Personal Quote Collections

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Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.
- R.L.Long -

A great leader never sets himself above his followers except in carrying responsibilities.
- Jules Ormont -

Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money.
- W.J. Cameron -

Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.
- Unknown -

Think like a man of action and act like a man of thought.
- Henri Bergson -

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
- Goethe -

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.
- Washington Irving -

We don't thank God enough for much that He has given us. Our prayers are too often the beggar's prayer, the prayer that asks for something. We offer too few prayers of thanksgiving and of praise.
- Robert E.Woods -

You should have education enough so that you won't have to look up to people; and then more education so that you will be wise enough not to look down on people.
- M.L.Boren -

Turn customer complaints into compliments by using the seven magic words: "What would you like us to do?"
- Unknown -

There are two kinds of light the glow that illuminates and the glare that obscures.
- James Thurber -

No man can deliver the goods if his heart is heavier than the load.
- Frank I Fletcher -

If you won't be better tomorrow than you were today, then what do you need tomorrow for?
- Rebbe Nachman of Breslov -

What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my employer, to my neighbour, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.
- Lavater -

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
- Demosthenes -

Many a man fails to become a thinker for the sole reason that his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche -

We are all manufacturers - making good, making trouble or making excuses.
- H.V. Adolt -

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
- Malesherbes -

Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.
- Winans -

Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley -

The sunrise never failed us yet.
- Baxter -

"I can't do it" never yet accomplished anything. "I will try" has performed wonders.
- George Burnham -

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
- Leonardo -

Unless the job means more than the pay it will never pay more.
- Lewis -

It is the mind that maketh good of ill that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
- Edmund Spenser -

If you're convinced that you can afford to stop learning, consider this statistic:
"Everything we know about technology today will make up just 1% of the knowledge available 50 years from now".
- Unknown -

If you listen to the never do's it's never done.
- David L George -

You spend more of your waking hours on the job than in any other activity, so plan and set goals to satisfy many of our basic needs in and through your professional pursuits.
- Paul J Meyer -

He who asks, is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask, remains a fool forever.
- Chinese proverb -

Do a little more than you're paid to;
Give a little more than you have to;
Try a little harder than you want to;
Aim a little higher than you think possible;
And give a lot of thanks to God for health, family and friends.
- Unknown -

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
- Unknown -

Pressure is on us by the nature of the job. Performance releases pressure.
- Fisher -

They who give have all things they who withhold have nothing.
- Hindu Proverb -

Effort only releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
- Napoleon Hill -

Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.
- Pitman -

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
- Norman V Peale -

Save time thinking you can do the other fellow's job better than he can - put it in doing your job better.
- Herbert A Schoenfeld -

We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns.
- Orison S Marden -

Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
- Norman MacEwan -

No one plans to fail. They simply fail to plan.
- Dale Carnegie -

Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin it should make you jump up and do something.
- E L Simpson -

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity of action a superior mind exists in torture.
- Benedetto Croce -

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.
- Sir P Sidney -

There are two kinds of failures: The man who will do nothing he is told and the man who will do nothing else.
- Dr P Thompson -

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
- Elbert Hubbard -

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
- Walter Duranty -

Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.
- Unknown -

There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
- Dr George Crane -

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step .
- Lao Tse -

You are "not" responsible for the face you are given but you "ARE" responsible for the expression on your face.
- Unknown -

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C Clarke -

If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses as unlimited rather than dull and unresponsive then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.
- Bob Conklin -

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
- Samuel Johnson -

Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon men.
- Unknown -

That which we persist in doing becomes easier not that the task itself has become easier but that our ability to perform it has improved.
- Unknown -

People are just as happy as they make up their mind tobe.
- A Lincoln -

Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits.
- Heloise -

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
- Carl Jung -

People are just as happy as they make up their mind to be.
- A Lincoln -

Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits
- Heloise -

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves
- Carl Jung -

People are just as happy as they make up their mind to be
- A Lincoln -

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient
- Eugene S. Wilson -

Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way once you understand that you have to make it come your way by your own exertions
- Ben Stein -

The first step to making a dream come true, is to wake up
- Michael McDaniel -

There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
- Daniel Dennett -

Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.
- Dr. William Menninger -

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.
- Faye Wattleton -

Humanism is optimistic regarding human nature and confident in human reason and science as the best means of reaching the goal of human fulfillment in this world. Humanists affirm that humans are a product of the same evolutionary process that produced all other living organisms and that all ideas, knowledge, values, and social systems are based upon human experience. Humanists conclude that creative ability and personal responsibility are strongest when the mind is free from supernatural belief and operates in an atmosphere of freedom and democracy.

