The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. -Nelson Henderson

When the oak is felled the forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown silently by an unnoticed breeze. -Thomas Carlyle

Beauty is truth, truth beauty' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. - John Keats

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf. -Tagore

Thou must be like a promontory of the sea, against which, though the waves beat continually, yet it both itself stands, and about it are those swelling waves stilled and quieted. - Marcus Aurelius

Without haste, but without rest. - Goethe

To die for the revolution is a one-shot deal; to live for the revolution means taking on the more difficult commitment of changing our day-to-day life patterns.
-Frances M. Beal

Our greatest battles are that with our own minds. - Jameson Frank

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly in the distance but to do what lies clearly at hand. - Thomas Carlyle

Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand. - Chinese Proverb

That which we persist in doing becomes easier - not that the nature of the task has changed, but our ability to do has increased. - Emerson

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. - Thoreau

The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested. - William Dean Howells

Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children. - Walt Disney

We must never cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time. - T.S. Eliot

Every moment in planning saves 3 or 4 in execution. - Crawford Greenwalt

Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge. - Winston Churchill

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. - Goethe

Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children. - Albert Einstein

People who laugh actually live longer than those who don’t laugh. Few persons realize that health actually varies according to the amount of laughter. - James J. Walsh

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. - George Washington Carver

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain

Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny. - Carl Schurz

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. - William Faulkner

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for. - David Starr Jordan

The first and most important step toward...success is the feeling that we can succeed. - Nelson Boswell

Let us show, not merely in great crises, but in every day affairs of life, qualities of practical intelligence, of hardihood and endurance, and above all, the power of devotion to a lofty ideal. - Theodore Roosevelt

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit. - e.e. cummings

Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire. - William Yeats

To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground. - Stephen Covey

You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. - Luciano de Crescenzo

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. - Kahlil Gibran

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come. - Victor Hugo

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, happiness, which is everything in the world. - Blaise Pascal

Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way. - Abraham Lincoln

Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge. - Winston Churchill

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense. - Frank Lloyd Wright

The truth is more important than the facts. - Frank Lloyd Wright

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant. - H.L. Mencken

I cannot live without books. - Thomas Jefferson

In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary. - Nietzsche

His ignorance is encyclopedic. - Abba Eban

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.  - Rene Descartes, "Discours de la Methode"

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. - Bertrand Russell

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

The mistakes are all waiting to be made. - chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower on t

Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so. - Lord Chesterfield

Scholarship is polite argument. - Philip Rieff

Prejudice is the child of ignorance. - William Hazlitt

The entire object of true education is to make people not merely to do the right things, but to enjoy them; not merely industrious, but to love industry; not merely learned, but to love knowledge; not merely pure, but to love purity; not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice. - John Ruskin

The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful. - Mark Twain

The greatest aid to adult education is children. - Charlie T. Jones and Bob Phillips

We live by information, not by sight. - Baltasar Gracian

Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. - Perelman

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. - Mark Twain

To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions. - Sam Keen

The difference between genius and stupidity is genius has its limits. - Albert Einstein

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.  - Thomas H. Huxley

Skill to do comes of doing. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I not only use all the brains I have but all that I can borrow. - Woodrow Wilson

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J Boorstin

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.  - Martin Luther King, Jr.

A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts.  - Herbert V. Prochnow

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that. G. H. Hardy It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.  - G. H. Hardy

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. - Henri Bergson

These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.  - Vernon Cooper

Great are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. - Margaret Fuller

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever or whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing. - Thomas H. Huxley

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. - Eden Phillpotts

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.  - Fitzgerald, F. Scott

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is. - Allan Bloom

Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare. - Harriet Martineau

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. - Confucius

We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine. - H.L. Mencken

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.  - Frank Lloyd Wright

The very first step toward success in any occupation is to become interested in it. Locke put this in a very happy way when he said, give a pupil "a relish of knowledge" and you put life into his work. - Sir William Osler

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence. - Albert Einstein

There was never a genius without a tincture of insanity. - Aristotle

When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. - Jonathan Swift

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knoweldge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too. - Isaac Asimov

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. - Goethe

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge. - Adolf Berle

He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports what those men already know practically or instinctively, for that alone is a true humanity, or account of human experience. - Henry David Thoreau, Walden

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid. - Henry David Thoreau

To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. - Henry David Thoreau

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy. - Henry David Thoreau

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? - T.S. Eliot

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.  - Aldous Huxley

Wise warriors are mightier than strong ones, and those who have knowledge than those who have strength. - The Bible, NRSV, Proverbs 24:5

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.  - William Shakespeare

Genius, the power which dazzles human eyes, is oft but perserverance in disguise. - H.W. Austin

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. - Albert Einstein

One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.  - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Ideas move rapidly when their time comes. {from Toward a Recognition of Androgyny, 1973}  - Carolyn Heilbrun

The only thing I truly know for a sure is that I don't know everything.  - Sam Lefkowitz

We are drowning in information, but starving for knowledge.  - Rutherford D. Rogers

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.  - Marie Curie

I had six honest serving men - they taught me all I knew: Their names were Where and What and When - and Why and How and Who.  - Rudyard Kipling

We never understand a thing so well, and make it our own, as when we have discovered it for ourselves.  - Rene Descartes

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. - Albert Einstein

Indeed, if a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? - Thomas Huxley (1825-1895)

It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more sure he is he knows everything. - Joyce Cary

