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Various quotes from "Zen and the Art of Making a Living"

@When one happens on a book of this kind, he is well advised to throw it
away...
-- Shu-an
@To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters
say, to "stink of Zen."
-- Alan Watts
@For wayfarers of all times, the right strategy for skillfully spreading
the Way essentially lies in adapting to communicate.  Those who do not
know how to adapt stick to the letter and cling to doctrines, get stuck on
forms and mired in sentiments -- none of them succeed in strategic
adaptation.
-- Zhantang
@Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares
to become involved with experimenting with his own life.
-- Herbert Otto
@Our demons are our own limitations, which shut us off from the
realization of the ubiquity of the spirit ... each of these demons is
conquered in a vision quest.
-- Joseph Campbell
@If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track, which has
been there all the while waiting for you, and the life that you ought to
be living is the one you are living.
-- Joseph Campbell
@The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can
measure.
-- William Blake
@Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't
want, to impress people they don't like.
-- Will Rogers
@Come out of the circle of time, and into the circle of love.
-- Rumi
@It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that
prevents us from living freely and nobly.
-- Bertrand Russell
@This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do
with it.
-- Emerson
@Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
-- Anais Nin
@What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea.  It is
something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something
that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.
-- Joseph Campbell
@The feminine values are the fountain of bliss.
-- anonymous
@Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one
can go.
-- T.S. Eliot
@Know the masculine,
Keep to the feminine.
-- Lao Tzu
@O, Heart, remember thee That Man is none, Save One.
-- Coventry Patmore
@Nothing divides one so much as thought.
-- Reginald Blyth
@We are kept out of the Garden by our own fear and desire in relation to
what we think to be the goods of our life.
-- Joseph Campbell
@Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.
-- Marsilio Ficino
@The Whole Business of Man Is The Arts, & All Things Common.
-- William Blake
@Art is the proper task of life.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
@The most awkward means are adequate to the communication of authentic
experience, and the finest words no compensation for lack of it.  It is
for this reason that we are moved by the true Primitives and that the most
accomplished art craftsmanship leaves us cold.
-- Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
@The purpose of the whole (work) is to remove those who are living in this
life from a state of wretchedness and lead them to the state of
blessedness.
-- Dante
@Industry without art is brutality.
-- Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
@When Nations grow Old,
The Arts grow Cold
And Commerce settles on every Tree.
-- William Blake
@For, in order to turn the individual into a function of the State, his
dependence on anything beside the State must be taken from him.
-- Carl Jung
@...technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not
realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
-- Alan Watts
@Thus, those who say they would have right without its correlate, wrong;
or good government without its correlate, misrule, do not apprehend the
great principles of the universe, nor the nature of all creation.
-- Chuang Tzu
@A man is related to all nature.
-- Emerson
@Know Ye not... that the spirit of God dwelleth within you?
-- I Corinthians 3:16
@The Man who never in his Mind and Thoughts travel'd to Heaven is No
Artist.
-- William Blake
@Knowledge has three degrees -- opinion, science, illumination.  The means
or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the
third, intuition.
-- Plotinus
@Thou shalt know God without image and without means.
-- Meister Eckhart
@The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical
infinity.
-- Alan Watts
@One comes to be of just such stuff as that on which the mind is set.
-- Upanishads
@Can it really be said that before the day of our pretentious science,
humanity was composed solely of imbeciles and the superstitious?
-- R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz
@I am in you and you in me, mutual in love divine.
-- William Blake
@Mythology is the womb of man's initiation to life and death.
-- Joseph Campbell
@We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do
not want suffering.  It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically
unwise to pursue only one's own happiness oblivious to the feelings and
aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human
family.  The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own
happiness.
-- The Fourteenth Dalai Lama
@If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lives, this is the real nihilism,
the real undoing of the world.
-- Reginald Blyth
@A craft can only have meaning when it serves a spiritual way.
-- Titus Burkhardt
@I think the person who takes a job in order to live -- that is to say,
(just) for the money -- has turned himself into a slave.
-- Joseph Campbell
@Thoroughly to know oneself, is above all art, for it is the highest art.
-- Theologia Germanica
@Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
-- Leonardo Da Vinci
@Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its
nature will be satisfied.
-- Chuang Tzu
@Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
-- Carl Jung
@Art always has something of the Unconscious about it.
-- D.T. Suzuki
@The Tao is near and people seek it far away.
-- Menicus
@Facts, to become poetic, must be fused with being.
-- Gerald Sykes
@It is the natural instinct of a child to work from within outwards;
"First I think, and then I draw my think."  What wasted efforts we make to
teach the child to stop thinking, and only to observe!
-- Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
@To be properly expressed a thing must proceed from within, moved by its
form.
-- Meister Eckhart
@To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
-- Albert Camus
@The Tao's principle is spontaniety.
-- Lao Tzu
@I must Create a System or be enslav'd by another Man's.
-- William Blake
@Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?
- Goethe
@Being is thoughtless -- beyond and beneath all catagories of thought.
Expression is the realization of creative thought.  Being is still;
expression, moving.
-- anonymous
@But then if I do not strive, who will?
-- Chuang Tzu
@For one who has conquered the mind,
The mind is the best of friends,
But for one who has failed to do so,
His very mind will be the greatest enemy.
-- Bhagavad-Gita
@Don't listen to friends when the Friend inside you says "Do this."
-- Gandhi
@One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering
of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.
-- Joseph Campbell
@The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's hum drum
life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of art,
full of genuine inner creativity.
-- D.T. Suzuki
@...Zen makes use, to a great extent, of poetical expressions; Zen is
wedded to poetry.
-- D.T. Suzuki
@Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.
-- Sigmund Freud
@Desires that are just are termed Truth.
Without desires, Truth cannot be understood.
-- Hung Tzu Ch'eng (Discourse on Vegetable Roots)
@A poem is the realization of love...
-- Rene Char
@In the Supreme Presence of Mind there is total absense of "mine."
-- anonymous
@Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that
work has been put in every heart.
-- Rumi
@Look with thine ears.
-- Shakespeare
@If you ask him: "What is silence?" he will answer, "It is the Great
Mystery!  The holy silence is His voice!"  If you ask: "What are the
fruits of silence?" he will say: "They are self-control, true courage or
endurance, patience, dignity, and reverence.  Silence is the cornerstone
of character."
-- Ohiyesa (Charles Eastman)
@The words of truth are always paradoxical.
