C. S. Lewis

We may explore the universe and find ourselves, or we may explore ourselves and find the universe. It matters not which of these paths we choose. Diana Robinson

No matter what accomplishments you made, someone helped you. Althea Gibson

Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will help you do it. W. Clement Stone

Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts. Abel Stevens

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals. Horace Mann

Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us. Earl Nightingale

To the mind that's still, the whole universe surrenders. Lao Tzu

No one is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or discover something that is true. William Ralph Inge

The body is a sacred garment. Martha Graham

There is a sense of immortality in a new idea. Edward de Bono

Every idea is of itself endowed with immortal life, like a human being. Charles Baudelaire

There can be hope only for a society that acts as one big family, not as many separate ones. Anwar el Sadat

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it. Albert Schweitzer

Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you. H. Jackson Browne

The soul is healed by being with children. Fyodor Dostoevsky

Perfect love sometimes does not come until grandchildren are born. Welsh Proverb

If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world. Ludwig Wittgenstein

It is the mind which creates the world around us. George Gissing

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness. Norman Cousins

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice-cold and lonely as the North Pole. Vicki Baum

What you hold in your thoughts is what you bring into the world. High Star

Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking. Aldous Huxley

Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking in his writing. Issac Bashevis Singer

The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it - all the past as well as all the future. Joseph Conrad

When you have a taste for extraordinary people, you always end up meeting them everywhere. Mac Orlan

People always find it easier to be a result of the past than a cause of the future. Anonymous

What appears to be the end of the road may simply be a bend in the road. Robert Schuller

The sweetest of all sounds is praise. Xenophone

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks. St Jerome

Friends, they cherish one another's hopes, they are kind to one another's dreams. Henry David Thoreau

People living deeply have no fear of death. Anais Nin

Death, like birth, is a secret of nature. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Be an opener of doors. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The heart of another is a dark forest always, no matter how close it has been to your own. Willa Cather

To understand a man, you must know his memories. The same is true of a nation. Anthony Quayle

Every great advancement in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. Thomas Huxley

We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us. Virginia Satir

All my possessions for a moment of time. Elizabeth 1 (on her death-bed)

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows. Ralph Marston

One road to happiness is to cultivate curiosity about everything. Gerald Brennan

Humour comes from confidence. Rita Mae Brown

The secret to humour is surprise. Aristotle

Humour is the first id the gifts to perish in a foreign language. Virginia Woolf

It is not economical to go to bed early to save the candles if the result is twins. Chinese Proverb

The main dangers in life are the people who want to change everything or nothing. Nancy Astor

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to achieve your dreams. Les Brown

No mind, no matter how loving, could bear to see into all the recesses of another mind. Arnold Bennett

Think before burdening a friend with a secret. Marlene Dietrich

Make a home for yourself inside your own head. Tad Williams

It is the rare teacher who can consistently work his or her magic on any large number of students. Hayes Mizell

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child. Maria Montessori

The philosophy of the school-room in one generation becomes the philosophy of the government in the next. Abraham Lincoln

It is better to build children than to repair adults. Unknown

To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first. Janeane Garafolo

Great fear is concealed under daring. F. L. Lucan

Fear defeats more people than any one other thing in the world. Ralph Waldo Emerson

If we understood enough, we would never be afraid. Earl Nightingale

Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain. Ralph Waldo Emerson

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. Bertrand Russell

Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live all your life with. Foster C. McClellan

No legacy is as rich as honesty. William Shakespeare

In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place. Mohandas K. Gandhi

Morality is only moral when it's voluntary. Lincoln Steffens

Every child is born a genius. Richard Buckminster Fuller

It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. Anne Tyler

One of the greatest gifts that adults can give - to their offspring and to their society - is to read to children. Carl Sagan

Be willing to access joy in the face of adversity. C. W.Metcalf

The greatest power is often simple patience. E. Joseph Cossman

Do your best every day and your life will gradually expand into satisfying fullness. Horotio W. Dresser

I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way. Anais Nin

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard. Anne Sexton

To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. Pearl S. Buck

Every product of genius must be the product of enthusiasm. Benjamin Disraeli

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. Aldous Huxley

If your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place. Orison Swett Marden

Beautiful things make money. Geoffrey Beene

Every new idea looks crazy at first. Robert Olson

One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated. Lucile Clifton

A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing or music. Jim Davis

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes. Samuel Johnson

Sadness flies away on the wings of time. Jean de La Fontaine

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story in letters too large for some of us to see. C. S. Lewis

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as a distinguished success. Edward Dowden

Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon. George McDonald

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common decency to pray for the one sinner that needed it most? Mark Twain

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. Ernest Hemmingway

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way. A, C. Benson

Ideas are the root of creation. Ernest Dimnel

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. Kahlil Gibran

That is happiness, to be dissolved into something complete and great. Willa Cather

What makes people happy is activity, changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile at me. Samuel Pepys

The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. William Lyon Phelps

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline. Edwin Percy Whipple

Life well spent is long. Leonardo da Vinci

We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. Eric Hoffer

Joy comes from using our potential. Will Schultz

Conscience commands, love inspires. Arnold Toynbee

Don't think of God in terms of forms, because forms are limited and God is unlimited. C. S. Lewis

The voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses. e. e. cummings

We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive, and part of the living, incarnate cosmos. D. H. Lawrence

It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourselves. Ralph Waldo Emerson

We turn, not older with years, but newer with every day. Emily Dickenson

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it. Christian Nestelle

There is no mistake as great as the mistake of not going on. William Blake

Gratitude is our most direct route to God and the angels. Terry Lynn Taylor

Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure. Jane Austen

The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and likewise pain. Dante

Creativity can solve almost any problem. George Lois

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away. Arthur Helps

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. Rumi

Now let me sit here on the threshold between two worlds, lost in the eloquence of silence. Rumi

When your identification with the unreal has vanished, you will be what you have been, what you are and what you will be. Sri Poonjaji

Integrity needs no rules. Albert Camus

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good. Calvin Coolridge

When a friend speaks to me, whatever he says is interesting. Jean Renoir

Men hate those to whom they have to lie. Victor Hugo

It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. Thomas Jefferson

He who shall introduce the principles of Christ into public affairs will change the face of the world. Benjamin Franklin

All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. C. S. Lewis

You're creating your life with every choice you make. Stephen C. Paul

To get people to understand our point of view, we must first try to understand theirs. Sydney Keyes

Custom will reconcile us to any atrocity. George Bernard Shaw

Celebrate what you want to see more of. Tom Peters

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date. C. S. Lewis

I am to bless the world through what I am. William Makepeace Thackeray

There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his. Eric Hoffer

It cannot be that any creature should know him as he is and not desire him. George McDonald

A clever, imaginative, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds. Percy Ross

Life is already too short to waste on speed. Edward Abbey

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. Abraham Heschel

What we need is a desire to know the whole will of God, with a fixed resolution to do it. John Wesley

Engrave this upon my heart. There isn't anyone you couldn't love once you've heard their story. Mary Lou Kownacki

We must love one another, or die. W. H. Auden

No, the heart that truly loved never forgets, but truly loves on to the close. Thomas Moore

To love another person is to help them love God. Soren Kierkegard

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. Henry Youngman

Let the wife make her husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave. Martin Luther

Let's dare to see our poverty as the land in which our treasure is hidden. Henri Noowen

Every day do something in relation to everything that's important to you. Ken Blanchard

Nothing, surely, is more alive than a word. J. D. Adams

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe. Theodore Roosevelt

A revolution that does not continue to grow deeper is a revolution that is retreating. Ernessto Guevara

Spiritual energy flows in thankfulness and produces effects on the phenomenal world. William James

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. Antoine Sainte Exupery

We must see God in the disturbing disguise of the poor. Mother Teresa

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts…perhaps the fear of a loss of power. John Steinbeck

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover you have wings. Helen Hayes

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road. Stephen Hawkings

Love is trust and certitude in the unknown, for without this faith, emotions can die. Mary Pat Michalek

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied. Arnold Glasow

Pleasure is spread through the earth in stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find. William Wordsworth

The feet may learn the steps, but only the spirit can dance.

In our actions we should accord with the will of Heaven, in our words we should accord with the hearts of men. Chinese Proverb

An excess of courtesy is discourtesy. Japanese Proverb

Confessed faults are half mended. Scottish Proverb

An idle mind is the devil's workshop. George Carlin

To educate yourself for gratitude means to take nothing for granted but to seek out and value the kindness that lies behind the action. Albert Schweitzer

Action conquers fear. Anonymous

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become. Harold Taylor

We need people to bear witness against our inner judge. Eric Hoffer

The world has need of small perfections as well as great achievements. Anonymous

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. Anonymous

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years. Anonymous

Art is a lie that makes us realise truth. Pablo Picasso

The art of medicine is to amuse the patient while nature cures the disease. Voltaire

Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass. Anonymous

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind as we hold towards them. Elbert Hubbard

Your mental attitude gives your entire personality a drawing power that attracts the circumstances, things and people we think about most. Anonymous

For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude. Anonymous

Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person. Anonymous

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. Albert Einstine

Authority founded on injustice is never of long foundation. Seneca

Love gives beauty to everything it touches. Rabindranath Tagore

Everywhere in this earth the spirit of Paradise is awake and sending forth its voice. Rabindranath Tagore

The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread. D. H. Lawrence

If we so not permit the world to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either. Joseph Wood Krutch

The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.

All that matters is the beauty of the flame, not the length of its burning.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books. Thomas Carlyle

There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.

A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed. Aristotle

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. Henry Ward Beecher

Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children. Bill Cosby

Children learn to smile from their parents. Shiniki Suzuki

The future is not some place we are going to, but one `we are creating.

Christmas is the day that holds all time together. Alexander Smith

Christmas began in the heart of God. It is complete only when it reaches the hearts of man.

The best Christmas of all is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in one another.

Your future takes precedence over your past. Gary Ryan Blair

Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness. Henry David Thoreau

The education of the will is the object of life. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The highest education is that which not merely gives us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence. Rabindranath Tagore

Nine-tenths of education is encouragement. Anatole France

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn. John Lubbock

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers. Ralph Waldo Emerson

For glory only gives herself to those who have always dreamed of her. Charles de Gaulle

More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of. Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams can give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart. Patanjeli

Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes. Jawaharlal Nebru

The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

Devote every moment of your life to improving your dreams.

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it. Henry Louis Mencken

Conservation is humanity caring for the future.

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress. Anonymous

I know you're shining down on me from Heaven... Mariah Carey

The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one. Seneca

As widowers proverbially marry again, so the man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends. George Santayana

A friend is a feeling of forever in the heart.

It is lack of love for ourselves that inhibits our compassion towards others.

Gratitude preserves old friendships, and procures new.

It is the feeling of oneness when distant that proves a lasting friendship.

Concern for a friend's happiness will enhance your own.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. Herbert Hoover

Love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us. Rabindranath Tagore

The marvellous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. Helen Keller

The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it. Michel de Montaigne

Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. Helen Keller

There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.

Find expression for a sorrow and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.

But who can paint like nature? Can imagination boast, and its gay creations, hues like hers. James Thomson

Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks. Thomas Fuller

Reality is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes.

After awhile you learn that what you really are is all the experiences and thoughts you've ever had and all the people who have touched your life, no matter how briefly.

Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you. James Freeman Clarke

Love is life, and if you miss love, you miss life. Leo F. Buscaglia

In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. Richard Bach

Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect. Raloh Waldo Emerson

To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. Richard Bach

Most of us go almost all the way through our lives as complete strangers to ourselves. Sydney J. Harris

Life never becomes a habit to me. It is always a marvel. Katherine Mansfield

When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty. Kahlil Gibran

Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. Mahatma Gandhi

Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things. G. K. Chesterton

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control - these three alone lead life to sovereign power. Alfred Lord Tenyson

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life are still the mark of an educated man. Norman Cousins

Every vital organisation owes its birth and life to an exciting and daring idea. James Bryant Conant

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. Paulo Coelho

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. Robert Louis Stevenson

Life is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. D. H. Lawrence

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Henry David Thoreau

All my life through, the new sights of nature have made me rejoice like a child. Marie Curie

Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them.

You'll always be beautiful in my eyes.

The doors we open and close every day decide the life we live.

It's life, Jim…but not as we know it.

If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.

Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. Sarah Bernhardt

For me to live - part of me must die.

The air is full of souls; those who are nearest the earth descending to be tied to mortal bodies return to other bodies, desiring to live in them.

Organise your life around your dreams - and watch them come true.

Live life so completely that when death comes to you like a thief in the night there will be nothing left to steal.

There they stand, the innumerable stars, shining in order like a living hymn, written in light.

Love does not come to an end. The Bible

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him. Robert Louis Stevenson

The things that we love tell us what we are. St Thomas Aquinas

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

The less God-like we realise we are, the more God-like we are. Me

We are the products of all the moments of our lives. Me

You must love yourself before you can love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, your simple presence can make others happy.

In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.

Love is meant to bring us closer to God.

The man who does not work for true love of work but only for money will not make money nor find much fun in life.

There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

For an instant, love can transform the world.

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul. Honore de Balzac

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity. Honore de Balzac

It is the marriage of the soul to nature that makes the intellect fruitful and gives birth to imagination. Henry David Thoreau

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. Nelson Mandela

It is the nature of a great mind to be calm and undisturbed. Seneca

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of a brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances. Seneca

Death came very easily to her. She had lived such an innocent and loving life of service to others and held such a simple faith, that she had no fears at all and did not seem to mind much. Winston Churchill

Craftiness is a quality in the mind and a vice in the character.

If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries out that He does exist. Voltaire

It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection. Voltaire

Discipline must come through liberty. Maria Montessori

Nothing is more honourable than a grateful heart. Seneca

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capitol in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. Sigmund Freud

I watch out my window as the planes take off into space. Oh, that I could fly away and start fresh. But I must realise that fresh starts also come in the pretty wrapped gift called "tomorrow."

Visionary people are visionary partly because of the great many things they don't see.

The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions - which time and mediocrity can solve.

Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions.

The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that their first victory was over themselves…self-discipline with them all came first. Harry S. Truman

Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice. Henry David Thoreau

There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. J. Michael Straczinsky

Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read. Voltaire

No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection towards his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he believes to be of value. Bertrand Russell

Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom. The Bible

Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them. Samuel Smiles

Before you put on a frown, make absolutely certain that there are no smiles available.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can. Ernest Hemmingway

I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens, but those that bring simple little pleasures, following each other softly, like pearls off a string.

He who wonders discovers that this itself is wonder.

Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all id just having it.

