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By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
—John Howard

There are two kinds of truth, small truth and great truth. You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth.
—Niels Bohr (Danish Physicist)

Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.
—John Milton (English Poet)

If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.
—Thomas Edison (American Inventor)

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
—Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)

To some extent, while we think we are simply driving to work every morning to earn a living, the soul knows it is secretly engaged in a life-or-death struggle for its existence.
—David Whyte

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
—Niels Bohr (Danish Physicist)

Be a hero. Always say, “I have no fear.” Tell this to everyone—“Have no fear.”
—Swami Vivekananda (Indian Hindu Mystic)

He restrains his friend from committing sins, and induces him to do good deeds. He conceals the unseemly secrets of a friend, projecting only his good qualities. He does not desert his friend in difficulties, but gives timely assistance. Saints describe these as the characteristics of a true friend.
—Subhashita Manjari

If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible for us to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
—Anonymous

You can’t think of risks. I have nothing to lose. You either make something that you like, or you don’t, and you throw it to the universe.
—Mike Myers

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
—Akhenaten (Egyptian Monarch)

Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea.
It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off,
and does something about it that makes a difference.
—Nolan Bushnell

A clever man commits no minor blunders.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Poet)

While we are postponing, life speeds by.
—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) (Roman Philosopher)

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
—Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)

Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority.
—William Jennings Bryan (American Political leader)

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.
—Lionel Trilling

There is no medicine like hope, no incentives so great, and no tonics so powerful as the expectation of something better tomorrow.
—Orison Swett Marden (American New Thought Writer)

Every man’s work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is always a portrait of himself, and the more he tries to conceal himself the more clearly will his character appear in spite of him.
—Samuel Butler

We shall find peace. We shall hear angels. We shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
—Anton Chekhov (Russian Short Story Writer)

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (English Poet)

To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.
—Tryon Edwards (American Theologian)

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
—Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)

Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.
—Zig Ziglar (American Author)

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Philosopher)

They can take, by force as the case too often proves to be, the products of your energy. they can plunder what you have sown, by force as the case too often proves to be. but that you have produced, that you have sown anything at all, these are circumstances over which you, and no other, are the master.
—Unknown

It is not what he has, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
—Henri Frederic Amiel (Swiss Philosopher)

Between the wish and the thing, life lies waiting.
—Common Proverb

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
—Emile Zola (French Novelist)

In all things it is better to hope than to despair.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Poet)

The fraction of life can be increased in value not so much by increasing your numerator as by lessening your denominator. Nay, unless my algebra deceives me, unity itself divided by zero will give infinity.
—Thomas Carlyle (Scottish Writer)

Men are like pillow-cases. The colour of one may be red, that of another blue, and that of the third black; but all contain the same cotton within. So it is with man; one is beautiful, another is ugly, a third holy , and a fourth wicked; but the Divine Being dwells in them all.
—Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (Indian Hindu Philosopher)

Wisely and slow;—they stumble that run fast.
—William Shakespeare (British Playwright)

Life is not holding a good hand; life is playing a poor hand well.
—Danish Proverb

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself—and be lenient to everybody else.
—Henry Ward Beecher (American Protestant Clergyman)

An expert is a person who has found out by his own painful experience all the mistakes that one can make in a very narrow field.
—Niels Bohr (Danish Physicist)

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
—Edith Wharton

An expert is a person who has found out by his own painful experience all the mistakes that one can make in a very narrow field.
—Niels Bohr (Danish Physicist)

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
—Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)

Charity sees the need, not the cause.
—German Proverb

It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
—John Steinbeck (American Novelist)

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
—Margaret Mead (American Anthropologist)

The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains.
—Marcel Proust (French Novelist)

The truth is more important than the facts.
—Frank Lloyd Wright (American Architect)

No life can be barren which hears the whisper of the wind in the branches, or the voice of the sea as it breaks upon the shore; and no soul can lack happiness looking up to the midnight stars.
—William Winter

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
—Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)

Professional success requires more than talent. Among other things, it requires drive, initiative, commitment, involvement, and–above all–enthusiasm.
—Tom Peters (American Management Consultant)

Groups become great only when everyone in them, leaders and members alike, is free to do his or her absolute best.
—Warren Bennis (American Scholar)

A good rule for going through life is to keep the heart a little softer than the head.
—Anonymous

