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Volume 1



It’s nice to have a quote for as

many situations as you can in life.

Sometimes pulling out a quote

from thin air can save a situation

from going bad.

Sometimes using just the right

quote can make light of adifficult time in your life.

And still other times a quote can

help you make sense of

something you don’t yet

understand.

So go ahead and arm yourselfwith these quotes to enrich your

life.



We all have the extraordinary

coded within us... waiting to

be released.

-- Jean Houston



All that we see or seem, is but a

dream within a dream.

-- Edgar Allen Poe



Let us learn to skilfully drawgood out of what wouldotherwise cause us harm.

-- St. Mary Euphrasia PelletierEmbrace the World



Happiness does not come fromdoing easy work but from theafterglow of satisfaction thatcomes after the achievement of

a difficult task that demandedour best.-- Theodore I. Rubin



You can judge a man by whathe laughs at.-- Source Unknown



What we have done for

ourselves alone dies with us;

what we have done for others

and the world remains and is

immortal.

-- Albert Pike



Some minds are like concrete,

all mixed up and permanently

set.

-- Source Unknown



Imagination is intelligence

having fun

-- George Cialabba



The obstacle is the path.

-- Zen Saying



The real voyage of discovery

consists not in seeking new

landscapes, but in having new

eyes.

-- Marcel Proust



Let go of your attachment to

being right, and suddenly your

mind is more open. You're able

to benefit from the uniqueviewpoints of others, without

being crippled by your own

judgment.

-- Ralph Marston



A hard fall means a high

bounce... if you're made of the

right material.

-- Source Unknown



The whole problem is to

establish communication with

one’s self.

-- E. B. White



Thanking heaven even for ourdifficulties and misfortunes isthe best way to transform

them. You will see yourdifficulties in a different light,as if you had wrapped them ina film of pure gold.

Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov



How lucky I am to havesomething that makes sayinggoodbye so hard.

A.A. Milne



Our opinions become fixed atthe point where we stopthinking.-- Ernest Renan



Your vision will become clearonly when you can look intoyour own heart. Who looksoutside, dreams; who looksinside, awakes.

Carl Jung



Friendship is love with

understanding.

-- Source Unknown



That's what I consider truegenerosity. You give your all,and yet you always feel as if itcosts you nothing.

Simone de Beauvoir



Life is a short but distantjourney inward to our soul.-- Peckeroy



Each problem has hidden in itan opportunity so powerfulthat it literally dwarfs theproblem. The greatest successstories were created by peoplewho recognized a problem andturned it into an opportunity.-- Joseph Sugarman

The bridges that you cross

before you come to them are

over rivers that aren't there.

-- Gene Brown



Mistakes are the portals ofdiscovery.James Joyce



No one is going to turn down agood meal because he does notunderstand the digestivemechanism.

-- V. I. Klassen



No woman/man is worth yourtears and the only one who is,will never make you cry.

-- Source Unknown



Where you stumble, there yourtreasure lies.

Joseph Campbell



Few delights can equal themere presence of one whomwe trust utterly.George MacDonald



Getting ahead in a difficultprofession requires avid faith in

yourself. You must be able tosustain yourself againststaggering blows. There is nocode of conduct to helpbeginners. That is why somepeople with mediocre talent,

but with great inner drive, gomuch further than people withvastly superior talent.-- Sophia Loren



It is nothing for one to knowsomething unless another

knows you know it.-- Persian Proverb



The perfecting of one's self isthe fundamental base of all

progress and all moraldevelopment.-- Confucius



Our listening creates asanctuary for the homelessparts within another person.

Rachel Naomi Remen



Telling the future by looking at

the past assumes thatconditions remain constant.This is like driving a car bylooking in the rearview mirror.-- Herb Brody



As human beings, our greatnesslies not so much in being ableto remake the world -- that isthe myth of the "atomic age" --as in being able to remakeourselves.Mahatma Gandhi



Money is a poor man's creditcard.

-- Marshall Mcluhan



Before a diamond shows itsbrilliancy and prismatic coloursit has to stand a good deal ofcutting and smoothing.-- Source Unknown



Gratitude is something ofwhich none of us can give toomuch. For on the smiles, thethanks we give, our littlegestures of appreciation, ourneighbours build theirphilosophy of life.

A.J. Cronin



Nothing contributes so much totranquilize the mind as a steadypurpose - a point on which thesoul may fix its intellectual eye.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley



A person is a person because ofother people.

African Proverb



Your life is only as ordinary asyou allow it be

Clive Cable



Nothing is worth making that

does not make the man.

-- Source Unknown



Poetry is the language offeeling.

-- W. Winter



All serious daring starts fromwithin.