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
- Henry David Thoreau -

Kindness in words creates confidence Kindness in thinking creates profoundness Kindness in giving creates love."
- Lao-tzu -

Few things are harder to put up with than a good example
- Mark Twain -

Life is a song - sing it.
Life is a game - play it.
Life is a challenge - meet it.
Life is a dream - realize it.
Life is a sacrifice - offer it.
Life is love - enjoy it."
- Sai Baba -

Life isn't about keeping score.
It's not about how many people call you
and it's not about who you've dated, are dating,
or haven't dated at all.

It isn't about who you've kissed,
what sport you play,
or which guy or girl likes you.

It's not about your shoes
or your hair
or the color of your skin
or where you live or go to school.

In fact, it's not about grades, money, clothes,
or colleges that accept you or not.

Life isn't about if you have lots of friends,
or if you are alone,
and it's not about how accepted
or unaccepted you are.
Life just isn't about that.

But life is about who you love and who you hurt.
It's about how you feel about yourself.
It's about trust, happiness, and compassion.
It's about sticking up for your friends
and replacing inner hate with love.

Life is about avoiding jealousy,
overcoming ignorance,
and building confidence.

It's about what you say and what you mean.
It's about seeing people
for who they are
and not what they have.

Most of all,
it is about choosing to use your life
to touch someone else's in a way
that could never have been achieved otherwise.
These choices are what life's about."
- Nike ad -

The mediocre teacher tells.
The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires.
- William Arthur Ward -

He who asks is a fool for five minutes but he who does not ask remains a fool forever
- Chinese Proverb -

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."
- Confucious -

Death be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;
For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow
Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,
Much pleasure, then from thee much more must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee do go,
Rest of their bones, and souls' delivery.
Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,
And poppy, or charms can make us sleep as well,
And better than thy stroke; why swell'st thou then?
One short sleep past, we wake eternally,
And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.

- John Donne (1572-1631) Holy Sonnets, no. 10 -

The air was alive with the rush and flutter of wings;
it was ripped by screaming shells,
hissing like tons of molten metal plunging suddenly into water,
there was the blast and concussion of their explosion, men smashed,
obliterated in sudden eruptions of earth, rent and strewn in bloody fragments,
shells that were like hell-cats humped and spitting, little sounds, unpleasantly close,
lie the plucking of tense strings, and something tangling his feet,
tearing at his trousers and puttees as he stumbled over it, and then a face suddenly,
an inconceivably disorted face,
which raved and sobbed at him as he fell with it into a shell-hole."
- Frederic Manning, Middle Parts of Fortune (Accounts of The Great War) -

We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness.
It was very quiet there.
At night sometimes the roll of the drums behind the curtain of trees
would run up the river and remain sustained faintly,
as if hovering in the air high over our heads,
till the first break of day...
The dawn were heralded by a chill stillness;
the wood-cutters slept, their fires burned low;
the snapping of a twig would make you start.
We were wanderers on a prehistoric planet...
But suddenly, as we struggled round a bend,
there would be a glimpse of rush walls, of peaked grass-roof, a burst of yells, a whirl of black limbs,
a mass of hands clapping, of feet stamping, of bodies swaying, of eyes rolling,
under the droops of heavy and motionless foliage.
- Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness -

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.
- Kurdish Proverb -

The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.
- Tryon Edwards -

We improve ourselves by vistories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win.
- Edward Gibbon -

The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
- Lord Chesterfield -

When I am... traveling in a carriage,
or walking after a good meal,
or during the night when I cannot sleep;
it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly.
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. -

Though a tree grow ever so high, the falling leaves return to the ground.
- Malayan Proverb -

Life is a struggle every minute, and the good times; those are just free passes.

There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with encores.

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
- Charles Caleb Colton -

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
- Newt Gingrich -

My father always told me, "Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life."
- Jim Fox -

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
- Aristotle -

Everyday I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I m not there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben -

Success is to be measured not so much by the position
that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome.
- Booker Taliaferro Washington -

Life is no brief candle to me.
It is a sort of splendid torch
which I have got a hold of for the moment,
and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible
before handing it onto future generations.
- George Bernard Shaw -

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today
- Malcolm X -

There is a time in life when you stop existing and start living.
There is a time in life when you are given a new chance and new dreams.
There is a time in life when the old is to be forgotten and the new embraced.
There is a time in life ... and that time is now

Never confuse your right to do something with the right thing to do

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future
- Charles F Kettering -

A man talking sense to himself is no more insane than a man talking nonsense not to himself...or just as insane.
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead -

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

The devil finds work for idle hands

Wisest is she who knows she does not know

True insight comes from within

He who knows what is right will do right

Take therefore no thought for the morrow:
for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself.
Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof."
- Matthew 6:34 -

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is miracle and mystery
- H G Wells -

The road to success is always under construction
- Lily Tomlin -

"I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of quiet life stimulates the creative mind."
- Alvert Einstein, physicist -

Stand on what you stand for

I'd rather be a ghost drifting by your side, a condemned spirt, than enter heaven without you.

