Better nouveau than never. — Groucho Marx
Success is going from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. — Winston Churchill
Early to bed. Early to rise. Work like hell and advertise. — Dr. Scholl
The first thing to decide before you walk into any negotiation is what to do if the other fellow says no. — Ernest Bevin
There are no short cuts to any place worth going. — Beverly Sills
Those who lack courage will always find a philosophy to justify it. — Albert Camus
What the mind can conceive, the mind can achieve. — Clement Stone
Happiness is a singular incentive to mediocrity. — Michel Montaigne
If everything seems under control, you are not going fast enough. — Mario Andretti
We don't see things as they are. We see them as we are. — Anais Nin
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian anymore than going to a garage makes you a mechanic. — Laurence J Peter
Happiness is a singular incentive to mediocrity. — Michel Montaigne
Art is not what we see; it is in the spaces between. — Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)
Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth. — Jean-Paul Sartre | Being and Nothingness {L’Etre et le Néant}
If glamour is magic, if it’s really about casting a spell, one should happily confront the manipulation of it all. It’s adult to manipulate, and only human. — Isaac Mizrahi, designer
When creative work is then attempted, the student will know what s/he is about and will not be lost in ignorance or trial and error. If s/he is deeply interested in his/her work, every healthy wo/man has a deep capacity for developing the creative energies in his/her nature. — a unknown book (probably about art education)
The trick is not how much pain you feel but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses. — Erica Jong, author
We create stories and stories create us. It is a rondo. — Chinua Achebe
No revolution in outer things is possible without prior revolution in one's inner way of being. Whatever change you aspire to... must be preceded by a change in heart. — I Ching Hexagram 49
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. — the Dalai Lama
No revolution in outer things is possible without prior revolution in one's inner way of being. Whatever change you aspire to... must be preceded by a change in heart. — I Ching Hexagram 49
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. — the Dalai Lama
To understand is to perceive patterns. — Isaiah Berlin
We are fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. — Japanese proverb
To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak. — Hopi saying
From wonder into wonder existence opens. — Lao-tzu
If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change. — Buddha
Wisdom begins with wonder. — Socrates
When you have only two pennies left in the world. Buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. — Chinese proverb
I don't want to be a passenger in my own life. — Diane Ackerman
The opposite of play is not work. It is depression. — Brian Sutton-Smith
Nine tenths of education is encouragement. — Anatole France
When you possess light within, you see it externally. — Anaïs Nin
We don't see things as they are. We see things as we are. — Anaïs Nin
To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give. — Taisen Deshimaru
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear. — Horace Mann
Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment. — Rumi
Nobody can hurt you without your permission. — Mahatma Gandhi
Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another. — Madonna
Choosing not to choose is a choice in itself. — Unknown
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. — Nelson Mandela
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
Always be a little kinder than necessary. — James M. Barrie
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another. — Thomas Browne
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. — Buddha
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. — Joseph Campbell
The way to find out about happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you are really happy — not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what is called following your bliss. — Joseph Campbell
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. — Albert Einstein
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. — Marie Curie
If God had wanted us to be the same, He would have created us that way. — Koran
When you start on a long journey, trees are trees, water is water, and mountains are mountains. After you have gone some distance, trees are no longer trees, water no longer water, mountains no longer mountains. But after you have traveled a great distance, trees are once again trees, water is once again water, mountains are once again mountains. — Zen teaching
If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished? — Rumi
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis. — Winston Churchill
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. — Shirley MacLaine
I love not man the less, but Nature more. — Lord Byron
Passion is the element in which we live; without it, we hardly vegetate. — Lord Byron
A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends. — Lord Byron
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. — William James
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are things which renew humanity. — Buddha
If we always helped one another, no one would need luck. — Sophocles
When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world. — Harold Kushner
Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves. — Carol Pearson
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. — Albert Einstein
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. — George Eliot
Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. — Alan Kay
Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables. — Spanish proverb
There is no truth. Only points of view. — Dame Edith Sitwell
You were given a right foot and a left foot, not a right foot and a wrong foot. — Buckminster Fuller
Any fool can make a rule and any fool will mind it. — Henry David Thoreau
Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun. — Katharine Hepburn
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. — Robert A. Heinlein
