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 a
difficult 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 yourself

with 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 draw
good out of what would
otherwise cause us harm.
-- St. Mary Euphrasia Pelletier
Embrace the World
Happiness does not come from
doing easy work but from the
afterglow of satisfaction that
comes after the achievement of
a difficult task that demanded
our best.
-- Theodore I. Rubin
You can judge a man by what
he 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 unique
viewpoints 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 our
difficulties and misfortunes is
the best way to transform
them. You will see your
difficulties in a different light,
as if you had wrapped them in
a film of pure gold.

Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

How lucky I am to have
something that makes saying
goodbye so hard.
A.A. Milne
Our opinions become fixed at
the point where we stop
thinking.
-- Ernest Renan
Your vision will become clear
only when you can look into
your own heart. Who looks
outside, dreams; who looks
inside, awakes.
Carl Jung
Friendship is love with
understanding.
-- Source Unknown
That's what I consider true
generosity. You give your all,
and yet you always feel as if it
costs you nothing.
Simone de Beauvoir
Life is a short but distant
journey inward to our soul.
-- Peckeroy
Each problem has hidden in it
an opportunity so powerful
that it literally dwarfs the
problem. The greatest success
stories were created by people
who recognized a problem and
turned 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 of
discovery.
James Joyce
No one is going to turn down a
good meal because he does not
understand the digestive
mechanism.
-- V. I. Klassen
No woman/man is worth your
tears and the only one who is,
will never make you cry.

-- Source Unknown
Where you stumble, there your
treasure lies.

Joseph Campbell
Few delights can equal the
mere presence of one whom
we trust utterly.
George MacDonald
Getting ahead in a difficult
profession requires avid faith in
yourself. You must be able to
sustain yourself against
staggering blows. There is no
code of conduct to help
beginners. That is why some
people with mediocre talent,
but with great inner drive, go
much further than people with
vastly superior talent.
-- Sophia Loren
It is nothing for one to know
something unless another
knows you know it.
-- Persian Proverb
The perfecting of one's self is
the fundamental base of all
progress and all moral
development.
-- Confucius
Our listening creates a
sanctuary for the homeless
parts within another person.

Rachel Naomi Remen

Telling the future by looking at
the past assumes that
conditions remain constant.
This is like driving a car by
looking in the rearview mirror.
-- Herb Brody
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.
Mahatma Gandhi
Money is a poor man's credit
card.
-- Marshall Mcluhan
Before a diamond shows its
brilliancy and prismatic colours
it has to stand a good deal of
cutting and smoothing.
-- Source Unknown
Gratitude is something of
which none of us can give too
much. For on the smiles, the
thanks we give, our little
gestures of appreciation, our
neighbours build their
philosophy of life.
A.J. Cronin
Nothing contributes so much to
tranquilize the mind as a steady
purpose - a point on which the
soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
A person is a person because of
other people.
African Proverb
Your life is only as ordinary as
you allow it be
Clive Cable
Nothing is worth making that
does not make the man.
-- Source Unknown
Poetry is the language of
feeling.
-- W. Winter
All serious daring starts from
within.
-- Joan Baez
Compromise: An amiable
arrangement between husband
and wife whereby they agree
to let her have her own way.
-- Source Unknown
Happiness is not the absence of
pain. There is no such thing as a
pain-free life. In fact emotional
pain is a useful life tool that
alerts you to a mismatch
between your values and your
environment
-- Med Yones
I think she must have been very
strictly brought up, she's so
desperately anxious to do the
wrong thing correctly.
-- Saki
It takes someone with a vision
of the possibilities to attain
new levels of experience.
Someone with the courage to
live his dreams.
-- Les Brown
Take full account of the
excellencies which you possess,
and in gratitude remember
how you would hanker after
them, if you had them not.
Marcus Aurelius
No man was ever wise by
chance.
-- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A flatterer is one who says
things to your face that he
wouldn't say behind your back.
-- Source Unknown
When you can do the common
things of life in an uncommon
way, you will command the
attention of the world.
George Washington Carver
Perfect love cannot be without
equality.
-- Scottish Proverb
Proverbs are short sentences
drawn from long experience.
-- Miguel De Cervantes
The less you know about a
subject, 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 ceased
to live.
-- Mark Twain
Many will detest you if you
spend all your love on yourself.
-- Source Unknown
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 which
gather you and lift you up; that
emotion is impure which seizes
only one side of your being and
so distorts you.
Rainer Maria Rilke
If you thought love was
expensive try anger.
- Clive Cable
Time has a wonderful way of
weeding out the trivial.
-- Richard Ben Sapir
Logic, like whiskey, loses its
beneficial effect when taken in
too large quantities.
-- Lord Dunsany
Worry is a thin stream of fear
trickling through the mind. If
encouraged, it cuts a channel
into which all other thoughts
are drained.
-- Arthur Somers Rache
The manner of giving is worth
more than the gift.
-- Pierre Cornielle
If you really want something
you can figure out how to
make it happen.
-- Cher
From the withered tree, a
flower blooms.
-- Source Unknown
Knowledge is the best eraser in
the world for disharmony,
distrust, despair, and the
endless physical deficiencies of
man.
-- Orlando A. Battista
It is not the answer that
enlightens, but the question.
-- Decouvertes
Quality is never an accident; it
is always the result of high
intention, sincere effort,
intelligent direction and skilful
execution; it represents the
wise choice of many
alternatives.
-- Willa A. Foster
You can clutch the past so
tightly to your chest that it
leaves your arms too full to
embrace the present
-- Jan Glidewell
Words in haste do friendships
waste.
-- Mark Twain
You can handle people more
successfully by enlisting their
feelings than by convincing
their 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'll
look 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
Procrastination is my sin. It
brings me naught but sorrow. I
know that I should stop it. In
fact, I will--tomorrow!
-- Gloria Pitzer
As knowledge increases,
wonder deepens.
-- Charles Morgan
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
In a friend you find a second
self.
-- Isabelle Norton
Every time I try to convince
myself, that I'm not falling in
love with you, I start to laugh
cause i know it's too late..!
-- alba cullen
It is the man who has done
nothing who is sure nothing
can be done.
-- Source Unknown
I learn teaching from teachers. I
learn golf from golfers. I learn
winning from coaches.
-- Harvey Penick
You can easily judge the
character of a man by how he
treats those who can do
nothing for him.

