The value of passion is, like the fire, judged by the amount of warmth that it generates. Fanatic like forest fires burn the whole forest everything tender and green. To be useful, fire must be confined. To live passionately we must develop discipline, to love, powerfully we must forge bonds of commitment. Passion is inseparable from compassion. Sam Keen.

It isn't always others who enslave you for sometimes we let circumstances enslave us, we let things enslave us, sometimes with weak wills we enslave ourselves. Richard Evans.

Loveliness has a driving force. It sets people in motion, it makes you write a letter, to go out, to turn on the T.V, to make a phone call or even get married.

Williams Sadler.

Young love is a flame – very pretty often very hot and flickering, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined is as coals, deep – burning unquenchable. Henry W Beecher

Many great ideas are lost because the people who had them couldn’t stand being laughed at. Grit.

A relationship is a treasure to be cherished,

Fragile like China which must be handled with care,

For once broken – even though mended so that the break is hardly noticeable,

It is never the thing of beauty it was in the beginning. Duiah Sose.

To change the world, you only need to perceive it in a different light. DeWalter Staples.

Forever is a long time, not as long as it was yesterday. D H Lawrence.

Order and simplicity are the first step towards mastery of a subject; actual enemy is the unknown.

Thomas Mann.

Man is what he believes. A Checkar.

When you change your thinking, you change your beliefs;

When you change your beliefs, you change your expectation,

When you change your expectation, you change your attitude,

When you change your attitude, you change your behavior,

When you change your behavior , you change your performance,

When you change your performance, you change your life.

A man’s mind, stretched to a new idea, never goes back to its original thing. Oliver Homes.

The world can’t change you the better, even if it wanted it. Anon.

One plane miscarries because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he’s making, no wind is the right wind. Seneca

Doubt can stop you in your tracks, it can drain away desire, believing on the other hand, can set your world afire.

When you hold the opinion that, you can reach that special dream, you have the edge needed to make, achieving than it may see.

Believing in your ability, affects the way you act, and produces an air of confidence, which influences how other will react.

When you believe you can achieve, and believe it with all your soul, you possess a powerful asset, you most likely will reach your goal. Anon.

You will become as small as your controlling desires and as large as your dominant inspiration. James Allen.

Destiny is not matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. William Bryan.

Cheerfulness, like spring, open all the blossoms of the inward man.

Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like a sea faring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides and fooling them you reach your destiny. Charles Schulz.

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Man’s love is of man’s life a thing a part, but it is woman’s whole existence.

Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones.

Nature, time and patience are the three greatest physicians.

Violent hatred sinks us below those whom we hate.

It is mind that is ennobling not blood.

Where you treasure is, there will your heart be also

The web of life is of mingled yarn, good and ill together.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

What I gave, I heed; what I spent, I had; what I kept, I lost.

He who shoots at the sun will shoot higher than he who shoots at the tree.

A generous heart waits to speak. It needs no preparation.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes a martyr.

If you would be loved, love and be lovable.

The darkest hour is just before dawn.

The sleep of a labouring man is sweet.

There can’t be 2 great mountains without a valley between them.

The great tree attracts the big wind.

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

If you love the God that you see in another, make it your own.

The highest tree has the greatest fall.

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.

Artists are only revealed to one another.

As long as there is life, there is hope.

Happiness is a way station between too much and too little.

It is worthier to deserve honor than possess it.

A place for everything and everything in its place.

If you are standing upright, don’t worry if your shadow looks crooked.

Real problems can be overcome it’s only the imaginary that are unconquerable.

Life is a flame and we live with an invisible flame (Sun) within us.

Nature revolves, mankind advances.

Preach not because you have to say something, preach because you have something to say.

A man is not completely born until he is dead.

Who or what guided me. I was not searching for anything or anyone. I was searching for everything, searching for everyone.

Literature expresses society, be expressing it changes it, contradicts it, or denies it. By portraying it, it invents it; by inventing it, it reveals it.

To talk is human. Octavia Paz.

When you are hard on yourself, life will be easy on you; when you easy on yourself, life will be hard on you.

Zig Ziglar.

Don’t act as if you have thousand years to live. Marcus Aurelius.

Art is triumph over chaos. John Cheever.

Life is like an iceberg, the largest part being submerged, you are neither aware of it nor of its power.

It is amazing what strength is added to a man when he knows he is right.

The only time a person really fails is when he blames his failure on somebody else.

Ideal moves in a chain reaction, pass on from person to person, until great movements are started.

I am only one,

But still I am one,

I cannot do everything,

But still I can do something,

And because I cannot do everything,

Let me not refuse to do the something that I can do. Edward E Hale.

You can never tell when you do an act, just what results will be, but with every died you sowing a seed, though its harvest you may not see.

Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity and transmits that heard augmented by fresh acquisitions to future eyes. Thomas Macaulay.

Death is not enemy of life, but its friend, for it is the knowledge that our years are limited which makes them so precious. It is the truth that time is but lent to us, at our best, look upon over years as a trust handed into our temporary keeping.

All man faces what is inevitable. Why should death be feared. At what moment should we be fearful of leaving the known for the unknown. Understandably is there ……… be a desire to postpone the ……… but what is there to be afraid.

Why then be sad. Death brings changes for those who are left behind. The warm and associative of the former days are gone. The sorrow the frailty, the communicability disturb, but for our loves one who has triumphed, there should be reforcing sorrow is centred and self. Benjamin Franklin.

Adversity has shown that it is better to seek strength from within than to rely upon forces from without. It has also shown that the worthwhile things of life are spiritual qualities rather than material substances. The things which are seen are temporal and pass away, but the unseen, spiritual things are real and eternal.

Not in clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, But in ourselves once triumph and defeat. H W Longfellow.

