May I share with you a formula that in my judgment will help you and help me to journey well through mortality... First, fill your mind with truth; second, fill your life with service; and third, fill your heart with love.
-Thomas S. Monson-

Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
-Beatrix Potter-

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
-Lois McMaster Bujold-

Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.
-Gloria Steinem-

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
-André Gide-

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.
-Napoleon Bonaparte-

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
-George Bernard Shaw-

And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
-Paulo Coelho-

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why we call it 'The Present'.
-Eleanor Roosevelt-

Without music, life would be a mistake.
-Friedrich Nietzsche-

For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains to destroy us.
-Rainer Maria Rilke-

Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious,timid, or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is.
- Henry Miller -

It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.
-Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj-

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
-Maya Angelou-

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-Albert Einstein-

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
-Leonardo da Vinci-

You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values.
-Bill Ayers-

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
-Thomas Stephen Szasz-

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King Jr.-

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
-Leo Buscaglia-

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-T. S. Eliot-

Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.
-Lord Chesterfield-

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
-Lao Tzu-

The only religion is kindness.

-Dalai Lama-

It is difficult to tell how much men’s minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech.

-Cicero-

You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him discover it within himself.
-Galileo Galilei-

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
-Abigail Adams-

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
-Gustave Flaubert-

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
-C.S. Lewi-

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
-Arthur Schopenhauer-

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
-George Bernard Shaw-

When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger, the other opportunity.

-John F. Kennedy-

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.

If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
-The Dalai Lama-

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
-Albert Einstein-

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
-G. K. Chesterton-

Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.
~Goethe-

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
-Albert Einstein-

All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible.
-T.E. Lawrence-

We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.
~Mark Twain-

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
-James Matthew Barrie-

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
~Elizabeth Bowen

Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive. Cease to admire, and all her plumes Fall flat and shrink into a trivial toy, At every sudden slighting quite abashed.”
~John Milton

Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
~ Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-Abraham Lincoln-

To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.
-Friedrich Nietzsche-

He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
-Solon-