Ninja Quotes

Those who don't know fear, don't know courage. Real courage is to conquer fear.
Ninja quote

Truth Quotes

Truth is seldom simple, and never pure.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
Winston Churchill (more great Churchill quotes)

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
William Jennings Bryant

The highest truth cannot be put into words. Therefore the greatest teacher has nothing to say. He simply gives himself in service, and never worries.
Lao Tzu (Hua Hu Ching)

Get your facts first, then you can distrue them as you please.
Mark Twain


You must be prepared to accept that the foundation for all that you believe is not only possibly wrong, but probably wrong.
Nietzsche

Funny Quotes

Everyone makes mistakes. The trick is to make mistakes when nobody is looking.

Do you have trouble making up your mind? Well, yes or no?

The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.

Always forgive your enemies - Nothing annoys them so much.

If you can't see the bright side of life, polish the dull side.

My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly too.

Rodney Dangerfield

 

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

If you’re not very clever you should be conciliatory.

A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
Katharine Hepburn

Teamwork…means never having to take all the blame yourself.

A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a thousand men with guns.

Buddha Quotes

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.

The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

It is better to travel well than to arrive.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Cats Quotes

It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their masters is one of perpetual boredom.
Robley Wilson, Jr.

It's really the cat's house - we just pay the mortgage.

I put down my book, The Meaning of Zen, and see the cat smiling into her fur as she delicately combs it with her rough pink tongue. "Cat, I would lend you this book to study but it appears you have already read it." She looks up and gives me her full gaze. "Don't be ridiculous," she purrs, "I wrote it."
Dilys Laing, "Miao"

One cat just leads to another.
Ernest Hemingway

One must love a cat on its own terms.
Paul Gray

Cats as a class, have never completely got over the snootiness caused by that fact that in Ancient Egypt they were worshipped as gods.
P.G. Wodehouse

Some people say man is the most dangerous animal on the planet. Obviously those people have never met an angry cat.
Lillian Johnson

Cats are to dogs what modern people are to the people we used to have. Cats are slimmer, cleaner, more attractive, disloyal, and lazy. It's easy to understand why the cat has eclipsed the dog as modern America's favorite pet. People like pets to possess the same qualities they do. Cats are irresponsible and recognize no authority, yet are completely dependent on others for their material needs. Cats cannot be made to do anything useful. Cats are mean for the fun of it. In fact, cats possess so many of the same qualities as some people (expensive girlfriends, for instance) that it's often hard to tell the people and the cats apart. P.J. O'Rourke, Modern Manners

Working Hard and Laziness Quotes

Work hard and become a leader; be lazy and never succeed.
(Proverbs 12:24)

“People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals / that is, goals that do not inspire them.”
Anthony Robbins

Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.
Robert Heinlein

Lazy people are always eager to be doing something.
French Proverb

William James Quotes

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
William James

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
William James

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.
William James

To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
William James

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.
William James

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
William James

I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.
William James

Celebrity Quotes

"Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more."
Salmon Rushdie

Little Britain Quotes

Aberdoon Stook House Chef: Maybe I am and maybe I'm not.
Little Britain

Emily Howard [transvestite character]: I'm a lady.
Little Britain

Vicky Pollard: Yeah, but no, but yeah, but ...Little Britain

Kenny Craig [hypnotist]: Look into my eyes, look into my eyes, the eyes, the eyes, not around the eyes, don't look around the eyes, look into my eyes. [click] You're under!
Little Britain

Social worker: All I want to know Vicky is where is your baby?Vicky Pollard: Oh, I swapped it for a Westlife CD.Social worker: Oh my God, how could you.Vicky Pollard: I know, they're rubbish.
Little Britain

Daffyd Thomas: I'm the only gay in the village.
Little Britain

Daffyd Thomas [to new gay in village]: No, you are not a gay. I am the gay. You're probably just a little bit poofy!
Little Britain

Andy Pipkin [wheelchair character]: I want that one.
Little Britain


Little Britain is a superb comedy sketch show created by Matt Lucas and David Williams.

