A man's got to be himself. Can't break the mold. I tried it once and
it didn't work. (Shane in the movie)
Be good and industrious and serve God continually.
(Joseph Haydn)
Soul, clap its hands
and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress
(Yeats)
Action is worry's worst enemy.
Ambition is putting a
ladder against the skies.
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
One pair of listening
ears can drink a thousand tongues dry.
Difficulties are things that show what people are like.
Prescription for happiness: Something to do; someone to love;
something to look forward to. (Elvis Presley)
Subtlety teaches
best.
A whole lot of ideas isn't a plan. (Donald Westlake)
When it comes to personal success in life,
the wisdom of gracious acceptance is a step backward in the right direction.
(from the movie "The Tea House of the August Moon")
Sometimes it's better to be on the right side of wrong than
the wrong side of right.
Anything that ever goes wrong in our lives happens when we
fail to see ourselves as parts of that whole--when we can't recognize ourselves
for what we truly are: individual beings who belong. All you have to do
in life is to find and to understand yourself. Even those people who spend
their entire lives helping others--that is their way of knowing themselves.
(Maria Joao Pires)
Nature Boy
There was a boy
A very enchanted boy
They say he wandered very far, very far
over land and sea
A little shy and sad of eye
And then one day he passed my way
And while we spoke of many things
Fools and kings
This he said to me
"The greatest thing you'll ever learn
Is just to love and be loved in return"
(
A fine life is a thought conceived in youth and realized in
maturity. (Alfred de Vigny)
The rules aren’t
written down, you fool, they’re lived. (From the Tom Selleck movie, Monte Walsh)
When we leave this
world, we leave all we have taken but carry with us all we have given.
Most men can lead,
but they don't hunger and thirst to do so. Probably they are better
adjusted emotionally to life's lot than most of us. They are content to
gather flowers in the one garden they call their own. To toil at a simple
task for which they are fitted, to love a little and to be loved, to feel
warmth in their home--these things are enough for them. (SLA
When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness. (Malcolm
Forbes)
Appreciation makes what is excellent in others belong to us
as well. (Voltaire)
Your mind is a bad neighborhood. Don't go there
alone. (D. D. Lewis)
The book of life is brief and once a page is read
All but love is dead. (Don McLean)
I couldn't wait for
success, so I went ahead without it. (Jonathan Winters)
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in
deserving them.
I’ve made peace with
myself somewhere between my ambitions and my limitations. (from the movie, Teahouse of the August Moon.)
The impression of
simplicity is the final achievement. (Frederic Chopin)
Two in distress makes sorrow less.
The past isn’t dead;
it isn’t even past. (William Faulkner)
Can a lifetime represent a single motive? (T. S. Eliot)
The husband may be
the head of the family, but the wife is the neck. She can turn the man’s head in any
direction. Don’t let your past dictate
your future, but let your past be part of what you become. (Nia Vardelos, My Big Fat Greek Wedding)
I gave you life so
you could live it.
When men cry, they usually cry about things they should have
shed tears over in the past. (Thomas Henderson)
My Life's been grand
I've been a hand at livin' it up all the way
I've had good times and bad times and hard times and done time
But life's been a blessing every day
My life's been grand
You know I'd write home and tell 'em
But they wouldn't believe me
My good luck's been good
And if it ended today, hell
I've been all the way
My life's been grand.
(Merle Haggard)
We just don't
recognize the most significant aspects of our lives while they're happening.
(From the movie, Field of Dreams)
So many things can hinder one. Think you are up in a
hot air balloon with sandbags. As you get older, keep throwing those
sandbags overboard. The more sandbags you throw, the higher you soar, the
higher the balloon goes.
(Lorin Maazel)
Getting it right the first time is not nearly as important as
getting it right the second time.
Great men never feel
great and small men never feel small.
The best chaperon a girl can have is to be in love with another
guy. (Mark Twain)
"Have you ever
failed?" "Only in life." (From the movie, The Ghosts in the
Darkness.)
The essence of learning is remembering what one knew even
before awareness. (Socrates)
There was a time when I was
In a hurry as you are
I was like you
The was a day when I just
Had to tell my point of view
I was like you
Now I don't mean to make you frown
No, I just want you to slow down
Have you never been mellow
Have you never tried
To find the comfort from inside you
Have you never been happy
Just to hear a song
Have you never let someone else be strong
(John Farrar)
One does not learn to love, but one learns to understand that
which one loves. (Camille Mauclair)
Trifles make
perfection and perfection is no trifle. (Michelangelo)
He who has not carried your burden doesn't know how much it
weighs.
