That always gives way to others will end up having no principles of his own. Aesop

If everything were to turn out just like I would want it to, then I would never experience anything now; my life would be an endless repetition of stale successes. Hugh Panther.

Happiness may well be primarily an attitude towards time. Individuals we consider happy commonly seem complete with their present. We see them constantly in their wholeness: attentive, cheerful and open rather than closed to event, integral in the moment rather than distended across time by regret or anxiety. Yet even so, they give an impression of consistency and permanence. One almost feels that their lives possess a kind of qualified eternity; that past and future, birth and death, meet for them as in the completion of a circle.

Rudin.

Be slow in choosing friends, slower in changing. B Franklin

Show me the man you honor, and I’ll show what kind of a man you are. Thomas Carlyle

Try to be like a turtle – at ease in your shell. Bill Copeland

Half the people miss the fruit for lack of energy in shaking the tree; while the other half sacrifice next season’s crop by shaking so hard that they topple the tree. Sydney Harris.

Life is like a bicycle, when it isn’t moving it falls. Wimpi.

Memory is the diary we all carry with us. Oscar Wilde

G in a fool’s paradise is great fun until the rent comes due. Anonymous.

Luck is not chance, its toil. Fortune’s expensive smile is earned. Emily Dickinson

Often life is a card game in which everyone is dealt a hand that he must accept. His success depends on his playing it as well as he can. A very large proportion of life’s failures occur because men refuse to do this, and instead insist that on playing the hand that they think they should have been dealt. Lord David Cecil.

Well timed silence is the most commanding expression. Mark Helpuin.

All fully wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ones, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience. Goethe.

There have always been hard times. There have been wars and troubles – famines, diseases and such like and some folks are born with money and some with none. In the end, it is up to man what he becomes and none of those other things matter. Character only counts. Louis L’amour.

If we do change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed. Anonymous.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive and the true success is to labor. R L Stevenson.

Isolation is a loneness that is forced upon you, like a punishment. Solitude is aloneness you choose and embrace. Think great things can come out of solitude, out of going to a place where all is quiet except beating of your heart. Jeanne Zaskas.

Its never the desire for life’s necessities that brings down men, but the desire for things wheat, fruit, cleaner air, cleaner water, most perfect art, or prettier woman, but by having gold, treasure, slaves, power, unearned fame and unjust superiority. Joubert.

Vision is a compelling image of an achievable future. Laura Fortgang

Nobody is so miserable as he who longs to be somebody and something other than the person he is in body and mind. Angelo Patri.

You don’t get to choose how you are going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you are going to live. Now. Joan Baez

The trouble with illusions is that you don’t realize you have them until they are shattered. Preeti Sharma.

If a man does not suffer adversity, he never appreciates what it is like for those who do suffer it. When a fellow has been through adversity, he is more likely to have a kinder feeling than those who have never been through trouble. Harry Truman

Too much cautious is bad for you. By avoiding things you fear, you may let yourself in for unhappy circumstances. It is usually wiser to stand up is a frightening experience and walk right into it. You are likely to find it is not as tough as you thought. Or you may find it very tough, but also discover you have what it takes to handle it. N V Peale.

An idea can turn to dusk or magic depending on the talent that rubs against it. William Burnbach

Silence, if deliberate, is irritating and artificial; but silence that is unconscious gives human companionship without boredom. Stephen Leacock

The most agreeable of all companions is a simple, frank person, without any high pretension to an oppressive greatness – one how lives life and understands the use of it: obliging at all hours; above all of a golden temper, and steadfast as an anchor. For such a one we gladly exchange the greatest genius, most brilliant wit and the profoundest thinker. Gotthold Lessing

You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your popes rise to thestrats. It the sparkle in you your eyes, swing in your gait, the grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas. Enthusiasts are fighters. They have fortitude. They have staying qualities. Enthusiasm is at the bottom of all progress. With it, there is accomplishment without it, there are only alibis.

Henry Ford.

Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can’t even describe, aren’t even aware of. Ellen Goodman.

We are made to be persistent. That’s how we find out who we are. Tobais Wolff.

It is no simple matter to decide to decide who are the most fortunate – those who life gives all or those who have to give all to life. A fulfilled life is not necessarily one constructed according to over bluepring; it is a brilliant collage of materials that have unexpectedly come to hand. How wonderful it is that we do not know what tomorrow will bring. Aung Sang Suu Kyi.

Vagueness and procrastination are was a comfort to the frail in spirit. John Updike.

The world is full of wonder, riches, powers, puzzles. What it holds can make us horrified, sorrowful, amazed, confused but not bored. Boredom is the result of some pinch in ourselves, not of some lack in the world.

Toni Flores.

