quotes

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.” Albert Schweitzer, philosopher, physician, musician, Nobel laureate (1875-1965)

“In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.” Lao Tzu BC 600 Chinese Philosopher Founder of Taoism Author of the Tao Te Ching

“Find an aim in life before you run out of ammunition.” Arnold Glasow

“The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent or absorbing positive knowledge.” Albert Einstein

“No man will work for your interests unless they are also his.” David Seabury

“Somehow not only for Christmas
But all the long year through,
The joy that you give to others
Is the joy that comes back to you.”
E. B. White

“It is our choices that show what we truly are far more than our abilities.” Professor Dumbledore (from Harry Potter)

“The world of reality has its limits, the world of imagination is boundless.” Jean Jacques Rousseau

“A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.” Ken Keys

“Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.” Peter Drucker

“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

“There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.” Dalai Lama

“Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.” Anonymous

“If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.” Ray Bradbury

“Challenge is the core and the mainspring of all human activity. If there's an ocean, we cross it; if there's a disease, we cure it; if there's a wrong, we right it; if there's a record, we break it; and finally, if there's a mountain, we climb it.” James Ramesy Ullman

“Promises are like the full moon: if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day.” German proverb

“There are books in which the footnotes or comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin are more interesting that the text. The world is one of these books.” George Santayana, philosopher (1863-1952)

“If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.” Abigail Van Buren, advice columnist (1918- )

“One day I realized that there is really only one blood vessel and that it takes on different characteristics depending on where it is. Look at your hand. Tell me, is this structure a single unit or a palm and five fingers? Whether you see the separateness of the stars, or blood vessels, or your palm and fingers, or whether you see the oneness of the sky and the vascular system, or your hand depends on your perception.” Judith Lasater, Living your Yoga

“The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter.” Joshua Reynolds, painter (1723-1792)

“With every rising of the sun, think of your life as just begun.” Anonymous

“Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile.” Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, philosopher (1844-1900)

“I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.” Reuben Blades