If there is light in the soul,
There will be beauty in the person.
If there is beauty in the person,
There will be harmony in the house.
If there is harmony in the house,
There will be order in the nation.
If there is order in the nation,
There will be peace in the world.
- Chinese Proverb
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will
be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
- James Allen
" Between stimulus and response, there is a space.
In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response.
In our
response lies our growth and our freedom." And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only
with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential
is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important.
You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your time,
that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop
doing the right thing, You may never know what results come
from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.
- Gandhi
The glory of great men should be measured by the means they
have used to acquire them.
- La Rochefoucauld
Who you are speaks so loudy I can't hear what you're saying.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Once you see a child's self-image begin to improve, you will
see significant gains in achievement areas, but even more important,
you will see a child who is beginning to enjoy life more.
- Wayne Dyer
People who say it cannot be done should not interupt those
who are doing it.
Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're
right.
- Henry Ford
The Marvelous richness of the human experience would lose
something of rewarding joy if there were not limitations
to overcome.
The hilltop hour would not be half so wounderful if there
were no dark valleys to traverse.
- Helen Keller
It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not
have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.
- Whitney Young, Jr.
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.
- Napolean Hill
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Alous Huxley
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves,
but in our attitude towards them.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery
Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's
all.
- Carlos Castaneda
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones
who receive it.
- Dr. Karl Menninger
You must give time to your fellow men - even if it's a
little thing, do something for others - something for
which you get
no pay but the privilege of doing it.
- Albert Schweitzer
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making
me hate him.
- Booker T. Washington
There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone
acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the
circuits of our highest potential.
- Rusty Berkus
It’s not the hours you put in your work that counts, it’s
the work you put in the hours.
- Sam Ewing
We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and
the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without
the tree.
Pablo Casals
Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him
as he could be, and he will become what he should be.
Jimmy Johnson
Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.
-Merry Brown
Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world
it will come through the expression of your personality, that
single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different
from every other living creature.
-Bruce Barton
The better we feel about ourselves, the fewer times we have to
knock somebody else down to feel tall.
Odetta
The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
- Chinese proverb
Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.
- Mary Kay Ash
Write injuries in sand, kindness in marble.
- French proverb
If you want a counting of your worth count your friends.
- Merry Browne
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but
in our attitude towards them.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery
Love is what's left in a relationship after all the selfishness
has been removed.
-Cullen Hightower
Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions.
You may have a heart of gold -- but so does a hard-boiled egg.
-Anon.
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a
hundred days of sorrow.
- Chinese Proverb
When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare
or compete, everybody will respect you.
-Lao-Tzu
One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth
from self_centering to an understanding relationship to others.
A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness
to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others
as he would have them do to him.
Harry A. Overstreet
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone
can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Carl Bard
Everything that happens on earth can be experienced on any of
thousands of different vibration levels, from the most euphoric
to the gloomiest. We are entirely free to emphasize any level
we wish. We need change nothing but our own attention and love,
our own expansion and love.
- Thaddeus Golas
You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished
by your anger.
- Buddha
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never
really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch, what makes
you go beyond the norm.
Cicely Tyson
The best index to people's character is (a) how they treat people
who can't do him or her any good, and (b) how they treat people
who can't fight back.
- Abigail Van Buren
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us. We
ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you NOT to be?
Marianne Williamson
To go forward in the face of overwhelming odds is to risk failure.
But the person who risks nothing cannot learn, feel, change, grow
or love. Only a person who risks is free.
- Unknown
Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear
in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.
- Kate Seredy
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming,
is the only end in life.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They
never dare to try.
- Mary Kay Ash
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes,
but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by
the seeds you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson
When love is your greatest weakness, you will be the strongest
person in the world.
- Garman World
Great music’s as much about the space between the
notes as it is about the notes themselves.
- Sting
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we
see them.
- Leo Tolstoy
We need to have just enough clouds in our lives to make glorious
sunsets.
- Author Unknown
The greatest good you can do for another is not just
to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own
- Benjamin Disraeli
Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing
himself.
- Leo Tolstoy
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
- Appius Claudius Carcus, c. 200 B.C.
The squeaky wheel may get the most oil, but it’s
also the first to be replaced.
-Marilyn Vos Savant
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of
this is the beginning of wisdom.
-Theodore Issac Rubin, M.D.
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great
leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want
to go, but ought to be.
Rosalynn Carter
