Archives for June 2007

Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components: love, adventure, power and fame.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Poet)

Wait not till tomorrow, what can be done today. For you do not know what tomorrow may bring.
—Anonymous

You should respect each other and refrain from disputes; you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together.
—Buddhist Teaching

No matter how much progress one makes, there is always the thrill of just beginning.
—Robert H. Goddard (American Inventor)

A hug is the body’s battery re-charge.
—Unknown

I do like a little bit of butter to my bread.
—A. A. Milne (English Children’s Books Writer)

Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, ‘I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.’
—Samuel Johnson (British Essayist)

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
—Voltaire (French Philosopher)

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
—Frank Hall Crane

Always follow your heart, it’s the one thing stronger than your mind.
—Rob Niemeyer

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.
—Leo Buscaglia (American Motivational Speaker)

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
—Charles Darwin (British Naturalist)

Winners find reasons to …|Losers find excuses not to.
—Unknown

Those who do too much for their children, will soon discover they can do nothing with their children.
—Neal A. Maxwell (American Mormon Religious Leader)

From the moment it is touched, the heart cannot dry up.
—Louis Bourdaloue

I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free.
—Nikos Kazantzakis (German Greek Philosopher)

No smile is as beautiful as the one that struggles through tears.
—Unknown

The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.
—Elbert Hubbard (American Writer)

A friend is a person who knows all about you-and still likes you.
—Elbert Hubbard (American Writer)

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own.And you know what you know. You are the guy who’ll decide where to go.
—Theodor Seuss Geisel (‘Dr. Seuss’) (American Children’s Books Writer)

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other, and thus makes him necessary to society.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Philosopher)

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (American Novelist)

We are judged by our actions, not our intentions. We may have a heart of gold, but so does a hardboiled egg.
—Unknown

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is usually the reputation of the business that remains intact.
—Warren Buffett (American Investor)

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
—Agnes de Mille (American Dancer)

Mourning is not the index of true love. It reflects love of the object, of its shape only, but that is not love. True love is shown by the certainty that the object of love is in the Self and that it can never become non-existent.
—Ramana Maharshi (Indian Hindu Mystic)

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.
—Bernard Meltzer (American Radio Personality)

The heart has its reasons, which Reason does not know. We feel it in a thousand things. It is the heart which feels God, and not Reason. This, then, is perfect faith: God felt in the heart.
—Blaise Pascal (French Catholic Mathematician)

Be silent, or speak something worth hearing.
—Unknown

Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
—Guillaume Apollinaire (Italian-born French Poet)

Every man is his own chief enemy.
—Anacharsis (Scythian Philosopher)

Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all.
—Georges Gurdjieff (Armenian Philosopher)

To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
—Miguel de Unamuno (Spanish Essayist)

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive person.
—David M. Burns

How does the meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.
—William Wordsworth (English Poet)

Every man is his own worst enemy.
—Common Proverb

Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.
—Thich Nhat Hanh (Vietnamese Buddhist Religious Leader)

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Poet)