He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - who knows who has written and where it is to be found. - A.A. Hodge

I know what I can know, and am not troubled about what I cannot know. - Johann Fichte

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. - Voltaire

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you'll never cease to grow. - Anthony J. D'Angelo

Nothing is as frightening as ignorance in action. {this quote is above the entrance to the Naval Academy}  - Goethe

Knowledge is the distilled essence of our institutions, corroborated by experience. - Elbert Hubbard

There is no knowledge that is not power.  - Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents. Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential... - Sir William Osler

God bears with imperfect beings even when they resist His goodness. We ought to imitate this merciful patience and endurance. It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people. - Francois de Fenelon

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.  - John Wooden

The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so. (1876) - Rene J. Dubos

It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more sure he is he knows everything. - Joyce Cary

He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - who knows who has written and where it is to be found. - A.A. Hodge

I know what I can know, and am not troubled about what I cannot know. - Johann Fichte

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. - Voltaire

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you'll never cease to grow. - Anthony J. D'Angelo

Nothing is as frightening as ignorance in action. {this quote is above the entrance to the Naval Academy}  - Goethe

Knowledge is the distilled essence of our institutions, corroborated by experience. - Elbert Hubbard

There is no knowledge that is not power.  - Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents. Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential... - Sir William Osler

God bears with imperfect beings even when they resist His goodness. We ought to imitate this merciful patience and endurance. It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people. - Francois de Fenelon

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.  - John Wooden

The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so. (1876) - Rene J. Dubos

The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings. - John Adair

Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.  - Norman Allen

The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive. - Joe Batten

Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. - Warren Bennis

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary. - Napoleon Bonaparte

A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under. - Sam Ervin

There are no office hours for leaders. - Cardinal J. Gibbons

Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too. - Robert Half

In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited. - Herbert Clark Hoover

Leaders create an environment which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided. - Elliott Jaques

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, We did it ourselves. - Lao-Tzu

The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack. - Wayne Lukas

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader. - Golda Meir

The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way. - Henry Miller

A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns. - John Milton

Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it. - John Naisbitt

Leadership must be established from the top down. - Sam Nunn

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done. - Vance Packard

The person who has no enemies has no followers. - Don Piatt

When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow. - French Proverb

Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind. - German Proverb

The penalty of leadership is loneliness. - H. Wheeler Robinson

The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly. - Jim Rohn

Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building. - Eleanor Roosevelt

It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives. - Theodore Roosevelt

The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says "I"; The leader says "WE". The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, "GO"; the leader says lets, "GO!" - H. Gordon Selfridge

To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable. - Claude Taylor

Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul. - Orway Tead

Education is the mother of leadership. - Wendell L. Willkie

The quest for peace is the statesman's most exacting duty... Practical progress to lasting peace is his fondest hope. - Geneva Conference Address, 1955 - Dwight David Eisenhower

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. - Norman Schwarzkopf

Only by trusting in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise. - Mary Kay Ash

In any moment of decision, The best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing. - Theodore Roosevelt

We need a spirit of community, a sense that we are all in this together. If we have no sense of community, the American dream will wither. - Bill Clinton

By the accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love and kindness he may rule the world forever. (Chinese Philosopher and author of 'Tao Te Ching')  - Lao Tsu

If you want to be important - that's wonderful. If you want to be great - that's wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. That's your new definition of greatness - it means that everybody can be great because everybody can serve. You don't have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don't have to know the second law of thermodynamics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love...  - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

You can delegate authority, but you can't delegate responsibility! - Scott Wojciechowski

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. - John F. Kennedy

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. - Ralph Nadar

Good physicians detect events; better physicians detect patterns of events; the best physicians detect the systems that produce the patterns of events. - David Leach, MD

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group. - Russell H. Ewing

The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome. - John Haggai

Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example. - Edward Hennessy

There is great force hidden in a gentle command. - George Herbert

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision. - Henry Kissinger

Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal. - Vince Lombardi

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way. - John C. Maxwell

Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader. - Arthur W. Newcomb

The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents. - Amos Parrish

The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, we did it ourselves. - Zen Saying

When placed in command -- take charge. - Norman Schwarzkopf

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same. - Henri B. Stendhal

There are seasons when to be still demands immeasurably higher strength than to act. - Margaret Bottome

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.  - Tao Te Ching

I regret that I have but one life to give for my country. - Nathan Hale

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

He who reins within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. (from 'Paradise Lost') - John Milton

There is nothing permanent except change. (observation made in 513 B.C.) - Heraclitus of Greece

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. (from 'The Prince') - Niccolo Machiavelli

We give up believing that we design the world into existence, and instead take up roles in support of its flourishing. We work with what is available and encourage forms to come forth. We foster tinkering and discovery. We help create connections. We nourish with information. We stay clear about what we want to accomplish. We remember that people self-organize and trust them to do so. (from 'A Simpler Way' - 1996) - Wheatley and Kellner-Rogers

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves. (founder, McDonalds Corporation) - Ray Kroc

Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there; they cause change. They motivate and inspire others to go in the right direction and they, along with everyone else, sacrifice to get there. - John Kotter

Often, the greatest challenge facing an organization is recognizing and acting on opportunity rather than solving a problem. - Peter Ginter

The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many. - John Naisbitt

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life. - Theodore Roosevelt

Life, if properly viewed in any aspect, is great, but mainly great when viewed in its relation to the world to come. - Albert Barnes

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another, and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it. - James M. Barrie

