Punishment is the fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of pleasure which concealed it. Emerson

Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side of nature the sweet without the other side, the better.

We can no more have thing and get the sensual good, by itself, than we can get an inside that shall have no outside or a light without a shadow.

As no man has ever had a point of pride – that was not infurious to him, so no man has ever a defect that was not somewhere made useful to him.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Every stroke will be repaid. The longer the payment withholden, better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer.

Until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you cannot succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. Warren Bennis.

Today we come across an individual who behaves like an automation, who does not know a understand himself, and the only person he knows is the person he is supposed to be, whose meaningless ……… has replaced communication speech, whose synthetic smile has replaced genuine laughter, and whose sense of dull despair has taken the place of genuine pain. Eric Fronon

One secret act of self-denial, one sacrifice of inclination of duty, is worth all the mere good thoughts, waxen feelings, passionate prayers in which idle men indulge themselves. John Aeney

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend. Socrates

It is a good idea to be ambitious, name goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in way of treating people with kindness and decency. The point is not that they will then be nice to you. It is that you will feel better about yourself. Robert Solon.

Bear in mind that brains and learning like muscle and physical skill are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character.

Antoni Sealia.

We don’t know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don’t know it history, yet we bear it with exalted fidelity. We merge with it, we like it, we are ridiculously proud of it, as if we had thought it up ourselves in a moment of brilliant inspiration. Milan Kundera

When you don’t know what you want, you often end up where you don’t want to be. Bob Greene.

As a physician who has been deeply privileged to share the most profound moment of people’s lives, including their final moments. Let me tell you a secret. People facing death don’t think about what degrees they have earned, what positions they have accumulated.

At the end, what really matters – and is a good measure of a past life – is who you loved and who loved you. The circle of love is everything.

Much of the vitality in a friendship lies in the honoring of differences not simply in the employment of similarities. James L Frevicks

Man, like bullets go farthest when they are smoothest. Jean Paul Richter.

A sure way not to fail is to determine to succeed. Sheidan

If you want to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise – counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. Addison.

Never one thing and seldom one person can make for a success. It takes a number of them merging into a perfect whole. Marie Dressler.

Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will. Cromwell.

Strength is born in the deep silence of long – suffering hearts; not amidst joy.

Hemians.

Three things ought to be considered before some things are spoken – manner, place and time. Southey.

Solitude shows us what we should be, society shows us what we are. Cecil

Solitude and company may be allowed to take turns; one creates in us the love of mankind; other of ourselves. Solitude relives us when we are sick of company, and conversation when we are weary of being alone, so that cures the other. There is no man so miserable as he that is at a loss how to use his time. Seneca

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb, time may heal the wound but the loss cannot be repaired. Southey.

In solitude mind gains strength and leans to learn upon itself. In the world it seeks strength or accepts of a few treacherous supports – the feigned compassion of one, the flattery of second, the civilities of third, the friendship of fourth; they are deceive and being the mind back to retirement, reflection and books. Sterne.

Sincerity is to speak as we think, to do as we pretend and profess, to perform what we promise, and really to be what we would seem and appear to be. Tilloston.

False friends are like shadows, keeping close to us in sunshine and leaving is the instant we walk into shade.

Borce.

A man is what the tides and winds make him. Jim Tully.

We love ourselves not withstanding our faults and we ought to love our friends in the manner. Cyrus

If noble actions are the substance of life, good sayings are its ornament and guide. C Simons

No life is so hard that you can’t make it easier by the way you take it. E Glasgow

In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail. Longinus

Occasions do not make either strong or weak, by they show what he is. Thomas Kempis.

The weak sinews become strong by their conflict with difficulties. Hope is born in the long might if watching and tears. It visits us in defeat and disappointment, amid the consciousness of earthly fraility and the crumbling tombstones of morality. F A Chapin

Man must be disappointed with lesser things in life before he can fully comprehend the value of greater.

