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Februs Welcome to this website which is dedicated to inspiring and fostering a happier outlook and mindset in all of us with a set of daily quotations (scroll below, or click on the days of the week, also below). Here the concern is not so much with “peak experiences” and fleeting temporary “joyous” emotions, but rather with an abiding serenity and inner well-being resistant to the inevitable ups and downs that would otherwise knock us off balance through the course of our days. Each day as you review the quotations on this website you may begin to notice one or more common themes important for fostering happiness - all the quotes here have been selected because they each illustrate one or more of the following principles to "always remember"...
So...
ALWAYS REMEMBER...
Here’s hoping you are having a happier day today, prepared to face the challenges to your peace of mind with a brightened outlook… please enjoy today's and previous days' quotations by following the links below. Other pages on this site feature quotes illustrating "The Basics" listed above, and a list of personal favorites.
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Quotes for Saturday, February 18, 2012
Quotes for Sunday, February 19, 2012
Quotes for Monday, February 20, 2012
Quotes for Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Quotes for Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Quotes for Thursday, February 9, 2012
Quotes for Friday, February 10, 2012
Quotes for Saturday, February 11, 2012
Quotes for Sunday, February 12, 2012
Quotes for Monday, February 13, 2012
Quotes for Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Quotes for Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Quotes for Thursday, February 16, 2012
Quotes for Friday, February 17, 2012
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Quotes for Saturday, February 18, 2012
“Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.” ~ Lewis Carroll
“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 moment wisely and earnestly.” ~ Buddha
“Kind words elicit trust. Kind thoughts create depth. Kind deeds bring love.” ~ Lao Tzu
“I know this now. Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in little or nothing yet they give their lives to that little or nothing. One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. And then it is gone. But to sacrifice what you are and live without belief, that's more terrible than dying.” ~ Joan of Arc
“Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.” ~ Francis Bacon, Sr.
“I don't think there ever was a lazy man in this world. Every man has some sort of gift, and he prizes that gift beyond all others. He may be a professional billiard-player, or a Paderewski, or a poet ~ I don't care what it is. But whatever it is, he takes a native delight in exploiting that gift, and you will find it is difficult to beguile him away from it. Well, there are thousands of other interests occupying other men, but those interests don't appeal to the special tastes of the billiard champion or Paderewski. They are set down, therefore, as too lazy to do that or do this ~ to do, in short what they have no taste or inclination to do. In that sense, then I am phenomenally lazy. But when it comes to writing a book - I am not lazy. My family find it difficult to dig me out of my chair.” ~ Mark Twain
“You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains.” ~ Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.” ~ Emily Dickinson
“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.” ~ Seneca
“Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.” ~ Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“When eating a fruit, think of the person who planted the tree.” ~ Vietnamese Proverb
“The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.” ~ Buddha
“You already possess everything necessary to become great.” ~ Crow Wisdom
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Quotes for Sunday, February 19, 2012
“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.” ~ Emily Dickinson
“Kindness is a brief preface to ten volumes of exaction.” ~ Ambrose Bierce
“Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.” ~ Charles Caleb Colton
“Let us rise up and be thankful; for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.” ~ Buddha
“Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, 'Grow, grow.' ” ~ The Talmud
“Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each is at first disagreeable; but as the bitters act as corroborants to the stomach, so adversity chastens and ameliorates the disposition.” ~ French Proverb
“Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.” ~ Michel de Montaigne
“The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.” ~ William James
“One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.” ~ Lewis Carroll
“Humility is truth.” ~ Desiderius Erasmus
“A jug fills drop by drop.” ~ Buddha
“The more a man knows, the more he forgives.” ~ Catherine the Great
“You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.” ~ Buddha
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Quotes for Monday, February 20, 2012
“Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.” ~ Voltaire
“Fall seven times, stand up eight.” ~ Japanese Proverb
“It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.” ~ Horace
“As the twig is bent the tree inclines.” ~ Virgil
“Don't waste your life in doubts and fears: spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You only lose what you cling to.” ~ Buddha
“The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly: the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Flowers do not force their way with great strife. Flowers open to perfection slowly in the sun.... Don't be in a hurry about spiritual matters. Go step by step, and be very sure.” ~ White Eagle
“Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.” ~ Mark Twain
“Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.” ~ Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice that which we are for what we could become.” ~ Charles DuBois or Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
“If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your own path.” ~ Buddhist Saying
“Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.” ~ St. Augustine
“'Keep your temper,' said the Caterpillar.” ~ Lewis Carroll
“Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.” ~ Homer
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Quotes for Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Quotes for Wednesday, February 8, 2012
“There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.” ~ Denis Diderot
“You learn to know a pilot in a storm.” ~ Seneca
“If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.” ~ Chinese Proverb