Obstacles are those frightful sights you see when you take your eyes off your goal. Henry Ford.

What you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you are saying. R W Emerson

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision be cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved. Helen Keller.

Your future depends on many things but mostly on you. Frank Tyger.

No one finds life worth living, one has to make it worth living. Anon.

Live to learn and you will learn to live.

Portuguese Proverb

It takes 20 years to make an overnight success. Eddie Cantour.

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight. Phyllis Diller.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.

A Lincoln.

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. T S Elliot.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. Mother Therasa.

We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities! Walt Kelly.

You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give. Anonymous.

What you never had, you never miss,

What you have is not enough

What you can’t have, you can’t resist. Anonymous

Happiness is belonging, not belongings. Elizabeth Harvey

There is nothing noble in being superior to other being. True nobility is being superior to your former self.

Hindu Proverb

Man, despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication and many accomplishments owes the fact of his existence to a 15 cm layer of top soil and the fact that it rains. Anon.

A community is not unlike an individual. Before it fully ripens and matures, it must drink deeply of the wine of life. It has to taste sorrow as well as joy, failure no less than success and disappointment equally with reward. It has to experience struggle and storm if it is to fully appreciate quiet and calm. Angus McDonald.

People learn something everyday, and a lot of times its that what they learn the day before was string.

Anon.

No matter how high responsibilities you take on, it’s scary, very scary until you start working.

James A Thow

Most important thing of life isn’t capitalizing on your gains. Any fool can do that. The important thing is to profit from your loses. That requires intelligence. W Bolitho

Everyman has a definite repertoire of roles that he plays under ordinary circumstances. But put him into slightly different circumstance and he is unable to find a suitable role. For a short time, he becomes himself.

Georges G

Reading enables us to feel how others felt even if they lived thousands of years ago and light years away. It is not true that we have only one life to live. If we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish. S I Hayakawa.

You’ve got to struggle against disappointment. There’s so much of it around. I can tell you that the great thing is to hang on to personal dignity. If you stay impersonal about disappointment you will be very glad you did when enough time has elapsed and your feelings, disarranged as they were, have settled back into calmness and repose. Finis Farr

A man is known by his friends, his books and mistakes that he admits. Allen Zudden

Forgivers restore self worth to the offender; they cancel a debt; they experience such peace that they lose the urge to retaliate; and live as free persons unshackled by the weight of the suffering. Doris Domselly.

Remember, the opportunities for great deed may never come, but the opportunity for good deeds is renewed day by day. The thing for us is to long for goodness, not the glory. F W Faber.

Raising a child is like raising a skyscraper. If the first few storey are out of line, me one will notice. But when the building is 18 – 20 storey high, everyone will see that it tilts. Jim Bishop.

The tree tomb of the dead is in the heart of the living. Jean Coclean.

Listening is a primitive act of love in which a person give himself to another’s word, making himself accessible and vulnerable to that word. William Stringfellow

What nobody knows what has to be done, everybody says “something has to be done”. Helmul Qualtinger

Individuals who remain vital have learnt that not to be imprisoned by fixed habits and routines. If we build the prison ourselves, we can tear them ourselves. If we are willing to learn, there are opportunities everywhere. We learn by accepting the obligations of life, by suffering by taking risks, by loving, by bearing life’s indignities with dignity. John Gardener.

Three things most difficult to do:

To give love for hate

To say ‘I was wrong’

To include the excluded. Sydney Harris

Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn to do things the right way. B Franklin

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal. Earl Nightingale.

Smooth sea never makes a skillful mariner. English proverb.

Under adverse circumstances, some people break records, others break down. Shiv Khera.

To laugh often and love much,

To win the respect of intelligent persons,

And affection of children;

To earn approval of honest critics

And endure the betrayal of false friends;

To appreciate beauty;

To find the best in others;

To give one’s self without the slightest thought of return;

To have accomplishment a task,

Whether by a healthy child, a restored soul or a redeemed social condition;

To have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exhalation;

To know that even one life has breathed easier because you’ve lived;

This is to have succeeded. Emerson.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with a few, and let those few be well – tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow of growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. George Washington

Study as if you were to live forever, live as if you were die tomorrow Mahatma Gandhi

Doing the best at this moment put you in the best place for the next moment. Oprah Winfrey

When optimistic people encounter hurdles, they try harder. Martin Seligman

Change isn’t merely necessary in life. Change is life. Alwin Toffler.

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,

When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill,

When the friends are low and debts high,

And you want to smile, but have to sigh,

When care is pressing you down a bit,

Rest if you must, but don’t you quit.

Life is queer with its twists and turns,

As everyone of us sometimes learns,

And many a failure turns about,

When he might have won had he stuck out,

Don’t give up though the pace may be slow,

You may succeed with another blow.

