A few quotes I like…
Love “There is only one happiness in life – to love and to be loved.” – George Sand “Love never divides, it only multiplies”
Passion “Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.” – Honoré de Balzac “The most beautiful make-up of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.” – Yves Saint Laurent “Passion is the fuel to Vision.” – Edward Ezekiel Isouve “Were kisses all the joys in bed, one woman would another wed.” – William Shakespeare
Vision “We are not limited by our abilities, but by our vision.” “We start out in our lives as little children, full of light and the clearest vision.” – Brenda Ueland
The Mind “An open mind opens many doors.” “Intelligence is a choice. A razor may be sharper than an axe, but it cannot chop wood.” "Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." – Albert Einstein
Children “Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.” – Kahlil Gibran “Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a family.” – George Bernard Shaw
War and Peace “People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within.” – Ramona Anderson
“An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.” – Gandhi
Race and Gender "I don't care if it's a white cat or a black cat. It's a good cat so long as it catches mice." – Deng Xiaoping “Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels.” – Faith Whittlesey
Jealousy “In jealousy there is more self-love than of love.” – François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld “Jealousy… is a mental cancer.” – B.C. Forbes “The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.” – William Penn
Wisdom “Things should be made as simple as possible, and not simpler.” – Albert Einstein “The superior person uses his mind like a mirror: it accepts all, it reflects all. It receives, but it does not keep.” – Chuang Tzu “To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson “With our thoughts we create the world.” – Buddha
Character “Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.” – John Wooden “Your thoughts become words, your words become actions, your actions become habits, your habits become character, and your character becomes your destiny.”
Ego “To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.” – Buddha “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Gandhi
Courage “No one can take your self-respect if you do not give it to them.” – Gandhi
“Courage is the greatest of all the virtues. If you don’t have courage, you may not have the opportunity to use any of the others.” – Samuel Johnson “Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.” – Tryon Edwards
Success “Some men succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are.” – Elbert Hubbard “To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, then pretend you are.” – Muhammad Ali “We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when Infinite Joy is offered to us, like an Ignorant Child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are Far Too Easily Pleased." – C. S. Lewis
Commitment “There is a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when circumstance permit. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.” “The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.” – Rollo May “The difference between involvement and commitment? Well if we’re talking about breakfast, the chicken was involved, but the pig was committed.”
Perseverance “The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.” – Tommy Lasorda “There is no better time than now. The time to live is now. The time to dream is now. The time to imagine and forget the past is now. The time to shine is now. The time to bleed, sweat, and determine yourself for the things you want most is now.”
Religion “The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.” – Thomas Hardy
Technology “It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.” – Albert Einstein “Lo! Men have become the tools of their tools.” – Henry David Thoreau
Environment “We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.” – Native American Proverb “You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers, so that they will respect the land. Tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children; that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.” – Chief Seattle “The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart away from nature becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too.” – Chief Luther Standing Bear “We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.” – Albert Einstein “The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.” – Carl Sagan “Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.” - Chief Seattle
Government “When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.” – George Pataki “Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.” – Larry Flint
Relaxation Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another. – Anatole France “Humor is a whisper from the soul, imploring mind and body to relax, let go and be at peace again.”
Martial Arts “Any nation with too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.” – Thucydides "Jiu-Jitsu constitutes the natural defense the weak person disposes of against the strong person. It is a sort of leveling process through which brute force, confronted and dominated by the wise application of rational mechanics, is led to admitting that the human being, usually taken as a body endowed with a soul, should actually be deemed a soul that happens to reside in a body" – Carlos Gracie
Fear “To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.” – Bertrand Russell “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” – Mark Twain
Life and Death All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live. – Mark Twain “After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.” – J.K. Rowling “As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings happy death”. – Leonardo da Vinci Lo, there do I see my father Lo, there do I see my mother And my sister and my brother Lo, there do I see the line of my people Back to the beginning Lo, they do call to me They bid me take my place among them In the halls of Valhalla Where the brave will live forever – Viking prayer