Bulwer.

Every duty which we omit, observes some truth which we should have known. Ruskin

Men spends his life in reasoning on the past, complaining of the present and trembling for

the future. Rivnol.

He who increases, the endearments of life, increases at the same time the terrors of death. Young

Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun. Augila Evans

There is enough pleasure in life to make us wish to live, and pain enough to reconcile us to death when we can live no longer. Anon

To make good use of life, one should have in youth the experience of old age and in old age, the yough of life and vigor of youth. Stanslans.

We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from the past errors and for the purpose of profiting by deer bought experience. Washington.

Integrity is the first step to true – greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places cost self denial in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious and yet the universe will yet do it homage. C Simmons.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure. Edward Eggleston.

Never despair. If you do, work on in despair. Burke.

It is an old lesson – a worthy purpose, patient energy for it’s a accomplishment, a resoluteness undaunted for fear of what may happen, then success. Punshton

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don’t trust enough.

Frank Crane.

Hating people is like burning down your house to get rid of a rat. Fosdick

Give me love and work – these two only. William Morris.

Man have sight, women have insight. Victor Hugo.

No man has a prosperity so high or firm but that two or three words can dishearten it; and there is no calamity which right words will not begin to redress. Emerson

The saddest failure in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.

E P Whipple

Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln. Bruce Durton.

Where there is no hope, there can be no endeavor. Johnson.

The rays of happiness are like those of light colorless when unbroken. LongFellow

There is no greater grief than remember the days of joy when misery is at hand. Dante

Everybody reads his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance away from the door. Saul Bellow.

The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast and you miss all you traveling for.

Louis L’Amour

In this world, the best ones are those most tired, most troubled and most distressed. Crabbe

Failure at something? Good!!

Failure again? Excellent!!

You are lucky devil you know ……………

To be learning from the best teacher.

In the whole world ………

Because that’s what failure really is ….

A teacher ….

A rung in the ladder,

A clever device to test your talent,

Your courage, your thirst for success,

And if you preserve the push,

And hand on long enough and grit your teeth,

And still manage to smile,

You’ll bask in the sunshine,

What’s more, you’ll sleep well at might. Anon

It is not what a man gets, but what a man is, that he should think of. He should first think of this character and then his condition, for if he has the former he need have no fear of latter.

Affliction comes to us all not that we be sad but sober, not to make us sorry, but wise; not to make us despondent but by its darkness fresh us, as night freshes the day; not to impoverish but to enrich us as the plough enriches the soil.

How fast we learn a day of sorrow; scripture shines out in a new effulgence. Every verse seems to contain a sunbeam, every promise stands out in illuminated splendor. Things hard to understand become in a moment.

Too many of our prejudices are the pyramids upside down. They rest on tiny, trivial incidents, but they spread upward and outward until they fill our minds. William Martin

There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a country. A fine landscape is like a piece of music, must be taken at the right temp. Even a bicycle is too fast. Paul Scott.

Wisdom doesn’t automatically cames with old age. Nothing dose – except wrinkles. Its true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place. Abigail Buren

Put in before them brightly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and above all accurately so they will be guided by its lightly. Joseph Pulitzer.

Nothing last forever, not even your troubles. Arnold Glasgow.

The only guide to a man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very important to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of one hopes and calculations; but with this shield, however one fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor. Winston Churchill.

Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is.

William Jay.

A metaphor can illuminate but all too often is an excuse for not taking a closer look. Lee Hurlington.

Ideas are the raw material of progress. Everything first takes shape in the form of an idea. But an idea in itself is worth nothing. An idea, like a machine must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything. The men who have won fame and fortune through having an idea are those who devoted every ounce of strength and every dollar they mustier to putting it into operation. B C Forbes

Its when you seen away that you’re most liable to stumble. Casey Robinson

Every person has the right to fail. Virginia Sahr.

