"Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world."

A Course In Miracles on Change
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"Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow."

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie on Courage
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"When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice."

Grange, Marquis de la on Advice
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"Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first."

Bailey, Pearl on Change
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"But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."

Yeats, William Butler on Dreams
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"Insanity is doing the same thing in the same way and expecting a different outcome."

Proverb, Chinese on Insanity
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"A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home."

Proverb, Chinese on Home
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"If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else."

Proverb, Chinese on Happiness
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"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

Aristotle on Love
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"Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time."

Proverb, Chinese on Ask
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"Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness."

Proverb, Chinese on Blame
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"Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself."

Proverb, Chinese on Action
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"Talk doesn't cook rice."

Proverb, Chinese on Action
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"I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand."

Proverb, Chinese on Action
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"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."

Proverb, Chinese on Proverbs
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"The world's a forest, in which all lose their way; though by a different path each goes astray."

Villiers, George on World
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"You are more likely to act yourself into feelings, than feel yourself into action."

Brunner, Dr. Jerome on Attitude
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"The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain."

Proverb, Chinese on Age and Aging
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"If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed."

Proverb, Chinese on Direction
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"Who is not satisfied with himself will grow; who is not sure of his own correctness will learn many things."

Proverb, Chinese on Discontent
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"Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald."

Proverb, Chinese on Experience
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"The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure."

Proverb, Chinese on Failure
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"How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum."

Joubert, Joseph on Mystery
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"To teach is to learn twice."

Joubert, Joseph on Teachers and Teaching
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"What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight."

Joubert, Joseph on Truth
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"Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear."

Joubert, Joseph on Words
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"Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture."

Colton, Charles Caleb on Adversity
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"The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it."

Stael, Germaine De on Conscience
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"Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway."

Coallier, Steven on Life and Living
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"The more you learn what to do with yourself, and the more you do for others, the more you will learn to enjoy the abundant life."

Boetcker, William on Service
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"I am a believer in punctuality though is makes me very lonely."

Verrall, E. V. on Punctuality
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"Pain is life -- the sharper, the more evidence of life."

Lamb, Charles on Pain
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"We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself."

Lamb, Charles on Association
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"Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one."

Lennon, John on Peace
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"The more I see the less I know for sure."

Lennon, John on Certainty
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"My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more."

Lamb, Charles on Contentment
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"A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."

Dylan, Bob on Success
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"It is better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be."

Bardot, Brigitte on Faithfulness
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"If there is a wrong way to do something, then someone will do it."

Murphy's Law, (Edward A. Murphy, Jr.) on Wrong
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"Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you -- you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside."

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander on Repression
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