There is as much reason to assume that death is the beginning of a glorious adventure as to assume that it is the end of all. Surely if a milligram of musk can give out perfume for seven thousand years, if a milligram of Radium can give light seventy thousand years, then the human soul, which is far more precious than musk or radium can and will live more than seventy years.

Death is not extinguishing the light, but putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. R B Tagore.

The voice is the beauty of cuckoos; chastity is the beauty of a woman; wisdom is the beauty of the deformed; patience is the beauty of the noble.

Before you knew it was difficult, once you knew it was easy.

What is impossible, is impossible, only what is possible is possible.

Fortitude in adversity, moderation in prosperity, eloquence in assembly, valor in war; glory in renown and diligence in meditation; these are the natural perfections of great men.

Modesty is embellishment of a woman.

Though not your kin, a friend is your best relation.

Stick to one thing, all will come, aim at everything all will go.

What can wise scripture do for one without wisdom,

What can a mirror do for one without eyes.

A friend can be won by sincerity of conduct, an enemy by power and prudence; a miser by wealth, a Brahmin by kindness, a master by services, a fool by stories; a wife by tenderness; a wise man by knowledge; a tasteful man by stories; a pessimistic man by praise; and everyone by good behavior.

At might, a new door opens for the human spirit. Henry Beston.

All great truths begin as blasphemies. G B Shaw.

Peace is not a season; it is a way of life. Abbey Peers.

Only real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. Sicilian Proverb.

Parting is inevitably painful. It is like an amputation. A limb being torn off without which I can’t function.

Anne M Lindberg.

A religion that is small enough for one understanding would not be large enough for our needs.

Arthur Balfane.

The best index to person’s character is how he treats people who can’t do him any good

and how he treats people who can’t fight back. A Van Buren.

The many best words convey meaning, and sound like what they mean. That’s why I’ve always been a little dissatisfied with the word love. It’s too short, too clipped, to encompass such a big emotion. But the French have a word for it that works beautifully – amore. Dean Walley.

The dream beings most of time with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes you on to the next plateau, sometimes even poking you with a sharp stick called truth.. Dan Rather.

Any coward can fight a battle when he is sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing. That’s my way, Sir; and there are many victories worse than defeat. George Eliot.

Tenderness is passion in repose. Josep Joubert

What a marvelous gift a letter is! When the envelope seems to me to be akind of gift – wrapping the way its sealed, the address on it that makes it inaccessible to anyone else. And like a gift, a letter is freely offered and does not require and answer . it is merely a proposal. Francis De Medici.

A lie has speed, truth has endurance. Edgar Mohn.

Every new opinion at its starting is precisely in a minority of one. Thomas Carlyle.

Its not the river that runs, but the water. Its not the time that passes, but us. Herve Bazin.

Your worth is not measured by what you have but instead by what you give. Mauro Mata.

Love awakens all senses but common.

Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person its importance not being fully recognized for some time. Samuel Butler.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed of you don’t try. Beverly Sills

What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are. Edger Friedenberg.

Never make a negative decision in your low time. Never make your most important decision when you are in your worst mood. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come. Robert Schuller.

The knowledge a man has acquired is not by that of formulas, but of words, places and people, knowledge gained not by words but by touch, sleep, sight, sound, victories; sleeplessness, love – the human experiences and emotions of this Earth and of oneself and other men, and perhaps a little faith, a little reverence for things one can’t see. Aldai Stevenson.

The world is so empty that one thinks only of mountains, cities and rivers, but to know someone who thinks and feels with us and who though distant is close to us in spirit, this makes the Earth for us an unhabited garden. Goethe.

People only partly connect – even with their dearest. Redbook.

We tend to not choose the unknown which might be a shock or a disappointment or simply a little difficult to cope with. And yet it is the unknown with all its disappointments and surprises is most enriching.

Anne Zinberg.

The whole course of human history may depend on the change of a solitary and even humble individual, for it is in mind of an individual that the battle between good and bad is won or lost. M Scott Beck.

Gossip cheapens the one who gossips than the one who is gossiped about.

James Fisher.

Adversity is the trial of principle, without which hardly does a man know whether he is honest or not.

Henry Fielding.

Love talked about can be turned aside easily, but love demonstrated is just irresistible. W Mooneyham.

If all difficulties were known at the outset of the journey, most of us would never start out at all.

Dan Rather.

Motivation is what gets you started, habit is what keeps you going. Rujun.

What is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it. Yves Saint Laurent.

Shakespeare worked without knowing that he would become Shakespeare. Collette.

No stream or gas drives anything unless it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is

focused, dedicated and disciplined. Henry E Fosdick.

We are not primarily put on the Earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.

Peter De Vries.

I believe that there is one story in the world that has frightened or inspired us. So that we live in continuing thought and wonder. Humans are caught in their lives in ambitions thoughts, in their hunger and ambitions, in their avarice, generosity, in the net of good and evil. This story occurs on all levels of intelligence and feeling. Virtue and vice were warp and woof of our first consciousness and they will be the fabric of our last and this despite the changes we may impose. A man will have only hard clean questions – was it good or evil. Have I done well or ill. John Stenback.

The kind of beauty I want is one that is hard to yet that comes from within – strength, courage, dignity.

Ruby Dee.

Books support us in solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. Jeremy Collier.

All wisdom is summed up in 2 words – wait & hope. Alexander Pope.

Nothing is worth more than this day. Goethe.

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful. Jacqueline Bisset.

The road is always better than the inn. Those who settle on fame or fortune as the inn, and having arrived, call it quits, miss the whole point of life. Realistically, there is no inn, no ultimate point of arrival. It’s the road now and forever – finite man probing infinity, finding his way, endlessly. All that matters are the lessons learned along the way. Leonard Read.