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"Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love." 
— Francis of Assisi
"If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself." 
— Rollo May
"Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years." 
— Richard Bach
"To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist." 
— Gail Sheehy
"Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." 
— Laozi
"All of our technology is completely unnecessary to a happy life." 
— Tom Hodgkinson
"Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune." 
— Carl Jung
"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." 
— Elbert Hubbard
"Technology… is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other." 
— Carrie Snow
"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err." 
— Mahatma Gandhi
"It isn't where you come from, it's where you're going that counts." 
— Ella Fitzgerald
"Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?" 
— Dalai Lama
"Formula for success: under promise and over deliver." 
— Tom Peters
"The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident." 
— Charles Lamb
"Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds." 
— Gordon Hinckley
"A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool." 
— Joseph Roux
"Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm." 
— Pope Paul VI
"Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart." 
— Washington Irving
"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." 
— Thomas Edison
"Technology frightens me to death. It's designed by engineers to impress other engineers. And they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers — which is why almost no technology ever works." 
— John Cleese
"It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life." 
— Elizabeth Kenny
"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues." 
— René Descartes
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create." 
— Albert Einstein
"What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk." 
— Cicero
"If we are not given the chance to forget, we are also not given the chance to recover our memories, to alter them with time, perspective, and wisdom. Forgetting, we can be ourselves beyond what the past has told us we are; we can evolve. That is the possibility we want from the future." 
— Caterina Fake
"Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose." 
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit." 
— Aristotle
"The future is completely open, and we are writing it moment to moment." 
— Pema Chödrön
"Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed." 
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"All I required to be happy was friendship and people I could admire." 
— Christian Dior
"Never promise more than you can perform." 
— Publilius Syrus
"Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is." 
— Robert M. Pirsig
"He who hath many friends hath none." 
— Aristotle
"Obstacles are those things you see when you take your eyes off the goal." 
— Hannah More
"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it." 
— Chuck Swindoll
"When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run." 
— Abraham Lincoln
"Appearances are often deceiving." 
— Aesop
"I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex." 
— Kurt Vonnegut
"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." 
— Annie Dillard
"Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are." 
— Marianne Williamson
"An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men." 
— Thomas Fuller
"Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark." 
— Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." 
— Wayne Dyer
"There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking." 
— Alfred Korzybski
"One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent." 
— Epictetus
"Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend." 
— Theophrastus
"A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do." 
— Chuck Norris
"To change one's life, start immediately, do it flamboyantly, no exceptions." 
— William James
"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions." 
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over." 
— Octavia E. Butler
"Where all think alike, no one thinks very much." 
— Walter Lippmann
"Your friend is your needs answered." 
— Kahlil Gibran
"Eighty percent of success is showing up." 
— Woody Allen
"I think and that is all that I am." 
— Wayne Dyer
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves." 
— Carl Jung
"A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value." 
— Isaac Asimov
"Quality is not an act; it is a habit." 
— Aristotle
"Do one thing every day that scares you." 
— Eleanor Roosevelt
"A really great talent finds its happiness in execution." 
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Having nothing, nothing can he lose." 
— William Shakespeare
"The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself." 
— Anaïs Nin
"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world." 
— Archimedes
"He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the world." 
— Marcus Aurelius
"All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once." 
— Bill Watterson
"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps." 
— Confucius
"To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly." 
— Samuel Johnson
"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict." 
— William Ellery Channing
"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light." 
— Helen Keller
"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again." 
— Og Mandino
"Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!" 
— Dr. Seuss
"The most important thing is transforming our minds, for a new way of thinking, a new outlook: we should strive to develop a new inner world." 
— Dalai Lama
"An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox" 
— Laozi
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." 
— Henry Ford
"Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements." 
— Napoleon Hill
"Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times." 
— Napoleon Hill
"We must not say every mistake is a foolish one." 
— Cicero
"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered." 
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress." 
— Confucius
"Go for it now. The future is promised to no one." 
— Wayne Dyer
"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page." 
— Augustine of Hippo
"From wonder into wonder existence opens." 
— Laozi
"They can conquer who believe they can." 
— Virgil
"None knows the weight of another's burden." 
— George Herbert
"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you." 
— Laozi
"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." 
— Winston Churchill
"The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence." 
— Confucius
"Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living." 
— Anaïs Nin
"The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind." 
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"It is the quality of our work which will please God, not the quantity." 
— Mahatma Gandhi
"It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself." 
