I'll arrange these at some point. Don't hold your breath.
But of all the truths I have learned with love--love
of children, self, work, friends and family--I
know
this best: If you do not suffer, even a little
for it, it
did not exist. It was merely a sunrise or sunset,
something that happens every day, nothing special.
But if you pour your heart and soul into these
differences, you understand why you love, live,
laugh and want to be happy. You understand why
you make life so challenging, because there is
nothing greater for us to achieve in this world
than
to realize the challenge of loving someone you
did
not create or who did not create you.
Never place a period where God has placed a comma.
What grows never grows old.
Be True To Yourself and all else will prosper.
Never close your lips to those to whom you have opened your heart.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not is a fool forever.
"One must love someone not only for who they are, but for who they will become."
Stop and ask yourself everyday "Am I feeding my soul?"
You must first love yourself before you will ever be able to love another.
But if in your fear you would seek only loves
peace and loves pleasure, Then it
is better that you cover your nakedness and pass
out of loves threshing floor,
Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh,
but not all of your laughter,
and weep, but not all of your tears....
-Kahlil Gibran
The deepest secret in life
is not a process of discovery
But a process of creation
You are not discovering yourself
But creating yourself anew
Seek therefore not to find out who you are
Seek to determine who you want to be
True love cannot be found where it does not truly
exist, nor can it be hidden where
it truly does.
A human being is part of a whole, called by us
the
"universe", a part limited in time and space.
He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings
as
something separated form the rest, a kind of
optical
delusion of his consciousness.
This delusion is a kind of prison for us.
Restricting us to uour personal desires and to
the
affection for a few persons nearest us.
Our task must be to free ourselves from this
prison
by widening our circles of compassion to embrace
all
living creatures and the whole of nature in its
beauty.
-Albert Einstein
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond
measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens
us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,
talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be? You are
a child of God.
Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that
other people won't feel insecure around you.
We were born to mak manifest the glory
of God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.
And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously
give other people perimission do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence
automatically liberates others.
-Nelson Mandela
True love cannot be found where it does not truly
exist, nor can
it be hidden where it truly does.
If you love something set it free
if it comes back to you it's yours
if it doesn't it never was!!
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end........
Your life is what you make of it, so make it good.
To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice
the Gift."
-Steve "Pre" Prefontaine
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy
is: that one often
comes from a strong will, and the other from
a strong won't.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never
blanches, the thought that
never wanders, the purpose that never wavers
- these are the masters of victory.
-Edmund Burke
Most of the important things in the world have
been accomplished by
people who have kept on trying when there seemed
to be no help at all.
-Dale Carnegie
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it
is the courage to continue that counts.
-Sir Winston Churchill
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short
races one after another.
-Walter Elliott
Less good from genius we may find than that from
perseverance flowing;
so have good grist at hand to grind, and
keep the mill a-going.
-Thomas English
The greatest results in life are usually attained
by simple means and the exercise of
ordinary qualities. These may for the most
part be summed up in these two
- common sense and perseverance.
-Owen Feltham
Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks
hollow.
-Plutarch
By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
-Charles Haddon Spurgeon
'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good
cause, and obstinacy in a bad one.
- Laurence Sterne
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
-Publius Syrus
No rock so hard but a little wave may beat admission
in a thousand years.
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
When things get tough, don't move. People and
pressures shift but the sail
remains the same no matter where you go.
-Unknown
A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest
of lies
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
I am a part of all that I have met;
Yet all experience is an arch wherethro'
Gleams that untravell'd world whose margin fades
For ever and for ever when I move.
-Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ulysses
Mistakes are the doorway to Discovery
-Sam Horn
He who desires but acts not breeds pestilence.
-William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, `Proverbs of Hell'
Conditions are never just right. People who delay
action until all factors are
favourable do nothing.
-William Feather
Knowing is not enough; we must act. Willing is
not enough; we must do.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Success seems to be connected to action. Successful
people keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
-Conrad Hilton
Your life will be no better than the plans you
make and the action you take.
You are the architect and builder of your own
life, fortune, destiny.
-Alfred A. Montapert
Action is the only answer to conquer fear.
-Dr. Norman Vincent Peale
Whatever games are played with us, we must play
no games with ourselves,
but deal in our privacy with the last honesty
and truth.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
This above all: To thine own self be true, And
it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
-William Shakespeare, Hamlet, spoken by Polonius, I.iii.78-80
My love does not, cannot make her happy. My love
can only release in her the capacity to be happy.
-J. Barnes
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one
likes, but in liking what one has to do.
- James M. Barrie
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction
that one is loved;
loved for oneself, or better yet, loved despite
oneself.
-Victor Hugo
You're never too old to have a happy childhood.
-Unknown
Women love the lie that saves their pride, but
never an unflattering truth.
-Gertrude Atherton, The Conqueror
Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he
who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.
-Homer
The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those
who cannot fly.
-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The liar's punishment is not in the least that
he is not believed but that he cannot believe anyone else.
