The important thing is not to stop questioning ~Albert Einstein

Be glad for life, because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars; to be satisfied with your possessions, but not contented with yourself until you have made the best of them; to despise nothing in the world except falsehood and meanness, and to fear nothing except cowardice; to be governed by your admirations rather than by your disgusts; to covet nothing that is your neighbor's except his kindness of heart and gentleness of manners; to think seldom of your enemies and often of your friends. ~Henry Van Dyke

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however. ~Richard Bach

All you need is love.~The Beatles

Hitch your wagon to a star. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

We must become the change we want to see. ~Mahatma Gandhi

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. ~Lao-Tsu, The Way of Lao-Tsu

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you but he will make a fool of himself too. ~Samuel Butler

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.~Buddha

And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.~The Beatles

Silence is always part of great music. Silence is always part of great art. Silence is always part of great life. ~Robert Fulghum

Where there is love there is life.~Mahatma Gandhi

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. ~Kahlil Gibran

I am only one, but still I am one, I cannot do everything. But still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.~Edward Everett Hale

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.~Richard Bach

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.~Benjamin Franklin

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. ~Anonymous

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. ~Albert Einstein

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. ~Anonymous

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.~Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.~Noel Coward

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.~Dr. Suess

But let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existance are pretty glorious.~Jack Kerouac

But there was a wisdom in it all, as you'll see if you take a walk some night on a suburban street and pass house after house on both sides of the street each with the lamplight of the living room, shining golden, and inside the little blue square of the television, each living family riveting its attention on probably one show; nobody talking; silence in the yards; dogs barking at you because you pass on human feet instead of on wheels. You'll see what I mean, when it begins to appear like everybody in the world is soon going to be thinking the same way and the Zen Lunatics have long joined dust, laughter on their dust lips. ~Jack Kerouac

You dont develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. ~Barbara De Angelis

Happiness is just an illusion caused by the temporary absence of reality. ~Unknown

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. ~Confucius

Just when you think that a person is just a backdrop for the rest of the universe, watch them and see that they laugh, they cry, they tell jokes ... they're just friends waiting to be made. ~Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves. ~E. M. Forster

Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing. ~ Edward Abbey

There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket ­ safe, dark, motionless, airless ­ it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. ~C.S. Lewis

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Talking is like playing the harp; there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

When you re-read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in yourself than there was before. ~Clifton Fadiman

Everything you gather is just more that you can lose. ~Robert Hunter

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. ~Henry David Thoreau

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. ~Henry B. Adams

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes. ~Walt Whitman

You give but a little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of your heart that you truly give. ~Kahlil Gibran

All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy. ~Wayne Dyer

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them. ~Plato

The test of a first-fate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. ~F.Scott Fitzgerald

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. ~Aldous Huxley

Don't ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go do that. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive. ~Harold Whitman

Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore. ~William Cowper

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. ~John Homer Miller

Our world is so full of beautiful things: Fruit and ideas and women and banjo music and onions with purple skins. ~ Edward Abbey

It costs me never a stab nor squirm
To tread by chance upon a worm.
"Aha, my little dear," I say,
"Your clan will pay me back one day." ~ Dorothy Parker

But in the mud and scum of things,
There always always something sings. ~ Emerson

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew. ~Marshall McLuhan

The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom. ~Clarence Darrow

An ethical person ought to do more than he's required to do and less than he's allowed to do. ~Michael Josephson

So shines a good deed in a weary world. ~Willy Wonka (taken from William Shakespeare)

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. ~Mahatma Gandhi

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. ~Moshe Dayan

Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide. ~Buddha

I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from. ~William Faulkner