-- Lao Tzu
@The vocation, whether it be that of the farmer or the architect, is a
function; the exercise of this function as regards the man himself is the
most indispensable means of spiritual development, and as regards his
relation to society the measure of his worth.
-- Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
@The art of life, of a poet's life, is, not having anything to do, to do
something.
-- Henry David Thoreau
@Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or
other.  If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our
desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only
for our own happiness, but that of the world at large.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
@To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
-- Lieh Tzu
@To love is to transform; to be a poet.
-- Norman O. Brown
@The Perfect Way is only difficult for those who pick and choose; Do not
like, do not dislike: all will then be clear.
-- Seng-ts'an
@To be willing to suffer in order to create is one thing; to realize that
one's creation necessitates one's suffering, that suffering is one of the
greatest of God's gifts, is almost to reach a mystical solution to the
problem of evil.
-- J.W. Sullivan
@Take thy Bliss O Man!
-- William Blake
@As the innocent infant relies upon the mother for sustenance, so the
innocent wanderer, following his native compassion and bliss, relies upon
the natural intelligence of life to sustain him.
-- anonymous
@There are various Ways.  There is the Way of salvation by the law of
Buddha, the Way of Confucious governing the Way of learning, the Way of
healing as a doctor, as a poet teaching the Way of Waka, tea, archery, and
many arts and skills.  Each man practices as he feels inclined.
-- Miyamoto Musashi
@You wish to see; Listen.  Hearing is a step toward Vision.
-- St. Bernard
@The way of the mystic and the way of the artist are related, except that
the mystic doesn't have the craft.
-- Jean Erdman
@Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequence
in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable
human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an
unmistakable quality to the work.
-- Alan Watts
@There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.
-- Goethe
@Be still and cool in thy own mind and spirit.
-- George Fox
@The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are
all poets.
-- Plato
@In Zen the important thing is to stop the course of the mind.
-- Saying of "an Ancient" quoted by Takashina Rosen
@If you realize what the real problem is -- losing yourself -- you realize
that this itself is the ultimate trial.
-- Joseph Campbell
@The heart has its reasons that the mind knows nothing of.
-- Blaise Pascal
@What is particularly intriguing, in fact, is that whereas many peoples
tend to locate this experience (of the sacred) in certain unusual, if not
'supernatural' moments and circumstances... the Oriental focus is upon
mystery in the most obvious, ordinary, mundane -- the most natural --
situations of life.
-- Conrad Hyers
@The work will teach you how to do it.
-- Estonian Proverb
@Love is love's reward.
-- John Dryden
@All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be
undertaken with painstaking excellence.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
@...a first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
-- Abraham Maslow
@We have come to think of art and work as incompatible, or at least
independent catagories and have for the first time in history created an
industry without art.
-- Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
@Beauty is truth, truth beauty, -- that is all Ye know on earth, and all
ye need to know.
-- John Keats
@To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
-- Walt Whitman
@For man is by nature an artist.
-- Tagore
@The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.
-- Rumi
@To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all,
is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
@Everything passes, and what remains of former times, what remains of
life, is the spiritual.  In everything we do, the claim of the Absolute is
unchanging.
-- Paul Klee
@Whoever does not detach himself from the ego never attains the Absolute
and never deciphers life.
-- Constantin Brancusi
@If the universal is the essential, then it is the basis of all life and
art.  Recognizing and uniting with the universal therefore gives us the
greatest aesthetic satisfction, the greatest emotion of beauty.  The more
this union with the universal is felt, the more individual subjectivity
declines.
-- Piet Mondrian
@Construction on a purely spiritual basis is a slow business... The artist
must train not only his eye but also his soul...
-- Wassily Kandinsky
@Something sacred, that's it.  We ought to be able to say that such and
such a painting is as it is, with its capacity for power, because it is
"touched by God."
-- Pablo Picasso
@Firmament and planets both disappeared, but the mighty breath which gives
life to all things and in which all is bound up remained.
-- Vincent Van Gogh (Describing Starry Night)
@The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the
world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to
assist the artist was the myth.
-- Joseph Campbell
@The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.
-- Emerson
@Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.
-- Joseph Campbell
@...the degradation of the sense of symbol in modern society is one of its
many signs of spiritual decay.
-- Thomas Merton
@The secret of art is love.
-- Antoine Bourdelle
@Whoever controls the media -- the images -- controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg
@Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent
in the very texture of human life.
-- Alfred North Whitehead
@The Universal is always the same, the specifics are always different.
-- Robert Aitken
@Look within.  Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up,
if thou wilt ever dig.
-- Marcus Aurelius
@Be patient toward all that is unresolved in your heart And try to love
the questions themselves.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
@The hero's will is not that of his ancestors nor of his society, but his
own.  This will to be oneself is heroism.
-- Ortega y Gassett
@Man's activity consists in either a making or doing.  Both of these
aspects of the active life depend for their correction upon the
contemplative life (that is, the Hero).
-- Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
@I was so full of sleep at the time that I left the true way.
-- Dante
@Questions are the creative acts of intelligence.
-- Frank Kingdon
@Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing.
-- Helen Keller
@All truth is an achievement.  If you would have truth at its value, go
win it.
-- T.T. Munger
@When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own
self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of
consciousness.
-- Joseph Campbell
@Artist!  You are a magician: Art is the great miracle.
-- Péladan
@Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that
he who will trick will always find another who will suffer himself to be
tricked.
-- Machiavelli
@We are what we think.  All that we are arises with our thoughts.  With
our thoughts we make the world.
-- Buddha
@You can't depend on your judgement when you imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain
@The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the
senses.
-- Leonardo da Vinci
@From What-is all the world of things was born.  But What-is sprang in turn
from What-is-not.
-- Lao Tzu
@All poetic inspiration is but dream interpretation.
-- Hans Sachs
@Has fear ever held a man back from anything he really wanted, or a woman
either?
-- George Bernard Shaw
@Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers
   but to be fearless in facing them.
Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain
   but for the heart to conquer it.
-- Tagore
@Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out
of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few more
upon it.
-- Albert Schweitzer
@Life is a fight.  You must remain concentrated and not reveal your
defects; through continuous training and self-control, gradually you
discard them.
-- Taisen Deshimaru
@Those who reach greatness on earth reach it through concentration.
-- Upanishads
@Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that
something else is more important than fear.
-- Ambrose Redmoon
@There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.
-- Han Suyin
@Your motive in working should be to set others, by your example, on the
path of duty.
