Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break”

“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.”

Before you speak, listen.
Before you write, think.
Before you spend, earn.
Before you invest, investigate.
Before you criticize, wait.
Before you pray, forgive.
Before you quit, try.
Before you retire, save.
Before you die, give.”

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it”

The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.”

We must become the change we want to see.”

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”

The more I read, the more I meditate; and the more I acquire, the more I am enabled to affirm that I know nothing”

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes”

Common sense is not so common.”

When its a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.”

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.”

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.”

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.”

Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair is a totally different thing. A marriage is a commitment to that which you are. That person is literally your other half. And you and the other are one. A love affair isn’t that. That is a relationship of pleasure, and when it gets to be unpleasurable , it’s off. But a marriage is a life commitment, and a life commitment means the prime concern of your life. If marriage is not the prime concern, you are not married.”

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.”

Life is too short to stress yourself with people who don't even deserve to be an issue in your life”

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”

You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.”

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”

Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers ~ strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength.”

The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.”

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.”

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them.”

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.”

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.”

The lack of money is the root of all evil.”

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.”

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.”

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.”

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”

You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own.”

Whatever you're ready for is ready for you.”

The only time you ever have in which to learn anything or see anything or feel anything, or express any feeling or emotion, or respond to an event, or grow, or heal, is this moment, because this is the only moment any of us ever gets. You're only here now; you're only alive in this moment.”

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.”

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.”

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”

You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.”

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.”

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.”

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”

Love is like a Rubix Cube, there are countless numbers of wrong twists and turns, but when you get it right, it looks perfect no matter what way you look at it”

There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.”

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”

“The pain that we cause is the cause of our pain.”

Finding the right Question is more valuable and rewarding than finding the right Answer.”

The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.”

The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.”

Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something”

But, if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself.”

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.”

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.”

The only difference between a rich person and poor person is how they use their time”

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.”

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.”

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others”

If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.”

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.”

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom”

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world”

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.”

Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul”

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.”

I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received”

“One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.”

“I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.”

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.”

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.”

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one”

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.”

“I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.”

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart”

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.”

To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.”

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers”

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.”

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.”

Don't rely on someone else for your happiness and self worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can't love and respect yourself - no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are - completely; the good and the bad - and make changes as YOU see fit - not because you think someone else wants you to be different.”

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.”

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.”

“Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.”

Our life is made by the death of others.”

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.”

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.”

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”

You have to risk going too far to discover just how far you can really go.”

Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.”

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.”

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight”

We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.”

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say”

“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.”

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.”

Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak. And it is a solemn and weighty responsibility, and not lightly to be flung aside at the bullying of pulpit, press, government, or the empty catchphrases of politicians. Each must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, and which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your convictions is to be an unqualified and inexcusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let man label you as they may. If you alone of all the nation shall decide one way, and that way be the right way according to your convictions of the right, you have done your duty by yourself and by your country- hold up your head! You have nothing to be ashamed of.”

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.”

Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.”

We've gotten to the point where everybody's got a right and nobody's got a responsibility.”

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”

“The wisest have the most authority”

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere”

Football is like life -- it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.”

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times”

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all”

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest”

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.”

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.”

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.”

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.”

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.”

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.”

I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.”

“If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the world belongs to you.”

Never use a cannon to kill a fly.”

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.”

Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean.”

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be”

Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.”

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still”

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”

When you do more than what you are paid for, you will soon be paid more for what you do.”

People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.”

If you do not change the direction in which you are going, you will end up where you are headed.”

You cannot tailor-make the situations in life, but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations”

Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage”

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.”

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want”

“A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake.”

The way you see people is the way you treat them.”

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.”

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.”

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.”

When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self.”

Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.”

“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude

“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”

“If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.”

Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed.”

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”

“Things to remember:
1) The worth of character;
2) The improvement of talent;
3) The influence of example;
4) The joy of origination;
5) The dignity of simplicity;
6) The success of perseverance.”

“You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.”

“You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.”

Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.”

You must do the thing you think you cannot do”

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.”

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.”

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”

Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.”

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall”

By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the most bitter.”

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”

If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.”

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.”

If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything.”

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.”

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”

“Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time”

So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health.”

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.”

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.”

We are the authors of our own disasters”

Live your own life, for you will die your own death”

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his greatest surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't”

Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.”

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.”

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.”

Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all.”

The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.”

The only people without problems are those in cemeteries”

Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.”

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.”

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”

“I had no shoes and complained, until I met a man who had no feet.”

Blaming your faults on your nature does not change the nature of your faults”

What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.”

Write your own destiny, or someone else will scribble your fate for you.”

Meeting you is Fate...Becoming your friend is a choice...But falling in love with you - is beyond anyone's control.”

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.”

How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.”

“A man must know his destiny… if he does not recognize it, then he is lost. By this I mean, once, twice, or at the very most, three times, fate will reach out and tap a man on the shoulder… if he has the imagination, he will turn around and fate will point out to him what fork in the road he should take, if he has the guts, he will take it.”

Some of us believe that we decide our fate, but others believe fate has already been decided for us. Which ever we believe in, one thing we must have is faith.”

No such thing as a 'PERFECT WORLD'. Everything happend's for a reason, it's called 'FATE'. In the Spiritualist's eye's 'FATE' is the ultimate power that predetermine's our destiny and event's.”