You are neither right nor wrong because the crowd disagrees with you. You are right because your data and reasoning are right.
—Benjamin Graham (American Investor)

What you seem to be, be really.
—Benjamin Franklin (American Political leader)

I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become…Become the change you want to see – those are words I live by.
—Oprah Winfrey (American TV Personality)

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious—the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
—Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
—Colin Wilson (British Philosopher)

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
—Niels Bohr (Danish Physicist)

It’s up to each of us alone to figure out who we are, who we are not, and to act more or less consistently with those conclusions.
—Tom Peters (American Management Consultant)

Freedom, after all, is simply being able to live with the consequences of your decisions.
—James X. Mullen

If you care about something, you have to protect it—if you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
—John Irving

Convictions are the mainsprings of action, the driving powers of life. What a man lives are his convictions.
—Francis Kelley

All great ideas are dangerous.
—Oscar Wilde (Irish Poet)

When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
—Buckminster Fuller (American Inventor, Philosopher)

Dream is not what you see in sleep, dream is the thing which does not let you sleep.
—Anonymous

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

The Three Rules of Work: 1. Out of clutter, find simplicity. 2. From discord, find harmony. 3. In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity
—Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)

The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
—Muhammad Ali (American Sportsperson)

Hard things are put in our way, not to stop us, but to call out our courage and strength.
—Anonymous

Living each moment to its absolute fullest is perhaps the only justification you have for receiving this incredible gift called life.
—Unknown

Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
—George Burns

Face the brutes. That is a lesson for all life—face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
—Swami Vivekananda (Indian Hindu Mystic)

We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be.
—Gladys Taber

Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings.
—Arthur Eddington (English Astrophysicist)

Stop looking at yourself through your own eyes, and see yourself through God’s eyes.
—Unknown

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.
—Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it’s their fault.
—Henry Kissinger (American Diplomat)

When you ceased to make a contribution you begin to die.
—Eleanor Roosevelt (American First Lady)

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.
—Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
—Eleanor Roosevelt (American First Lady)

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go farther than a great idea that inspires no one.
—Mary Kay Ash (American Entrepreneur)

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
—James Joyce (Irish Novelist)

The fruits of all our labors have left us as we started. To grow without is not to grow within.
—Dave Winer

Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive—the risk to be alive and express what we really are.
—Miguel Angel Ruiz

How you use today will determine how tomorrow uses you.
—Earl Wilson

Advice is judged by results, not by intention.
—Cicero (Roman Philosopher)

Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break.
—H. G. Wells (British Novelist)

In an argument, retaliation leads to escalation.
—Unknown

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.
—Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)

There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit that they enjoy life.
—William Lyon Phelps (American Author)

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.
—Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
—Malcolm Forbes (American Publisher)

Athletes are driven by commitment to their sport, to themselves, to excellence itself. Commitment fuels the extra mile, the final set, the last quarter, the sprint to the line, going on when the body begs to stop.
—Unknown

When clouds form in the skies we know that rain will follow but we must not wait for it. Nothing will be achieved by attempting to interfere with the future before the time is ripe. Patience is needed.
—I. Ching

You have only one life, and it will soon be past, and only what’s done for God will last.
—Unknown

Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupery (French Novelist, Aviator)

A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk, will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.
—William Shakespeare (British Playwright)

It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how things are in themselves. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
—Carl Jung (Swiss Psychologist)

The splendid discontent of God|With chaos, made the world…|And from the discontent of man|The world’s best progress springs.
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox (American Poet)

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
—Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)

A closed mind is like a closed book, just a block of wood.
—Chinese Proverb

Only we can choose how great of an impact our actions have on others,|So choose something that does not discourage, but rather inspires.
—Unknown

A tool is but the extension of a man’s hand and a machine is but a complex tool; and he that invents a machine augments the power of man and the well-being of mankind.
—Henry Ward Beecher (American Protestant Clergyman)

Don’t stand shivering upon the bank; plunge in at once, and have it over.
—Thomas Chandler Haliburton (Canadian Author)

There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.
—Joseph Addison (English Essayist)

We can’t live our life over again, but we can really live up to our potential from this moment on.
—Unknown

Faith will take us to the destination God wants us to get to. We have a destiny.
—Unknown

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
—Benjamin Disraeli (British Head of State)