Deep Thoughts

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Love cures people — both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. — Dr. Karl Menninger

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life. — Smiley Blanton

None of us is a smart as all of us. — Phil Condit

A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. — Lou Holtz

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. — Unknown

A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking. — Arthur Block

A disciple once complained, ‘You tell us stories, but you never reveal their meaning to us.’ The master replied, ‘How would you like it if someone offered you fruit and chewed it up for you before giving it to you?’ — Anonymous

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. — Hugh Downs

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labor of other [humans], living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am receiving. — Albert Einstein

A little faith will bring your soul to heaven; a great faith will bring heaven to your soul. — Charles Spurgeon

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint. — Albert Schweitzer

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits. — Richard M. Nixon

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. — John Barrymore

A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man. — Jebodiah Springfield

A person who seeks help for a friend, while needy himself, will be answered first. — The Talmud

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. — Marcus Aurelius

After the verb ‘to love’, the verb ‘to help’ is the most beautiful verb in the world. — Bertha von Suttner

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. — Jeanne Moreau

Aim for the moon…even if you miss you’ll land amoungst the stars. — Unknown

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific. — Jane Wagner

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. — Oscar Wilde

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. — Anonymous

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. — Andrew Carnegie

As one person I cannot change the world, but I can change the world of one person. — Paul Shane Spear

Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier. — Mother Teresa

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart, and try to love the questions themselves. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Before you speak, ask yourself, is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve on the silence? — Sai Baba

Being a true friend is an art…having one, a gift. — Anonymous

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved. — Helen Keller

Character is doing what is right when no one is looking. — J.C. Watts

Cherish your visions and you dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. — Napolean Hill

Choose the way of life. Choose the way of love. Choose the way of caring…Choose the way of goodness. It’s up to you. It’s your choice. — Leo Buscaglia

Compassion is the basis of all morality. — Arthur Shopenhauer

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one’s liberty. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow. — Anonymous

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point. — C.S. Lewis

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. — Goethe

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Dignity does not consist of possessing honors but, in deserving them. — Aristotle

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can. — John Wesley

Do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, to all the souls you can, in every place you can, at all the times you can, With all the zeal you can, as long as ever you can. — John Wesley

Do not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness. — James Thurber

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

Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. — Unknown

don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. — Bill Cosby

Draw in the breath of life, and as you breathe, smile. — Anonymous

Dreams are renewable. No mater what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born. — Dr. Dale Turner

During my youth, Love will be my teacher - in middle age, my help - and in old age, my delight. — Kahlil Gibran

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. — Pablo Casals

Each place has its own advantages - heaven for the climate, and hell for the society. — Mark Twain

Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure. — Joseph Sugarman

Even a fool, when he holds his peace, is counted wise: and he that shuts his mouth is regarded a man of understanding. — Proverbs 17:28, The Bible

Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. — Will Rogers

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. — Pablo Picasso

Every now and again take a good look at something not made with hands - a mountain, a star, the turn of a stream. There will come to you wisdom and patience and solace and, above all, the assurance that you are not alone in the world. — Sidney Lovett

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you. — Richard Bach, Illusions: Confessions of a Reluctant Messiah

Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: The last of his freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. — Viktor E. Frankl

Everything has its wonders, even the darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. — Helen Keller

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, “I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.” — Ann Landers

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards. — Vernon Saunders Law

Faith is daring the soul to go beyond what the eyes can see. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. — Theodore Roosevelt

Fear less, hope more - Whine less, breathe more - Talk less, say more - Hate less, love more - And all good things are yours. — Anonymous

Follow your bliss, and doors will open where there were no doors before. — Joseph Campbell

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. — Paul Boese

Friendship is a promise of future loyalty, loyalty no matter what comes. Promises are the bricks of life and trust is the mortar. — Stephen Carter, The Emperor of Ocean Park

Friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it. — Cicero

Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love, and who love you. And remember that love is not leisure, it is work. — Anna Quindlen

Go as far as you can see, and when you get there, you will see farther. — Anonymous

God created man because he loves stories. — Elie Wiesel

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. — Albert Einstein

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, But great actions speak to all mankind. — Emily P. Bissell

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don’t even remember leaving open. — Rose Lane

Happiness isn’t a crop that you harvest when your dreams come true… it’s more like the fertilizer that only makes them come true faster. — The Universe

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. — Epictetus

He lives long that lives well; and time misspent is not lived, but lost. — Thomas Fuller

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you’re alive, it isn’t. — Jim Backus

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone; you are the one who gets burned. — Buddha

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, tolerant of the weak and strong. Because sometime in your life you will have been all of these. — George Washington Carver

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

How simple it is to see that all the worry in the world cannot control the future. How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now. And that there will never be a time when it is not now. — Gerald Jampolsky

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. — H.G. Wells

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. — Albert Einstein

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. — Martin Luther King Jr.