-- Joan Baez



Compromise: An amiablearrangement between husband

and wife whereby they agreeto let her have her own way.

-- Source Unknown



Happiness is not the absence ofpain. There is no such thing as a

pain-free life. In fact emotionalpain is a useful life tool thatalerts you to a mismatchbetween your values and yourenvironment

-- Med Yones



I think she must have been verystrictly brought up, she's so

desperately anxious to do thewrong thing correctly.

-- Saki



It takes someone with a visionof the possibilities to attain

new levels of experience.Someone with the courage tolive his dreams.

-- Les Brown



Take full account of theexcellencies which you possess,

and in gratitude rememberhow you would hanker afterthem, if you had them not.

Marcus Aurelius



No man was ever wise bychance.

-- Lucius Annaeus Seneca



A flatterer is one who saysthings to your face that hewouldn't say behind your back.

-- Source Unknown



Perfect love cannot be withoutequality.

-- Scottish Proverb



Proverbs are short sentencesdrawn from long experience.

-- Miguel De Cervantes



The less you know about asubject, the longer it takes you

to explain it.-- Source Unknown



Don't part with your illusions.When they are gone you may

still exist, but you have ceasedto live.

-- Mark Twain



So much has been given to me;I have no time to ponder over

that which has been denied.Helen Keller



All emotions are pure whichgather you and lift you up; that

emotion is impure which seizesonly one side of your being andso distorts you.

Rainer Maria Rilke



If you thought love wasexpensive try anger.

- Clive Cable



Time has a wonderful way of

weeding out the trivial.-- Richard Ben Sapir



Logic, like whiskey, loses itsbeneficial effect when taken intoo large quantities.

-- Lord Dunsany



Worry is a thin stream of feartrickling through the mind. Ifencouraged, it cuts a channelinto which all other thoughtsare drained.

-- Arthur Somers Rache



The manner of giving is worthmore than the gift.

-- Pierre Cornielle



If you really want somethingyou can figure out how tomake it happen.

-- Cher



From the withered tree, aflower blooms.

-- Source Unknown



Knowledge is the best eraser inthe world for disharmony,distrust, despair, and theendless physical deficiencies ofman.

-- Orlando A. Battista



It is not the answer thatenlightens, but the question.

-- Decouvertes



You can clutch the past sotightly to your chest that it

leaves your arms too full toembrace the present

-- Jan Glidewell



Words in haste do friendships

waste.-- Mark Twain



You can handle people more

successfully by enlisting theirfeelings than by convincingtheir reason.-- Paul P. Parker



It is hard to free fools from the

chains they revere.-- Voltaire



Where you end up isn't the

most important thing. It's the

road you take to get you there.

The road you take is what you'lllook back on and call your life.

Not reaching success isn't the

end of the world. Not trying to

reach it is.

-- Tim Wiley



Nothing more detestable does

the earth produce than an

ungrateful man.

-- Decimus Magnus Ausonius



The trouble with learning from

experience is that you never

graduate.

-- Doug Larson



The cynic never grows up, but

commits intellectual suicide.-- Dean Charles R. Brown



It is what we think we know

already that prevents us from

learning.

-- Claude Bernard



We've all heard that we have to

learn from our mistakes, but I

think it's more important to

learn from successes. If you

learn only from your mistakes,

you are inclined to learn only

errors.

-- Norman Vincent Peale



Every time I try to convince

myself, that I'm not falling inlove with you, I start to laughcause i know it's too late..!

-- alba cullen



It is the man who has done

nothing who is sure nothingcan be done.

-- Source Unknown



You can easily judge thecharacter of a man by how hetreats those who can donothing for him.

-- Source Unknown



There is a great difference

between knowing and

understanding: you can know a

lot about something and notreally understand it.

-- Charles F. Kettering



Sometimes one pays most for

the things one gets for nothing.

-- Albert Einstein



One of life's most fulfilling

moments occurs in the split-

second when the familiar is

suddenly transformed into

the dazzling aura of the

profoundly new.

Edward B. Lindaman

Thinking in the Future Tense



A marriage is a series offriendships. Love serves as its

underlying theme. Friendships

provide it with the new

challenges around which the

relationship further develops.Each type of friendship with

ones partner comes into being,

rises to a peak of enthusiasm,

and then wanes away in our

cedar chest of sentimental

values. Every once in a whilewe go to the chest and draw

out a friendship item to give

us a shot in the arm. Then we

put it away till another day.

-- Source Unknown



The loveliest of faces are to be

seen by moonlight, when one

sees half with the eye and halfwith the fancy.

-- Persian Proverb



Shame and guilt are noble

emotions essential in the

maintenance of civilized

society, and vital for thedevelopment of some of the

most refined and elegant

qualities of human potential.