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. Its the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. Thomas Paine

Work is love made visible. Kahlil Gibran

You can handle people more successfully by enlisting their feelings than by convincing their reason.

Paul P Parker

The real act of discovery is not in finding new lands, but in seeing with new eyes. Marcel Pronst.

Most people get married believing a myth – that marriage is a box full of all the things they have longed for companionship, intimacy, sexual fulfillment, friendship. The truth is the marriage, at the start, is an empty box. You must put something in before you take something out. There is not love in marriage, love is in the people and people put in into marriage. There is no romance in marriage, people put in into marriage. There is no romance in marriage, people have to infuse it into their marriage.

A couple must learn the art and form the habit of giving, loving, serving, praising – keeping the box full. If you take out more than you put in, the box is empty. J Allen Peterson

A man’s success is made up of failures, because he experiments and ventures everybody and the more falls he gets, moves faster on …. I have heard that in horsemanship he is not the good rider until he is thrown, then he will not be haunted any longer by the terror that he shall stumble, and will ride whither he is bound.

To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. Soren Kienkegaard

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of more importance. Thomas Huxley.

There is no joy in life without joy in work. Thomas Acquinas

Every moment some form gives perfect in hand or face; some love at the hills or the sea is choicer than the rest; some mood of passion or insight or intellectual excitement is irresistibly real and attractive to us – for that moment only. Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to be seen in them by the finest senses? How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy? To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.

All labors that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. Martin L King Jr

Your work is to discover your work, and then will all your heart to give yourself. Buddha.

A capacity for childlike wonder carried into adult life typifies the creative person. Kaiser News.

No matter how deep a study you make what you really have to rely on is your own intuition and when it comes down to it. You really don’t know what’s going to happen until you do it. Matsushita.

When riches begin to come, they come so quickly, in such great abundance, that one wonders where they have been hiding during all these years. Napoleon Hill.

Nothing needs to be the way it is if its not the way you want it to be.

There are only two things which unites people – fear and interest. Napoleon.

I bargained with life for a penny and life would pay no more,

However I begged at evening, when I counted my scanty store.

For life is just employer,

He gives you what you ask,

But once you have set the wages,

Why, you must bear the task.

I worked for a menial’s hire,

Only to learn, dismayed, I

That any wage I had asked for life,

Life would have willingly paid. Anonymous.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of it. Mark Twain

Uncertainty is related to distrust in yourself. Feeling that you are inadequate to deal with that mysterious problem that is threatening you. There is no fear if you have a compassionate relationship with yourself, because then you know what you are doing. Chongyan Tungpa.

The real world is not easy to live in, its slippery, its rough. Without the most clear eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed. Clarence Day

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the preferably sudden satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree. Sigmund Freud.

None who have been always free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom for those wha are not free. Pearl S Buck

Power said to the world, “You are mine.”

The world kept it prisoner on her throne.

Love said to the world, “I am thine.”

The world gave it the freedom of her home. R B Tagore.

When we trust as far as we can, we find ourselves able to trust a little further. Mark Gibbard.

There is something better is possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service, that is not easy, to resist ourselves that one hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against. Woodrow Wilson

We may fail of our happiness strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgment our chance and capabilities. Agnes Repplier.

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out on the pleasure.

Russel Baker.

A right exterior conduct really has its secret in a true interior life. Fr. Andrew

Wealth and honor acquired contrary to righteousness are to we like passing cloud. Confusious.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill,

Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt,

Chase after money and serenity, and your heart will never unclench,

Care about people’s approval and you will be their prisoner

Do your work and step back, the only faith to serenity.

Moral courage has rewards that timidity can never imagine. B Graham.

He who stands on his tiptoe does not stand firm,

He who rushes ahead does not go far,

He who tries to sine dims his own light,

He who defines himself cannot really define who he is

He who has power over others cannot empower himself,

He who clings to his work will create nothing that endures Just do your job, and then let go.