We didn't come over on the same ship, but were all in the same boat. - Bernard M. Baruch

The goal is the same: life itself; and the price is the same; life itself. - James Agee

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain. - William Adams Brown

The ladder of life is full of splinters, but they always prick the hardest when we're sliding down. - William L. Brownell

For man there are only three important events: birth, life and death; but he is unaware of being born, he suffers when he dies, and he forgets to live. - Jean De La Bruyere

A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life. - Charles Darwin

Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated. - Confucius

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. - Samuel Butler

The truly important things in life -- love, beauty, and one's own uniqueness - are constantly being overlooked - Pablo Casals

Variety is the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavor. - William Cowper

I envy the man who passes through life safely, to the world and fame unknown. - Euripides

Life is too short to be little. - Benjamin Disraeli

Life is like an echo. We get from it what we put in to it and, just like an echo, it often gives us much more. - Boris Lauer-Leonardi

It has done me good to be somewhat parched by the heat and drenched by the rain of life. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We never think of the main business of life till a vain repentance minds us of it at the wrong end. - Roger L'Estrange

Consult the dead upon things that were, but the living only on things that are. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Jesus said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life." - John 8:12

Oh Lord, you give us everything at the price of fatigue! - Leonardo da Vinci

Most people want security in this world, not liberty. - H.L. Mencken

The herd may graze where it pleases or stampede where it pleases, but he who lives the adventurous life will remain unafraid when he finds himself alone. - Raymond B. Fosdick

The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality. - John Quincy Adams

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

The state of life is most happy when superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting. - Plutarch

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy, I mean that if you are happy you will be good. - Bertrand Russell

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. - Samuel Butler

That which is bitter to endure may be sweet to remember. - Thomas Fuller

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. - Sir Winston Churchill

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King Jr.

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. - Isaac Asimov

If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche

While we are postponing, life speeds by. - Seneca

Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. - Sir Winston Churchill

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. - Albert Einstein

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. - George Bernard Shaw

Everything has been figured out, except how to live. - Jean-Paul Sartre

When ideas fail, words come in very handy. - Goethe

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. - Thomas Jones

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor. - Hubert H. Humphrey

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. - Henry David Thoreau

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life. - Dr. Joyce Brothers

The time to win a fight is before it starts. - Frederick W. Lewis

All is well with him who is beloved by his neighbors. - George Herbert

True generosity requires more of us than kindly impulse. Above all it requires imagination - the capacity to see people in all their perplexities and needs, and to know how to expend ourselves effectively for them. - I.A.R. Wylie

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main… any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. - John Donne

The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in a awful hurry. - John Jensen

The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination. - Louis Kronenberger

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara ever turned light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. - Harry Emerson Fosdick

Spontaneity is the quality of being able to do something just because you feel like it at the moment, of trusting your instincts, of taking yourself by surprise and snatching from the clutches of your well-organized routine a bit of unscheduled pleasure. - Richard Iannelli

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. - Thomas Huxley

It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look. To affect the quality of the day - that is the highest of arts. - Henry David Thoreau

If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor- poor in happiness, poor in all that makes life worth living. - Herbert N. Casson

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions-the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heart-felt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit. - William Cowper

The glory of the star, the glory of the sun - we must not lose either in the other. We must not be so full of the hope of heaven that we cannot do our work on the earth; we must not be so lost in the work of the earth that we shall not be inspired by the hope of heaven. - Phillips Brooks

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want. - Mark Twain

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words? - Marcel Marceau

I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from. - William Faulkner

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.  - Zora Neale Hurston

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. - Karl Wallenda

The average person thinks he isn't. - Father Larry Lorenzoni

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. - Henry David Thoreau

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. - Oscar Wilde

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 have three personal ideals. One to do the day's work well and not bother about tomorrow. It has been urged that this is not a satisfactory ideal. It is; and there is not one which the student can carry with him into practice with greater effect. To it, more than to anything else, I owe whatever success I have had - to this power of settling down to the day's work and trying to do it to the best of one's ability, and letting the future take care of itself. - Sir William Osler

Infinite riches are all around you if you will open your mental eyes and behold the treasure house of infinity within you. There is a gold mine within you from which you can extract everything you need to live life gloriously, joyously, and abundantly. - Joseph Murphy

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.  - Ralph Waldo Emerson

We cannot think first and act afterward. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.  - Alfred North Whitehead

We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth. - Mary Antin, 1912

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. - Henri Bergson

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.  - Alan Cohen

A person needs at intervals to separate from family and companions and go to new places. One must go without familiars in order to be open to influences, to change. - Katharine Butler Hathaway

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place. - Washington Irving

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. - Anais Nin

Things do not change, we change. - Henry David Thoreau

When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.  - Gertrude Stein

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accomodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. - Ruth Benedict

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.  - Ursula K. LeGuin

There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking. - Theodore Rubin

Life is a successon of lessons, which must be lived to be understood. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

All I really need to know ... I learned in kindergarten.  - Robert Fulghum

I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: 'The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair.' In these words he epitomized the history of the human race. - Bertrand Russell, Education and the Social Order

A garden is evidence of faith. It links us with all the misty figures of the past who also planted and were nourished by the fruits of their planting.  - Gladys Taber, Stillmeadow Sampler

Contrary to the ecologists, nature does not stand still and does not maintain the kind of "equilibrium" that guarantees the survival of any particular species - least of all the survival of her greatest and most fragile product: man. - Ayn Rand