-- Willard Gaylen



To fall in love is easy, even to

remain in it is not difficult; our

human loneliness is cause

enough. But is a hard questworth making to find a

comrade through whose steady

presence one becomes steadily

the person one desires to be.

-- Anna Strong



Arguments only confirm people

in their own opinions.

-- Booth Tarkington



To look backward for a while is

to refresh the eye, to restore it,

and to render it the more fit for

its prime function of looking

forward.

-- Margaret Fairless Barber



In a world where you can be

anything, be yourself.

-- Source Unknown



It is only when the rich are sick

that they fully feel the

impotence of wealth.

-- Charles Caleb Colton



Neither genius, fame, nor love

show the greatness of the soul.

Only kindness can do that.

-- Jean Babtiste Henri

Lacordaire



The greatest gift is the passion

for reading. It is cheap, it

consoles, it distracts, it excites,

it gives you knowledge of the

world and experience of a wide

kind. It is a moral illumination.

-- Elizabeth Hardwick



The best mirror is an old friend.

-- Source Unknown



Society evolves not by

shouting each other down, but

by the unique capacity of

unique, individual humanbeings to comprehend each

other.

Lewis Thomas

The Medusa and the Snail



A happy family is but an earlier

heaven.

-- John Bowring



They must often change who

would be constant in happiness

or wisdom.

-- Confucius



The only normal people are the

ones you don't know very well.

- Source Unknown



The past, though it cannot be

relived, can always be repaired.

-- John La Farge



After growing wildly for years,

the field of computing appears

to be reaching its infancy.

-- John Pierce



A man grows most tired while

standing still.

-- Chinese Proverb



You can tell whether a man is

clever by his answers. You can

tell whether a man is wise by

his questions.

-- Mahfouz Naguib



You can't think and hit the ball

at the same time.

-- Yogi Berra



Doubt is a pain too lonely to

know that faith is his twin

brother.

-- Khalil Gibran



You can't lead anyone else

further than you have gone

yourself.

-- Gene Mauch



Guilt serves no purpose

- Source unknown



No act of kindness, no matter

how small, is ever wasted.

Aesop



Let hope inspire you, but let

not idealism blind you. Proverb

Don't look back, you can never

look back.

-- Don Henley



There is always more to learn

and earn. Strive for excellence,

not perfection.

-- Jacob McAllister



Hold a true friend with both

hands.

Nigerian Proverb



Will power is to the mind like a

strong blind man who carries

on his shoulders a lame man

who can see.

-- Arthur Schopenhauer



One ought, every day at least,

to hear a little song, read a

good poem, see a fine picture

and, if possible, speak a fewreasonable words.

-- Johann Wolfgang von

Goethe



It's unwise to pay too much, but

it's worse to pay too little. When

you pay too much, you lose a

little money — that is all. Whenyou pay too little, you sometimes

lose everything, because the

thing you bought was incapable

of doing the thing it was bought

to do. The common law of

business balance prohibits paying

a little and getting a lot — it can't

be done. If you deal with the

lowest bidder, it is well to add

something for the risk you run,

and if you do that you will haveenough to pay for something

better.

- - John Ruskin



Fundamentally, what everyone

needs is mental strength and

confidence, to manage the

mind, just as we manage theoutside world.

Amma (Sudhamani)



“A little knowledge is a

dangerous thing; drink deep, or

taste not the Pierian Spring:

there shallow draughts

intoxicate the brain and

drinking largely sobers us

again.”

- - Alexander Pope



Happiness makes up in height

for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost



I think music in itself is healing.

It's an explosive expression of

humanity. It's something we

are all touched by. No matter

what culture we're from,

everyone loves music.

-- Billy Joel



The truth is, laughter always

sounds more perfect than

weeping. Laughter flows in a

violent riff and is effortlessly

melodic. Weeping is often

fought, choked, half strangled,

or surrendered to with

humiliation.

-- Anne Rice



Read much, but not many

books.

-- Benjamin Franklin



Truth be told, when a dream

comes true, 9 out of 10

dreamers say that it was easier

than they thought, happened

faster than they expected, and

was better than they first

imagined it would be - causing

those in the unseen to wonder

without end, why they didn't

dream bigger?

- Notes From the Universe



Our character is basically a

composite of our habits.

Because they are consistent,

often unconscious patterns,

they constantly, daily, express

our character…

-- Stephen R. Covey



The secret of making

something work in your lives

is, first of all, the deep desire to

make it work: then the faith

and belief that it can work:

then to hold that clear definite

vision in your consciousness

and see it working out step by

step, without one thought of

doubt or disbelief.

