1) "Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted." --- Andre Malraux
2) "Beside a well, one does not thirst. Beside a sister, one does not despair."--- Chinese Proverb
3) "Anything will give up it's secrets if you love it enough." ---George Washington Carver
4) "Leisure, some degree of it, is necessary to the health of a man's spirit." ---Harriet Martineau
5) "Our own heart, and not others' opinions of us, forms our true honor." --- Friedrich Von Schiller
6) "It is better to sleep on things beforehand, than lie awake about them afterwards." ---Baltasar Gracian
7) "It is a beauteous evening, calm and free..." ---William Wordsworth
8) "Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks." ---Samuel Johnson
9) "Fear not, thou drummer of the night, we too will be there. And still he drummed on in the silence and the dark... These simple sounds related us to the stars." ---Henry David Thoeau
10) "Seek not the good in external things, seek it in yourselves." ---Epictetus
11) "Every little action of the common day, makes or unmakes character." ---Oscar Wilde
12) "Friends are nations in themselves." ---Emily Dickison
13) "It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion." ---Horace
14) "In trying to satisfy all, I maybe able to satisfy none." ---Gandhi
15) "I'm not afraid of storms, for I am learning to sail my ship." ---Louisa May Alcott
16) "We must take care to live not merely a long life, but a full one; for living a long life requires only good fortune, but living a full life requires character. Long is the life that is fully lived; it is fulfilled only when the mind supplies its own good qualities and empowers itself from within." ---Senecca
17) "Nature provides exceptions to every rule." ---Margaret Fuller
18) "How many ideas there have been in history that were unthinkable ten years before they appeared." ---Fyodor Dostoyevsky
19) "Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to create." ---Nicoles Malebranche
20) "The soul enfolds itself like a lotus of countless petals." ---Kahlil Gibran
21) "Passion colors all that it touches in its own hues." ---Baltasar Gracian
22) "We turn not older with years, but newer every day." ---Emily Dickinson
23) "And the song from beginging to end, I found in the heart of a friend." ---Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
24) "I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart." ---Jerome K. Jerome
25) "If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible." ---Soren Kierkegaard
26) "Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see." ---Martin Luther
27) "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." ---Ralph Waldo Emerson
28) "Saying nothing.... sometimes says the most." ---Emily Dickison
29) "Celestial wisdom calms the mind." ---Samuel Johnson
30) "Nothing strengthens the judgement and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility." ---Elizabeth Cady Stanton
31) "He who knows patience knows peace." ---Chinese Proverb
32) "No bird soars too high with his own wings." ---William Blake
33) "Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up holding wonder like a cup." ---Sara Teasdale
34) "there is no end to adventures that we can have, if only we seek them with our eyes open." ---Nehru
35) "Do not weep; do not wax indignant, understand." ---Spinoza
36) "One changes from day to day... every few years one becomes a new being." ---George Sand
37) "The flower that follows the sun, does so even on cloudy days." ---Robert Leighton
38) "A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body." ---Margaret Fuller
39) "It isn't the thing you do, dear, It's the thing you leave undone which gives you a bit of heartache at the setting of the sun." ---Margaret E. Sangster
40) "The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to ourselves." ---Montaigne
41) "He who forgives ends the argument." ---African Proverb
42) "Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it." ---David Lloyd George
43) "For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear- when you are the hammer, strike." ---Edwin Markham
44) "It is easy enough to be pleasant when life flows by like a song. But the man worthwhile is one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong." ---Ella Wheeler Wilcox
45) "A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it." ---Chinese Proverb
46) "Beauty is a form of genious--- is higher, indeed, than genious, as it needs no explanation.It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon." ---Oscar Wilde
47) "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." ---Mahatma Gandhi
48) "I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind." ---Emily Bronte
49) "Inkstands and teacups are never as full as when one upsets them." ---Edith Wharton
50) "Make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts none of us yet know, for none of us have been taught in early youth, what fairy places we may build of beautiful thought-- proof against all adversity. Bright fancies, satisfied memories, noble histories, faithful sayings, treasure houses of precious and restful thoughts, which care cannot disturb , nor pain make gloomy, nor poverty take away from us-- houses built without hands, for our souls to live in." ---John Ruskin
51) "I hear and forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand." ---Chinese Proverb
52) "Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind." ---Samuel Johnson
53) "Now and then it is good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy." ---Guillaume Apollinaire