-- Bhagavad-Gita
@...Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and
leads to self-destruction.
-- J. Krishnamurti
@Is not indeed every man a student, and do not all things exist for the
student's behoof?
-- Emerson
@The world is our school for spiritual discovery.
-- Paul Brunton
@Education is not filling a bucket but lighting a fire.
-- William Butler Yeats
@It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than
a reason by which men are moved.
-- Irwin Edman
@History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
-- James Joyce
@I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that
our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances
within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the
rapture of being alive.
-- Joseph Campbell
@All wrong-doing arises because of mind.  If mind is transformed can
wrong-doing remain?
-- Buddha
@He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has
descended into the secrets of all minds.
-- Emerson
@"What is the path?" the Zen Master Nan-sen was asked.
"Everyday life is the path," he answered.
@It doesn't happen all at once... You become.  It takes a long time.
-- Margery Williams
@Koans are the folk stories of Zen Buddhism, metaphorical narratives that
particularize essential nature.
-- Robert Aitken
@Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love
our enemies -- or else?  The chain reaction of evil -- hate begetting
hate, wars producing more wars -- must be broken, or else we shall be
plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
@I believe in life after birth!
-- Maxie Dunham
@After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the
world depends.
-- Wallace Stevens
@I exist as I am, that is enough.
-- Walt Whitman
@You can and you must expect suffering.
-- Mother Teresa
@Is not life a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
@We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that
we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being
alive, is what it is all about.
-- Joseph Campbell
@We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to
pain.
-- Alan Watts
@Today... we know that all living being who strive to maintain life and who
long to be spared pain -- all living beings on earth are our neighbors.
-- Albert Schweitzer
@It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins
to have meaning.
-- P.D. Ouspensky
@No work of love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollownes of heart,
just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no
capacity for living now.
-- Alan Watts
@There is nothing with which every man is so afriad as getting to know how
enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
-- Sören Kierkegaard
@The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
-- Mother Teresa
@One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a (hu)man.
-- Goethe
@Love until it hurts.  Real love is always painful and hurts: then it is
real and pure.
-- Mother Teresa
@My life is an indivisible whole, and all my activities run into one
another; and they have their rise in my insatiable love of mankind.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
@The Way is not far from man; if we take the Way as something superhuman,
beyond man, this is not the real Way.
-- Confucius
@Everybody can be great.  Because anybody can serve.  You don't have to
have a college degree to serve.  You don't have to make your subject and
verb agree to serve.  You don't have to know about Plato and Aristotle...
(or) Einstein's Theory of Relativity... (or) the Second Theory of
Thermodynamics in physics to serve.  You only need a heart full of grace.
A soul generated by love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
@I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I
have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope
and faith.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
@I cry: Love! Love! happy happy Love! free as the mountain wind!
-- William Blake
@NOT I -- NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel
it for yourself.
-- Walt Whitman
@Each entered the forest at a point he, himelf, had chosen, where it was
darkest and there was no path.
-- from The Quest of the Holy Grail
@If a man does not keep pace with his companions perhaps it is because he
hears a different drummer.  Let him step to the music he hears, however
measured or far away.
-- Henry David Thoreau
@If you observe well your own heart will answer.
-- R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz
@Man is not the creature of circumstances.  Circumstances are the
creatures of men.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
@What is this place where thought is useless?  Knowledge and emotion can
not fathom it!
-- Yumen's reply to the question of a certain monk
@Ask and it shall be given unto you.  Seek and ye shall find.
-- Luke 11:9
@The only journey is the one within.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
@Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
-- William James
@Nurture your minds with great thoughts.  To believe in the heroic makes
heroes.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
@Live the questions now.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
@How can I be useful, of what service can I be?  There is something inside
me, what can it be?
-- Vincent Van Gogh
@And his own thoughts, along that rugged way, Pursued, like raging hounds,
their father and their prey.
-- Shelley
@Underlying great doubt there is great satori, where there is thorough
questioning there will be thoroughgoing experience of awakening.
-- Zen Saying Quoted by Hakuin
@The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be
going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is, to resist the
doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted,
and when to be obeyed.
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne
@Within our impure mind the pure one is to be found.
-- Hui Neng
@Life's most urgent question is, what are you doing for others?
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
@The theme of the Grail is the bringing of life into what is known as 'the
wasteland.'  The wasteland is the preliminary theme to which the Grail is
the answer... It's the world of people living inauthentic lives -- doing
what they are supposed to do.
-- Joseph Campbell
@A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love.
-- Mother Teresa
@A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein
@In the World of Reality there is no self,
There is no other-than-self.
-- Seng-ts'an
@What is reality?
Selflessness.
-- Sufi saying
@Love... is a living reality.
-- Albert Schweitzer
@I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final
word in reality.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
@The concept of an individual with a conscience is one whose highest
allegiance is to his fellow man.
-- Ralph Nader
@I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only
ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and
found how to serve.
-- Albert Schweitzer
@Get beyond love and grief; exist for the good of man.
-- Ha Gakure
@The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
-- Tolstoy
@Mankind's role is to fulfill his heaven-sent purpose through a sincere
heart that is in harmony with all creation and loves all things.
-- Morihei Ueshiba (Founder of Aikido)
@Innate Ideas are in Every Man, Born with him; they are truly Himself.
The Man who says that we have No Innate Ideas must be a Fool & Knave,
Having No Conscience or Innate Science.
-- William Blake
@Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.
-- William James
@The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.  It is the
source of all true art and all science.  He to whom this emotion is a
stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as
good as dead: his eyes are closed.
-- Albert Einstein
@You ask me for a motto.  Here it is: SERVICE.
-- Albert Schweitzer
@Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy... If anyone finds out
he'll become happy at once.
-- Dostoyevsky (The Possessed)
@All the fish needs is to get lot in the water.  All man needs is to get
lost in Tao.
-- Chuang Tzu
@Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.  Small people
always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can
become great.
-- Mark Twain
@The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all
disagreeables evaporate.
-- John Keats
@What is Art?  It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of
the Real.
-- Tagore
@It is the first of all problems for a man (or woman) to find out what
kind of work he (or she) is to do in this universe.
-- Thomas Carlyle
@If we want to make something really superb of this planet, there is
nothing whatever that can stop us.
-- Shepherd Mead
@Without vision the people perish.
-- Proverbs 29:18
@The universe is made of one kind of what-ever-it-is, which cannot be
defined.
