SOUL SUSTENANCE -"The highest wisdom is kindness."-1.

SOUL SUSTENANCE  -"The highest wisdom is kindness."-1.


“God is a River of Wisdom and all religions are but wells into that River.”


"My religion is truth." Gandhi


"Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth." Ruth McKenney


"The highest wisdom is kindness." the Talmud


"If you want to make others happy, practice kindness. If you want to make yourself happy, practice kindness." His Holiness the Dalai Lama


“In the end, only kindness matters.” Jewell


“Perhaps the greatest reason to practice random kindness is that it brings great contentment into your life. Each act of kindness rewards you with positive feelings and reminds you of the important aspects of life-service, kindness, and love. If we all do our own part, pretty soon we will live in a nicer world.” Richard Carlson, Ph.D., Don't Sweat the Small Stuff...and It's All Small Stuff


"Humans are the only living things that can be, and often are, less than what they're capable of becoming." Dr. Angelo Pizelo


“The greatest prayer is patience.” The Buddha


"There is an instinctive seeking of all things for love." Emma Curtis Hopkins


"Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and under a just God, can not long retain it." Abraham Lincoln


"Freedom is the birthright of every living soul." Ernest Holmes, The Science of Mind


“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without it you can’t practice any of the others consistently.” Aristotle


"If you're interested in fighting evil, tell your children you love them every day this year. If you want to fight off evil, get involved in the school system and make it as good as it can be. Teach a child to read. If you want to fight evil, go to your church or synagogue or mosque and start a program that will love a neighbor. If you want to fight evil, go see a shut-in and say, what can I do to help." President George W. Bush


“Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist but in the ability to start over.” F. Scott Fitzgerald


“Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance.” Albert Einstein


“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.” Henry David Thoreau


“There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval.” George Santayana


“You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world. Show that God's creative principle works in you.” Paramahansa Yogananda


“Sometimes I go about with pity for myself and all the while Great Winds are carrying me across the sky.” Ojibway Saying


"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." Mark Twain


“Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.” George Washington


"Real integrity stays in place whether the test is adversity or prosperity." Chuck Swindoll


“Embrace change. It's going to happen whether you like it or not.” Odette Pollar, writer


“So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.” Ben Franklin


"Those wise ones who see that the consciousness within themselves is the same consciousness within all conscious beings, attain eternal peace." The Upanishads


"You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." Mark Twain


“So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.” Ben Franklin


“Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.” Kahlil Gibran


“Forgiveness is man's deepest need and highest achievement.” Horace Bushnell


"Our choices become limited as we strive to be consistent with who we already are." Margaret Wheatley


"A mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimension." Oliver Wendell Holmes


"The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity." Zig Ziglar


"Whether you think you can, or you think you can't, you get to be right." Henry Ford


"May the work of your hands be a sign of gratitude and reverence to the human condition." Mahatma Gandhi


"This is the true joy of life, the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clot of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can." George Bernard Shaw


"Therefore you must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if you feel you should not follow it, you must not stay with it under any condition. Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart, the other doesn't. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you strong; the other weakens you." Don Juan from The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge by Carlos Casteneda


"God is in you as the ocean is in the wave." Eric Butterworth, "The Universe is Calling"


“Resolve to keep happy and your joy shall form a shield against difficulty.” Helen Keller


“A light heart lives long.” William Shakespeare


If you are feeling sorry for yourself, you are building a wall which shuts you out from the things you desire.” Edward E. Hale


The people who get on in the world are those who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they find them, make them.” George Bernard Shaw


“Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.” Ralph Waldo Emerson


“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” Albert Einstein


"Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?" Ben Franklin


"You will never stub your toe by standing still, but the faster you go, the more chance you have of getting somewhere!" Charles Kettering


"Saying yes and no clearly builds confidence and rids us of the misconception that we are powerless." Marsha Sinetar


"The way we live our days, is the way we live our lives." Annie Dillard


"There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the first move—and he, in turn, awaits for you. The minute a person whose word means a great deal dares to take the openhearted and courageous way, many others follow.” Marian Anderson


“The most powerful force in the world is prayer.” unknown


“Courage is the judgment that something else is more important than fear.” unknown


"Let us learn together and laugh together and work together and pray together, confident that in the end we will triumph together in the right." President Jimmy Carter


“Sometimes people need to lose a lot to gain everything.” Don Loft


“To conquer death you only have to die.” From “Jesus Christ Superstar”


”Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.” Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet


