If you are unkind....you're the wrong kind.

Put your heart, mind, spirit, and soul
into even your smallest acts.
This is the secret of success.
~Swami Sivananda

When you have to swallow your own medicine,
the spoon seems very large.

One kind word can warm three winter months.
~Japanese Proverb

It always surprises me that otherwise intelligent people
don't realize that if you treat people badly,
it will eventually come back to you.
~Charles Grodin

A commitment is doing what you said you would do
long after the feeling you said it in has passed.

Nothing is often a good thing to do, and almost
always a clever thing to say.
~Will Durant

My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for 40 years
because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask directions.
~Elayne Boosler

The three grand essentials of happiness are:
something to do,
someone to love,
and something to hope for.
~Alexander Chalmers

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
~G. K. Chesterton

It's time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.

~Jesse Jackson

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

The question should never be who is right, but what is right.
~Glenn Gardiner

The stupid neither forgive nor forget.
The naïve forgive and forget.
The wise forgive but do not forget.

Heroism consists of hanging on one minute longer.
~Norwegian Proverb

With enough coffee you can do anything.
~Robert McKee

We don't inherit the earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.

We cannot control the tragic things that happen to us,
but we can control the way we face up to them.

One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever
in debt to those who are kind.
~Malay Proverb

Since life is short, we need to make it broad.
Since life is brief, we need to make it bright.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Love calls for open arms. With arms open you allow
love to come and go as it wills, freely,
for it will do so anyway.
If you close your arms about love you'll
find you are left only holding yourself.
~Leo Buscaglia

Don't knock the weather;
nine-tenths of the people couldn't
start a conversation if it
didn't change once in a while.
~Kin Hubbard

When you get into a tight place and everything
goes against you, until it seems as though you
cannot hang on a minute longer,
never give up then, for that is just the place
and time that the tide will turn.
~Harriet Beecher Stowe

You get more than you give when you give more than you get.

The Lord gave us two ends--
one to sit on and the other to think with.
Success depends on which one we use the most.
~Ann Landers

Temper is what gets most of us into trouble.
Pride is what keeps us there.

Time flies whether you're having fun or not.

To belittle is to be little.

Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.
~Malayan Proverb

There is more in us than we know.
If we can be made to see it, perhaps,
for the rest of our lives
we will be unwilling to settle for less.
~Kurt Hahn

Poise is the act of raising the eyebrows rather than the roof.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak.
Courage is also what it
takes to sit down and listen.
~Winston Churchill

Trouble is a part of life, and if
you don't share it, you don't give the
person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
~Dinah Shore

Too much idleness, I have observed,
fills up a man's time much more completely,
and leaves him less his own master,
than any sort of employment whatsoever.
~Edmund Burke

Knowing what's right doesn't mean much
unless you do what's right.

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
~Mark Twain

Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional.

To the unwilling, nothing is easy.
~Gaelic Proverb

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

Go at life with abandon; give it all you've got.
And life will give all it has to you.
~Norman Vincent Peale

Some of the best lessons we ever learn we learn from
our mistakes and failures. The error of the past is the
wisdom and success of the future.
~Tyron Edwards

A friend is a person who knows you and still likes you.

A real friend is a person who,
when you've made a fool of yourself,
lets you forget it.

Respect cannot be learned, purchased, or acquired--it can only be earned.

One is happy as a result of one's own
efforts once one knows the necessary
ingredients of happiness: simple tastes,
a certain degree of courage,
self-denial to a point, love of work,
and above all, a clear conscience.
~Mary Ann Evans

The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
~Carlyle

Opportunities multiply as they are seized,
die when neglected.

Beware of half-truths:
You may have gotten the wrong half.

Before you walk in someone else's shoes,
make sure you take off your own.

The human race has improved everything except the human race.
~Adlai Stevenson

One jagged tooth is all that is needed to strip a gear.

Age is not important unless you're a cheese.
~Helen Hayes