-- Thaddeus Golas
@An entirely new system of thought is needed, a system based on attention
to people, and not primarily attention to goods...
-- E.F. Schumacher
@Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature.  Everything is
made of hidden stuff.
-- Emerson
@Many do not know that we are here in this world to live in harmony.
-- Dhammapada
@Nothing is so contagious as an example.  We never do great good or great
evil without bringing about more of the same on the part of others.
-- De La Roche Foucauld
@Continue to soil your bed and you will one night suffocate in your own
waste.
-- Chief Seattle 1844
@The more I study physics, the more I am drawn to metaphysics.
-- Albert Einstein
@Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion,
adoption.
-- John Stuart Mill
@Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
@Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate
systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
-- Marcus Aurelius
@I clearly see how the Eternal Light
  Shines in your mind,
  So that upon its mere sight, love is enkindled.
-- Dante
@Joyously participate in the sorrows of others.
-- anonymous
@The soul... never thinks without a picture.
-- Aristotle
@There is nothing so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking.
-- Terence
@A man of science doesn't discover in order to know, he wants to know in
order to discover.
-- Alfred North Whitehead
@For ignorance is in reality the Buddha nature.
-- Cheng-Dao Ke
@Don't listen to what they say.  Go see.
-- Chinese Proverb
@For the contemplative is the path of knowledge; for the active is the
path of selfless action.
-- Bhagavad-Gita
@It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our
abilities do not exist.
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
@All the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.
-- Helen Keller
@Alas! the fearful Unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
-- Thomas Carlyle
@Man was made for Joy and Woe;
And when this we rightly know,
Thro' the World we safely go,
Joy and woe are woven fine,
A clothing for the soul divine.
-- William Blake
@No one must shut his eyes and regard as non-existent the sufferings of
which he spares himself the sight.  Let no one regard as light the burden
of his responsibility.
-- Albert Schweitzer
@Can I see another's woe
And not be in sorry too?
Can I see another's grief
And not seek for kind relief?
-- William Blake
@Bless relaxes, damn braces.
-- William Blake
@There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly
distill it out.
-- Shakespeare
@I hold myself to be incapable of hating any being on earth.  By a long
course of prayerful discipline, I have ceased for over forty years to hate
anybody.  I know this is a big claim.  Nevertheless, I make it in all
humility.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
@If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.
-- Chinese Proverb
@There is a comfort in the strength of love;
'Twill make a thing endurable, which else
Would overset the brain, or break the heart.
-- William Wordsworth
@...when your thinking rises above concern for your own welfare, wisdom
which is independent of thought appears.
-- Ha Gakure (Hidden Leaves)
@Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to
birth.  The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
-- C.G. Jung
@Awaken the mind without fixing it anywhere.
-- Kungo Kyo
@What is now proved was once only imagin'd.
-- William Blake
@An original concept... prefers the mind imbued with the love of Nature,
untainted with hidden plans for Her exploitation.
- R.G.H. Sui, (Tao of Science)
@I invented nothing; I rediscover.
-- Rodin
@Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and
mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
-- Thomas Jefferson
@Image creates desire.  You will want what you imagine.
-- J.G. Gallimore
@I call intuition cosmic fishing.  You feel the nibble and then you have to
hook the fish.
-- Buckminster Fuller
@Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.
-- Albert Einstein
@You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
@I am the poet of the body and I am the poet of the Soul.
The pleasure of Heaven are with me
  and the pains of Hell are with me.
The first I graft and increase upon myself,
  the latter I translate into a new tongue.
-- Walt Whitman
@In every bock of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before
me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action.  I have only to hew away
the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the
other eyes as mine see it.
-- Michelangelo
@A man's value to the community primarily depends on how far his feelings,
thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his
fellows.
-- Albert Einstein
@No one knows what he can do until he tries.
-- Publilius Syrus
@All that is is a result of what we have thought.
-- Suttapitaka
@Man is what he believes.
-- Anton Chekhov
@Imagination rules the world.
-- Napoleon I
@The idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at
all.
-- Elbert Hubbard
@The only real valuable thing is intuition.
-- Albert Einstein
@A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
-- Zadok Rabinowitz
@Look within.  Within is the fountain of good, and it wil ever bubble up,
if thou wilt ever dig.
-- Marcus Aurelius
@There will be a decrease in the desire for individual advancement, and an
increase in the desire for the advancement of the race as a whole.
-- Eugene E. Thomas
@Attitudes are more important than facts.
-- Carl Menninger
@No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
-- Charles Dickens
@In nothing do men approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men.
-- Marcus Cicero
@You see things and say, "why?" but I dream things that never were and
say, "why not?"
-- George Bernard Shaw
@To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
-- Albert Schweitzer
@Why not spend some time determining what is right for us, and then go
after that?
-- William Ross
@Know Thyself
-- Thales
@For the secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to
live for.
-- Dostoyevsky
@Be still, and know that I am God.
-- Psalms 46:10
@Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in
respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise
ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgement, prove that we bear
within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it.
-- Goethe
@Society is a necessary condition of life in this world and a necessary
medium of personal self-realization through community; that is why we
hold it to be a part of the order of creation.
-- Will Herberg
@Economics and politics are the governing powers of life today, and that's
why everything is screwy.
-- Joseph Campbell
@The world is his who can see through its pretension.  What deafness, what
stone-blind custom, what overgorwn error you behold, is there only bey
sufferance -- your sufferance.  See it to be a lie, and you have already
dealt it its mortal blow.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
@The good man is the friend of all living things.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
@If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you
can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a
victim of it.
-- S.I. Hayakawa
@It is not Arts that follow & attend upon Empire, but Empire that attends
upon & follows the Arts.
-- William Blake
@Scatter Joy.
-- Emberson
@Moral courage and character go hand in hand... a man of real character is
consistently courageous, being imbued with a basic integrity and a firm
sense of principle.
-- Martha Boaz
@Even as the hands of a clock are powered from the center, which remains
ever still, so the universal values remain ever at the center of human
life, no matter where the hands of time are pointing -- past, present, or
future.
-- anonymous
@That civilization perishes in which the individual thwarts the revelation
of the universal.
-- Tagore
@Cowardice asks the question, Is it safe?  Expediency asks the question,
Is it politic?  Vanity asks the question, Is it popular?  But conscience
asks the question, Is it right?  And there comes a time when one must take
a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must
take it because his conscience tells him it is right...
-- Martin Luther
@Thus to be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of
achieving anything great.
