A wise person once said...

Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
Aristotle

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.
William Arthur

We are here on earth to do good for others. What the others are here for, I don't know. W. H. Auden
Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it.
St. Teresa of Avila

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
Alfred Adler

The scars you acquire by exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.
D.A. Battista

Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space.
Diana Black

The greatest dangers of liberty lurk in insidious encroachment of men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
Louis D. Brandeis

We say we waste time, but that is impossible. We waste ourselves.
Alice Bloch

William Blake
You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

None will improve your lot if you yourself do not.
Bertolt Brecht

Take away love, and our earth is a tomb.
Robert Browning

Bad habits are like chains that are too light to feel until they are too heavy to carry.
Warren Buffet

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
Andrew Carnegie

Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
G. K. Chesterton

In detachment lies the wisdom of uncertainty... in the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, which is the prison of past conditioning. And in our willingness to step into the unknown, the field of all possibilities, we surrender ourselves to the creative mind that orchestrates the dance of the universe.
Deepak Chopra

Sir Winston Churchill
People stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

There are two types of people: Those who come into a room and say, "Well, here I am!", and those who say, "Ah, there you are".
Frederick L. Collins

Confucius
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.

It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.
James Cowan

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
Wayne Dyer

Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best. Henry Van Dyke

Meister Eckhart
I have sought earnestly and with great diligence that good and high virtue by which man may draw closest to God... and as far as my intelligence would permit, I find that high virtue to be pure disinterest, that is, detachment from creatures. Our Lord said to Martha 'Unum est necessarium', which is to say; to be untroubled and pure, one thing is necessary and that is disinterest.
The only way to find God, is to let go of God.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas Alva Edison

To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself, to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed.
Bernard Edmonds

Ralph Waldo Emerson
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

Albert Einstein
I see only with deep regret that God punishes so many of His children for their numerous stupidities, for which only He Himself can be held responsible; in my opinion, only His nonexistence could excuse Him.

Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones.
Benjamin Franklin

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
Galbraith's Law

Eternity is not something that happens after you are dead. It's going on all the time. We're in it now.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself - to dream that you have waked, washed, and dressed & then to find yourself still in bed.
From a letter by C.S. Lewis to Arthur Greeves

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
Galileo

Mahatma Gandhi
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power that can move the world.

When you make yourself into zero, your power becomes invincible.
Do not believe in telling people of one's faith, especially with a view to conversion. Faith must be lived, and when it is, it becomes self-propagating
Indira Gandhi

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
Kahlil Gibran

Trickery succeeds sometimes, but it always commits suicide.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Keep me away from the wisdom that does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
Andre Gide

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door and the whole world will be clean.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If you take fire into your heart, your house is likely to burn.
Alyson's great grandmother

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So, what the hell, leap!
Cynthia Heimel

Elbert Hubbard
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. Aldous Huxley

My goal is simple. It is complete understanding of the universe, why it as it is and why it exists as all.
Stephen Hawking

The easy path of aging is to become a thick-skinned, unbudging curmudgeon, a battle-ax. To grow soft and sweet is the harder way.
James Hillman

Although gold dust is precious, when it gets in your eyes, it obstructs your vision.
Hsi-Tang

Dag Hammerskjvld
The longest journey of any person is the journey inward.
Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
Carl Gustav Jung