A few quotes I like

Love
There is only one happiness in life to love and to be loved. George Sand
Love never divides, it only multiplies

Passion
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
Honor de Balzac
The most beautiful make-up of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy. Yves
Saint Laurent
Passion is the fuel to Vision. Edward Ezekiel Isouve
Were kisses all the joys in bed, one woman would another wed. William Shakespeare

Vision
We are not limited by our abilities, but by our vision.
We start out in our lives as little children, full of light and the clearest vision. Brenda Ueland

The Mind
An open mind opens many doors.
Intelligence is a choice. A razor may be sharper than an axe, but it cannot chop wood.
"Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life
believing that it is stupid." Albert Einstein

Children
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
Kahlil Gibran
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to
mankind is to bring up a family. George Bernard Shaw

War and Peace

People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams,
addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony
is the only place they ever needed to search was within. Ramona Anderson

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. Gandhi

Race and Gender

"I don't care if it's a white cat or a black cat. It's a good cat so long as it catches mice." Deng
Xiaoping
Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels. Faith
Whittlesey

Jealousy
In jealousy there is more self-love than of love. Franois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Jealousy is a mental cancer. B.C. Forbes
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. William Penn

Wisdom
Things should be made as simple as possible, and not simpler. Albert Einstein
The superior person uses his mind like a mirror: it accepts all, it reflects all. It receives, but it
does not keep. Chuang Tzu
To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest
number of good hours, is wisdom. Ralph Waldo Emerson
With our thoughts we create the world. Buddha

Character
Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you
really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are. John Wooden
Your thoughts become words, your words become actions, your actions become habits, your
habits become character, and your character becomes your destiny.

Ego
To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.
Buddha
Be the change you wish to see in the world. Gandhi

Courage
No one can take your self-respect if you do not give it to them. Gandhi

Courage is the greatest of all the virtues. If you dont have courage, you may not have the
opportunity to use any of the others. Samuel Johnson
Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both. Tryon Edwards

Success
Some men succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are.
Elbert Hubbard
To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, then pretend you are.
Muhammad Ali
We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when Infinite Joy is
offered to us, like an Ignorant Child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he
cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are Far Too Easily
Pleased." C. S. Lewis

Commitment
There is a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing
something, you do it only when circumstance permit. When you're committed to something, you
accept no excuses, only results.
The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one.
Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt. Rollo May
The difference between involvement and commitment? Well if were talking about breakfast, the
chicken was involved, but the pig was committed.

Perseverance
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination. Tommy
Lasorda
There is no better time than now. The time to live is now. The time to dream is now. The time to
imagine and forget the past is now. The time to shine is now. The time to bleed, sweat, and
determine yourself for the things you want most is now.

Religion
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
Thomas Hardy

Technology
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. Albert
Einstein
Lo! Men have become the tools of their tools. Henry David Thoreau

Environment
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children. Native
American Proverb
You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your
grandfathers, so that they will respect the land. Tell your children that the earth is rich with the
lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children; that the earth is our
mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they
spit upon themselves. Chief Seattle
The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart away from nature becomes hard; he knew
that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too. Chief
Luther Standing Bear
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive. Albert
Einstein
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. Carl Sagan
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to
the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. - Chief Seattle

Government
When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for
themselves. George Pataki
Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five
wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper. Larry Flint

Relaxation
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
Anatole France
Humor is a whisper from the soul, imploring mind and body to relax, let go and be at peace
again.

Martial Arts
Any nation with too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking
done by cowards and its fighting done by fools. Thucydides
"Jiu-Jitsu constitutes the natural defense the weak person disposes of against the strong person.
It is a sort of leveling process through which brute force, confronted and dominated by the wise
application of rational mechanics, is led to admitting that the human being, usually taken as a
body endowed with a soul, should actually be deemed a soul that happens to reside in a body"
Carlos Gracie

Fear
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. Bertrand Russell
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any
time. Mark Twain

Life and Death

All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of
people who have had to live. Mark Twain
After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. J.K. Rowling
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings happy death. Leonardo da
Vinci
Lo, there do I see my father
Lo, there do I see my mother
And my sister and my brother
Lo, there do I see the line of my people
Back to the beginning
Lo, they do call to me
They bid me take my place among them
In the halls of Valhalla
Where the brave will live forever
Viking prayer