Thich Nhat Hanh

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

ANNE BRONTE

If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone. Happy Birthday Mom

Thich Nhat Hanh

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

Thich Nhat Hanh

So if we love someone, we should train in being able to listen. By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person.

Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish. If you are not capable of generating that kind of energy toward yourself if you are not capable of taking care of yourself, of nourishing yourself, of protecting yourself it is very difficult to take care of another person. To love oneself is the foundation of the love of other people. Love is a practice.

Obstacles are the distractions you see when you take your eyes off of your goals.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama

"Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion."

R.H. Grant

When you hire people who are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama

"In the present circumstances, no one can afford to assume that someone else will solve their problems. Every individual has a responsibility to help guide our global family in the right direction. Good wishes are not sufficient; we must become actively engaged."

When two people in a business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama

"Human beings by nature want happiness and do not want suffering. With that feeling everyone tries to achieve happiness and tries to get rid of suffering. In this way, all here are the same, whether rich or poor, educated or uneducated, Easterner or Westerner, believer or non-believer, and within believers whether Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, or Muslim. From the viewpoint of human value we are all the same."

Dr. Albert Schweitzer

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 will have sought and found out how to serve others.

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

"Young men are as apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are to think themselves sober enough."

Abraham Lincoln

I do the best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right what is said about me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Progress always involves a degree of risk; you can't steal second with your foot on first.

"Success is simply a matter of luck." Ask any failure.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Chief Dan George - Little Big Man

"Their is an endless supply of white men but their always has been a limited number of human beings"

NELSON MANDELA

The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

HENRIK IBSEN

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

GEORGE WASHINGTON

Conscience ... seldom comes to a man's aid while he is in the zenith of health and revelling in pomp and luxury upon illgotten spoils. It is generally the last act of his life, and it comes too late to be of much service to others here, or to himself hereafter.

ROGER STAUBACH

Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication

J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER

There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

NELSON MANDELA

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

DAVID MAMET

We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder “censorship,” we call it “concern for commercial viability.

Winston Churchill

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

WALTER BENJAMIN

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

William James

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome."

George Eliot

Animals are such agreeable friends--they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.