“The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.” ~ Soren Kierkegaard
“Do not be afraid of showing your affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy, than by service; love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present.” ~ John Lubbock
“At birth we come At death we go... Bearing nothing.” ~ Chinese Proverb
“We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.” ~ Albert Barnes
“We change, whether we like it or not.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.” ~ Emily Dickinson
“All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.” ~ Chinese Proverbs
“Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
“If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.” ~ Zen Wisdom
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Quotes for Thursday, February 9, 2012
“Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.” ~ William Shakespeare
“The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.” ~ Lao Tzu
“Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.” ~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
“All dreams spin out from the same web.” ~ Hopi Wisdom
“We are betrayed by what is false within.” ~ George Meredith
“Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together ” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.” ~ Publilius Syrus
“He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.” ~ Confucius
“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.” ~ Buddha
“He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever.” ~ Chinese Proverb
“Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.” ~ Confucius
“What you give for the cause of charity in health is gold; what you give in sickness is silver; what you give after death is lead.” ~ Jewish Proverb
“Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.” ~ Henri Frederic Amiel
“When we show our respect for other living things, they respond with respect for us.” ~ Arapaho Wisdom
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Quotes for Friday, February 10, 2012
“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
“Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.” ~ Chinese Proverb
“All things must change to something new, to something strange.” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“When you seek it, you cannot find it.” ~ Zen Wisdom
“Adversity is the foundation of virtue.” ~ Japanese Proverb
“Ask questions from your heart and you will be answered from the heart.” ~ Omaha Wisdom
“Compassion is the basis of all morality.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
“Into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary.” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on yesterdays.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Now is the time to be doing, now is the time to be stirring, now is the time to amend myself.” ~ Thomas a Kempis
“All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.” ~ Native American Proverb
“Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble.” ~ French Proverb
“The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.” ~ Buddha
“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion, it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the world, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Quotes for Saturday, February 11, 2012
“Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.” ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.” ~ Aristotle
“The Eternal looked upon me for a moment with His eye of power, and annihilated me in His being, and become manifest to me in His essence. I saw I existed through Him.” ~ Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“The great blessing of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.” ~ Seneca
“Good words do more than hard speeches, as the sunbeams without any noise will make the traveler cast off his cloak, which all the blustering winds could not do, but only make him bind it closer to him.” ~ Robert Leighton
“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” ~ William James
“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.” ~ Seneca
“I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.” ~ Emily Dickinson
“When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and your discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.” ~ Patanjali
“If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.” ~ Oscar Wilde
“We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.” ~ Chretien Malesherbes
“Life is mostly froth and bubbles,
Two things stand like stone,
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own.” ~ Adam Lindsay Gordon"
“Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.” ~ Samuel Johnson
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Quotes for Sunday, February 12, 2012
“Every suffering is a seed, because suffering impels us to seek wisdom.” ~ Bodhidharma
“The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.” ~ Charles Caleb Colton
“Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.” ~ Voltaire
“The kindness I have longest remembered has been of this sort, the sort unsaid; so far behind the speaker's lips that almost it already lay in my heart. It did not have far to go to be communicated.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
“People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.” ~ Emily Dickinson
“He that does good to another does good also to himself.” ~ Seneca
“Because right is right, to follow right were wisdom, in the scorn of consequence.” ~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson
“The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.” ~ Confucius
“Humility is pride in God” ~ Austin O'Malley
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.” ~ Seneca
“For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
“All plants are our brothers and sisters. They talk to us and if we listen, we can hear them.” ~ Arapaho Wisdom
“Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.” ~ Seneca
“Nothing is permanent.” ~ Buddha
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Quotes for Monday, February 13, 2012
“Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.” ~ Samuel Johnson
“Man has responsibility, not power.” ~ Tuscarora Wisdom
“To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.” ~ Josh Billings
“Before enlightenment: Chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment: Chop wood, carry water.” ~ Zen Wisdom
“The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.” ~ Homer
“A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity till he has tasted adversity.” ~ Muslih-uddin Sadi
“A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.” ~ Dogen
“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.” ~ Thomas à Kempis
“Have you had a kindness shown?
