Some of my Favorite Quotes

Wisdom begins when we know that we know nothing.

~ Socrates ~

Truth only reveals itself when one gives up all preconceived ideas.

~Shoseki~

Whatever it is you are feeling is a perfect reflection of what is in the process of becoming.  

~from 'The Secret'~

"He who works with his hands is a laborer.
He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.
He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist."

--Francis of Assisi (1181-1226)

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

~Abraham Lincoln~

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

~ William Shakespeare ~

He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.

~ Thomas Fuller ~

Thoughts that bring about good feelings mean you are on the right track. Thoughts that bring about bad feelings means you are not on the right track. 

 ~from 'The Secret'~

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

~ Buddha ~

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.

~J.C. Watts ~

 "You create your own universe as you go along"  

~Winston Churchill~

If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.

~Alan Simpson ~

Don't try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough.

~Arthur Freed ~

Start by using this sentence for all of your desires: "I'm so happy and grateful now that...."  

~from 'The Secret'~

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.

~ William Safire ~

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

~ Albert Einstein ~

Your thoughts cause your feelings.  

~from 'The Secret'~

Character is higher than intellect.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. 

~Chinese Proverb ~

When you realize your potential to feel good, you will ask no one to be different in order for you to feel good. 

~from 'The Secret'~

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. 

~James Openheim~

An affirmative thought is 100 times more powerful than a negative one.  

~from 'The Secret'~

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

~Margaret Young~

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.

~Mohandas K. Gandhi~

Every thought has a frequency. Thoughts send out a magnetic energy. 

~from 'The Secret'~

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

~Elwyn Brooks White, Essays of E.B. White, 1977~

When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves.

~David Orr~

"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions."

~Albert Einstein~

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

~Ross Perot~

Take nothing but pictures.  Leave nothing but footprints.  Kill nothing but time.

~Motto of the Baltimore Grotto, a caving society~

Whatever is going on in your mind is what you are attracting. 

~from 'The Secret'~

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

~Albert Einstein~

You are the only one that creates your reality.

~from 'The Secret'~