"The
great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree.
The
gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not
reach
maturity for 100 years.The Marshall replied,
"In
that case, there is no time to lose. Plant it this afternoon!"
John
F. Kennedy
"Living is
not enough," said the butterfly,
"One
must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower".
Hans
Christian Anderson
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"Don't judge
each day by the harvest you reap, but
by the seeds
you plant."
Robert Louis
Stevenson
"Fall seven
times; stand up
eight."
Japanese Proverb
"Creativity
is allowing oneself to make mistakes.
Art is knowing
which ones to keep."
Scott Adams,
The Dilbert Principle
"And in the
end, it's not the years in your life that count.
It's the life
in your years"
Abraham Lincoln
"To
keep our faces toward change and behave like
free spirits
in the presence of fate is
strength undefeatable."
Helen Keller
"It is not
because things are difficult that
we do not
dare
it is
because
we do not dare that
they are
difficult."
Lucius
Annaeus Seneca
"He is able
who thinks he is able."
Buddha
"Guard well
your spare moments.
They are like
uncut diamonds."
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
"Energy and
persistence conquerall
things."
Benjamin Franklin
"Nothing great
was ever achieved without enthusiasm."
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
"Twenty years
from now you will be more disappointed by
the things
that 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
Watch your
thoughts;
they become words.
Watch your
words; they become actions.
Watch your
actions; they become habits.
Watch your
habits; they become character.
Watch your
character; it becomes your destiny.
Frank Outlaw
Success
is going from failure to failure
without loss
of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
"Don't part
with your illusions.
When they are gone,
you may still
exist,
but you have
ceased to live."
Mark Twain
I am only
one, but I am one.
I cannot do
everything, but I can do something.
And I will
not let what I cannot do,
interfere
with what I can do.
Edward Everett
Hale
"Life
is like an
onion,
you peel off
one layer at at time
and sometimes
you weep."
Carl Sandburg
What
lies behind us,
and what lies
before us are tiny matters,
compared to
what
lies within us.
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
"Be
yourself.
No one can ever tell you
you're doing
it wrong."
James
Leo Herlihy
Life is
what happens when you are busy making other plans.
John Lennon
To reach the
point of death
only to realize,
we have never
lived.
Thoreau
Forgiveness
is the fragrance the violet
sheds on the
heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain
The
tragedy of
life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer
Those who
look
inside are awake, those
who look
outside are
asleep.
Don Barragiano
Happiness
should be a way to travel, not a
destination.
Zainto
"Courage
is
not the absence of fear;
it is the
making of action in spite of fear,
the moving
out against the resistance engendered by fear
into the unknown
and into the future.
On some level
spiritual growth, and therefore love,
always requires
courage and involves risk."
M. Scott Peck,from
The Road Less Traveled
"Courage
is
not the towering oak that sees storms come
and go;it
is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow."
Alice Mackenzie
Swaim
Yesterday
is gone.
Tomorrow has
not yet come.
We have only
today.
Let us begin.
Mother Teresa
We are what
we repeatedly do.
Excellence,
then, is not an act,
but a habit.
Aristotle
Knowledge
is the antidote to fear.
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
The gem cannot
be polished without friction
nor man perfected
without trials.
Confucius
"Don't we
live
in the same
objective world?"
a disciple
once queried his guru.
"Yes," his
master replied,
"but you see
yourself
in the world,
and I see
the world in myself.
This minor
perceptual
shift
makes all
the difference
between freedom
and bondage."
Deepak Chopra
The
ideals
that have lighted my way,
and time after
time have given me
new courage
to face life cheerfully,
have been
Kindness,
Beauty &
Truth.
Albert Einstein
He who asks
a question may be a fool for five minutes.
But he who
neverasks a question
remains a
fool forever.
I tell you
one thing.
If you want
peace
of mind,
find fault
with no one.
Take the whole
world into your heart.
No one is
a stranger.
This whole
world is your own.
Sri Darada
Devi
"There ain't
no
rules around
here!
We're trying
to accomplish something."
Thomas Edison
"Imagination
is more important than knowledge.
Knowledge
is limited.
Imagination
encircles the world."
Albert Einstein
What is now
proved was once only imagin'd
William Blake
"Tell me who
admires you and loves you,
and I will
tell you who you are."
Charles Augustin
Sainte-Beauve
"Those who
stand
for nothing
fall for anything."
Alexander
Hamilton
Some people
make things happen,
some watch
while things happen, and some wonder
"What happened?"
Nullum magnum
ingenium sine mixtura dementiæ
(There is
no great genius
without a tincture of madness)
Seneca: De
Tranquillitate Animi
I cannot teach
them anything.
I can only
make them think.
Socrates