Pass it on!
'Twas not given for thee alone,
Pass it on!
Let it travel down the years,
Let it wipe another's tears,
'Till in Heaven the deed appears--
Pass it on!”
~ Henry Burton
“Forget injuries; never forget kindness.” ~ Confucius
“Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war . . .” ~ Aristophanes
“This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they're a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honorably. He may be clearing you out for some new delight. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door, laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.” ~ Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.” ~ Chinese Proverb
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Quotes for Tuesday, February 14, 2012
“Charity sees the need, not the cause.” ~ German Proverb
“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment intuition.” ~ Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” ~ Confucius
“Sprinkle joy.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Let go over a cliff, die completely, and then come back to life - after that you cannot be deceived ” ~ Zen Wisdom
“Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.” ~ Confucius
“Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.” ~ Samuel Johnson
“And now abideth faith, hope and charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.” ~ I Corinthians 13:13
“Kindness is always fashionable.” ~ Amelia E. Barr
“The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.” ~ Seneca
“To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.” ~ Oscar Wilde
“Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all.” ~ Richard Baxter
“Like a man travelling in foggy weather, those at some distance before him on the road he sees wrapped up in the fog, as well as those behind him, and also the people in the fields on each side, but near him all appears clear, though in truth he is as much in the fog as any of them.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
“O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness! ” ~ William Shakespeare
“Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.” ~ Moliere
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Quotes for Wednesday, February 15, 2012
“Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
“Although gold dust is precious, when it gets in your eyes, it obstructs your vision.” ~ His-Tang
“The universe is duly in order, everything in its place ” ~ Walt Whitman
“Where thou art, that is home.” ~ Emily Dickinson
“Anger is short-lived madness.” ~ Horace
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.” ~ Aristotle
“Kindness in giving creates love.” ~ Lao Tzu
“Regard Heaven as your father, Earth as your Mother and all things as your Brothers and Sisters.” ~ Tribe Unknown
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” ~ Aristotle
“Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.” ~ Hafiz of Persia
“You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.” ~ Oscar Wilde
“To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
“In charity there is no excess.” ~ Fancis Bacon, Sr.
“Be yourself and think for yourself; and while your conclusions may not be infallible, they will be nearer right than the conclusions forced upon you.” ~ Elbert G. Hubbard
“When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?” ~ George Canning
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Quotes for Thursday, February 16, 2012
“Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.” ~ Henri Frederic Amiel
“Change in all things is sweet.” ~ Aristotle
“Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.” ~ Charles H. Spurgeon
“Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.” ~ Hosea Ballou
"“Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more - more unseen forms become manifest to him.” ~ Jalal ad-Din Rumi"
“Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.” ~ Samuel Butler
“There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.” ~ Soren Kierkegaard
“I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying? ” ~ Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.” ~ Emily Dickinson
“The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing “about, around, and underneath” man, except man himself.” ~ Lord Byron
“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
“Before eating, always take time to thank the food.” ~ Arapaho Widom
“Nothing is worth more than this day.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“In adversity remember to keep an even mind.” ~ Horace
“If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.” ~ William James
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Quotes for Friday, February 17, 2012
“We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
“The man who has no inner life is a slave to his surroundings.” ~ Henri Frédéric Amiel
“You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.” ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon
“Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee.” ~ Psalms 143:8
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” ~ Oscar Wilde
“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
“Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.” ~ George-Louis de Buffon
“Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.” ~ Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“A man who finds no satisfaction in himself will seek for it in vain elsewhere.” ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance.” ~ Joseph Addison
“A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.” ~ Seneca
“Kindness begets kindness” ~ Greek proverb
“When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
“Thanks to their kindness in refusing me lodging, I found myself beneath the blossoms On the night of this misty moon.” ~ Rengetsu
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” ~ Marcel Proust
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So...
ALWAYS REMEMBER...
- Be kind! (compassionate, charitable, altruistic, generous).
- Have gratitude! (For everything. )
- Change is a continuous fact of life in all things… accept it, embrace it.
- Adversity needn’t be bad, all hardships have a silver lining (somewhere).
- Stay in the moment, in the now.
- Be true to yourself.
- Seize the day - Carpe Diem!
- Affirm everything that comes your way... good or bad. Take courage.
- Be Humble - Humility is good for starving the monkey (of pride) on your back - (pride's a slave driver.)
- The universe is perfect as it is... what comes your way is inevitable and has a purpose. (Don’t judge the Universe)
- Tune in to yourself, your world, the universe.