-- Eileen Caddy



Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

-- Sophocles



Our walls of division do not

rise all the way to heaven.

Metropolitan Philaret of

Moscow



No person will make a great

business who wants to do it

all himself or get all the

credit.

-- Andrew Carnegie



Argue for your limitationsand sure enough they're

yours

-- Richard Bach



Ego is the immediate dictate of

human consciousness.

-- Max Planck



On reflection, one of the things

I needed to learn was to allow

myself to be loved.

-- Isha McKenzie-Mavinga



The sooner I fall behind, the

more time I have to catch up.

-- Source Unknown



I belong to Bridegrooms

Anonymous. Whenever I feel

like getting married, they send

over a lady in a housecoat and

hair curlers to burn my toast

for me.

-- Dick Martin



The great awareness comes

slowly, piece by piece. The path

of spiritual growth is a path of

lifelong learning. The

experience of spiritual power is

basically a joyful one.

-- M. Scott Peck



We live in an age when pizza

gets to your home before the

police.

-- Jeff Marder



A painter paints pictures on

canvas. But musicians paint

their pictures on silence.

-- Leopold Stokowski



The only books that influence

us are those for which we are

ready, and which have gone a

little farther down our

particular path than we have

yet got ourselves.

-- E.M. Forster



Every moment is another

chance.

-- Movie, 8 Mile



Only a life lived for others is a

life worth while.

-- Albert Einstein



There is within each of us a

modulation, an inner

exaltation, which lifts us above

the buffetings with whichevents assail us. Likewise, it

lifts us above dependence

upon the gifts of events for our

joy.

Dr. Albert Schweitzer



If your imagination leads you

to understand how quickly

people grant your requests

when those requests appeal to

their self-interest, you can have

practically anything you go

after.

-- Napoleon Hill



Do your best and then relax.

Let things go on in a natural

way, rather than force them.

Paramahansa Yogananda



Love is the master key that

opens the gates of happiness.

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes



It takes courage to grow up

and become who you really

are.

-- Cummings



As we learn to have

compassion for ourselves, the

circle of compassion for others

-- what and whom we can

work with, and how -- becomes

wider.

Pema Chodron



Never put off until tomorrow

what you can do the day after

tomorrow.

-- Mark Twain



Make no judgments where you

have no compassion.

-- Anne Mccaffrey



If you haven't the strength to

impose your own terms upon

life, you must accept the terms

it offers you.

-- T. S. Eliot



No love, no friendship can cross

the path of our destiny without

leaving some mark on it

forever.

-- Francois Muriac



There was never a great man

who had not a great mother.

-- Olive Schreiner



Loss makes artists of us all as

we weave new patterns in the

fabric of our lives.

Greta W. Crosby



Like stones, words are

laborious and unforgiving, and

the fitting of them together,

like the fitting of stones,demands great patience and

strength of purpose and

particular skill.

-- Edmund Morrison



I've read the last page of the

Bible. It's all going to turn out

all right.

-- Billy Graham



There is so much that can be

written of the intimate

companionship which solitude

affords.

-- Peckeroy



By the time a man realizes that

maybe his father was right, he

usually has a son who thinks

he's wrong.

-- Charles Wadsworth



Praise does wonders for the

sense of hearing.

-- Source Unknown



Preachers denounce sin as if it

was available to everyone.

-- Frank Dane



There is no surprise more

magical than the surprise ofbeing loved.

Charles Morgan



Work like you don't need the

money.

Love like you've never been

hurt.

Dance like nobody's watching.

-- Satchel Paige



To find the universal elements

enough; to find the air and the

water exhilarating; to be

refreshed by a morning walk or

an evening saunter; to be

thrilled by the stars at night; to

be elated over a bird's nest or a

wildflower in spring - these are

some of the rewards of the

simple life.

John Burroughs



There is so much that can be

written of the intimate

companionship which solitude

affords.

-- Peckeroy



By the time a man realizes that

maybe his father was right, he

usually has a son who thinks

he's wrong.

-- Charles Wadsworth



To live is so startling it

leaves little time for

anything else.

Emily Dickinson



Beautiful light is born of

darkness, so the faith that

springs from conflict is

often the strongest andthe best.

-- R. Turnbull



You need no collateral to

borrow trouble.

-- William Lyon Phelps



The greatest evils and the

worst of crimes is poverty;

our first duty, a duty to

which every other

consideration should be

sacrificed, is not to be

poor.

-- George Bernard Shaw



When you were born, you

cried and the world

rejoiced. Live your life so

that when you die, the

world cries and you

rejoice.

-- Cherokee Expression



Gratitude unlocks the

fullness of life. It turns

what we have into

enough, and more. It turns

denial into acceptance,

chaos to order, confusion

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