“To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.” Alan Cohen


“There's a kind of amplitude of human capacity that arises in the collective that's very difficult and may, in many cases, be impossible for us to discover on ourown.” Michael Jones


“Oh, for the wonder that bubbles into my soul.” D.H. Lawrence


"The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude." William James


"For many people, change is more threatening than challenging. They see it as the destroyer of what is familiar and comfortable rather than the creator of what is new and exciting." Nido Qubein


“I call that mind free which sets no bounds to its love – recognizing in all human beings the image of God.” Ellery Channing


”All comes at the proper time to him who knows how to wait.” Saint Vincent de Paul


“Jesus, from the calm depths of an undisturbed soul, spoke words of comfort to those of lesser understanding.” Ernest Holmes


"Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God." William Cowper, 17th “All those who do great things for God will ultimately stand alone.” Martin Luther century hymn-writer


"All mankind are my brethren. To do good is my religion. I believe in one God and no more. The world is my country." Thomas Paine


“No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.” Brendan Francis


“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.” Carl Rogers


“One cannot get through life without pain...What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.” Bernie Siegel


“All those who do great things for God will ultimately stand alone.” Martin Luther


"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." Abe Lincoln


"Every blade of grass has an angel over it, whispering, Grow." The Talmud


“There is no use in walking anywhere to preach if your walking isn't your preaching.” St. Francis of Assisi


"Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead


“To love is to approach each other center to center.” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin


”Truth never damages a cause that is just.” Mahatma Gandhi


”Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.” Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet


"Darkness cannot drive out darkness. Only light can do that." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.


“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.” Ralph Waldo Emerson


"The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender." Vince Lomardi


"We don't need more strengths or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need to use is what we have." Basil Walsh


"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything." Theodore Roosevelt


"As the world turns, so do you. When you change for the good, you change the world, too." Wings of Change


"What is the butterfly of you?" Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.


“I searched through rebellion, drugs, diets, mysticism, religions, intellectualism and much more, only to begin to find.that truth is basically simple-and feels good, clean and right.” Chick Corea


“There are two freedoms-the false, where man is free to do what he likes; the true, where a man is free to do what he ought.” Charles Kingsley


“As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” Marianne Williamson


“All you have shall some day be given; Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors.” Kahlil Gibran


“Study nature as the countenance of God.” Kingsley


“Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.” Dag Hammarskjöld


“One filled with joy preaches without preaching.” Mother Teresa


"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." Helen Keller


“You may be only one person in the world, but you may also be the world to one person.”


“After advancing to the highest possible scientific discovery, the human being will finally confess that heart is the center of knowledge.” Shah Nazar Seyed Ali Kianfar


“Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.” Rainer Maria Rilke


“The universe is incredibly big; so if it’s just us, it seems like an awful waste of space.” From the movie Contact


“Embrace your uniqueness. Time is much too short to be living someone else's life.” Kobi Yamada


"Our technology has surpassed our humanity." Albert Einstein (also from the movie Powder)


“To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.” William Shakespeare


“One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.” Gail Godwin


“Begin with the possible; begin with one step. There is always a limit, you cannot do more than you can. If you try to do too much, you will do nothing.” P.D. Ouspensky & G.I. Gurdjieff


"Of all the dispositions and habits, which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens." From the farewell address of President George Washington (which is read in the Senate following the President's Day recess).


“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.” Aristotle


“Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.” Bhagavad Gita


“Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.” Thomas Carlyle


“You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.” St. Francis De Sales


“The sun and the moon are not mirrored in cloudy water. Thus the Almighty cannot be mirrored in a heart that is obsessed by the idea of me and mine.” Ramakrishna


"Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more." William Cowper (1731-1800); English poet.


“Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.” Edwin Hubbel Chapin


"In the swift rush of great events, we find ourselves groping to know the full sense and meaning of these times in which we live. In our quest of understanding, webeseech God's guidance." Dwight D. Eisenhower


"Before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe. Religion is the basis and foundation of government." James Madison


“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” Eleanor Roosevelt


“Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.” Albert Einstein


“Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.” Samuel Johnson


"An open ear is the only believable sign of an open heart." David Augsburger


"As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.” Josh Billings


"We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope." Martin Luther King, Jr.


