Quotes

A balanced diet

“Food is an important part of a balanced diet.” –Fran Lebowitz

A Daring adventure or nothing

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.”  –Helen Keller

A drop of honey

“When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and true maxim that ‘a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.’ So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great highroad to his reason, and which, once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing him of the justice of your cause, if indeed that cause is really a good one.”  –Abraham Lincoln

A few scars

“It’s a shallow life that doesn’t give a person a few scars.”  –Garrison Keillor

A gift for you in its hands

“There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands.”  –Richard Bach

A glipse of heaven

“To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.”  –Karen Sunde

A great marriage

“A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.”  –Dave Meurer

A little way into the impossible

“The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.” –Arthur C. Clarke

A mere child

“I must take issue with the term ‘a mere child,’ for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.”  –Fran Lebowitz

A million facts

“It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.”  –Alec Bourne

A Mirror that is not supposed to lie

“Even a mirror that’s not supposed to lie reflects things in reverse.” –A Zen Harvest

A music bath

“Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.”  –Oliver Wendell Holmes

A nation

“A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.”  –W. R. Inge

A path with no obstacles

“If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.”  –Frank A Clark

A separate life

“One should count each day a separate life.”  –Seneca

A thousand disguises

“We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.” –Carl Jung

Accepting criticism

“If you understand who you are and respect yourself, you will not see criticism as a problem but as an opportunity to become a better person. When you feel inadequate or imperfect, the criticism is threatening and makes you feel that you have to defend yourself. When you are secure–not perfect, but secure–you can listen to the criticism and consider its value.”  –Dr. Bernie Siegel

Act a particular way

“Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way…you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.”  –Aristotle

Act as if

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” –William James

Advice to children

“I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.”  –Harry S. Truman

After silence

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”  –Aldous Huxley

Age means nothing

“Age to me means nothing. I can’t get old; I’m working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you’re working, you stay young. When I’m in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.”  –George Burns

Aim at the sun

“Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.”  –Joel Hawes

Aim for success

“Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.”  –Dr. David M. Burns

Aim for success not perfection

“Aim for success not perfection… Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.”  –Dr. David Burns

Aim of an argument

“The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.” –Joseph Joubert

Alarm clock

“Throw out an alarming alarm clock. If the ring is loud and strident, you’re waking up to instant stress. You shouldn’t be bullied out of bed, just reminded that it’s time to start your day.”  –Sharon Gold

All of a sudden

“That’s the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they’ve been all along.”  –Madeleine L’Engle

All the care and kindness

“Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.”  –Og Mandino

All the other ages

“The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.”  –Madeleine L’Engle

All truth

“All truth passes through three stages: first it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, and third it is accepted as self-evident.” –Arthur Schopenhauer

Always 15 years older

“To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.”  –Bernard M. Baruch

Anger

“Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.”  –Harriet Lerner

Anxiety and love

“Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.”  –Anais Nin

Any fool can

“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius–and a lot of courage–to move in the opposite direction.”  –E. F. Schumacher

Any time one person makes an effort

“Any time one person makes an effort to contact a deeper part of him-or herself, balance his or her emotions, and deflect the stress momentum, others benefit. As more individuals learn to maintain their poise and balance and refrain from adding to the incoherence around them, they help to counterbalance the frequency of stress.”  –Doc Childre and Howard Martin

Appetite for Gossip

“In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our ideals we have consumed, and we have not been enlarged by the feasts but only diminished.” –Pico Iyer

Appreciative leadership

“It could be argued that all leadership is appreciative leadership. It’s the capacity to see the best in the world around us, in our colleagues, and in the groups we are trying to lead. It’s the capacity to see the most creative and improbable opportunities in the marketplace. It’s the capacity to see with an appreciative eye the true and the good, the better and the possible.”  –David L Cooperrider

Art is a collaboration

“Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.”  –Andre Gide

As a man thinketh

“As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.”  –Proverbs 23:7

As clothes do against the cold

“Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.”  –Leonardo da Vinci

As I breathe deeply, I feel myself thrive

“As I breathe deeply, I feel myself thrive. Thriving is as natural as breathing itself. By relaxing often, and breathing deeply—your natural thriving is enhanced.”  –Abraham

Atheist

“An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.”  –John Buchan

Atheist

“An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.”  –John Buchan

Atomic energy

“The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.”  –Albert Einstein

Attitude of silence

“In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.”  –Mahatma Gandhi

Background and circumstances

“Our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we are responsible for who we become.” –Barbara Geraci

Bad weather?

