Quotes

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened. - Lao Tzu

Life can only be understood by looking backward, but
it must be lived by looking forward - Dick Innes

No one makes you feel anything. It is how you react and respond that
determines your emotions - Brian Tracy

Its all about character
watch your thoughts they become words
watch your words they become actions
watch your actions they become habits
watch your habits they become character
watch your character it becomes your destiny - Frank Outlaw

As one sows, so shall one reap. Every effect arises from a cause. Under certain conditions, a cause will come to an effect - Buddha

When things are investigated, then true knowledge is achieved;
When true knowledge is achieved, then the will becomes sincere;
When the will is sincere, then the heart is set right;
When the heart is set right, then the personal life is cultivated;
When the personal life is cultivated, then the family life is regulated;
When the family life is regulated, then the national life is orderly;
And when the national life is orderly, then there is peace in the world.
- Confucius

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing.
- Confucius

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong - Gandhi
An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind - Gandhi

Do unto other as you would have them do unto you - Matthew 7:12

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give - Winston Churchill

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart - Hellen Keller.

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about - Dale Carnegie

The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast and you miss all that you were traveling for.

There is no testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always like a sketch. No, "sketch" is not quite the right word, because a sketch is the outline for something, the ground-work for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch for nothing, an outline with no picture.

Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well have not happened at all. If we only have one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all. - Milan Kundera's "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"

For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. -Alfred D. Souza


How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these - George Washington