Archives for March 2008

A list of man’s enemies is often a truer guide to his character than a list of his friends.
—Unknown

Value is what people are willing to pay for it.
—John Naisbitt

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don’t fall off unless you stop pedaling.
—Claude Pepper

Live more simply, so that you can find time to enjoy the little pleasures of life.
—Unknown

As the sun that beholds the world is untouched by earthly impurities, so the Spirit that is in all things is untouched by external sufferings.
—The Upanishads

In the face of uncertainty, there is nothing wrong with hope.
—Bernie Siegel

Life brings tears, smiles, and memories: the tears dry, the smile fades, but the memories live on forever.
—Anonymous

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.
—Peter Medawar

Forgiveness is a virtue of the learned. To err is human, to forgive divine.
—Subhashita Manjari

If you place a low value on yourself, you can be sure the world will not overprice you.
—Unknown

Paradise is always where love dwells.
—Jean Paul (German Novelist)

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
—Cicero (Roman Philosopher)

In the end, management doesn’t change culture. Management invites the workforce itself to change the culture.
—Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

Mothers are not paid for their work because it is priceless.
—Unknown

A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.
—Leo Buscaglia (American Motivational Speaker)

Triumph is the extra umph added to the try.
—Unknown

Happiness, to me, lies in stretching, to the farthest boundaries of which we are capable, the resources of the mind and heart.
—Leo Rosten (Russian-born American Humorist)

Identify your strengths and weaknesses. Learn new skills to achieve your goals in life.
—Unknown

I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it.
—Thomas Aquinas (Italian Catholic Priest)

What is ours to do comes so easily, because from the very beginning it has always been there.
—Michael Jones

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

Love is the greatest gift we can give or be given.
—Unknown

The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.
—Arthur Brisbane (American Journalist)

Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement.
—Thomas N. Carruthers

Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
—Maria Mitchell

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
—Vidal Sassoon

Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
—Henry Van Dyke

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
—Oscar Wilde (Irish Poet)

Life is a long lesson in humility.
—J. M. Barrie (Scottish Novelist)

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti (Indian Philosopher)

Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
—Henry Van Dyke

Man succeeds because he believes he can, or he fails because he thinks he will.
—Unknown

It is easy for others to put you down when they are simply agreeing with you.
—Unknown

There is a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.
—Rebecca West (English Author)

We shall not cease from exploration|And the end of all our exploring|Will be to arrive where we started|And know the place for the first time.
—T. S. Eliot (American-born British Poet)

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
—Benjamin Franklin (American Political leader)

Here, you have the remote. We’re lost. Let’s stop and ask for directions. Why don’t we go and see a romantic film for a change. No, let me take out the rubbish. I’ll just separate the white clothes from the coloured ones. Isn’t it my turn to change the baby? I’ll turn off the rugby so we can talk.
—Unknown

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
—James F. Byrnes (American Elected Representative)

Life is like a book. You can’t look at the beginning and the end and know what it’s all about. You have to live it all the way through.
—Unknown

No man needs sympathy because he has to work. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
—Theodore Roosevelt (American Head of State)

When you sing don’t worry about the sound you hear or you’ll miss the music you could make.
—Unknown

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.
—Sun Tzu (Chinese Military Leader)

Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
—Edgard Varese

You can take the day off—but you can’t put it back on again.
—Unknown

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
—Victor Borge

To be old and wise, you first have to be young and stupid.
—Unknown

The spirit of a person’s life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air.
—Thomas Starr King (American Unitarian Minister)

Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves, as he loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This conflict with difficulty makes us acquainted with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.
—Edmund Burke (Irish Political leader)

All is for the best in the best of the possible worlds.
—Voltaire (French Philosopher)