Tao Te Ching

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
- Tao Te Ching

English Proverb

Advice is least heeded when most needed.
- English Proverb

Dawn French

I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half is badly written. My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first.
- Dawn French

Alexander Chase

Psychiatry's chief contribution to philosophy is the discovery that the toilet is the seat of the soul.
- Alexander Chase

Eda J Le Shan

A new baby is like the beginning of all things wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.
- Eda J Le Shan

Bill Murray

Let's show this prehistoric bitch how we do things downtown!
- Bill Murray

Stephen Covey

Live out of your imagination, not your history.- Stephen Covey

St. Francis of Assisi

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
- St. Francis of Assisi

Aldous Huxley

"Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities."
- Aldous Huxley

Buddhist Quote

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
- Buddhist Quote

George Bernard Shaw

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. 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

Erich Fromm

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
- Erich Fromm

Alexander Blok

Hell and damnation, life is such fun with a ragged greatcoat and a Jerry gun!
- Alexander Blok

Apoorve Dubey

"Even the most terrible beginnings can turn into beautiful endings when the direction is changed."
- Apoorve Dubey

H. L. Mencken

Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
- H. L. Mencken

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

W. Edwards Deming

Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.
- W. Edwards Deming

Thomas Edison

What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.
- Thomas Edison

A J Kitt

You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
- A J Kitt

Emily Dickinson

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without words, and never stops at all.
- Emily Dickinson

Maurice Freehil

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?
- Maurice Freehil

Micah MacAllen

“I had seen a little and knew a lot. Now I’ve seen a little more and know a lot less.”
- Micah MacAllen

Minna Thomas Antrim

Three failures denote uncommon strength. A weakling has not enough grit to fail thrice.- Minna Thomas Antrim

Isaac Asimov

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
- Isaac Asimov

Ambrose Bierce

Immigrant: An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another.
- Ambrose Bierce

Alfred North Whitehead

If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you, but if a cat does the same thing, it is because you lap is warmer.
- Alfred North Whitehead

Ashley Montague

"Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof."
- Ashley Montague

Moses Malone

I'll always be Number One to myself.
- Moses Malone

Bj Palmer

It is the path of least resistance that makes rivers and men crooked.
- Bj Palmer

Mark Twain

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
- Mark Twain