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

I find that the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving; To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it–but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. — Oliver Wendell Holmes

I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. — Martha Washington

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered. — Jean Ingelow

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him. — Booker T. Washington

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. — E.B. White

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. — Henry Emerson Fosdick

If a man does not keep pace with his companions perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears however measured and far away. — Henry David Thoreau

If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him. — Seneca

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there’d be a shortage of fishing poles. — Doug Larson

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. — Charles Darwin

If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one. — Mother Teresa

If you chase two rabbits, both will escape. — Unknown

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. — Maya Angelou

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator. — W. Beran Wolfe

If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. — Unknown

If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other. — Carl Schurz

IMAGINATION - Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. — Albert Einstein

Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly. — Richard Bach

Imagination was given to us to compensate for what we are not; a sense of humor was given to us to console us for what we are. — Mark McGinnis

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. — Albert Schweitzer

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

In our daily lives, we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but the gratefulness that makes us happy. — Albert Clarke

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds. — Aristotle

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

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life - it goes on. — Robert Frost

Isn’t it nice to know… That you haven’t yet laughed all that you’ll laugh? That you haven’t yet met some of your very best friends? And that you haven’t yet even dreamed of all that you’ll manifest? — The Universe

It is better to believe than to disbelieve. In so doing you bring everything to the realm of possibility. — Albert Einstein

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

It is error only, and not the truth, that shrinks from inquiry. — Thomas Paine

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. — Ursula K. LeGuin

It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young. — Harry Emerson Fosdick

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and impossible to find it elsewhere. — Agnes Repplier

It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them. — Adlai E. Stevenson

It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive. — C. W. Leadbeater

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others. — Joseph Addison

It’s a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don’t quit when you’re tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired. — Robert Strauss

It’s the action, not the fruit of the action, that’s important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there’ll be any fruit. But that doesn’t mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result. — Mahatma Gandhi

Just as you may now think, with some amusement, about prior civilizations who thought your earth was flat, there will be others, in the not too distant future, who will reel in disbelief that there was ever a time when abundance wasn’t seen as spiritual, where a dream’s manifestation wasn’t considered inevitable, and that there were multitudes who knew so little of their importance, their power, and of how deeply they were loved. — The Universe

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

Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless. — Mother Theresa

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

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. — Theodore Isaac Rubin

Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back of an ass. — Japanese Proverb

Laced throughout every day of your life are hidden highways of opportunity, invisible crossroads of time, and avenues for great personal transformation that, if only traveled upon would reveal the extraordinary, the sublime, and the unexpected. Yet most slip by undetected, until there is first a childlike wonder at the ordinary, the routine, and the expected. — The Universe

Let every dawn of morning be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close. Then, let every one of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others, some goodly strength, or knowledge gained for yourself. — Lysle Wood Parker

Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break. — H.G. Wells

Life does not accommodate, it shatters you. It is meant to, and couldn’t do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition. — Florida Scott-Maxwell

Life in abundance comes only through great love. — Elbert Hubbard

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. — Danny Kaye

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. — Helen Keller

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure. — Helen Keller

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don’t fall off unless you stop pedaling. — Claude Pepper

Life is too short to be little. — Disraeli

Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments. — Rose Kennedy

Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we’re here we should dance. — Unknown

Life’s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting “…holy shit…what a ride! — Unknown

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known. — Hugh Prather

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring and integrity, they think of you. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing. — Socrates

Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected. — Sophocles

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory. — Betty Smith

May I become at all times, both now and forever
A protector for those without protection
A guide for those who have lost their way
A ship for those with oceans to cross
A bridge for those with rivers to cross
A sanctuary for those in danger
A lamp for those without light
A place of refuge for those who lack shelter
And a servant to all in need. — Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. — Aristotle

