Wit and Wisdom
With truth the opportunities are endless. - Larry T. Nutter
The
mindfulness of in and out breathing, of body contemplation, of keeping
consciousness of the moment, is a noble occupation and a sublime way,
leading to independence of mind and to wisdom.
- Samyutta Nikaya
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. - Peter Ustivov
In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you. - Deepak Chopra
There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day. - Alexander Woollcott
Even as a rock is not shaken by the wind, the wise man is not shaken by praise or blame.
- Budda
Courage does not always roar. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow." - Anonymous
No winter lasts forever; No spring skips its turn. - Hal Borland
Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth. - William Purkey
If you, yourself, are at peace, then there is at least some peace in the world.
- Thomas Merton
Laughter is an instant vacation. - Milton Berle
The beginning is the most important part of any work. - Plato
Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine. - Kathleen Norris
If you can dream it, you can do it. - Walt Disney
Friends are the beautiful colors stitched by the gentle hands of time into the fabric of our lives. - Author Unknown
A birthmark is a kiss from an angel. - Anonymous
Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed. - St. Francis de Sales
Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons. - Ruth Ann Schabacker
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
- Maya Angelou
May
the road rise up to meet you. May the wind be always at your back. May
the rain fall soft upon your fields. And, until we meet again, may God
hold you in the palm of His hand. - An Irish blessing for journey
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another. - George Eliot
As mountain rivers flow from separate peaks, they meet in a lake of love and become one. - Hugh
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. - Dalai Lama
To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.
- Henri Matisse
Come out of the circle of time, and into the circle of love. - Rumi
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. - Marcel Proust
Friendship
that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water
that flows from the spring cannot congeal in winter. - James Fenimore Cooper
Some people think it's holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it's letting go.
- Sylvia Robinson
We cannot hold a torch to light another person's path without brightening our own.
- Ben Sweetland
One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each other's stories. - Rebecca Falls
If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything. - Steve Bartowski
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. - Abraham Lincoln
The mighty ocean has but one taste, the taste of salt. Even so, the true way has but one savor, the taste of freedom. - Majjhima Nikaya
I
will not wish thee riches nor the glow of greatness, but that wherever
thou go some weary heart shall gladden at thy smile, or shadowed life
know sunshine for a while. And so thy path shall be a track of light,
like angels' footsteps passing through the night.
- Words on a church wall in Upwaltham, England
We
must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as
the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are. - Friedrich Nietzsche
When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.
- John A. Shedd
God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December. - James M. Barrie
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself. - Lao - Tzu
If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.
- Justice Arthur Goldberg
The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
- Chinese Proverb
Real love stories never have endings. - Richard Bach
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. - William Butler Yates
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
- Anais Nin
Unhappiness doesn't come from not having something you want, but from the lack of something inside that you need. - Nancye Sims
Nothing lowers the level of conversation more than raising the voice. - Stanley Horowitz
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. - Robert Brault
The sacred is discovered in what moves and touches us, in what makes us tremble.
- Sam Keen
The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot. - Michael Althsuler
We have not come into this world to be a number; we have been created for a purpose, for great things: To love and to be loved. - Mother Teresa
We
cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in
filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it
run over. So in a series of acts of kindness there is, at last, one
which makes the heart run over. - James Boswell
Making
the decision to have a child -- it's momentous. It is to decide
forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. - Elizabeth Stone
Do not fear, greatly beloved, you are safe. - Daniel 10:15
Life
is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in
a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside,
thoroughly used up, worn out, and loudly proclaiming-WOW-What a
Ride!!! Go fast and the wrinkles won't show.
- Author Unknown
Constant
kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness
causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate. - Dr. Albert Schweitzer
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
All of us are like ten-speed bikes. We've got gears we never use. - Charles Schultz
An optimist is the human personification of spring. - Susan J. Bissonette
To hope under the most extreme circumstances is an act of defiance that permits a person to live his life on his own terms. - Jerome Groopman, MD
It is part of the human spirit to endure and give a miracle a chance to happen.
- Jerome Groopman, MD
Hope, I have come to believe, is as vital to our lives as the very oxygen we breathe.
- Jerome Groopman, MD
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. - Dutch Proverb
When
written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two
characters--one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity. - John F. Kennedy
Happiness is something that you are and it comes from the way you think. - Wayne Dyer
Life shrinks and expands in proportion to one's courage. - Anais Nin
I'm looking forward to looking back on all this. - Sandra Knell
If you are in life, you will be touched by life. - Judy
Normal is only a setting on a dryer. - Dale Jones
The
basic fact is that humanity survives through kindness, love and
compasion. That human beings can develop these qualities is their real
blessing.