I am comfortable with everyone. My main credo is to
“understand the other person.” If I don’t like something in a person, I
try to understand why they are like that, and as soon as I understand these
reasons, I can’t be angry anymore. (Lazar Berman)
Wide experience makes for deep tolerance.
Well I'm not the kind
to live in the past
The years run too short and the days too fast
The things you lean on are the things that don't last
Well it's just now and then my line gets cast into these
Time passages
There's something back here that you left behind
Oh time passages
Buy me a ticket on the last train home tonight
(Al Stewart and Peter White)
A clean conscience is a good pillow.
It’s easier to pull
down than to build up.
Can't figure out the problem? Put it aside for a brainy
day.
There is something
rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. (Elbert
Hubbard)
Total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
(Augustine of Hippo)
Don’t be afraid to love the boy. (From the movie, The Yearling, with Gregory Peck)
If you don’t do what you are, you quit being. (From the Tom
Select movie, Monte Walsh)
The most important events are often the results of
accidents. (Polybius)
To leave footprints
on the sands of time, wear work shoes. (Author unknown)
Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his
heel. (C. H. Spurgeon)
Every
history worth its salt is telling us who we are (we who do not know who we
are). (John D. Caputo)
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and
loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of
children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the
world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem or
a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth’s beauty or failed to
express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.
(Robert Louis Stevenson)
Thou shalt ever joy at eventide if you spend the day
fruitfully. (Thomas á Kempis)
If
you’re going through hell, keep going.
Don’t stop. (Winston Churchill)
The way to do is to
be. (Lao Tzu)
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as
often. (Author unknown)
Lord grant that the FIRE of my heart may melt the lead in my
feet. (Author unknown)
Racing has to come
before everything else in your life. I’d
reached a point where helping my sons and daughters means more to me today than
driving into turn one. (Al Unser, Jr.)
Action is the antidote for despair. (Joan Baez)
It’s unbelievable! No,
even better—it’s perfect.” (From the movie,
Fields of Dreams)
People get the government that looks like them. We can observe ourselves by seeing who we
elect. (Paul Griffiths)
If you’re going to be
successful in life, you either have to be smart or pleasant. I tried being smart for awhile but found that
being pleasant is much more effective. (from the Jimmy Stewart movie,
The best way to make
your dreams come true is to wake up. (J. M. Power)
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
(Proverb)
He had climbed to the
top of the tree and there was nothing there.
I don’t think he ever knew what he wanted, but in his last years he knew
he would never get it. (Constantine
Gratsos on Aristotle Onassis.)
Stop worrying about whether or not you’re effective.
Worry about what is possible for you to do, which is always greater
than you imagine.
(Archbishop Oscar Romero)
Things won are done,
joy’s soul lies in the doing. (William Shakespeare)
The shortest way to do many things is to do one thing at
once. (Samuel Smiles)
If you cannot feed a
hundred people, then feed just one. (Mother Teresa)
He does much who loves much. (Thomas á Kempis)
Tell me
and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll
understand. (Chinese proverb)
How vain it is to sit down and write when you have not stood
up to live! (Henry David Thoreau)
I’m a sinking ship,
scuttled by my own men! (from the movie, Teahouse
of the August Moon.)
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part
of. (Geri Weitzman)
Where science stops, God begins. (From the movie The Notebook)
Ideas won’t keep;
something must be done about them. (Alfred North Whitehead)
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can
do. (John Wooden)
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which
should not be done at all. (Peter Drucker)
I believe a great deal of
happiness can be found in every circumstance. It isn't only a matter of being
married or unmarried. It's more a matter of being complete or incomplete as a
human being, of exploring and employing the best that's in us, of adapting and
remaining forever flexible, and of resisting being categorized, labeled,
pigeon-holed, or price-tagged. You can live a fairly full life in an imperfect
world if you have the courage to be 'you' and seek out and face all the
facts--the facts of a life which is never all you dreamed it would be, but
which, nevertheless, is your own life in which you can function well and be
important to yourself and others. (Kate Smith)
Happy is he who knows how to break things off before being
broken by them. (Franz Liszt)
Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a
distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. (Thomas Carlyle)
Love cannot be practiced right unless we first exercise it
the moment God gives the opportunity. (John Wesley)
Leave nothing to
chance, and then leave everything to God. (Author unknown)
To give our Lord a perfect hospitality, Mary and Martha must
combine. (Teresa of
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where
there is no path and leave a trail. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Adventure is not outside a man, it is within. (David
Grayson)
Prosperity doth best
discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue. (Francis Bacon)
We must face today as children of tomorrow.
We must meet the uncertainties of this world with the certainty
of the world to come. (A.W. Tozer)
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a
regret. (Benjamin Disraeli)
Forty is the old age
of youth; fifth the youth of old age. (Victor Hugo)
Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.