— Eleanor Roosevelt
"No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility." 
— Napoleon Hill
"Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths." 
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"All things change; nothing perishes." 
— Ovid
"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value." 
— Albert Einstein
"There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge." 
— Napoleon Hill
"To lead people walk behind them." 
— Laozi
"All great achievements require time." 
— Maya Angelou
"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." 
— John Quincy Adams
"Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door." 
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life." 
— William Blake
"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer." 
— Bruce Lee
"The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others." 
— Don Shula
"The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention." 
— John Burroughs
"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That is why we call it the present." 
— Babatunde Olatunji
"Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be." 
— Thomas à Kempis
"All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man." 
— Henry David Thoreau
"Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom." 
— Rumi
"One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that one's life has meaning, that one is needed in this world." 
— Hannah Szenes
"Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them." 
— Sophocles
"We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world." 
— Helen Keller
"He who angers you conquers you." 
— Elizabeth Kenny
"Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar." 
— William Wordsworth
"Almost everything comes from nothing." 
— Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend." 
— Plautus
"Whoever is happy will make others happy, too." 
— Mark Twain
"The best cure for the body is a quiet mind." 
— Napoleon
"No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now." 
— Alan Watts
"Always tell the truth. That way, you don't have to remember what you said." 
— Mark Twain
"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." 
— Elbert Hubbard
"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person." 
— Mother Teresa
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." 
— Jimi Hendrix
"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'" 
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have." 
— Ernie Banks
"Wisdom comes alone through suffering." 
— Aeschylus
"Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins." 
— Charles Eastman
"Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment." 
— Laozi
"In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply." 
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve." 
— Napoleon Hill
"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open." 
— John Barrymore
"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step." 
— Laozi
"I walk slowly, but I never walk backward." 
— Abraham Lincoln
"I never worry about action, but only inaction." 
— Winston Churchill
"Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation." 
— Samuel Richardson
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." 
— Carl Jung
"Make the best use of what is in your power and take the rest as it happens." 
— Epictetus
"If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own." 
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands." 
— Robert M. Pirsig
"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature." 
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me." 
— Woody Allen
"Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow." 
— Melody Beattie
"I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime." 
— Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest." 
— Confucius
"Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom." 
— Euripides
"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy." 
— Ludwig van Beethoven
"The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions." 
— Alfred Tennyson
"Happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors." 
— Dalai Lama
"It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped." 
— Tony Robbins
"I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times." 
— Everett Dirksen
"We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us." 
— Rabindranath Tagore
"Genuine love should first be directed at oneself; if we do not love ourselves, how can we love others?" 
— Dalai Lama
"The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all." 
— Ovid
"It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not." 
— Mignon McLaughlin
"The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment." 
— Pema Chödrön
"You are the only person on earth who can use your ability." 
— Zig Ziglar
"The secret of success is constancy to purpose." 
— Benjamin Disraeli
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched... but are felt in the heart." 
— Helen Keller
"There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met." 
— William Butler Yeats
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying." 
— Woody Allen
"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act." 
— G. K. Chesterton
"Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him." 
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If you have one true friend, you have more than your share." 
— Thomas Fuller
"Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness." 
— Sophocles
"Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it." 
— Agatha Christie
"Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that, so it goes on flying anyway." 
— Mary Kay Ash
"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high, and we miss it, but that it is too low, and we reach it." 
— Michelangelo
"Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too." 
— Voltaire
"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion." 
— Simone de Beauvoir
"Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed." 
— Blaise Pascal
"If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much." 
— Jim Rohn
"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly." 
— Buckminster Fuller
"Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know." 
— Richard Bach
"The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness." 
— Laozi
"I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else." 
— Pablo Picasso
"Know what's important and what isn't. Have the wisdom to know the right thing to do, the integrity to do it, the character to stand up to those who don't, and the courage to stop those who won't." 
— Mark Goulston
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge." 
— Daniel J. Boorstin
"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down." 
— Oprah Winfrey
"I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed." 
— Robert Schuller
"I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside." 
— Wayne Dyer
"Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end." 
— Leonard Nimoy
"Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or airplane or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone." 
— John Burroughs
"There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life." 
— Anaïs Nin
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." 
— Benjamin Franklin
"The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." 
— Helen Keller
"Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly." 
— John F. Kennedy
"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it." 
— Pablo Picasso
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." 
— Winston Churchill
"The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness." 
— Sigmund Freud
"Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends." 