Aesop Quotes

He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.
Aesop

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.
Aesop, The Milkmaid and Her Pail

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
Aesop

After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Aesop

Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.
Aesop

Appearances are often deceiving.
Aesop

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
Aesop

Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.
Aesop

It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.
Aesop

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.
Aesop

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
Aesop

Persuasion is often more effectual than force.
Aesop

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
Aesop

United we stand, divided we fall.
Aesop

The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.
Aesop

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
Aesop

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
Aesop

The gods help them that help themselves.
Aesop, Hercules and the Wagoner

Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
Aesop, Juno and the Peacock

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.
Aesop, The Ant and the Grasshopper

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Aesop, The Dog and the Shadow

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.
Aesop, The Dog in the Manger

The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.
Aesop, The Eagle and the Arrow

Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction.
Aesop, The Frog and the Ox

Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find - nothing.
Aesop, The Goose with the Golden Eggs

Slow and steady wins the race.
Aesop, The Hare and the Tortoise

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Aesop, The Lion and the Mouse

Missing You Quotes

“Sometimes only one person is missing and the whole world seems depopulated.”
Alphonse de Lamartine

Start and Do It Quotes

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson

Management and Leadership Quotes

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Peter F. Drucker

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt

Never . . . Never . . . Never . . . Never Give up! - Winston Churchill

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
St. Augustine

A leader is a dealer in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
Theodore M. Hesburgh

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.
Lao-Tzu

We will either find a way or make one.
Hannibal

What you cannot enforce, do not command.
Sophocles

The question, 'Who ought to be boss?', is like asking, 'Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.
Henry Ford

Leaders are like eagles. They don't flock, you find one at a time.

If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
The Bible

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
John Welch

CG Jung Quotes

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakes.
CG Jung

Sun Tzu Quotes

Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness.
Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness.
Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.
Sun Tzu

The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities, It is best to win without fighting.
Sun Tzu

All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near. Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him.
Sun Tzu

Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys.Look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death!
Sun Tzu

Move not unless you see an advantage; use not your troops unless there is something to be gained; fight not unless the position is critical. If it is to your advantage, make a forward move; if not, stay where you are. Anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded by content.
Sun Tzu

Though we have heard of stupid haste in war, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays.
Sun Tzu

We cannot enter into alliances until we are acquainted with the designs of our neighbors.
Sun Tzu

To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
Sun Tzu

He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight. He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces. He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks. He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared. He will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign.
Sun Tzu

In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory. In battle, there are not more than two methods of attack - the direct and the indirect; yet these two in combination give rise to an endless series of maneuvers. The direct and the indirect lead on to each other in turn. It is like moving in a circle - you never come to an end. Who can exhaust the possibilities of their combination?
Sun Tzu

When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is Insubordination. When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is Collapse. When the higher officers are angry and insubordinate, and on meeting the enemy give battle on their own account from a feeling of resentment, before the commander-in-chief can tell whether or no he is in a position to fight, the result is Ruin.
Sun Tzu

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
Sun Tzu

Making no mistakes is what establishes the certainty of victory, for it means conquering an enemy that is already defeated.
Sun Tzu

Fighting with a large army under your command is nowise different from fighting with a small one: it is merely a question of instituting signs and signals.
Sun Tzu

The clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him.
Sun Tzu

Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted.
Sun Tzu

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
Sun Tzu

So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong and to strike at what is weak.
Sun Tzu

If you know the enemy and know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you know Heaven and know Earth, you may make your victory complete.
Sun Tzu

Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating the spirit of enterprise; for the result is waste of time and general stagnation. Hence the saying: The enlightened ruler lays his plans well ahead; the good general cultivates his resources.
Sun Tzu

Want to know more about Sun Tzu and the Art of Warfare? Check Wikipedia.

