The strongest man in life is he who stands the most alone. Hensik Ibsen.

The most cruel lies are often told in silence. R L Stevenson.

There are 3 tragedies in life – one is not to get one desire – another to get it. G B Shaw.

Every misfortune always carries with it the seed of and equivalent and greater benefit.

Every act rewards itself, or in other words integrates itself in a 2 fold manner – first in thing or in real nature and secondly in circumstance or in apparent nature. Men call the circumstance retribution. The casual retribution is in the thing and is seen by the soul. The retribution of circumstance is seen by understanding; it is inseparable from the thing but is often spread over a long time and so doesn’t become distinct until after many years. Specific strips may follow late after the offense, but they do follow because they accompany it. Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is the fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of pleasure that concealed it. Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end pre-exists in the means, the fruit in the seed.

Fear is an instructor of great sagacity …. One thing he always teaches, that there is rottenness where he appears. That obscene bird is not there for nothing. He indicates great wrongs which must be revised.

Every excess causes a defeat an excess. Every sweet hath its soul, every evil its good. Every faculty which is a receiver of pleasure has an equal penalty put on its abuse. It is the answer for its moderation with life. For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly. For everything you’ve missed you’ve gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something. If the gatherer gathers too much, nature takes out of him what she puts into his chest; swells the estate but kills the owner. Nature hats monopolies and exceptions. There is always some leveling faculty that puts down the rich, strong, fortunate, overbearing on the sumo ground with others.

Men suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself as for a thing to be or not to be. There is a third silent arty to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the guaranty of the fulfillment of every contract, so that honest service comes to loss(?). Every stroke shall be repaid. R W Emerson.

The way of superior men is three – fold – virtuous, he is free from anxieties; wise he is free from perplexities; bold, he is free from fear. Confucius.

Sit loosely in the saddle of life. R L Stevenson.

In quietness and confidence shall be your strength. Anonymous.

A fool may be known by six things : anger, without cause; speech without profit; change, without progress; enquiry, without object; putting trust in a stranger and mistaking foes for friends. Arabian Proverb.

The only way to be strong is not to surrender to one’s virtues. Somerset Maugham.

The greatest of all faults, is to be conscious of none. Thomas Carlyle.

Too much agreement kills the chat. Eldridge Cleaver.

The only thing worse than an expert is a person who thinks he is an expert. A. A. C.

One ought to everyday at least, hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if possible speak a few reasonable words. Goethe.

My chief want in life is someone who shall make me do what I can. R W Emerson.

The best mirror is a friend’s eye. Gaelic proverb.

One does met find oneself by pursuing oneself, but on the contrary pursuing something else and learning through discipline or routine – who one is and wants to be. May Saxton.

The delight of honest friendship is that it can be resumed instantly regardless of the length of time it has been in abeyance; there are no preliminaries or formalities to observe, no protocol to be established , no modus vivendi to be set up. John Wienrich.

Crying opens the hugs, washes the countenance exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper. So cry away.

Charles Dickens.

There is stillness and everlastingess about the past; it changes not and has a touch of eternity, like a painted picture or a statue in bronze or marble. Unaffected by the storms and upheavals of the present, it maintains its dignity and repose and tempts the troubled spirit and the tortured mind to seek shelter in its vaulted catacombs. There is peace there and security, and one may even sense a spiritual quality. Pt. J. Nehru.

Think of what you have rather than what you lack. Of the things you have select the best and then reflect hwo eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them. Marcus Aurelius.

There is no way to deceive, you can’t lie to life. You may deceive anybody but you can't deceive life. What you haven’t learnt leaves the hole that nothing but that learning can fill and covering up isn’t possible.

Edward Sims.

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men of talent. Genius will not … the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’ has always solved and will always solve the problems of the human race. Calvin Coolidge.

Its true that we don’t know what we have until we lose it. Its also true that we often don’t know that we have been missing until it arrives. Elaine

You can’t turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again. Bonnie Pendden.

To receive a present handsomely and in a right spirit, even when you have none to give in return, is to give one in return. Leigh Hunt.

When the method and discipline of knowledge are added to talent, the result is usually altogether outstanding.

Cicero.

Apply yourself, get all knowledge you can, but then do something. Don’t just stand there,

make somthign happen. It isn't easy, but if you keep your nose to the grindstone and work at it, its amazing how successful you can be. Lee Iococca.

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. R W Emerson.

In every work of genius, we recognize our own repeated thoughts; they come back to us with a certan alienated majesty. R W Emerson.

Laughter is the tranquillizer with no side effects. Arnold Glasgow.