“I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble.” Rudyard Kipling


“Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together.” Mother Teresa


“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” Helen Keller


"You must do the thing you think you cannot do!" Eleanor Roosevelt


"If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin." Ivan Turgenev


“When the mind is pure, joy follows, like a shadow that never leaves.” The Buddha


“There is no circumstance greater than the power of God. Instead of telling God about your big problems, tell your problems about your big God.” Rev. Mary Manin Morrissey


"True joy and the exhilarating feeling of being at peace with yourself and your world comes to the person who lets his or her physical world flow from the pleadings of the soul." Wayne Dyer


"I believe that friends are quiet angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly." Anonymous


“A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.” George Prentice


“We always have enough to be happy if we are enjoying what we do have-and not worrying about what we don't have.” Key Keyes


“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.” Ralph Waldo Emerson


“The first love affair we need to consummate successfully is with ourselves, because only then will we be ready for relationships with others.” Nathaniel Branden


“Never lose a holy curiosity.” Albert Einstein


“There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.” John Andrew Holmes


"Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady." - Thomas H. Huxley


"The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it." Anatole France (1844-1924), French poet, novelist and critic.


"There is no need to run outside for better seeing. Nor to peer from a window. Rather reside in the center of your being. The more you leave it, the less you learn." Lao-Tze


"Mindfulness refers to keeping one's consciousness alive to the present reality. It is the miracle by which we master and restore ourselves." Thich Nhat Hanh


"The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees." Lyndon B. Johnson


"In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see." Elie Wiesel


"He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices in what he has." Epictetus


"Joy is the unmistakable evidence of the presence of God." Meister Eckhart


"My view of our planet was a glimpse of divinity." Astronaut Edgar Mitchell


"Character is the only secure foundation of the state." Calvin Coolidge


"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one." Mark Twain


"Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. James Buckham


"The limits of soul you could not discover, though traversing every path." Heraclitus


"You do not make yourself love. You allow love to enter." James Redfield


"Looking back, I have this to regret: that too often when I loved, I did not say so." David Grayson


"The essence of ritual is that something done in the physical realm is related to the higher worlds." A'evben Shimon Halevi


"Healing is inner peace. Therefore, healing is letting go of fear. To make changing the body our goal is to fail to recognize that our single goal is peace of mind." Gerald G. Jampolsky, MD,from Teach Only Love


"What I see is everyone treating every wrong thing like it's somebody else's problem. What I believe is that if we treated every wrong thing like it's our own problem, in short order they would all be nobody's problem." Perry Lanyard


"As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live." Pope John Paul II


“Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.” - J. Andrews


"Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." Ralph Waldo Emerson


“The lesson that most of us on this voyage never learn, but can never quite forget, is that to win is sometimes to lose.” John Wooden




“Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it.


Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you.

You are all learners, doers, teachers.” Richard Bach, Illusions


"Life is no brief candle to me. It is sort of a splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations." George Bernard Shaw


"What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this." Epictitus


“May we pursue that right-without self-righteousness. May we know unity-without conformity. May we grow in strength-without pride of self. May we, in ourdealings with all people of the earth, ever speak the truth and serve justice. May the light of freedom, coming to alldarkened lands, flame brightly-until at last the darkness is no more.” Dwight D. Eisenhower


“When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love.” Martin Luther King, Jr. .


“As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.” The Buddha


“To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.” Lao-Tzu


"I stand by the door...through which people walk when they find God...so I can show them the latch." Samuel Moor Shoemaker


“We are what our thoughts have made us: so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.” Swami Vivekananda


"All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough." Anna Quindlen


"I wish I could show you, When you are lonely or in darkness, The Astonishing Light Of your own Being!" Hafiz


“Always look on the bright side of life!” Monty Python


"I had rather attempt something great and fail, than to attempt nothing at all and succeed." Dr. Robert Schuller


"Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.” Harry Emerson Fosdick


“The indispensable first step to getting the things you want in this life is this: Decide what you want.” Ben Stein


“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters in the end.” Usula K. LeGuin


“If you always see the road ahead of you, it’s not worth the trip.” From Dante’s The Inferno


“To the Journey!” theme of “Star Trek Voyager”


"To go against one's conscience is neither safe nor right. Here I stand. I cannot do otherwise." Martin Luther


"Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart." Eleanor Roosevelt


“Help your brother's boat across, and your own will reach the shore.” Hindu proverb


“You might as well not be alive if you're not in awe of God.” Albert Einstein


"All of man's problems stem from his inability to sit alone in a room for any length of time." Pascal


"Our lives are based on what is reasonable and common sense; truth is apt to be neither." Timothy Frehe and Christmas Humphreys, Zen Wisdom


"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss the target but that it is too low and we reach it." Michelangelo


