Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.
-Maxwell Maltz
More than money...
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
– A. P. Gouthey
How much & How little
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.
– W. R. Inge
Small or Great
We, whoever we are, must have a daily goal in our lives, no matter how small or great, to make that day mean something.
-Maxwell Maltz
How old are...?
"Perfection of means and confusion of goals characterize our age."
- Albert Einstein
Never to be the system
Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.
-Jeremy Bentham, jurist and philosopher (1748-1832)
Likes and Liking
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
– Anonymous
Worry, the Robber!
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
- Leo Buscaglia
World Earth Day - 2018
"The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual."
- R. Buckminster Fuller
1st time
We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.
-Madame De Stael, writer (22 Apr 1766-1817)
Vision & Action
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
– Japanese Proverb
Remain focussed
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
– Anonymous
Renewable Energy
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
– Dr. Dale Turner
Undesirable qualities
Gullibility and credulity are considered undesirable qualities in every department of human life -- except religion.
-Christopher Hitchens, author and journalist
Work of imagination
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
- Jessamyn West
Need of reason
"The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning,"
Wonderful experience
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
– Anonymous
Focus
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
– Anonymous
Great victory...
Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-Orison Swett Marden
Hasty Judgment
How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.
- Daniel Webster
Wisdom of...
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Nature teaches
Nature teaches more than she preaches.
There are no sermons in stones.
It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
-John Burroughs, naturalist and writer (3 Apr 1837-1921)
What one can be
A musician must make music,
an artist must paint,
a poet must write,
if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
What one can be, one must be.
-Abraham Maslow, psychologist (1 Apr 1908-1970)
Sun shine in
Easter is a day to fan the ashes of dead hope, to banish doubts, to let the past behind, To allow faith guide us into the vast and inviting unknown Let the sun shine, Let the sunshine in, The sun shine in.
- Paulo Coelho