BETTER THAN A THOUSAND WORDS IS ONE WORD THAT BRINGS PEACE. BUDDHA
YOGAS NOT A WORK OUT BUT A WORK IN.
SELF-CONTROL is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power. JAMES ALLEN
LOVE isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, here and now. FRED ROGERS
WHEN YOU ARE GRATEFUL, an invisible blanket of peace covers you, it makes you glow, it makes you happy, strong, warm. Gratitude puts mind at ease about everything around. OM SWAMI
HENRY VAN DYKE 1852-1933. “Counsels by the Way”.
BE GRATEFUL for the tiny details of your life and make room for unexpected and beautiful blessings.
TIME is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice but for those who love time is eternity.
BE GLAD OF LIFE because it gives you the chance to love, to play and to look up at the stars.
TO DESIRE AND STRIVE TO BE OF SOME SERVICE TO THE WORLD, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind — this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.
THERE is no conflict between the Old and the New; the conflict is between the False and the True.
WHAT you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.
GENIUS IS TALENT SET ON FIRE BY COURAGE.
THERE IS a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.
A RIVER is the most human and companionable of all inanimate things. It has a life, a character, a voice of its own; and it is full of good fellowship as a sugar maple is of sap. It can talk in various tones, loud or low, and of many subjects grave and gay. . . . For real company and friendship there is nothing, outside of the animal kingdom, that is comparable to a river.
LET me live my life from year to year,
With forward face and unreluctant soul;
Not hurrying to, nor turning from the goal;
Not mourning for the things that disappear.
HAPPINESS IS INWARD, and not outward; and it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.
THE STRENGTH OF YOUR LIFE IS MEASURED BY THE STRENGTH OF YOUR WILL.
Favorite People, Favorite Places,
Favorite Memories of the past . . .
These are the joys of a lifetime
Those are the things that last.
YOU CAN NEVER BEGIN TO LIVE UNTIL YOU DARE TO DIE.
REMEMBER THAT LOVE IS NOT GETTING BUT GIVING; not a wild dream of pleasure and a madness of desire — oh no, love is not that — it is goodness and honor and peace and pure living — yes, love is that; and it is the best thing in the world and the thing that lives longest.
FAITH is an adventure; it is the courage of the soul to face the unknown. But that courage springs from the hope and confidence of the soul that its adventure will succeed.
A CLEAN and sensitive conscience, a steady and scrupulous integrity in small things as well as large, is the most valuable of all possessions, to a nation as to an individual.
WE measure success by accumulation. The measure is false. The true measure is appreciation. He who loves most has most.
WE ARE ALL SWIMMERS IN GOD’S MIGHTY SEA.
IT IS BETTER to follow even the shadow of the best, than to remain content.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH 1770-1774. “THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD”.
SUCCESS consists of getting up just one more time that you fall.
YOU CAN PREACH a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
LIFE is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
PEOPLE seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
I love everything that’s old — old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
DON’T let us make imaginary evils, when. you know we have so many real ones to encounter.
IF we don’t need happiness in the present moment, in what shall we find it?
LAWS GRIND THE POOR AND RICH MEN RULE THE LAW.
THE BEST WAY TO MAKE YOUR AUDIENCE LAUGH IS TO START LAUGHING YOURSELF.
WEALTH ACCUMULATES AND MEN DECAY.
TRUE WISDOM CONSISTS OF TRACING EFFECTS TO THEIR CAUSES.
FORTUNE is ever sen accompanying industry.
LITTLE THINGS ARE GREAT TO LITTLE MEN.
AN ENGLISHMAN FEARS CONTEMPT MORE THAN DEATH.
TENDERNESS IS A VIRTUE.
WE ARE ALL SURE OF TWO THINGS, at least; we shall suffer and we shall die.
A MAN who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country guided by the blind impulse of curiosity is a vagabond