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. — Abraham Lincoln

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury. — Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Never miss a good chance to shut up. — Cowboy Wisdom

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life. — Sandra Carey

No one grows old by living, only by losing interest in living. — Marie Beynon Ray

No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve in quality as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing it is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them. — Alan Watts

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently. — Agnes DeMille

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. — Samuel Ullman

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. — Zelda Fitzgerald

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. — Brendan Gill

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety. — Plato, The Republic

Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also beleives to be true. — Demosthenes

Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength. — Ralph W. Sockman

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. — Samuel Johnson

Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve. — Leonardo da Vinci

Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercouse, yet he has left it out of his heaven. — Mark Twain

Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy-five and yet not ever truly to have lived. — Martin Luther King Jr.

One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. — Andre Gide

One must care about a world one will never see. — Bertrand Russell

One must never be in haste to end a day. There are too few of them in a lifetime. — Dale Coleman

Opportunities are usually disguised by hard work, so most people don’t recognize them. — Ann Landers

Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shapes of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience, and we soon shall see them in their proper figures. — Joseph Addison

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. — Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)

Past the seeker as he prayed, came the crippled and the beggar and the beaten. And seeing them…he cried, Great God, how is it that a loving creator can see such things and yet do nothing about them?…God said, I did do something. I made you. — Sufi teaching story

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind. — Leonardo da Vinci

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

People who matter are most aware that everyone else does, too. — Malcolm Forbes

Perhaps the world little notes nor long remembers individual acts of kindness - but people do. — Herm Albright

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. — Jonathan Kozol

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. — George Orwell, 1984

Prejudice begins with ignorance and ends with understanding. — Unknown

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. — Albert Camus

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. — Benjamin Franklin

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all. — Helen Keller

Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear. — Thomas Jefferson

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary. — James M. Barry

Shared joy is joy doubled. Shared sorrow is sorrow halved. — Anonymous

So long as we love we serve; So long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensible; And no man is useless while he has a friend. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. — Oscar Wilde

Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. — Thich Nhat Hanh

t a good person do good deeds with the same zeal that an evil person does bad ones. — Shalom Rokeach

Teachers are those who use themselves as bridges, over which they invite their students to cross - then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own. — Nikos Kazantzakis

The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their republic asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: “Do not do what you are doing now. — Unknown

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, not touched . . . but are felt in the heart. — Helen Keller

The best portion of a good man’s life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love. — William Wordsworth

The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure. — Joseph Campbell

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word ‘love’. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life. — Lydia Maria Child

The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire. — Tielhard de Chardin

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

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. — David Friedman

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

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of other; it is in yourself alone. — Orison Swett Marden

The Government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul. — George Bernard Shaw

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to him, his own. — Benjamin Desraeli

The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. — William James

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind. — Frank Lloyd Wright

The highest reward for a man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes of it. — John Ruskin

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reasons for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity. — Albert Einstein

The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between political parties either–but right through every human heart. — Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn

The love we give away is the only love we keep. — Elbert Hubbard

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. — John Burroughs

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse. — Helen Keller

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. — Albert Einstein

The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear. — Maya Angelou

The most difficult thing I have ever had to do is follow the guidance I prayed for. — Albert Schweitzer

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ (I found it!) but ‘That’s funny …’ — Isaac Asimov

The only conquests that are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves. — Napoleon

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

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others. — Bertrand Russell

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them. — George Bernard Shaw

The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands. — Robert M. Pirsig

The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream. — Kemp

The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. — Abraham Lincoln

The price of success is perseverance. The price of failure comes cheaper. — Anonymous

The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. — Arthur Koestler

The things taught in school are not an education but a means to an education. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The U.S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. — Benjamin Franklin

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. — Eden Phillpotts

The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow but the rainbow won’t wait while you do the work. — Unknown

The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home, reads only a page. — Saint Augustine

The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the others willing to let them. — Robert Frost

The world is your mirror and your mind is a magnet. What you perceive is in this world is largely a reflection of your own attitudes and beliefs. Life will give you what you attract with your thoughts. Think, act and talk negatively and your world will be negative. Think and act and talk with enthusiasm and you will attract positive results. — Michael LeBeuf

