Interesting quotes

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when man is afraid of the light." -Plato

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. --Leonardo DaVinci

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that
the necessary may speak. --Hans Hofmann

People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smile. --Lee Mildon

You may have tangible wealth untold; Caskets of jewels and coffers
of gold. Richer than I you can never be -- I had a mother who read
to me. --Strickland Gillilan
If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. --Mark Twain
Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or
strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing
each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build
a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls ... --Robert F. Kennedy

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability. --Zig Ziglar
Each one sees what he carries in his heart. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Distance is meant to relate, not separate. --Satish Kumar

One must know not just how to accept a gift, but with what grace to
share it. --Maya Angelou

The books that help you most are those which make you think the most.
The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book
that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted
with truth and beauty. --Theodore Parker

People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves
of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the
ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by
themselves without wondering. --St Augustine

I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could
be blind and deaf for a few days during his early adult life.
Darkness would make him appreciate sight; silence would teach him
the joys of sound. --Helen Keller

Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your
windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the
light won't come in. --Alan Alda






Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. --Samuel Ullman
It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself. --Joyce Maynard

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. --Arthur Koestler



Compassion is to share the pain without sharing the suffering. --Shinzen Young

Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and freedom. --Viktor Frankl



Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use. --Earl Nightingale

Intelligence and capability are not enough. There must be the joy of doing something beautiful. --Dr Govindappa Venkataswamy

It isn't reasonable to ask that we achieve perfection. What is reasonable is that we never cease to aim for it. --Atul Gawande



I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. --Isaac Newton

One of the great joys that comes from generosity is the understanding that no matter how much or how little we have by the world’s standards, if we know we have enough, we can always give something. --Sharon Salzberg

People mistake tradition for religion. Men are always saying, 'Women can't do that because of religion,' when in fact it is only tradition. It's important for us to study so that we will know the difference. --Enas al-Kaldi

Walk around feeling like a leaf.
Know you could tumble any second.
Then decide what to do with your time. --Naomi Shihab Nye

I have the audacity to believe that people everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, quality, and freedom for their spirits. I believe that what self-centered men have torn down, other-centered men can build up. --Martin Luther King Jr

Ignorance is an accumulation of thoughts undigested. --Ragunath Padmanabhan

Honesty is telling the truth to ourselves and others. Integrity is living that truth. --Ken Blanchard

I believe we are transformed and connected by the power and beauty of our creativity. --Mel Rusnov

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. --Leo Tolstoy

What you appreciate -- appreciates. --Lynne Twist

I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. --J.D. Salinger


No system or machinery or economic doctrine or theory stands on its own feet: it is invariably built on a metaphysical foundation, that is to say, upon man's basic outlook on life, its meaning and its purpose. I have talked about the religion of economics, the idol worship of material possessions, of consumption and the so-called standard of living, and the fateful propensity that rejoices in the fact that 'what were luxuries to our fathers have become necessities for us.' --E. F. Schumacher


Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give. --Edwin Arlington Robinson


He drew a circle that shut me out --
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
But love and I had the wit to win:
We drew a circle that took him in. --Edwin Markham

Writing is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, the it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public. --Churchill

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said. --Peter Drucker

A painter paints pictures on canvas but musicians paint their pictures on silence. --Leopold Stokowski




Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own good. --Pablo Casals

Prayer is a radical response to the mysteries of life. --Matthew Fox

Great people talk about ideas,
Average people talk about things,
Small people talk about others.