-- G.W.F. Hegel
@Think nothing profitable to you which compels you to break a promise, to
lose your self-respect, to hate any person, to suspect, to curse, to act
the hypocrite, to desire anything that needs walls and curtains about it.
-- Marcus Arelius
@We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of
our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship
to mankind.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
@We cannot live only for ourselves.  A thousand fibers connect us with our
fellow-men; and along those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions
run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.
-- Herman Melville
@The more a man lays stress on false possessions, and the less sensitivity
he has for what is essential, the less satisfying is his life.
-- Carl Jung
@Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
-- George Horace Lorimer
@You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you
have really lived are the moment when you have done things in a spirit of
love.
-- Henry Drummond
@Work to become, not to acquire.
-- Elbert Hubbard
@That action is best which provides the greatest happiness for the
greatest number.
-- Francis Hutcheson
@Few men ever drop dead from overwork, but many quietly curl up and die
because of undersatisfaction.
-- Sidney J. Harris
@It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he
is.
-- Desiderius Erasmus
@All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.
-- Shakespeare
@It's motive alone that gives characcter to the actions of men.
-- Jean de la Bruyere
@The importance and unimportance of the self cannot be exaggerated.
-- Reginald Blyth
@Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
-- Matthew 7:20
@I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
-- William James
@Remember that you are an actor in a play and the Playwright chooses the
manner of it... your business is to act the character that is given you
and act it well; the choice of the cast is Another's.
-- Epictetus
@It is better to do your own duty, however imperfectly, than to assume the
duties of another person, however successfully.  Prefer to die doing your
own duties: the duties of another will bring you into great spiritual
danger.
-- Bhagavad-Gita
@Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give
yourself to it.
-- Buddha
@It's not enough to say, "I'm earning enough to live and support my
family.  I do my work well.  I'm a good father, I'm a good churchgoer."
That's all very well BUT YOU MUST DO SOMETHING MORE.
-- Albert Schweitzer
@When people are serving life is no longer meaningless.
-- John Gardner
@What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross
What thou lov'st well shall not be reft from thee
What thou lov'st well is thy true heritage.
-- Ezra Pound
@And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be the servant of all.
-- Mark 10:44
@The way to be happy is to make others so.
-- Robert Ingersoll
@Live your life as though every act were to become a universal law.
-- Henry David Thoreau
@Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying.
-- Christian Furchtegott Gellert
@Nothing comes from nothing.
-- Shakespeare
@Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If
you're alive, it isn't.
-- Richard Bach
@A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always
has good company.
-- Charles Hughes
@The most sublime act is to set another before you.
-- William Blake
@In the long run you hit only what you aim at.  Therefore, though you
should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high.
-- Henry David Thoreau
@Men must find and feel and represent in all of their creative works Man
the Eternal, the creator.
-- Tagore
@Maturing adults ... would want ... each on his own or in fellowship with
others, to undertake some project for human betterment.
-- H.A. Overstreet
@I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest
significance and meaning.
-- Pablo Casais
@One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety-nine who have
only interests.
-- John Stuart Mill
@This country has more problems than it should tolerate, and more
solutions than it uses ... Our society has the resources and the skills
to keep injustice at bay and to elevate the human condition to a state of
enduring compassion and creative fulfillment.  How we go about using
resources and skills has consequences which extend well beyond our
national borders to all the earth's people.
-- Ralph Nader
@Many of the same conditions that produce today's greatest perils also
open fascinating new potentials.
-- Alvin Toffler
@...if existing agricultural knowledge were everywhere applied, the planet
could feed twice its present population.
-- Will and Ariel Durant
@While it is true that an inherently free and scrupulous individual may be
destroyed, such an individual can never be enslaved or used as a blind
tool.
-- Albert Einstein
@Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that we
have to erect the ramparts of peace.
-- UNESCO Charter
@1. Be discoverers.  2. Be ready helpers.  3. Be friend makers.
-- The Brownie "B's" (Girl Scouts)
@Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call.
-- Emerson
@Every man's leading propensity ought to be call'd his leading Virtue &
his good Angel.
-- William Blake
@If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so
wonderful after all.
-- Michelangelo
@When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project,
all your thoughts break their bounds: Your mind transcends limitations,
your consciousness expands in every direction and you find yourself in a
new, great and wonderful world.  Dormant forces, faculties and talents
become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than
you ever dreamed yourself to be.
-- Patanjali
@It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
- Pablo Picasso
@When one is engaged in a favorite pursuit or a subject absorbingly
interesting, the normal conception of labor or time and artificial social
distinctions disappear from the mind.  In fact, life itself is absorbed in
the engagement, or it may be said that one's life is tuned in harmony with
eternal life.
-- G. Koizumi (Judo Master)
@A musician must make his music, an artist must pain, a poet must write if
he is to ultimately be at peace with himself.
-- Abraham Maslow
@We never know how high we are
Till we are called to rise.
And then, if we are true to plan
Our statures touch the skies.
-- Emily Dickinson
@Man's capacities have never been measured, nor are we to judge of what he
can do by any precedent, so little has been tried.
-- Henry David Thoreau
@Do what you can with what you have, where you are.
-- Theodore Roosevelt
@[One] who is naturally and constitutionally adapted to and trained in
some one or another kind of making, eve though he earns his living by this
making, is really doing what he likes most, and if he is forced by
circumstances to do some other kind of work, even though more highly paid,
is actually unhappy.
-- Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
@We know what we are, not what we may become.
-- Shakespeare
@It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own
opportunities, but its own talents.
-- Eric Hoffer
@Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a
rough exterior.
-- Juvenal
@He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate
open.
-- Tagore
@If you only car eneough for a result, you will almost certainly attain
it.
-- William James
@If you have love you will do all things well.
-- Thomas Merton
@If you do not look at things on a large scale it will be difficult for
you to master strategy...
-- Miyamoto Musashi
@Ideas must work though the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or
they are no better than dreams.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
@For what profit a man, if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?
Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
-- Mark 8:36,37
@Resolve to be thyself, and know that he who finds himself, loses his
misery.
-- Coventry Patmore
@Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.  When a man does not know
what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
-- Seneca
@Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
-- William Blake
@He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would
achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must
sacrifice greatly.
-- James Allen
@Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.
-- Syrus
@There's no substitute for hard work.
-- Thomas Edison
@Life always gets harder toward the summit - the cold increases, the
responsibility increases.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
@I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the
more I live.  I rejoice in life for its own sake.
