Learning

"Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardour and attended to with diligence"  - Abigail Adams -

Old

"A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world."  - Maurice Chevalier -

Work

"In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it."  - Marianne Williamson -

Risk

"You have to risk going too far to discover just how far you can really go." - T.S. Eliot -

Found this at Archetype in Action here.

Let it come

"Let it come, as it will, and don't be afraid. God does not leave us comfortless, so let evening come."  - Jane Kenyon - 

Activities

"Do not wish evil for others.  Do not speak ill of others.  Do not obstruct anyone's activities."  - Guru Nanak -

Good morning

What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good on this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?  - J. R. R. Tolkien from The Hobbit -

Day

"If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."  - E.B. White -

Happiness

"Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."  - Nathaniel Hawthorne -

Strength

"Strength does not come from physical capacity.  It comes from an indomitable will."  - Mahatma Gandhi -

Discovery

"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought."  - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi -

Think

"I cannot teach anybody anything.  I can only make them think."  - Socrates -

Serve

"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve."  - Albert Schweitzer -

Better

"I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better."  - Henry David Thoreau -

Idea

"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple.  But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas."  - George Bernard Shaw -

Smile

"I will never understand all the good that a simple smile can accomplish."  - Mother Theresa -

Children

"If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children."  - Confucius -

Genius

"Everyone is a genius... But if you judge a fish on it's ability to climb a tree, it will live it's whole life believing that it is stupid."  - Albert Einstein -

Education

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." – William Butler Yeats -

Hell

"If you are going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill -

Want

"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."  - Henry Ford -

Master

"If you want to be a master at anything, study what the masters have done before you. Learn to do what they have done. Have the courage to do it. And, you can be a master just like them."  - Author unknown -

Go

"It does not matter how slow you go so long as you do not stop."  - Confucius -

Mistakes

"A lot of good things in my life came from half of my mistakes." - Radney Foste, song writer -

Customers

"You have to treat your employees like your customers. When you treat them right they will treat your outside customers right."  - Herb Kelleher -

Illiterate

"The illiterate of the 21st Century will not be those who cannot read or write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn."- Alvin Toffler -

Difference

"At the end of your life, you are going to want to know that you made some kind of difference."  - Susan Sarandon, actress -

Shadow

"Now morning being come, he looked back, not out of desire to return, but to see, by the light of the day, what hazards he had gone through in the dark. So he saw more perfectly the ditch that was on the one hand, and the mire that was on the other; also how narrow the way was which led betwixt them both; also now he saw the hobgoblins, and satyrs, and dragons of the pit, but all afar off, (for after break of day, they came not nigh;) yet they were discovered to him, according to that which is written, 'He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow...' "  - John Bunyan in Pilgrim's Progress -

Mind

"The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size."  - Oliver Wendell Holmes -

Community

"A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the hel- m."  Henrik Ibsen, Playwright -

Happy

"A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?"  - Albert Einstein -

Genius

"Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each." - Plato -

Help

"One of the most beautiful compensations in life is that no man can help another without helping himself."  - Ralph Waldo Emerson -

Good

"You can have it good, you can have it fast, or you can have it cheap - but you can't have all three."  - An old saying -

Forgiveness

"The weak can never forgive.   Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."  - Mahatma Gandhi -

God

"God feeds the birds but He doesn't throw it into the nest." - Author unknown -

People

"People are either wind in your sails or an anchor on your tail."  - Joe Charbonneau -

Skill

"Knowledge is not skill.  Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill."  - Shinichi Suzuki -

Focus

"Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives."  - Anthony Robbins -

Success

"Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming."  - John Wooden -

Good

"Whatever you are, be a good one." - Abraham Lincoln -

To have succeeded

To laugh often and much;

To win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children;

To earn the appreciation of honest critics
and endure the betrayal of false friends;

To appreciate beauty;
To find the best in others;

To leave the world a bit better, whether by
a healthy child, a garden patch
or a redeemed social condition;

To know even one life has breathed
easier because you have lived;

This is to have succeeded.
 
- Ralph Waldo Emerson -

Funny

"If my life wasn't funny it would just be true and that is unacceptable"  - Carrie Fisher -

Stand for something

"Give us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for because unless we stand for something we shall fall for anything"  - Peter Marshall -

Ithaca

When you set out on your journey to Ithaca,
Pray that the road is long,
Full of adventure, full of knowledge.
...The Lestrygonians and the Cyclops,
The angry Poseidon - do not fear them
You will never find such as these on your path
If your thoughts remain lofty, if a fine
Emotion touches your spirit and your body.
The Lestrygonians and the Cyclops,
The fierce Poseidon you will never encounter,
If you do not carry them within your soul,
If your heart does not set them up before you.

Pray that the road is long.
That the summer mornings are many, when,
With such pleasure, with such joy
You will enter ports seen for the first time;
Stop at Phoenician markets,
And purchase fine merchandise,
Mother-of-pearl and coral, amber and ebony,
And sensual perfumes of all kinds,
As many sensual perfumes as you can;
Visit many Egyptian cities,
To learn and learn from scholars.

Always keep Ithaca in your mind.
To arrive there is your ultimate goal.
But do not hurry the voyage at all.
It is better to let it last for many years;
And to anchor at the island when you are old,
Rich with all you have gained on the way,
Not expecting that Ithaca will offer you riches.

Ithaca has given you the beautiful voyage.
Without her you would never have set out on the road.
She has nothing more to give you.
And if you find her poor, Ithaca has not deceived you.
Wise as you have become, with so much experience,
You must already have understood what Ithacas mean.