Samurai Quotes

One who is samurai must, before all things, keep constantly in mind , by day and by night....that he has to die.
Daidoji Yuzan

Those who cling to life, die; those who defy death, live.

A samurai should always be prepared for death - whether his own or someone else's.
Stan Sakai

By the Way of the warrior is meant death. The Way of the warrior is death. This means choosing death whenever there is a choice between life and death. It means nothing more than this. It means to see things through, being resolved.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo


To know and to act are one and the same.

To be made fun of and remain silent is cowardice. There is no reason to overlook this fact because one is within the palace. A man who makes fun of people is himself a fool. It was his own fault for being cut down.
Lord Naoshige

FOREX is a serious game. Play it with the pros.
Forex trading involves substantial risk of loss, and may not be suitable for everyone.

Muhammad Ali Quotes

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.
Muhammad Ali

A man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
Muhammad Ali

Champions aren't made in gyms, champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.
Muhammad Ali

Ghandi Quotes

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
Ghandi

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

Reporter: 'What do you think of Western civilisation?'

Ghandi: 'I think it would be a very good idea.'

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning.
Ghandi

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.


Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it
Ghandi

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.


Just as the body cannot exist without blood, so the soul needs the matchless and pure strength of faith.
Ghandi

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, yet it is the humblest imaginable.
Ghandi

I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ.

My commitment is to truth as I see it each day, not to consistency.

Rome Quotes

In Rome you long for the country; in the country oh inconstant! you praise the distant city to the stars.
Horace


When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
Proverb

All roads lead to Rome.
Proverb

Night Quotes

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
Vincent Van Gogh


Night brings out troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.
Seneca

O comfort-killing night, image of hell, dim register and notary of shame, black stage for tragedies and murders fell, vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame!
William Shakespeare

Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.

Night is the mother of counsels.
George Herbert

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o clock is a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) British author.

I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
John, Ch9, v4

Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
Ovid

Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.
Marilyn vos Savant


A decision made at night may be changed in the morning.
Proverb

Don't sleep too much. If you sleep 3 hours less each night for a year, you will have an extra month and a half to succeed in.
Aristotle Onassis


Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps afield.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Time Proverbs & Quotes

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
Albert Einstein

Life is all about timing... the unreachable becomes reachable, the unavailable become available, the unattainable... attainable. Have the patience, wait it out It's all about timing.
Stacey Charter

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Steve Jobs, speech at Stanford

Time fleeth away without delay.

Time brings everything, to those who can wait for it.

Time spent laughing is time spent with the gods.

Time covers and discovers everything.

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Time gives good advice.

Time tries all things.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Theophrastus


Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
Jim Bishop

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
Mark Twain

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
Plutarch

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.
Max Frisch

Time is the justice that examines all offenders.
William Shakespeare

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.
Mason Cooley


To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
Ecclesiastes (III, 1-8)

Depression Quotes

There are ways to learn what's inside you. We have all cried for ourselves a little, that's natural, but don't let it go on for too long. That's a child's way.
Herold Small War, Yuwipi man


The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Life Quotes

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Agatha Christie

People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.
Joseph Cambell, The Power of Myth

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.
Julia Cameron

Life is not counted by the amount of breaths we take, but of the moments that leave us breathless.


Live life so completely that when death comes to you like a thief in the night, there will be nothing left for him to steal.



Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play is your own will. (Jawaharlal Nehru)

"No man is a failure who enjoys life."
William Feather

God loveth a cheerful giver.
Corinthians

"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."
Randy Pausch

The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world.
James F. Cooper

Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare, Macbeth, act 5, scene 5

Out of life's tragedy comes true greatness
The Bold and The Beautiful


Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart
and try to love the questions themselves ...
Don't search for the answers,
which could not be given to you now,
because you would not be able to live them.
And the point is, to live everything.
Live the questions now.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Life is a game with many rules but no referee.
One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book.
Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose.
Joseph Brodsky

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
Horace Walpole

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
Crowfoot


The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or, more correctly, inspite of yourself.
Victor Hugo

The thing that we call living isn't gold or fame at all,
It is laughter and contentment and the struggle for a goal,
It is everything that's needful to the shaping of a soul.
Edgar A. Guest

Yoga

Anyone who practices can obtain success in yoga but not one who is lazy. Constant practice alone is the secret of success.
Hatha Yoga Pradipika

The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
B.K.S Iyengar

Yoga is the fountain of youth.  You're only as young as your spine is flexible. 