-- George Bernard Shaw
@Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why
so few people engage in it.
-- Henry Ford
@It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
-- Syrus
@Most ignorance is vincible ignorance: We don't know because we don't want
to know.
-- Aldous Huxley
@Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by
fearing to attempt.
-- Shakespeare
@I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to
do...
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
@Fear always springs from ignorance.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
@Nothing is terrible except fear itself.
-- Francis Bacon
@There are costs and risks to a program of action, but they are far less
than the long range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
-- John F. Kennedy
@Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are
you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human
purposes?
-- Joseph Campbell
@The play's the thing.
-- Shakespeare
@Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
-- Emerson
@The beater and the beaten: Mere players of a game ephemeral as a dream.
-- Muso
@Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box.
-- Italian Proverb
@The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin
@He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.
-- Leonardo da Vinci
@Humour is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour.  For a subject
which will not bear raillery is suspicious; and a jest which will not bear
a serious examination is certainly false wit.
-- (Quoted by Aristotle)
@Life must be lived as play.
-- Plato
@If men were Wise; they Most arbitrary Princes could not hurt them.  If
they are not wise, the Freest Government is compelled to be a Tyranny.
-- William Blake
@Dilige et quod vis fac.
(Love, and do as you please.)
-- anonymous
@Zen is the game of insight, the game of discovering who you are beneath
the social masks.
-- Reginald Blyth
@Human affairs are like a chess game: Only those who do not take it
seriously can be called good players.
-- Hung Tzu Ch'eng
@Never for a moment do we lay aside our mistrust of the ideals established
by society, and of the convictions which are kept by it in circulation.
We always know that society is full of folly and will deceive us in the
matter of humanity.  It is an unreliable horse, and blind to into the
bargain.  Woe to the driver if he falls asleep.
-- Albert Schweitzer
@The hook is your desire to be approved of by others.  The bait is any
kind of reward.  The minute you go for the bait, the game is playing you.
You are no longer playing the game.  You get serious.
-- anonymous
@The reward of all action is to be found in enlightenment.
-- Bhagavad-Gita
@The superior man loves his soul, the inferior man loves his property.
-- Confucius
@First you must find your trajectory, and then comes the social
coordination.
-- Joseph Campbell
@The life of Zen begins, therefore, in a disillusion with the pursuit of
goals which do not really exist - the good without the bad, the
gratification of a self which is no more than an idea, and the morrow
which never comes.
-- Alan Watts
@But do your thing and I shall know you.
-- Emerson
@Many a businessman feels himself the prisoner of the commodities he
sells; he has a feeling of fraudulency about his product and a secret
contempt for it.  Most important of all, he hates himself, because he sees
his life passing him by without making any sense beyond the momentary
intoxication of success.
-- Erich Fromm
@The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact
that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.
-- Goethe
@To be contented is noble, but to be lethargic does not enable one to
benefit men or to utilize things.
-- Hung Tzu Ch'eng
@The simple truth is that playing a game that you have chosen in order to
demonstrate values, express purposes, or effect results that you have
chosen is a very different process from having to play the game to win
approval.
-- anonymous
@to be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night
and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
-- e.e. cummings
@A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
-- Seneca
@I'm not at all contemptuous of comforts, but they have their place, and it
is not first.
-- E.F. Schumacher
@There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it
reluctantly.
-- Terence
@There is nothing left to you at this moment but to have a good laugh.
-- Zen master
@By honors, medals, titles no true man is elated.  To realize that which
we are, this is the honor for which we are created.
-- Angelus Silesius
@I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances
confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeaveors to live the
life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in
common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau
@I like hte dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
-- Thomas Jefferson
@Growth is the only evidence of life.
-- Cardinal Newman
@Our aspirations are our possibilities.
-- Robert Browning
@You should investigate something to see its benefit or harm, examine
whether it is appropriate and suitable or not; then after that you may
carry it out.
-- Caotang
@One learns through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.
-- Mark Twain
@Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important
than any other one thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln
@No man is more miserable than he that hath no adversity.
-- Jeremy Taylor
@The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of
continually asking questions.
-- Bishop Creighton
@Without work, all life goes rotten.  But when work is soulless, life
stifles and dies.
-- Albert Camus
@What you see is what you get.
-- Flip Wilson
@He conquers who endures.
-- Perius
@There is no great thought that has become an impelling power in history
which has not been espoused at its origin by men willing to put all their
physical and spiritual powers entirely at its service.
-- Louis Ginzberg
@Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
-- Michelangelo
@You are what you do.
-- anonymous
@As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many
studies confounds and saps itself.
-- Leonardo da Vinci
@We are free up to the point of choice.  Then the choice controls the
chooser.
-- Mary Crowley
@He who has a why can endure any how.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
@Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are
large or small.
-- Orison Swett Marden
@Isn't the fulfillment of our duty towards our neighbor an expression of
deepest desire?
-- Dag Hammarskjold
@A strong passion ... will insure success, for the desire of the end will
point out the means.
-- William Hazlitt
@Wisdom begins with sacrifice of immediate Pleasures for long-range
purposes.
-- Louis Finkelstein
@Desire creates the power.
-- Raymond Hollingwell
@The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in
which it is overestimated.
-- H.L. Mencken
@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
@Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able
to decide.
-- Napoleon I
@Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be.
Custom will soon render it easy and agreeable.
-- Pythagoras
@Everybody lives by selling something.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
@Appear where they cannot go, head for where they expect you least.
-- Sun Tzu
@Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
-- Albert Einstein
@Bravery never goes out of style.
-- William M. Thackeray
@To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life.
-- Chögyam Trungpa
@A warrior must only take care that his spirit is never broken.
-- Shissai
@First see to it that you, yourself, are all right, then think of
defeating an opponent.
-- The Way of the Spear
@We can see unmistakeably that there is an inner relationship between Zen
and the warrior's life.
-- D.T. Suzuki
@When you reach real ability you will be able to become one with the
enemy.  Entering his heart you will see that he is not your enemy after
all.
-- Tsuji (Japanese sword master)
@Joy lies in the fight...
-- Mahatma Gandhi
@In walking, just walk.  In sitting, just sit.  Above all, don't wobble.
-- Yun-men
@They conquer who believe they can.
-- Emerson
@Go to the battlefield firmly confident of victory and you come home with
no wounds whatsoever.
-- Kenshin Uesugi (Samurai general)
@You must push yourself beyond your limits, all the time.