Remember that we often fail because we try for something bigger than ourselves and that is what we ought to do. Ardis Whitman

If you stand up to your difficulties, very often your difficulties will not stand up to you. N V Peale.

Each of us has, in his unconscious mind, power, strength and courage past all ………………., sometimes we fail to use this strength because we don’t know it is there. Sometimes we delude ourselves into thinking we don’t need it. Sometimes we block it with fear or guilt or tension. But it is most assuredly there.

Dr. Smiley Blanton.

I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist. Billy Joel.

Beauty and the way it blooms are not glimpsed in haste, nor formed among clamoring crowds or a hundred things fast trampled underfoot. Solitude repose and silence are part of their gestation, and if thoughts of art born in a flash, they eliminate a long slow incubation. J Leclerg & J Rieper.

Whether one feels well depends on how much one is in harmony with oneself and one's surroundings. And it has noting to do with age. As a general rule, we feel well when we have the amount of problems we are able to cope with. If we have fewer we are bored; if we have more, we are overwhelmed there is a fine line between being bored and being overwhelmed, a line that we should traverse like a high wire stretching from birth to death, preferably so that we never lose our balance. Jane Brody.

The old need our heart, we need their light. Mary Pipher.

Who smiles scores a point in the game of happiness. Mario Sensa N

A poor man with hope lives better than a rich man without it. Anonymous.

Time is what we want most,

But what alas! We use worst. William Penn.

People don’t like goodness because it is transparent like water and air; only if its running out does it become noticeable. Lazlo Nemeth.

You’ve removed most of the roadblocks to success when you’ve learned the difference between motion and direction. Bill Copeland.

No idea has been generated except in a single human mind …….. no matter how youi toss this thought around or how you add to it by organization, the fact remains that every idea is the product of a single brain.

Ernest Berger.

For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe. Larry Eisenberg.

We are all in favor of progress provided we can have it without change. Morrie Brickman

Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but doesn’t get you anywhere. Evan Esar

When people are free to do anything they want, they usually imitate each other. Eric Hoffer.

The cynic who sneers at human nature is probably speaking from self-knowledge. Evan Esar

Horse sense is what a horse has that keeps him from betting on people. W C Fields

Time, like a snowflake disappears while we’re trying to decide what to do with it. St. Louis Bugle.

The rapture of pursuit is the prize. H W Longfellow

The man who never alters his opinion, is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. Walter Kelly

I do the very best. I know how – the very best I can, and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out alright, what is said against me won’t amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference. A Lincoln

All I want is a room somewhere, far away from cold night air;

With one enormous chair …. Oh, wouldn’t it be lovely. Alan Jay Lerner.

For the things than men deem the highest good are riches, fame or sensual pleasure …. The more we have the more we want it. The love of fame, comples us to order our lives by the opinion of others. If a thing is not loved no quarrels will arise concerning it, no sadness will be felt if it perishes, no envy if another has it, no disturbances of the mind. All these spring from love of things that pass away. But the love of a thing eternal and infinite fills the mind wholly with joy, and is unmingled with sadness. Therefore, it is greatly to be desired and to be sought with all our strength. Baruch Spinoza.

Regrets are as personal as fingerprints. Margaret C Banning

Hold a picture of yourself long and you steadily enough in your mind’s eye and you will be drawn toward it … great living starts with a picture held in your imagination of what you would like to do or be. Henry Fosdick

Never confuse your mistakes with your value as a human being. You are perfectly creative, valuable and a worthwhile person simply because you live. And no amount of triumphs and tribulations can change that. Unconditional self – acceptance is the core of a peaceful mind. And with a peaceful mind, you will have cleared the greatest creative hurdle. Michael LeBoeuf

Each person’s life is liked as a series of conversations. Deborah Tannon

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses knowledge,

Even the stone of the fruit must break, that is heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain,

And could you keep heart in wonder at the daily miracles of life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy, heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over the fields.

