On the Mañana Habit:
 "By the street of "by and by" one arrives at the house of never."
- Spanish Proverb
 
 

"There is no more miserable person than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed and the beginning of every bit of work are subjects of deliberation. Half the time of such a man goes to deciding or regretting matters which ought not be so ingrained in him as practically not to exist for his consciousness at all."
- William James
 
 

"True happiness is an inner state of being. You've got to have it, whether people see it or not. Appearing to be happy does not make you happy. You're just making impressions but you're lying to yourself."
 - AGP

 
"There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness. One pursues momentary enjoyments, not happiness because happiness is right within you."
 - AGP

 
"Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action."
 - Benjamin Disraeli

 
"A man's happiness is less the result of great gifts of fortune which come rarely, than the thousand little joys of every day."
 - Benjamin Franklin
 

"If it requires a person or an object to make you happy, you don't know what happiness is. But if you can stand alone in the midst of any hard situation, doing a required or routine task, with love and peace in your heart, then you know something about happiness."
 - Fredric Paulham
 

 "There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do."
 - Freys Stark

 
"To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring."
- George Santayana
 

"Only when you have done your duty are you completely happy."
- Konrad Adenaver

 
"I am very happy here in jail because I know I call never be wrong as long as I sing the songs that the masses sing."
- Leah Alejandrino ; Filipino Sec. Gen. - Aliansa Makabansa while under detention, 1985
 

"One ought everyday to hear a little music, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words."
 - Mark Twain

 
"Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."
 - Nathaniel Hawthorne

 
"Great  joys, like griefs, are silent."
 - Shakerley Marmion
 

 "A happy family is but an earlier heaven."
 - Sir John Bowring
 

“The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person.”
 - Vi Putnam

 
"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved for ourselves or inspite of ourselves."
 - Victor Hugo
 

"The happiest people are those who touch life at the greatest number of points. People who suffer are those who have only one interest of which fate robs them."
 - William Marston
 
 

"The mind is everything. What we think, we become."
- Buddha

 
"Always there remains portions of our hearts which no one is able to enter, invite them as we may."
 - Mary Dixon Thayer
 

On using one's head or heart:
 "To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart."
 - English Digest

 
"The size of person's world is the size of his heart."
 - William Powell
 
 

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him to fish and you feed him for a  lifetime."
- Chinese Proverb

 
"We are not primarily put on earth to see through one another but to see one another through."
 - Peter de Vries
 

"Doing a favor for a bad man is quite as dangerous as doing an injury to a good one."
 - quoted
 
 

What makes heroes:
 "Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards, they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. We grow strong or weak, and at last some crisis shows us for what we have become."
- Canon Wescott

 
"Men who deserve monuments do not need them."
- Gene Fowler
 

What is a champion?...
 "The champion is not necessarily the person who has the most. But he is always the person who gives the most."
 - Laurence Morehouse ; UCLA Human Performance Laboratory
 
 

"History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstance."
 - Donald Creighton
 
 

"More pain has been inflicted by indiscriminate truth telling than by lies. Honesty, too, often means being hurtful and wounding someone."
- David Brown
 
 

"He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything."
- Arabian Proverb
 
 

"The  great difference between a tent and a house is that...... a tent introduces you to earth while a house separates you from it."
- Charles Lindbergh

 
"A house is not how it is made but how we live in it."
 - from "War Arrows" TV
 
 

Here is something I learned during my high school days in the early 1930's:
"A smile costs nothing but creates much; it happens in a flash but the memory lasts forever. It is something that cannot be begged, borrowed or stolen, but it is something that can be freely given. So, if in your rush and hurry, you meet someone who is too weary to give a smile, then leave him with one of yours, for no one needs a smile quite as much as he who has none left to give."
- Wilbert Nesbitt ; as quoted by AGP
 

"No one beneath you can offend you. No one your equal would."
- Jan L. Wells

 
"Treat your friends cautiously, in case they should ever become your enemies; and treat your enemies courteously, because with time they may become your friends."
 - quoted
 
 

"No man commands with assurance if he has not learned well to obey."
 - quoted
 

 "Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax."
 - quoted

 
"Man is made or unmade by himself; in the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself; he also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy  and strength and peace. By the right choice and true application of thought man ascends to divine perfection."
- Aden

 
 "The treacherous unexplored areas of the world are not in continents or the seas; they are in the minds and hearts of men."
 - Allen Claxton

 
The Irony of Man:
 "When someone kills a man, he is put in prison. When someone kills 20 people, he is declared mentally ill and put in a psychiatric ward. But when someone kills 200,000 people, he is invited to Geneva for peace negotiations."
- Enis Kares as quoted by TIME (5/22/95); Education Minister, Sarajevo

 
 "The distinguishing mark of being truly human is not in just making a living, but in making a life worthwhile."
 - Father Norris Clarke, SJ ; Fordham University

 
"Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter and, perhaps, the only creature that deserves to be laughed at."
- Og Mandino

 
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."
- Plato
 
 
Man's Folly...
 "Only when the last river has been poisoned, the last tree cut, the last fish caught, (the last animal killed, the last bird shot - AGP) will man realize that he cannot eat money."
- printed at the back of a T-shirt in Brazil

 
"We need not worry so much about what man descends from, it's what he descends to that shames the human race."
- quoted by Hal Boyle

 
"As often as I have been among man, I have returned less a man."
- quoted by Kempis
 

The trouble with MAN is two-fold:
 "He cannot learn truths which are too complicated, he forgets truths which are too simple."
 - Rebecca West

 
"Inside every man is poet who died young."
 - Stefan Kanfer
 
 

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean. A few dirty drops in an ocean does not make the ocean dirty."
 - Ghandi
 
 

Memento homo quia pulvises, Et en pulverim verteris...
"Remember, man,  that you are dust and to dust you shall return."
- Genesis 3:19

 
"I claim to be no more than an average man with less than an average ability. I am not a visionary. I claim to be a practical idealist. Nor can I claim any special merit for what I have been able to achieve with laborious research. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith."
- Mahatma Ghandi
 
 

"People who worry about offending others wind up living according to other people's priorities."
- Edwin C. Bliss

"When Adam was lonely, God created for him not ten friends, but One wife."
- The Samaritans