My Treasury of Quotes

“Never be bullied into silence,

never allow yourself to be made a victim.
Accept no ones definition of your life: define yourself.”
~ Harvey Fierstein ~

When all the trees have been cut down, when all the animals have been hunted, when all
the waters are polluted, when all the air is unsafe to breathe, only then will you discover
you cannot eat money." ~ Cree Prophecy

“We can only appreciate the miracle of a sunrise

if we have waited in the darkness.”

~ Author Unknown ~

We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation. ~Francois De
La Rochefoucauld

A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure.
~Lee Segall

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop. ~Lewis Carrol,
Alice in Wonderland

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. ~Andre Gide

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. ~Aesop

Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying. ~Baba Ram Dass

I am a part of all that I have met. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson

There's more to the truth than just the facts. ~Author Unknown
The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.
~Edward R. Murrow

Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~Polish Proverb

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. ~Ludwig Börne

If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky? ~Stanislaw J. Lec

We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself
to new functions and conditions, it uses the same old basic principles over and over
again. There is no real difference between the grass and the man who mows it. ~Albert
Szent-Györgyi

Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a
short distance correctly. ~Edward Albee

When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Buddhist Proverb

A gun gives you the body, not the bird. ~Henry David Thoreau

Before enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment - chop wood, carry
water. ~Zen Buddhist Proverb

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
~Henry David Thoreau

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily
work - that goes on, it adds up. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

I tell you everything that is really nothing, and nothing of what is everything, do not be
fooled by what I am saying. Please listen carefully and try to hear what I am not saying.
~Charles C. Finn
Oh, Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry a future Ghost
within us; but are, in very deed, Ghosts! ~Thomas Carlyle

Knock on the sky and listen to the sound. ~Zen Saying

The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the
trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you've gotten the rabbit, you
can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you've gotten the meaning,
you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk
with him? ~Chuang Tzu

By daily dying I have come to be. ~Theodore Roethke

There are some remedies worse than the disease. ~Publilius Syrus

You never know what is enough, until you know what is more than enough. ~William
Blake, Proverbs of Hell

It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos. ~John L.
McClenahan

What you see, yet can not see over, is as good as infinite. ~Thomas Carlyle, Sartor
Resartus, Book II, chapter 1

Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us - but not suckle us. ~Soren
Kierkegaard

One man's quiet is another man's din. ~Carrie Latet

Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science.
~Henry David Thoreau

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. ~Henri Louis Bergson
If you think you're free, there's no escape possible. ~Ram Dass

The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
~G.C. Lichtenberg

Don't miss the donut by looking through the hole. ~Author Unknown

You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. ~Navajo Proverb

Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death. ~Heraclitus, Eustathius ad Iliad

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday. ~John Burroughs

Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact
amount is no use to me. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by
W.S. Merwin

How long has it been since someone touched part of you other than your body? ~Terri
Guillemets

Alice came to a fork in the road. "Which road do I take?" she asked.
"Where do you want to go?" responded the Cheshire cat.
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind. ~John Lancaster
Spalding

The map is not the territory. ~Alfred Korzybski

No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of
your head. ~Terry Josephson
Would there be this eternal seeking if the found existed? ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943,
translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

I was once a skeptic but was converted by the two missionaries on either side of my nose.
~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from
all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one
kin and of one form. ~Marcus Aurelius

If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one. ~Russian Proverb

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to

be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself. ~Bertrand Russell

Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet. ~Roger Miller

The obstacle is the path. ~Zen Proverb

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. ~James Thurber

It is easy to stand a pain, but difficult to stand an itch. ~Chang Ch'ao

You cannot step into the same river twice. ~Heraclitus, in Diogenes Laertius, Lives

You are fastened to them and cannot understand how, because they are not fastened to
you. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half
full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem. ~Alexander Jodorowsky

Among creatures born into chaos, a majority will imagine an order, a minority will
question the order, and the rest will be pronounced insane. ~Robert Brault,
www.robertbrault.com
What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? ~George Gordon, Lord Byron, Child
Harold's Pilgrimage

Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases. ~Hippocrates, Aphorisms

If a placebo has an effect, is it any less real than the real thing? ~Nathaniel LeTonnerre

Seeking is not always the way to find. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare,
Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

It takes all the running you can do just to keep in the same place. ~Lewis Carroll,
Through the Looking-Glass, 1872

We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into. ~Author
Unknown

I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all
night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning. ~Aleister Crowley, Book of Lies