Success is failure turned inside out –

The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,

And you can never tell how close you are,

It may be near when it seems so far

So stick to the fight when you’ve hardest hit

Its when things seem worst that you mustn’t quit. Anon

Half hearted effort doesn’t produce half results, it produces no result. Shiv Khera

Character – the willingness to accept the responsibility for one’s own life is what self respect springs from.

Joan Didin.

Man’s main task in life is to give to birth to himself. Erich Fromm

Perseverance is not a long race, it’s a short race, one after another. Walter Elliot.

For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking the root. Thoreau.

It is impossible to break law, we can only break ourselves against the law Cecil B deMille.

He will have to learn, I know, that all men are not just, all are not true. But teach him also that for every scoundrel there is a hero; that for every selfish politician there is a dedicated leader. Teach him that for every enemy there is a friend. It will take time, I know, but teach him if you can, that a dollar earned is of far more value than five found. Teach him to learn to lose and also to enjoy winning, steer him away from envy, teach him the secret of quiet laughter. Teach him the wonder of books but also give him quiet time to ponder the eternal mystery of birds in the sky, bees in the sun and flowers on a green hillside. In school, teach him it is far more honorable to fail than to cheat. Teach him to have faith in his own ideas even if everyone tells him they are wrong. Teach him to be gentle with the gentle people and tough with the tough. Try to teach him not to follow the crowd when everyone is getting on the bandwagon. Teach him to listen to all men, teach him also to filter all that hears on a screen of truth and take only the good that comes through.

Teach him how to laugh when he is sad, teach him that there is no shame in tears, teach him to scoff at cynics and to beware of too much sweetness. Teach him to sell his brain and brawn to highest bidders but never to put a price tag on his heart and soul. Teach him to close his ears to the howling mob and fight if you think you’re right.

Teach him gently but do not cuddle him because only the best of five makes fine steel. Let him have the courage to be impatience, yet him have the patience to be brave, Teach him to have sublime faith in himself, because then he will have sublime faith in mankind.

Abraham Lincoln in a letter to his son’s teacher.

Love is a moment and a lifetime. It is looking at him across a room and feeling that If I don’t spend the rest of my life with him, I’ll have missed the boat. Love is working together, laughing together, growing together. It is respect for each other and the people each ca…. about, however difficult it is sometimes it is to like his relatives or friends. Love is wanting to shout from the rooftops the success, little and big, of one another. Love is wanting to wipe away the tears when failures come. Soul is liking.

I know no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by constant endeavor. Henry Thorean

Let the things that matter most never be at the mercy of things that matter least. Goethe.

There is no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity. Samuel Johnson

A man comes into this world with his fists clenched, but when he dies, his hand is open. Anon

Never be too busy for life’s winders, and the awe. Be reverent before each dawning day and embrace each hour. Seize each golden minute. Hold fast onto life, but do not so fast that you cannot let go.

Alexander Schindler.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness,

And let the winds of the heaven dance between you,

Love one another, but make not a bond of love

Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls

Fill each other’s cup, but drink not from one cup.

Give one another of your bread, but eat not from the same loaf,

Sing and dance together and be joyous but let each one of you be alone

Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music,

Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping

For only the hand of life can contain your hearts

And stand together, yet not too near together

For the pillars of the temple stand apart,

And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow. Kahlil Gibran

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger. Cornelli the Cid

No great man ever claims of lack of opportunity. R W Emerson

Genius, I think is only an infinite capacity to the pains.

The world is round so that friendship may circle it.

There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living. David Jordan

Because of the routines we follow, we often forget that life is an ongoing adventure. We go to work believing that we will reach one destination with no incidents startling us. The truth is that we know nothing – not where our cars will fail or when our buses will stall, whether one places of employment will be there when we arrive or whether we ourselves will arrive whole or alive. Life is pure adventure and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art, to bring all our energies to each encounter, to remain flexible enough to notice and admit when what we expected didn’t happen. May Aegelon.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. Harcourt Brace.

A naval aviator told me that many pilots died because they stayed with disabled aircraft. They preferred the familiarity of the cockpit to the unfamiliarity of the parachute, even though was the death trap. Many people have seen their careers crash because they preferred the familiar but deadly old ways to the risky but rewarding new ways. Quebem

The virtue of all achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.

A.J. Cronin

People look at roses and worry about the thorn under them, but I am thankful that thorns have roses.

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good and evil – the silent conscious; unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Our lives are finite, our deeds on Earth weave a timeless pattern. Alexander Schindler

Law of Growth:

If you are not growing, you are stagnating. If you are not getting better you are getting worse.

Make continuous learning and growth a part of your daily routine.