Bob Harper

Yoga is difficult for the one whose mind is not subdued.

Bhagavad Gita

This yoga is not possible, for the one who eats too much, or who does not eat at all; who sleeps too much, or who keeps awake.

Bhagavad Gita

You cannot do yoga.  Yoga is your natural state.  What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state. 

Sharon Gannon

By degrees a person should become free of unwholesome and unnatural habits; similarly, one should try to develop wholesome natural habits. The way of doing this is to replace the unnatural with the natural. If withdrawal is gradual, addiction does not reappear; wholesome habits, gradually acquired, become firmly implanted.
Charaka Samhita

Do your practice and all is coming.
Sri K Patthabi Jois

Before you've practiced, the theory is useless. After you've practiced, the theory is obvious. David Williams

Yoga exists in the world because everything is linked Desikashar

Human unhappiness results from mankind's acceptance of the lowest conditions of our minds. By the practice of Yoga, all such conditioning can be overcome.
Patanjali Yoga Sutras

The yoga mat is a good place to turn when talk therapy and antidepressants aren't enough.  

Amy Weintraub

Yoga is possible for anybody who really wants it.  Yoga is universal.... But don't approach yoga with a business mind looking for worldly gain. 

Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois


By embracing your mother wound as your yoga, you transform what has been a hindrance in your life into a teacher of the heart. 

Phillip Moffitt


Yoga is 99% practice and 1% knowledge.  

Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois

The yogi is deemed greater than body-disciplining ascetics, greater even than the followers of the path of wisdom or of the path of action; be thou, O Arjuna, a yogi.

Bhagavad Gita

Sitting (in a comfortable position) and concentrating the mind on a single object, controlling the thoughts and the activities of the senses, let the yogi practice meditation for self-purification.

Bhagavad Gita

The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the ceaseless realization of yoga, of union.

Rabindranath Tagore

This yoga should be practiced with firm determination and perseverance, without any mental reservation or doubts.

Bhagavad Gita

Sun salutations can energize and warm you, even on the darkest, coldest winter day. 

Carol Krucoff

Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked.
Yoga sutras of Patanjali

Power of the Mind Quotes

The mind is everything; what you think, you become. (Buddha)

Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now. (Goethe)

Thought is a vital, living force, the most vital, subtle and irresistable force that exists in the universe. ... Thoughts are living things.
Swami Sivananda

Peace Quotes

"I feel for a successful and happy life much of it depends on our mental outlook.The money, power or even health, I think is secondary. If mental state is calm, at peace, then you really enjoy your life.''
Dalai Lama

"World peace begins with inner peace."
Dalai Lama

Joy Quotes

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Thich Nhat Hanh

No man is a failure who enjoys life.
William Feather

One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
Chinese Proverbs

Joy is not in things, it is in us.
Benjamin Franklin

We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are...Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.
R. J. Baughan

Death Quotes

A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
Seneca

Call no man happy till he is dead.
Aeschylus



Then contemplate (O man!) the memorials of Allah’s Mercy! — how He gives life to the earth after its death: verily the Same will give life to the men who are dead: for He has power over all things.
Koran

Life and Death are indeed changes of great moment’, answered Confucius, ‘but they cannot affect his mind. Heaven and earth may collapse, but his mind will remain. Being indeed without flaw, it will not share the fate of all things. It can control the transformation of things, while preserving its source intact’.
Chuang Tze

As to the soul of man after death, it remains in the degree of purity to which it has evolved during life in the physical body, and after it is freed from the body it remains plunged in the ocean of God’s Mercy.
Abdu’l-Bahá

