The arrow's worth lies in hitting the mark.
-Sanai

 I am part of all that I have met.

-Alfred Tennyson

A Deed knocks first at Thought

And then - it knocks at Will -

That is the manufacturing spot

-Emily Dickinson

Your bread is what the day brings with it.
-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

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

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

A threefold cord is not easily broken.
-Bible

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

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