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the mpossible, and achieve it, generation after generation. — Pearl S. Buck

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

There are no finish lines in life… yet perpetually seeking them, in terms of the quick fix, the big win, or a home run, serves only to remind you of what’s missing, reinforcing the imagined lack. However, when one stops looking for results, and embraces the journey as it is, the days will soon be innumerable when, looking back, you marvel at the distance covered. — The Universe

There are two kinds of people: those who do the work, and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. — Indira Gandhi

There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem. — Harold Stephens

There is a transcendent power in example. We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly. — Anne Sophie Swetchine

There is no distance too far between friends, for friendship gives wings to the heart. — Kathy Kay Benudiz

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

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts. — Richard Bach, Illusions: Confessions of a Reluctance Messiah

There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope. — Bern Williams

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. — Benjamin Franklin

Think where man’s glory most begins and ends. And say my glory was I had such friends. — William Butler Yeats

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves. — Sir James Barrie

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse. — Adlai E. Stevenson

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life. — Rachael Carson

To be nobody but yourself, in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle that any human being can fight - and never stop fighting. — E.E. Cummings

To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not. — Akhenaton

To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it, life will be valueless. — Marsha Sinetar

To have striven, to have made an effort, to have been true to certain ideals–this alone is worth the struggle. We are here to add what we can to, not to get what we can from, life. — William Osler

To know true peace, we need to be willing to challenge our certainties and ask ourselves if our values are beneficial, biased, or perhaps evil. And we must be able to let go of that which is unworthy of belief and embrace that which reflects growth and maturity. For while the drive for belief is deep and consequential, individual items of belief are indeed quite capable of change. — Timothy Kincaid

To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patchâ€¦to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded! — Ralph Waldo Emerson

To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven. — Johannes A. Gaertner

To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world. — Anonymous

To unparted waters, undreamed shores. — William Shakespeare

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear great joys. — Christian Bovee

True love doesn’t have a happy ending; true love has no ending. — Ed McKenzie

True religion is the life we live, not the creed we profess. — J.F. Wright

Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it. — Maimonides

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. — Albert Einstein

Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. — Henry Van Dyke

We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others. — Blaise Pascal

We are not rich by what we possess but rather by what we can do without. — Immanuel Kant

We are what we repeatly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. — Buddha

We can not do great things — only small things with great love. — Mother Teresa

We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are. — Max DuPree

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. — Sam Kenn

We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world. — Helen Keller

We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are. — Anais Nin

We have not inherited the earth from our ancestors, we have borrowed it from our children. — Ancient Proverb

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

We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory. — Bern Williams

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. — Martin Luther King Jr.

We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to go there….We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope. — Edward Abbey

We realize that what we are accomplishing is a drop in the ocean. But if this drop were not in the ocean, it would be missed. — Mother Teresa

We really don’t learn anything from our experience. We only learn from reflecting on our experience. — Robert Sinclair

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

What I am doing today is important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it. — Unknown

What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly. — Carl Rogers

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls a butterfly. — Richard Bach, Illusions: Confessions of a Reluctant Messiah

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. — Pericles

Whatever befalls the earth befalls the son of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life - he is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. — Chief Seattle

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall, always. — Mahatma Gandhi

When the solution is simple, God is answering. — Albert Einstein

When you are reluctant to change, think of the beauty of autumn. — Anonymous

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

When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die. — Eleanor Roosevelt

When you learn, teach. When you get, give. — Maya Angelou

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit. — Baltasar Gracian

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength. — Corrie Ten Boom

You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a fine spirit of hope of achievement. You are here to enrich the world and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. — Woodrow Wilson

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however. — Richard Bach

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. — Naguib Mahfouz

You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die or when. You can only decide how you’re going to live. — Joan Baez

You don’t have to see the whole staircase; just that the first step. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

You don’t stop playing because you grow old, you grow old because you stop playing. — Unknown

You gain strength, experience and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face…You must do the thing you cannot do. — Eleanor Roosevelt

You give but a little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of your heart that you truly give. — Kahlil Gibran

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself. — Ethel Barrymore

You must give time to your fellow men — even if it’s a little thing, do something for others — something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. — Albert Schweitzer