Show me the man who would go to heaven alone, and I will show you one who will never be admitted there.
—Owen Feltham (English Essayist)
Every rose is an autograph from the hand of God on his world about us.—He has inscribed his thoughts in these marvellous hieroglyphics which sense and science have, these many thousand years, been seeking to understand.
—Theodore Parker (American Unitarian Preacher)
Life can and does turn on a dime. One little rotation of the wheel of fortune, and we’re no longer feeling so on top of life and impervious to change.
—Sharon Salzberg (Buddhist Teacher)
In some small field each child should attain, within the limited range of its experience and observation, the power to draw a justly limited inference from observed facts.
—Charles William Eliot (American Educator)
Half-knowledge is very communicable; not so knowledge.
—Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (British Poet, Novelist)
Joy is the happiness of love—love aware of its own inner happiness. Pleasure comes from without, and joy comes from within, and it is, therefore, within reach of everyone in the world.
—Fulton J. Sheen (American Catholic Religious Leader)
Anger is the root of anxiety and mental distress. It is anger that keeps people bound to a worldly life. It even destroys righteous qualities. Therefore, put away your anger.
—Adhyatma Ramayana (Hindu Religious Text)
People must know that their ideas will be listened to and, if they have merit, acted upon. If they do, it is possible to mobilize individual creativity on a very broad scale.
—James A. Champy (American Business Consultant)
The secret of Love is the joy of self-giving.
The secret of joy is self-giving. If any part in you is without joy, it means that it has not given itself, it wants to keep itself for itself.
—Nolini Kanta Gupta (Indian Hindu Revolutionary)
Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!
—Luigi Pirandello (Italian Dramatist)
Getting even with somebody is no way to get ahead of anybody.
—Cullen Hightower (American Humorist)