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. Alduous Huxley

Think not those faithful who praise all your words and actions, but those who kindly reprove your faults. Socrates

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause. Victor Hugo

I go to seek a great perhaps. Rabelais

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honour. Henry Ward Beecher

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure. Jewis6h Saying

Let your best be for your friend. Kahlil Gibran

There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom. William Penn

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession. Sophocles

It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it. Pablo Casals

Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable. Charles Caleb Colton

Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness. Anonymous 18^th Century Monk

Compassion is the chief law of human existence. Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Live, let live and help live. Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are made kind by being kind. Eric Hoffer

Let us be kinder to one another. Aldouus Huxley

A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world. Mohammed

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot do by force. Publilius Syrus

In the highest civilisation, the book is still the highest delight. Ralph Wa

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. William Blake

God made the country and man made the town. William Cowper

We are pencils in God’s hand. Mother Teresa

The good thing about egotists is that they don’t talk about other people. Dorothy S Harper

If God made us in his image, we have more than repaid the compliment. Voltaire

You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel as if you’ve lost a friend. Paul Sweeney

Love is blind. Friendship closes its eyes. Anonymous

If you’re already walking on thin ice, you might as well dance. Gill Atkinson

Imagination is better than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. Thomas Edison

The supreme happiness is to know that we are loved. Victor Hugo

The best things in life cannot be seen, cannot be touched , but are felt in the human heart. Helen Keller

We should dream as if we’ll live forever. We should live as if we’ll die today. James Dean

We can know what God is not, but we cannot know what he is. St Augustine

Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind. Albert Einstein

If there are no cigars in heaven, I shall not go. Mark Twain

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth. Muhamad Ali

Even a god cannot change the past. Agathon

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do on a rainy Sunday afternoon. Susan Ertz

What is now proven was once only imagined. William Blake

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. Napoleon Bonaparte

Every man I meet is in some way my superior. Ralph Waldo Emerson

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Rossevelt

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. Aristotle

Everything you can imagine is real. Picasso

So in cheerfulness, and in a good temper, the more you spend it, the more it remains. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest lesson in life is that even fools are right sometimes. Winston Churchill

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. Mark Twain

The only normal people are the ones we don’t know very well. Joe Ancis

Love looks through a telescope, envy through a microscope. Josh Billings

Life is not meant to be easy, my child, but take courage – it can be delightful. George Bernard Shaw

If we cannot live to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve it. Immanuel Hermass von Fichte

What breaks in a moment may take years to mend. Swedish proverb

Afternoon knows what morning never suspected. Cousin Woodman

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Martin Luther King

A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one. Lord John Russell

Time goes so fast, people come in and go out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you. Cheers

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. Winston Churchill

God gives us memory so that we may have roses in December. J. M. Barrie

Each of us has a spark of life inside us. Our highest endeavour ought to be to set off that spark in one another. Kenny Ausubel

Feelings are real and legitimate, children behave and misbehave for a reason, even if adults cannot figure it out. Anonymous

Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many to-morrows. Michael Landon

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt

Real Education should educate us out of ourselves into something far finer, into a selflessness that links us with all humanity. Nancy Astor

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into. Henry Ward Beecher

An idea isn’t responsible for those who believe in it. Don Marquiis

It’s not what they say about you, it’s what they whisper. Errol Flynn

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory. Antonio Porchia

Time is nature’s way of making sure that everything doesn’t happen at once. Anonymous

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to many smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams. Mary Ellen Kelly

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart. Anne Frank

Subtlety is the art of saying what you mean and getting out of the way before it is understood. Anonymous

He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower. Mary Howitt

A truth told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent. William Blake

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience. Doug Larson

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. John F Kennedy

A person is just about as big as the things that make him angry. Anonymous

Some day my boat will come in, and with my luck I’ll be at the airport. Anonymous

The idea is to die young as late as possible. Ashley Montagu

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease. Jean Paul Richter

Without the threat of death, there’s no reason to live at all. Brian Warner

I am not afraid of tomorrow for I have seen yesterday and I love today. William Allen White

Perfection is the child of Time. Bishop Joseph Hall

There are people in the world so hungry that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. Mahatma Gandhi

God hears no more than the heart speaks, and if the heart is dumb, God will certainly be deaf. Thomas Brook

^A single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer. G. E. Lessing

Charity sees the need, not the cause. German proverb

Change your thoughts and you change your world. Vincent Norman Peale

The very act of believing creates strength of its own. Anonymous

If you gave me something I need more than you do, you’ve given me a gift, if you’ve given me something you need more than I do, you’ve gifted me with love.

I don’t think of all the misery, I think of all the beauty that still remains. Anne Frank.

If life were a novel, death would mark the end of the first chapter. Kelly Nelson

You can’t have a light without a dark to stick it in. Arlo Guthrie

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it. Issac Bashevis Singer

Love is always in the mood of believing in miracles. J. C. Powys

Tomorrow or next life- which comes first, we will never know. Old Tibetan Buddhist saying

A heart in love with beauty never grows old. Turkish Proverb

The heart that loves is always young. Greek Proverb

There wouldn’t be any such thing as counterfeit gold if there were no real gold somewhere. Sufi Proverb

Be not angry that you cannot make others what you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself what you wish to be. Thomas A Kempis

No man is free who is not master of himself. Epicetus

A good sermon leaves you wondering how the preacher knew all about you. Anonymous

The best way to make children good is to make them happy. Oscar Wilde

There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word that raises us above ourselves. Arthur Stanley

All human activity is prompted by desire. Bertrand Russel

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man. Thomas Paine

May every hair on your head turn into a candle to light your way to heaven. Old Irish saying

At the heart of racism is the religious assertion that God made a creative mistake when he brought some people into being. Fredrich Otto Hertz

Men are not punished for their sins, but by them. Elbert Hubbard

There’s no present. There’s only the immediate future and the recent past. George Carlin

Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education. Chuang-Tzu

Neutrality is to side with the strongest. Askel Sandmose

If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little. George Earle Buckle

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. Frances H Bradley

How rare and wonderful is the flash of a moment when we realise we have discovered a friend. William E Rothschild

Don’t wait for people to be friendly, show them how. Anonymous

I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. Roy Croft

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it ever can end. Benjamin Disraeli

A minute’s success pays the failure of years. Robert Browning

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. Confucius

One joy wipes away a hundred cares. Confucius

The past is a ghost, the future a dream. All we ever have is now. Bill Cosby

Even a small star shines in the dark. Finnish Proverb

He who is happy will make others happy. He who has faith and courage will never perish in misery. Anne Frank

There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of one small candle. Robert Alden

The way some people drive you’d think they were late for their accidents.

We do not love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we have done them. Leo Tolstoy

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own. H Jackson Brown Jnr

It’s too bad I’m not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that. Alan Alda

Every person’s life is a fairytale written by God’s fingers. Hans Christian Anderson

God has put something good and noble into every heart His hand created. John Keats

Friendship is like a rainbow between two hearts. Unknown

How lucky I am to have known someone it was so hard to say goodbye to. Unknown

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen. Duc de la Rochefoucald

If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you’ve made me smile, I would be holding the entire evening sky in the palm of my hand.

Don’t miss all the beautiful colours of the rainbow looking for that pot of gold. Unknown

Let us always greet each other with a smile for the smile is the beginning of love. Mother Teresa

You know you love someone when you want them to be happy even when their happiness means you’re not a part of it. Unknown

The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow, but the rainbow won’t wait while you do the work. Patricia Clafford

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. Volitaire

Love is the beauty of the soul. St Augustine

We see those we love in every sunrise and in every sunset, in every flower and in every tree. Unknown

It’s the little things that make up the richest part of the tapestry of our lives. Unknown

We create what we defend against. Buddha

It is human nature to hate him whom you have injured. Tacitus

Every true friend is a glimpse of God. Lucy Larcom

There is always something for which to be thankful. Charles Dickens

What you don’t see with your eyes, don’t invent with your tongue. Jewish Proverb

I wish I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours. Bernard Berenson

Life is eternal, and love is immortal, and death is only a horizon, and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight. Raymond Worthington Rossiter

Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at the people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future. Gail Lumet Buckley

Convictions are greater enemies of truth than lies. Friedrich Nietzsche

Reputation through a thousand years may depend on the conduct of a single moment.

He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.

You can suffocate a thought by expressing it with too many words.

Another person’s secret is like another person’s money; you are not as careful with it as you are with your own.

Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. Helen Hayes

Let no man imagine that he has no influence.

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than closed by belief.

Friendship is the key we need to help us through all other relationships.

Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and he will become what he should be.

Each day is a little life. Schopenhauer

Non-violence is the supreme law of life. Indian Proverb

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking. Goethe

*The worst prison would be a closed heart. Pope John Paul II.

A penny will hide the biggest star in the Universe if you hold it close enough to your eye. Samuel Grafton

Even from a dark night songs of beauty can be born. Maryanne Radmacher Hershley

In every child who is born, in any circumstances, the potentiality of the human race is born again. James Agee

Dreams are real while they are happening. Can we say any more about life? Havelock Ellis

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship goes beyond time. April Joy Gazmen

For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must first be interrupted. Jean Paul Richter

Paradise is open to all kinds of hearts. Paul Jean Beranger

The greatest gift we can ever give one another is rapt attention to one another’s existence. Sue Achtley Ebaugh

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. Hanlon

The world, when seen through a child’s eyes, greatly resembles paradise. Unknown

After you’ve heard two eyewitness accounts of an accident, it makes you wonder about history. Bits and Pieces

What joy or sadness often springs from just the simple little things. Willa Hoey

A smile happens in a flash, but the memory of it can last a lifetime. Unknown

The reputation of a thousand years can be decided by a single hour. Japanese Proverb

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has done you a small favour wish that he might have done you a larger one. Russell Lynes

It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error, it’s the citizen’s function to keep the government from falling into error. Robert H Jordon

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. William Pitt

Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again. Frances Rochman

A liar is not believed even though he tells the truth. Cicero

The lives of great men all remind us that we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind footsteps on the sands of time. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong. David Fasold

Patriotism is your conviction that your country is superior to all others simply because you were born in it. George Bernard Shaw

The liar’s punishment is not that he cannot be believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. George Bernard Shaw

When we realise that the best we have to bring to any situation is being just who we are, we relax. Anne Wilson Schaef

I don’t deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don’t deserve that either. Jack Benny

How wonderful it is that we do not know what tomorrow will bring. Aung San Suu Kyi

We don’t have to make the world a paradise- it is one. We have only to make ourselves fit to inhabit it. Henry Miller

All that we really need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about. Charles Kingsley

Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not. In either case, it is amazing. L. Dubridge

The common man, who does not know what to do with this life, wants another which shall be endless. Anatole France

We don’t know a millionth of one per cent about anything. Thomas Alva Edison

If there is a God, atheism must seem as less of an insult to Him than religion. Goncourt

To receive a present handsomely and in a right spirit, even when you have none to give in return, is to give one in return. Leigh Hunt

I believe that every single person has something to teach every other person. Emily Gray

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. Gilbert Highet

Nobody realises that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. Albert Camus

If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have neglected much, and most of all yourself.

Fear is the lock, and laughter the key to your heart. Crosby, Stills and Nash

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own. Benjamin Disraeli

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. Henry Drummond

At the foundation of every life is one central desire to make a difference that you lived. Ron Smothermon

There is nothing more despicable than respect based on fear. Albert Camus

That which we love, we come to resemble. St Bernard

A dream never dies, just the dreamer.

One of the pleasures of old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.

Freedom consists of being able to do anything you want that doesn’t hurt anyone else.

It is wisdom to imitate the virtues of other men, but to try to fit ourselves into their souls, however, is folly.

Freedom is more precious than any gift for which we may be tempted to give it up.

Pride divides, but humility unites humanity.

In every man’s heart, there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

To understand all is to forgive all. French Proverb

The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles my own.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody. Samuel Johnson

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have. Edward Watsonn Howe

The example of great and pure individuals is the only thing that can lead us to noble thoughts and deeds. Albert Einstein

The only salvation is a sense of humour. Albert Einstein

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of truth and knowledge will be shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods. Albert Einstein

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. Henry David Thoreau

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth. Aesop

Hope is watching the sun set and believing it will rise again. Celina Gomes

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence. George Eliot

The strongest principle of human growth lies in human choice. George Eliot

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift not hard duty. Albert Einstein

I feel myself so much a part of everything living that I am not concerned with the beginning or ending of any one person in this eternal flow. Albert Einstein

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. Albert Einstein

Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself… If you don’t have friends you see much less than you otherwise might. Merle Shain

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the hearts of all hearts of all the world. John Evelyn

If, instead of a gem or even a flower, we would cast a lovely thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as angels give. George MacDonald

Change everything except your loves. Voltaire

I see God in every human being. Mother Teresa

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. Kahlil Gibran.

He who does not know his opponent’s viewpoint does not completely understand his own. Anonymous

No one’s death comes to pass without making some impression and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness. Hermann Broch

People are like stained glass windows! They glow and sparkle when it is sunny and bright; but when the sun goes down, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within. Geinel

Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty- they simply move it from their faces to their hearts. Martin Buxbaum

We must not only give what we have; we must also give what we are. Cardinal Mercia

Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. Rabindranath Tagore

Every man is someone because he is a child of God. Martin Luther King

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. Soren Kierkegaard

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. Robert Fripp

Music is well said to be the speech of angels. Thomas Car;lyle

It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn to love. Richard Strauss

Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul. Shneur Zalman

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can be sometimes…just an illusion.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, shining in our hand like a star - and melting away like a snowflake. Marie Beyon Ray

We do not remember days, we remember moments. Cesare Pavese

True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it. Alexander Dumas

Real love stories never have endings. Richard Bach

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. Christopher Marlowe

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age. L. M. Child

The golden age is before us, not behind us. St Simon

Christmas is not a date. It is a state of mind. Mary Ellen Chase

One loses many laughs by not laughing at oneself. Sara Jeannette Duncan

One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats. Iris Murdoch

All our souls are written in our eyes. Edmund Rostand

Regardless of whether there is a heaven or hell it is preferable to do good deeds.

A diary on a lonely desk is stronger than a bestseller

Love the moment and the energy of that moment will spread beyond boundaries. Corita Kent

Failure is the condiment which gives success its flavour.

There are lots of people who mistake the imagination for the memory

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

Life is filled with as many possibilities as there are stars in the sky.

Beauty is God’s handwriting. Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can tell more about a man from what he says about others than from what others say about him. Leo Aikman

Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of their children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost in the raking of leaves. Marcelene Cox

Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. Anonymous

Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much. Erich Fromm

Every man passes his life in the search after friendship. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friends are the sunshine of life. John Ervine

Friendship is to have the latchkey of another’s mind. Edward Godospeed

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. Bertrand Russel

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don’t even remember leaving open. Rose Lane

Hope is the golden thread that should be woven into every experience of life. Unknown

If there is a hypocrite "between" you and God, the hypocrite is closer to God.

Next to "God", love is the most mangled word in every language. Richard Bach

You were placed on this earth to create, not to compete. Dr Robert Anthony

*The essential conditions of everything you do must be love, choice, passion. Nadia Boulanger

More than kisses, letters mingle souls. John Donne

It matters not who you love, but that you love.

Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love. Nelson Rockerfeller

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. Karen Sunde

To love is to place one’s happiness in the happiness of another. Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.

There is a light in every eye and a God in every heart.

A man can write with a pen as long as it flows from his soul.

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner was you. Anonymous

Be calm, the Lord knows your heart and guides your soul. Alfredo Mesa

Live in the present and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering. Ida Scott Taylor

Pray as if everything depends on God. Then work as if everything depends on you. Unknown

If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christ-like potential of others. Unknown

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is God not made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes? Thomas Carlyle

A happy family is but an earlier heaven. Sir John Bowing

When a happy moment, complete and rounded as a pearl, falls into the tossing ocean of life, it is never wholly lost. Agnes Repplier

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal. William Lippmann

Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at. Unknown

Great ideas always come from the heart. Marquis de Vauvenargues

Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together. Johann Von Goethe

The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart. Unknown

Make no judgements where you have no compassion. Anne McCaffery

One can pay back a lone of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. Malaysian Proverb

The best portion of a good man’s life are his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. William Wordsworth

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love. Unknown

A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important. T. S. Elliot

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. Eden Phillpotts

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess. Samuel Johnson

To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved. David O. McKay

The great and glorious gift of humanity is to learn to live with a purpose. Montaigne

Ignore dull days, forget showers, keep count of only shining hours.

If you want to be interesting, become interested.

God left the world unfinished, the pictures unpainted, the songs unsung, the problems unsolved, so that man might know the joys of creation. Thomas S. Monson

The evening of a well-spent life brings its lamps with it. Joseph Joubert

Some temptations are so great it takes courage to yield to them. Oscar Wilde

In every child there is the makings of a saint. Daniel O ’Donnell

It is love alone that gives worth to all things. St Teresa de Jesus

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness. Oliver Wendell Holmes

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others. Madame Swetchine

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence. David Byrne

Where there is love there is no sin. Montenegrin

Memories are all we really own. Elias Liberman

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. Abraham Lincoln

The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom. Henry Ward Beecher

A rich child often sits in a poor mother’s lap. Danish Proverb

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. Plato

I have always regarded nature as the clothing of God. Alan Havamess

Time stays long enough for those who use it. Leonardo da Vinci

When all else is lost, the future still remains. Christian N. Bovwe

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages. Horrace Greeley

I recommend you to take care of the minutes for the hours will take care of themselves. Lord Chesterfield

I believe that love is stronger than death. Robert Fulghum

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life, for there is in London all that life can afford. Samuel Johnson

Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath is a gift from God. Mary Manin Morrissey

Once in a while, in the middle of an ordinary life, God gives us a fairy tale. Unknown

Lord, grant that I shall always want more than I accomplish. Michelangelo

The purpose of a liberal education is to make one’s mind a pleasant place to spend one’s leisure. Unknown

You never know what happiness a single act of kindness will bring about. Bree Abel

More precious was the light in your eyes than all the roses in the world. Edna St Vncent Millay

The good befriend themselves. Sophocles

Open your heart to love and hear the song of an angel. Unknown

Start every day with an inspiring thought. Anonymous

The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man. Roy L. Smith

Cherish your visions and dreams for they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. Napoleon Hill

Beware how you take away hope from another human being. Oliver Wendall Holmes

Hope… is the companion of success, and the mother of power; for he who hopes strongly, has within him the gift of miracles. Samuel Smiles

Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream. Kahil Gibran

One today is worth two tomorrows. Benjamin Franklin

We are loved beyond our ability to comprehend. Jewel

Heaven is the presence of God. Christina Rossetti

If you don’t want anyone to know about it, don’t do it. Unknown

A comprehended god is no god. St John Chrysostodom

An infinite God can give all of Himself to all of His children. A. W. Tozer

Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime. Martin Luther

People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and they worship him afterwards. Oscar Wilde

The future is as bright as the promises of God. William Carey

The greatest of all visions is to see Christ, indeed, to see God, in the frail and glorious human family of the world. MacRino Wiedekehr

Love is creation raised to a higher degree. Toyohiko Kagawa

Love is just friendship set to music. E. Joseph Crossman

Love is the only gold. Alfred Lord Tennysom

Love – the feeling – is the fruit of love, the verb. Stephen Covey

Of all earthly music, that which reaches farthest into heaven is the beating of a truly loving human heart. Henry Ward Beecher

No one has ever done anything too bad to be forgiven. Ruth Shepparrd

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. Samuel Johnson

May love and laughter light your days and warm your heart and home. Irish Blessing

A scholar’s ink lasts longer than a martyr’s blood. Irish Proverb

Reputation is more enduring than life. Irish Proverb

Associate with the poor, but do not be cold to the poor and lonely. Irish Proverb

A man’s only escape from his old self: to see a new self in the mirror of some woman’s eyes. Clare Boothe Luce.

Love is the river of life in the world. Henry Ward Beecher

Beauty is not in the face, beauty is a light in the heart. Kahil Gibran

Nothing produces such a magical effect as to be loved. Charles Morgan

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. Jean Anouhi

My night has become a sunny dawn because of you. Ibn Abbad

Our bright blazes of happiness are often kindled by unexpected sparks. Samuel Johnson

As long as we have memories, yesterday remains, as long as we have hope, tomorrow awaits. As long as we have friendship, each day is never a waste.

Everything and everyone has a reason for being.

The man who lives in the past robs the present.

It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give, when unasked, through understanding.

We must conquer war or war will conquer us. Ely Culbertson

The life you have led does not need to be the only life you have. Carol Clurman

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. Ivy Baker Priest

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Ralph Waldo Emerson

So long as one person remembers you, you’ll never really be dead. Lurlenne McDaniel

No happy time is really gone if it leaves a special memory. Unknown

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our hearts. Carl Jung

Wisdom begins with wonder. Socrates

Take time to look around at all the happiness the world has to offer.

I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven or angels. Pearl S. Buck

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it. Richard Bach

Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward. Achaan Cha

Only by having faith in ourselves can we be faithful to others. Erich Fromm

The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but by what takes place in our hearts. Sir Arthur Kent

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love. Somerset Maughan

The giving of love is an education in itself. Eleanor Rooevelt.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. John Ruskin

Nobody likes the man who brings bad news. Sophocles

Grief teaches the steadiest mind to waver. Sophocles

In the sweetness of friendship, let their be laughter and sharing of pleasures. Kahil Gibran

There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends. Hilaire Belloc

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. George Elliot

Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness. Seneca

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious. B. C. Forbes

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Mother Teresa

Love, you are eternal like springtime. Juan Ramon Jiminez

Words that enlighten are more precious than jewels. Hazrat Inayat Khan

How beautiful can time with goodness make an old man look. Jerrold

No wise man ever wished to be younger. Jonathan Swift

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. Carl Jung

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness. Jean Jacques Rousseau

Kindness it is that brings forth kindness always. Sophocles

The incomparable beauty of life is not discovered with the eyes, or the mind, but the soul. George Webster Douglas

All the flowers of tomorrow are in the seeds of today. Unknown

Memory is the land of enchantment that belongs to us forever.

There are better things ahead than any we leave behind. C. S. Lewis

Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Bernard Berenson

Know that you yourself are a miracle. Norman Vincent Peale

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have. Norman Vincent Peale

Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance. John Petif-Senn

Any time that is not spent on love is wasted. Torquato Tasso

How wonderful it is that nobody need waste a single moment to improve the world. Anne Frank

Don’t be prisoner of your past, but the architect of your future. Unknown

We are all pencils in the hand of a writing God, who is sending love-letters to the world. Mother Teresa

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little. Thomas Merton

We are all aspects of one great being. Yoko Ono

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit. Helen Keller

Twilight has always seemed like God’s indrawn breath, a pause in the progression of time. Emilie Richards

Song and sorrow are playmates. Irving Berlin

The man who has no imagination has no wings. Muhammad Ali

Courage is not the powerful oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow. Alice MacKenze Swaim

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. George Eliot

Everyone believes very easily whatever he fears or desires. Jean de la Fontaine

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

One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic. Josef Stalin

Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time. Margot Fonteyn

The joy that is not shared dies young. Anne Sexton

A different language is a different vision of life. Federico Fellni

Memory is a complicated thing- a relative to, truth, but not its twin. Barbara Kingsolver

Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again. Willa Cather

We do not know the value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory. Georges Duhamel

Think big thoughts but relish small treasures. H. Jackson Brown Jnr

A thief believes everybody steals. Edward Watson Howe

You can make your world so much larger simply by acknowledging everyone else’s. Jeanne Marie Laskas

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands. Richard Bacb

Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts. Robert Fulghum

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities. Janos Arany

Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it. Confucius

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. Albert Einstein

There is no man living who cannot do more than he thinks he can. Henry Ford

Television has changed the American child from an irresistible force to an immovable object. Laurence J. Peter

That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest. Henry David Thoreau

If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christenings of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world would be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life. Rachel Carson

We feel delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is a rain of diamonds on the mind. May Swenson

A rock-pile ceases to be a rock-pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. Antoine Sainte-Exupery

Follow your bliss. Joseph Campbell

Give sorrow words. William Shakespeare

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes. St Clement of Alexandria

Life is a great bundle of little things. Oliver Wendell Holmes

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. Marie Currie

Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

Some things have to be believed to be seen. Ralph Hodgson

There are many wonderful things that will never be done if you do not do them. Rev Charles D. Gill

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life. Federico Fellini

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others upon oneself. Alexander Pope

Make yourself familiar with the angels, and behold them frequently in spirit for, without being seen, they are present with us. St Francis de Sales

No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies. Daisy Bates

Only the suppressed word is dangerous. Ludwig Borne

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. Arthur Schopenhauer

To break the rules is to break the spell. C. Lasch

Everything you say and do is a reflection of the inner you. Unknown

Of all the blessings that time and earth bestow, there is none so precious as one true friend. Unknown

The poorest of all men is not the man without a cent but the man without a dream. Thomas A. Kemp

The written word is all that stands between memory and oblivion. Unknown

Books are lighthouses on the dark seas of time. Unknown

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words unsaid and deeds undone. Harriet Beecher Stowe

To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. St Augustine

I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. Charles Fletcher Lummis

In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God. John Bunyan

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. Helen Keller

We must face today as children of tomorrow. A W. Toxer

From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night in an inconvenient hotel. St Teresa

Never waste a minute of your precious life by squandering it thinking about people you don’t like. Anonymous

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom. George Curtis

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth. Joseph Joubert

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character. Ralph Waldo Emerson

He is a jewel, more worth than a thousand worlds. Thomas Brook

More light than we can learn. More wealth than we can treasure. More love than we can earn. More peace than we can measure. Unknown

It is good to be a child sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself. Charles Dickens

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation. Henry Ward Beecher

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the judgement that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon

Sacred cows make the best hamburgers. Mark Twain

No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself. Fulke Greville

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. Winston Churchill

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness of other people. Carl Jung

Earth hath no sorrow that heaven cannot heal. Thomas Moore

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can turn into a fact. Honore de Belzac

One does evil enough when one does nothing good. German Proverb

We do not easily suspect evil of those whom we love the most. Peter Abelard

There are many truths the full meaning of which cannot be recognised until personal experience has brought it home. John Stuart Mill

Man is what he believes. Anton Chekov

Trust the past to God’s mercy, the present to God’s love, and the future to God’s providence. St Augustine

Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life. Thomas Jefferson

Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world. Unknown

Kindness is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others.

The smallest act of love is worth more than the grandest intentions. Unknown

Friendship is…the sort of love one can imagine between angels. C. S. Lewis

Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold. Zelda Fitzgerald

Laughter is an instant vacation. Milton Berle

The world’s greatest treasures are heaven made. Precious Moments

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift, there is nothing small about it. Florence Nightingale

Life is a network of invisible threads.

What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose. Henry Ward Beecher

There is something in every season, in every day, to celebrate with thanksgiving.

Seeing our Father in everything makes life one long thanksgiving and gives rest of the heart. Hannah Whitball Smith

I thank You, God in heaven, for friends. Margaret Sangster

We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be. Gladys Tiber

The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed. Bennett Cerf

It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air. W. T. Ellis

I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all year. Charles Dickens

Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart. Washington Irving

May your Christmas be as peaceful and bright as new-fallen snow.

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. Washington Irving

When the soul is full of peace and joy, outward surroundings and circumstances are of comparatively little account. Hannah Whitball Smith

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Angels from friendship gather half their joys. Young

Joy softens more hearts than tears do. Madame de Sartory

A little faith will bring your soul to heaven, but a lot of faith will bring heaven to your soul. Dwight L. Moody

Only angels can teach us to soar. Anne Marie Pierce

Understanding is joyous. Carl Sagan

It is part of the cure to wish to be cured. Seneca

The world is extremely interesting to a joyful soul. Alexandra Stoddard

A fool will ask more questions than the wisest can answer. Jonathan Swift

The artist is a man writing for strangers, persons whom he will never know, but nevertheless persons in whom he has faith as being, after all, like himself. Mark Van Doren

We cam keep the past only by having the future, for they are forever tied together. Robert Penn Warren

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. Robert T. Washington

It requires a very unusual mind to make an analysis of the obvious. Alfred North Whitehead

I know of nothing else but miracles. Walt Whitman

Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child. Ron Wild

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

I like opening a letter and thinking myself loved. Virginia Wolfe

The noble soul has reverence for itself. Friedrich Nietzche

We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people’s lives. Robert Pirsig

Every man builds his world in his own image. Aym Rand

Being bored is an insult to oneself. Jules Renard

There are things so deeply personal that they can be revealed only to strangers. Richard Rodriguez

The aim of argument should not be victory, but progress. Joseph Joubert

I am part of everything that I have read. John Kieran

Always the creative dedicated minority has made the world better. Martin Luther King

There was never anyone yet who could wholly escape love, and never shall there be any… Longus

Happiness is a thing to be practised, like the violin. John Lubbock

There are no ordinary moments. John Millman

Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity. Montaigne

In all things of nature, there is something of the marvellous. Aristotle

In every man’s writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded. Thomas Carlyle

When you believe a thing, believe it all the way… Walt Disney

Life should be lived so vividly and so intensely that thoughts of another life, or a longer life, are unnecessary. Marjory Stoneman Douglas

No great man is ever born too soon or too late. Norman Douglas

You are the music while the music lasts. T. S. Elliot

The only true gift is a portion of yourself. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Though we travel the world to find the beautiful, we must carry it within us or we will find it not. Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. Epicetus

Nothing is too wonderful to be true. Michael Faraday

A man who seeks the truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any society. Fredrick the Great

Nothing is worth more than this day. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a lifetime’s experience. Oliver Wendell Holmes

Every man’s memory is his private literature. Aldous Huxley

God is not in need of anything, but all things are in need of him. Marcus Aristides

What interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world. Albert Einstein

Children all are foreigners. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every hero becomes a bore at last. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The living moment is everything. D. H. Lawrence

Believe the best of everyone. Rudyard Kipling

Joy is the serious business of heaven. C. S.. Lewis

Love is the greatest refreshment in the world. Pablo Picasso

The worst evil is to leave the world of the living before one dies. Seneca

To love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. Sydney Smith

Carve your name on hearts and not marble. Charles H. Spurgen

Each day comes just once in a lifetime. Unknown

No man is rich enough to buy back his past. Oscar Wilde

Be great in little things. St Francis Xavier

You are no longer happy as soon as you wish to be happier. Landor

The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. H. G. Wells

Angels come to visit us and we only know them when they are gone.