- Perseverance!
- When in doubt, a reaction of equanimity is not a bad choice.
- Seek YOUR purpose... STAY on purpose.
- Your attitude is everything - keeping a positive mindset is a choice, and it's critical.
- Cause and Effect - Everything has consequences... (better to be kind, then!)
- Seek within (happiness can be found only there).
- Avoid “poisons” (Greed, Anger, Ignorance, Need to control, Judgment, Need for approval of others (pride)).
- Be content with what you have.
- Be Patient.
- Strive for empathy for all things.
Here’s hoping you are having a happier day today, prepared to face the challenges to your peace of mind with a brightened outlook… please enjoy today's and previous days' quotations by following the links below. Other pages on this site feature quotes illustrating "The Basics" listed above, and a list of personal favorites.
Please Enjoy and share your happiness!!!
Quotes for Saturday, February 18, 2012
Quotes for Sunday, February 19, 2012
Quotes for Monday, February 20, 2012
Quotes for Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Quotes for Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Quotes for Thursday, February 9, 2012
Quotes for Friday, February 10, 2012
Quotes for Saturday, February 11, 2012
Quotes for Sunday, February 12, 2012
Quotes for Monday, February 13, 2012
Quotes for Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Quotes for Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Quotes for Thursday, February 16, 2012
Quotes for Friday, February 17, 2012
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Quotes for Saturday, February 18, 2012
“Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.” ~ Lewis Carroll
“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 moment wisely and earnestly.” ~ Buddha
“Kind words elicit trust. Kind thoughts create depth. Kind deeds bring love.” ~ Lao Tzu
“I know this now. Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in little or nothing yet they give their lives to that little or nothing. One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. And then it is gone. But to sacrifice what you are and live without belief, that's more terrible than dying.” ~ Joan of Arc
“Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.” ~ Francis Bacon, Sr.
“I don't think there ever was a lazy man in this world. Every man has some sort of gift, and he prizes that gift beyond all others. He may be a professional billiard-player, or a Paderewski, or a poet ~ I don't care what it is. But whatever it is, he takes a native delight in exploiting that gift, and you will find it is difficult to beguile him away from it. Well, there are thousands of other interests occupying other men, but those interests don't appeal to the special tastes of the billiard champion or Paderewski. They are set down, therefore, as too lazy to do that or do this ~ to do, in short what they have no taste or inclination to do. In that sense, then I am phenomenally lazy. But when it comes to writing a book - I am not lazy. My family find it difficult to dig me out of my chair.” ~ Mark Twain
“You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains.” ~ Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.” ~ Emily Dickinson
“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.” ~ Seneca
“Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.” ~ Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“When eating a fruit, think of the person who planted the tree.” ~ Vietnamese Proverb
“The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.” ~ Buddha
“You already possess everything necessary to become great.” ~ Crow Wisdom
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Quotes for Sunday, February 19, 2012
“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.” ~ Emily Dickinson
“Kindness is a brief preface to ten volumes of exaction.” ~ Ambrose Bierce
“Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.” ~ Charles Caleb Colton
“Let us rise up and be thankful; for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.” ~ Buddha
“Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, 'Grow, grow.' ” ~ The Talmud
“Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each is at first disagreeable; but as the bitters act as corroborants to the stomach, so adversity chastens and ameliorates the disposition.” ~ French Proverb
“Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.” ~ Michel de Montaigne
“The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.” ~ William James
“One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.” ~ Lewis Carroll
“Humility is truth.” ~ Desiderius Erasmus
“A jug fills drop by drop.” ~ Buddha
“The more a man knows, the more he forgives.” ~ Catherine the Great
“You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.” ~ Buddha
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Quotes for Monday, February 20, 2012
“Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.” ~ Voltaire
“Fall seven times, stand up eight.” ~ Japanese Proverb
“It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.” ~ Horace
“As the twig is bent the tree inclines.” ~ Virgil
“Don't waste your life in doubts and fears: spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You only lose what you cling to.” ~ Buddha
“The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly: the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Flowers do not force their way with great strife. Flowers open to perfection slowly in the sun.... Don't be in a hurry about spiritual matters. Go step by step, and be very sure.” ~ White Eagle
“Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.” ~ Mark Twain
“Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.” ~ Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice that which we are for what we could become.” ~ Charles DuBois or Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
“If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your own path.” ~ Buddhist Saying
“Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.” ~ St. Augustine
“'Keep your temper,' said the Caterpillar.” ~ Lewis Carroll
“Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.” ~ Homer
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Quotes for Tuesday, February 7, 2012
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“A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.” ~ Seneca
“A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.” ~ St. Basil
“Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Gratitude is the heart's memory.” ~ French Proverb
“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” ~ Mark Twain
“Kindness is wisdom.” ~ Philip James Bailey
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
“And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.” ~ Colossians 3:14
“I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.” ~ John Ruskin
“We have come into this exquisite world to experience ever and ever more deeply our divine courage, freedom and light! ” ~ Hafiz of Persia
“To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.” ~ Charles de Montesquieu
“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“How do the birds make great sky circles... They fall and falling they are given wings.” ~ Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.” ~ William James
“Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.” ~ Alexander Pope
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“There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.” ~ Denis Diderot
“You learn to know a pilot in a storm.” ~ Seneca
“If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.” ~ Chinese Proverb
“The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.” ~ Soren Kierkegaard
“Do not be afraid of showing your affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy, than by service; love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present.” ~ John Lubbock
“At birth we come At death we go... Bearing nothing.” ~ Chinese Proverb
“We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.” ~ Albert Barnes
“We change, whether we like it or not.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.” ~ Emily Dickinson
“All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.” ~ Chinese Proverbs
“Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
“If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.” ~ Zen Wisdom
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Quotes for Thursday, February 9, 2012
“Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.” ~ William Shakespeare
“The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.” ~ Lao Tzu
“Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.” ~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
“All dreams spin out from the same web.” ~ Hopi Wisdom
“We are betrayed by what is false within.” ~ George Meredith
“Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together ” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.” ~ Publilius Syrus
“He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.” ~ Confucius
“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.” ~ Buddha
“He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever.” ~ Chinese Proverb
“Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.” ~ Confucius
“What you give for the cause of charity in health is gold; what you give in sickness is silver; what you give after death is lead.” ~ Jewish Proverb
“Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.” ~ Henri Frederic Amiel
“When we show our respect for other living things, they respond with respect for us.” ~ Arapaho Wisdom
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Quotes for Friday, February 10, 2012
“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
“Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.” ~ Chinese Proverb
“All things must change to something new, to something strange.” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“When you seek it, you cannot find it.” ~ Zen Wisdom
“Adversity is the foundation of virtue.” ~ Japanese Proverb
“Ask questions from your heart and you will be answered from the heart.” ~ Omaha Wisdom
“Compassion is the basis of all morality.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
“Into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary.” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on yesterdays.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Now is the time to be doing, now is the time to be stirring, now is the time to amend myself.” ~ Thomas a Kempis
“All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.” ~ Native American Proverb
“Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble.” ~ French Proverb
“The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.” ~ Buddha
“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion, it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the world, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Quotes for Saturday, February 11, 2012
“Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.” ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.” ~ Aristotle
“The Eternal looked upon me for a moment with His eye of power, and annihilated me in His being, and become manifest to me in His essence. I saw I existed through Him.” ~ Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“The great blessing of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.” ~ Seneca
“Good words do more than hard speeches, as the sunbeams without any noise will make the traveler cast off his cloak, which all the blustering winds could not do, but only make him bind it closer to him.” ~ Robert Leighton
“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” ~ William James
“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.” ~ Seneca
“I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.” ~ Emily Dickinson
“When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and your discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.” ~ Patanjali
“If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.” ~ Oscar Wilde
“We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.” ~ Chretien Malesherbes
“Life is mostly froth and bubbles,
Two things stand like stone,
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own.” ~ Adam Lindsay Gordon"
“Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.” ~ Samuel Johnson
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Quotes for Sunday, February 12, 2012
“Every suffering is a seed, because suffering impels us to seek wisdom.” ~ Bodhidharma
“The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.” ~ Charles Caleb Colton
“Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.” ~ Voltaire
“The kindness I have longest remembered has been of this sort, the sort unsaid; so far behind the speaker's lips that almost it already lay in my heart. It did not have far to go to be communicated.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
“People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.” ~ Emily Dickinson
“He that does good to another does good also to himself.” ~ Seneca
“Because right is right, to follow right were wisdom, in the scorn of consequence.” ~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson
“The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.” ~ Confucius
“Humility is pride in God” ~ Austin O'Malley
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.” ~ Seneca
“For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
“All plants are our brothers and sisters. They talk to us and if we listen, we can hear them.” ~ Arapaho Wisdom
“Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.” ~ Seneca
“Nothing is permanent.” ~ Buddha
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Quotes for Monday, February 13, 2012
“Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.” ~ Samuel Johnson
“Man has responsibility, not power.” ~ Tuscarora Wisdom
“To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.” ~ Josh Billings
“Before enlightenment: Chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment: Chop wood, carry water.” ~ Zen Wisdom
“The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.” ~ Homer
“A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity till he has tasted adversity.” ~ Muslih-uddin Sadi
“A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.” ~ Dogen
“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.” ~ Thomas à Kempis
“Have you had a kindness shown?