Three passions have governed my life: The longings for love, the search for knowledge, And unbearable pity for the suffering of [humankind]. Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness. In the union of love I have seen In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision Of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined. With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of [people]. I have wished to know why the stars shine. Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens, But always pity brought me back to earth; Cries of pain reverberated in my heart Of children in famine, of victims tortured And of old people left helpless. I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, And I too suffer. This has been my life; I found it worth living.  - Bertrand Russell

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.  - Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique, 1963

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed. - Sara Teasdale

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

There must be more to life than having everything. - Maurice Sendak

Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.  - Germaine Greer

Security is mostly a superstition. It 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 outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. - Helen Keller

This is my letter to the world, that never wrote to me, the simple news that Nature told, with tender majesty. Her message is committed, to hands I cannot see; for love of her, sweet countrymen, judge tenderly of me. - Emily Dickinson

If you don’t know where you are going, any path will take you there. - Sioux proverb

The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements. - Pliny

People who laugh actually live longer than those who don’t laugh. Few persons realize that health actually varies according to the among of laughter. - James J. Walsh

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. - George Washington Carver

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for. - David Starr Jordan

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.  - Dalai Lama

It should be our purpose in life to see that each of us makes such a contribution as will enable us to say that we, individually and collectively, are a part of the answer to the world problem and not part of the problem itself.  - Andrew Cordier

The world is so filled with interesting things to do that the longest human life could not exhaust more than a small fraction of them.  - Frank Gaines

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.  - General Omar Bradley

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon--instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.  - Carnegie, Dale

I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.  - Etienne de Grellet

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge, That myth is more potent than history, That dreams are more powerful than facts, That hope always triumphs over experience, That laughter is the only cure for grief, And I believe that love is stronger than death.  - Fulghum, Robert

It's the circle of life, and it moves us all, through despair and hope, through faith and love, 'till we find our place, on the path unwinding.  - Elton John, The Lion King Soundtrack

Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt, or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us.  - Marden, Orison Swett

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live you life in a manner so that when you die the world cries and you rejoice.  - Native American Proverb

This life is yours: Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.  - Schutz, Susan Polis

They lied to you, sold you ideas of good and evil, gave you distrust of your body and shame for your prophethood of chaos, invented words of disgust for your molecular love, mesmerized you with inattention, bored you with civilization.  - Charles Donaldson

Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.  - Seneca

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.  - Henry David Thoreau, Walden

The path of life has many crossroads, and at each one it's difficult to say goodbye and go our own separate ways, choosing the direction that is right for each of us. But the memory of being together will always remain, and there is always the chance that our paths will cross again.  - Yee, Donna

I am a part of all that I have met. - Lord Tennyson

The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. - Edward Gibbon

There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. - Ayn Rand

The life that is unexamined is not worth living.  - Plato

Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. - Blaise Pascal

Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. - William Shakespeare, "MacBeth"

What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel!in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! - William Shakespeare, "Hamlet"

What a chimera, then, is man! what a novelty, what a monster, what a chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! A judge of all things, feeble worm of the earth, depositary of the truth, cloaca of uncertainty and error, the glory and the shame of the universe.  - Blaise Pascal

Life is simplified when there is one center; one reason, one motivation, one direction and purpose. - Jean Fleming

Begin to make the kind of investment of personal time which will assure that those who come after us will live as well. - Charles W. Bray III

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.  - Blaise Pascal

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. - Jean-Paul Sartre

Women was God's second mistake. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Do not fear your enemies. The worst they can do is kill you. Do not fear friends. At worst, they may betray you. Fear those who do not care; they neither kill nor betray, but betrayal and murder exists because of their silent consent. - Bruno Jasienski

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. - George Bernard Shaw

No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back. - Turkish proverb

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.  - Danny Kaye

Wine is bottled poetry.  - Robert Louis Stevenson

Gentlemen, - Farewell, and take with you into the struggle the watchword of the good old Roman - Aequanimitas. - Sir William Osler

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.  - George Bernard Shaw

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. - Henry David Thoreau

Don't wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day. - Albert Camus

If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him. - Voltaire

Against boredom even the gods contend in vain. - Friedrich Nietzsche

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace. - Goethe

Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden. - Goethe

Character develops itself in the stream of life. - Goethe

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality. - Tim Robbins

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.  - George Bernard Shaw

We are enobled by what we admire; we are known by what we honor. {former JFK Speechwriter - quote from a 1999 MSNBC interview} - Richard Goodwin

You never can begin to live until you dare to die. - Henry Van Dyke

The man who follows a crowd will never be followed by a crowd. - R. S. Donnell

Whatever it be, every fortune is to be overcome by bearing it. {Aeneid}  - Virgil

A wonderful realization will be the day you realize that you are unique in all the world. There is nothing that is an accident. You are a special combination for a purpose-and don't let them tell you otherwise, even if they tell you that purpose is an illusion. (Live an illusion if you have to). You are that combination so that you can do what is essential for you to do. Don't ever believe that you have nothing to contribute. The world is an incredible unfulfilled tapestry. And only you can fulfill that tiny space that is yours.  - Leo Buscaglia

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art. - Carrie Fisher

Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life? - William Wordsworth

The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly. - Henry David Thoreau

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour. - Henry David Thoreau

The only wealth is life. - Henry David Thoreau

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for. - Henry David Thoreau

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument. - Henry David Thoreau

God gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw it into the net. - Swedish proverb

The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.  - C.S. Lewis

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either. - Henry Ward Beecher

