Do your work in the world

"Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you." - Nisaragada Ha Maharaj

The heart has its reasons

"The heart has its reasons that reason does not know." - Pascal

Tolerance and celebration

"Tolerance and celebration of individual differences is the fire that fuels lasting love." - Tom Hannah

we have our share of eccentricities

"Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements." - Elizabeth II

between fear and adventure

"The only difference between fear and adventure is how much you breathe." - Rob Kalnitsky

Subtlety set a trap

"Subtlety set a trap and caught itself." - Latin proverb

Even the wisest men

"Even the wisest men enjoy a little nonsense, now and then." - Unknown

Women should be...

"Women should be obscene and not heard." - Groucho Marx

"The only journey is the one within." - Rainer Maria Rilke

" The only journey is the one within." - Rainer Maria Rilke

"Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not." - Pablo Picasso

"Living is more a question

"Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes." - Marcel Duchamp

To achieve great things

"To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die." - Marquis de Vauvenargues

A man can do all things

"A man can do all things, if he but wills them." - Leon Battista Alberti

Jealousy is all the fun

"Jealousy is all the fun you think they had." - Erica Jong

"When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation." - Voltaire

If you look at your problem closely

"If you look at your problem closely enough, you may see that you are part of it." - Unknown

Breathe. Let go.

"Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure." - Oprah Winfrey

An error is not a mistake...

"An error is not a mistake, unless you refuse to correct it." - Unknown

Conceited people never

"Conceited people never get anywhere, usually because they think they're already there." - Unknown

There's no need to borrow sorrow

"There's no need to borrow sorrow from tomorrow." - Unknown

Having the right to do something

"Having the right to do something doesn't mean it is right to do it." - Unknown

The greatest pleasure in life

"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you will never do." - Unknown

We never know the worth

"We never know the worth of water until the well is dry." - Unknown

If you don't find it in the index

"If you don't find it in the index, look very carefully through the entire catalogue." - Unknown

Never put off until tomorrow...

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow." - Mark Twain

"The advantage of a bad memory

"The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time." - Friedrich Nietzsche

I disapprove of what you say

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - Voltaire

unsettling to the stomach

"If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives." - Marlon Brando

The lion and the calf

"The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep." - Woody Allen

There is nothing so useless

"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all." - Peter Drucker

Whatever women do

"Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult." - Charlotte Whitton

Things we do not expect

"Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish." - Titus Maccius Plautus

The way to know life

"The way to know life is to love many things." - Vincent Van Gogh

Travel only with thy...

"Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone." - The Dhammapada

Acceptance is such an important commodity

"Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth."" - Peter McWilliams

When you can't have what you want

"When you can't have what you want, it's time to start wanting what you have." - Kathleen A. Sutton

If our house be on fire

"If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it." - Thomas Jefferson

Any transition serious enough

"Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis." - Martha Beck

Be not the first

"Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." - Alexander Pope

The only joy in the world

"The only joy in the world is to begin." - Cesare Pavese

When the politicians complain

"When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained." - Edward R. Murrow

men alone are quite capable

"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness." - Joseph Conrad

I shall not waste my days

"I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them." - Ian Fleming

Technology is dominated by two types of people

"Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand." - Putt's Law

Variety's the very spice of life

"Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor." - William Cowper

The love of a mother

"The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The habit of giving

"The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give." - Walt Whitman

Use your imagination not to scare

"Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life." - Adele Brookman

Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything

"Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it." - Trey Parker and Matt Stone

You must lose a fly

"You must lose a fly to catch a trout." - George Herbert

Children might or might not...

"Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation." - Lois McMaster Bujold

Never underestimate the determination

"Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time rich and cash poor." - Cory Doctorow

Perseverance does not equal...

"Perseverance does not equal worthiness." - Lawrence Kaplow

There's a difference between

"There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker." - Charles M. Schulz

The chief obstacle

"The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race." - Don Marquis

Nothing succeeds like

"Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success." - Christopher Lasch

Ambition can creep

"Ambition can creep as well as soar." - Edmund Burke

"The sweetest of all sounds is praise." - Xenophon

Listen to many

"Listen to many, speak to a few." - William Shakespeare

A man travels the world

"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it." - George Moore

The portals of discovery

"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." - James Joyce

We are most alive when...

