I
slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life
was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
Rabindranath
Tagore
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more
painful than the risk it took to bloom.
Anais Nin
When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary
project, all your thoughts break their bonds; your mind transcends
limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and
you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces,
faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to
be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.
Patanjali
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that
no person can sincerely try to help another without also helping
oneself.
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if
you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among
the sweetest in a person’s life.
Seneca
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also
what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill
The only feelings that do not heal are the ones you hide.
Henri Nouwen
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the
position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which
he or she has overcome while trying to succeed.
Booker T.
Washington
The greater danger is not that our hopes are too high and we fail
to reach them, it’s that they are too low and we do.
Michelangelo
To try is to risk failure. But risk must be taken because the greatest
hazard of life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing
does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and
sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, live, and
love.
Leo Buscaglia
A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well
that no one at all would find fault with what he has done.
Cardinal Newman
All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed. Second,
it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Just as a gem cannot be polished without friction, so a man or woman
cannot grow in greatness without trials.
Chinese Proverb
The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful
pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
Epictetus
Great Spirit, we ask for strength and you give us difficulties,
which make us strong.
Native American
prayer
What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step
to something better.
Wendell Phillips
Simplify, simplify.
Henry David
Thoreau
He who fears something gives it power over him.
Arab Proverb
When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
African Proverb
When you place your priority on listening rather than speaking,
you become an irresistible force for good in the world.
Lee Glickstein
The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.
William James
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding
of ourselves.
Carl Jung
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of
your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Napoleon Hill
International war is the sum total of millions of individual wars,
raging in the minds of the people, between what is selfish and what
is selfless. To the extent that you and I develop selflessness in
our own hearts, to that extent we contribute to peace in our family,
community, country, and world.
Eknath Easwaran
The best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.
Andy Rooney
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