An optimist is the human personification of spring.
-Susan J. Bissonette

If we could read
the secret history of our enemies,
we should find
in each man's life
sorrow and suffering enough
to disarm all hostility.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"And the narrator,
With his story untold,
Meekly whispered,
Loud and bold,
The beginning words,
To the meeting's end,
You, my enemy,
Are now my friend"
-Folklore Rhyme

True joy...is a state and condition of the soul.
It survives through pain and sorrow and,
like a subterranean spring, waters the whole life.
-Rufus Matthew Jones

((12 + 144 + 20 + (3 * 4^(1/2))) / 7) + (5 * 11) = 9^2 + 0
A Dozen, a Gross and a Score,
plus three times the square root of four,
divided by seven,
plus five times eleven,
equals nine squared and not a bit more.
-Jon Saxton

Joy of life seems to me to arise from
a sense of being where one belongs...
All the discontented people I know are
trying sedulously to be something they
are not, to do something they cannot do.
Contentment, and indeed usefulness,
comes as the infallible result of greater
acceptances, great humilities -- of not
trying to make ourselves this or that,
but of surrendering ourselves
to the fullness of life -- of letting life flow
though us.
-David Grayson

A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition.
-Juan Ramon Jimenez

Absolute attention is prayer.

-Zen Saying

Sometimes your joy is the
source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile can be the
source of your joy.
-Thich Nhat Hanh

Why, if peace is acknowledged by all to be the greatest of blessings, should we not make peace among ourselves?
Whatever good or evil is the portion of any of us, is not peace more likely than war to preserve the one and to alleviate the other?
...instead of despising my words may every man look ahead and seek his own safety in them!
-Thucyldides

You,
whose day it is
make it beautiful.
Get out your rainbow colors,
so it will be beautiful.
-Nootka song

God of our life,
there are days when the burdens we carry
chafe our shoulders and wiegh us down;
when the road seems dreary and endless,
the skies gray and threatening;
when our lives have no music in them,
and our hearts are lonely,
and our souls have lost their courage.

Flood the path with light,
run our eyes to where
the skies are full of promise
tune our hearts to brave music;
give us the sense of comradeship
with heroes and saints of every age;
and so quicken our spirits
that we may be able to encourage
the souls of all who journey with us
on the road of life, to your honor and glory.
-Saint Augustine

Knowing what will happen in the future,
we are faced with a simple choice:
either we resolve
not to become attached to people and things,
or we decide to love them
even more fiercely.
-Amélie Nothomb

He who bends to himself a joy
Doth the winged life destroy;
But he who kisses a joy as it flies
Lives in Eternity's sunrise.
-William Blake

A human being is part of the whole, called by us universe; a part limited by time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison.
-Albert Einstein

Let your life lightly dance on the edges
of time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
-Rabindranath Tagore

Deep in their roots,
All flowers keep the light.
-Theodore Roethke

Kindness is more important than wisdom,
and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
-Theodore Rubin

Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.
-William Van Horne

If you are kind, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives:
   be kind anyways.
If you're successful, you'll win some false friends and some true enemies:
   succeed anyway.
If you're honest and frank, people may cheat you:
    but be honest anyway.
What you spend years building, someone can destroy overnight:
    build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous:
   be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow:
    do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have,     and it may never be enough:
    give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis,
    its between you and God,
     it was never between you and them anyway . . .
-Mother Teresa

The effect of one upright individual is incalculable.
-Oscar Arias

There are only two kinds of computer users: those that have experienced a hard disk crash, and those that will experience a hard disk crash.
-The Unknown Poster

The Nature of This Flower is to bloom.
-Alice Walker

I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake - which I also keep handy.
-W.C.Fields

How often in the course of events, everything depends on what appears a mere nothing.
-Carl G. Jung

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'
-G. K. Chesterton

Hasten slowly.
-Augustus Ceasar

Messenger of sympathy and love, servant of parted friends, consoler of the lonely, bond of the scattered family, enlarger of the common life.
-U.S. Post Office inscription, Washington, D.C.

It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
-W.C. Fields

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
-Janis Joplin

On Courage:
Here I stand.
I can do no other.
God help me.
Amen.
-Martin Luther

If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you.
-Jesus Christ(Gnostic Gospels)

Some guy hit my fender the other day, and I said unto him, "Be fruitful, and multiply."
But not in those words.
-Woody Allen

Our hearts were drunk with a beauty
Our eyes could never see.
-George W. Russell

That that is is.
-William Shakesphere Twelfth Night

The little I know, I owe to my ignorance.
-Sacha Guitry

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
-Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.
-G.K. Chesterton

Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length.
-Robert Frost