quotes

“In a full heart there is room for everything, and in the empty heart there is room for nothing.” Antonio Porchia

“When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections.” Miles Franklin

“They who give have all things; they who withhold have nothing.” Hindu Proverb

“Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.” Neil Postman, professor and author (1931- )

“The future is no more uncertain than the present.” Walt Whitman

“He whose face gives no light shall never become a star.” William Blake

“The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.” Carrie Ten Boom

“Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.” Spanish Proverb

“I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.” Katherine Anne Porter

“Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.” Warren G. Bennis

“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.” Sophocles

“Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves.” Horace Bushnell

“Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions, nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.” Leonardo da Vinci, painter, engineer, musician, and scientist (1452-1519)

“Individual success for the average person is a rather new concept in history, and an argument could be made that the United States was the first to bring it onto the world scene. . . . Europe has no tradition of ordinary people becoming successful. America has little else.” Barbara Sher

“Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.” Jimmy Carter (An Outdoor Journal)

“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.” Henry Ford

“Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.” Mark Victor Hansen

“Nature always takes her time. Great oaks don’t become great overnight. They also lose a lot of leaves, branches and bark in the process of becoming great.” Andrew Matthews

“Put off for one day and ten days will pass.” Korean Proverb

“As long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.” Marcus Aurelius

“If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.” P.J. O'Rourke

“Time is the only commodity that we can not get back once we have spent it.” Anonymous