— Virginia Woolf
"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed." 
— Kahlil Gibran
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." 
— Anne Frank
"Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself." 
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If you can dream it, you can do it." 
— Walt Disney
"You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back." 
— Wayne Dyer
"Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something." 
— Anton Chekhov
"Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible." 
— Walter Lippmann
"To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright." 
— Walter Benjamin
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." 
— Eleanor Roosevelt
"Heedfulness is the path to the Deathless. Heedlessness is the path to death. The heedful die not. The heedless are as if already dead." 
— The Buddha
"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future." 
— Bernard Shaw
"I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures." 
— Laozi
"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one." 
— Elbert Hubbard
"To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous." 
— Confucius
"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate." 
— Albert Schweitzer
"The only person who never makes mistakes is the person who never does anything." 
— Denis Waitley
"Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more." 
— Nikola Tesla
"Life is what you make of it. Always has been, always will be." 
— Grandma Moses
"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them." 
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything." 
— Muhammad Ali
"To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act." 
— Anatole France
"Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made." 
— Wayne Dyer
"The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become." 
— Charles Du Bos
"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." 
— Marcus Aurelius
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do." 
— Mark Twain
"Were here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark." 
— Whoopi Goldberg
"Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out." 
— Jack Buck
"Man is not sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have." 
— Jean-Paul Sartre
"Everything that happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so." 
— Marcus Aurelius
"Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it." 
— Publilius Syrus
"True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing." 
— Baltasar Gracián
"Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable." 
— Carl Jung
"Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning." 
— Gloria Steinem
"The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that." 
— Eckhart Tolle
"True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment." 
— William Penn
"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom." 
— Isaac Asimov
"Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher." 
— Confucius
"A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes." 
— Mark Twain
"Truth is generally the best vindication against slander." 
— Abraham Lincoln
"No one has ever become poor by giving." 
— Anne Frank
"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world right in the eye." 
— Helen Keller
"You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing in." 
— Heraclitus
"Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation." 
— Robert Schuller
"The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while." 
— Albert Einstein
"Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life." 
— George Herbert
"Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world." 
— Eleanor Roosevelt
"Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures." 
— Seneca the Younger
"The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself." 
— Confucius
"The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself." 
— Henry Miller
"You can observe a lot just by watching." 
— Yogi Berra
"The ultimate promise of technology is to make us master of a world that we command by the push of a button." 
— Volker Grassmuck
"Simply put, you believer that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy." 
— Wayne Dyer
"If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging." 
— Will Rogers
"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome." 
— Anne Bradstreet
"I can, therefore I am." 
— Simone Weil
"How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?" 
— Woody Allen
"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul." 
— Henry K. Beecher
"People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do." 
— Lewis Cass
"The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going." 
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh." 
— Francis of Assisi
"Do I speak at the right time, or not? Do I speak of facts, or not? Do I speak gently or harshly? Do I speak profitable words or not? Do I speak with a kindly heart, or inwardly malicious?" 
— The Buddha
"When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self." 
— Confucius
"All phenomena are preceded by the mind, created by the mind, and have the mind as their master." 
— The Buddha
"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams, who looks inside, awakes." 
— Carl Jung
"The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions." 
— Confucius
"Stay away from what might have been and look at what will be." 
— Marsha Petrie Sue
"If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher." 
— Pema Chödrön
"Learning is finding out what you already know." 
— Richard Bach
"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." 
— Friedrich Nietzsche
"I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends." 
— Abraham Lincoln
"Much wisdom often goes with fewer words." 
— Sophocles
"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." 
— Walter Winchell
"Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace." 
— The Buddha
"Criticism is something you can easily avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing." 
— Aristotle
"It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship." 
— Henry Ward Beecher
"If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of." 
— Bruce Lee
"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." 
— Winston Churchill
"There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way." 
— Thích Nhất Hạnh
"In order to win, you must expect to win." 
— Richard Bach
"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." 
— Satchel Paige
"Error is discipline through which we advance." 
— William Ellery Channing
"Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat." 
— Napoleon Hill
"He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law." 
— Pablo Picasso
"Listen to what you know instead of what you fear." 
— Richard Bach
"One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes." 
— Benjamin Disraeli
"Meditation brings wisdom, lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back and choose the path that leads to wisdom." 
— The Buddha
"Fortune befriends the bold." 
— John Dryden
"Important principles may, and must, be inflexible." 
— Abraham Lincoln
"There is no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there is no end to it." 