What death is more wretched than to flee from the Source of everlasting life?
Bahá’u’lláh


Men flow into life, and ebb into death.
Tao Te Ching

The first breath is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller

The play is the tragedy "Man"And its hero the conqueror, Worm.
Edgar Allen Poe

Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.
Homer (Illiad)

Death's brother, Sleep.
Virgil

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin

Death is one of two things. Either it is annihilation, and the dead have no consciousness of anything; or, as we are told, it is really a change: a migration of the soul from one place to another.
Socrates

How do I know that loving life is not a delusion? How do I know that in hating death I am not like a man who, having left home in his youth, has forgotten the way back?
Chuang Tzu

Death means nothing to men like me. It's the event that proves them right.
Albert Camus

"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."
Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture



Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night.
Plato

You are now like a withered leaf;
the messengers of death have come near you.
You stand at the threshold of your departure.
Have you made provision for your journey?
Buddha

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
John 5:24

In the way of righteousness is life: and in the pathway thereof there is no death.
Proverbs 12:28

But whereso any doeth all his deeds
Renouncing self for Me, full of Me, fixed
To serve only the Highest, night and day
Musing on Me- him will I swiftly lift
Forth from life’s ocean of distress and death,
Whose soul clings fast to Me.
from the Bhagavad Gita

The primary question about life after death is not whether it is a fact, but even if it is, what problems that really solves.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Mark Twain


Giver of vital breath, of power and vigour, he whose commandments all the Gods acknowledge -.
The Lord of death, whose shade is life immortal. What God shall we adore with our oblation?
from the Vedas

Diamonds Quotes

"God created only useful things. That's why the devil invented diamonds, to encourage the greed of humans."
Persian proverb

"The only good diamond is the one that has been sold and paid for."
Romi Goldmunz

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On Being Human Quotes

"Adam, we give you no fixed place to live, no form that is peculiar to you, nor any function that is yours alone. According to your desires and judgment, you will have and possess whatever place to live, whatever form, and whatever functions you yourself choose. All other things have a limited and fixed nature prescribed and bounded by our laws. You, with no limit or no bound, may choose for yourself the limits and bounds of your nature. We have placed you at the world's center so that you may survey everything else in the world. We have made you neither of heavenly nor of earthly stuff, neither mortal nor immortal, so that with free choice and dignity, you may fashion yourself into whatever form you choose. To you is granted the power of degrading yourself into the lower forms of life, the beasts, and to you is granted the power, contained in your intellect and judgment, to be reborn into the higher forms, the divine."
Pico Della Mirandola, Oration On the Dignity of Man

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequateOur deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?" Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God; your playing small doesn't serve the world.(Marianne Williamson, quoted by Nelson Mandella in his inaugural speech)

Sleep Quotes

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
Mark Twain

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.
Baltasar Gracian

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Benjamin Franklin

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
Dale Carnegie

Oh sleep!
It is a gentle thing,
Beloved from pole to pole.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
Homer


A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book.
Irish Proverb

Death's brother, Sleep.
Virgil

I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had.
Thomas Mann

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
Plutarch

Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry.
B. C. Forbes

Fatigue is the best pillow.
Benjamin Franklin

It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbour's as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Sleep is the best meditation.
Dalai Lama

Women Quotes

Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.
Agatha Christie

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
Oscar Wilde

Men marry to make an end, woman a beginning.

Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.
Ovid

If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody.
J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye

Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
Honoré de Balzac

Woman does not forget she needs the fecundator, she does not forget that everything that is born of her is planted in her.
Anais Nin

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
Aristotle Onassis

What men desire is a virgin who is a whore.
Edward Dahlbert

“In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs”
Francois Truffaut

Advice

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
Agatha Christie

“Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties”
Aesop

The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.
Spanish Proverb


The Boy Who Went Swimming - Aseop
A boy was swimming in a river and went so far out that he was in danger of drowning. Fortunately, he saw a man walking by and yelled to him with all his might. Instead of rushing to his aid, however, the man began to lecture the boy for being so foolhardy and swimming in deep water. Finally, the boy was forced to cry out, "Please, sir, save your sermon for later, and save me now."
Advice without practical help leads nowhere

Be and/or Become Rich Quotes

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
Agatha Christie

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars. Warren Buffett

The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.
Spanish Proverb

Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
Oscar Wilde

If you cannot face up to your fear of failure, you will never be rich.
Felix Dennis

“He who is contented is rich”
Lao Tze

The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.
Spanish Proverb

“I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.”
Warren Buffett


Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
Oscar Wilde

'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.
William Shakespeare

Her personality combines the resilience, the drive and the restless energy of so many people who become rich.
Felix Dennis, How To Get Rich

“He who is contented is rich”
Lao Tze

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.
Kin Hubbard

People who grow rich almost always improve their sex life. More people want to have sex with them. That’s just the way human beings work. Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac. Money did not make me happy. But it definitely improved my sex life.
Felix Dennis

“He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year”
Leonardo Da Vinci


“Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time”
Margaret Bonnano

Whatever qualities the rich may have, they can be acquired by anyone with the tenacity to become rich. The key, I think, is confidence. Confidence and an unshakable belief it can be done and that you are the one to do it.
Felix Dennis, How To Get Rich

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Benjamin Franklin

“High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come true.”
Robert H. Schuller

Becoming wealthy is like playing Monopoly... the person who can accumulate the most assets wins the game.
Noel Whittaker

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
Epictetus


The truth is that getting rich means sacrifice.
Felix Dennis, How To Get Rich

Quite apart from sacrifice, there is a last brutal truth to be confronted. After a lifetime of making money and observing better men and women than me fall by the wayside, I am convinced that fear of failing in the eyes of the world is the single biggest impediment to amassing wealth. Trust me on this.
Felix Dennis, How To Get Rich


The more you own, the more you know you don't own.
Aristotle Onassis


Ancient Story
Once in the dear dead days beyond recall, an out-of-town visitor was being shown the wonders of the New York financial district. When the party arrived at the Battery, one of his guides indicated some handsome ships riding at anchor. He said, "Look, those are the bankers' and brokers' yachts." "Where are the customers' yachts?" asked the naïve visitor.
Fred Schwed, Jr., Where Are the Customers' Yachts: or A Good Hard Look at Wall Street (Wiley Investment Classics)





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Stocks - Stock Market Quotes

The best stocks
The pathetic fallacy is that what are thought to be the best are in truth only the most popular - the most active, the most talked of, the most boosted, and consequently, the highest in price at that time.
Fred Schwed, Jr., Where Are the Customers' Yachts: or A Good Hard Look at Wall Street (Wiley Investment Classics)


Enthusiasm:
While enthusiasm may be necessary for great accomplishment elsewhere, in Wall Street, it almost invariably leads to disaster.
Benjamin Graham


We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
Warren Buffett


I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.
Warren Buffett




If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.
Warren Buffett




It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
Warren Buffett

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
Warren Buffett




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Crime Quotes

“Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.”
Hercule Poirot (Agatha Christie)

Youth Quotes

Youth holds no society with grief.
Euripides

“The young people think the old people are fools, but the old people know the young people are fools.”
Miss Jane Marple (Agatha Christie)

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind. People grow old only by deserting their ideals and by outgrowing the consciousness of youth. Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul... You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep you self-confidence young. Keep your hope young.
L.F. Phelan

Dreams Quotes

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.

 Sigmund Freud quote

The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.
Oprah Winfrey

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Oscar Wilde

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France

The wisest men follow their own direction.
Euripides

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Carl Jung

I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau

There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.
Victor Hugo

Some men see things as they are and say, "Why?" I dream of things that never were and say, "Why not?"
George Bernard Shaw

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
Goethe

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
William Dement

Hope is a waking dream.
Aristotle

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
Aeschylus

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
Will Durant

The future belongs to those who believe in their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Habits Quotes

Feeling sorry for yourself and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

Dale Carnegie

First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they'll eventually conquer you.
Dr. Rob Gilbert

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
Agatha Christie


A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
Desiderius Erasmus


Good habits result from resisting temptation.