Why are women immobile? Because so many feel like they're waiting for someone to say, "You are good, you are pretty, I give you permission." — Eve Ensler
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
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, "This is the real me," and when you have found that attitude, follow it. — William James
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. — Rumi
In many ways we were drugged when we were young. We were brought up to need people. For what? For acceptance, approval, appreciation, applause. — Anthony de Mello
Love is an act of courage, not of fear. — Paolo Freire
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
I cannot live without my life. — Emily Bronte
What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be. — Ellen Burstyn
Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone. — Paul Tillich
I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other. — Rainer Maria Rilke
For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future; but an excuse can last for life. — Eric Hoffer
I will not take "but" for an answer. — Langston Hughes
I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse. — Florence Nightingale
He who cannot dance claims the floor is uneven. — Hindu saying
Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. — George Washington Carver
Love is much more demanding than law. — Archbiship Desmond Tutu
The palest ink is better than the sharpest memory. — Chinese proverb
Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace. — Albert Schweitzer
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. — Hermann Hesse
I am a part of all that I have met. — Lord Alfred Tennyson
Wherever there is a human being, there is a chance for a kindness. — Seneca
It is by logic we prove. It is by intuition we discover. — Henri Poincaré
You have to be available to the invisible voices that are swirling around you. — George C. Wolfe
You haven't seen a tree until you have seen its shadow from the sky. — Amelia Earhart
A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. — Grace Pulpit
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. — Lao-tzu
Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall. — Ray Bradbury
Everything in life is based on daring. — Martin Buber
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential. — Winston Churchill
A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential. — Jane Wagner
Simplicity is the key to brilliance. — Bruce Lee
Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live. — Dorothy Thompson
Anger is just a cowardly extension of sadness. It's a lot easier to be angry at someone than it is to tell them you're hurt. — Tom Gates
If you really want something in this life you have to work for it. Now quiet, they are about to announce the lottery numbers. — Homer Simpson, The Simpsons
The manner of giving is worth more than the gift. — Pierre Corneille
What we do flows from who we are. — Paul Vitale
Do or do not. There is no "try." — Master Yoda
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without deviation, progress is not possible. — Frank Zappa
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. — Albert Einstein
I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfuly. — William Stafford
Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death. — Kahlil Gibran
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Far away is only far away if you don't go there. — O. Povo
A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for. — Grace Hopper
Fear is what prevents the flowering of the mind. — Krishnamurti
The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else—we are the busiest people in the world. — Eric Hoffer
To do two things at once is to do neither. — Publilius Syrus
Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, Simplify. — Henry D. Thoreau
Things do not change, we change. — Henry D. Thoreau
It is not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted. — Mary O'Connor
What is the use of running when we are not on the right road? — German proverb
Cooking is a great way to get back in touch with things that brought us comport. — Liz Scott
Anything made with love, bam!—it's a beautiful meal. — Emeril Lagasse
People change and forget to tell each other. — Lillian Hellman
A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one. — Heraclitus of Ephesus
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. — Alice Walker
Live is a verb. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free. — Charles Evans Hughes
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.. — Oscar Wilde
It's time to start living the life you've imagined. — Henry James
It's never too late to be what you might have been. — George Eliot
Praise the bridge that carried you over. — George Colman
You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you have to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are. — Fred Rogers
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. — Larry James
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. — William James
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are things which renew humanity. — Buddha
If we always helped one another, no one would need luck. — Sophocles
When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world. — Harold Kushner
Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves. — Carol Pearson
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. — Albert Einstein
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. — George Eliot
Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. — Alan Kay
Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables. — Spanish proverb
There is no truth. Only points of view. — Dame Edith Sitwell
You were given a right foot and a left foot, not a right foot and a wrong foot. — Buckminster Fuller
Any fool can make a rule and any fool will mind it. — Henry David Thoreau
Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun. — Katharine Hepburn
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. — Robert A. Heinlein
Why are women immobile? Because so many feel like they're waiting for someone to say, "You are good, you are pretty, I give you permission." — Eve Ensler
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