I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it.

If you think I am NOT FAIR? Dial toll free 1-800-BULL-SHIT. Don't exclude yourself... form precious moments
- Walter Rinder -

Freedom has always been an expensice thing
- Martin Luther King, Jr. -

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
- Bertrand Russell -

I cannot predict the future, I cannot change the past, I have just the present moment, I must treat it as my last.

Everyday is a gift

Take life, I day at a time

Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. -

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.
- Lin Yutang -

This above all, to thine own self be true
- Shakespeare - No matter what looms ahead,
if you can eat today,
enjoy the sunlight today,
mix good cheer with friends today,
enjoy it and blessthe Creator for it.
Do not look back on happiness -
- or dream of it in the future.
You are only sure of today,
do not let yourself be cheated out of it.....

Every time you gain insight into a new truth, you are a bit stronger than before.
- Vernon Howard -

In the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.
- Baba Dioum -

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

Knowledge is a process of piling up factsl widsom lies in their simplification.
- Martin Luther King. Jr -

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends
- Martin Luther King. Jr -

The things I never said
Are waiting somewhere
Like the things I wanted to do
But never did.
- Martin Luther King. Jr -

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison -

Love never asks how much must I do, but how much can I do

Everyday ask yourself the question, "Do I want to experience the Peace in Mind or do I want to experience conflict?
- Gerald Jampolsky -

A problem shared is a cut in half; a joy shared is doubled.

Do more than exist, live.
Do more than touch, feel.
Do more than look, observe.
Do more than read, absorb.
Do more than hear, listen.
Do more than think, ponder.
Do more than talk, say something.
- John H.Rhoades -

We make our choices, then our choices make us.

It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
- Somerset Muaghan -

"Falling in love with someone isn't always going to be easy...
Anger...
tears...
laughter...
It's when you want to be together despite it all.
That's when you truly love another.
I'm sure of it."
- Keiichi Morisata -

The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

If you are not getting what you want, maybe it's because you haven't want it bad enough yet.

Kindness is more important than wisdom and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom
- Theodore Isaac Rubin -

Resolve to perform what you ought perform without fail what you resolve
- "Stonewall" Jackson -

Some people dream of success... While others wake up and work hard at it.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
- Elbert Hubbard -

When you reach for the starts,
you may not quite get one,
but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.

There are really no mistakes in life - only lessons

Don't confuse having a career with having a life. They are not the same.

Make what you do today important; after all, you are exchanging a day of your life for it.

Philosophy is a science which enables us to view misfortune more calmly,
thereby allowing us to be miserable with the greatest degree of intelligence.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller -

Knowledge is the antidote to fear
- Ralph Waldo Emerson -

The journey to a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Chinese Proverb -

Attitude, not aptitude, determines altitude
- Jesse Jackson -

Humility is perfect quietness of heart. It is to be at rest When nobody praises me and when I am blamed and despised.
- Andrew Murray -

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

Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man, and let history make its own judgment.

Whatever we are waiting for peace of mind, contentment, grace,
the inner awareness of simple abundance, it will surely come to us,
but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.
- Sarah Ban Breathnach -

Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue
- William Bennett -

Lack of self-confidence is not the result of difficulty. The difficulty comes from lack of confidence.
- Seneca -

Relationships--of all kinds--are like sand held in your hand.
Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is.
The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on,
the sand trickles through your fingers.
You may hold onto some of it, but most will be spilled.
A relationship is like that.
Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person,
it is likely to remain intact.
But hold too tightly, too possessively,
and the relationship slips away and is lost.
- Kaleel Jamison -

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one
- Japanese Proverb -

A kiss can beautify souls hearts and thoughts.
The darkness is no darkness with thee. . .
- 1662, Psalms 139:5 -

Truly love you endlessly. Every day without you is like a book without pages. I love you, I will always do, for the rest of our earthly and heavenly life.
- F. Abahusain -

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies
- Aristotle -

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity
- Helen Hayes -

No words are necessary between two loving hearts.

Women were made to be loved not to be understood
- Oscar Wilde -

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
- H.H. Williams -

"Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything."
- Norman Lear -

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 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's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you!
We were born to manifest the glory of God within us.
Its not just in some of us, its in everyone - and as we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others!"
- Marianne Williamson -

With a new difficulty of any kind,
it is the reception that you give it mentally,
and the attitude that you adopt towards it in your own thought,
that completely determine its effect upon you.
That is what matters.
What matters to you, truly,
is not people or things or conditions in themselves,
but the thoughts and beliefs that you hold concerning them.
It is not the conduct of others, but your own thoughts that make or mar you.
You write your own history for tomorrow and
for next year by the thoughts that you entertain today.
You mould your own life destiny day by day,
entirely by the manner in which you react mentally to experience as it comes.
Right reaction is the supreme art of life.
-Emmet Fox -