(Elbert Hubbard)
The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he
is going. (Author unknown)
Be careful what you set your heart upon—for it will surely be
yours. (James Baldwin)
Try not to become a
man of success but rather try to become a man of value. (Albert Einstein)
I am only one, but
still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I
will not refuse to do the something I can do. (Helen Keller)
How wonderful
that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
It is
very difficult to make an accurate prediction, especially about the future.
An
expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very
narrow field.
(Niels
Bohr)
Lord grant that I may
always desire more than I accomplish. (Michelangelo)
This is
Amusement to an observing mind is study. (Benjamin
Disraeli)
The real character of a man is found out by his
amusements. (Joshua Reynolds)
Worry is the interest
you pay on borrowed trouble.
You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die. Or
when. You can only decide how you’re going to live. Now.
(Joan Baez)
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be
appreciated and the desire to be important. (Dale Carnegie)
It is useless for us to reason a man out of a thing he has
never been reasoned into. (Jonathan Swift)
Argument is the worst
sort of conversation. (Jonathan Swift)
Start with what you can do; don’t stop because of what you
can’t do. (Author unknown)
Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth
catching? (Author unknown)
Don’t count the days,
make the days count. (Author unknown)
It’s a beautiful
world to see,
Or it’s dismal in every zone,
The thing it must be in its gloom or its gleam
Depends on yourself alone.
(Author unknown)
If you look for the good, you will find it; if you look for
the bad, you will also find it.
Never look at what you have lost…look at what you have
left. (Author unknown)
Today I can cry because roses have thorns or I can celebrate
that thorns have roses. (Author unknown)
Attitude is the
mind’s paintbrush, it can color any situation. (Author unknown)
Don’t worry about
what you want, concentrate on what you already have. (Author unknown)
All I am is what I’m
going after. (Al Pacino in Heat)
There are two kinds
of men who never amount to very much: Those who cannot do what they are
told, and those who can do nothing else.
(Cyrus H. K. Curtis)
Weakness of attitude
becomes weakness of character. (Albert Einstein)
Keep your face to the
sunshine and you cannot see the shadows. (Helen Keller)
I discovered I always
have choices and sometimes it’s only a choice of attitude. (Judith M.
Knowlton)
The new
cosmology portrays a cosmos that defied our figuring and confounds every
expectation of how things ought to work.
The implications of this emerging theory, of course, are even harder to
predict than the theory is to understand.
(Leonard Sweet, Bryan D. McLaren, Jerry Haselmayer)
If you
try to fail and succeed, what have you done? (George Carlin)
I
thought my fireplace cold, and stirred up the ashes; my fingers got burnt. (Antonio Machado)
Not
everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted
counts. (Albert Einstein)
You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not
closed and the doors are not all shut. (Maxwell Maltz)
Attitudes are more important than facts. (Karl
Menninger)
Live life slowly so it lasts longer. (Sandor)
Truth exists for the
wise, beauty for the feeling heart.
(Friedrich Schiller)
Beautiful is that
which we see, more beautiful that which we know, but by far the most beautiful
that which we do not comprehend.
(Nicolaus Steno.)
Whatever you are, be
a good one. (Abraham Lincoln)
If you think you can
or you think you can’t, you’re right.
(Henry Ford)
As I get older I seem
to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and
more. (David Jenkins)
Make sure the thing
you’re living for is worth dying for.
(Charles Mayes)
One of the symptoms
of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly
important. (Bertrand Russell)
Crowding a life does
not always enrich it. (Author unknown)
Be the change you
want to see in the world. (Mahatma
Gandhi)
Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time
job. (Adlai Stevenson)
Everyone thinks of
changing the world, but no one things of changing himself. (Leo Tolstoy)
A person’s character
and their garden both reflect the amount of weeding that was done in the
growing season. (Author unknown)
Character cannot be
developed in ease and quiet. Only
through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision
cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved. (Helen Keller)
Never seek warm fire
under cold ice. (Samuel Rutherford)
The dew of compassion
is a tear. (Lord Byron)
Is this heaven?
(Shoeless Joe Jackson on the baseball field in the movie, Fields of Dreams)
It is no measure of
health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. (Krishnamurti)
Be the master of your
will and the slave of your conscience. (Hasidic saying)
Next to faith this is
the highest art—to be content with the calling in which God has placed
you. I have not learned it yet. (Martin Luther)
The only ultimate
disaster that can befall us, I have come to realize, is to feel ourselves at
home here on earth. (Malcolm Muggeridge)
Great wealth and
contentment seldom live together. (Bob
Phillips)
Conscience is the
perfect interpreter of life. (Karl
Barth)