Death gives life its fullest meaning.

Dying is a small price to pay for living.

You don’t have to blow out everybody else’s candles to make your own shine brighter.

Oh man! There is no sun, planet or star that could hold you if you only knew what you are. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Perception is reality.

Life is just a dream on the way to death.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. William James

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. Carl Jung

Expect no greater happiness in Eternity than to rejoice in God. Benjamin Whichcote

A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor – it is a fixed characteristic of human nature. George Orwell

The world knows nothing of its greatest men. Henry Taylor

What is given by the gods more desirable than a happy hour. Catullus

No joy can equal the joy of serving others. Sai Baba

Yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow only a vision, but today well-lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Kalidasa

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls bloom. Marcel Proust

The best of healers is good cheer. Pindar

So live that your memories will be part of your happiness. Unknown

Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without question is a wonderful social grace. Judith Martin

It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard s thousand times than to believe a fact that no one has heard before. Unknown

Life’s greatest tragedy is to lose God and not to miss him. F. W. Norwood

Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds. William Shakespeare

To understand is to forgive, even oneself. Alexander Chase

The richness in life lies in memories we have forgotten. Cesare Parvese

Forgive all who offended you, not for them but for yourself. Harriet Uts Nelson

Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart. Alphonse de Lamartine

Some pursue happiness. Others create it.

A man is not old until his regrets outnumber his dreams. John Barrymore

Never eat more than you can lift. Miss Piggy

It is one of the most common of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive. C. W. Leadbeater

It is better to create than to be learned; creating is the true essence of life. Reinhold Niebuhr

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye. Elizabeth Bowen

To receive everything, one must open one’s hand and give. Taisen Deshimaru

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence. Issac Newton

One truly understands only what one can create. Giambattista Vico

God saw a tear and kissed it away with the smile of a friend. A. Blanc

It was really worth the pain just to have known him. Bruce Burch

Who will protect the public when the police violate the law. Ramsey Clark

It may be that our role in this life is not to worship God, but to create Him. Arthur C. Clarke

The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less. Eldridge Cleaver

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past. Robertson Davies

The pains of love are far sweeter than any other pleasures are. John Dryden

What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command. Havelock Ellis

We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire. Francois

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one, a criminal. Erich Fromm

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age. Robert Frost

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowed in prayer. Mahatma Gandhi

What most people forget is that we have unbelievable control over our destiny. Bill Gore

The education of a man is never completed until he dies. Robert K. Lee

A happiness that is sought for ourselves alone can never be found, for a happiness that is diminished by being shared is not big enough to make us happy. Thomas Merton

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent. Napoleon Bonaparte

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves to be like other people. Albert Schopenhauer

Friends are like stars in the sky. New ones may form and old ones may fade away. But no matter what, they shine a light into our lives never to be forgotten.

Remember the people you meet in life, and don’t ever be ashamed to miss them.

The hardest thing in life is to watch the one you love love someone else.

Some people are just not meant to be in your life no matter how much you want them to be.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

Love is the outreach of self towaard completion. Ralph W. Sockman

A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves. Ralph .W. Sockman

The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down and half-finished loves. Ralph W. Sockmsn

The more we know the better we forgive. He who feels deeply feels for all the world. Madame de Stael

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. Galileo Galilei

Wise men make proverbs, and fools repeat them. Samuel Palmer

To sit alone with my conscience will be judgement enough for me. Charles William Stubbs

The average person thinks he isn’t. Fr Larry Lorenzoni

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. Benjamin Franklin

Consider the past and you shall know the future. Chinese Proverb

Fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

*Happiness is the meaning and purpose of Life, the whole aim and end of Human existence.

I need a prison in order to dream of being free. John Popper

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind.

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

If you love someone, tell them right there and then before the moment passes you by.

If you wish to be loved, love. Seneca

The way to love anything is to realise it might be lost.

The best thing you could ever do, is love yourself and others.

A kind word will give more pleasure than a present.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

Buildings burn, people die, but real love lasts forever.

*No three words have greater power than I love you.

To set a price on love is to devalue the priceless.

*It is the heart that makes a man rich. Henry Ward Beecher

If you love someone enough, you can still hear the laughter when they’re gone

Love heals all wounds, not time.

Love is a choice you make from moment to moment. Barbara de Angelis

Him that I love, I wish to be free – even from me. Anne Morrow Lindburgh

Friends are special, treasure them.

The human heart is large enough to contain any amount of happiness. Robertson

A friend will know you better in the first minute they see you, than your acquaintance will in a thousand years. Unknown

An honest god is the noblest work of man. Robert G. Ingersoll

Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one. Elbert Hubbard

Carve your name on hearts, not marble. Charles H Spurgeon

The day we lose our need for dreams is the day the human race forfeits its soul. John Chian

Immortality lies not in the things you leave behind, but in the people your life has touched. Unknown

Three passions, simple but unbearably strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. Bertrand Russell

Favourite people, favourite places, favourite memories of the past… These are the joys of a lifetime…these are the things that last. Unknown

Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain. Unknown

Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody’s heart. Anthony J. d’Angelo

Who, being loved, is poor? Oscar Wilde

To find the truth we need imagination and skepticism both. Carl Sagan

The reward for love is the experience of loving. John LeCarre

If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships. Bertrand Russell

There isn’t a particle of you that I don’t know, remember and want.

To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the enlightened mind the whole world sparkles and burns. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Without darkness there are no dreams. Karla Kuban

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. Kahil Gibran

We have to accept the consequences of every deed, word and thought throughout our lifetime. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

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

No one has ever bet enough on a winning horse. Richard Sally

It is a fearful thing to love what death can touch. Unknown

Painters paint pictures on canvass. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. Leopole Stokowski

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist. George Carllin

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary. Aaron Rose

Treat your family like friends, and your friends like family. Chinese Proverb

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth or the only truth. Charles A. Dana

Misfortune, no less than happiness, inspires us to dream. Honore de Balzax

The absurd man is he who never changes. Auguste Barthelemy

I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive. Joseph Campbell

The really great person is the person who makes every other person feel great. G.K Chesteron

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Mahatma Gandhi

Capitol punishment is our society’s recognition of the sanctity of human life. Sen. Orrin Hatch

Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others. William Hazlitt

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Eric Hoffer

A man has to live within himself, and he should see to it that he always has fit company. Charles Evans Hughes

Neither genius, fame nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that. Jean Baptiste Henri Laxordaire

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Nelson Mandela

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack. General George S. Paton

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. George Santayana

Fools look to tomorrow. Wise men use tonight. Scottish Proverbs

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. George Bernard Shaw

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. George Bernard Shaw

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humour, but not for their folly. Jonathan Swift

Be careful of reading health books, you might die of a misprint. Mark Twain

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce. Voltaire

It is a wasted day unless you have learned something new and made someone smile. Mark Weingartz

To have lost one parent is a misfortune. To have lost both looks like carelessness. Oscar Wilde

God enters by a private door into every individual. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Death – the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening. Sir Walter Scott

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this. Hugh Hamilton

Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns. Charles Feidelson Jnr

Religion is the sum of the expansive impulses of a being. Henry H Ellis

All the wonders you seek are in yourself. Sir Thomas Browne

You cannot hold a torch to light another’s path without brightening your own.

Live your life so that your epitaph could read "No Regrets."

Humility is not thinking lowly of yourself, it’s simply not thinking of yourself at all.

I don’t know what the future holds, but I know who holds the future.

Live each day as if it were your last because someday you’re going to be right.

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. Jawaharlal Nebru

Man’s loneliness is just his fear of life. Eugene O’Neil

No matter what a man’s past may have been, his future is spotless. John R. Rice

Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Happiness is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. William Saroyan

We find it hard to believe that other’s people’s thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. Carl Sagan

Treasure each other in the recognition that we do not know how long we shall have each other. Jonathan Loth Liebman

A novel is a mirror walking down a road. Michael Ondaatje

There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep. John Irving

Sorrow makes us very good or very bad. Voltaire

*Earth’s crammed with heaven. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Money often costs too much. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Things are beautiful if you love them. Jean Anouih

May your joy be as deep as the ocean, your sorrow as light as its foam. Anonymous

If you cannot see the bright side, polish the dull side.. Anonymous

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished. Ralph Waldo Emerson

He deserves paradise who makes his companions laugh. The Koran

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. Benjamin Disraeli

God helps those who persevere. The Koran

A walk at dawn works wonders for the soul. Anonymous

To a young heart, everything is fun. Charles Dickens

I have a heart with room for every joy. Phillip. J. Bailey

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. George Bernard Shaw

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. Buddha

It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. Sarah Bernhardt

People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy. Samuel Butler

The Universe is but one vast symbol of God. Thomas Carlyle

Your words create what you speak about. Learn to speak positively. Sanaya Roman

The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of man. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Rejecting things because they are old-fashioned would rule out the sun and the moon – and a mother’s love. Anonymous.

Everything starts as somebody’s daydream. Larry Niven

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty. Joseph Addison

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express. Frances Bacon

Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them. Aristotle

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. William James

The mind forgets but the heart always remembers.

He who angers you conquers you. Elizabeth Kenny

Memory is not as brilliant as hope, but it is more beautiful, and ten thousand times more true. Prentice

Fear can hold you prisoner, hope can set you free.

Begin to weave and God will give the thread. German Proverb

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving. George Eliot

The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it. Jane Welsh Carkyle

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little. Horace

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow. Robert H. Goddard

If peace… only had the music and pageantry of war, there’d be no more wars. Sophie Kerr

Live your own life, for you will die your own death. Latin Proverb

Keep faith in all beautiful things, in the sun when it is hidden, in the Spring when it is gone. Roy R. Gilson

Live each day, not as your last, but as your first. Jason Davidoff

May happiness touch your life as warmly as you have touched the lives of others.

It is always wise to stop wishing for things for long enough to enjoy the fragrance of things now flowering. Patrice Gifford

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and famous preservers of youthful looks. Charles Dickens

Nurture your mind with great thoughts. Benjamin Disraeli

Friends are treasures. Horace Burns

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that are flowing forever through one’s mind. Mark Twain

Even the people we most admire often feel inadequate. Andrew Mathews

We all cling to the past, and because we cling to the past, we become unavailable to the present. Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Don’t dismiss a good idea just because you don’t like the source. H. Jackson Brow Jnr

The greatest wonder is how little time it takes for any new wonder to seem less wonderful.

The eye’s a better pupil and more willing than the ear. Edward A. Guest

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. Mohandas Gandhi

Where there is great love, there are always wishes. Willa Cather

Be thankful for you are made of stardust, and humble for you are made of earth. Serbian Proverb

The thread of life would be dark, Heaven knows! If it were not with friendship and love intertwin’d. Thomas Moore

That which you can’t give away, you do not possess. It possesses you. Ivern Bell

Do not repeat anything you will not sign your name to. Unknown

Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day. Albert Camuss

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets. Paul Tourner

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. Stainslaw Gerry Lee

We often forgive those who bore us, but we never forgive those whom we bore. Duc Francois de la Rochefoucald

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy. Francois Duc de la Rochefoucald

No sickness worse than imagining thyself to be perfect can afflict thy soul. Jallaludin Rumi

Nothing is wonderful when you get used to it. Edward Watson Howe

Only a fairy tale calls a constant condition happiness. Jakob Burckhardt

There is nothing more dangerous than an idea when you have only one idea. Emile Chartier

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he doesn’t become a monster. Friedrich Nietzsche

*One way to change the world is to live as if the world you desire already exists. Dawn Spencer

It would be hard to name a more certain sign of low self-esteem than the need to perceive some other group as inferior. Nathaniel Branden

There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has the right to blame us. Oscar Wilde

You can’t be driven crazy without your co-operation. Maureen Gaffnay

Most people are far too occupied with themselves to be malicious. Friedrich Nietzsche

The future is not a gift- it is an achievement. Harry Lauder

*On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it. Jules Renard

One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it. Sidney Howard

*I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another. Jean Jacqures Rousseau

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lost time is never found again. John H. Aughey

*There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and anyone who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever. Mahatma Gandhi

*All that is sweet, amiable and delightful in this world… is nothing more than Heaven breaking through the veil of this world. William Law

They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods. Edith Woods

Some people are concerned with who is right; others with what is right. Unknown

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift. Unknown

The most important medicine is tender love and care. Mother Teresa

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself. Claude M. Bristol

Today I live in the quiet, joyous expectation of good. Ernest Holmen

*When we know what God is, we shall be gods ourselves. George Bernard Shaw

*What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man? Friedrich Nietzsche

*In the faces of men and women I see God. Walt Whitman

^The idol is the measure of the worshipper. James Russell Lowell

To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart. Phyllis Theroux

No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head. Terry Josephison

Preconceived notions are the locks on the doors of wisdom. Merry Browne

Never write s letter while you are angry. Chinese Proverb

Greet each day with your eyes open to beauty, your mind open to change and your heart open to love. Paula Finn

*Some of God’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers. Garth Brooks

*Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind. Franklin D Roosevelt

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can understand. Mark Twain

The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little. John Kabat Zinn

The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart. Mencius

*My religion is very simple, my religion is kindness. Dalai Lama

*If you only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world. Emmet Fox

*There is a soul force which if we permit it, will flow through us, producing miraculous results. Mahatma Gandhi

Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it. Andre Gide

Men willingly believe what they wish. Julius Caesar

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? Alan Paton

Only the winners decide what were war crimes. Gary Willis

If your heart is full of love, you will always have something to give. Unknown

The human mind if allowed to feel will heal itself. Dr Paul Vereshack

No one searches more passionately for a dream woman than the child who grows up motherless. Nandor Fodor

How much easier it is to hate, than to turn inwards and face our fear. Dr Paul Vereshack

She shone for me like an Evening Star. I loved her – but at a distance. Winston Churchill

The most painful disease I have ever seen is that of an unloved child. Dr Bernie Seigel

Sometimes on the way to our dreams, we get lost and find an even better one. Unknown

Children are the dreams we send to a future that we shall never see. Unknown

*True religion is the life we live, not the creed we profess. Louis Nizer

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven. Henry Ward Beecher

Never let your memories be greater than your dreams. Doug Ivestor

If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for a moment. Georgia O’Keeffe

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give. Eleanor Roosevelt

*A loving heart is the truest wisdom. Charles Dickens

The doors of wisdom are never shut. Benjamin Franklin

"They say" is often a liar. Proverb

A half-truth is a whole lie. Yiddish Proverb

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. Oscar Wilde

*All great truths begin as blasphemies. George Bernard Shaw

The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed. Adolph Hitler

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another. Aleister Crowley

*Say not, "I have found the truth," but rather, "I have found a truth." Kahil Gibran

I have sworn eternal hostility to any form of tyranny over the mind of man. Thomas Jefferson

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance. Confucius

The Brain is wider than the sky. Emily Dickenson

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. Henri L Bergen

When I’m not in my right mind, my left mind gets pretty crowded

All the extraordinary men I have known have been extraordinary in their own estimation. Woodrow Wilson

A man who doesn’t trust himself can never really trust anyone. Cardinal Jean Francois De Retz

Trust is earned by many deeds, and lost by only one. Sun Yat-Sen

*Every one of us can do things that no one else can do – can love things that no one else can love. Barbara Sher

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do mot think that what your thoughts dwell on does not matter. Your thoughts are making you. Bishop Steere

*Every thought we think is creating our future. Louise L Hay

How beautifully leaves grow old! How full of light and colour are their last days. John Burroughs

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. Abraham Sutzkever

*I believe in God, only I spell it nature. Frank Lloyd Wright

*I want to know all God’s thoughts…all the rest are just details. Albert Einstein

*The church of my choice is the free, open world. Jason Taverner

Imagination invents reality.

