At the age 20

At age 20, we worry about what others think of us.
At 40, we don't care what they think of us.
At 60, we discover they haven't been thinking about us at all.

- Jock Falkson

More thnigs you love

You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.

- Ethel Barrymore

Do Something Beyond

Unless you try to do something
beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Al big men are dreamers

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who hope that their dreams will come true.

- Woodrow Wilson

Great Desire!

Bad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life he is living, when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger.

- Phillips Brooks

Patience to accept frustration

Do not ask for fulfillment in all your life, but for patience to accept frustration. Do not ask for perfection in all you do, but for the wisdom not to repeat mistakes. Do not ask for more, before saying Thank-you for what you have already received.

- Brenda Short

Hidden treasure

To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.

- Akhenaton

Learn wisdom from failure

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

- Samuel Smiles

Too proud to weep

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom
when it becomes too proud to weep,
too grave to laugh, and
too selfful to seek other than itself

- Kahlil Gibran

Wisest person

The wisest person is not the one
who has the fewest failures
but the one who turns
failures to best account.

- Richard Grant

A butterfly

What the caterpillar calls the end,
the rest of the world calls a butterfly.

- Lao Tzu

Enough is Enough

There is no greater sin than desire,
No greater curse than discontent,
No greater misfortune than wanting something for oneself.
Therefore he who knows that enough is enough
will always have enough.

- Lao Tzu

Silent and uncreated

If you go searching for the Great Creator,
you will come back empty-handed.
The source of the universe is ultimately unknowable,
a great invisible river flowing forever
through a vast and fertile valley.
Silent and uncreated,
it creates all things.

- Lao Tzu

Have much and be confused

Yield and overcome;
Bend and be straight;
Empty and be full;
Wear out and be new;
Have little and gain;
Have much and be confused.

- Lao Tzu

Keep to the feminine

The feminine values are the fountain of bliss.
Know the masculine, Keep to the feminine.

- Lao Tzu

Knowledge creates doubt

Don't imagine that you'll discover
by accumulating more knowledge.
Knowledge creates doubt,
and doubt makes you ravenous
for more knowledge.
You can't get full eating this way.

- Lao Tzu

But never boast

Achieve results,
But never glory in them.
Achieve results,
But never boast.
Achieve results,
But never be proud.
Achieve results,
Because this is the natural way.

- Lao Tzu

Accept disgrace willingly

Accept disgrace willingly...
Accept being unimportant...
Surrender yourself humbly;
then you can be trusted to care for all things.
Love the world as your own self;
then you can truly care for all things.

- Lao Tzu

Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity

It is wrong to think that love comes from
long companionship and persevering courtship.
Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity
and unless that affinity is created in a moment,
it will not be created for years or even generations.

- Khalil Gibran

The secret of health

The secret of health
for both mind and body is
not to mourn for the past,
worry about the future,
or anticipate troubles,
but to live in the present moment
wisely and earnestly.

- The Buddha

Depend on no one

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
Never fear what will become of you,
depend on no one.
Only the moment you reject all help
are you freed.

- The Buddha

We become what we think

We are shaped by our thoughts;
we become what we think.
When the mind is pure,
joy follows like a shadow
that never leaves.

- The Buddha

Where are you going?

The simplest questions are the most profound.

Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?

Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.

- Richard Bach

What you already know

Learning is finding out what you already know,
Doing is demonstrating that you know it,
Teaching is reminding others
that they know it as well as you do.
We are all learners, doers, and teachers.

- Richard Bach

Nothing happens by chance

Nothing happens by chance, my friend...
No such thing as luck.

A meaning behind every little thing,
and such a meaning behind this.

Part for you, part for me,
may not see it all real
clear right now,
but we will, before long.

- Richard Bach

You are never given a dream

You are never given a dream
without also being given
the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.

- Richard Bach

What you already know

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you.
All they show is limitation.

Look with your understanding,
find out what you already know,
and you'll see the way to fly.

- Richard Bach

The Worst Lies We Tell

The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves.
We live in denial of what we do,
even what we think.
We do this because we're afraid.

- Richard Bach

If you love someone

If you love someone,
set them free.
If they come back
they're yours;
if they don't
they never were.

- Richard Bach