Lord Chesterfield: “Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.”
Joseph Addison: “True happiness…arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self.”
Ramsay Clark: “Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let’s love turbulence and use it for change.”
Blaise Pascal: “We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart.”
Nancy White: “If we can connect in some tiny way with a human that doesn’t agree with us, then maybe we won’t blow up the planet.”
Leonardo da Vinci: “Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.”
Sir William Osler: “Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.”
Anonymous: “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”
Philip Adams: “It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don’t. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.”
Og Mandino: “Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.”
Plutarch: “The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.”
Carl Jung: “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves.”
Budd Schulberg: “Isn’t everyone a part of everyone else?”
John Muir: “Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.”
Joseph Chilton Pearce: “To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”
Publilius Syrus: “Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.”
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: “A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.”
Abraham Lincoln: “You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”
Eugene S. Wilson: “Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.”
Joan Lunden: “Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.”
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