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, "This is the real me," and when you have found that attitude, follow it. — William James
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. — Rumi
In many ways we were drugged when we were young. We were brought up to need people. For what? For acceptance, approval, appreciation, applause. — Anthony de Mello
Love is an act of courage, not of fear. — Paolo Freire
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
I cannot live without my life. — Emily Bronte
What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be. — Ellen Burstyn
Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone. — Paul Tillich
I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other. — Rainer Maria Rilke
For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future; but an excuse can last for life. — Eric Hoffer
I will not take "but" for an answer. — Langston Hughes
I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse. — Florence Nightingale
He who cannot dance claims the floor is uneven. — Hindu saying
Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. — George Washington Carver
Love is much more demanding than law. — Archbiship Desmond Tutu
The palest ink is better than the sharpest memory. — Chinese proverb
Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace. — Albert Schweitzer
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. — Hermann Hesse
I am a part of all that I have met. — Lord Alfred Tennyson
Wherever there is a human being, there is a chance for a kindness. — Seneca
It is by logic we prove. It is by intuition we discover. — Henri Poincaré
You have to be available to the invisible voices that are swirling around you. — George C. Wolfe
You haven't seen a tree until you have seen its shadow from the sky. — Amelia Earhart
A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. — Grace Pulpit
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. — Lao-tzu
Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall. — Ray Bradbury
Everything in life is based on daring. — Martin Buber
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential. — Winston Churchill
A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential. — Jane Wagner
Simplicity is the key to brilliance. — Bruce Lee
Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live. — Dorothy Thompson
Anger is just a cowardly extension of sadness. It's a lot easier to be angry at someone than it is to tell them you're hurt. — Tom Gates
If you really want something in this life you have to work for it. Now quiet, they are about to announce the lottery numbers. — Homer Simpson, The Simpsons
The manner of giving is worth more than the gift. — Pierre Corneille
What we do flows from who we are. — Paul Vitale
Do or do not. There is no "try." — Master Yoda
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without deviation, progress is not possible. — Frank Zappa
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. — Albert Einstein
I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfuly. — William Stafford
Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death. — Kahlil Gibran
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Far away is only far away if you don't go there. — O. Povo
A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for. — Grace Hopper
Fear is what prevents the flowering of the mind. — Krishnamurti
The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else—we are the busiest people in the world. — Eric Hoffer
To do two things at once is to do neither. — Publilius Syrus
Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, Simplify. — Henry D. Thoreau
Things do not change, we change. — Henry D. Thoreau
It is not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted. — Mary O'Connor
What is the use of running when we are not on the right road? — German proverb
Cooking is a great way to get back in touch with things that brought us comport. — Liz Scott
Anything made with love, bam!—it's a beautiful meal. — Emeril Lagasse
People change and forget to tell each other. — Lillian Hellman
A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one. — Heraclitus of Ephesus
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. — Alice Walker
Live is a verb. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free. — Charles Evans Hughes
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.. — Oscar Wilde
It's time to start living the life you've imagined. — Henry James
It's never too late to be what you might have been. — George Eliot
Praise the bridge that carried you over. — George Colman
You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you have to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are. — Fred Rogers
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. — Larry James
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become. — Buddha
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. — Buddha
To understand everything is to forgive everything. — Buddha
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. — Buddha
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. — Buddha
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. — Buddha
Not to mourn for the past,
Not to worry about the future,
Not to anticipate troubles
But to live the present moment
Wisely and earnestly. — Buddha?
Not to mourn for the past,
Not to worry about the future,
Not to anticipate troubles
But to live the present moment
Wisely and earnestly. — Buddha?
Only the foolish learn from experience — the wise learn from the experience of others. — Romanian Proverb
Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others. — Otto von Bismarck
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. — Graham Greene
You have not lived until you have almost died. Life has a flavor the protected will never know. — Unknown
To love is to give, to be brave, to hold the pain, and ultimately to live. — Jing Zhou
Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit. — William James
When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life. — Geoffrey F. Albert
Intensity: say yes
Inclusion: be generous
Integrity: speak up
Intimacy: love more
Intuition: trust yourself
Intention: slow down
— Life Is a Verb p8, by Patti Digh
The Four Noble Truths — http://www.thebigview.com/buddhism/fourtruths.html
