MISCELLANEOUS

age

George Burns
You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.

Francis Bacon
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Helen Rowland
Life begins at 40 – but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Plato
Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom because the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

computers

Sydney J. Harris
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.

Tim Berners-Lee
You affect the world by what you browse.

ego

Jane Roberts
The ego is an offshoot of the conscious mind, so to speak. The conscious mind is like a gigantic camera with the ego directing the view and the focus.

Graffiti
At the feast of the ego everyone leaves hungry.

emotions

Scott Shaw
Emotions do not equal life. Emotions equal emotions. Emotions are dominated by external life situations. Emotions are temporary, no matter how much you allow a specific emotion to dominate your lifetime. Allow your choices about your emotions to set you free.

Eddie Murphy
The thing about kids is that they express emotion. They don’t hold back. If they want to cry, they cry, and if they are in a good mood, they’re in a good mood.

environment

Roger Tory Peterson
Birds are indicators of the environment.
If they are in trouble, we know we’ll soon be in trouble.

Bumper sticker
Take nothing but pictures.
Leave nothing but footprints.

goals

Buddha
If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?

Julia Child
Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

Thomas Carlyle
A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Shakti Gawain
Every time you don’t follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.

Robin Sharma
Every time you say yes to something that is unimportant, you say no to something important.

Mike Dooley
Thoughts create “things”; choose the good ones!

Thomas Jefferson
Delay is preferable to error.

David Blaine
We are all capable of infinitely more than we believe. We are stronger and more resourceful than we know, and we can endure much more than we think we can.

Author unknown
Encouraged people achieve the best; dominated people achieve second best; neglected people achieve the least.

heart

Carl Gustav Jung
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.

Hasidic proverb
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.

life

W.H. Davies
What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?

Henry David Thoreau
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.

William Somerset Maugham
There are two good things in life: freedom of thought and freedom of action.

Shira Tehrani
You can’t do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.

William Osler
To have striven, to have made an effort, to have been true to certain ideals – this alone is worth the struggle. We are here to add what we can to, not to get what we can from, life.

Joseph Campbell
Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe to it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
The earth doesn’t belong to anyone. It is a land upon which all of us are to live for many years, ploughing, reaping and destroying. You are always a guest on this earth and should have the austerity of a guest.

Seneca
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

luck

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Robert Collier
All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck – who keeps right on going – is a man who is there when the good luck comes, and is ready to receive it.

Laurence J. Peters
Don’t believe in miracles – depend on them.

peace

Thich Nhat Hanh
If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

Ambrose Bierce
Peace: In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

Chinese proverb
If there is light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person.
If there is beauty in the person, there will be harmony in the house.
If there is harmony in the house, there will be order in the nation.
If there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world.

pride

Dale Carnegie
When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bustling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.

William Hutton
The charity that hastens to proclaim its deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.

Stuart Stevens
Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn’t do much for the auto-immune system.

problems

Dennis Rodman
When I hit the bottom, I can attack the problem and get to where I want to be.

Albert Einstein
It’s not that I’m so smart; it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

Thich Nhat Hanh
In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we rally behind them. If they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one to mobilize us.

selfishness

Oscar Wilde
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live,
it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Doug Horton
Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.

stress 

Natalie Goldberg
Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.

Lily Tomlin
For fast-acting relief try slowing down.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

Author unknown
Real music is music for relaxation and rejuvenation, for stolen moments of romance, lively rhythms for lifting the spirit and celebrating life.