“There’s no such thing as bad weather. There’s only the wrong clothes.”  –Billy Connolly

Balance in your life

“The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.”  –Euripides

Basic truths

“Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.”  –Elizabeth Goudge

Be a fountain

“Be a fountain, not a drain.”  –Rex Hudler

Be the change you seek

“Be the change you seek in your world.” –Gandhi

Be who you are

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”  –Dr. Seuss

Before death

“Is there life before death?”  –Graffito

Being punctual

“The trouble with being punctual is that nobody’s there to appreciate it.”  –Franklin P. Jones

Being selfish is fun

Being selfish is fun! Passing the feeling of it on to others is Life! –Jennifer Scotchel

Believe in yourself

“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.”  –Norman Vincent Peale

Better and better

“Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better.”  –Emile Coue

Beware your anxiety

“Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.”  –Demosthenes

Bid war’s trumpet cease

“Lord, bid war’s trumpet cease; / Fold the whole earth in peace.” –Oliver Wendell Holmes Oliver Wendell Holmes

Big fan of dreams

“I’m a big fan of dreams. Unfortunately, dreams are our first casualty in life–people seem to give them up, quicker than anything, for a ‘reality’. “ –Kevin Costner

Bitterest tears

“When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.”  –Maurice Maeterlinck

Bliss

“Follow your bliss.” –Joseph Campbell

Bliss of certainty

“No great deed, private or public, had ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.”  –Leon Wieseltier

Boldness

“What you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.”  –Goethe

Brave and patient

“We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.”  –Helen Keller

Build health or produce disease

“As I see it every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.”  –Adelle Davis

Build health or…

“As I see it every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.”  –Adelle Davis

Bumperstickers

“Television is to news as bumperstickers are to philosophy.”  –Richard M. Nixon

Busy

“It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?”  –Henry David Thoreau

Carry the beautiful

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.”  –Ralph Waldo Emerson

Certain of improving

“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving… and that’s your own self.”  –Aldous Huxley

Change of heart

“The most powerful agent of growth and transformation is something much more basic than any technique: a change of heart.”  –John Welwood

Changing themselves

“Some people change jobs, mates, and friends, but never think of changing themselves.”  –John C. Maxwell

Chant the beauty of the good

“Don’t waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.”  –Ralph Waldo Emerson

Chaotic currents

“Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.”  –Carl Jung

Character develops

“Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.” –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Chasing the wrong things

“So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they’re busy doing things they think are important. This is because they’re chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.”  –Morrie Schwartz, in “Tuesdays with Morrie” by Mitch Albom

Cheer yourself up

“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”  –Mark Twain

Cheerfulness

“Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.”  –Charlotte Bronte

Chewing gum

“Television: chewing gum for the eyes. ”  –Frank Lloyd Wright

Chief value of money

“The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.”  –H. L. Mencken

Children’s eyes

“Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children’s eyes.”  –Lawana Blackwell

Choice between love and fear

“The choice between love and fear is made every moment in our hearts and minds. That is where the peace process begins. Without peace within, peace in the world is an empty wish. Like love, peace is extended. It cannot be brought from the world to the heart. It must be brought from each heart to another, and thus to all mankind.”  –Paul Ferrini

Choose a job you love

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”  –Confucius

Choose life work

“Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.”  –William Lyon Phelps

Choose that way…

“Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.”  –Hasidic Saying

Clear about what you want

“If you are clear about what you want, the world responds with clarity.” –Loretta Staples

Clenched fist

“You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.”  –Indira Gandhi

Client or Patient?

A client is, “One who uses a professional service.” A patient is, “A person to whom something is done.”  –Unknown

Clutter, discord, difficulty

“Out of clutter, find Simplicity. From discord, find Harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”  –Albert Einstein

Collaborators in creation

“Our duty as people is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.” –Pierre Chardin

Common medium

“Energy is the common medium of body, mind, and soul.” –Donna Eden

Compulsive work

“I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.”  –Bette Davis

Conformity

“The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.”  –Rita Mae Brown

Conscience

“Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good.”  –Unknown

Conscious choice

“Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.”  –Michael Bartel

Conscious endeavor

“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.”  –Henry David Thoreau

Constructive criticism

“No one appreciates the value of constructive criticism more thoroughly than the one who’s giving it.”  –Hal Chadwick

Constructive criticism

“No one appreciates the value of constructive criticism more thoroughly than the one who’s giving it.” –Hal Chadwick

Content to simply be yourself

“When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.” –Lao-Tzu

Cost of living

“In spite of the cost of living, it’s still popular.”  –Laurence J. Peter

Courage

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”  –Anais Nin

Crack in everything

“There’s a crack in everything and that’s how the light gets in.”  –Leonard Cohen

Creating from the heart

“If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.”  –Marc Chagall

Crippled inside

“One thing you can’t hide is when you’re crippled inside.”  –John Lennon

Crisis

“The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word ‘crisis.’ One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger -but recognize the opportunity.”  –Richard M. Nixon

Cure for boredom

“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”  –Ellen Parr

Cynicism

“Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It’s unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don’t have to try.”  –Peggy Noonan