It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being. F. Scott Fitzgerald

The world needs more dreamers.

*Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. Edwin Hubbel Chapin

I love laughing. William Blake

Don’t limit a child to your own learning for he was born in another time. Rabbinc Saying

*Mother is the name for God on the lips and hearts of all children. Eric Draven

The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them. Frank A. Clarke

Anyone who says they have only one life must not know how to read a book.

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can’t do anything else, read all that you can. Jane Hamilton

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings you joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life. Jean Shinoda Bolen

To think is to differ. Clarence Darrow

You live with your thoughts – so be careful what they are. Eva Arrington

To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing. Eva Young

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time. Benjamin Disraelu

*Truth is. Belief is not required. Gerry Roston

You can’t do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth. Shira Tehrani

*The meaning of life is to give life meaning. Unknown

*There exists no politician in India caring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten. Indira Gandhi

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty, but kind to ugliness. Ouidha

Nothing but the heart can change the heart. Carroll O’Connor

Others look back on me because I look forward to them. Walt Whitman

Love is a chain of life as nature is a chain of life. Truman Capote

Friends are lights in winter, the older the friend, the brighter the light. Roger Roseblatt

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. Winston Churchill

The greatest achievements are those which benefit others. Denis Waitley

Whatever needs to be maintained is doomed. Henry Miller

You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money. P. J. O’Rourke

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

It’s better to love someone you can’t have than to have someone you can’t love.

To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own. Abraham Lincoln

Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God’s grace, and your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God’s grace.

A teacher affects eternity. Henry Adams

*God’s gifts put man’s best dreams to shame. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

*Love comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought. Pearl S. Buck

If we all did what we are capable of, we would astound ourselves. Thomas Edison

A well-beaten path may not be the right way. Unknown

Bed is the poor man’s opera. Italian Proverb

When love is not madness, it is not love. Spanish Proverb

Don’t open a shop unless you know how to smile. Jewish Proverb

Eat and drink with your relatives, do business with strangers. Greek Proverb

Gossip needs no carriage. Russian Proverb

He that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast. Biblical Proverb

He who doesn’t risk never gets to drink champagne. Russian Proverb

I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should. Leonardo da Vinci

*In the presence of love, miracles can happen. Robert Schuller

I may cross the earth a thousand times, but as much of heaven as I shall see in this life I can see in the faces of those I love. Unknown

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. Albert Camus

*The human heart refuses to believe in a universe without a purpose. Immanuel Kant

Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. George Moore

All love is sweet, given or returned. Percy Bysshe Shelley

How vast a memory has love! Alexander Pope

Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lasts the longest. Henry Van Dyke

To love is to place happiness in the heart of another. Leibnitz

A life without love is like a year without Summer. Swedish Proverb

The joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable. John Cleever

Those who give love gather love. Anonymous

*When love reigns the impossible may be attained. Indian Proverb

The ultimate legacy is to leave behind someone who will love you forever. Ally McBeal

The distance between the dawns is far greater when one’s love is lost. Vicki Barnett

Love stretches your heart and makes you big inside. Margaret Walker

You have not lived until you have found someone worth dying for. Anonymous

There is no greater invitation to love than loving first. St Augustine

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving me be me. W. H. Auden

Above all things, remember that love comes from the heart and not the mind. Unknown

Lives begin to end the day we become silent on the things that matter. Martin Luther King

We tell lies when we are afraid. Ted Williams

*If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance. Orville Wright

*I want to be all that I am capable of becoming. Katherine Mansfield

*He who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet. German Proverb

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. Confucius

The end of all good music is to affect the soul. Claudio Monteverdi

The music in my heart I bore long after it was heard no more. William Wordsworth

In my end is my beginning. Mary Stuart

*Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true. Cardinal l. J. Suenens

*Virtue and happiness rest upon each other. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

*Each human mind is a galaxy of intelligences, wherein shines the light of a billion stars. Timothy Ferris

*The stars are God’s fingerprints. Brent D. Earles

*I have adopted the technique of living life from miracle to miracle. Arthur Rubinstein

If the essence of my being has caused a smile to appear on your face, or a touch of joy in your heart, then in living…I have made my mark. Thomas L Oden Jnr

You’ll discover that real love is millions of miles past falling in love with anyone or anything. Sarah Padduson

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. J. K. Jerome

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Leo Tolstoy

Only spend time with those who bring out the best things in you. Uncle Jim’s Rag-Trade Friend

No one ever sees the full picture. Me

Other desires perish in their gratification, but the desire for knowledge never.

There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.

Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Learning is a weightless treasure you always carry easily. Chinese Proverb

*No road to happiness or sorrow… find them in yourself. Chinese Proverb

*Each and every one of us has a right to be exactly who we are.

*What "exists" is only a small part of what is "possible". Pere Alberch

*Every piece of the universe, even the tiniest snow-crystal matters somehow. I have a place in the pattern, and so do you. T. G. Barron

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.

Forty isn’t old, if you’re a tree.

A drunk man’s words are a sober man’s thoughts.

Live so the preacher won’t have to lie at your funeral.

It’s not just reality that matters.

It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are. James Mackintosh

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another than he whom you yourself have obliged. Abraham Lincoln

In just two days, tomorrow will be yesterday.

The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power. Francis Bacon

Joy comes not to him who seeks it for himself, but to him who seeks it for other people. H. W. Sylvester

I married Miss Right. I just didn’t know her first name was always.

He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes. Thomas Wentworth Higginson

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding his life. Erich Fromm

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved but what he aspires to. Kahil Gibran

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. Moliere

An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it.

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it. Elizabeth Drew

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages, may be preserved by quotation. Issac d’Israeli

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. Robert Louis Stevenson

As a cure for worry, work is better than whiskey. Thomas Edison

From caring comes courage. Lao Tse

To make an apple pie from scratch, we must first invent the universe. Carl Sagan

One man with courage makes a majority. Andrew Jackson

*When we look into another’s soul, we see ourselves reflected there. Virginia Morrigan

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows. St Francis of Assisi

In the mountains of truth, you never walk in vain. Friedrich Nietzsche

How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children. Charles Darwin

A good parent remembers what it’s like to be a child. Anne Quindlen

The world’s best reformers are those who start with themselves. George Bernard Shaw

An old young man will be a young old man. Benjamin Franklin

The worst old age is that of the mind. William Hazlitt

*Beauty itself is just the sensible image of the infinite. George Bancroft

*Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world. Percy Bysshe Shelly

Beauty is whatever gives joy. Hugh Nibley

*Let us live for the beauty of our own reality. Tim Robbins

*Only if you’ve been in the deepest valley, can you ever know what it’s like to be on the highest mountain. Richard Nixon

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever, plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow. Ibn Gaboral

Truth sits on the lips of dying men. Mathew Arnold

You can have anything you want in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it. Sir James M. Barrie

Dreams get you into the future and add excitement to the present. Robert Conklin

A civilisation is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed. E. M. Cioran

Hope is the last thing that dies in man. Duc Francois de la Rochefoucald

*Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go. Louise Driscoll

*Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response. Mildred Barthel

The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts. Marcus Aureliu

Our happiness in this world depends on the affection we are able to inspire. Duchess Prazlin

Great works are often born on a street-corner or in a restaurant’s revolving door. Albert Camus

*The secret of a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings. Dave Weinbaum

To express the most difficult matters clearly and intelligently is to strike coins out of pure gold. Geibel

Ask the experienced rather than the learned. Arabic Proverb

The secret of education lies in respecting the student. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Education is the ability to meet life’s situations. Dr John G. Hibben

Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated. Robert C. Savage

He is great enough that is his own master. Joseph Hall

A winner rebukes and forgives, a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive. Sidney J. Harris

An honest answer is the sign of true friendship. Proverbs

All parents believe their children can do the impossible. Cathy Guisewite

*Imagination is the eye of the soul. Joseph Joubert

*The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding colour and suspense to all our lives. David Boorstin

*My father gave me the greatest gift anyone can give another person, he believed in me. Jim Valvano

To learn is to change. George B. Leonard

It’s the most unhappy people who most fear change. Mignon McLaughlin

I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars. Edward Vernon Rickenbaker

It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship. Mary Dixon

A closed mind is a dying mind. Edna Ferber

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keep out the joy. Jim Rohn

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. Henry Ward Beecher

Being happy is something you have to learn. Harrison Forde

Happiness is neither pleasure nor virtue nor this nor that but simply growth. We are happy when we’re growing. Willian Butler Yeats

*Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so. Thomas Carlylw

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. Daniel Boorstin

*We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do. Mother Teresa

The flower of kindness will grow. Robert Alan

One hour devoted to the pursuit of Beauty and Love is worth a full century of glory. Kahil Gibran

*We are all born for love. Benjamin Disraeli

Love can hurt but the things it brings are worth death.

The stars are quite like love, love is beautiful and burns on, brightly forever, love is almost mysterious just as the stars.

Love like music brings joy to the heart.

A true man hates no one. Napoleon Bonaparte

*Ninety per cent of who you are is invisible and untouchable. Buckminster Fuller

*Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind. Earl Nightingale

Forget those things that are not worth remembering. Tom Foley

What we learn with pleasure we never forget. Alfred Mercier

If a man wants to truly communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions. Gary Smalley

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. George Washington Carver

*Live with passion. Anthony Robbins

*Everything is perfect in the universe – even your desire to improve it. Wayne Dyer

*The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others. Joseph Addison

Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional. Max Lucade

The sky is not less blue because the blind man does not see it. Danish Proverb

The greatest success is self-acceptance. Ben Sweet

*When the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame. John Lily

We live in atmosphere of shame. George Bernard Shaw

The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others. Homer

It is when we forget ourselves that we do things which will be remembered. Unknown

The wisest keeps something of the vision of a child. John Macy

*The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love. Thomas Carlyle

*The soul is made of love and must ever strive to return to love. Mechthild of Magdenburg

The weak have one weapon, the errors of those who think they are strong. George Bidault

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can’t utter. James Earl Jones

*Words are powerful weapons for all causes, good or bad. Mandy Hall

*Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs. Pearl Strachan Hurd

Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonderful than ever. Jimmy Carter

What I like in a good writer isn’t what he says, but what he whispers. Logan Pearsall Smith

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance. Unknown

Patience is the companion of wisdom. Saint Augustine

*A loving heart is the truest wisdom. Charles Dickens

The doors of wisdom are never shut. Benjamin Franklin

True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by. E. S. Bouton

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men. Douglas Bader

The direction of a man’s thoughts is always the decisive factor in his personality. Erich Sauer

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money. Thomas Jefferson

*Thought rules the world. Joseph Edward Murphy

As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time. John Mason

Learn the past, watch the present, create the future. Jesse Conrad

One reason God created time was so that there would be a place to bury the failures of the past. James Long

I’m not a teacher, but an awakener. Robert Frost

When I grow up I want to be a little boy. Joseph Heller

Unthankfulness is theft. Martin Luther

We forgive to the extent that we love. Duc Francois de la Rochefoucald

We only learn to love by loving. Iris Murdoch

Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich. Sir Thomas Browne

The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. T. B. McAuley

Love and you shall be loved. Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you dislike n another, take care to correct in yourself. Thomas Sprat

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do. Gerry Sikorki

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. William Makepeace Thackeray

Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet. Roger Miller

Desire nothing for yourself which you do not desire for others. Spinoza

It is a wonderful seasoning of all enjoyments to think of those we love. Moliere

Whatever you do, put romance and enthusiasm into the lives of your children. Margaret Ramsey MacDonald

You have given me a gift such as I never even dreamed of receiving in this life. Franz Kafka

Don’t let what other people think decide who you are. Denis Rodman

The man who dies rich, dies in disgrace. Andrew Carnegie

There must be more to life than having everything. Maurice Sendak

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. Pablo Picasso

So much has been given me, I have no time to ponder what has been denied. Helen Keller

Maybe if we are surrounded by beauty, someday we will become what we see. Jewel

We all eventually become what we pretend to be. Xena

There is no such thing as an uninteresting life, such a thing is an impossibility. Beneath the dullest exterior is a drama, a comedy, a tragedy. Mark Twain

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter. T. S. Elliot

The simple lack of her is more to me than others’ presence. Edward Thomas

When you really want love, you will find it waiting for you. Oscar Wilde

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. Epicetus

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment. Merry Browne

If you add to the truth, you subtract from it. The Talmud

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them. Duc Francois de la Rochefoucald

If you have never been amazed by the very fact that you exist, you are squandering the greatest fact of all. Jim Fiebig

To find joy in another’s joy, that is the secret of happiness. George Bernanos

The greatest possession is an open mind.

Remember the love, remember the laughter and the magic that made us friends. Patrick Russell

Your Gift to the World is what you are. Your Gift to Yourself is discovering it.

Every great achievement was once thought impossible.

I am part of all that I have met. Alfred Lord Tennysson

Our yesterdays will never return, but our memories will last forever.

Love needs life just as life needs love.

Be what you wish others to become.