Be delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more smart, with perhaps a bit of magic writing somewhere behind the morning. J. B. Priestly.

Hammer shatters glass, forges steel, some people are like glass; the hammer of circumstances break them in pieces. Other people are like steel – the hammer strikes and instead of breaking them, forges them into new forms of strength and beauty. Smiley Blanton.

Being taken for granted can be compliment. It means that you’ve become a comfortable, trusted element in another’s life. -

A happy memory is worth a lifetime. Clarin.

The only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which is created out of chaos: the pictures they paint, the music they compose; the books they write and the lives they lead. A life well – lived is the perfect work of art. Somerset Maugham.

A man should never be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. Jonathan Swift.

No one can consider himself truly married until he understand every word that his wife isn’t saying.

Lord Mancroft.

Conscience is a watchdog barking at skin. B. Edwards.

Is it not frightening that such narrow limits have been set to human wisdom and now – to foolishness.

Konard Adenaner.

To a friend’s house, the road is never too long.

Genius and virtue are to be more often found in clothed grey than in peacock bright. It takes an immense amount of every to keep up this appearance of greatness – more than the great one prepared to give.

Alexander Bearn.

Fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic. G B Shaw.

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to burn and which to cross. D R

Passion alone can make us surpass ourselves. Andre Joillet.

Justifying a fault doubles it. French Proverb.

The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation. How much will you be missed. Peter Marshall.

Maturity can happen at any time. It is simply a realization that what excites your admiration need not trigger your admiration need not trigger your limitation. Don’t imitate, be yourself. Rosemary Cobhan.

Often you have to be great to be modest. Sydney Harris.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark, the real tragedy is when men are afraid of light. Plato.

The do one’s duty sounds rather cold, and cheerless business, but somehow in the end it gives a sort of queer satisfaction. W Somerset.

Manners are like zero in mathematics; they may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal to the value of everything else. Freya Stack.

There must come the moment when all our mirrors turn into windows. This is the period of growing up. The adolescent looks inward; the adult looks outward. Pamela Frankan.

Someone has said that if it requires an object or a person to make you happy; you don’t know what happiness is, but you can stand alone in the midst of a hard situation, doing a routine task with love and peace in your hart, you know what happiness is. Gwen Cummings.

To whom can I speak today.

The gentleman has perished

The violent man has access to everybody.

The iniquity(?) that smites the land;

It has no end.

These are no righteous men

The Earth is surrendered to criminals. Jacques Barzun meeting an Egyptian, 2000 B C

Every life is a profession of faith. Every man’s conduct is an unspoken sermon that is forever preaching to others. Amiel.

Let us be poets of one existence by knowing how to find for life the exact rhyme of an inspired death.

Ortega Y Gasset.

It is not wisdom to be only wise, And on the inward vision close the eyes, But it is wisdom to believe the heart, Columbus found a world and had no chart. George Santayana.

Self reverence, self knowledge, self control, these three alone lead life to sovereign power.

Alfred Tennyson.

Everyday we experience grave threats to our self – esteem – we feel inferior guilty, insecure, unloved. Not only big but also small things put us in the wrong. The ego sweats. Its all but the consequences of lack of self confidence. Dr. Gordon Allport.

Open your eyes and look for some man or work for the sake of men that takes little time. Search and see if there isn’t some place where you may invest your humanity. Albert Schweitzer.

The tragedy in life is what dies inside a man when he lives. Albert Schweitzer.

He who walks in another’s track leaves no footprints. Anonymous.

Tact consists in knowing how far to go is too far. Jean Conctean.

Change is necessary to life, sensation and thought : an exciting novelty may seem by it novelty to be beautiful, until the forgotten old returns on the wheel of time and is embraced as young and new. Will Durant.

Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work, your judgement will be surer. Leonardo da Vinci.

If you want to be happy, be. Leo Tolstoy

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly. Marcus L Crassus

It is better never to begin a good work, than having begun it, stop it. Bede.

The door to the past is a strange door. It swings open and things pass through it, but they pass in one direction only. No man can return across that threshold, though he can look back still. Loren Eisely.

You want to change everything and everybody that is what makes you unhappy.

You can’t make a fool of one who keeps cool.

To change everything change your attitude.

Empty sacks don’t stand upright.

In belief there is power; one opportunities become plain; one vision becomes realities.

In the moment you carry this conviction, in the moment your dreams shall come true.

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of the conscience.

One man with courage is a majority.

All dreams shall come true … if you have the courage to pursue them.

If after losing all, you still have the courage, you can be rest assured you haven’t lost everything.

Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed, what we should be capable of, with the world looking on.

The worst prism would be a closed heart. Pope John Paul II.