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one. - Jack Kornfield {Seeking the Heart of Wisdom}

La vie humaine commence de l'autre côté du désespoir. {Human life begins on the other side of despair}. - Jean-Paul Sartre ["Les Mouches", III:2}

The stronger the winds, the deeper the roots, and the longer the winds, the more beautiful the tree. - Charles R. Swindoll

It is easy to laugh; it is so easy to hurt; it takes strength to be kind and gentle. - Anonymous

I want to know God's thoughts. The rest are details.  - Albert Einstein

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water. - Maya Angelou

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go." - Maya Angelou

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. {from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings} - Maya Angelou

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.  - Salvador Dali

My favorite place is the morning shower. - Eric Peele

The strength of a man's virtue must not be measured by his efforts, but by his ordinary life. - Blaise Pascal

All of the significant battles are waged within the self. - Sheldon Kopp

Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.  - Benjamin Franklin

Leisure is being allowed to do nothing. - G.K. Chesterton

The workshop of character is everyday life. The uneventful and commonplace hour is where the battle is lost or won. - Maltbie D. Babcock

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.  - William James

Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away. - Dag Hammarskjold

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. - John Lennon

Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to face many a danger, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.  - Annie Besant

The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make a difference that you lived at all.  - Leo Rosten

To live is so startling it leaves time for little else. - Emily Dickinson

If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right. - Mary Kay Ash

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being. {from "Felix Holt, The Radical," ch. 48, 1866} - George Eliot

It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth looking at. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.  - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.  - Henry Van Dyke

Bloom where you are planted. - Nancy Reader Campion's Aunt Grace

Pleasure's a sin and sometimes sin is a pleasure. - Lord Byron

He is always breaking the law. He broke the law when he was born. His parents were not married. - George Bernard Shaw

I used to sit on the banks with a raft and watch the water roll lazily by. One day I pushed my raft into the shallows of the water and found the water moved swifter than I thought. My raft was actually a boat. Then, after some time, I rowed my little boat into deeper water. There were great storms, mighty winds, tremendous waves, and sometimes I felt so alone. But I have noticed my little rowboat is now a mighty ship manned by my friends and loved ones; and beautiful calm seas, warm sunny days, and nights filled with comfortable dreams always double after a storm. Now, I could never go back and sit on the bank. In fact, I search for deeper water. Such is life when lived.  - B. D. Gulledge

All dressed up and nowhere to go. (1916) - William Allen White

Do as I say not do as I do. - John Selden

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which what they are not. - Giacomo Leopardi

How's about that then, guys and gals. - Jimmy Savile

God made the country and man made the town. - William Cowper

Life is just a blank slate, what matters most is what you write on it. - Christine Frankland

Let me do my work each day, and if the darkened hours of despair overcome me, may I not forget the strength that comforted me in the desolation of other times... Spare me from bitterness and from the sharp passions of unguarded moments. May I not forget that poverty and riches are of the spirit. Though the world knows me not, may my thoughts and actions be such as will keep me friendly with myself. Lift up my eyes from the earth and let me not forget the uses of the stars. Forbid that I should judge others, lest I condemn myself. Let me not follow in the clamor of the world, but walk calmly in my path... And though age and infirmity overtake me and I come not within sight of the castle of my dreams, teach me still to be thankful for life and for time's oldest memories that are good and sweet, and may the evening's twilight find me gentle still.  - Max Ehrmann

The strange thing is everyone is born with no intention to serve but to be served. - Chew Nai Chee

Man has his will - but woman has her way. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

It is helpful to know the proper way to behave, so one can decide whether or not to be proper. (from 'Ella Enchanted') - Gail Carson Levine

Life is a zoo in a jungle.  - Peter DeVries

How simple it is to see that all the worry in the world cannot control the future. How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now. And that there will never be a time when it is not now.  - Gerald Jampolsky

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.  - Kahlil Gibran

The way not to live a monotonous life is to live for others.  - Fulton J. Sheen

It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. - Wendell Berry

Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment. - Jim Horning

Answer that you are here - that life exists and identity, that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse. - Walt Whitman

Fear and love are the only two things that can manipulate the mind, to believing the unbelievable, in the dark. - Alison Cook

Life is what happens, after you make other plans. - Ralph Marston

May you live all the days of your life. - Jonathan Swift

Ain't only three things to gambling: knowin' the 60-40 end of a proposition, money management, and knowin' yourself. - Walter Clyde "Puggy" Pearson

Live your life in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. - Will Rogers

When you return to your boyhood town, you find it wasn't the town you longed for - it was your boyhood. - Earl Wilson

Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy. - G.K. Chesterton

We are all born originals - why is it that so many of us die copies?  - Edward Young

One will not go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and petty ones to fear. (originator of statement was Yamamoto Tsunetomo, a samurai who retired to life as a Buddhist monk after the death of his feudal lord Nabeshima Naoshige). - Nietzsche

I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you and watch over you. - Psalm 32:8

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. - Goethe

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. - Teilhard de Chardin

Great beginnings are not as important as the way one finishes. - Dr. James Dobson

I must accept life unconditionally. Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition. - Margaret Lee Runbeck

Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly, a good inner life is difficult to achieve, especially in these trying times. It takes reflection and contemplation and self-discipline. - William L Shirer

For any American who had the great and priceless privilege of being raised in a small town there always remains with him nostalgic memories… And the older he grows the more he senses what he owed to the simple honesty and neighborliness, the integrity that he saw all around him in those days. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right. - Confucius