— Henry Moore
"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for." 
— Maureen Dowd
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." 
— Nelson Mandela
"Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity." 
— Robert Louis Stevenson
"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters." 
— Epictetus
"Self-trust is the first secret of success." 
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Be the chief but never the lord." 
— Laozi
"Be as you wish to seem." 
— Socrates
"Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life." 
— Wayne Dyer
"All wisdom does not reside in Delhi." 
— P. Chidambaram
"Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers." 
— Tony Robbins
"Technology is teaching us to be human again." 
— Simon Mainwaring
"Step with care and great tact and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act." 
— Dr. Seuss
"If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut." 
— Albert Einstein
"I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind." 
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"Two of man's basic needs are to love and to share. Both of these needs are satisfied in greater or lesser degree by friendship." 
— Mother Angelica
"Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer and practice it." 
— Richard Bach
"Smile, breathe and go slowly." 
— Thích Nhất Hạnh
"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases." 
— Carl Jung
"There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with." 
— Marcus Aurelius
"Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle." 
— Amy Bloom
"The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them." 
— Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour
"Our shared values define us more than our differences. And acknowledging those shared values can see us through our challenges today if we have the wisdom to trust in them again." 
— John McCain
"But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint." 
— Edmund Burke
"Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late someday." 
— Franz Liszt
"To see things in the seed, that is genius." 
— Laozi
"You can do it if you believe you can!" 
— Napoleon Hill
"The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are." 
— John Burroughs
"The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition." 
— Ralph Abernathy
"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world." 
— Arthur Schopenhauer
"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination." 
— Jimmy Dean
"Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again." 
— Joseph Campbell
"Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree." 
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day." 
— George Foreman
"Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce." 
— Voltaire
"Truth, and goodness, and beauty are but different faces of the same all." 
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail." 
— Abraham Maslow
"Where there is love there is life." 
— Mahatma Gandhi
"To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with." 
— Mark Twain
"All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." 
— Pablo Picasso
"When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves." 
— Viktor Frankl
"For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour." 
— Mary Kay Ash
"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water." 
— Rabindranath Tagore
"Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams." 
— Henry David Thoreau
"The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work." 
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends." 
— Shirley MacLaine
"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see." 
— Mark Twain
"Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!" 
— Richard Bach
"Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands." 
— Anne Frank
"If you lose today, win tomorrow. In this never-ending spirit of challenge is the heart of a victor." 
— Daisaku Ikeda
"Action is the foundational key to all success." 
— Pablo Picasso
"Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones." 
— Montesquieu
"Wisdom begins in wonder." 
— Socrates
"Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either." 
— Albert Einstein
"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough." 
— Og Mandino
"When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way." 
— Wayne Dyer
"Speak low, if you speak love." 
— William Shakespeare
"All know the way; few actually walk it." 
— Bodhidharma
"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something." 
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
"To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves... there lies the great, singular power of self-respect." 
— Joan Didion
"Think how hard physics would be if particles could think." 
— Murray Gell-Mann
"Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions." 
— Yoko Ono
"It is better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot." 
— Anatole France
"I am not bothered by the fact that I am unknown. I am bothered when I do not know others." 
— Confucius
"If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?" 
— Gloria Steinem
"It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end." 
— Leonardo da Vinci
"The moment one gives close attention to anything, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself." 
— Henry Miller
"If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose." 
— Mary Pickford
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err." 
— Mahatma Gandhi
"All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter." 
— Sai Baba
"The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk." 
— Cicero
"If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love." 
— Michel de Montaigne
"Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you." 
— Wayne Dyer
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." 
— Will Rogers
"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help." 
— Epicurus
"I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted." 
— Og Mandino
"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come." 
— Victor Hugo
"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere." 
— Carl Sagan
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." 
— Edgar Allan Poe
"Imagination rules the world." 
— Napoleon
"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone." 
— Orson Welles
"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious." 
— Albert Einstein
"If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results." 
— Jack Dixon
"Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in." 
— Napoleon
"When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself." 
— Wayne Dyer
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." 
— Anaïs Nin
"The truest wisdom is a resolute determination." 
— Napoleon
"Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable." 
— Franz Kafka
"Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable." 
— Bruce Lee
"Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other." 
— Benjamin Franklin
"The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life." 
— Eckhart Tolle
"A friend in power is a friend lost." 
— Henry Adams
"A lot of people give up just before theyre about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one." 