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.”

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.”

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it”

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.”

Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.”

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.”

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more”

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say”

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself.”

The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.”

The first duty of love is to listen.”

The price of greatness is responsibility.”

Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.”

It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.”

Be the change you want to see in the world.”

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.”

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”

“You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.”

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.”

“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”

“If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.”

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”

True friends stab you in the front.”

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.”

A true friend sees the good in everything, and brings out the best in the worst of things.”

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.”

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart”

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.”

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.”

A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.”

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.”

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.”

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.”

True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.”

“They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.”

Don't rely on someone else for your happiness and self worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can't love and respect yourself - no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are - completely; the good and the bad - and make changes as YOU see fit - not because you think someone else wants you to be different.”

If you love someone put their name in a circle not a heart, because a heart can be broken, a circle goes on forever.”

Some girls aren't searching for 'Mr. Right' they are looking for Mr. Right Now.”

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one”

A broken heart never fully mends, it only endures.”

The heart is the only broken instrument that works.”

Men kick friendship around like a football but it doesn't seem to break. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.”

A friendship that can end never really began”

Experience are the glasses of the mind”

There are two things over which you have complete dominion, authority and control ð your mind and your mouth”

For tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today”

For tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today”

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.”

Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water”

Sweep first before your own door, before you sweep the doorsteps of your neighbors”

The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm”

Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees”

He who cannot keep silence cannot speak”

A life without love is like a year without summer.”

What breaks in a moment may take years to mend.”

Eyes that do not cry, do not see”

Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.”

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.”

It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped”

Every decision you make—every decision—is not a decision about what to do. It’s a decision about Who You Are. When you see this, when you understand it, everything changes. You begin to see life in a new way. All events, occurrences, and situations turn into opportunities to do what you came here to do.”

If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything.”

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.”

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing”

The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.”

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows public opinion”

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”

We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision.”

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”

Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.”

Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.”

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.”

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.”

The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.”

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.”

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them”

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

“What man's mind can create, man's character can control

“The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around”

There's a way to do it better - find it.”

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.”

Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.”

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.”

Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.”

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.”

There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.”

Wisdom is the daughter of experience.”

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.”

Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.”

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”

There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.”

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence”

“Marriage is a great institution. No family should be without it.”

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.”

Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.”

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.”

The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.”

Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage”

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.”

“If you were married by a judge. You should have asked for a jury.”

Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.”

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.”

To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up”

To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.”

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make / not just on your wedding day, but over and over again / and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.”

Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair is a totally different thing. A marriage is a commitment to that which you are. That person is literally your other half. And you and the other are one. A love affair isn’t that. That is a relationship of pleasure, and when it gets to be unpleasurable , it’s off. But a marriage is a life commitment, and a life commitment means the prime concern of your life. If marriage is not the prime concern, you are not married.”

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person”

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.”

A lie stands on one leg, truth on two”

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.”

We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing!”

“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest”

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”

“The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.”

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.”

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you”

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”

The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”

We are more than what we do . . . much more than what we accomplish . . . far more than what we possess.”

There is one thing we can do better than anyone else: we can be ourselves.”

“We must be silent before we can listen.
We must listen before we can learn.
We must learn before we can prepare.
We must prepare before we can serve.
We must serve before we can lead.”

Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.”

Love is more than a noun -- it is a verb; it is more than a feeling -- it is caring, sharing, helping, sacrificing.”

Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hate. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.”

The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.”

“Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change.
Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding.”

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”

“If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.”

“The truth is not changing, rather it is being revealed.”

I believe that we are more 'awake' and 'aware' when we are asleep, than when we are 'aware' that we are 'awake'.”

The fall of man is caused by the seductiveness of Inspiration, Pleasure, Natural Beauty, Material Instinct and their refusal too cooperate with their counterparts, Imagination, Inelligence, Passion, and Instinct.”

“Trying to describe our deeper sense of self is much like describing a hole. How would you describe the hole itself without describing its surroundings?”

We try to keep our lives above the raging waters of turbulance... We try to swim frantically out of this whirlpool of frustration and emotional anguish, blameless chains reign over our nameless game of survival and pain. We must work to gain, we must toil and train, for I promise the sun will shine again. The waters will subside, and life will abide to the brightest of times. God bless the subconscious mind!”

The body is wounded by the mind that inflicts damage unto itself.”

“Days and nights are the heartbeat of earth, seasons are the breath, the trees are the lungs, and the oceans are the circulatory system.”

I do not claim to have the answers. All I claim to have is an open mind that is willing to adapt to new information as it becomes available.”

“Emotion is Energy in Motion.”

“The struggle continues until it suddenly hits you, the greatest strugle of all, is the struggle within you.”

“The greatest sense of inner peace is not having to prove oneself”

“Appearance and reality are polar opposites”

Fear freezes ones will to grow, the flame of truth is the only thing that will revive this frozen state of being.”

When you can see without your eyes, you will then see past the disguise.”

“Lust is Love without the vital ingredient: Passion.”

“If your roots are forgotten then your fruits will rotten.”

“The pain that we cause is the cause of our pain.”

“Finding the right Question is more valuable and rewarding than finding the right Answer.”

“If life keeps asking you the same questions....You are NOT learning the lessons...”

“The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.”

“The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.”

“God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them.”