-- Carlos Castaneda (Don Juan)
@With enough knowledge and self-confidence, you can do anything.
-- anonymous
@Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
-- Phillip Stanhope
@Action is *doing something, *reacting is having it happen.
-- Syd Field
@Marketing warriors understand that their biggest enemy is their own lack
of knowledge.
-- anonymous
@He who can copy can do.
-- Leonardo da Vinci
@Think first, then do.
-- Albert Schweitzer
@It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur.
-- Wallace Stevens
@In order to arrive at what you do not know You must go by the way which is
the way of ignorance.
-- T.S. Eliot
@Expect nothing; be prepared for anything.
-- Samurai saying
@Action is character, right?  What a person *does is what he is, not what
he says.
-- Syd Field
@Whether you think you can or you can't - you are right.
-- Henry Ford
@To worry is to prepare for failure.
-- anonymous
@Think not so much of what thou hast not, as of what thou hast.
-- Marcus Aurelius
@A journey of a thousand miles is many thousand steps.
-- anonymous
@Approach the moment with the idea that you're in the fight to the finish.
-- Mataemon Iso
@It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do
a little.  Do what you can.
-- Sidney Smith
@Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop
thinking and go in.
-- Andrew Jackson
@Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
-- Christopher Lasch
@The only difference between a wise man and a fool is that the wise man
knows he's playing.
-- Fritz Peris
@Therefore the considerations of the intelligent always include both
benefit and harm.  As they consider benefit, their work can expand; as
they consider harm, their troubles can be resolved.
-- Sun Tzu
@Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility ... in
the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have ... is
the ability to take on responsibility.
-- Michael Korda
@The difficulty in life is the choice.
-- George Moore
@Blessed is he who has found his work.  Let him ask no other blessing.
-- Thomas Carlyle
@Man finds the meaning of his human existence in his capacity for
decision, in his freedom of choice.  It is a dreadful freedom, for it also
means responsibility, but without it man would be as nothing.
-- Will Herberg
@Who gives the bread lays down the law.
-- Spanish Proverb
@Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in
that work does what he wants to do.
-- R.G. Collingwood
@A true definition of an entrepreneur comes closer to: A poet, visionary,
or packager of social change.
-- Robert Schwartz (director, the School for Entrepreneurs, Tarrytown, NY)
@The empires of the future are empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill
@The difference between intelligence and education is this: Intelligence
will make you a good living.
-- Charges Kettering
@A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
-- Francis Bacon
@Your associates can be priceless.
-- Napoleon Hill
@The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
-- Marcus Aurelius
@The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and an actualizer.  He can
visualize something, and when he visualizes it he sees exactly how to make
it happen.
-- Robert Schwartz
@To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
-- Shakespeare
@Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
-- Thomas Carlyle
@Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we
fall.
-- Confucius
@The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look
for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
-- George Bernard Shaw
@Such gardens are not made By Singing: "... Oh, how beautiful" and Sitting
in the shade.
-- Rudyard Kipling
@I was made to work; if you are equally industrious, you will be equally
successful.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach
@The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
-- William James
@God gives every bird its food, but He doesn't throw it in the nest.
-- J.G. Holland
@My employer uses twenty-six years of my life for every year I get to
keep.  And what do I get in return for the enormous thing I am giving?
What do I get in return for my *life?
-- Michael Ventura, L.A. Weekly
@But if you do not have the Tao yourself, what business have you spending
your time in vain efforts to bring corrupt politicians into the right
path?
-- Confucius
@Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built
upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly
I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.
-- Albert Einstein
@I understood ... that those who desired salvation should act like the
trustee who, though having control over great possessions, regards not an
iota of them as his own.
-- Gandhi
@Of all the infirmities we have, the most savage is to despise our being.
-- Montaigne
@Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects
of you.  Never excuse yourself.
-- Henry Ward Beecher
@There are three essentials to leadership: humility, clarity and courage.
-- Cha'n Master Fuchan Yuan
@There is nothing which persevering effort and unceasing and diligent care
can not accomplish.
-- Seneca
@It isn't that they can't see the solution.  It is that they can't see the
problem.
-- G.K. Chesterson
@It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance,
sweeps away all obstacles.
-- Claude M. Bristol
@Whatever we conceive well we express clearly.
-- Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
@Either do not attempt at all or go through with it.
-- Ovid
@The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
-- Edward Phelps
@Fortune favors the audacious.
-- Desiderius Erasmus
@Knowledge is power if you know about the right person.
-- Ethel Mumford
@Great works are performed not by stength, but by perseverance.
-- Samuel Johnson
@The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a
different way.
-- Dale Carnegie
@If a rich man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it
is known how he employs it.
-- Socrates
@Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual
everyday routine.
-- Shunryu Suzuki
@No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the
continent, a part of the main.
-- John Donne
@Undertake not what you can not perform, but be careful to keep your
promises.
-- George Washington
@Trust men, and they will be true to you.  Treat them greatly, and they
will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
@Life is to be fortified by many friendships.  To love and to be loved is
the greatest happiness.
-- Sydney Smith
@The best portion of a good man's life -- his little, nameless,
unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
-- William Wordsworth
@The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
-- Leo Tolstoy
@Man's brain may be compared to an electric battery ... a group of electric
batteries will provide more energy than a single battery.
-- Napoleon Hill
@The worst fear is the fear of living.
-- Theodore Roosevelt
@One is always seeking the touchstone that will dissolve one's
deficiencies as a person and as a craftsman.  And one is always bumping up
against the fact that there is none except hard work, concentration, and
continued application.
-- Paul Gallico
@The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn
... and change.
-- Carl Rogers
@Do not cherish the unworthy desire that the changeable might become the
unchanging.
-- Teachings of the Buddha
@There is no security in life, only opportunity.
-- Mark Twain
@Learning is movement from moment to moment.
-- J. Krishnamurti
@The Creative knows the great beginnings.
The Receptive completes the finished things.
The Creative is decided and therefore shows to men the easy.
The Receptive is yielding and therefore shows to men the simple.
-- anonymous
@The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with
it, and join the dance.
-- Alan Watts
@... in the world of the future, the new illiterate will be the person who
has not learned how to learn.
-- Alvin Toffler
@In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of
subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the
rest of your life.  The most important skill to aquire now is learning how
to learn.
-- John Naisbitt
@Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty.  Anyone who
keeps learning today is young.  The greatest thing in life is to keep your
mind young.