The greatest test of courage is to bear defeat without losing heart.

When you look back in life, you regret the things you’ve not done than the ones you did.

If you keep doing what you’ve always done,

You’ll keep getting what you’ve always got.

Don’t change with change, change before the change.

When you judge others, you reveal your own perfidies and fears.

Desire creates the power.

A man’s dreams are the index of his greatness.

Dare to dream, dare to try, dare to fail, dare to succeed.

The only limits are always those of vision.

You will be as small as you controlling desire or as huge as your dominating aspiration.

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die,

Life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects from you. Never excuse yourself.

Going far beyond the call of duty, doing more than others expect … this is what is excellence about. And it comes from striving hard, maintaining the highest standards, looking after the smallest details, and going after the extra mile.

Going the extra mile puts you miles ahead of your competition.

A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead and the unborn could do it no better.

Fear not that you might be hurt, fear rather that you might never grow if you keep waiting for painless success.

One’s faith in ones’ plans is truly tested when the horizon before one is the blackest.

If it weren’t for the last minute, a lot of things would not get done.

Don’t brag. It isn’t the whistle that moves the train.

If you are headed in the right direction each step, no matter how small is a step you are

getting closer to the goal.

If the opportunity does not knock build a door.

If you miss an opportunity do not cloud your eyes with tears, keep you vision clear so that you don’t miss the next one.

What I experience now is the result of the past, what I shall experience in the future, is the result of what I do now.

Wear out, but do not rust away.

Many cloudy days end with a glorious sunset and nights with a dawn.

Coming together is a beginning

Keeping together is progress

Working together is success

There is no limit to what you can achieve if you don’t mind who gets the credit.

Think like a man of action,

act like a man of thought.

Grow strong my comrade – that you may stand, unshaken when I fall; that I may know, the shattered fragments of my song will come. At last a fairer melody to you, that I may tell my heart that you begin, where passing I leave off, and fathom more. William Durant.

Silence is a woman’s glory. Plato.

Human behavior flows from three main sources – desire, emotion and knowledge. Desire,

appetite, impulse, courage, these are one; emotion, spirit, ambition, reason, thought, intellect are one. Desire has seat in the conic(?) mainly bursting reservoir sexual energy. Emotion has its seat in the heart, in the flow of force of blood; it is the organic resonance of experience and desire. Knowledge bas its seat in the head, it is the cage(?) of desire, and can become the pilot of the soul. Plato.

The enquiry of truth which is the love making or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth which is the praise of it; and the belief of truth which is the enjoying of it is the sovereign good of human natures. Francis

Bacon.

In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances desperate circumstances profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer. Mark Twain.

Love enriches only when lovers love many things together and not merely each other.

Walter Zippmann.

If you have competitive spirit, it is not the men and women you are competing with. Your real competition is you. Instead of wasting time on what he or she will do you continually try to do better. Try to do things that are socially worthwhile and make life better for someone else. And if your chief competitor is you, you get along a lot better than anybody else. John Carter and Lois Wyse.

The wise man reads both books and life. Lin Yutang.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature. But beautiful old people are works of art.

Marjorie Greenbie.

Only put off till tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Pablo Picasso.

A true conversationalist is one who thinks that world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. Anon.

People who jump to conclusions often frighten the best ones away. Hugh Allen.

Not in time, place or circumstances, but in man lies the victory.

When bad things happen to good people, they become better.

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making excuses, that’s thee day you reach the top.

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness because no amount of darkness can blow the candle away.

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, tome, is more important than facts. It is more important than past, than education, than money, than circumstances than successes, than failures, than what people say or think about you. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding, the attitude we will embrace for that day. We can’t change the past, nor the fact that people will act in a certain way nor the inevitable. We can only play the one string we have – attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you. We are in charge of our attitudes.

There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done,

There are thousands to prophecy failure,

There are thousands to point out to you one by one,

The dangers that wait to assail you,

But just buckle in with a bin of grin,

Just take off your …….. and go to it;

Just start to sing as you tackle the thing,

That can’t be done and you will do it.

A painter must have his canvas,

A musician must have his instrument,

But to take the invisible stuff of life and mould it so as to awaken another’s awareness strengthen another's faith, deepen another's courage steer another’s courage, this too is artistry. Jean B Mosley

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in destiny can be handled at a time. Churchill.

Ae who has no mission is the poorest of all. Albert

Schweitzer.

Happiness comes with sowing, not with reaping. Jacinto

Poetry is a little incarnation to what has before been inaudible and invisible. C S Lewis.

Progress is not created by contented people. Anonymous.