- His Holiness the Dalai Lama
There are moments in life when you miss someone so much that you just want to pick them from your dreams and hug them for real. - Author Unknown
Be the change that you want to see in the world. - Gandhi
A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every passerby leaves a mark.
- Chinese Proverb
If there is no wind, row. - Japanese Proverb
If I won't be myself, who will? - Alfred Hitchcock
When
nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his
rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in
it. Yet, at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I
know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before. - Jacob Riis
A child's hand in yours--what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength. - Marjorie Holmes
When
a good person is troubled, an angel descends from heaven and embraces
her. The angel carries the sorrow-filled person on her wings
throughout the skies, pausing at places her passenger once loved. - Suzanne Siegal Zenkel
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away.
- Sir Arthur Helps
Man's heart away from nature becomes hard. - Standing Bear
The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser-in case you thought optimism was dead. - Robert Brault
I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
- William Allen White
"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary. - Louisa May Alcott
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. - David Viscott, M.D.
Imagination is the highest kite we can fly. - Lauren Bacall
Begin doing what you want to now. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand, and melting like a snowflake. - Marie Beyon Ray
It is not hard work or suffering that debilitates, but loss of contact with oneself.
- James Kavanaugh
When
you come to the edge of all the light you know, and you are about to
step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two
things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on, or you
will be taught how to fly. - Barbara J. Winter
If you have one eye on today, and one eye on tomorrow, you are going to be cockeyed today. - Anonymous
The
grace of God means something like: Here is your life.....You might
never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been
complete without you.
- Frederick Beuchner
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
- Mother Teresa
"What is as important as knowledge?" asked the mind. "Caring and seeing with the heart," answered the soul. - Anonymous
We
live in deeds, not years: In thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not
in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. - Philip James
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We cannot go back and create a new beginning, but we can all begin today to create a new end. - Author Unknown
~Relax~Breathe~Listen~Do you hear your heart sing? - Ishaah
I thank my God every time I remember you. - Philippians 1:3NIV
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. - Abraham Lincoln
For it was not in my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. - Judy Garland
The heart communicates in ways the mind does not edit. - Judy
For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe. - Anonymous
Yesterday is a dream,
tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes yesterday a dream of
happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore,
to this day. - Sanskrit Proverb
The very act of breathing feels like intimate communication with the world at large.- Author Unknown
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. - William Arthur Ward
Be of love a little more careful than of anything. - ee cummings
Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except the best. - Anonymous
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God. - Karl Barch
May God grant you always a sunbeam to warm you, a moonbeam to charm you, a sheltering angel, so nothing can harm you. - Irish Saying
Grandmas Are Just Antique Little Girls. - Anonymous
It is not the position in which you stand, but the direction in which you look. Look within and listen to your heart. - Anonymous
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. - Marianne Williamson
You
may search my time--worn face. You'll find a merry eye that twinkles.
I am not an old lady, just a little girl with wrinkles! - Edythe E. Bregnard
When I was born, I was so surprised I couldn't talk for a year and a half. - Gracie Allen
When God measures a person, He puts the tape around the heart, not around the head.
- Anonymous
The will of God will never lead you where the grace of God cannot keep you. -Anonymous
The
circumstances of your life have uniquely qualified you to make a
contribution. And if you don't make that contribution, nobody else can
make it. - Rabbi Kushner
One kind word can warm three winter months. - Japanese Proverb
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. - Anonymous
We need not think alike to love alike. - Francis David
Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. - Voltaire
We can do no great things -- only small things with great love. - Mother Teresa
Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either. - Golda Meir
The persons hardest to convince they're at the retirement age are children at bedtime.
- Shannon Fife
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man. - Heraclitus
Castles are built in the daydreamer's heart, a lifetime of wishes still lifetimes apart.
- Anonymous
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile is the source of your joy. - Thich Nhat Hanh
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all. - Emily Dickenson
You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are. - Les Brown
If you really do put a small value on yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. - Anonymous
People
are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is
out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only
if there is a light from within. - Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
The Mother's heart is the child's classroom. - Henry Ward Beecher
Deep in their roots all flowers keep the light. - Theodore Roethke
