The clearest water lies at the bottom of the well.
-William Douglas Horden
The arrow's worth
lies in hitting the mark.
-Sanai
Whatever is - is best.
Whatever Is - Is Best.
-Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Speak softly, for this is life, Life and my consciousness of it. -Fernando Pessoa
Inspiration follows aspiration.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Honor has the keenest sight.
-The Oculatum
We can put it in a formula: infinite gratitude to all things past; infinite service to all things present; infinite responsibility to all things future. -Huston Smith
Start with what is right
and you will never go wrong.
-Yogi Bhajan
The more you cultivate, The more you accomplish. -Deng Ming-Dao
If you wish to reach the highest,
begin at the lowest.
-Pulilius Syrus
If a man constantly aspires, is he not elevated? -Henry David Thoreau
And may you light on all things that you love. -Alfred Tennyson
Wisdom is knowing what to do next,
skill is knowing how to do it,
and virtue is in doing it.
-David Starr Jones
When I see I am nothing that is wisdom. When I see I am everything, that is love. My life is a movement between these two. -Nisargadatta
Whoever is merry and cheerful has always a good reason for so being, namely the very fact that he is so. -Arthur Schopenhauer
The flower and thorn
are on the same stem.
-Zen Graffiti
When you sow love, joy grows. -German Proverb
My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep.
-William Shakespeare
Do what you can
with what you have
where you are.
-Theodore Roosevelt
There is nothing more useful to a man that that which agrees with his own nature. -Benedict Spinoza
Knowledge, in truth,
is the great sun in the firmament.
Life and power are scattered
with all its beams.
-Daniel Webster
All things are noble in proportion to their fullness of life. -John Ruskin
Where you pleasure is, there is your treasure; where your treasure is, there is your heart; where your heart is, there is your happiness. -Augustine of Hippo
Nature I loved,
and next to Nature, Art.
-Walter Savage Landor
Love our principle, order our foundation, progress our goal. -Auguste Comte
To be fully alive
is to feel that
everything is possible.
-Eric Hoffer
Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows. -Henry David Thoreau
The path of love
and the path of insight
lead into the same garden.
-Stephen Mitchell
Nothing is more important
than to know the true value of each thing.
-Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
Always do more than is required of you.
-George S. Patton
All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain. -Epictetus
So powerful is the light of unity
that it can illuminate the whole earth.
-Baha'u'llah
A man is finally defined by what he does with his attention. -John Ciardi
You are the one who can stretch you own horizon. -Edgar F. Magnin
We are the doorway through which life unfolds. -Wu Wei
The arch never sleeps. -Indian Proverb
The bigger the front,
the bigger the back.
-Saying
The arrow's worth lies in hitting the mark.
-Sanai
If only I may grow:
firmer, simpler -
quieter, warmer.
-Dag Hammarskjold
Always begins
by degrees
-Emily Dickinson
Our greatest experiences
are our quietest moments.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
I cast my warmth around me and it is reflected in others. -Anais Nin
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. -Bertrand Russell
A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute. -Edward Gibbon
Reverence is simply the experience of accepting that all Life is, and of itself, of value. -Gary Zukav
Straight I came
and straight shall I return.
-Lalla
As long as you live,
keep learning how to live.
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Muddy water is best cleared
by leaving it alone.
-Alan Watts
The taste of things recovered is the sweetest honey we will ever know. -Paul Coelho
Each person's work is always a portrait of himself.
-Samuel Butler
Hasten slowly, and without losing heart, Put your work twenty times on the anvil. -Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Every noble work is at first impossible. -Thomas Carlyle
There is no way to push the river;
equally, you cannot hasten the harvest.
-Ralph Blum
Harmony is beauty and beauty is harmony. -Hazrat Inayat Khan
One resolution I have made,
and try always to keep, is this:
To rise above the little things.
-John Burroughs
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands. -Robert Persig
You cannot choose your battlefield,
The gods do that for you,
But you can plant a standard
Where a standard never flew.
