Thursday, February 9, 2012

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
- Henry Ford

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
- Joseph Campbell

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.
- Ernest Holmes

Great Quotes of Timeless Wisdom

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

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

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel

All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man...
the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
- Leonardo da Vinci

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

We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how to respond to them.
- Epictetus

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore

When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
- Khalil Gibran

Excellence is the result of caring more than others think is wise, risking more than others think is safe, dreaming more than others think is practical, and expecting more than others think is possible.
- Anonymous

Comparisons are odious.
- Old English Saying

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
– St Francis of Assisi

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
- Thomas Jefferson

Today is the first and last day of forever.
- Stephenie Meyer

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