Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
-Socrates

Don't wait for your ship to come in. Row out to meet it.
-Anonymous

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost;
When health is lost, something is lost;
When character is lost, all is lost!
-German Proverb

Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret ( Read more... )

It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls ( Read more... )

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
-Bernard Malamud

Intimacy means that we're safe enough to reveal the truth about ourselves in all its creative chaos. If a space is created in which two people are totally free to reveal their walls, then those walls, in time, will come down.
-Marianne Williamson

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If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
-Anonymous

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-Aristotle

[Some people] have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.
-A.H. Maslow

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If we examine every stage of our lives, we find that from our first breath to our last we are under the constraint of circumstances. And yet we still possess the greatest of all freedoms, the power of developing our innermost selves in harmony with the moral order of the Universe, and so winning peace at heart whatever obstacles we meet ( Read more... )

 Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens ( Read more... )

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

Look for a long time at what pleases you, and longer still at what pains you.
-Colette

Meditate, engage in daily prayers, read uplifting books, commune with Mother Nature--in some way try to remove yourself from the discord of the everyday world that invades ( Read more... )

 Rabbi Michal once said to his sons: “my life was blessed, because I never needed anything until I had it."
-Chasidic, 18th century

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
-Andrew Jackson

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.
-Ovid

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I thank You God for most this amazing day; for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes.
-e.e. cummings

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
-Unknown

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
-Sophocles

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The only people to get even with are those who have helped you.
-Anonymous

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
-Charles Varlet Marquis de La Grange

The highest wisdom is loving kindness.
-The Talmud

To be loved, be lovable.
-Ovid

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
-G.K. Chesterton

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