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When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.    
Buddha
They who live have all things; they who withhold have nothing.
              Hindu Proverb
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
      Buddha
There is no joy but calm.
     Tennyson
No man is more cheated than a selfish man.
      Henry Ward Beecher
A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
      Cicero
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.  Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
     George Bernard Shaw
How calm, how beautiful comes on the still hour, when storms have gone, when warring winds have died away and clouds, beneath the dancing ray melt off and leave the land and sea, sleeping in bright tranquility.
     Thomas Moore
Power is not characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of power.
       Bulwer-Lytton  
Calmness and irony are the only weapons worthy of the strong.
   I Ching
An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion of truth.  The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
   Bovee
Those who seek the true path to enlightenment must not expect an easy task or one made pleasant by offers of respect and honor and devotion.   And further, they must not aim with a slight effort, at a trifling advance in calmness or knowledge or insight.
   Buddha
If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.
     Turkish Proverb
It is the disease of not listening, the malady of not marking, that I am troubled withal.
     William Shakespeare
Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
    Confucius
It is a providence of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
     Oliver Wendell Holmes
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
    Mahatma Ghandi
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force.  The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward.  When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
     Karl Menninger
In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.
   Francis Bacon
Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts:  the sight of the deep-blue sky, and the clustering stars above, seem to impact a quiet in the mind.
     Jonathan Edwards
In the mountains the shortest way is from peak to peak:  but for that one must have long legs.
    Friendrich Niezsche
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
     Goethe
Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error.
   Goethe
The distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
    Albert Einstein
I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.
    William Shakespeare
Patience is so like Fortitude, that she seems either her sister or her daughter.
   Aristotle
From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars.
    Heraclitus
We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
    T.S. Eliot
It is the theory that decides what can be observed.
    Albert Einstein
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
    Albert Einstein
The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
    Euripides
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
     Plato
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
    Aristotle
The reason angels can fly is that they take themselves so lightly.
    G.K. Chesterton
Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts.  This is the secret of success.
     Swami Sivanda
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
   Kahlil Gibran
Patience is the support of weakness; impatience is the ruin of strength.
   Colton   
Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
   La Fontaine
Your body is precious.  It is your vehicle for awakening.  Treat it with care.
    Buddha
Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
    Joseph Addison
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
    Dalai Lama
Peace comes from within.  Do not seek it without.
   Buddha
Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.
     Robert Ingersoll
Flowers feed the soul.
     Mohammed
Drag your thoughts away from your troubles,by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
    Mark Twain
Life is too important to take seriously.
   Oscar Wilde
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
   Buddha