"An unjust law is no law but rather a kind of violence."
 - St. Thomas Aquinas
 
 

"One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency."
 - Arnold Glasgow
 

 "The task of a leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. Those leaders who do not are ultimately judged failures, even though they may be popular at the moment."
 - Henry Kissinger
 

 How to administer:
 "I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if, at the end when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall have at least one friend left - and that friend shall be down inside me."
 - Lincoln

 
"A ruler becomes a leader and governs legitimately only when he encourages people to face the truth about themselves and therefore causes them to consent freely to their governance."
 - TIME's Michael Kramer on Gorbachev
 
 

"Sometimes there is more truth in legend than in history."
 - from the movie "The Puma Man"
 
 

 
"Life is not measured in hours but in accomplishments."
 - Albert Pike
 

“Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.”
 - Alexis Carrel

 
"Don't fret about copping life's grand awards. Enjoy its tiny delights, there's plenty for all of us."
 - Anonymous
 

"The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter. Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived."
 - Anonymous
 

 "Treasure life in yourself, give it to others and it will come back to you. For life, like love, cannot thrive inside its own threshold but is renewed as it offers itself. Life grows as it is spent."
 - Ardis Whitman
 

 "Once a man believes that he has achieved perfection, once he loses the motivation to do better, he may as well stop living. He has nothing more to contribute."
 - Artur Rubenstein  at 84, still recording.
 

 "The secret of an exciting life lies not in the finding of wonders but in the search for them."
 - Augusto  Ruschi ; Naturalist

 
"The tragedy in life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal but in having no goal to reach."
 - Benjamin Mays
 

"Often , we spend so much energy banging on closed doors that we forget to feel the breeze through the open windows."
- Chiang Hsiao Feng

 
"With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it's still a beautiful world."
- Desiderata
 

"Life passes like a cloud over the sea - here, there and gone. All we can do is cling together for a while, remembering the pleasures and give thanks to its passage."

- David Ropes from an article in Reader's Digest
 

 "Blessed is the house where the experiences that count are not crowded out by those that don't."
 - Elizabeth Starr Hill

 
"Lead the good life and habit will make it pleasant."
 - Epictetus
 

"The best things in life are free."
 - from the song

 
"The moral life consists largely of battling with human nature."
 - George Williams
 

"To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment."
 - George Woodburg

 
"Life is for one generation; a good name is forever."
 - Japanese Proverb
 

Asked by her daughter, what is the ideal aim in life, shortly before her death at 93 or more, she answered:
 "To learn... to teach... to serve... and after a longer pause... to enjoy!"
 - Julia Ward Howe ; author-poetess of Battle Hymn of the Republic

 
"If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be much easier for you."
- Justice Branders
 

"A life reduced to the sole dimension of possessions, of consumer goods, of temporal concerns, will never let you discover and enjoy the full richness of your humanity."
- Pope John Paul II
 

The Good Life:
 The good life exists only when you stop wanting a better one. It is the condition of savoring what is, rather than longing for what might be. The itch for things - so brilliantly injected by those who make and sell them - is in effect a virus draining the soul of contentment. A man never earns enough; clothes are never new enough, food is never fancy enough.  There is a point at which salvation lies in stepping off the escalator, of saying, "Enough. What I have will do, what I make of it is up to me."
- Marya Mannes
 
 

"El hombre propozee, Dios dispozee..."
 "The Lord deals the cards; the way you play them is up to you."
 - Mother's advice to son Dwight Eisenhower
 
 
An old bedridden woman  was being fed her meal by her son. She said,
 "You know, life is coming to an end when the child does it for his mother."
 - quoted
 
 
 "Live in the now. This time is a gift that may never be given again. Use it to discover who you are and what it is that is really important to you."
 - quoted by Colleen Hartrey
 
 
 "Love is  a festival only to the wise."
 - Ralph Waldo Emerson
 

 "An aim in life is the only treasure worth finding."
 - Robert Louis Stevenson
 

"I wonder what it's all about and why we suffer so when little things go wrong?  We make our life a struggle when life should be a song."
 - Ronald Reagan (He wrote this - 1st stanza of his poem "Life" as a struggling high school student.)
 
 
 "Quality of life is more important than dismal quantity."
- Ruth Johnson letter to TIME

 
"Life is like music. It must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule."
- Samuel Butler
 
 

"Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises."
 - Samuel Butler

"Part of the time is snatched from us, part is gently subtracted, and part slides insensibly away."
 - Seneca
 
 

"Life's imperative is to grow or die, stretch or stagnate."
 - Stephen R. Covey

 
"The tragedy of life is not so much what we suffer but rather what we miss."
 - Thomas Carlyle
 
 
 "We must love life even while we suffer, because life is all and all is God."
 - Tolstoy

 
"The best thing to do in life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."
 - William James

 
"Drink the brimming cup of life to the full and to the end - and thank God and Nature for its trials and challenges, its punishments and rewards, its gifts of wisdom, beauty, labor and love."
 - Will Durant
 
 
"We make a living by what we earn, but we make a living by what we do for others."
 - Zachary Fisher

 
"The only way to enjoy life is to keep one's needs simple."
 - Sir John Moore
 

Guidelines from Daq Hammarskjold:
 ... The longest journey is the journey inward...
...Only he deserves power who everyday justifies it...
...Never look down to test the ground before taking any step. Only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road....
...You cannot play the falsehood without forfeiting your right to truth, or play with cruelty without losing your sensitivity of mind...
 ...An error which has to be corrected is a heavier burden than the truth...
...When shut out of the room, you must not peep through the keyhole. Either break the door or go away...
...It was when Lucifer first congratulated himself on his angelic behavior that he became the tool of evil...
...You have not done enmough, you have never done enough so long as it is still possible for you to contribute something of value...
 ...Do not look back and do not dream about the future. It will neither give you back the past nor satisfy your daydreams. Your duty, your reward, your destiny, are here and now.
 