Tomorrow always comes, and today is never yesterday. ~S.A. Sachs

Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. ~Thomas Carlyle

You can see a lot by just looking. ~Yogi Berra, also often quoted as "You can observe a
lot by just looking." (original wording as yet unverified)

Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that
advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that
absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind. ~Leo Rosten

Reason and faith are both banks of the same river. ~Doménico Cieri Estrada
Man is the only animal who enjoys the consolation of believing in a next life; all other
animals enjoy the consolation of not worrying about it. ~Robert Brault,
www.robertbrault.com

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. ~Dr Seuss

Who depends on another man's table often dines late. ~John Ray

[T]hings are entirely what they appear to be and behind them... there is nothing. ~Jean
Paul Sartre, Nausea

You become responsible forever for what you've tamed. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The
Little Prince, 1943, translated from French by Richard Howard

When the pain is great enough, we will let anyone be doctor. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The
Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

A thousand men can't undress a naked man. ~Greek Proverb

May your passion be the kernel of corn stuck between your molars, always reminding
you there's something to tend to. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com

I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943,
translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

We often repent the good we have done as well as the ill. ~William Hazlitt,
Characteristics, 1823

When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943,
translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

The scars you can't see are the hardest to heal. ~Astrid Alauda
The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries
to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish. ~Evelyn Waugh

It's very strange when the life you never had flashes before your eyes. ~Terri Minsky,
Sex and the City, "The Baby Shower

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground. ~Buddha

We become aware of the void as we fill it. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated
from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

If I make the lashes dark

And the eyes more bright
And the lips more scarlet,
Or ask if all be right
From mirror after mirror,
No vanity's displayed:
I'm looking for the face I had
Before the world was made.
~W.B. Yeats

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. ~Santayana,
Essays

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound
truth may well be another profound truth. ~Niels Bohr

How often one sees people looking far and wide for what they are holding in their hands?
Why! I am doing it myself at this very moment. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius
Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our
emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there. ~Eric Hoffer,
Passionate State of Mind, 1955
Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? ~Maurice
Freehill

I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark, though the witches are all
hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced. ~Henry David Thoreau,
"Solitude," Walden, 1854

Because they know the name of what I am looking for, they think they know what I am
looking for! ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

There are things I have wanted so long that I would only consent to have them if I could
keep wanting them. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

Eggs cannot be unscrambled. ~American Proverb

A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence. ~Antonio

Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

The road was new to me, as roads always are going back. ~Sarah Orne Jewett, The
Country Road of Pointed Firs, 1896

...like stealing the juice out of tomorrow's fruit. ~Terri Guillemets

Admiration and familiarity are strangers. ~George Sand

I am not certain of the hereafter. Frankly, I'm not all that certain of the here. ~Robert
Brault, www.robertbrault.com

We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We
are finding that we must learn a great deal more about "and." ~Arthur Stanley Eddington

To know the hight [sic] of a mountain, one must climb it. ~Augustus William Hare and
Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. ~Zen

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can
no longer see the birds or hear them sing. ~Eric Berne

Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illnesses. ~Jean Baptiste Molière,
Le Malade Imaginaire

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age,
nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. ~Aldous Huxley

Will localizes us; thought universalizes us. ~Henri Frederic Amiel

I doubt one could live in the darkness, but one could probably survive. ~Nathaniel
LeTonnerre

Skin is a covering for our immortality. ~Terri Guillemets

I've observed that there are more lines formed than things worth waiting for. ~Robert
Brault, www.robertbrault.com

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are
conflicts between two rights. ~Georg Hegel

When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller. ~Antonio
Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

We are spirits clad in veils. ~Christopher P. Cranch

If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think
highly of the influences which have made me what I am? ~John Lancaster Spalding

Before I travelled my road I was my road. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated
from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin
with doubts, he shall end in certainties. ~Francis Bacon

To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting. ~Stanislaus I of Poland

The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the
discovery of truth - that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the
sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another
error, and maybe one worse than the first one. ~H.L. Mencken

The future influences the present just as much as the past. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

When a watch goes ill, it is not enough to move the hands; you must set the regulator.
When a man does ill, it is not enough to alter his handiwork, you must regulate his heart.
~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers,
1827

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the
universe. ~John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra, 1911