Pass it on!
'Twas not given for thee alone,
Pass it on!
Let it travel down the years,
Let it wipe another's tears,
'Till in Heaven the deed appears--
Pass it on!”
~ Henry Burton
“Forget injuries; never forget kindness.” ~ Confucius
“Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war . . .” ~ Aristophanes
“This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they're a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honorably. He may be clearing you out for some new delight. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door, laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.” ~ Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.” ~ Chinese Proverb
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Quotes for Tuesday, February 14, 2012
“Charity sees the need, not the cause.” ~ German Proverb
“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment intuition.” ~ Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” ~ Confucius
“Sprinkle joy.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Let go over a cliff, die completely, and then come back to life - after that you cannot be deceived ” ~ Zen Wisdom
“Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.” ~ Confucius
“Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.” ~ Samuel Johnson
“And now abideth faith, hope and charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.” ~ I Corinthians 13:13
“Kindness is always fashionable.” ~ Amelia E. Barr
“The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.” ~ Seneca
“To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.” ~ Oscar Wilde
“Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all.” ~ Richard Baxter
“Like a man travelling in foggy weather, those at some distance before him on the road he sees wrapped up in the fog, as well as those behind him, and also the people in the fields on each side, but near him all appears clear, though in truth he is as much in the fog as any of them.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
“O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness! ” ~ William Shakespeare
“Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.” ~ Moliere
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Quotes for Wednesday, February 15, 2012
“Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
“Although gold dust is precious, when it gets in your eyes, it obstructs your vision.” ~ His-Tang
“The universe is duly in order, everything in its place ” ~ Walt Whitman
“Where thou art, that is home.” ~ Emily Dickinson
“Anger is short-lived madness.” ~ Horace
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.” ~ Aristotle
“Kindness in giving creates love.” ~ Lao Tzu
“Regard Heaven as your father, Earth as your Mother and all things as your Brothers and Sisters.” ~ Tribe Unknown
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” ~ Aristotle
“Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.” ~ Hafiz of Persia
“You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.” ~ Oscar Wilde
“To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
“In charity there is no excess.” ~ Fancis Bacon, Sr.
“Be yourself and think for yourself; and while your conclusions may not be infallible, they will be nearer right than the conclusions forced upon you.” ~ Elbert G. Hubbard
“When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?” ~ George Canning
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Quotes for Thursday, February 16, 2012
“Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.” ~ Henri Frederic Amiel
“Change in all things is sweet.” ~ Aristotle
“Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.” ~ Charles H. Spurgeon
“Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.” ~ Hosea Ballou
"“Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more - more unseen forms become manifest to him.” ~ Jalal ad-Din Rumi"
“Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.” ~ Samuel Butler
“There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.” ~ Soren Kierkegaard
“I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying? ” ~ Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.” ~ Emily Dickinson
“The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing “about, around, and underneath” man, except man himself.” ~ Lord Byron
“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
“Before eating, always take time to thank the food.” ~ Arapaho Widom
“Nothing is worth more than this day.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“In adversity remember to keep an even mind.” ~ Horace
“If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.” ~ William James
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Quotes for Friday, February 17, 2012
“We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
“The man who has no inner life is a slave to his surroundings.” ~ Henri Frédéric Amiel
“You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.” ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon
“Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee.” ~ Psalms 143:8
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” ~ Oscar Wilde
“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
“Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.” ~ George-Louis de Buffon
“Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.” ~ Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“A man who finds no satisfaction in himself will seek for it in vain elsewhere.” ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance.” ~ Joseph Addison
“A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.” ~ Seneca
“Kindness begets kindness” ~ Greek proverb
“When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
“Thanks to their kindness in refusing me lodging, I found myself beneath the blossoms On the night of this misty moon.” ~ Rengetsu
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” ~ Marcel Proust
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