And you would watch with serenity through the winter of grief.

Much of your pain is self chosen. Kahlil Gibran

It is the bitter portion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility. K G on Pain.

Let these be your desires –

To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.

To know the pain of too much tenderness.

To be wounded by your own understanding of love;

And to breed willingly and joyfully.

To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of living;

To rest(?) at the noon hour and meditate loves ecstasy;

To return home at eventide with gratitude;

And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.

K G on Love.

It is respectable to have no illusions – and sad – and profitable and dull. Joseph Conrad

Waiting is worse than knowing. Grief tends the heart clearly, that it may begin to heal; waiting shreds the spirit. M Llywelyn

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but years after, we know it was much later. Mignon McLaughlin

Human beings are born with just two basic fears. One is the fear of loud noises. The other is the fear of falling. All the other fears must be learnt. Ronald Road.

Middle years of marriage are most crucial. Early spouses want each other and in late years they need each other. Rebecca Tilly.

Is there any miracle on Earth to compare with that of discovering a new friend, or having that friend discover you? So much is at stake but I will gladly risk everything to give a promising relationship a chance.

Alex Noble.

Time is nature’s way of preventing everything from happening at once. Anon

About the only time losing is more fun is when you’re fighting temptation T W

Many things such as loving, going to sleep or behaving unaffectedly are done worst when we try hardest to do them. C S Lewis

Bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds undone. Harriet Stowe

You may be disadvantaged in many ways, one of them is not having had to struggle. William Batten

After several thousand years, we have advanced to the point where we bolt our doors and windows and then ..... on our burglar alarms, while the jungle natives sleep in open doored houses.

Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach. Bob Goddare

Quite often we change jobs, friends and spouses, without changing ourselves. Akbari Jetha.

The finest and happiest years of our lives were not when all the debts were paid and till the trying and difficult experiences had passed and we had settled comfortably with no mortgage. Life isn’t having it made, its getting it made. If we were ever unlucky enough to have it made, we will be the spectators, not the participants in life. With each act something in you grows and is strengthened. William Kickland

To make the right beginning is half victory. To begin with pure thoughts, starting rectitude, unselfish purpose, noble aims, and an incorruptible conscience – that is to start. To put first things first, so that all other thing will follow in order, making life simple, beautiful, successful and peaceful. James Allen.

And from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, and then from hour to hour we rot and rot. There by hangs a tale.

Shakespeare.

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it we must direct our lives in such a way as to please the fancy of men, avoiding what they dislike and seeking what is pleasing to them. Spinoza

Do not pray for easy lives, pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal for your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work will not be a miracle, you shall be a miracle.

Philip Brooks

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind, privation trains and strengthens it. Disreali

The opening of the doors is a mystic act; it has in it some flavor of the unknown. Some sense of moving into a new moment, new pattern of human rigmarole. It includes the highest glimpses of mortal gladness: reunions, the bliss of lovers long parted, reconciliations. Even in sadness the opening of a door may be …….. relief; it changes and redistributes human forces. Christopher Morley

If you don’t’ have a leg to stand on, you can’t put your foot down. Dave Weinbawn

Most people have stopped listening long before they become hard of hearing. B R K Bauma.

Dream your dream and follow your own star. There wouldn’t be a heaven full of stars if we were all meant to wish on the same one. There will always be dreams grander and humbler than your own. But there will never be a dream exactly like your won, for you are unique and more wondrous than you know. Believe in your dream and just do your best; for there are no short cuts on the way to a dream. So give all that you have to all that you do.

And above all things, believe in yourself. Because this is all your dream asks of you, but this is everything.

Linda Sten.