Perhaps it would be a good idea, fantastic as it sounds, to muffle every telephone, stop every motor, and halt all activity for an hour some day, to give people a chance to ponder for a few minutes on what it is all about, why they are living and what they really want. - James Truslow Adams

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence. - Daniel H. Burnham

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for. - Joseph Addison

If you have nothing else to do, look about you and see if there isn't something close at hand that you can improve! It may make you wealthy, thought it is more likely that it will make you happy. - George Matthew Adams

Making an issue of little things is one of the surest ways to spoil happiness. One's personal pride is felt to be vitally injured by surrender, but there is no quality of human nature so nearly royal as the ability to yield gracefully. It shows small confidence in one's own nature to fear that compromise lessens self-control. To consider constantly the comfort and happiness of another is not a sign of weakness but of strength. - Charles Conrad

The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. - William James

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter -- loving spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and totally without social significance. Bubbling spontaneously from the heart of child or man. Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life. - Sir William Osler

Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of life - the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs. - Sir William Osler

Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best. - David O. McKay

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.  - Jean de la Bruyère

Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them. - Henry David Thoreau

I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail. - William Faulkner

The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.  - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The possibilities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.  - Katherine Anne Porter

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.  - Gandhi

The secret of my vigor and activity is that I have managed to have a lot of fun.  - Lowell Thomas

Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. - Chief Seattle

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.  - Cherokee Expression

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive..." (Italian Actress; 1859-1924)  - Eleonora Duse

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by what you bring to life. - John Homer Miller

Live not one's life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last.  - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.  - Nelson Henderson

A small boy looked at a star and began to weep. The star said, "Boy, why are you weeping?" And the boy said, "You are so far away I will never be able to touch you." And the star answered, "Boy, if I were not already in your heart, you would not be able to see me.  - John Magliola

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.  - Tagore

Security is mostly a superstition. It 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 outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.  - Helen Keller

Every person’s life is a fairytale written by God’s fingers. - Hans Christian Anderson

Life is just a blank slate, what matters most is what you write on it. - Christine Frankland

I wanted a perfect ending... Now, I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.  - Gilda Radner

It is only through disruptions and confusion that we grow, jarred out of ourselves by the collision of someone else's private world with our own.  - Joyce Carol Oates

Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved. - William Jennings Bryan

She said she usually cried at least once each day, not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful... and life was so short.  - Brian Andreas

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life. (Indian Philosopher (1895-1986)) - J.Krishnamurti

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. - Louis L'Amour

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good thing, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow human being let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. (1773-1855 - French-born Quaker Minister) - Stephen Grellet

Life is a magic vase filled to the brim; so made that you cannot dip into it nor draw from it; but it overflows into the hand that drops treasures into it-drop in malice and it overflows hate; drop in charity and it overflows love. - John Ruskin

We are born into a vast room whose walls consist of a thousand doors of possibility. Each door is flung open to the world outside, and the room is filled with light and noise. We close some of the doors deliberately, sometimes with fear, sometimes with calm certainty. Others seem to close by themselves, some so quietly that we do not even notice. (from City Limits) - Terry Teachout

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't. - Richard Bach

Be like a sponge when it comes to each new experience. If you want to be able to express it well, you must first be able to absorb it well. - Jim Rohn

Every time we leave home and go to another place, we open up the possibility of having something wonderful happen to us. When we move out of the familiar here and now, we set in motion a series of events that, taken together, bring about changes at the very root of our being. (from The Way of the Traveler)  - Joseph Dispenza

On the way to what you planned to happen, something even better comes along. - Janice Endique

Right now you are one choice away from a new beginning - one that leads you toward becoming the fullest human being you can be. (from Oprah Magazine, July 2002) - Oprah Winfrey

Often I sit up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned early in the morning, lest it should be missed or wanted. - Benjamin Franklin

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn. - Alvin Toffler

I never deliberately learned to read, but somehow I had been wallowing illicitly in the daily papers. In the long hours of church--was it then I learned? I could not remember not being able to read hymns. How that i was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the seat of my union suit without looking around, or achieving two bows from a snarl of shoelaces. I could not remember when the lines above Atticus's moving finger separated into words, but I had stared at them all the evenings in my memory, listening to the news of the day, Bills To Be Enacted into Laws, the diaries of Lorenzo Dow--anything Atticus hapend to be reading when i crawled into his lap every night. Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. {from 'To Kill A Mockingbird'}  - Harper Lee

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. {from "Reading" in Waldon (1854)} - Henry David Thoreau

She began the first of what we later called 'my lessons in living.' She said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. {I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (1970)}  - Maya Angelou

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them.  - Thomas Jefferson

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. - Alvin Tofler

Your own words are the bricks and mortar of the dreams you want to realize. Your words are the greatest power you have. The words you choose and the use establish the life you experience. - Sonia Croquette

Call me Ishmael. Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. {opening lines of 'Moby Dick'} - Herman Melville

This is the way the world ends, This is the way the world ends, Not with a bang but a whimper. {from the poem "The Hollow Men"} - T.S. Eliot

O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells; Rise up - for you the flag is flung - for you the bugle trills... {from the poem, "O Captain! My Captain!"} - Walt Whitman

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. - Christopher Morley

Estragon(E): Why don't we hang ourselves? Vladimir(V): With what? E: You haven't got a bit of rope? V: No. E: Then we can't. V: Let's go. {from the play, 'Waiting for Godot.'} - Samuel Beckett