Love is the wisdom of the fool, and the folly of the wise. Samuel Johnson

Nothing’s beautiful from every point of view. Horace

You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow. Unknown

You must look into people, as well as at them. Lord Chesterfield

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity. Samuel Johnson

Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed. Robert Gallagher

The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested. William Dean Howells

Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone’s tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own. Andrew V. Mason

Life without a friend is death without a witness. Spanish Proverb

A single rose can be my garden…a single friend my world. Leo Buscaglia

Friends are lost by calling often,, and calling seldom. French Proverb

*Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life were such as yours, this earth would be God’s Paradise. Phillip Brooks

Nothing shows a man’s character as much as what he laughs at. Johan von Goethe

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements. Joshua Reynolds

It is with trifles, and when he is off-guard, that a man best reveals his character. Arthur Schopenhauer

Violence is the last resort of the incompetent. Issac Assinov

There is no knowledge that is not power. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Eyes do not tell people what they see, people tell eyes what to look for. Larry McDonald

A child’s life is like a piece of paper on which every passer-by leaves a mark. Chinese Proverb

The suspicious parent makes an artful child. Thomas G. Halliburton

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. Clyde Campbell

Death gives us sleep, eternal youth and mortality. Jean Paul Richter

There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued. Thomas Huxley

*Imagination is the secret reservoir of the riches of the human race. Maude L. Frandsen

*There are two worlds; the world we can measure by line and rule, and the world we feel with our hearts and imagination. Leigh Hunt

*If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities. Maya Angelou

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency – the belief that the here and now is all there is. Allan Bloom

When we read a story, we inhabit it. John Berger

I have never known a distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve. Montesquieu

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader. Joseph Joubert

A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul. Leo Tolstoy

A boy’s story is the best that is ever told. Charles Dickens

Do not commit the error common among the young of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed. Jan De Hartog

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them. Duc Francois de la Rochefoucald

Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven. Henry Ward Beecher

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves. Lydia M. Childe

The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does not grasp. John Berry

To be happy, you must learn to forget yourself. Edward Bulwer-Lytton

*I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. Henry Ward Beecher

Love is always either increasing or decreasing. Andreas Capellanus

I have loved many that I might love you. Grace Fallow Norton

I accept the universe. Margaret Fuller

Only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude towards others. Wilfred Peterson

Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life. Seneca

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough. George Bernard Shaw

If you look like your passport photograph, you’re too ill to travel. Will Kommen

When men are easy in themselves, they will let others remain so. Anthony A. Cooper – Lord Shaftsbury

I do not know of any surer way of making others happy as being so oneself. Arthur Helps

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. Tich Nhat Hanh

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid. Henry David Thoreau

I worship the quicksand he walls in. Art Buchwald

Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. Elbert Hubbard

As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities. Voltaire

*Truth lies within ourselves. Robert Browning

To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on sacred ground. Stephen R Covey

The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is. Nadine Gordiner

*Whatever satisfies the soul is truth. Walt Whitman

Facts and truth really don’t have very much to do with each other. William Faulkner

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise. Mary Kay Ash

There is no reality except the one contained within. Herman Hess

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. Edward R. Murrow

No one can eliminate prejudices – just recognise them. Edward R. Murrow

The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality. John Quincy Adams

I believe every person has a heart, and if you can reach it, you can make a difference. Uli Derickson

Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without his thumb on the scales. Byron Langfield

Two people who belong together make a world. Hans Margolius

No time of life is as beautiful as the early days of love, when with every meeting, with every glance, one fetches something new home to rejoice over. Soren Kierkegaard

*Love is infallible; it has no errors, for all errors are the want of love. William Law

Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables. Sappho

Love decreases when it ceases to increase. Viconte de Chateau Briand

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic. de Lamartine

Love is love’s reward. John Dryden

Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds. Elie Wiesel

When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will be the foundation of a new race. Margaret Sanger

*God’s heart is the most sensitive and tender of all. No act goes unnoticed, no matter how insignificant or small. Richard J. Foster

*Faith is the force of life. Leo Toldstoy

*Our humanity were a poor thing were it not for the divinity that stirs within us. Francis Bacon

*Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die. F. Forester Church

*A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain. Jessamyn West

*God gives people every opportunity to make the right choice. Dr James Dobson

The more you live the less you die.

Some things you see with your eyes. Others you see with your heart.

Cherish yesterday, dream of tomorrow, but live today.

Don’t be a magician, be magic.

Regret over yesterday and fear of tomorrow are the twin thieves that rob us of the moment.

*And we shall achieve in time, the thing they call divine. Spacehog

A friendship that ends never truly began.

I’d rather look forward and dream, than backwards and regret.

Let us believe that God is in all our simple deeds and learn to find him there. A. W. Tozer

Every single day is a special day. Charles R. Swindoll

Laughter is the music of life. Sir William Osler

Variety is the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavour. William Cowper

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself. Betty Friedan

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what you have lived for. David Starr Jordan

The world is so filled with interesting things to do that the longest life could not exhaust more than a small fraction of them. Frank Gaines

The only wealth is life. Henry David Thoreau

A wonderful realisation will be the day you realise that you are unique in all the world. Leo Buscaglia

The world is an incredible unfulfilled tapestry. And only you can fulfil the tiny space that is yours. Leo Buscaglia

It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth looking at. Oliver Wendell Holnes

Sometimes the heart does what it wants, without asking the mind.

The greatest pleasure of life is love. Sir W. Temple

Love gives itself, it is not bought. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We cease loving ourselves `when no one loves us. Madame de Stael

It is in the character of very few men to honour without envy a friend who has prospered. Aeschylus

There is a little good in all evil.

Part of you remains wherever you have been.

Nothing is trivial.

*Death is actually a small concern compared to the living dead who have not fulfilled their dreams or have not been true to themselves. Patch Adams

A loveless life is a living death.

Life’s greatest gift is love; open it slowly.

Love finds a way. Anne Frank

A person can be lonely even if he is loved by many people, because he is still not the "One and Only" to anyone. Anne Frank

People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. Erma Bombeck

Every human creature is a profound secret and mystery to every other. Charles Dickens

There are not enough stars in the sky to hold all the wishes of the world.

Friends are born, not made. Henry Adams

I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of God’s gifts, for it is love without an exchange of payment. Frances Farmer

Some people make headlines while others make history.

A closed heart can be opened only from the inside.

Death begins with life’s first breath, and life begins at touch of death. John Oxenham

If you want a baby, have a new one, don’t baby the old one. Jessamyn West

The greatest obstacle to love is fear. It has been the source of all defects in human behaviour throughout the ages. Mahmoud Muhammed Taha

Fear always springs from ignorance. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don’t hate, it’s too big a burden to bear. Martin Luther King Snr

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once the hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. James Baldwin

Don’t settle for walking when you’re capable of flying. Aymee

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear. Chinese Proverb

*You should love everyone because God dwells in all beings. Ramakrishna

*I don’t believe that God put us on earth to be ordinary.

I do not love him because he is good, but because he is my little child. Rabindranath Tagore

Fear not death, for it is your destiny. Ben Sira

Never stop dreaming, for out of such fragile things come miracles.

Once in an age, God sends some of us a friend who loves us…not the person we are, but the angel we might be. Harriet Beecher Stowe

I know not whether our names will be immortal; I am sure our friendship will.

From the rocking-horse to the rocking-chair, friendship keeps teaching us about being human. Letty Cottin

The world needs people who have come alive. Harold Whitman

You don’t have to hold onto the pain to hold onto the memory.

*The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it. C. C. Scott

A smile can open a heart, quicker than a key can open a door.

One ungrateful man does an injury to all who stand in need of aid. Publilius Syrus

People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did. But, people will never forget the way you made them feel.

It takes a thousand voices to tell a single story. Native American Saying

Funny, sometimes it’s the smallest decisions that change your life forever.

Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in a way that they have been told to. Alan Keightly

There is a time in the life of every problem when it is big enough to see, yet small enough to solve. Mike Leavitt

Who could ask for more than to live the moment you would die for.

*You must understand the whole of life, not just part of it.

Even the brightest stars can’t shine forever.

In every life there is one great love and one unforgettable heartbreak.

To fall in love with someone, you must first conquer friendship.

Everybody needs to be loved too much. Otherwise, how would you know how to love somebody else?

Loving someone can be the most beautiful thing in the world. Remembering loving someone can be the most destructive. Andrew Popelka

Nearly all human beings love, but nearly none know how to love. Eugenio Maria de Hostos

Absences are a good influence in love and keeps it bright and delicate. Robert Louis Stephens

When love comes so strong, there is no right or wrong. Your love is your life. West Side Story

To be loved, and to have loved, is to have lived life to the fullest.

Real love is only possible when you love the other person more than you love yourself.

*In every living thing there is a desire for love.

And your eyes… glisten like angels dancing on the moonlit pools of forever.

*In life we strive for many dreams and desires but the greatest goal to achieve in life, is to feel healthily unconditional love.

Love takes time. It needs a history of giving and receiving, laughing and crying.

I have never heard a better sound than the beat of your heart on the cold mornings’ beginnings.

Suicide is the most sincere form of self-criticism.

When a couple passes into the next world, they will become one angel. That is their fate, their destiny.

*We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds. Anton Chekhov

The window to wisdom is in the eyes of an angel.

A golden angel is the shining one who heals.

*The world is charged with the grandeur of God.

It’s as absurd to argue with men as to torture them into believing.

*God does not require you to follow his leadings on blind trust. Behold the invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body.

Love is a magical dream, existing forever in our minds.

The years forever fashion new dreams when old dreams go. God pity a one-dream man.

We are not made rich by what is in our pockets, but by what is in our hearts.

Accept the fact that, regardless of how many times you are right, you will sometimes be wrong.

Turn enemies into friends by doing something nice for them.

Friendship is life’s most rich and lasting pleasure.

Among true and real friends, all is common; and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friends.

The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.

*Inspiration is someone who will let you know that life will go on and something beautiful can be waiting somewhere when you least expect it.

*We must feel pain in order to be happy.

*A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

When love and hate have exhausted the soul, the body seldom endures for long.

Sometimes a heart cannot afford to be just friends.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Whenever I watch romantic movies, witness couples kiss and make up or listen to a love song, I smile and feel good ‘cause I know that love still works, if not for me, at least for others.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections and the truth of imagination. John Keats

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit. Anne Frank

I think of us all as music-boxes – beautiful and full of music… especially when we open up. Dr Sark

If you love the life you live you will live a life of love.

It’s much easier to turn friendship into love, than love into friendship.

They gave each other a smile with a future in it.

For life is holy and every moment precious. Jack Kerouac

The world is a better place because of those who refuse to believe they can’t fly.

Outside the open window the morning air is all awash with angels. Richard Wilbur

The earth laughs in flowers. William Blake

Music can change the world. Beethoven

The future is no place to place your better days. Dave Mathews

Someday we’ll find it, the rainbow connection, the lovers, the dreamers and me.

I am more than I know myself to be.

*The earth is the cradle of mankind, but one cannot live in the cradle forever.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering. St Augustine

Man has not lived until he has almost died. For those who have almost died, life has a flavour the protected will never know.

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. Albert Einstein

*The more a man knows, the more he forgives. Catherine the Great

Where love is not, there can be no pleasures. Russian Proverb

A little kindness from person to person is better than a vast love for all humankind. Richard Dehmel

A great fortune is a great slavery. Seneca

There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften. Cicero

An open mind collects more riches than an open purse. Will Henry

*Men are more helped by sympathy than by service. Sir John Lubbock

When the heart is crowded, it has most room, when empty, it can find a place for no new guest. Austin O’Malley

*Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail. John Donne

People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not. Neil Postman

It is discouraging to think of how many people are shocked by honesty, and how few by deceit. Noel Coward

*Love is the final end of the world’s history, the amen of the universe. Novelis Hardenberg

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. G. K. Chesterton

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old, seek what they sought. Matsuo Basho

Things forbidden have a secret charm. Tacitus

Death will find me long before I tire of watching you. Rupert Brook

People are like money, no matter how much they are used they still have value. A. W. Foster

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams. Hosea Ballou

Fear always springs from ignorance. Ralph Waldo Emerson

*Every child comes with a message that God is not yet discouraged of man. Rabindranath Tagore

Old age is the most unexpected of all things to happen to a man. Leon Trotsky

Everybody knows how to weep, but it takes a fine texture of mind to know thoroughly how to enjoy the bright and happy things of life. Oliver Bell Bunce

Admiration warms and exalts. The lover is made happier by his love than the object of his affection. Ralph Waldo Emerson

No man is so old as to think he cannot live one more year. Cicero

Nothing prevents our being natural as much as the desire to seem so. Arthur Schopenhauer

*To discover joy is to return to a state of oneness with the universe. Peggy Jenkins

*I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world. Georges Duhamel

*If I can make people smile, then I have served my purpose for God. Red Skelton

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education. John Ruskin

Real love exists between people who are able to free each other. Swami Chetmanda

Many a friendship – long, loyal and self-sacrificing – rested at first on no thicker a foundation than a kind word. Frederick W. Faber

Christmas waves a magic wand over the world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. Norman Vincent Peale

Light tomorrow with today. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

*Love has the power to give in a moment what toil can scarcely reach in an age. Johann von Goethe

*Love not what you are, but what you may become. Miguel de Cervante

*The human heart yearns for the beautiful in all ranks of life. Harriet Beecher Stowe

*The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Act the way you’d like to be and you’ll soon be the way you act. Dr G. W. Crane

The poet and the baker are brothers in the essential task of nourishing the world. Isabel Allende

Some people are moulded by their admirations, others by their hostilities. Elizabeth Bowen

Small things, done with great love, bring peace and joy. Mother Teresa

Good is not good, where better is expected. Thomas Fuller

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed. Marilyn Manson

*I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it. Harry Emerson Fosdick

Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by. John Sales

*The robb’d that smiles steals something from the theft. William Shakespeare

Scepticism is the chastity of the intellect. George Santayana

Mount to paradise by the stairway of surprise. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who is all-powerful should fear everything. Pierre Cornelle

That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet. Emily Dickenson

Life is the theatre of the absurd which we accept as reality. Dennis Moore

As soon as men decide that all means are permissible to fight an evil, their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil they set out to destroy. Christopher Dawson

*Your life can be changed in a matter of hours by people who don’t even know you. Unknown

The saddest moment in a person’s life comes but once. Unknown

*Life brings us simple pleasures every day. It is up to us to make them wonderful memories. Cathy Allen

There is nothing on this earth to be prized more than true friendship. St Thomas Acquinus

*Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel. The Bible

*The first step towards success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. Mark Caine

Education, in its broadest of truest sense, will make an individual seek to help all people, regardless of race, regardless of colour, regardless of condition. George Washington Carver

*Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things. Denis Diderot

Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. Albert Einstein

Until you know that life is interesting – and find it so – you haven’t found your soul. Geoffrey F/isher

*Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life. Charles Frohman

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure at doing good to another. Thomas Jefferson

*Pain is part of being alive. Harold Kushner

*All idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity. Friedrich Nietzsche

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, and life to everything. Plato

*Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean. David Searles

*Chance is a word void of sense, nothing can exist without a cause. Voltaire

*Within each of us is a loving, magical and powerful being – a real self. Terence Yallop

As long as one innocent being is threatened, none are really free.