One does what one is; one becomes what one does. ~Robert von Musil, Kleine Prosa

In this, the late afternoon of my life, I wonder: am I casting a longer shadow or is my

shadow casting a shorter me? ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

You can't fall off the floor. ~Author Unknown

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.
~Author Unknown

In a mist the heights can for the most part see each other; but the valleys cannot.
~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers,
1827
In general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form
an estimate of its contents; they have first to put themselves at a distance from it - the
present, that is to say, must have become the past - before it can yield points of vantage
from which to judge the future. ~Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
~Robert M. Pirsig

A stumble may prevent a fall. ~English Proverb

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. ~Friedrich Nietzche

What you discover in a democracy is that it is difficult to build a house when each nail
has an opinion. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. ~Matsuo
Basho

"When we first begin fighting for our dream, we have no experiene and make many
mistakes. The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times."
Paulo Coelho author of "The Alchemist"

"If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the
world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world."
Deepak Chopra

"The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers."
Deepak Chopra

"A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than
any physical force in the universe."
Wayne Dyer

"Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of, try to fix me.
Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are."
Wayne Dyer

"Assumptions are the termites of relationships."

Henry Winkler
"Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not.
So each is inevitably disappointed."
Albert Einstein

"You can't shake hands with a clenched fist."

Gandhi

"To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue:
gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness."
Confucious

"If you can dream it, you can do it."

Walk Disney

"Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power."

Shirley MacLaine

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

"I never notice what has been done. I only see what remains to be done."
Madam Curie

"It is by forgiving that one is forgiven."

Mother Teresa

"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't."
Erica Jong

"And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."
Erica Jong

"Determination and perseverance move the world: thinking that others will do it for you
is a sure way to fail."
Marva Collins

"I live a day at a time. Each day I look for a kernel of excitement. In the morning, I say:
'What is my exciting thing for today?' Then, I do the day. Don't ask me about tomorrow."
Barbara Jordan

"Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."
Oprah Winfrey

"The best cosmetic in the world is an active mind that is always finding something new."
Mary Meek Atkeson
"Indecision is fatal. It is better to make a wrong decision than build up a habit of
indecision."
Marie Beynon Ray

"I think that one lesson I've learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention."
Diane Sawyer

"The best way to attract money, she had discovered, was to give the appearance of having
it."
Gail Sheehy

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."

Anais Nin

"Your heart often knows things before your mind does."

Polly Adler

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."
Dolly Parton

"It's never too late to be what you might have been."

George Eliot

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."
Beverly Sills

"...that is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all
your life, but in a new way."
Doris Lessing

"Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it
become uncomfortable."
Maya Angelou

"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."
Margaret Thatcher
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The following are excerpts from HOW TO LIVE WITHOUT FEAR by Eric LeBourdais

"The longer you hold your goal in your conscious mind, the stronger will be the guidance
of your subconscious mind.

We will make most of our choices unconsciously - our subconscious minds will be
deciding for us. Over time the sum total of these decisions will determine the kind of
person we are; where we will live; the jobs we will have; etc.
By establishing your life goal, you have guaranteed that you will achieve it.

He who has no destination will never arrive.

You will need to develop persistence.

You are never truly defeated until you accept defeat.

Desire is something that your subconscious mind gives you as a result of conditioning
that you provide over time.

The picture of your life goal needs to be VIVID.

If you act like a success, your chances of succeeding are far greater than if you act like a
failure.

Your subconscious mind is incapable of telling the difference between a message

received from your conscious mind that originates with a real occurrence, and one that
you imagine."

Dream it! Believe it! Live it!

Make 2010 your best year ever!
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"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."

Mark Twain

"Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring
the habit of doing your duty without pain."
Mark Twain

"A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination."
Nelson Mandela

"It always seems impossible until its done."

Nelson Mandela

"A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space."

Gloria Steinem

"Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities.

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning."
Gloria Steinem
"Teachers come in all guises. Look for people and situations that make you
uncomfortable or angry or frustrated. Learn what they are trying to teach you."
Ann Plains

"The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live."
Flora Whittemore

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."
Albert Einstein

"A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy? "
Albert Einstein

"Live out of your imagination, not your history."

Stephen Covey

"Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something."

Henry David Thoreau

"Begin your day with gratitude and your day will end with contentment"
Ellen Reid

"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
Mary Oliver

"Every problem or obstacle is an opportunity to grow."

Patrick Prevel

"Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying."
Christian Furchtegott Gellert

"If you seek revenge, first dig two graves."

