Archives for April 2014

Light tomorrow with today.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (English Poet)

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
—Voltaire (French Philosopher)

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
—Thomas Carlyle (Scottish Writer)

We carry with us the wonders we seek without us.
—Thomas Browne (English Christian Author)

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
—Adlai Stevenson (American Diplomat)

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
—Henry David Thoreau (American Philosopher)

Everyone goes to the forest; some go for a walk to be inspired, and others go to cut down the trees.
—Vladimir Horowitz (Russian-born American Musician)

Praise is sometimes a good thing for the diffident and despondent. It teaches them properly to rely on the kindness of others.
—Letitia Elizabeth Landon (English Poet)

Compassionate action involves working with ourselves as much as working with others.
—Pema Chodron (American Buddhist Nun)

He knew no fear except the fear of doing wrong.
—Robert G. Ingersoll (American Atheist Politician)

You have to believe in yourself when no one else does. That’s what makes you a winner.
—Venus Williams

The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
—Thomas Carlyle (Scottish Writer)

Our mind is a treasure. But it’s very absorbent, so we must also be very discriminating in what we hear, read, and see. And in the spiritual life, our fence is our ethics. If we know we are living ethically to the best of our ability, the mind will become peaceful.
—Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo (British Buddhist Teacher, Nun)

Somewhere in your make-up there lies sleeping, the seed of achievement which, if aroused and put into action, would carry you to heights, such as you may never have hoped to attain.
—Napoleon Hill (American Author)

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.
—Adlai Stevenson (American Diplomat)

The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength and force of the blow come through concentration.
—Swami Vivekananda (Indian Hindu Mystic)

The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.
—Arthur Miller (American Playwright)

Every condition of life has its perils and its advantages; and the office of religion is, not to change that in which Providence has placed us, but to strengthen and sanctify our hearts that we may resist the temptations, and improve the opportunities of blessings presented to us.
—George Washington Bethune

What a heavy burden is a name that has too soon become famous.
—Voltaire (French Philosopher)

Have you learned lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who rejected you, and braced themselves against you, or disputed the passage with you?
—Walt Whitman (American Poet)

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
—Napoleon Hill (American Author)

Things of the spirit differ from things material in that the more you give the more you have.
—Christopher Morley (American Journalist)

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.
—Theodore Roosevelt (American Head of State)

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
—Mark Twain (American Humorist)