Courage is the golden virtue, it makes all others possible.

The greatest treasures are found in the darkest places.

*The more sorrow one encounters, the more joy one can contain.

*We can only appreciate a sunrise if we’ve waited in darkness.

The city has a face. The country has a soul. Russian Proverb

*As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins. Albert Schweitzer

Who says I am not under the special protection of God? Adolf Hitler

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. Alexander Smith

Ideas won’t keep; something must be done about them. Alfred North Whitehead

We compound our suffering by victimising each other. Athol Fugard

Hypocrisy is the lubricant of society. David Hull

There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other. Duc Francois de la Rochefoucald

Heresy is another word for freedom of thought. Graham Greene

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. H. G. Wells

If you wish to learn the highest truths, begin with the alphabet. Japanese Proverb

*Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love. M. Scott Peck

This very moment is a seed from which the flowers of tomorrow’s happiness grow. Margaret Lyndsay

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. Mother Teresa

Some people have so much respect for their superiors that they have none left for themselves. Peter McArthur

The pain passes, but the beauty remains. Pierre Auguste Renoir

Poetry begins in delight and ends in wisdom. Robert Frost

Love in its essence is spiritual power. Swedenborg

Nothing good ever ends. William Saroyan

*Each child is an adventure into a better life – an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new. Hubert H. Humphrey

*If you begin to live life looking for the life that is all around you, every moment becomes a prayer. Frank Bianco

*Our feet are Earthbound, but our minds and hearts do have wings.

*If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one. Mother Teresa

*Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticise others. H. Jackson Brown Jnr

Flowers are words which even a baby can understand. Arthur A.Coxe

Mankind owes to the child the best it has to give. United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly coloured than the day. Vincent van Gogh

We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen. Maria Rilke Rainer

*It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion. Albert Einstein

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. Robert G. Ingersoll

*The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. Cicero

*A man’s dreams are an index to his greatness. Zadok Rabinwitz

The heart is the real fountain of youth.

Angels are the guardians of hope and wonder, the keepers of hope and dreams.

*Life is the sum of all your choices.

*To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle. Walt Whitman

Stars are the flowers of heaven.

*A loving thought is deeper than the night sky.

As the ocean is never full of water, so is the heart never full of love.

Love…It surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be. Kahil Gibran

Hope is one of the principal springs that keep mankind in motion.

Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance

The bond of companionship is conversation.

*I pray thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within. Socrates

Leading a child to learning’s treasures brings a teacher untold pleasures.

Don’t fear tomorrow…God is already there.

A grandmother’s love could light up a large city.

*My mind is my own church. Thomas Paine

There is an hour in each man’s life appointed to make his happiness if he seizes it. Greaumont and Fletcher

Beauty will save the world. Fedor Dostoevsky

A fault which humbles a man is of more use to him than a virtue which puffs him up.

A friend by your side can keep you warmer than the richest furs.

A man can have no better epitaph than that which is inscribed in the hearts of his friends.

A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images.

A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love. William Butler Yeats

Anything less than mad, passionate, extraordinary love is a waste of time. There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with, and love should not be one of them.

*Because I have confidence in the power of Truth and of the spirit, I believe in the future of mankind. Albert Schweitzer

Discovering the inner beauties of a person will also enhance your perception of the person’s physical beauties.

Do all things with love. Og Mandino

Dreams aren’t in your head. Dreams are memories of another universe.

Envy is destroyed by true friendship.

Faults are thick when love is thin. Howell

Feed the mind and the burden becomes lighter.

*For God is not against us because of our sin. He is with us, against our sin.

*For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

*God alone is the judge of true greatness because he knows men’s hearts. Mahatma Gandhi

*God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are. Billy Graham

Gratitude is the rarest of all virtues yet we invariably expect it.

*Great men may die, but their ideas won’t. Kelly Nelson

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. Albert Einstein

He who forces love where none is found remains a fool the whole year round.

He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much master of the world as he who is ready to die. Giocomo Leonardo

However great the ills a man may have to bear, he but adds to them when he allows himself to give way to despair. Confucius

I asked Mom if I was a gifted child. She said they certainly wouldn’t have paid for me.

I have never met a person whose greatest need was anything other than real, unconditional love. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

If you depend on others to make you happy, you will be endlessly disappointed.

If your vision doesn’t save you, then both your vision and your God are too small. Brother Andrew

Faith is worthless unless it leads to action.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Every man is an impossibility until he is born. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wonders are many, and none are more wonderful than man. Sophocles

Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence or learning. F. M. Faber

Lord, may others treat me tomorrow as I have treated them today.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls. Edward Hubbel Chapin

Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing is ever real till it is experienced. John Keats

Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to see it as such. Henry Miller

The more I encourage a child to think for himself, the more he will care what I think.

He who has no fire in himself cannot warm others.

Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moments. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realise this. Henry Ford

Live to make the world less difficult for each other. George Eliot

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct a refuge from almost all of the miseries of life. Somerset Maughan

Hold for yourself the belief that each day that dawns is your last.

Let us choose to believe something good can happen. J. Martin Kohe

We clothe events in the drapery of our own thoughts. James Allen

No one on earth can hurt you unless you accept the hurt in your own mind. Vernon Howard

My thoughts are my company. Walter Savage Lander

Love is the magician, the enchanter that changes worthless things to joy. Robert G. Ingersoll

If one thought is creative, all thoughts are creative.

Our words may conceal our thoughts, but our actions will reveal them.

Whatever you dislike in another person, take care to correct in yourself.

Only happy people have anything to contribute to building a world and making other people happy.

Never was there good or ill done that did not produce its like.

One should not think so much of what one should do, but rather what one should be.

What you strongly feel is an affirmation which attracts its likeness into your body and experience like a magnet.

God never forgives you because god never condemns you. God is love.

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves-in finding themselves. Andre Gide

The bare recollection of anger kindles anger. Pibliljus Syrus

There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant irrevocable bond. James Earl Jones

A day…is a miniature eternity. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The guilty think all talk is of themselves. Chaucer

Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety. Reni Daumal

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. St Augustine

God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them. C. S. Lewis

We cannot do evil to others without doing it to ourselves. Joseph Francois Eduard Desmahis

Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell. The loss of heaven is the greatest pain in hell. Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Our Creator would never have made such lovely days and given us the deep hearts to enjoy them unless we were meant to be immortal. Nathaniel Hawthorne

The universe is a stairway leading nowhere unless man is immortal. Edgar Young Mullins

Evil is only good perverted. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper. Chinese Proverb

It is easy for them who have never known love to sneer at love. Welsh Proverb

Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion. William Wycherrley

On the whole, more people are cheated by believing nothing than by believing too much. P. T. Barnum

There is not a heart that does not have its moments of longing, yearning for something better. Henry Ward Beecher

Babylon, in all its desolation, is not so awful a sight as the human mind in ruins. Scope Davies

Sin can bring pleasure, but never happiness. R. C. Sproul

Atheism is rather in the lip than the heart of man. Sir Frances Bacon

People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older. Sydney J. Harris

He who thinks most of heaven will do most for earth. Anonymous

As it is said of the greatest liar that he tells more truths than falsehoods, so it can be said of the worst man that he does more good than evil. Anonymous

Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of judgement. Plato

Duty is only a substitute for love. C. S. Lewis

Neither fear, nor wish for, your last day. Martial

Suspicion often creates what it suspects. C. S. Lewis

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end. Albert Schweitzer

No amount of good deeds can make us good persons. We must be good before we do good. Chester A. Pennington

The truest test of independent judgement is being able to dislike someone who admires us and to admire someone who dislikes us. Sydney J. Harris

Nothing comes from nothing. William Shakespeare

Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains. Giovanni Ruffini

A man never shows his own character so plainly as by his manner of portraying another’s.

Man is never so happy as when he giveth happiness to another.

Life has loveliness to sell. All beautiful and splendid things.

Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.

One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

Secret forces are bringing compatible spirits together.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Death is the veil which those who live call life. They sleep, until it is lifted.

The fear of death is worse than death.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

No one ever becomes extremely wicked suddenly.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. Johann von Goethe

It is impossible to exist without affecting others in both positive and negative ways.

We find God in our own being which is the mirror of God.

The soul is the mirror of the universe.

We must find out truth for ourselves.

There is no greater wealth than life.

Beauty, wisdom and passion, bread to the soul…

People seek happiness and joy, but will often settle for pleasure.

The whole world of loneliness, poverty and pain makes a mockery of what human life should be.

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions.

The most important thing is to be capable of love.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

Love works its magic on the living, but not the dead.

When there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

We love only what we do not completely possess.

Happiness depends on ourselves. Aristotle

Religion is the perception of the Divine existence.

The public should try to make itself artists. Oscar Wilde

You can love completely without complete understanding. Norman Mclean

My heart leaps when I behold a rainbow in the sky. William Wordsworth

Give, expecting nothing thereof. St Thomas Acqunas

Children are the keys of paradise. Robert Stoddard

The goal of all life is death. Sigmund Freud

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place. Cicero

Never contract friendship with a man who is not better than yourself. Confucius

Exuberance is beauty. William Blake

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. Seneca

So long as we do not blow our brains out, we have decided life is worth living. Edward Watson Howe

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. Pythagoros

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humour teaches tolerance. William Somerset Maughan

He who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once. Sir Robert Browning

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum. Havelock Ellis

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion. James Harrington

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence. Aristotle

Hell is an outrage on humanity. Victor Hugo

To measure the man, measure his heart. Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

What is to be will always find a way.

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them. Samuel Butler

In books lies the soul of the whole past time. Thomas Carlyle

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. James Russell Lowell

Destiny grants our wishes ,but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes. Johan von Goethe

Education is the movement from darkness to light. Allan Bloom

A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction. Oscar Wilde

Flowers…are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities in the world. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love demands infinitely less than friendship. George Jean Nathan

I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate. Sir Arthur Wing Pinero

The future is what artists are. Oscar Wilde

Man needs for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. Bertrand Russell

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy. Mark Twain

Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings. Lord G. K. Chesterfield

Whatever makes an impression on the heart, seems lovely to the eye. Sa’di

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. Joseph Campbell

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is nor born, and yet not to become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime. Erich Fromm

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. Thomas Fuller

There are no days in life as memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. Ralph Waldo Emerson

We need men who can dream of things that never were. John F. Kennedy

I believe a blade of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars. Walt Whitman

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart. Blaise Pascal

A chief event of life is the day on which we have encountered a mind that started us. Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be able to be caught up in the world of thought – that is to be educated. Edith Hamilton

I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. Abraham Lincoln

Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible suns within us. Sir Thomas Browne

You can’t hide your true colours as you approach the autumn of your life. Unknown

I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better. Abraham Lincoln

The man who has no inner life is a slave to his surroundings. Frederic Amiel

The most beautiful view is the one I share with you. Unknown

Beauty… is the shadow of God on the Universe. Gabriella Mistral

A good book has no ending. R. D. Cumming

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own. William Hazlitt

The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television. Andrew Ross

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. Jessamyn West

A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone. Jo Godwin

There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colours are brighter, the air softer and the morning more fragrant than ever again. Elizabeth Lawrence

Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it. Lord Byron

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow. Euripides

The day which we fear as our last is the birthday of eternity. Seneca

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity. Edward Munch

I’ve never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful. Unknown

A truly rich man is one whose children rush into his arms when his hands are empty. Unknown

Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. Gloria Naylor

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend. Oliver Wendell Holmes

God loves each of us as if there was only one of us. St Augustine

Hunting God is a great adventure. Marie DeFloris

God is a verb, not a noun. F. Buckminster Fuller

Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth. Phillip James Bailey

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving. Max Beerbohm

Poets are the unacknowledged leglislators of the world. Percy Byshe Shelley

What a child doesn’t receive he can seldom later give. P. D. James

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. Immanuel Kant

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. Ludwig Borne

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more they desired the unhappiness of others, we would have a paradise in a few years. Bertrand Russell

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Rachel Carson

Each moment is a place you’ve never been. Mark Strand

If a thousand old beliefs were ruined in our march to truth we must still march on. Stopford Brooke

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. Ferdinand Foch

More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility. Robert Gordon Menzies

Why not learn to enjoy the little things – there are so many of them. Unknown

I simply believe that some part of the human soul is not subject to the laws of space and time. Carl Jung

The most important things are the hardest to say because words diminish them. Stephen King

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew, upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. Lord Byron

I’ve seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people leading ordinary lives. Tracey Chapman

Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys. Andre`Gide

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious that cannot be taken from you. Oscar Wilde

His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets. Dorothy Parker

God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion. Pliny the Elder

In today already walks tomorrow. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. Ezra Pound

The new frontier lies not beyond the planet, but within each one of us. Pierre Trudeau Elliott

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day. Benjamin Disraeli

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by, but some of them are golden only because we have let then slip by. James Mathew Barrie

When you teach your son, you teach your son’s son. The Talmid

Man’s heart, away from nature, becomes hard. Standing Bear

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still open a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. Galileo

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. Ralph W. Sockman

Forever is composed of nows. Emily Dickenson

We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow. Fulton Oursler

He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for. Moroccan Proverb

Sometimes questions are more important than answers. Nancy Willard

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair. G. K. Chesterton

Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing, Mother Teresa

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat. Ben Hecht

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him. Albert Schweitzer

Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it. Buddha

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you will find that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. Kahlil Gibran

An aware parent loves all children he or she meets and interacts with, for you are a caretaker for those moments in time.

...no man is useless while he has a friend. Robert Louis Stevenson

Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid. Lady Bird Johnston

A blank page is God’s way of showing you how hard it is to be God.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

Sometimes we are limited more by attitude than by opportunities.

It is only our knowledge that separates us.