Chinese Proverb

"Surrender comes when you no longer ask, 'why is this happening to me?'"
Eckhart Tolle

"Reincarnation doesn't help you if in your next incarnation you still don't know who you
are."
Eckhart Tolle

"Everything hinges upon how you look at things.

Learn to see not what you want to see but what is.
What is is usually a thousand times better than what might be or ought to be."
Henry Miller

"Laugh when you see yourself getting caught up in something minor."

Anonymous

"Train yourself to listen with compassion."

Anonymous

"Happiness is a process, not a destination.

So work like you do not need money.
Love like you have never been hurt.
Dance as though no one is watching."
Anonymous

"For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward"

Jim Robn

"Little things affect little minds"

Benjamin Disraeli

"He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understands himself is
more intelligent. He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered
himself is mightier still."
Lao-Tsu, Tao Teh King

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are"
Theodore Roosevelt

"Your treasure house is within you. It holds all you will ever need"
Hui Hai

"Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious
thoughts"
Anthony Robbins

"They can because they think they can"

Virgil

"Man is what he believes"

Anton Chekhov
"The ancestor of every action is a thought"
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often
get it"
W. Somerset Maugham

"Life's most urgent question is, what are you doing for others?"
Martin Luther King Jr.

"Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame"

Benjamin Franklin

"Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know"
Zen proverb

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve
the world."
Anne Frank

"You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once."
Oprah Winfrey

"If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track, which has been there all the
while waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living."
Joseph Campbell

"Think about a piece of music - some great symphony we don't expect it to get better as it
develops, or that its whole purpose is to reach the final crescendo. The joy is found in
listening to the music in each moment."
Alan Watts

"If it is false, harmful, or cruel, do not say it."

Unknown

"No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or
opened a new doorway for the human spirit."
Helen Keller

"Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the
world."
Helen Keller

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They
must be felt within the heart."
Helen Keller
"Things do not change; we change."
Henry David Thoreau

"He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers"

Cameroon Proverb

"Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters"

Nathaniel Emmons

"Imagination is more important than knowledge"

Albert Einstein

"The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence"
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction"
John F. Kennedy

"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth"

John F. Kennedy

"Change is inevitable. Growth is optional"

Rich Devos

"To get what you've never had, you must do what you've never done"
Rich Devos

"The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning"

M. Scott Peck

"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."
Albert Einstein

"A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds."
Mark Twain

"One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus;
we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never
deciding to master anything in particular."
Anthony Robbins

"Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach."

Anthony Robbins
"The only thing that stands between a person and what they want in life is the will to try
it and the faith to belive it possible."
Rich Devos

"When we recognize our own Self, we also recognize that same Self in others."
Roger Walsh

"[A wise person] is good to people who are good. She is also good to people who are not
good. This is true goodness."
Lao Tsu

"We are visitors on this planet. We are here for ninety, a hundred years at the very most.
During that period we must try to do something good, something useful with our lives.
Try to be at peace with yourself and help others share that peace. If you contribute to
others' happiness, you will find the true goal, the meaning of life."
Dalai Lama

"No drives, no compulsions

No needs, no attractions:
Then your affairs
Are under control.
You are a free person.
Chuang Tzu, Taoist sage

"Let there be no evil in your thoughts"

Confucius

"Wish for others whatever you wish for yourself"

Mohammad

"What we are afraid of we try to control"

Ingrid Bacci, Ph.D.

"By simply DECIDING on your destination, you will have guaranteed that you'll
eventually arrive"
Unknown

"Do not lie to anyone at all, unless you can help others greatly through lying"
Dalai Lama

"Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been
put in our heart"
Rumi

"There are no chains like hate...

Dwelling on your brother's faults
Multiples your own.
You are far from the end of your journey"
The Buddha

"Change is the Process of Life Itself"

Neale Donald Walsch

"Forgivness means giving up all hope of a better past"

Jack Kornfield

"Knowing life is short, how can we quarrel?"