Habit is something you can do without thinking, which is why most of us have so many of them.
Frank Clark

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
Benjamin Franklin

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
Mark Twain

Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables.
Spanish Proverb

The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
Samuel Johnson

By degrees a person should become free of unwholesome and unnatural habits; similarly, one should try to develop wholesome natural habits. The way of doing this is to replace the unnatural with the natural. If withdrawal is gradual, addiction does not reappear; wholesome habits, gradually acquired, become firmly implanted.
Charaka Samhita

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
John Dryden

Nothing is stronger than habit.
Ovid

Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
Mark Twain

Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.
Orison Swett Marden


Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
Vincent Lombardi


Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
Marcus T. Cicero

Never permit failure to become a habit.
William Frederick Book

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
St. Augustine

Money Quotes - Credit Quotes

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"Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty."
Socrates

"Creditors have better memories than debtors."
Benjamin Franklin

"Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven." Confucius

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
Mark Twain

When it's a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire

"There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor." Oscar Wilde

"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it." Henry Thoreau

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
Elbert Hubbard


"Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder." George Washington

"He does not possess wealth; it possesses him." Benjamin Franklin

Money is just the poor man's credit card.
Marshall McLuhan

"He is richest who is content with the least."
Socrates

"He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money." Benjamin Franklin

"He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have." Socrates

"I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes."

A penny saved is a penny earned.
Benjamin Franklin



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Slow Quotes

English Proverbs

Haste makes waste.

What have I become is that really me?
Look what I have done this is not who I wanna be
I gotta face myself gotta chase my Soul
Gotta free my mind get back my glow
I got to go
Yes I got to

Run run run run run run
Run for my Soul
I better go go go go go go
Making sure I go slow slow

Ayo, Slow Slow

Carpe Diem Quotes - Life Is Short

Enjoy yourself. It's later than you think.
Chinese Proverb

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

My today is what I will to make it. I will to make it perfect…
Walter Russell

Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"?
Norman Douglas

Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses?
David Brin

I will do today that which is of today and pay no heed to the tomorrow; nor waste regrets on that which was yesterday.
Walter Russell

My day shall be filled to overflowing, yet shall I not haste the day; nor shall I waste the day.Walter Russell

You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted.
Ruth E. Renkl

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.
Voltaire

You may delay, but time will not.
Benjamin Franklin

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. Mark Twain

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard

Forgiveness Quotes

“Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.”
Oscar Wilde

"The man who opts for revenge should dig two graves." -- Chinese proverb

“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.”
Lewis B. Smedes

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
Mahatma Gandhi

Forgo your anger for a moment and save yourself a hundred days of trouble.
Chinese proverb

“Forgiveness means letting go of the past.”
Gerald Jampolsky

"We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange love for hate --- thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising."
Maya Angelou

To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none.
Seneca

"Forgiveness and reconciliation are not just ethereal, spiritual, other-worldly activities. They have to do with the real world. They are realpolitik, because in a very real sense, without forgiveness, there is no future."
Desmond Tutu

"Until recently, the tools of science have not been employed to investigate forgiveness. The new wave of research we've begun, however, has the potential to reveal the profound value of forgiveness in our lives -- information that could reduce human misery and increase the quality of life worldwide."
-- Everett L. Worthington, Jr.

Our capacity to make peace with another person and with the world depends very much on our capacity to make peace with ourselves.
Thich Nhat Hanh

When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Confucius

“Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.”
Lawana Blackwell

“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.”
Thomas Szasz

“When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.”
Alan Paton

“We achieve inner health only through forgiveness - the forgiveness not only of others but also of ourselves”
Joshua Liebman

“Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.”
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Funny Quotes

Forget health clinics and gyms. Sex is the best cure. One good night of sex and your problems are gone.
Grace Jones

Always borrow money from a pessimist; he doesn’t expect to be paid back.