 

 
"There is a way of listening that surpasses all compliments."
 - Joseph Von Lique
 

"It is just as important to listen to someone with your eyes as it is with your ears."
- Martin Buxbaum

 
"While the right to talk maybe the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes the right important."
- Walter Lipmann
 
 

 
"Everytime a life is lost, whether it be a young soldier or a rebel, the country dies a little."
 - Pres. Cory Aquino ; a Philippine President
 
 

 
"Love is a gift and the giver may not be known, but it is something that cannot be returned."
- AGP
 

"There is only misfortune in not being loved; there is misery in not loving."
 - Albert Camus

 
"Him that I love, I wish to be free - even from me."
 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
 

"Love is a force in you that enables you to give to others. It enables you to give strength, power and freedom and peace to another person. It is not a result, it is a cause. It is not a product, it produces. It is valueless unless you can give something else by means of it."
 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

 
"Love is the only thing in the world of which one cannot give anyone too much. It can never harm or inhibit or spoil, it can only benefit."
 - Ashley Montagu
 
 
 "Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays; clutch it and it darts away."
- Dorothy Parker

 
"The most difficult thing in the world is to live with someone you hate in order to keep the one you love."
 - from  "The Third Reich"
 

"When it comes from the heart, you don't have to see, you don't have to hear."
 - from "Love Is Never Silent"

 
"Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough."
 - George Washington Carver
 

"Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not."
 - Henry Van Dyke
 

 "Young love is a flame - very pretty - often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable."
 - Henry Ward Beecher
 

 "A soul tormented by misery and consoled by love makes suffering a delight and grief a joy."
 - Khalil Gibran

 
"Love endures only when lovers love many things together and not merely each other."
 - Walter Lipmann
 

"In our life there is a single color which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love."
 - Mark Chaga II

 
"Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand. Anyone may gather it and no limit is set."
- Mother Teresa
 

"We can do no great things; only small things with great love."
 - Mother Teresa

 
"The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread."
 - Mother Teresa
 

Love is "a sense of the other."
 "It is this fascination with another person and an almost uncanny awareness that are the real material of love. The feeling that no matter what he does, I know why he does it, and I am interested. I may thoroughly disapprove, I may be exasperated with him for it, but I know why without even thinking about it or possibly being able to explain it. I am absorbed in all his reactions. All of his complexities, all of his contradictions simply fall into place for me, even if everyone else thinks he is mad."
- Nora Johnson
 

"The love in your heart wasn't put there to stay; love isn't love till you give it away."
 - quoted
 

"Love is caring enough not to hold on tightly."
- quoted
 
 
"We too often love things and use people when we should be using things and loving people."
- Revel Howe
 

"Love does not express itself on command; it cannot be called out like a dog to its master. Love is autonomous; it obeys only itself."
- Robert C. Murphy
 

"The biggest kind of love is in doing what is best for someone, even if it hurts."
- Sheila M. Pardoe

 
"My children, love one another."
 "It is the Lord's highest command - obeying it is enough."
- St. John, the Apostle
 
 

 
"Money may not buy happiness but it buys the kind of misery you enjoy."
 - quoted
 

"When we have provided against cold, hunger and thirst, all the rest is vanity and excess."
 - Seneca
 
 

 "To lock yourself into pre-set behavior limits the development, growth and the full bloom of maturity."
 - from the cartoon "Broom Hilda"

 
"You have become a mature person when keeping a secret gives you more satisfaction than passing it along."
- N. J. Pittman
 
 

 
"Memory ties you to your past. Imagination points you to your future."
 - Stephen R. Covey
 
 

 "To know how to suffer, to know how to love and, when everything collapses, to take everything up once more, the richer from suffering, almost happy from the awareness of our misery."
 - Albert Camus
 
 
 On grief:
 "You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept."
 - Arab Proverb
 

 On laughter & grief:
 "Laughter cannot mask a heavy heart. When the laughter ends, the grief remains."
 - King Solomon
 
 
 On heartaches:
 "To ease another's heartache is to forget ones own."
 - Lincoln
 

On suffering:
"It is the wounded oyster that mends its shell with pearl."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
 

 "To err is nature; to rectify error is glory."
 - George Washington
 

"Strong people make as many and as ghastly mistakes as weak people. The difference is that strong people admit them, laugh at them, learn from them. That's how they became strong."
 - Richard Needham
 
 

 
The root of evil...
 "It is no accident that people have twisted the Biblical saying into "Money is the root of all evil" when the Bible says, "Love of money is the root of all evil," thus transferring the blame from their own greed to the coinage itself."
 - Sydney Harris

 
"Those who have less in life should have more in law."- Ramon Magsaysay; a Philippine President 
 

 "A nation creates its music; the composer merely does the arrangement."

- quoted by Pres. Ronald Reagan at a White House lawn concert
 
 

 
"There is sufficiency in the world for man's needs but not for man's greed."
 - Mahatma Ghandi
 
 

"One of the weaknesses of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our needs from our greeds."
 - Max Eastman
 
 
"To have more, desire less."
 - quoted