"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 -
" True happiness arises in the first place from the enjoyment of one's self and in the next,
from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions"
- Joseph Addison -
"We are what we repeatedly do"
- Aristotle -
"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people"
- Victor Borge -
"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.
Do not believe in anything because it is spoken and rumoured by many.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is written in your religious books.
Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.
But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive
to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it."
- Buddha -
"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future,
or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present momentwisely and earnestly."
- Buddha -
"Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God."
- Leo Buscaglia -
"Be exacting towards yourself, expect few from others, it will save you a lot of annoyance."
- Confucius -
"Without struggle, there's no progress."
- Frederick Douglas -
"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 serenly with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
"When you hug so tight you can barely breathe, it is merely your hearts trying to touch"
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"A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same."
- Elbert Hubbard -
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
- Martin Luther King -
"The fool asks, the wise smiles."
- Lao-Tse -
"I have three treasures, which I cherish and guard. The first is love, the second is contentment, the third modesty. Only loving people are brave, only the content are mild, only the modest can wield authority."
- Lao-Tse -
"He who is able to stay master of himself will live on and will not be wiped out by death. He will have the eternal life."
- Lao-Tse -
"Imagine there's no country.
It isn't hard to do.
Nothing to kill or die for.
And no religion too."
- John Lennon -
"Life's what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
- John Lennon -
"Many flowers and few fruits, that is heaven's wisdom. Many words and few deeds, that is stupidity of man."
- Li-Chi -
"An idea is not responsible for those who believe in it."
- Don Marquis -
"A great man is he who never loses his child's heart."
- Meng-Tse -
"Master your wrath. Otherwise, you would burn all the wood that you had gathered in many weeks of toiling."
- Meng-Tse -
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