"We are most alive when we're in love." - John Updike

so one will have an audience

"It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience." - Lawana Blackwell

When a dog runs at you

"When a dog runs at you, whistle for him." - Henry David Thoreau

Perils past

"Look back, and smile on perils past." - Walter Scott

The first recipe for happiness

"The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past." - Andre Maurois

what the future has in store

"Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth." - Horace

It is bad luck...

"It is bad luck to be superstitious." - Andrew W. Mathis

My own business always bores me

"My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's." - Oscar Wilde

You can't have everything

"You can't have everything. Where would you put it?" - Steven Wright

There art two cardinal sins

"There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness." - Franz Kafka

At the center of your being

"At the center of your being you have the answer. You know who you are and you know what you want." Lao-Tzu

The people I distrust most

"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action." - Frank Herbert

my own shortcomings

"Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters." - Margaret Halsey

We know what happens

"We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over." - Aneurin Bevan

Unless I accept my faults

"Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues." - Hugh Prather

Our lives teach us

"Our lives teach us who we are." - Salman Rushdie

little things as important

"The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things." - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Choose your pleasures for yourself

"Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you." - Lord Chesterfield

Sometimes it's good to contrast

"Sometimes it's good to contrast what you like with something else. It makes you appreciate it even more." - Darby Conley

If you want to be respected

"If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself." - Spanish proverb

Real joy

"Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile." - Sir Wilfred Grenfell

Great occasions do not make

"Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men." - Bishop Westcott

but by virtue of love

"By accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love he may rule the world forever." - Lao Tzu

The bird that would soar

"The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings." - Kate Chopin

Something still remains undone

"Labour with what zeal we will,
Something still remains undone,
Something uncompleted still
Waits the rising of the sun."
- Unknown

Be evil

"Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil." - Bertolt Brecht

what your heart tells you

"Only do what your heart tells you." - Princess Diana

If you can't control the wind

If you can't control the wind, adjust your sail. - Unknown

If you come in second

If you come in second, you are the first loser. - Unknown

A calm sea

A calm sea does not make a skilled sailor. - Unknown

A good scare is more helpful

A good scare is more helpful than good advice. - Unknown

Growing up is optional.

Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional. - Unknown

a smile is its sword

If beauty is power, a smile is its sword. - Unknown

When you talk about yourself

Listen carefully, especially when you talk about yourself. - Unknown

One of the greatest mistakes

One of the greatest mistakes in life is to live as if you fear making mistakes. - Unknown

when everything else feels just great

Your conscience is the part that still hurts when everything else feels just great. - Unknown

do something new

Never be afraid to do something new. Amateurs built the Ark; professionals built the Titanic. - Unknown

there's no point in blaming the puddle

If you step in a puddle, there's no point in blaming the puddle. - Unknown

I attribute my success to this

"I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse." - Florence Nightingale

fear always lurks

"Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person." - Dr. David M. Burns

the demands of tomorrow

"Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today." -Meredith Willson

about young fools

"The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools." - Doug Larson

open and shut our ears

"What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes!" - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

shooting as a sport

"The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun." - P. G. Wodehouse

betting on people

"Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people." - W. C. Fields

a coherent plan

"There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for." - Fred Hoyle

I like work: it fascinates me

"I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours." - Jerome K. Jerome

it's golf

"If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf." - Bob Hope

If there are no stupid questions...

"If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?" - Scott Adams

We hate some persons because...

"We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them." - Charles Caleb Colton

"Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead." - Benjamin Franklin

certainly not desirable

"It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off." - Woody Allen

I was born not knowing

"I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there." - Richard Feynman

Those who cannot remember the past

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana

The most beautiful thing

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science." - Albert Einstein

One of the most obvious facts

"One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child." - Randall Jarrell

something must be done

"A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures." - Daniel Webster

get the most out of life

"One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure." - William Feather

Good advice is always certain.

"Good advice is always certain to. be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it." - Agatha Christie

A propensity to hope and joy

"A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty." - David Hume

Magnificent promises

"Magnificent promises Magnificent promises are always to be suspected." -

Repetition does not transform

"Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

You never know how a horse will pull

"You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load." - Paul "Bear" Bryant

Whenever you commend

"Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools." - Sir Richard Steele

In life, we don't get what we want

"In life we don't get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection." - Farrah Gray

Our obligations to our country

"Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives." - John Adams

There's an evolutionary imperative

"There's an evolutionary. imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And t here's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about a nybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function." - David Foster

You can't base your life.