Life isn’t fair. That’s a hard thing to find out, but sooner or later, everyone does. Still, I always feel sad when someone I care about, like you ahs to face such a difficult time. You dindn’t cause it. You didn’t deserve it and there’s no easy way to fix it. You simply have to live through it. As time goes by, youll rise above it. I know because I know you. The things that happen around you can’t change the qualities within you. What happened to you isn't fair but I believe someday you’ll discover there’s a meaning in it. A meaning that will have a purpose in your life. You can’t even imaging right now. Hold onto these thoughts until then, and remember. I am with you along the way. Barbar Loots.

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet. Issac Singer

Brilliance is like a four wheel drive, it enables one to get stuck in even more remote places. Garrison Keillor

I learnt from experience that if there was something lacking, it might turn up if I went after it, saved up for it, waked for it, but almost never if I just waited for it. Its not the sugar that makes the tea sweets, it’s the stirring. Sam Levenson.

Everyman should learn before he dies where he running from, to and why. Anon.

We are designed to learn by trail and error. We are brought up to think nobody should make mistakes. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn’t. Buckminister Fuller

I don’t divide the world into weak and strong, successes and failures, those who make it and those who don’t. I divide the world into those who learn and those who don’t.

There are people who learn, who are open to what happens around them, those who listen, who hear lessons. When they do something wrong, they don’t do it again. And when they do something that works a little bit, they do it even better and harder the next time. The question is not to ask whether you are a success or a failure, its to ask whether you are a learner or a non-learner. Carole Hyatt.

You can learn much about life from a drought’s game; surrender one to take two, don’t make 2 moves at a time, move up, not down and when you reach the top, you may move as you like. Hasidie Rabbi

Limited results count more than unlimited expectations. Harold Edgerton

Laughter is the shortest distance between 2 people. Victor George.

If you want to remain worthy of the education you received, try above all to keep your spirit open and awake. There is nothing more disheartening than a well-stocked cranium.

Confidence, like art, doesn’t come from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions.

Earl Gary Stevens.

There’s a difference between interest and commitment. When you are interested in doing something, you do it only when circumstances permit. When you’re committed to something, you accept no excuse, only results.

Art Turock.

If you’re still talking about what you did yesterday, you haven’t done much today.

No situation is so bad that losing your temper won’t make it worse.

Taking a break in the middle of the job isn’t half as relaxing as taking one at the end of it.

It is not possible to appreciate courage until the danger that brought it into being has been experienced.

Jim Corbett.

Everything can be taken away from a man, except the ability to choose the attitude in any given set of circumstances. Victor Frankl.

Never be haughty to the humble, and never be humble to the haughty. Jefferson Davis.

When you learn to trust your inner perception you hardly need a guide. Bach.

Character comes from following our highest sense of right, from trusting ideals without being since they’ll work. One challenge our adventure provides is to use above dead system – wars, religions, nations, destructions – to refuse to be a part of them and to express instead the highest selves we know how to be. Bach.

Examples from every other life are for us to see, life works finished and unfinished, guiding and warning.

Bach.

When its time to die, make sure all you have to do is just die. Anon

It’s a shallow life that doesn’t give a person a few sears. Garrison Keillor

The tree in the mountain takes whatever the weather brings. If it has any choice at all, it is in putting down roots as deeply as possible. Corrie Ten Boon

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. Churchill.

Before spring becomes beautiful, its ugly, nothing but mud and muck. I love the fact that the word ‘humus’ comes from the same root that gives rise to the word ‘humility’. It helps me understand that the humiliating events of life the events that leave mud on my fall, may create a fertile soil in which something new can grow.

Parker Parlmer.

Love me the most when I deserve it the least because that’s when I need it the most. Anon

If you have made mistakes, even the most serious ones, there is always another chances for you.

What we call failure is not falling down, but staying down. Mary Pictord

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort, of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them. Keep what is worth keeping and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Death is final separation from all we have worked for, all that we have built up all that is near and dear to us. It’s bad that dying is the last thing we do. It could teach us so much about living. Robert Herhold

As long as I have a want, there is a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. Shaw.