A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed ... It feels an impulsion ... this is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reasons and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons. --Richard Bach


If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change. --Buddha

Anything that you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions. We are not free. --Peace Pilgrim

Dream it. Believe in it. Receive it. --Anonymous

When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be. --Patanjali



In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. --Eric Hoffer

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. --Vince Lombardi

When I rise, let me rise joyful, like a bird. When I fall, let me fall without regret, like a leaf. --Wendell Berry



We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are. --The Talmud

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. --Willa Cather

To do something, however small, to make others happier and better, is the highest ambition, the most elevating hope, which can inspire a human being. --John Lubbock

Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all. --Carlos Castaneda


Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect. As you get used to this idea, you start more and more to concentrate not on the results, but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself. You gradually struggle less and less for an idea and more and more for specific people. In the end, it is the reality of personal relationship that saves everything. --Thomas Merton



All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts. --William Shakespeare
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them. --Henry Ford
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. --John Muir
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler. --Henry David Thoreau

Education is much more than a matter of imparting the knowledge and skills by which narrow goals are achieved. It is also about opening the child's eyes to the needs and rights of others. --Dalai Lama


The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react. --George Bernard Shaw
One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. --Henry Miller



You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage--pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically--to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. --Stephen Covey
We should not judge of a man's merit by his great abilities, but by the use he makes of them. --Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Progress in every age results only from the fact that there are some men and women who refuse to believe that what they know to be right cannot be done. --Russell W. Davenport

Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And, cooking done with care is an act of love. --Craig Clairborne

Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we know in order to find out what we do not know. Hence, to think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted. --George Kneller
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more. --Anthony Robbins

No one knows your capability as well as you do. No one knows how big you can dream and no one knows how far you can go. You, like water, can seek and reach your own level. --Lynne Cox

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem. --Jiddu Krishnamurti

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live. --Mortimer Adler

Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be. --Samuel Johnson

How do you go from where you are to where you want to be? I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal, and you have to be willing to work for it. --Jim Valvano
There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential. --Rusty Berkus
People who do not see their choices do not believe they have choices. They tend to respond automatically, blindly influenced by their circumstances and conditioning. Mindfulness, by helping us notice our impulses before we act, gives us the opportunity to decide whether to act and how to act. --Gil Fronsdal
Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication. --Cecil B. De Mille
Love is a believing creature. –Ovid

We're never so vulnerable as when we trust someone -- but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy. --Walter Anderson

What if you slept, and what if, in your sleep you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand? What then? --Deepak Chopra

One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history. --Peace Pilgrim

Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other -- it doesn't matter who it is -- and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other. --Mother Teresa

Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility and commitment. --Ross Perot

You can understand and relate to most people better if you look at them -- no matter how old or impressive they may be -- as if they are children. For most of us never really grow up or mature all that much -- we simply grow taller. O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, and whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales. --Leo Rosten
We do not see things as they are; we see things as we are. Anonymous

Never regret anything, because at one time it was what you wanted. Anonymous

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. Mahatma Gandhi

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life, I have been searching for evidence which could support it. Bertrand Russell.

For most of history, anonymous was a woman. Virginia Woolf
Its not that some people have willpower and some don’t. Its that some people are ready to change and some are not. James Gordon

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to. Dorothy Parker

We meet to create memories, we part to preserve them. Anonymous

If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes. --Albert Einstein

It's the heart afraid of breakingthat never learns to dance.It's the dream afraid of wakingthat never takes the chance.It's the one who won't be taken,who cannot seem to give,and the soul afraid of dyin'that never learns to live. --Bette Midler
Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight. --Albert Schweitzer
Being healthy means a wholeness in the living of one's life -- a dynamic and constantly changing balance that acknowledges the soundness of our physical state, the wholesomeness of lifestyle, the values that define our behavior, our intimate and collective relationships, the meaning and purpose of our work in the world, and the spiritual dimension of our existence. --William B. Stewart

If Oppoutunity doesnt Knock the Door, Build One"

Appearance VS Reality

To appear wise, one must talk;
To be wise, one must listen.

To appear to do good, one must be busy;
To do good, one must know when to stand aside.

To appear to lead, one must put oneself first;
To lead, one must put oneself last.

To appear caring, one must give advice;
To be caring, one must give space.

To appear to love, one must know how to give;
To love, one must know also how to receive.

To appear happy, one must smile;
To be happy, one must be free of fears.

I'm not the best
But I'm not like the rest


'A diamond is just another coal which did very well under pressure'