54) "There is no trouble so great or grave that it cannot be much diminshed by a nice cup of tea." ---Bernard Paul Heroux
55) "You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."---C.S. Lewis
56) "The spirit of delight comes in small ways." ---Robert Lewis Stevenson
57) "When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn." ---Harriet Beecher Stowe
58) "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." ---Albert Einstein
59) "What is it about my daily rituals? Why such pleasure in repetition? Well, it occurs to me that I might just be practising... being me." ---David Jacoby
60) "A gem cannot be polished without friction nor a man perfected without trials." ---Chinese Proverb
61) "I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeplyand intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: "This is the real me!" ---William James
62) "The doors of opportunity are marked 'push' and 'pull'." ---Ethel Watts Mumford
63) "Hope--- the recognition, by true foresight, of better things to be reached here after." ---John Ruskin
64) "Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life." ---Katharine Fullerton Gerould
65) "Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow." ---Helen Keller
66) "The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished." ---Ben Franklin
67) "Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are." ---George Eliot
68) "There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart." ---Celia Thaxter
69) "Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty." ---John Ruskin
70) "Yesterday is already a dream and tomorrow is only a vision, but today well-lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope." ---Sanskrit Proverb
71) "Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest." ---Mark Twain
72) "We will be known by the tracks we leave behind." ---Dakota Proverb
73) "Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited, while imagination embraces the whole world." ---Albert Einstein
74) "People who know little are usually great talkers, while those who know much say little." ---Jean Jacques Rousseau
75) "Love is blind, but friendship closes it's eyes." ---unknown
76) "Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me, and be my friend." ---Albert Camus
77) "If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand." ---unknown
78) "Soul meets soul on lovers lips." ---Shelley
79) "Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small peace of her fabric reveals the organization of her entire tapestry." ---- Richard Feynman
80) "The only thing more important than being good is being real. Authenticity is kinder than resignation without conviction. Truth leads to good faster than good leads to truth. Ultimately truth is good, but you have to live it from the inside out." ----Alan Cohen
81) "When your sense of worth exceeds your condition, conditions will shift to amtch your vision." ---Alan Cohen
82) "The greatest gift you can give yourself, is a little bit of your own attention." ---Anthony J D Angelo
83) "A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed. It feels an impulsion, this is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reasons and patterns behind all clouds. And you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond all horizons." ---Richard Bach, Illusions
84) "The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reation, both are transformed." Carl Jung
85) "In any conflict, we can defend ourselves or we can learn. Defense has made the world unlivable. What would happen if we chose to learn instead? Instead of saying, "You frighten me", what if we said, "You interest me?" ---Leslie Black, One
86) "Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail." ---Edward A Navajo
87) "Somewhere in my soul a thought went up in my mind today that I have had before, but did not finish, some way back, I could not fix the year. Nor where it went, nor why it came the second time to me, nor definetly what it was, have I the art to say. But somewhere in my soul, I know I've met the thing before; it just reminded me-' twas all'-and came my way no more."---Emily Dickison
88) "A wee child toddeling in a wonder world, I prefer their dogma my excursions into the natural gardens where the voice of the great spirit is heard in the twittering of the birds, the rippeling of the mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers. If this is paganism, then at present, at least, I am a pagan." ---Zitkala-Sa
89) "I went into the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life... to put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I came to die, discovered that I had not lived." ---Henry David Thoreau (Dead Poets Society)
90) "The warmth of another's eyes, the fresh scent of rain on a summer's eve? Moments like these renew in us a heartfelt appreciation for life." ---Gwen Weising
91) "The supreme state of human love is the unity of one soul within two bodies." ---Sri Aurobindo
92) "And when one of them meets with his other half, the actual half of himself, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight even for a moment." ---Plato 2,500 years ago
93) "Weed - a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered." ---Ralph Waldo Emerson
94) "All that glitters is not gold. All who wander are not lost." ---William Shakespeare
95) "It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business." ---Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)