-- Henry Ford
@Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
-- Isaac Asimov
@All human beings, by nature, desire to know.
-- Aristotle
@Learning can be defined as the process of remembering what you are
interested in.
-- Richard Saul Wurman
@The readiness is all.
-- Shakespeare
@To know that you do not know is the best.  To pretend to know when you do
not know is a disease.
-- Lao Tzu
@Who has no faults?  To err and yet be able to correct it is best of all.
-- Yuanwu
@Everyone is ignorant, only in different subjects.
-- Will Rogers
@Learning is the very essence of humility...
-- J. Krishnamurti
@Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson
in the world.
-- Miguel De Cervantes
@... I found that I was fitted for nothing so well as for the study of
truth: as having a mind nimble and versatile enough to catch the
resemblances of things (which is the chief point) and at the same time
steady enough to fix and distinguish the subtle differences ...
-- Francis Bacon
@The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn
things.
-- G.K. Chesterson
@There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
-- Emerson
@We can be knowledgeable with another man's knowledge, but we cannot be
wise with another man's wisdom.
-- Michel De Montaigne
@Earthly things must be known to be loved: divine things must be loved to
be known.
-- Blaise Pascal
@Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
-- Cha'n Master Mingjiao
@Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-- Voltaire
@Tell me, I'll forget.  Show me, I may remember.  But involve me and I'll
understand.
-- Chinese Proverb
@In antiquity men studied for their own sake; nowadays men study for the
sake of (impressing) others.
-- Confucius
@On the average, an infant laughs nearly two hundred times a day; an
adult, only twelve.  Maybe they are laughing so much because they are
looking at us.
-- anonymous
@I love laughing.
-- William Blake
@To be able to preserve joyousness of heart and yet be concerned in
thought: in this way we can determine good fortune and misfortune on
earth, and bring to perfection everything on earth.
-- I Ching
@The work of art is above all a process of creation, it is never
experienced as a mere product.
-- Paul Klee
@Simplify!
-- Henry David Thoreau
@Everything is in flux.
-- Heraclitus
@Everything flows on and on like this river, without pause, day and night.
-- Confucius
@Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
-- Leonardo da Vinci
@It is not enough to be busy, so are the ants.  The question is, what are
we busy about?
-- Henry David Thoreau
@The Receptive completes the finished things.
-- I Ching
@'Tis a lesson you should heed: Try, try again.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
-- William Hickson
@We must ask where we are and whither we are tending.
-- Abraham Lincoln
@The present is great with the future.
-- Gottfried Leibnitz
@Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment,
and especially on their children, than the unlived life of their parents.
-- Carl Jung
@I'm a great believer in luck, and I find that the harder I work, the more
I have of it.
-- Thomas Jefferson
@If there is anything education does not lack today it is critics.
-- Nathan M. Pusey
@Every man takes the limits of his field of vision for the limits of the
world.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
@Try to know everything of something and something of everything.
-- Lord Brougham
@In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim
with the current.
-- Thomas Jefferson
@Thousands of people have talent.  I might as well congratulate you for
having eyes in your head.  The one and only thing that counts is:  Do you
have staying power?
-- Noel Coward
@Education can train, but cannot create intelligence.
-- Edward McChesney Sait
@When I consider the desires of countless millions of men and women down
through the ages, my own desires seem as nothing.
-- anonymous
@A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep or taste not the
Pierian spring.
-- Alexander Pope
@For every credibility gap there is a gullibility fill.
-- Richard Clopton
@The superior man understands what is right; the inferior understands what
will sell.
-- Confucius
@My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
-- Louis Pasteur
@Every man has three characters: That which he exhibits, that which he
has, and that which he thinks he has.
-- Alphonse Karr
@All of the significant battles are waged within the self.
-- Sheldon Kopp
@When the task is done beforehand, then it is easy.
-- Ch'an Master Yuantong
@Speak the affirmative; emphasize your choice by utterly ignoring all that
you reject.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
@The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the
mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with
the accumulation of others.
-- Tryon Edwards
@The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
-- Oscar Wilde
@If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that
is in him.
-- Bernard Haldane
@We are born for love.  It is the principle of existence, and its only
end.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
@May you live all the days of your life.
-- Jonathan Swift
@The power of man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts,
but by his ordinary doings.
-- Blaise Pascal
@The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
-- Elbert Hubbard
@Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never...
-- Winston Churchill
@The ideas by which people ... interpret their existence and in measure
guide their behavior, were not forged in a world of wealth.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith
@Self-interest and freedom of enterprise were a secular faith in the old
world.  In the new world, they emerged as religion.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith
@It is only when the maker of things is a maker of things by vocation, and
not merely holding down a job, that the price of things is approximate to
their real value...
-- Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
@There is no economic problem and, in a sense, there never has been.
-- E.F. Schumacher
@If the only prayer you say in your whole life is "thank you," that would
suffice.
-- Meister Eckhart
@The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth.
-- Chief Seattle
@Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world any more.  There is
always something to make you wonder, in the shape of a leaf, the trembling
of a tree.
-- Albert Schweitzer
@Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's
greed.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
@We didn't inherit the land from our fathers.  We are borrowing it from
our children.
-- Amish Saying
@All that we behold is full of blessings.
-- Wordsworth
@When you're both alive and dead,
Thoroughly dead to yourself,
How superb the smallest pleasure!
-- Bunan
@Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to Love.
-- Virgil
@The Spirit of Buddha is that of great loving kindness and compassion.
-- The Teachings of the Buddha
@He that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
-- I John 4:16
@Virtue is to love men.
-- Confucius
@The highest wisdom is loving kindness.
-- The Talmud
@Accustomed long to contemplating Love and Compassion, I have forgotten
all difference between myself and others.
-- Milarepa
@We are all born for love ... It is the principle of existence and its
only end.
-- Disraeli
@Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
-- Robert Browning
@I am only one, but still I am one; I cannot do everything, but still I
can do something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
-- Helen Keller
@Service helps break rigid patterns of relating and teaches new ways of
give and take with other people.  Volunteers consistently report improved
friendships and better relationships within their families.
-- John and Eleanor Raynolds
@Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is
present.
-- Albert Camus
@Far away, there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.  I may not
reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and
try to follow where they lead.
-- Louisa May Alcott
@I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can: and I mean to keep
on doing so until the end.
-- Abraham Lincoln
@Everything must end; meanwhile we must amuse ourselves.
-- Voltaire