-- Source Unknown
You know there is a
problem with the
education system when
you realize that out
of the 3 R's only one
begins with an R.
-- Dennis Miller
The trouble with the
world is not that people
know too little, but that
they know so many
things that ain't so.
-- Mark Twain
The test of a first-rate
intelligence is the ability to
hold two opposed ideas in the
mind at the same time, and still
retain the ability to function.
-- Source Unknown
There is a great difference
between knowing and
understanding: you can know a
lot about something and not
really 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 of
friendships. 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 while
we 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 half
with the fancy.

-- Persian Proverb
Of course, the most deceptive
of all illusions is very likely
space.

You know, that thing between

"here" and "there" that
would have you see yourself
alone, instead of as the bridge
between them. That medium
between you and the rest of
the world that disguises your
role in creating it. You know,
that veil through which the
physical senses must explore
your chiselled secrets.

Mike Dooley

Notes from the Universe

Shame and guilt are noble
emotions essential in the
maintenance of civilized
society, and vital for the
development 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 quest
worth 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 human
beings to comprehend each
other.
Lewis Thomas
The Medusa and the Snail
If you want better from others,
be better yourself.
Mike Dooley,
The Universe
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
Sermons remain one of the last
forms of public discourse
where it is culturally forbidden
to talk back.
-- Harvey Cox
Let hope inspire you, but let
not idealism blind you. Proverb
Don't look back, you can never
look back.
-- Don Henley
EARN as much as you can.
SAVE as much as you can.
INVEST as much as you can.
GIVE as much as you can.
-- Rev. John Wellesly
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 few
reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe
I know myself, but that is all.
-- Source Unknown
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. When
you 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 have
enough to pay for something
better.

- - John Ruskin
Fundamentally, what everyone
needs is mental strength and
confidence, to manage the
mind, just as we manage the
outside 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
Today's preparation
determines tomorrow's
achievement.
-- Source Unknown
Reject your sense of injury and
the injury itself disappears.
-- Marcus Aurelius
Nothing is predestined: The
obstacles of your past can
become the gateways that lead
to new beginnings.
-- Ralph Blum
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
I have learned not to worry
about love; but to honour its
coming with all my heart.
Alice Walker
I have a great diet. You're
allowed to eat anything you
want, but you must eat it with
naked fat people.
-- Ed Bluestone
Read much, but not many
books.
-- Benjamin Franklin
A tree is known by its fruit; a
man by his deeds. A good deed
is never lost; he who sows
courtesy reaps friendship, and
he who plants kindness gathers
love.
-- St. Basil
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
The privilege of a lifetime is being
who you are.
-- Joseph Campbell
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 game of life is a game of
boomerangs. Our thoughts,
deeds and words return to us
sooner or later with
astounding accuracy.
-- Florence Scovel Shinn
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
Suffering is the sandpaper of
our life. It does its work of
shaping us. Suffering is part of
our training program for
becoming wise.
Ram Dass
Our walls of division do not
rise all the way to heaven.
Metropolitan Philaret of
Moscow
Oh would some power the gift
give us, to see ourselves as
others see us!
Robert Burns
No person will make a great
business who wants to do it
all himself or get all the
credit.

-- Andrew Carnegie
Argue for your limitations
and sure enough they're
yours

-- Richard Bach
Great necessities call out great
virtues.
-- Abigail Adams
I had plenty of pimples as a kid.
One day I fell asleep in the
library. When I woke up, a
blind man was reading my
face.
-- Rodney Dangerfield
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
I try to take one day at a time,
but sometimes several days
attack me at once.
-- Jennifer Unlimited
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
Not only is life a bitch, but it is
always having puppies.
-- Adrienne Gusoff
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 which
events 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
It is easier to exemplify values
than teach them.
-- Theodore M. Hesburgh
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 of
being 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 and
the best.
-- R. Turnbull
Instead of looking for
love, give it; constantly
renew it in yourself and
you will always feel its
presence within you. It
will always be there
smiling at you, gazing on
you kindly.
Omraam Mikhael
Aivanhov
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
to clarity. It can turn a
meal into a feast, a house
into a home, a stranger
into a friend. Gratitude
makes sense of our past,
brings peace for today,
and creates a vision for
tomorrow.
-- Melody Beattie