Buddha

"No seed ever sees the flower"

Zen teaching

"If you thought the whole world was watching you this day, and following your example
in everything that you think, and say, and do, would it change in any way how this day
went for you?"
Neale Donald Walsch

"If you say something often enough, loudly enough,I promise you it will come to pass"
Neale Donald Walsch

"When in doubt - DON'T"

Anonymous

"When there is a delay - STOP - and pay attention because there's a message for you"
Anonymous

"When is a mistake not a mistake? When you have learned something from it"
Ann Plains

"How you do anything is how you do everything"

Ann Plains

"The key to visualizing is to FEEL what you are visualizing"

Ann Plains

"Miracles are not logical, so the last thing you need is logical advice from the mind"
Stuart Wilde

"A man's way of doing things is the direct result of the way he thinks about things"
Wallace D. Wattles

"To think what you want to think is to think TRUTH, regardless of appearances"
Wallace D. Wattles

"You are today where your thoughts have brought you; You will be tomorrow where
your thoughts take you"
James Allen

"Don’t’ ask so much what the world needs, go out and do what makes you come alive,
because what the world needs most are people who have come alive."
Howard Thurman

“If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you
actually arrive at your goal.”
Zig Ziglar

"If you want different results you've got to do things differently"

Anonymous

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"If you will spend an extra hour each day in study of your chosen field, you will be a
national expert in that field in five years or less"
Mac Anderson

"Many things will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart... pursue those"
Mac Anderson

"Find the job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life."
Socrates

"When I am hungry, give me someone to feed.. And when I am thirsty, give me someone
who needs a drink. When I am cold, give me someone to keep warm. And when I grieve,
give me someone to console."
Mother Theresa

"We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are."

Anais Nin

“Breaking an old habit isn't the end of the road; it's just a bend in the road.”
Mary Pickford

"Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it and always
work with it, not against it."
Donna B., client

“Dig Deep. Discover your Challenge. Do not attempt to overcome it – BECOME it”
Dr. Juno Jordan

“Where friends advise you, Numerology directs you”

Florence Campbell

"I prayed for wisdom and God gave me numbers."

Shirley Blackwell Lawrence

“No talent can remain mute if it has been gained. No place can hold you that you have
outgrown “The Law of Nature is compensation” it will move you to where you belong.
Deal only with yourself, do not blame others. In-harmony cannot find you if there is no
point of contact.”
Mrs. L. Dow Balliett

“To know what your name means is a spiritual awakening”

Dr. Juno Jordan

Education Quotes

Hope you enjoy reading this list as much as I did putting it together!

1. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting

it. ~Aristotle
2. Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. ~Hector Berlioz
3. An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow
field. ~Niels Bohr
4. Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
~Albert Einstein
5. What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in
pursuit of the child. ~George Bernard Shaw
6. Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. ~Perelman
7. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. ~Mark Twain
8. Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
~Jim Rohn
9. Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack
of understanding. ~Ambrose Bierce
10. In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in
large kitchens the cooking is usually bad. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
11. The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and
change. ~Carl Rogers
12. A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An
illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear. ~James B. Stockdale
13. A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. ~Thomas
Carruthers
14. The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
~Cicero
 15. Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. ~Chinese Proverb
16. I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. ~Socrates
17. Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the
time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don’t know, and
be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. ~Sir William Haley
18. In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be teachers and the
rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from
one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility
anyone could have. ~Lee Iacocca
19. The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves. ~Joseph
Campbell
20. Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire. ~W. B. Yeats
21. A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a
clever pupil, for the true discoverers are among them, as comets amongst the stars.
~Linnaeus
22. Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
~Confucius
23. The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires
self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have
no disciple. ~Amos Bronson Alcott
24. Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system
respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a
people may be engaged in. ~Abraham Lincoln
25. Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his
place so that you may understand… what he learns and the way he understands it. —
Soren Kierkegaard
26. The highest result of education is tolerance. — Helen Keller
27. Nothing is ever achieved without enthusiasm. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
28. The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher
demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. — William Arthur Ward
29. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. — Gandhi
30. I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me. —
Dudley Field Malone
31. How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The
book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. —
Henry David Thoreau
32. Genius without education is like silver in the mine. — Benjamin Franklin
33. How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be
education that does it. — Alexander Dumas
34. If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. —
Abraham Maslow
35. There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people. —
Thomas Jefferson

 hy do men feel they can justify death? Is it arrogance?" from the film The Patriot
 "Life is not a movie." "Sure it is, it's all a movie." from the film (if you call that crap a film, hey i
just like the quote) Scream

 "This whole mess of a world, started with a love story between Adam and Eve." from the film
Hedwig and the Angry Inch

 "Just because an idea is popular, like slavery, that dont mean it is right." from the film
Huckleberry Fin

 "I guess you think you know this story, You dont. The real one's much more gory. The phoney
one, the one you know, Was cooked up years and years ago, And made to sound all soft and
sappy, Just to keep the children happy." Roald Dahl

 These four quotes all come from 1984 a book written by George Orwell.
"He who controls the past, controls the future: he who controls present controls the past."
"Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. At one point it had been a sign of madness to
believe the earth goes around the sun: today to believe that the past is unalterable. He might be
alone in holding that belief, and if alone, then a lunatic."
"If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable-
what then?" "The end was contained in the beginning." Alright now back to normal quotes.