— Chuck Norris
"In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time." 
— Leonardo da Vinci
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started." 
— Mark Twain
"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it." 
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
"There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living." 
— Nelson Mandela
"The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses." 
— Ovid
"People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them." 
— Tony Robbins
"I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland." 
— Woody Allen
"Accept the things to which fate binds you and love the people with whom fate brings you together but do so with all your heart." 
— Marcus Aurelius
"Never deny a diagnosis but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it." 
— Norman Cousins
"I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat." 
— Rose Kennedy
"We are wiser than we know." 
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It has never been my object to record my dreams, just to realize them." 
— Man Ray
"Time is the wisest counsellor of all." 
— Pericles
"Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along." 
— George Herbert
"Value your friendship. Value your relationships." 
— Barbara Bush
"Never apologize for showing feelings. When you do so, you apologize for the truth." 
— Benjamin Disraeli
"The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it." 
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving." 
— Friedrich Nietzsche
"Be slow of tongue and quick of eye." 
— Miguel de Cervantes
"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." 
— Winston Churchill
"Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech." 
— Plutarch
"Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences." 
— Norman Cousins
"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
"The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication." 
— Cecil B. DeMille
"We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice." 
— Stephen Covey
"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are." 
— E. E. Cummings
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." 
— Edgar Allan Poe
"Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength." 
— Phil Jackson
"Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise." 
— Sigmund Freud
"I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise." 
— John Keats
"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." 
— Dr. Seuss
"The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers." 
— Sydney J. Harris
"The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp." 
— John Berry
"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better." 
— Samuel Beckett
"It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it." 
— John Steinbeck
"There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way." 
— Christopher Morley
"Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance." 
— Francis of Assisi
"Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values." 
— Sidney Hook
"When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands." 
— Maria Shriver
"I have done my best: that is about all the philosophy of living one needs." 
— Lin Yutang
"To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest." 
— Pema Chödrön
"It is impossible to love and to be wise." 
— Francis Bacon
"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth." 
— The Buddha
"If I know what love is, it is because of you." 
— Hermann Hesse
"Every problem has a gift for you in its hands." 
— Richard Bach
"Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing." 
— Elie Wiesel
"I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever." 
— Amy Tan
"No man is free who is not master of himself." 
— Epictetus
"What we see depends mainly on what we look for." 
— John Lubbock
"Ability will never catch up with the demand for it." 
— Confucius
"There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest." 
— Confucius
"To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom." 
— Bertrand Russell
"There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money." 
— Benjamin Franklin
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is equivalent to magic." 
— Arthur C. Clarke
"Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?" 
— Thomas Jefferson
"Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live." 
— Dorothy Thompson
"He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know." 
— Laozi
"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier." 
— Mother Teresa
"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." 
— Voltaire
"Our intention creates our reality." 
— Wayne Dyer
"Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there." 
— Bo Jackson
"Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning, and which permeates all heaven." 
— Laozi
"Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it." 
— Oprah Winfrey
"Those who will play with cats must expect to be scratched." 
— Miguel de Cervantes
"The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment." 
— Tony Robbins
"Ignorance never settles a question." 
— Benjamin Disraeli
"If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way." 
— Napoleon Hill
"Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish." 
— Ovid
"Either I will find a way, or I will make one." 
— Philip Sidney
"Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest." 
— Sri Chinmoy
"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations." 
— Chuck Swindoll
"The world is but a canvas to the imagination." 
— Henry David Thoreau
"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." 
— Albert Einstein
"Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others." 
— Harriet Lerner
"We can only learn to love by loving." 
— Iris Murdoch
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." 
— William James
"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self." 
— Aldous Huxley
"Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate." 
— Zhuang Zhou
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." 
— Confucius
"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit." 
— Helen Keller
"Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure." 
— Napoleon Hill
"Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man." 
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Much wisdom often goes with fewest words." 
— Sophocles
"The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought." 
— Léon Blum
"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies." 
— Mother Teresa
"If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place." 
— Nora Roberts
"Wisdom begins at the end." 
— Daniel Webster
"A friend is a gift you give yourself." 
— Robert Louis Stevenson
"If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him." 
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark." 
— Michelangelo
"We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once." 
— Calvin Coolidge
"The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today." 
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"Life is movement-we breathe, we eat, we walk, we move!" 
— John Pierrakos
"You can't choose up sides on a round world." 
— Wayne Dyer
"When in doubt, tell the truth." 
— Mark Twain