Mirror

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it. Ernest Holmes

Doing

How you do anything is how you do everything. Zen saying 

Aspire

Aspire to be like Mt. Fuji, with such a broad and solid foundation that the strongest earthquake cannot move you, and so tall that the greatest enterprises of common men seem insignificant from your lofty perspective. With your mind as high as Mt Fuji you can see all things clearly. And you can see all the forces that shape events; not just the things happening near to you. Miyamoto Musashi

Suffering

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar. Thich Nhat Hanh

Growing

If only I may grow: firmer, simpler - quieter, warmer. Dag Hammarskjold 

Gratitude

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul. Henry Ward Beecher

The Art of Life

The art of life lies in a constant re-adjustment to our surroundings. Kakuzo Okakura

Risk

Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk. Shirley Hufstedler

Enthusiasm

If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. Bruce Barton

Yourself

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. Oscar Wilde

Revenge

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green. Francis Bacon

Connection

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. Herman Melville

Perspective

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other sees stars. Fredrick Langbridge 

Liberation

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Marianne Williamson 

Truth

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

Diligence

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes. Miguel de Cervantes

Friendship

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. Friedrich Nietzsche

Yourself

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. Ralph Waldo Emerson

More

Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car. Garrison Keillor

Soul

You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body. C.S. Lewis

Time

Time is not a line, but a series of now-points. Taisen Deshimaru 

Extraordinary

We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released. Jean Houston

Change

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. 

Is that good news?

William Somerset Maugham

Nature

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mind

When you are looking, mind is active. When you are seeing, mind is passive. Osho

Understanding

Having failed to distinguish thoughts from things, we then fail to distinguish words from thoughts. We think that if we can label a thing we have understood it. Maha Sthavira Sangharakshita

Reality

Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down. We don't move, today is today, always is today. Octavio Paz

No Time

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you. Friedrich Nietzsche

Courtesy

Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much. Erastus Wiman

Winners

One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project. Denis Waitley

Temperence

Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul. Frances E. Willard