 "To generalize is to be an idiot." William Blake

 "Men are not disturbed by things, but the view they take of things." Epictetus

 "The old one." Albert Einstein's name for god.

 "We are in the position, of a little child entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the
cieling with books in many different languages. The child knows that someone must have written
those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the language in which they are
written. The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which
is does not comprehend but only dimly suspects." Albert Einstein

 "3 o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do." Jean-Paul Sartre

 "Never knock on death's door. Rind the doorbell and run away! Death really hates that." Matt
Frewer

 "After silence, that which comes closest to expressing the inexpressible is music." Aldous
Huxley

 "He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was
and whether they were enjoying it." Douglas Adams

 "Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our
lives." William Dement

 "Truth is beautiful, without doubt, but so are lies." Ralph Waldo Emerson

 "Oh what a tangled web we weave, when we first practise to deceive!" Sir Walter Scott

 "A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well then a fool can from a mountain top."
Unknown

 "The purpose of life is to fight maturity." Dick Werthimer

 "There is no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes." Doctor Who

 "Maturity is only a short break in adolescence." Jules Feiffer

 "When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer
be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability...To be alive is to be vulnerable."
Madeleine L'Engle

 "Insanity: doing something over and over again and expecting different results." Albert
Einstein

 "Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence." Henrik Tikkanen

 "You're only given a speck of madness. You mustn't lose it." Robin Williams

 "Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth--far more then ruin-- far more then
death...Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to
privilege, established institutions and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is
not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the cheif glory of man."
Bertrand Russell

 "Sometimes I think that the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is
that none of it has tried to contact us." Bill Watterson

 "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the
same time, and still retain the ability to function." F. Scott Fitzgerald

 "Never explain-- your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway."
Elbert Hubbard

 "A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company." Gian
Vincenzo Gravina

 "I'm all in favour of keepig dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters." Frank Llyod Wright

 "If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." G.B.
Burgin

 "We all agree that you're theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?" Niels Bohr

 "Well timed silence hath more eloquence than speech." Martin Fraquhar Tupper

 "Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring
adventure or nothing." Helen Keller

 "... look at that word blame, It's just a coincidence that the last two letters spell out me. But
that coincidence is worth thinking about. Other people or unfortunate circumstances may have
caused you to feel pain, but only you control whether you allow that pain to go on. If you want
those feelings to go away, you have to say: 'It's up to me'." Arthur Freeman

 "Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do on a rainy afternoon." Susan Ertz

 "Everything is created twice-- first mentally, then physically." Greg Anderson

 "When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life... Time is the only wealth
we're given." Barbara Sher

 "There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man." Aristotle

 "To go fast, row slowly." Norman Vincent Peale

 "As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters." Seneca

 "The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything."
Oscar Wilde

 "The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story and writes another."
James Matthew Barrie

 "Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by day, all in the thousand, small,
uncaring ways." Stephen V. Benet

 "Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would chose pain." William
Faulkner

 "Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret." Benjamin Disraeli

 "The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and, for deeds left undone."
Harriet Beecher Stowe

 "Life is to the universe as rust is to iron. We are, in the final judgement(on a planetary scale,
certainly), nothing more than an advanced form of corrosion, just one more way for the universe
to wear itself out a little faster." Soloman Short

 "A man said to the universe: 'Sir I exist!' 'However,' replied the universe, 'That fact has not
created in me a sense of obligation.'" Stephen Crane

 "The believer is happy; the doubter is wise." Hungarian Proverb

 "If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live." Martin Luther
King Jr.