-George Bernard Shaw
The cruellest lies are often told in silence.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach
it.
-Salvador Dali
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you
do so you apologize for truth.
- Benjamin Disraeli
All changes, even the most longed for, have their
melancholy; for what we leave behind
us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one
life before we can enter another.
-Anatole France
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how
to live.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not
exist in nature.
-Helen Keller
We are so obsessed with doing that we have no
time and no imagination left for being.
As a result, men are valued not for what they
are but for what they do or what they have
- for their usefulness.
-Thomas Merton
Without music, life would be a mistake.
-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realise the Self.
Purity of the heart is the gateway to God.
Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do
good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.
-Sivananda
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
-Henry David Thoreau
I believe you should live each day as if it is
your last, which is why I don't have any
clean laundry because, come on, who wants to
wash clothes on the last day of their life?
-Unknown, 15-year-old
There are only two people who can tell you the
truth about yourself
- an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend
who loves you dearly.
-Antisthenes
Spiritual maturity is a lifelong process of replacing
lies with truth.
-Kurt D. Bruner
Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that
they contain the whole truth or the only truth.
-Charles Anderson Dana
I believe in the fundamental Truth of all the
great religions of the world.
I believe that they are all God given. I came
to the conclusion long ago...
that all religions were true and also
that all had some error in them.
-Mahatma (Mohandas Karamchand) Gandhi, 16 Feb 1934
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-Aldous Huxley, Proper Studies
On the mountains of truth you can never climb
in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today,
or you will be training your powers so that you
will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour
is now - always.
-Albert Schweitzer
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than
him who conquers his enemies;
for the hardest victory is over self.
-Aristotle
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a
friend loses more;
but he that loses his courage loses all.
-Miguel de Cervantes
To see what is right and not to do it, is want
of courage.
-Confucius, Analects
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's
courage.
-Anaauis Nin, diary entry (The Diary of Anaauis Nin)
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear,
not absence of fear.
-Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
People have a way of becoming what you encourage
them to be, not what you nag them to be.
-Unknown
A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square
hole right away.
He must have time to modify his shape.
-Mark Twain
Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and,
instead of bleeding, he sings.
-Ed Gardner, on the radio show Duffy's Tavern
The human understanding is like a false mirror,
which, receiving rays irregularly,
distorts and discolours the nature of things
by mingling its own nature with it.
Francis Bacon, Novum Organum
There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon
ourselves, no matter how unpleasant,
are necessary in order to learn what we need
to learn; whatever steps we take,
they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen
to go.
Richard Bach, in 'A Bridge Across Forever'
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't
correct it is committing another mistake.
Confucius
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes,
smart enough to profit from them,
and strong enough to correct them.
John C. Maxwell
Which is it, is man one of God's blunders or is
God one of man's?
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
A man should never be ashamed to own he has been
in the wrong, which is but saying,
in other words, that he is wiser today than he
was yesterday.
Alexander Pope, Thoughts on Various Subjects
No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road,
turn back.
Turkish Proverb
Anyone who doesn't make mistakes isn't trying
hard enough.
Wess Roberts
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those
in authority off their guard and
give you an opportunity to commit more.
Mark Twain
We all learn from our mistakes. The trick is learn
from the mistakes of others.
Unknown
Qui s'excuse, s'accuse. T: 'He who excuses himself
accuses himself.'
Gabriel Meurier, Trésor des Sentences
Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each
man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
Demosthenes, Third Olynthiac
Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one
great fear who fears to do wrong;
he has a thousand who has overcome it.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one
of the main sources of cruelty.
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays
To him who is afraid everything rustles.
Sophocles, Acrisius
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Josh Billings
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the
attribute of the strong.
Mahatma (Mohandas Karamchand) Gandhi
To err is human, to forgive divine.
Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them
so much.
Oscar Wilde
Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is
necessary before you can meet again.
And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes,
is certain for those who are friends.
Richard Bach, in 'Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah'
Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like
the holly-tree.
The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms,
But which will bloom most constantly?
Emily Brontë
There is no man so friendless but what he can
find a friend
sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton, What Will He Do With It?
Tell me what company you keep, and I'll tell you
what you are.
Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Amicitia
The greatest good you can do for another is not
just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
Benjamin Disraeli
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his
friend.
Henry David Thoreau
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It
does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau
A friend is someone who knows all about you, and
loves you just the same.
Unknown
A friend is someone who will help you move. A
real friend is someone who will help you move a body.
Unknown
A true friend is the best possession.
Unknown
A true friend will see you through when others
see that you are through.
Unknown
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,
to front only the essential facts of life,
and see if I could not learn what it had to teach,
and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854), II, Where I Lived, and What I Lived
For
Live each season as it passes; breathe the air,
drink the drink, taste the fruit,
and resign yourself to the influences of each.
Henry David Thoreau
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
Henry David Thoreau
Success usually comes to those who are too busy
to be looking for it.
Henry David Thoreau
The art of life, of a poet's life, is, not having
anything to do, to do something.
Henry David Thoreau