O, how shall summer’s honey breath hold out
Against the wrackful siege of battering days?
— Shakespeare
Life isn’t about finding yourself, life is about creating yourself.
— George Bernard Shaw
“Enter as strangers, leave as friends.”
— Unknown
“When I dream, I am ageless.”
— Elizabeth Coatsworth
“Don’t go through life, grow through life.”
— Eric Butterworth
“I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries,
and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. ”
— Joseph Addison
“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”
— William Shakespeare
A butterfly lights beside us like a sunbeam; And for a brief moment its glory and beauty belong to our world, but then it flies on again. And though we wish it could have stayed, We feel so lucky to have seen it.
— Author unknown
A friend to all is a friend to none.
— Aristotle
A friendship that can end never really began.
— Publilius Syrus
A soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
— Johann von Goeth
A thing of beauty is a joy forever;
Its loveliness increases;
it will never Pass into nothingness.
— John Keats
Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn’t know it so it goes on flying anyway.
— Mary Kay Ash
All glory comes from daring to begin.
— Eugene F. Ware
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
— Leonardo da Vinci
All that counts in heaven is intention.
— Bill Purdin
And if tonight my soul may find her peace
in sleep, and sink in good oblivion,
and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower
then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created.
— D.H. Lawrence
Anything I’ve ever done that ultimately was worthwhile… initially scared me to death.
— Betty Bender
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Be a good animal. True to your instincts.
— D.H. Lawrence
Be good and you will be lonesome.
— Mark Twain
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
— E. Roosevelt
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
— Kahlil Gibran
Becoming responsible adults is no longer a matter of whether children hang up there pajamas or put dirty towels in the hamper, but whether they care about themselves and others — and whether they see everyday chores as related to how we treat this planet.
— Eda Leshan
Creating is like playing, the aim is to have fun and to share this joy with others.
— Caroline
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
— Jean Paul Richter
Don’t go through life.
Grow through life.
— Eric Butterworth
Each place has its own advantages – heaven for the climate, and hell for the society.
— Mark Twain
Enter as strangers
Leave as friends
— Author unknown
Every house where love abides
And friendship is a guest,
Is surely home, and home sweet home
For there the heart can rest.
— Henry Van Dyke
Every man should be born again on the first day of January.
Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January. Let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
— Leo Tolstoy
Eveyone is a genius at least once a year. A real genius has his original ideas closer together.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
— Vernon Sanders Law
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
— Oscar Wilde
For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude.
— Clarence E. Hodges
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
— James Francis Byrnes
From small beginnings come great things.
— Proverb
Give the world the best you have and the best will come back to you.
— Madeline Bridges
God enters by a private door into every individual.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy
has meant more to me than my talent
for absorbing positive knowledge.
— Albert Einstein
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.”
— Bill Cosby
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
— Henry David Thoreau
I often put boiling water in the freezer. Then whenever I need boiling water, I simply defrost it.
— Gracie Allen
I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use.
— Mother Teresa
I’ve learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.
— Maya Angelou
If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can’t it get us out?
— Will Rogers
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
— Mother Theresa
If you give what you do not need, it isn’t giving.
— Mother Teresa
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.
— Robert Fritz
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
— Carl Sagan
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
— John Muir
It is a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed.
— Mark Twain
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.
— J. K. Rowling
It’s a shallow life that doesn’t give a person a few scars.
— Garrison Keillor
Knowledge is not knowing but knowing where to find it.
— Unknown
Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
— Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
— Epictetus
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
— Jim Ryun
Nature is the source of all artistic expression
— Unknown
Never eat more than you can lift.
— Miss Piggy
Never think that God’s delays are God’s denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.
— Comte de Buffon
No day is so bad it can’t be fixed with a nap.
— Carrie Snow
No distance of place of lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth.
— Robert Southey
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
— Unknown
No man is the whole of himself. His friends are the rest of him.
— Good Life Almanac
O sleep, O gentle sleep,
Nature’s soft nurse, how have I frighted thee,
That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down
And steep my sense in forgetfulness?
— William Shakespeare
One finger cannot lift a pebble.
— Hopi Saying
One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each other’s stories.
— Rebecca Falls
One should count each day a separate life.
— Seneca
Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with the truth.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Peace may sound simple – one beautiful word – but it requires everything we have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal.
— Yehudi Menuhin
Small ills are the fountains of most of our groans.
Men trip not on mountains, they stumble on stones.
— Chinese Proverb
Success is never final and failure never fatal. It’s courage that counts.
— George F. Tilton
Synergy — the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.
— Mark Twain
Tell me and I’ll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I’ll understand.
— Native American Proverb
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
— Beatrix Potter
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.
— Chinese Proverb
The best way to know God is to love many things.
— Vincent Van Gogh
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The fact that our task is exactly as large as our life makes it appear infinite.
— Franz Kafka
The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
— Hada Bejar
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
— William James
The key question isn’t “What fosters creativity?” But it is why in God’s name isn’t everyone creative? Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? I think therefore a good question might be not why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate? We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.
— Abraham Maslow
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
— Albert Einstein
The path to greatness is along with others.
— Baltasar Gracion, Spanish Priest
The responsibility of tolerance lies in those who have the wider vision.
— George Eliot
The right to be let alone – the most comprehensive of rights.
— Louis D. Brandies
The voyage of discovery lies not in finding new landscapes but in having new eyes.
— Marcel Proust
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
— Gandhi
The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.
— Albert Einstein
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 are two ways of spreading light – to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
— Edith Wharton
There is never time to do it right, but there is always time to do it over.
— Carl W. Buechner
There is no ideal Christmas;
only the one Christmas you decide to make
as a reflection of your values,
desires, affections, traditions.
— Bill McKibben
There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won’t and that’s a wife who can’t cook and will.
— Robert Frost
There is only one moment in time
when it is essential to awaken.
That moment is now.
— Buddha
Today I live in the quiet, joyous expectation of good.
— Ernest Holmen
Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.
— New England proverb
We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
— Carl Gustav Jung
We don’t see things as they are. We see them as we are.
— Talmud
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
— Indira Gandhi
What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that’s another matter.
— Peter F. Drucker
When we truly care for ourselves, it becomes possible to care more profoundly about other people. The more alert we are to our own needs, the more loving and generous we can be toward others.
— Eda Leshan
Worrying is like being in a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but does not get you anywhere.
— Unknown
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can chase a butterfly all over the field and never catch it. But if you sit quietly in the grass it will come and sit on your shoulder.
— Unknown
You can’t depend on your judgement when your imagination is out of focus.
— Mark Twain
You’ll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
— Proverbs
“Come to the edge.”
“We can’t. We’re afraid.”
“Come to the edge.”
“We can’t. We will fall!”
“Come to the edge.”
And they came.
And he pushed them.
And they flew.
— Guillaume Apollinaire, 1880-1918, French Poet, Philosopher
Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.
David Foster Wallace
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