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
- Jim Elliott -

If all people follows their brain,
which is used to interpret what's they see in the world,
we wouldn't have aeroplanes, light bulbs etc...
Break the barrier by following your heart and not your brain.
Follow your brain only helps you to do what's proven possible.
Follow your heart to help you to keep trying for what's seems to be impossible.
- Fong 2001 -

Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards;
they try to have more things,
or more money,
in order to do more of what they want,
so they will be happier.
The way it actually works is the reverse.
You must first be who you really are,
then do what you need to do,
in order to have what you want.
- Margaret Young -

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.
- Charles Gordon -

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George W. Carver -

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln -

You can complain because roses have thorns or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
- Ziggy -

"Look to This Day"
Look to this day for it is life,
the very life of life.
In its brief course lie all the varieties
and realities of your existence:
the bliss of growth;
the glory of action;
the splendor of beauty.
For yesterday is already a dream,
and tomorrow is only a vision;
But today, well lived,
makes every yesterday a dream of happiness
and every tomorrow a vision of hope.

I know what pleasure is, for I have done good work
- Robert Louis Stevenson -

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one and a lily with the other
- Chinese Proverb -

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

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
- Sally Berger -

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

Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer -

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill -

The one who is very attached to the cave of the body, that one finds detachment very difficult. Those who constantly crave for pleasure are hard to liberate and certainly cannot be liberated by others, only by themselves. Sometimes it is only death that brings a realization of endings, and then the sensual person, deeply immersed in the body, will shout: "What will happen to me after death?"
The way toward liberation is to train yourself to live in the present without any wanting to become anything. Give up becoming this or that, live without cravings, and experience this present moment with full attention, Then you will not cringe at death nor seek for repeated birth.
-Sutta Nipata -

There is no end to what you can accomplish if (or when) you don't care who gets the credit.
- Florence Luscomb -

Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world
- Arthur Schopenhauer -

Good intention begets blessing. Strong vow begets strength.
- Still Thought -

Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;
And all good things are yours
- Swedish proverb -

The brightly shining mind is never absent but is colored by the thoughts and emotions that people put upon it. If you were to see the luminous freedom of this mind, you would cultivate it before any other, keeping it free from all attachments.
- Anguttara Nikaya -

Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.
- Margery Williams, "The Velveteen Rabbit" -

When anger arises, whoever keeps firm control as if with a racing chariot: him I call a master charioteer. Anyone else; a rein-holder-- that's all.
- Dhammapada, 17, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. -

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
- Og Mandino -

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

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
- William Faulkner -

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was within me an invincible summer.
- Albert Camus -

Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.
- Kathleen Norris - A shaven head
Doesn't mean a contemplative.
The liar observing no duties,
Filled with greed & desire:
What kind of contemplatives he?

But whoever tunes out
The dissonance
Of his evil qualities
-large or small -
in every way
by bringing evil to consonance;
he's called a contemplative.
- Dhammapada, 19, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. -

Not even if it rained gold coins would we have our fill of sensual pleasures.
'Stressful, they give little enjoyment' - knowing this, the wise one finds no delight even in heavenly sensual pleasures.
He is one who delights in the ending of craving.
A disciple of the Rightly Self-Awakened One.
- Dhammapada, 14, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. -

So:
The enlightened man -
Discerning, learned, enduring, dutiful, noble, intelligent,
A man of integrity:
Follow him -
One of this sort - as the moon, the path of the zodiac stars.
- Dhammapada, 15, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu -

A head of grey hairs
Doesn't mean one's an elder.
Advanced in years,
One's called an old fool.
But one in whom there is
Truth, restraint,
Rectitude, gentleness,
Self-control--
He's called an elder,
His impurities disgorged,
Enlightened.
- Dhammpada, 19, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu -

Empty and calm and devoid of self
Is the nature of all things.
No individual being
In reality exists.

There is no end or beginning,
Nor any middle course.
All is an illusion,
As in a vision or a dream.

All beings in the world
Are beyond the realm of words.
Their ultimate nature, pure and true,
Is like the infinity of space.
- Prajnaparamita -

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.
- Dennis Green -

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher -

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
- Karl Barth -

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard -

Better than if there were thousands of meaningless words is one meaningful word that on hearing brings peace.
- Dhammapada, 8, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. -

Work joyfully and peacefully knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.
- James Allen -

"If you shoot at the moon and miss, at least you'll still be dancing among the stars."
- Unknown -

Don't be heedless of merit ('It won't come to me'). A water jar fills, even with water falling in drops. With merit--even if bit by bit, habitually-- the enlightened one fills himself full.
- Dhammapada, 9, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. -

The kindest way of helping yourself is to find a friend.
- Ann Kaiser Stearns -

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