 "Saying nothing sometimes says the most." Emily Dickinson

 "Is religion simply an effort to explain the unexplainable or is science? Do they each strive for
the same goal, yet they each want their own answer? Does religion exist because science cannot
give us all the answers? Or does science exist because religion cannot give us all the answers."
Written by me Jolayne, inspired by a quote from Albert Einstein

Collective Thought-Provoking Ideals

 If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we
wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling
other people to stammer that they loved them. --Christopher Morley
 I don't want to live, I want to love first and live incidentally. --Zelda
Fitzgerald
 Science is the search for truth. It is not a game in which one tries to beat his
opponent, to do harm to others. We need to have the spirit of science in
international affairs, to make the conduct of international affairs the effort to
find the right solution, the just solution of international problems, not the effort
by each nation to get the better of other nations, to do harm to them when it is
possible. - Linus Pauling

 "Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind. And therefore is wing'd
cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgement taste. Wings and no
eyes figure unheedy haste. And therefore is love said to be a child. Because, in
choice, he is so oft beguiled." -Helena from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by
William Shakespeare

 Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

--Voltaire

 At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.-Plato

 The course of true love never did run smooth.-Shakespeare

 One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life.That word is love.
-Sophocles

 "Within you, I lose myself, Without you, I find myself, Searching to be lost
again." -Unknown

 "Happiness is finding love through giving love rather than through

receiving it." -Submitted Anonymously

 "Some people will die for love, some will die because they lost it"

 "My wish is not to mean everything to everyone but to mean something to

someone."

 "If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain" -Emily
Dickenson

 Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I
need you because I love you." Erich Fromm
 Commit yourself to quality from day one... It's better to do nothing at all
than to do something badly. --Mark H. McCormack
 "He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." Sir Winston
Churchill (1874-1965)

 "He would make a lovely corpse." - Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

"The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep." - Clinton aide
George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live

"We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees." - Jason Kidd, upon his
drafting to the Dallas Mavericks

"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense." - Tom
Clancy

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I
have one." - Cato the Elder (234-149 BC, AKA Marcus Porcius Cato)

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the
opportunity in every difficulty." - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"Sanity is a madness put to good uses." - George Santayana (1863-1952)

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain
(1835-1910)

"To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me." - Charles
William Stubbs

"How can I lose to such an idiot?" - A shout from chessmaster Aaron

Nimzovich (1886-1935)

 "Attention to health is life greatest hindrance." - Plato (427-347 B.C.)

 "Plato was a bore." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

 "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." - Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)

 "I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy." - Ernest Hemingway
(1899-1961)

 "Hemingway was a jerk." - Harold Robbins

 "It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man." -
Professor Scott Elledge on his retirement from Cornell

 "I am become death, shatterer of worlds." - Robert J. Oppenheimer (1904-

1967) (citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion)

 "Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you." - Carl Gustav Jung
(1875-1961)

 "Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

(1803-1882)

 "Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. Reality is merely

an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

 "Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Albert Einstein

(1879-1955)

 "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." -
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

 "When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But
let him sit on a hot stove for a minute—and it's longer than any hour. That's
relativity. " - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

 "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure
about the the universe." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

 "If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only
real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge,
experience, and ability." -Henry Ford

 "For those to whom much is given, much is required. " JFK

 "If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as

Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote
poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth
will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well."
-Martin Luther King Jr.

 "If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never
regain their respect and esteem. You may fool all of the people some of the
time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of
the people all of the time." -Abraham Lincoln

 "The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to

excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor." Vince Lombardi

 "No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his body, to
risk his well-being, to risk his life in a great cause."-- Theodore Roosevelt

 "Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you
should have accomplished with your ability." John Wooden

 Avoid the evil, and it will avoid thee. Gaelic Proverb

 Cuando amor no es locura, no es amor. (When love is not madness, it is not

love.) Spanish Proverb

 Do not stand in a place of danger trusting in miracles. Arab Proverb

 Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. Spanish Proverb

 He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a
fool forever. Chinese Proverb

 In case of doubt it is best to lean to the side of mercy. Legal Proverb

 L'amour faite passer les temps. Les temps faite passer l'amour. (Love makes
time pass. Time makes love pass.) -French Sundial Motto

 Life is not separate from death. It only looks that way. -Native American
Proverb (Blackfoot)

 Live your own life, for you will die your own death. -Latin Proverb

 The loveliest of faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with
the eye and half with the fancy. -Persian Proverb

 Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but keeps from you all his
joys. Jewish Proverb

 For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of
all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other
work is but preparation.
 "To be early is to be on time, to be on time is to be late, and to be late is to
show you don't care."

 Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom

to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt. - Bergen Evans;
1904-1978

 I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a

form of optimism. - Roberto Rossellini; 1906-1977