Son, if you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet! They're about to announce the lottery numbers.
Homer Simpson

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
Oscar Wilde

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
Oscar Wilde

I can resist everything except temptation.
Oscar Wilde

I like talking to a brick wall, it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me.
Oscar Wilde

Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.
Frank Sinitra

Behind every successful man is a surprised woman.
Maryon Pearson

The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.
Robert Bloch

Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.
Bill Cosby

Travel Quotes

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
Saint Augustine


Don't tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled.
Prophet Mohammed

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
Robert Louis Stevenson

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.
James Michener

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.
Paul Theroux

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.John Steinbeck

I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
Mark Twain

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
Lin Yutang

One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy.
Sir Richard Burton

The journey not the arrival matters.
T. S. Eliot

Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.
Frank Herbert


The wise man travels to discover himself.
James Russell Lowell


The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
G. K. Chesterton

A wise traveler never despises his own country.
Carlo Goldoni

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing. Daniel J. Boorstin

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty-- his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
Aldous Huxley

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Samuel Johnson

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
Anatole France

I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost eveything.
Bill Bryson

The traveler, however virginal and enthusiastic, does not enjoy an unbroken ecstasy. He has periods of gloom, periods when he asks himself the object of all these exertions, and puts the question whether or not he is really experiencing pleasure. At such times he suspects that he is not seeing the right things, that the characteristic, the right aspects of these strange scenes are escaping him. He looks forward dully to the days of his holiday yet to pass, and wonders how he will dispose of them. He is disgusted because his money is not more, his command of the language so slight, and his capacity for enjoyment so limited.
Arnold Bennett

If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
Henry Miller

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
George Bernard Shaw

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. the great affair is to move.
Robert Louis Stevenson

He who would travel happily must travel light.
Antoine de St. Exupery

A good traveller has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Lao Tzu

I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain

Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.
Seneca


For those who travel alone and are wondering if should like it or dislike it, this quote:

The man who does not like his own company is truly alone.

Friendship Quotes

A friend is a gift you give yourself.
Robert Louis Stevenson

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
Bernard Meltzer

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Proverbs 17:17

To attract good fortune, spend a new penny on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.
Chinese Proverb

No matter who broke your heart, or how long it takes to heal, you’ll never get through it without your friends.

I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
Mark Twain

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks ofadversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

George Washington

A true friend laughs at your stories even when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your troubles even when they're not so bad.

Never Explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Elbert Hubbard

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Samuel Johnson

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Abraham Lincoln


Remember, no man is a failure who has friends.

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin's Thirteen Guiding Precepts
1. Temperance. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.
2. Silence. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.
3. Order. Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
4. Resolution. Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
5. Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e. waste nothing.
6. Industry. Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.
7. Sincerity. Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and if you speak, speak accordingly.
8. Justice. Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.
9. Moderation. Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve. 10. Cleanliness. Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, clothes, or habitation.
11. Tranquillity. Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.
12. Chastity.
13. Humility. Imitate Jesus and Socrates.

Work Quotes

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Aristotle

Work that has been done is pleasant.
Cicero

Eating & Losing Weight

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

Benjamin Franklin

When asked how he disciplined himself in Zen, a master replied, "When hungry, I eat. When tired, I sleep."
The questioner responded in a surprise, "But that is what everyone does!"
"Not at all," replied the master, "Most people are constantly distracted from what they are doing."





Weight Loss and this site is listed under Quotations

Patience

"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."
Phaedrus

Following Others

Listen to all, plucking a feather from every passing goose, but, follow no one absolutely. Chinese Proverb

Spanish Proverbs

Cuando amor no es locura, no es amor. (When love is not madness, it is not love.)
Spanish Proverb

If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
Spanish Proverb

Where there is love, there is pain. Spanish Proverb