-Nathalia Crane
The way of life is conscious and rhythmic. -Yogi Bhajan
A threefold cord
is not easily broken. -Bible
The dedicated life
is the only one worth living.
You must give
with your whole heart.
-Annie Dilliard
Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life. -Victor Hugo
The training which makes men
happiest in themselves
also makes them
most serviceable to others.
-John Ruskin
The meaning of life is to see.
-Hui-neng
Look within. The secret is inside you. -Hui-neng
Love tempered with wisdom
is the secret of life.
-Inscription on Greek Temple
I want to understand myself,
to understand others.
I want to be all that I am
capable of being.
-Katherine Mansfield
Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube. -William Arthur Ward
The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live. -Flora Whittemore
Man is nothing else
but that which he makes of himself.
-Jean-Paul Sartre
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do. -Epictetus
If you would create something, you must be something. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. -Arthur Schopenhauer
By wisdom a house is built
and by understanding it is established; by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches. -The Bible
That's the way things become clear.
All of a sudden.
And you realize how obvious
they've been all along.
-Madeleine L'Engle
Live in the world like water on a lotus leaf. -Yogaswami
If you frequently add little to little, it will become a lot. -Hesiod
I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came. -Abraham Lincoln
Things that belong together perfect one another
Nature and human nature are twins
-William Douglas Horden
We convince by our presence.
-Walt Whitman
The divine essence itself is love and wisdom. -Emanuel Swedenborg
The right way is the natural way
and the right instrument is the natural instrument.
-Plato
Nothing builds self-confidence and self-esteem like accomplishment. -Thomas Carlyle
All things that pass Are wisdom's looking-glass. -Christina Rossetti
I believe that unarmed truth
and unconditional love
will have the final word in reality.
-Martin Luther King Jr.
One step firmly taken makes easier all the others. -Aurobindo Ghose
Compassion is the outgrowth of love. Love is the outgrowth of understanding. Understanding is the outgrowth of reason. -Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye. -Samuel Johnson
The more we do, the more we can do. -William Hazlitt
Dignity is self-respect at perfect pitch. -Wu Wei
Truth is the vital breath of Beauty; Beauty the outward form of Truth. -Grace Aguilar
Everything good that life holds
is found in young feelings
and mature thoughts.
-Joseph Joubert
Good taste is the flower of good sense.
-Achille Poincelot
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination. -John Keats
Patience is essential. If you are a gardener you know that once you have put a plant in, you have to respect the laws of nature and wait. -Mother Meera
The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate of handling. -Henry David Thoreau
Give all that is in you
to the life you live.
-Christian Larson
We are most alive when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. -Thornton Wilder
A man sees the world with what he carries in his heart. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
...the more wisdom rises,
the more it approaches Love.
Love...and you will become wise....
-Maurice Maeterlink
Live constructively and live optimistically. -Alfred A. Montapert
The principal thing in this world
is to keep one's soul aloft.
-Gustave Flaubert
The shortest answer is doing. -George Herbert
Gladly accept the gifts
of the present hour.
-Horace
Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow. -Norman Vincent Peale
We pardon to the extent that we love. -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We behold what we are
and we are what we behold.
-Jan Ruysbroek
The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all. -Pablo Casals
One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul. -Henry David Thoreau
As the twig is bent, so is the tree inclined. -Alexander Pope
Speak only what is true, do only what is right. -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Virtue and genuine graces
in themselves speak
what no words can utter.
-William Shakespeare
The most important thing is to find out what is the most important thing. -D. T. Suzuki
The quieter you become, the more you can hear. -Anonymous
The art of progress
is to preserve order amid change
and to preserve change amid order.
-Alfred North Whitehead
And gain is gain, however small. -Robert Browning
The opus consists of three parts:
insight, endurance and action.
-Carl Jung
The most solid stone in the structure is the lowest one in the foundation. -Kahlil Gibran
If you wish to know the way up the mountain, you must ask the person who goes back and forth on it. -Reginald H. Blyth
All rising to a great place
is by a winding stair.
-Francis Bacon
All aglow in the work. -Virgil
We are our own measure.