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. {from 'Animal Farm'}  - George Orwell

A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. {from 'Of Mice and Men'} - John Steinbeck

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain, Before high-piled books, in charact'ry, Hold like rich garners the full-ripen'd grain... (from the poem: "When I Have Fears") - John Keats

Whilom ther was dwellynge at oxenford, A riche gnof, that gestes heeld to bord, And of his craft he was a carpenter. - (from 'The Canterbury Tales' - The Miller's Tale) - Sir Geoffrey Chaucer

so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens. ("The Red Wheelbarrow")  - William Carlos Williams

A destiny that leads the English to the Dutch is strange enough; but one that leads from Epsom into Pennsylvania, and thence into the hills that shut in Altamont over the proud coral cry of the cock, and the soft stone smile on an angel, is touched by that dark miracle of chance which makes new magic in a dusty world. - (from the novel, 'Look Homeward, Angel') - Thomas Wolfe

Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. - (from the novel 'One Hundred Years of Solitude') - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Mr. Bloom walked unheeded along his grove by saddened angels, crosses, broken pillars, family vaults, stone hopes praying with upcast eyes, old Ireland's hearts and hands. - (from the novel 'Ulysses') - James Joyce

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys' house. (from the novel 'Anna Karenina') - Leo Tolstoy

Mr. Phileas Fogg lived, in 1872, at No. 7, Savile Row, Burlington Gardens, the house in which Sheridan died in 1814. - (from the novel 'Around the World in 80 Days') - Jules Verne

Big Brother is watching you. (from the novel, '1984') - George Orwell

The bells... the bells... - Quasimodo

'Will you walk into my parlour?' said a spider to a fly. - Mary Howitt

Jean Valjean went out of the city as if he were escaping. He made all haste to get into the open country, taking the first lanes and bypaths that offered, without noticing that he was every moment retracing his steps. He wandered thus all the morning. (from the novel, 'Les Miserables') - Victor Hugo

THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest. This is the forest primeval; but where are the hearts that beneath it Leaped like the roe, when he hears in the woodland the voice of the huntsman? Where is the thatch-roofed village, the home of Acadian farmers -- - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Fifteen men on the dead man's chest, Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum. (from 'Treasure Island') - Robert Louis Stevenson

As for me, I know nothing else but miracles, Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan, Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky, Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge of the water, Or stand under the trees in the woods, Or talk by day with any one I love, Or sleep in bed at night with any one I love, Or watch honey bees busy around the hive of a summer forenoon... Or the wonderfulness of the sundown, Or of stars shining so quiet and bright, Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in spring... What stranger miracles are there?  - Walt Whitman

My business is to sing! What difference does it make if no one listens? Perhaps you laugh at me! Perhaps the whole United States are laughing at me too! I can't stop for that! Just to have been made alive is so chief a thing, all else inevitably adds. I find ectasy in living. The mere sense of living is joy enough. Take all away from me, but leave me ecstasy! (from a Dickinson letter in William Luce's script for The Belle of Amherst) - Emily Dickinson

Not all those who wander are lost. (from The Fellowship of the Ring) - J.R.R. Tolkein

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. - from 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being (HarperPerennial) - Milan Kundera

The wretch, concentered all in self / living show forth but fair renown / and doubly dying shall go down / to the vile dust from whence he sprung / unwept, unhonoured, unsung. - Sir Walter Scott

She peeped over the edge of the mushroom, and her eyes immediately met those of a large blue caterpillar, that was sitting on the top, with its arms folded, quietly smoking a long hookah, and taking not the smallest notice of her or of anything else. - Lewis Carroll

Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real, you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand. (from 'The Velveteen Rabbit,' 1927) - Margery Williams

Bodies devoid of mind are as statues in the market place. (from Electra, 386) - Euripides (484-406 B.C.)

Howard Roark laughed. He stood naked at the edge of a cliff... {opening line from 'The Fountainhead'} - Ayn Rand

A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, Community, Identity, Stability. {opening line from 'Brave New World'} - Aldous Huxley

I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. - {from 'Catcher in the Rye.' Spoken by the character, Holden Caulfield} - J.D. Salinger

For I have known them all already, know them all: have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons; I have measured out my life with coffee spoons... {from the poem, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"}  - T.S. Eliot

riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs." {opening lines from Finnegans Wake} - James Joyce

He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. {from 'The Old Man and The Sea'} - Ernest Hemingway

Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting. They were coming toward where the flag was and I went along the fence. Luster was hunting in the grass by the flower tree. {from the novel, 'The Sound and the Fury'}  - William Faulkner

Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.  - Elie Wiesel

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way--in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. {from A Tale of Two Cities} - Charles Dickens

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. {from the short story, 'The Metamorphosis'} - Franz Kafka

You carry away with you a reflection of me, a part of me. I dreamed you; I wished for your existence. You will always be a part of my life. If I love you, it must be because we shared, at some moment, the same imaginings, the same madness, the same stage.  - Anais Nin (from Henry and June)

The first duty of love is to listen. - Paul Tillich

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life. - Dr. Joyce Brothers

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. - Peter Ustinov

You sigh, the song begins; you speak and I hear violins... it's magic! - Doris Day

The event of falling in love... in one high bound it has overleaped the massive wall of our selfhood; it has made appetite itself altruistic, tossed personal happiness aside as a triviality and planted the interests of another in the centre of our being. - C.S. Lewis

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep. The more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite. - Shakespeare

