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There are only two ways to live your life…one is as though nothing is a miracle, the other is as if everything is.
- Albert Einstein
Everyone gets the experience,
some get the lesson.
- T.S. Eliot
There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience, and that is not learning from experience.
- Archiblad McLeish
Every object, every being,
is a jar full of delight.
Be a connoisseur.
- Rumi
We must be willing to let go of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell
You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people,
sometimes logic has to take a back seat to understanding.
- Akio Morito
Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;
And all good things are yours.
- Swedish Proverb
When spider webs unite,
they can tie up a lion.
- African Proverb
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
- Ralph Nader
With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.
- Muhammed Ali Jinnah
The world is round; it has no point.
- Adrienne Gusoff
I arise every morning torn between a desire to save the world and a desire to savor the world. That makes it hard to plan the day.
- E.B. White
You can observe a lot by watching.
- Yogi Berra
Strictly speaking, there are no enlightened people, there is only enlightened activity.
- Suzuki Roshi
Whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
- Max Ehrmann
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if I said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and common sense.
- Buddha
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
- Maya Angelou
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
- Nelson Mandela
There is no key to happiness, as the door is always open.
- Marc Gohres
The ultimate measure of a person is not where they stand in moments of comfort and convenience,
but where they stand during challenge and controversy.
- Martin Luther King. Jr
The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
- Joseph Campbell
Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
Learn as if you were to live forever.
- M. Gandhi
Life is Change.
Growth is Optional.
Choose Wisely.
- Karen Kaiser Clark
Learn all you can from the mistakes of others.
You won't have time to make them all yourself.
- Alfred Sheinwold
Choice comes in two flavours; you can decide what you want and then find it, or you can notice what you are doing and choose that.
- Tom Jackson
We either make ourselves
miserable or we make
ourselves strong.
The amount of work
is the same.
- Carlos Castaneda
Find a job you love and you will never work another day in your life.
- Confucius
Be the change you want to see in the world.
- M. Gandhi
Some people change when
they see the light, others
when they feel the heat.
- Caroline Schoeder
I can't understand why people are afraid of new ideas, I'm afraid of the old ones.
- John Cage
If I meet a moral person, I strive to be their equal. If I meet an immoral person, I reflect upon my own behaviour.
- Confucius
Leadership is the art of driving hard with a soft touch.
- Max DePree
Create each day anew.
- Morehei Ueshiba
People say I don’t take criticism very well, but I say, “What the heck do they know?”
- Groucho Marx
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
- Muhammad Ali
Some day they'll give a war, and nobody will come.
- Carl Sandburg
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world,
the master calls a butterfly.
- Chuang Tse
When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
- Mary Oliver
Live at the
empty heart of paradox.
I'll dance with you there,
cheek to cheek.
- Rumi
There is an important
difference between a
leader who is brilliant
and a brilliant leader.
- Robert Kegan
Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
- Susan Ertz
Why do you have to be a non-conformist like everyone else?
- James Thurmer
I think,
therefore I am.
I think.
- George Carlin
Perhaps we can start thinking of ourselves not as “human beings”, but as “human becomings.”
- Rob Brezsny
Fear is a habit,
and I am not afraid.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
Our institutions are transformed the moment we decide they are ours to create.
- Peter Block
Remember that no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
Keep a to-do list, but also
keep a not-to-do list.
- James Collins
I’m suspicious of anyone who has a strong opinion on a complicated issue.
- Scott Adams
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
- Jane Wagner/Lily Tomlin
Be realistic.
Plan for a miracle.
- Osho
Love all, trust a few.
Do wrong to none.
- William Shakespeare
You don’t have a soul.
You are a soul.
You have a body.
- C.S. Lewis
For the spiritual warrior, every moment is a challenge to be genuine,
and each challenge is delightful.
- Chogyam Trunga Rinpoche
How come every time I get stabbed in the back my fingerprints are on the knife?
- Jerry Harvey
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