These quotations are from a variety of published sources. If you note a
discrepancy, please notify me. I hope you enjoy these words!
"Great men are they who see that the spiritual is greater than any material force, that
thoughts rule the world." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
"All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is
sublime reading." --Anna Quindlen
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
--Henry Ford
"What would you do if you knew you could not fail?" --Anonymous
"The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman."
--Jonathan Swift
"Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach." --Aristotle
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense,
reason and intellect has intended us to forget their use." --Galileo Galilei
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"
--Albert Einstein
"We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be."
--Gladys Taber
"When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die." --Eleanor Roosevelt
"Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile initially scared me to death."
--Betty Bender
"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet." --Aristotle
"Lost time is never found again." --Benjamin Franklin
"Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can."
--Danny Kaye
"Or don't you like to write letters. I do because it's such a swell way to keep from
working and yet feel you've done something." --Ernest Hemingway
"Contrary to what we usually believe, the best moments in our lives are not the passive,
receptive, relaxing times--although such experiences can be enjoyable, if we have
worked hard to attain them. The best moments usually occur when a person’s body or
mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and
worthwhile." --Mihaly Csikszentmihayli
"If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a
symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden. He will not be
searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator."
--W. Beran Wolfe
"The art of living successfully consists of being able to hold two opposite ideas in
tension at the same time; first, to make long-term plans as if we were going to live
forever; and, second, to conduct ourselves daily as if we were going to die tomorrow."
--George Harris
"Life, for all its agonies of despair and loss and guilt, is exciting and beautiful, amusing
and artful and endearing, full of liking and love, at times a poem and a high adventure,
at times noble and at times very gay; and whatever (if anything) is to come after it -- we
shall not have this life again." --Rose Macaulay
"It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that
makes men invincible." --Henry Ward Beecher
"Attitude to me, is more important than facts. It is more important that the past, than
education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what
other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill.
We cannot change our past...we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain
way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the string we
have, and that is our attitude." --Charles Swindoll
"It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction." --Pablo Picasso
"To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement
rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy not rich; to study hard,
think quietly, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds and babes and sages, with open
heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let
the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the commonplace. This is to
be my symphony." --William Henry Channing
"Happy are those who find wisdom, and those who get understanding, for her income is
better than silver, and her revenue better than gold. She is more precious than jewels,
and nothing you desire can compare with her. Long life is in her right hand; in her left
hand are riches and honor. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are
peace. She is the tree of life to those who lay hold of her; those who hold her fast are
called happy." --Proverbs 3:13-18
"There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness." --Countess of Blessington
"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give." --Winston Churchill
"We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one
can take for us or spare us." --Marcel Proust
“Learning without thought is labor lost.” --Confucius
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." --Albert Einstein
"The opposite of love is not hate,
it's indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness,
it's indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy,
it's indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death,
it's indifference." --Elie Wiesel
"There is more to life than increasing its speed." --Mahatma Gandhi
"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose--a point on
which the soul may fix its intellectual eye." --Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"Be patient with all that is unresolved in your heart, and try to love the questions
themselves. Do not seek for the answers that cannot be given, for you wouldn't be able
to live with them, and the point is to live everything. Live the questions now, and
perhaps without knowing it, you will live along someday into the answers."
--Rainer Maria Rilke
"The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside,
somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because
only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people
happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature." --Anne Frank
"One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life,
of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a
little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity." --Albert Einstein