- Author unknown -

Going to be all right

How should I not be glad to contemplate
the clouds clearing beyond the dormer window
and a high tide reflected on the ceiling?
There will be dying, there will be dying,
but there is no need to go into that.
The poems flow from the hand unbidden
and the hidden source is the watchful heart.
The sun rises in spite of everything
and the far cities are beautiful and bright.
I lie here in a riot of sunlight
watching the day break and the clouds flying.
Everything is going to be all right.

- Derek Mahon -

Do

"I'm always doing things I can't do. That's how I get to do them" - Pablo Picasso -

Worthwhile work

"Far and away the best prize that Life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."  - Theodore Roosevelt -

Live - Learn

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow.  Learn as if you were to live forever."  - Mahatma Gandhi -

What we do

"What we think or what we know or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do."
- John Ruskin -

Problems

"When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with.  You may consider yourself fortunate."  - Ann Landers -

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The Serenity Prayer

"God, give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish one from the other."  - Reinhold Niebuhr -

Children

"Great changes in the destiny of mankind begin in the minds of little children."  - Herbert Read -

Gifted

"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.  We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."  - Marie Curie -

Values

"If you organize your life around one of the higher values all the rest will come to you because all the higher values commune with each other".  - Plato -

Matters somehow

"Every piece of the universe, even the tiniest little snow crystal, matters somehow. I have a place in the pattern, and so do you…"  - T A Barron -

Thinking of you this holiday season!

Kind regards, vkn
http://inspiringwords.blogspot.com

Appreciation

"There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread."  - Mother Teresa -

Enemies

"I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends."  - Maimonides -
 

Be thankful

"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough."  - Oprah Winfrey -

Student

"When the student is ready, the teacher will appear."  - A Buddhist saying -

Strength

"The reason that the lion does not fear the hyena is not because he knows that he is the King of the jungle but because he is aware of his own strengths."  - Mr. Paulo Coelho -

Perfection

"Nothing is invented and perfected at the same time."  - Author unknown -

Kind Gods

"The noblest work of man is to create kind Gods."  - Robert Ingersoll-

Learning

"A young man who graduated yesterday and stops learning today will become uneducated tomorrow."  - Author unknown -

Habit

"Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time." - Mark Twain -

Living simply

"Look at the world around you. It supplies all your bodily needs. It feasts your eyes with its beauty. And its glory reflects the glory of God, so it feasts your soul also. Look at the plants and the trees. Can you count all the different species? Can you describe al the different shapes of the leaves, the color and fragrances of the flowers? Look, too, at the animals
and the insects. Are you not enthralled by their different sizes and shapes, by the different colors and textures of their skin and fur, by the different ways in which they move about and gather food? And the wonder why God has created all this. Has he created the marvelous universe just to supply our needs and to feast our eyes and souls? or is there some other purpose in it all? The answer is that he has created all things--for their own sake. Each creature has its own purpose and destiny, which God in his infinite wisdom
and love has planned. Do not try to understand God's plans; the human mind is hardly better than that of an ant in discerning the ways of God. Simply accept all his plans and rejoice in them."  - Chrysostom, On Living Simply-

Society

"The test of a good society is that the great majority are engaged in the basic arts, and only a few in the arts of luxury. When large numbers are engaged in producing luxuries for the rich, that society has become corrupt."  - Chrysostom, On Living Simply -

Try

When the world says, "Give up," hope whispers, "Try it one more time."

Hang on

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." - Franklin D. Roosevelt -

Success

"Success is what you attract by the person you become."  - Jim Rohn -

Awareness

"Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness." - James Thurber -

Life

Michalangelo was once asked, "How do you produce statues that are so full of life?"

"The rough marble already contains the statues," Michalangelo said, "it is just a matter of extracting them."

Mistake

"If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake." – Frank Wilczek, Nobel prize winner in Physics -

Effort

"Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit."  - Napoleon Hill -

Task

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble."  - Helen Keller -

Luck

"I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity."  - Oprah Winfrey -

Trying

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."  - Dale Carnegie -

Competitor

"The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time."  - Henry Ford -

Seed

"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit."  - Napoleon Hill -

Future

"We can not change the future; but we can help shape it."  - Unknown author -

Pencil

"A blunt pencil is better than a sharp mind." - Unknown Author -

Us

"I don't know "us" and I don't think that we know "us" either, because - whoever we are - we have not met before."  - W.R. Bion -

Love

"To love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existence."  - Sydney Smith -

Childhood

"It is never too late to have a happy childhood."  - Tim Robbins -

Astound

"If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves." - Thomas Edison -

Dream

"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." - Edgar Allan Poe -

Smile

"A smile is the light in the window of your face that tells people you're at home."  - Author Unknown -

To pray

"Lord, help me to notice everything You want me to see today."  - Author unknown -

Weave

"Weave in faith and God will find the thread."  - Author unknown -

Cherish

"Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age."  - Christopher Morley -

Destination

"It matters not which way the wind blows, I can adjust my sails to reach my destination." - Author unknown -

Friendship

"The treasure of friendship is your richest possession, because it goes with you beyond this life."  - Swami Yoganandaji -

Mind

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled."  - Plutarch -

Exploration

"We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time..."  - T S Eliot in The Four Quartets -

Try

"God does not require us to succeed, he only asks us to try."  - Mother Teresa -

Future

"There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learnt to separate them." - JD Bernal -

Happy

"Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue what you want"  - Jim Rohn -

Everything

"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something."  - Thomas H. Huxley -

Decision

"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen." - Ralph Waldo Emerson -

Self-education

"Traditional education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune."  - Jim Rohn -