-Deng Ming-Dao
Follow the grain
in your own wood.
-Howard Thurman
The main thing
is to keep the main thing
the main thing.
-Steven Covey
To measure the man
measure his heart.
-Malcolm Forbes
To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth. -Pearl Buck
If you want to know
anything thoroughly, teach it to others. -Tyron Edwards
If you want to know a thing, read that.
If you want to understand a thing, study that.
And if you want to master a thing, teach that.
-Yogi Bhajan
The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind. -Edna Wheeler Wilcox
Any landscape is the condition of the spirit. -Henri Frederic Amiel
There is no quality of human nature so nearly royal as the ability to yield gracefully. - Charles Conrad
Why not learn
to enjoy the little things -
there are so many of them.
-Anonymous
Reading is to the mind
what exercise is to the body.
-Richard Steele
When you come right down to it, the secret of having it all is loving it all. -Joyce Brothers
The pure principle of life which is in everyone and everything calls for reverent handling and approach. -Nilankantha Sri Ram
If we live truly,
we shall see truly.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The eye of wisdom is the eye of love. -Sivananda
When the flower blooms,
the bees come uninvited.
-Ramakrishna
The more complete a thing is, the more effective it is. -Baruch Spinoza
A happy life
is one which is in accord
with its own nature.
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The more things you do, the more you can do. -Lucille Ball
Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther. -Thomas Carlyle
If you want a quality,
act as if you already had it.
-William James
The perfect journey is circular -
the joy of departure
and the joy of return.
-Dino Basili
Wise to resolve and patient to perform. -Homer
Hasten slowly, and without losing heart, Put your work twenty times on the anvil. -Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
The Lamp burns bright
when wick and oil are clean.
-Helena P. Blavatsky
From a certain point onward there is no turning back. That is the point that must be reached. -Franz Kafka
Always think of
what you have to do as easy
and it will become so.
-Emile Coue
The pearl is in the oyster.
And the oyster
is at the bottom of the sea.
Dive deep.
-Kabir
The end of all knowledge is love.
-Sai Baba
Seek anew for it is there -The Oculatum
The last drop makes the cup run over. -Anonymous
Knowledge is life with wings. -Kahlil Gibran
A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread. -George Herbert
The greatest of all gifts
is the power to estimate things
at their true worth.
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld
What we see
depends mainly on what we look for.
-John Lubbock
See the end,
consider the consequences.
-Chilon
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
-Augustine of Hippo
Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life. -Truman Capote
Posssess those things no one can take from you. -Sextus
We invent what we love, and what we fear. -John Irving
A newspaperman wrote
asking me to send him my philosophy in a nutshell.
"Get out of whatever cage you happen to be in."
-John Cage
As a man is,
so he sees.
-William Blake
Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor. -David Hare
Beauty and Love are as body and soul. -Nuruddin Abdur Rahman Jami
If we are facing the right direction
all we have to do is keep walking.
-Buddhist Saying
Great things are done when men and mountains meet. -William Blake
Thus all below is strength,
and all above is grace.
-John Dryden
Nature is the revelation of God; Art is the revelation of man. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Believe there are no limits
but the sky.
-Cervantes
The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself. -Wallace Stevens
The greatest possession is self-possession. -Ethel Watts Mumford
All's love, yet all's law.
-Robert Browning
The longer I live, the more things I must complete. -William Ellery Channing
The biggest bowl
fills last.
-A Zen Garden
The nobler and more perfect a thing is,
the later and more slowly
does it come to maturity.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
That which comes slow comes solid. -Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
I shall take this harp of my life
I shall tune it to the notes of forever
-Rabindranth Tagore
When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself. -D. T. Suzuki
Be true to yourselves and useful to the journey. -Sidney Poitier
The fruits of the tree of knowledge are various;
he must be strong indeed who can digest all of them.
-Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
Your descendants shall gather your fruits. -Virgil
Live by intuition and inspiration
and let your whole life be Revelation.
-Eileen Caddy
All shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of things shall be well. -Julian of Norwich
Soft is the music that would charm forever. -William Wordsworth
