Archives for January 2014

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to popular belief, is more powerful in the mature than the young.
—W. Somerset Maugham (French Playwright)

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.
—Robert Kiyosaki (American Businessperson)

I would rather be a beggar and spend my money like a king, than be a king and spend money like a beggar.
—Robert G. Ingersoll (American Atheist Politician)

The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh (American Author, Aviator)

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
—Aesop (Greek Fabulist)

To feel much for others, and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfish, and exercise our benevolent affections, constitutes the perfection of human nature.
—George Goodman (American Economist)

In this world the one thing supremely worth having is the opportunity to do well and worthily a piece of work of vital consequence to the welfare of mankind.
—Theodore Roosevelt (American Head of State)

See dying vegetables life sustain,|See life dissolving vegetate again;|All forms that perish other forms supply;|By turns we catch the vital breath and die.
—Alexander Pope (English Poet)

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
—Marquis de Sade (French Political leader)

Every human being who reaches the age of understanding of the purpose of money wishes for it. Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsessions, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring riches.
—Napoleon Hill (American Author)

Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality.
—Friedrich Schiller (German Poet)

An oak and a reed were arguing about their strength. When a strong wind came up, the reed avoided being uprooted by bending and leaning with the gusts of wind. But the oak stood firm and was torn up by the roots.
—Aesop (Greek Fabulist)

A woman’s always younger than a man of equal years.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (English Poet)

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.
—Napoleon Hill (American Author)

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.
—John W. Foster

Death is not the enemy; living in constant fear of it is.
—Norman Cousins (American Journalist)

By criticizing other people, we are increasing the behavior that we object to.
—Steve Chandler

If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.
—Christopher Morley (American Journalist)

You have to believe in happiness or happiness never comes.
—Douglas Malloch

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
—Thomas Carlyle (Scottish Writer)

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.
—Michel Foucault (French Philosopher)

The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now.
—Thich Nhat Hanh (Vietnamese Buddhist Religious Leader)

Death carries off a man who is gathering flowers and whose mind is distracted, as a flood carries off a sleeping village.
—The Dhammapada (Buddhist Anthology of Verses)

Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself. When you are carried away with your worries, fears, cravings, anger, and desire, you run away from yourself and you lose yourself. The practice is always to go back to oneself.
—Thich Nhat Hanh (Vietnamese Buddhist Religious Leader)

I must accept life unconditionally. Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don’t set any condition.
—Arthur Rubinstein (Polish-born American Composer)

Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value, and its face of eternal youth.
—Albert Camus (Algerian-born French Philosopher)

Poverty, frost, famine, rain, disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to common sense.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Philosopher)

The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.
—Martin Luther (German Protestant Theologian)