Batch 26

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude. - Denis Waitley

The tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goals, the tragedy lies in not having any goals to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. - Dr. Benjamin Mays

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Louis Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. - H. Jackson Brown Jr.

The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow, but the rainbow won't wait while you finish the work. - Pat Clifford

The greatest gift you will ever receive is the gift of loving and believing in yourself. Guard this gift with your life. It is the only thing that will ever truly be yours. - Tiffany Loren Rowe

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems. - Mahatma Gandhi

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them. - Bob Dylan

The important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part.  The essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well. - Baron de Coubertin, The Olympic Creed

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

Even if it's a little thing, do something for those who need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. - Albert Schweitzer

The problem with a lot of the [transformation] experiments in the sixties and seventies was that they were quick-fix, big-bang type experiments. But to really change, you’ve got to be willing to stay on what I call the "plateau." That’s where we have found the best results. I call it the "mastery curve” and it means that you stay on a plateau for a long time when you're learning any new skill. And then, every so often, you'll have a little spurt upward. . . [W]hen that spurt occurs . . . they’ll often say, "Okay, now I’m learning." But what we have to teach people is that that’s actually not when they’re learning. They’re learning on the plateau. And that takes patient, diligent, long-term practice. That’s when things are being programmed into them. - George Leonard

I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding ones inner life. And that too is a deed. - Etty Hillesum

We can never be the better for our religion if our neighbor is the worse for it. – Unknown

You've got to continue to grow, or you're just like last night's cornbread--stale and dry. - Loretta Lynn

Whether you and I and a few others will renew the world some day remains to be seen. But within ourselves we must renew it each day. - Herman Hesse

Nothing makes you like other human beings so much as doing things for them. - Zora Neale Hurston

Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all; forgiving means to pardon that which is unpardonable, or it is no virtue at all. - G.K. Chesterton

Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe. - Tao Te Ching

You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive. - Dr. Thomas Arnold Bennett

Believe those who seek the truth; doubt those who find it. - Andre Gide

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. - John Cage

Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too. – Voltaire

Beauty, truth, friendship, love, creation – these are the great values of life. We can’t prove them, or explain them, yet they are the most stable things in our lives. - Jesse Herman Holmes

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. - John Ruskin

All comes at the proper time to him who knows how to wait. - Saint Vincent de Paul

The only difference between stumbling blocks and steppingstones is the way in which we use them. – Unknown

I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary. - Lou Holtz

The wishbone will never replace the backbone. - Will Henry

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness. - Havelock Ellis

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander Time, for that's the stuff Life is made of.  - Benjamin Franklin

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them. - Andre Gide

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. - George MacDonald

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. - Henri Bergson

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. - Ambrose Redmoon

What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are. - Edgar Z. Friedenberg

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life. - Adele Brookman

If you want happiness for an hour take a nap. If you want happiness for a day go fishing. If you want happiness for a month get married. If you want happiness for a year inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime help others. - Chinese Proverb

We can never live in the past as if it were our true home. And it is a good thing that God draws this veil over the past even without our asking. In so doing, He allows us to live today for tomorrow with just the few memories we need of what was. - Karl Barth

When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel. - Rabbi Harold Kushner

"How does one become a butterfly? You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.” - Trina Paulus

“If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.” - Voltaire

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. - e.e. cummings

To be alive, to be able to see, to walk,...it's all a miracle. - Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982) Polish Pianist

Friends are like melons. Shall I tell you why? To find a good one, you must a hundred try. - Claude Mermet

When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top. - Robert M. Pirsig

The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light. - Felix Adler

There is a transcendent power in example. We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly. - Anne Sophie Swetchine

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change. - Carl Rogers