Proverbs - miscellaneous
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. - Shakespeare
The beliefs of everyone are based on the basic nature of oneself. A person is what he believes in. - Bhagavad Gita
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. - Mark Twain
Belief means not wanting to know what is true - Friedrich Nietzsche
Don’t cry and don’t rage. Understand. - Baruch Spinoza
The secret of life is not in what happens to you. It is in what you do with it that happens to you. - Norman Vincent Peale
The world is born again everyday to the one who takes it in the right way. - James Russell Lowell
If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else - Chinese proverb
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. - Chinese Proverb
Only your real friends tell you when your face is dirty. - Sicilian Proverb
A friend is a person who accepts me as I am. - Henry David Thoreau
Violence is the first refuge of the incompetent. - Isaac Asimov
The absence of war is not peace. -Harry S Truman
Science is silent worshipping of the God. - Herbert Spencer
The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: Find what it is that interests you and that you can do well; And when you find it, put your whole soul into it, every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have. - John D. Rockefeller
When you come to a dead end, change – as changed you will get through - I Ching
"I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you" - Friedrich Nietzsche
Keep love in your heart. A life without love is like garden without sun after the flowers have pined away. - Oscar Wilde
An optimist and a pessimist can be just as successful. The only difference is the optimist has more fun achieving her goals. - Walter Wagner
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's
country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying.
You will die like a dog for no good reason. - Ernerst Hemmingway
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a
trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing great has ever been achieved without enthusiasm. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
For in the end we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught . - B. Dioum
The peak of the human knowledge is to feel the usefulness of all secular. - George Byron
Today is an important day because I only live in today. Yesterday cannot be changed, tomorrow cannot be known. Tomorrow is the today of tomorrow. - Vexom
A good person brings good from his storage of goodness. A bad person brings bad things from his storage of badness. – the Bible
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. - Victor Hugo
We must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues. – Cicero
There is no us and them, there is only you and me. - Caesar
You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can. - Jimmy Carter
To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage. - Lao Tzu