You call it madness, but I call it love. - Don Byas

Love is like a mirror. When you love another you become his mirror and he becomes yours .... And reflecting each other's love you see infinity. - Leo Buscaglia

We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death. - Leo Buscaglia

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. - Kahlil Gibran

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.  - Ken Carey

Even when I glimpse you for a moment, my tongue is stilled as speech deserts me, while a delicate fire is beneath my skin... - Sappho

Love-bittersweet, irrepressible-loosen my limbs and I tremble... - Sappho

Love is narcissism shared by two. - Rita Mae Brown

Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.  - Sappho

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame. - Henry David Thoreau

The heart is forever inexperienced. - Henry David Thoreau

Love decreases when it ceases to increase. - Vicomte De Chateaubriand

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic. - De Lamartine

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. - Shakespeare

The kiss: something made of nothing, tasting very sweet. - M.E. Bueli

The hearts that love will know never winter's frost and chill. Summer's warmth is in them still. - Eben Eugene Rexford

I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved. - George Eliot

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth - for his love is more delightful then wine. - The Bible, Song of Songs 1:2

Love, like a lamp, needs to be fed out of another's heart, or its flame burns low. - Henry Ward Beecher

How beautiful you are, my dearest, O how beautiful, your eyes are like doves. - The Bible, Song of Songs 1:15

Love is love's reward. - John Dryden

Love is the river of life in the world. - Henry Ward Beecher

A kiss is a rosy dot placed on the "i" in loving. - Edmond Rostand

When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece. - John Ruskin

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. - Maya Angelou

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.  - Henry Drummond

Let the burden never be so heavy; love makes it light. - Robert Burton

Falling in love with someone isn't always going to be easy... Anger... tears... laughter.. It's when you want to be together despite it all. That's when you truly love another. I'm sure of it. - Keiichi Morisata

Love at first sight is easy to understand. It's when two people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes a miracle. - Sam Levenson

The main source of good discipline is growing up in a loving family, being loved and learning to love in return.  - Dr. Benjamin Spock

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky and want, more than all the world, your return.  - Mary Jean Iron

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, Has thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee! (from Rosamond) - Addison

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. (from Festus) - Bailey

Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama. - Marguerite Blessington

Oh my luve's like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June; Oh my luve's like the melodie That's sweetly played in tune. (from Red, Red Rose) - Robert Burns

If we all discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to tell them that they loved them. - Christopher Morley

Love is nature's second son. - George Chapman

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly. - Louis Ginsberg

Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. - Carl Jung

No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved. - Mignon McLaughlin

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and saying so. - John Donne

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you. - Sam Goldwyn

Love, you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy. - Ralph Connor

The loving are the daring. - Bayard Taylor

No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever. - Francois Mauriac

I no longer care about survival - I merely loved. - Loren Eiseley

Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die. - William Butler Yeats

The heart that has truly loved never forgets But as truly loves on to the close. - Thomas More

When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. - Henry Stack Sullivan

As the end of the what is called the 'sexual life' the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship. - Graham Greene

What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer is the test of love. - Brooke Foss Wescott

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh. - Agnes Repplier

The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person. - Vi Putnam

Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again - this is the brave and happy life. - J.E. Buckrose

The entire law is summed up in a single command, "Love your neighbor as yourself."  - The Bible, Galatians 5:14 (NIV)

There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer, no disease that enough love will not heal, no door that enough love will not bridge, no wall that enough love will not throw down, no sin that enough love will not redeem... It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. If only you could love enough, you could be the happiest and most powerful being in the world... (Emmet Fox, 1886-1951, Irish-born Metaphysician) - Emmet Fox

If words could say all that we feel, there would be no need for an embrace. But language has its limitations, and the heart has none. It expresses itself spontaneously in even the smallest things we do.  - Robert Sexton

The pleasure of love is in the loving. We are happier in the passion we feel than in that we arouse. - La Rochefoucauld

Now is the time to give me roses, not to keep them for my grave to come. Give them to me while my heart beats, give them today while my heart yearns for jubilee. Now is the time...  - Mzwakhe Mbuli

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof; the work for which all other work is but preparation.  - Rainer Maria Rilke

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love back into our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. (from "A Return To Love")  - Marianne Williamson

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky and want, more than all the world, your return. - Mary Jean Iron

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. - Karen Sunde

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. - Luciano de Crescenzo

To love her still... Only makes me love her more. - Lira Onida Dion

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of. - Pascal

To live without loving is not really to live. - Moliere

Greater is he who acts from love than he who acts from fear. - Simeon Ben Eleazar

And think not you can guide the course of love. For love, if it finds you worthy, shall guide your course. - Kahlil Gibran

The bravest are the tenderest. The loving are the daring. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

One man all by himself is nothing. Two people who belong together make a world. - Hans Margolius

No time of life is so beautiful as the early days of love, when with every meeting, every glance, one fetches something new home to rejoice over. - Soren Kierkegaard

He whom love touches not walks in darkness. - Plato

Tell me who you love, and I'll tell you who you are. - Creole proverb

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so you learn to love God and man by loving. Begin as a mere apprentice and the very power of love will lead you on to become a master of the art. - St. Francis De Sales

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. - A.W. Pinero

Two human loves make one divine. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

May they who love you be like the sun when it rises in its strength. - The Bible, Judges 5:31

We've grown to be one soul - two parts; our lives so intertwined that when some passion stirs your heart, I feel the quake in mine. - Gloria Gaither