Law of Responsibility:

You are where you are and what you are because of you. You are fully responsible for everything you are, everything you have and everything you become.

Happiness is the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.

Stephen R Covey.

Law of Commitment:

The quality of love and the duration of a relationship are in direct proportion to the depth of commitment by both people to making the relationship successful. Commit yourself whole – heartedly wand unconditionally to the most important people in your life.

Law of Creativity:

Every advance in your life begins with and idea some kind, and since your ability to generate now ideas is unlimited, your future can be unlimited as well.

Law of Decision:

Decisiveness is a vital quality of all successful people. Every great leap forward in your life comes after you have made a clear decision of some kind.

Law of Attraction:

You continually attract into your life the people, ideas and circumstances that harmonize with your dominant thoughts.

You can be, have and do more because you can change your dominant thoughts.

Law of Courage:

Your willingness to risk failure is the only real measure of your desire to be rich. Failure is prerequisite for success. If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.

Law of Accumulation:

A great life is an accumulation of thousands of efforts and sacrifices unseen by others. H W Longfellow

Law of Opportunity:

Difficulties come not to obstruct, but to instruct. Within every setback or obstacle lies seeds of an equal or greater benefit or opportunity. Then your stumbling blocks into stepping stones to success.

Law of Excellence:

The quality of your life will be determined by your commitment to excellence more than by any other factor.

Vince Lombardy

Law of Mental Equivalence:

The world around you is the physical equivalent of the world within you. Your main job in life is to create within your own mind the mental equivalent of the life you want to live.

Law of Reality:

People don’t change. Deal with them as they are. Don’t try to change others or expect them to change. Unconditional acceptance of others is the key to happy relationships.

Law of Indirect Effort:

You will be more successful indirectly in relationships rather than directly. To have a friend, be one. To develop and maintain living relationships become a loving person yourself.

Laws of Attention:

You pay attention to that which you most value and love. Attentive listening to others lets them know that you love them and builds trust, the foundation of a loving relationship.

Law of Value:

You are invariably attracted to, and most compatible with, people who have the same values, beliefs and convictions that you do. Love is not blind.

Law of Emotion:

You are 100% emotional in everything you think, and decide. You decide emotionally and justify logically. Since you can control your thoughts, you are as happy as you make up your mind to be.

Law of Persistence:

Your ability to persist in the face of adversities, setback and disappointments is the measure of your belief in yourself. Persistence is the iron quality of success; if you persist long enough you must eventually succeed.

Law of Correspondence:

Your outer life is a reflection of your inner life. There is a direct correspondence between the way you think and feel on the inside and the way you act and experience on the outside.

Law of Values:

You always act in a manner consistent with your innermost values and convictions. What you say, do or choose under stress are an exact expression of what you truly value.

Law of Concentration:

Whatever you dwell upon grows and expands in your life. Whatever you concentrate upon and think about repeatedly increases in your world. Therefore you must focus your thinking on the things you really want in life.

Law of Compensation:

The universe is completely and in perfect order. You will always be compensated in full for everything you do. You will get out what you put in. you can have more because you can contribute more.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened for the inside. We can’t open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal. Marilyn Ferguson

That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly. It is dearness only which gives everything its value.

Thomas Paine.

One problem with gazing too much into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out of us. Micheal Cibenko

The highest reward for a man’s toil is not what he gets from it, but what he becomes by it. John Ruskin.

The greatest battles of life are fought out daily in the silent chambers of the soul. David Menay.

Some day, in the years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation or trembling under th great sorrow of life. But the real struggle is now, here. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character can’t be made except by a steady long contained process. Philip brookes.

Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this Earth. Eldon Tanner.

The voice of the conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it, but its also so cleare that it is impossible to mistake it. Madame Stael.

This is the true joy of life – that being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. That being a force of nature, instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live it is my privilege to ……….. for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die. For the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. Its sort of splendid torch which I’ve got to hold up for moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generation. George B Shaw

In general, man judge more from appearance than from reality. All men have eyes, few have the gift of penetration. Machiavelli

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James

In this world there is always a danger, for those who are afraid of it. G B Shaw.

We fear things in proportion to ignorance of them. Livy

An ignorant man mostly adores what he can’t understand. Cesare Lombioso.

We never understand, how little we need in this world until we see the loss of it. I M Daarie

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. Samuel Johnson.

What a man doesn’t understand, he doesn’t have. Goethe.

Basic beliefs in Emerson’s conception of life:

Ø Self-sufficiency

Ø Living in the present

Ø Individualism

Ø Subjectivity of good and evil

Ø Doctrine of compensation

Ø Recognition of correspondence between men and external world

Ø Self-knowledge as purpose of life.