"You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future." - Chuck Palahniuk

hang on one minute. longer

"A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer." - Novalis

everything in life

"Kindness, I've discovered, is. everything in life." - Isaac Bashevis Singer

Always be nice to people

"Always be nice to people on the. way up; because you'll meet the same people on the way down." - Wilson Mizner

hardly anything more healing

"To the soul, there is hardly anything more healing than friendship." - Thomas Moore

Architect

"The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty." - Frank Lloyd Wright

Water

"Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody." - Mark Twain

I'm a great believer in luck

"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it." - Thomas Jefferson

You probably wouldn't worry

"You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do." - Olin Miller

My work is a game

"My work is a game, a very serious game." - M. C. Escher

The purpose of life

"The purpose of life is a life of purpose." - Robert Byrne

Mustard's no good

"Mustard's no good without roast beef." - Chico Marx

There is no excellent beauty

"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion." - Sir Francis Bacon

The more things you do

"The more things you do, the more you can do." - Lucille Ball

It is not a bad idea

"It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them." - Isabel Colegate

What we play

"What we play is life." - Louis Armstrong

It is only in sorrow

"It is only in sorrow that bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it." - Amelia Barr

Men are born with two eyes

"Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say." - Charles Caleb Colton

If you wish me to weep

"If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself." - Horace

If you have a talent

"If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke." - Brendan Francis

the road ahead

"To know the road ahead, ask those coming back." - Chinese proverb

Some people make headlines

"Some people make headlines while others make history." - Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Carry out a random act of kindness

"Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you." - Diana Spencer

I always wanted a happy ending...

"I always wanted a happy 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

a man so ignorant

"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." - Galileo Galilei

Words ought to be a little wild

"Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking." - John Maynard Keynes

absence of the striving for happiness

"Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness." - Zhuangzi

at the time you think it did

"Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did." - Lillian Hellman

Be a fountain

"Be a fountain, not a drain." - Rex Hudler

the necessity of producing

"In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create." - Raoul Vaneigem

the mind drifts

"Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness." - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Ask me no questions

"Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies." - Oliver Goldsmith

two types of pain

"There are two types of pain in this life: that of discipline, which lasts a short while, and that of regret, which can last a lifetime." - Unknown

the heart is slow to learn

"Pity me that the heart is slow to learn
What the swift mind beholds at every turn." - Edna St. Vincent Millay

If you want to win anything

If you want to win anything--a race, your self, your life--you have to go a little berserk." - George Sheehan

Wives are people who feel

"Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough." - Groucho Marx

Hard work without talent

"Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy." - Robert Half

Trust men, and they will be true

"Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who wonders discovers

"He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder." - M. C. Escher

God help those who...

"God help those who do not help themselves." - Wilson Mizner

our own rejected thoughts

"In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

an evil tendency underlying

"There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good." - Robert Pirsig

Many are called

"Many are called but few get up." - Oliver Herford

the apathy of human beings

"Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings." - Helen Keller

A people that values its privileges

"A people that values its privileges. above its principles soon loses both." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

The vitality of thought

"The vitality of thought is in. adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them." - Alfred North Whitehead

People come first.

"People come first. Everything else is second." - Allstate commercial

"President Can't Swim"

"If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim"." - Lyndon B. Johnson

No one means all he says

"No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." - Henry Adams

people whom one loves immediately and forever

"There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough." - Nancy Spain

Change

"Change, when it comes, cracks everything open." - Dorothy Allison

A person's abilities are tested best

"A person's abilities are tested best when defending rather than attacking." - Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

best ways to get yourself a reputation

"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence." - Charles Austin Beard

Old age is the most unexpected

"Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man." - Leon Trotsky

Historians are like deaf people

"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them." - Leo Tolstoy

Egotism is the anesthetic

"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity." - Frank Leahy

Seeing ourselves as others see us

"Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them." - Franklin P. Adams

All work and no play

"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and Jill a rich widow." - Evan Esar

The beginning of knowledge

"The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand." - Frank Herbert

Good judgment comes from experience

"Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment." - Rita Mae Brown

"If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time." - Edith Wharton

If you cannot convince them

"If you cannot convince them, confuse them." - Harry S Truman