Love is eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence. Vincent van Gcgh

Love is the only safe and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. Erich Fromm

When you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love. Mahatma Gandhi

Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often more accurate than you are willing to believe. Claudia Black

We are not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our heart. John Ruskin

Life is a promise, fulfil it. Mother Teresa

How far that little candle throws his beams. So shines a good deed in a weary world. William Shakespeare

Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve. Martin Luther King

Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth. Unknown

Each small task of every day is part of the total harmony of the universe. St Therese of Lisieux

Those who apply themselves too closely to little things often find themselves incapable of great things. Francois Duc de la Rochefoucald

If we didn’t die, we wouldn’t appreciate life as we do. Jacques Yyves Cousteau

If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others. Francois Duc de la Rochefoucald

Goodness defeated is stronger than evil triumphant. Martin Luther King

There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought. Elbert Hubbard

The wise man remembers that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future. Herbert Spencer

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell. Aldous Huxley

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

A crust in comfort is better than a feast in fear. Aesop

All experience is education for the soul. Unknown

All of us, the great and the little have need of each other. Aesop

Choose to be forgiven. Unknown

Content makes poor men rich, discontent makes rich men poor. Benjamin Franklin

Death pays all debts. William Shakespeare

Destroy your enemy by making him your friend. Abraham Lincoln

Distance lends enchantment to the view. Thomas Campbell

E’er you remark another’s sin, bid your own conscience look within. Benjamin Framklin

Envy is based on an incomplete understanding of the other person’s situation. George Chapman

Good memories are our second chance of happiness. Queen Elizabeth II

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. Aesop

Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes. Marcel Proust

It is better to take many injuries than to give one. Benjamin Franklin

May the outward and inward man be at one. Socrates

Neglect kills injuries, revenge increases them. Benjamin Franklin

Observe all men, thyself the most. Benjamin Franklin

One man can make a difference. Unknown

Our life is what our thoughts make it. Marcus Aurelius

People should take time to be happy. Grandma Moses

Play the part and you shall become. Unknown

See life through an artist’s eye. Unknown

Smiles open many doors. Unknown

Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter. Benjamin Franklin

The best cure for a short temper is a long walk. Unknown

The doors of wisdom are never shut. Benjamin Franklin

The longest journey begins with the first step. Unknown

The second word makes the quarrel. Japanese Proverb

The years teach much which the days never know. Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. Michel Eyquem Montaigne

There is great force in a gentle command. George Herbert

Tis easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow. Benjamin Franklin

To feel love, give love to yourself and others. Unknown

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truth when witty is the wittiest of all things. Julias Charles Hare & Augustus William Hare

You can never plan the future by the past. Edmund Burke

What cannot be altered is made lighter by patience. Horace

Without kindness there can be no true joy. Thomas Carlyle

Believe that most people are doing the beat they can. Unknown

Negative thoughts are a waste of precious energy. Unknown

Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values. Dalai Lama

There is nothing more beautiful than nature itself. Zaniab

The golden age never was the present age. Benjamin Franklin

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your head, but how to get the old ones out. Des Hock

Education is being caught up into the expanding universe of thought. Edith Hamilton

A learned man always keeps his riches within him. Unknown

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation. Ray l. Wilbur

Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher. Japanese Proverb

To teach is to touch lives forever. Anonymous

The big thieves hang the little ones. Czech Proverb

Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you will be like him yourself. Proverb

Everyone thinks his own burden heavy. French Proverb

Life is not separate from death. It only looks that way. Native American Proverb (Blackfoot)

Love is like dew that falls on nettles and lilies alike. Swedish Proverb

Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come. Chinese Proverb

Those who have free seats at a play hiss first. Chinese Proverb

To know and to act are one and the same. Samurai Proverb

Under a ragged coat lies wisdom. Romanian Proverb

Where there is love, there is pain. Spanish Proverb

A woman who is loved has success. Vicki Baum

Blessed is the influence of one true loving soul on another. George Eliot

Love for the joy of loving, and not for the offerings of someone else’s heart. Marlene Dietrich

Whoever has loved knows all that life holds of sorrow and joy. George Sand

When you come right down to it, the secret of having it all is loving it all. Joyce Brothers

Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts. Parmahansa Yogananda

Everyone has inside himself a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t really know how great you can be, how much you can love, what you can accomplish, and what your potential is. Anne Frank

Just being happy helps other souls along. Ripley D Saunders

My life is my message. Mahatma Ghandi

The human heart knows things that the eyes don’t see, and feels things that the mind cannot understand.

Some of the finest friendships are between persons of different dispositions. The mind is often attracted by perfections it lacks itself.

Death gives life its fullest reality.

There is no such thing as an unimportant day in anyone’s life. Alexander Woollcott

No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their affection for themselves. Samuel Johnson

The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul. Ralph Waldo Emersom

We turn not older with years, but newer every day. Emily Dickenson

Practise being gentle, respectful and loving towards the life force in all things. Wayne Dyer

With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Max Ehrmann

Life is just part of the big picture. Alyson Goff

Every man’s story is important, eternal and sacred. Herman Hesse

Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. Mozart

Vision is where tomorrow begins. Burt Nanus

Sincere forgiveness isn’t coloured with expectations that the other person apologise or change. Sarah Paddison

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning. J. B.Priestly

The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one an irreplaceable and unique being. Tom Robbins

Time is the coin of life. Carl Sandburg

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. William Saroyan

Each child has its fairy godmother in its soul. Francis Thompson

Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary. Mark Twain

Memory is a crazy woman who hoards coloured rags and throws away food. Unknown

To those who see with loving eyes, life is beautiful. Unknown

It is the private virtues that lay the foundation of all human excellence. M. L. Weems

When you learn to live for others, they will live for you. Paramahansa Yogamanda

The secret of all those who make discoveries is that they regard nothing as impossible. Justus Liebig

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity. Kahlil Gibran

One of the greatest weaknesses in most of us is our lack of faith in ourselves. L. Tom Perry

In this world of extremes, we can only love too little. Rich Cannarilla

A new baby is like the beginning of all things, wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. Eda J. Le Shan

All grown-ups once were children, though few of them remember it. Antoine de Saint Exupièry

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness. Jean Genet

We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit. Robert Shaffer

Life is a great surprise. I don’t see why death shouldn’t be an even greater one. Vladimir Nabokov

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. Paul Boese

Our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together. Antoine de Saint Exupièry

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself. James Douglas Morrison

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings. Friedrich Nietzsche

Man is a universe within himself. Bob Marley

No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. Freidrich Nietzsche

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters. Friedrich Nietzsche

Goodness is the only investment that never fails. Henry David Thoreau

Intense love does not measure, it just gives. Mother Teresa

I know from experience that the poets are right, love is eternal. E. M. Forester

The way to love anything is to realise that it might be lost. G. K. Chesterton

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal. Jean Paul Sartre

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. Henry Miller

Enlightenment is being immersed in and surrounded by peace. Declan Coyle

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. Robert Frost

Freedom of opinion can only exist where the government thinks itself secure. Bertrand Russell

I have never seen my life as divided between life and poetry. Pablo Nevada

Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they don’t say. William W. Watt

The pursuit of power leads to isolation, the death of human values and the death of the soul. Anonymous

Never give up on what you really want to do – the person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. Anonymous

The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. Steve Biko

All cruelty springs from weakness. Seneca

The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been. Madelaine L’Engle

We are surer that we see a star when we know that others often also see it. Henry George

Personal wealth is nothing more than a badge of competence at getting others to pay your bills. David Ransom

A friend in the marketplace is better than money in the chest. West African Proverb

It’s a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. Albert Camus

If you can enjoy a flower, a smile, the playing of a child, you are richer amd happier than the richest rich person. Anonymous

There is a point beyond which forbearance ends and tolerance ceases to be a virtue. Edmund Burke

I thought that an inner heaven could make a heaven on earth. Bessie Head

Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance. Alice Walker

What comes from the lips reaches the ear. What comes from the heart, reaches the heart. Arab Proverb

When the mind becomes tranquil, then all things will be seen not in their separateness, but in their unity. Surragama Suttra

Live in your beliefs and you can turn the world around. Henry David Thoreau

To all beings and all things, we will be as relatives. Sioux American Saying

Those who lose dreaming are lost. Australian Aboriginal Proverb

A dream that you dream alone remains a dream. A dream that you share can become a reality. Anonymous

Your world is as big as you make it. Anonymous

Till the morning comes my soul will light the dark. Afam Akeh

In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts. Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is a luxury to be understood. Ralph Waldo Emeson.

Genius is childhood rediscovered at will. Charles Baudelaire

Hope is ourselves – our children travelling towards a hope that feeds our life. Augustino Neto

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. Willa Cather

A mother’s love, or the lack of it can never be replaced. Mignon McLaughlin

Water invented human beings as a device to transport itself from place to place. Tim Robbins

I’m a whore (hoor) in my heart. Daddy

The Arctic expresses the sum of all wisdom, silence. Walter Bauer

My place is in the sunshine of opportunity. Martin Luther King

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: prisoners of addiction and prisoners of envy. Ivan Illich

The dignity of a people depends on how it treats a minority. Kumar Rubasinghe

Freedom is the right to choose the bars of my own cage. Anonymous

Education is our passport to the future, tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today. Malcolm X

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed. Germaine Greer

You can never know how long we cried before we laughed over the broken pieces of our dreams. Abena Buisa

The world changed from trouble to smiles. Gayl Jones

Hungry people have no respect for the law, authority or human life. Marcus Garvey

Philosophers have sought to interpret the world: the point however is to change it. Karl Marx

Work is love made visible. Kahlil Gibran

My young men shall never work. Men who work cannot dream, and wisdom comes in dreams. Somalla

Good things like this war take people’s minds off irrelevant issues like the environment. Margaret Thatcher

One who reminds an orphan of his misery makes him cry, even if it is done with kind compassion. Ganda Problem

The truth does not spoil friendship. Mandinka Proverb

Wealth takes charge of its owner. Ancient Egyptian Proverb

A good man also sins. Fante Proverb

When thrown into the sea, the stone said, "After all, this is also a home." Ugandan Proverb

Even a fool can give counsel to a wise man. Swahili Proverb

Anger breeds regret. Mamussi Proverb

Anger is a warmth which lights itself. Kru Proverb

You have to suffer to appreciate the good times. Hiatian Proverb

Gentleness in all things: is the praise of the wise man. Ancient Egyptian Proverb

A debt does not settle another debt. Shona Proverb

Carelessness in little things leads little by little to ruin. Ganda Proverb

A kind word gets a good reply. Igbo Proverb

Where there is no wealth there is no poverty. Tswana Proverb

She who leaves a child lives eternally. Chagga Proverb

If you love other people’s children you will love your own even more. Swahili Proverb

The woman whose sons have died is richer than the barren woman. Kikuyu Proverb

A charitable man has never gone to hell. Old Irish Saying

To be a child is painful. Tshi Proverb

The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears. Native American Proverb

There are forty kinds of lunacy, but only one kind of common sense. Southern African Proverb

When the child is in the womb it unfailingly takes some qualities from the mother. Ganda Proverb

Pleasant words or politeness tame the most cruel. Hada Proverb

Politeness is gold. Swahili Proverb

A danger escaped is no guarantee for the future. Kikuyu Proverb

Many days of laughter are wiped away by one moment of mourning. Ugandan Proverb

Lie down and die; you will see who really loves you. Hausa Proverb

Learning is the light that leads into everything lovely. Swahili Proverb

He who has not is the enemy of he who has. Swahili Proverb

What is old to one may be new to another. Shona Proverb

People know each other better on a journey. Tsrana Proverb

To be in the giver’s good graces is worth more than an outstretched hand. Hausa Proverb

If you have forgotten God, you have forgotten yourself. Swahili Proverb

If you want to speak to God, speak to the wind. Tsi Proverb

Goodness is done by a bad person, evil cannot be done by a good person. Swahili Proverb

It is the heart that carries one to hell or to heaven. Kanuri Proverb

Youth is hope; old age is remembrance. Swahili Proverb

The head which has dreams is superior. Tshi Proverb

Some people are not inherently bad but are made wicked by others. Hava Proverb

If a man does evil to you he makes you hate all men. Ganda Proverb

People who hurt you will never forgive you. Hautian Proverb

Anticipate kindness from the happy person. Hausa Proverb

Kindness is never lost. Kongo Proverb

A lie is a child’s way of escaping punishment. Ganda Proverb

As long as we are alive, there are still many achievements before us. Yoruba Proverb

What you like in a book is you yourself. Haitian Proverb

The one who loves an unsightly person is the one who makes him beautiful. Ganda Proverb

The man who is loved by his wife has no trouble conversing. Malagasa Proverb

Love is the greatest of all virtues. Tshi Proverb

Our love opens the doors of our insight without our knowledge. Swahili Proverb

What you love you make last long. Ganda Proverb

A person is trapped by what she likes most. Igbo Proverb

Who oppresses the weak is a reproach to his maker. Igbo Proverb

Through others I am somebody. Tsrana Proverb

At the bottom of patience waits heaven. Kinuru/Bornu Proverb

A peacemaker often receives wounds. Yoruba Proverb

When a gift is praised, it begets another gift. Igbo Proverb

Relationship is a matter of visits. Angass Proverb

Christian life is in the heart of man, not in his words. Tshwa Proverb

A good name shines in the dark. Swahili Proverb

Many are cursed for the crime of one. Ovambo Proverb

When you can’t get what you wish for, you despise it, or those who have it. Hava Proverb

Speak gently to him who hath spoken in anger for soft words are the medicine of the heart. Ancient Egyptian Proverb

Conversation is the food of the ears. Trinidadian Proverb

Forgetting is the cure for suffering. Swahili Proverb

New tears bring old ones to memory. Ganda Proverb

A person’s thoughts are their kingdom. Tsonga Proverb

Travelling means finding. Ugandan Proverb

Life is a train of moods. Ralph `Waldo Emerson

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. Unknown

Both your friend and enemy think you will never die. Irish Proverb

It is not a secret if is known by three people. Irish Proverb

A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands. English Proverb

A soft reply turneth away anger, but grievous words stir up anger. The Bible

Anger can be an expensive luxury. Italian Proverb

As the best wine makes the sharpest vinegar, the truest lover may turn into the worst enemy. Proverb of Unknown Origin

Better no doctor at all than three. Polish Proverb

Commit a crime twice and it will not seem a crime. Jewish Proverb

Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another. Italian Proverb

Evil is sooner believed than good. Proverb of Unknown Origin

Grey hairs are death's blossoms. English Proverb

Instinct is stronger than upbringing. Irish Proverb

It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody. English Proverb

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. Chinese Proverb

Mankind fears an evil man but heave does not. Chinese Proverb

Nothing is as burdensome as a secret. French Proverb

Praise the young and they will blossom. Irish Proverb

Some people are masters of money, some its slaves. Russian Proverb

Take thy thoughts to bed with you, for the morning is wiser than the evening. Russian Proverb

The light heart lives long. Irish Proverb

To leave is to die a little. French Proverb

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face. George Elliott

Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for triumphs of the mind. Logan Pearsall Smith

A fool without fear is sometimes wiser than an angel with fear. Lady Nancy Astor

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Richard Bach

One life - a little gleam of Time between two Eternities. Thomas Carlyle

Life is the childhood of eternity. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life is made up of marble and mid. Narhaniel Hawthorne

Change is the law of life. John F. Kennedy

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. Iris Murdoch

Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors. Eugene O'Neil

The longer I live, the more beautiful life is. Frank Lloyd Wright

Love is the miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. Louise Hay

There is nothing holier in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of live - the first fluttering of its silken wings. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. Oliver Wendell Holmes

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. Richard Bach

Living is death, dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens, on this side orphans, on that children. Henry Ward Beecher

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death. Samuel Butler