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“Learn to sit back and observe, not everything needs a reaction.”
— Unknown
“Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.”
Jonathan Swift
“Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.”
— Mr. Regena Daniel
“Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.”
— William Feather
“In my mind's eye.”
— Kelley Toy
“Take care of your cents: dollars will take care of themselves.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home — so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
— David Viscott
“Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally.”
Jon Kabat-Zinn
“We don't want that much failure.”
Charlie Munger
“Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought.”
Alexander Graham Bell
“Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.”
James Allen
“Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.”
Herman Melville
“If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart.”
Buddha
“Do not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God.”
— Abu Bakr
“A little more than kin, and less than kind.”
— Emmitt Kuphal
“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.”
— Abigail Adams
“If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.”
Douglas Adams
“Don't stumble over something that's behind you.”
Steve Harvey
“The first and best victory is to conquer self.”
Plato
“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
Confucius
“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.”
Emily Dickinson
“The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.”
— Tara Brach
“All the world 's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.”
— Jeff Volkman

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