"Mindfulness refers to keeping one's consciousness alive to the present reality. It is the miracle by which we master and restore ourselves." Thich Nhat Hanh


“That best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.” William Wordsworth


”Soft sweet speech is the expression of genuine Love. Hate screeches, fear squeals, conceit trumpets, but love sings lullabies; it soothes, it applies balm. Practice the vocabulary of love.” Sathya Sai Baba


"The love inside, you take it with you." from the movie "Ghost"


"Take my life, please." Henny Youngman's last words


"Make life worth the price of admission." unknown


"Let the water settle; you will see the moon and stars mirrored in your being." Jelaluddin Rumi


"Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except the best." Henry Van Dyke


"When it gets dark, the stars come out." from "Touched By An Angel"


“You can’t shake hands with a closed fist.”


"We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us." Joseph Campbell


“Humans plan. God laughs.”


"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." John Lennon


"A good traveler has no fixed plans. " Tao Te Ching, translated by Stephen Mitchell


"When you build bridges, you can keep crossing them." Rick Pitino, Lead to Succeed


"It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours." Sam Ewing


"Worrying about the future is like trying to eat the hole in a doughnut. It's munching on what isn't." Barry Neil Kaufman


"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." Milton Berle




"I know I'm searching for something, something so undefined 

that it can only be seen by the eyes of the blind." Billy Joel, "The River of Dreams"


"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use." Galileo Galilei


"There is what we seem to be, and what we really are . . . " Ernest Holmes, The Science of Mind




"Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; 

And all good things are yours." Scandinavian proverb


"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." Winston Churchill


"The light around someone who speaks truth, who consistently acts with compassion for all, even in great difficulty, is visible to all around them." Jack Kornfield


"Out beyond the ideas of right-doing or wrong-doing there is a field--I'll meet you there." Jelaluddin Rumi


“The space between what’s wrong or right; that’s where you’ll find me.” The Dave Matthews Band


“We see ourselves as broken, and then set out on a long and frustrating journey to fill our emptiness. But it is not fixing that we require; it is awakening.” Alan Cohen


"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." Dale Carnegie


"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.


"People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering." St. Augustine


"To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable." Helen Keller


What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it." Johann von Goethe


"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, yet that candle loses nothing. Happiness never decreases by being shared." Chinese Proverb


"Spirituality cannot be something a person toys with, a little compartment of their lives. It has to be at the core, in a way that affects every other part of their lives." Stephen Covey


"The Spirit speaks directly to our hearts through music. That's why music has always had such power to move people into positive action." Kenny Loggins


"Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not." Nathaniel Hawthorne


"The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light." Felix Adler


"I am satisfied that when the Almighty wants me to do or not do any particular thing, He finds a way of letting me know it." Abraham Lincoln


"The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does the reverse." Confucius


"It may be that each individual consciousness is a brain cell in a universal mind." Sir James Jeans


“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.” Ralph Waldo Emerson


"He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age." Plato


"I would rather do and not promise than promise and not do." Arthur Warwick


"Most people don't really need advice. They just need support and discipline in doing what they already know works." Marianne Williamson


“See God in every person, place, and thing, and all will be well in your world.” Louise Hay


To Dream Of The Person You Would Like To Be, Is To Waste The Person You Are! Anonymous


"All I would tell people is to hold onto what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success ofothers. You've got to find it on your own terms." Harrison Ford


"Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not." Nathaniel Hawthorne


"Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey." Harold B. Melchart


"Never limit your view of life by any past experience." Ernest Holmes, The Science of Mind


"It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


"I do not know what path in life you will take, but I do know this: If, on that path, you do not find a way to serve, you will never be happy." Albert Schweitzer


"If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have neglected much, and most of all yourself." A. Neilen


"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." Helen Keller


"Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate accomplishments." Napoleon Hill


"In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong, honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes." John Ruskin


"To look at a thing is quite different from seeing the thing; and one does not see anything until one sees its beauty." From the movie, "An Ideal Husband"


"As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world -- that is the myth of the atomic age -- as in being able to remake ourselves. . .We must be the change we wish to see in the world." Mahatma Gandhi


"People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering." St. Augustine


"Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought." Napoleon Hill


"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you." Winnie the Pooh


"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost." Charles Caleb Colton


"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend." Albert Camus


"The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly." Richard Bach


"Music is the pathway to the heart." Voltaire


"The older I grow, the more I trust in the law by which the Rose and the Lily bloom." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, from "Goethe's World View"


"And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make." The Beatles


"That best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love." William Wordsworth.