One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that ones work is terribly important, and that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster.
If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.

Bertrand Russell

GOOD THINGS

The good things in history are usually of very short duration, but afterwards have a decisive influence over what happens over long periods of time.

Hannah Arendi

SILENCE

One of the lessons of history is that Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

Wil Durrant

LIFE IS A PARTY

Life is a party. You join after it started and you leave before its finished.

Elsa Maxwell

DISTRACTIONS

Romance and work are great diversions to keep you from dealing with yourself.

Cher

THANKSGIVING

Isn't life a terrible thing thank God.

Dylan Thomas

REGRETS

As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do.

Mildred Pierce

LAUGHTER

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.

Ethel Barrymore

HELL

There is no Hell but selfhood. No paradise but selflessness.

Abu Said

GET SIMPLE

Unless a man is simple, he cannot recognise God, the simple one.

Bengali Song

GOING BACK

Going back to the origin is called peace: It means reversion to destiny: Reversion to destiny is called eternity: He who knows eternity is called enlightened.

Tao Te Ching

THE LAUGHING BUDDHA

The most wasted of all our days are those in which we have not laughed.

S.R.N. Chamfort

SETTLEMENT

Peace is not made at the council tables, or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

Herbert Hoover

JOY

This is the secret of joy. We shall no longer strive for our own way; but commit ourselves, easily and simply, to God's way, acquiesce in his will and in so doing find our peace.

Evelyn Underhill

WISDOM

God only is wise and... the wisdom of men is worth little or nothing... He... is the wisest who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.

Plato

ACT WELL

Remember that you are an actor in a play, and the playwright chooses the manner of it... Your business is to act the character that is given you and act it well; the choice of the cast is anothers.

Epictetus

BOUND FOR GLORY

Heaven is our heritage, earth but a players stage.

Thomas Naste

HARD TRAVELIN'

Let not poverty and misfortune distress you. For as gold is tried in the fire, the believer is exposed of trails.

Ali

FOR THE BEST

God never takes anything from his children unless he means to give them something better

George Mueller

AGE

The joy of being older is that in one's life one can towards the end of the run, over-act appallingly.

Quintin Crisp

A LITTLE SPARK

From a little spark may burst a mighty flame

Dante

DO IT YOURSELF

Truth which is merely told is quick to be forgotten: truth which is discovered lasts a lifetime

William Barclay

FORGET

These trees and meadows teach us clearly the best of all things - to forget what we know.

Alfred De Musset

ENEMIES

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

Ben Franklin

STORMY WEATHER

Oh, thrice blessed the mortals, who, having contemplated these mysteries have descended to Hades: for those only will there be a future life of happiness - the others there will find nothing but suffering.

Sophocles

FINDING OUT

I read my Bible to know what people ought to do and my newspaper to know that they are doing.

John H Newman

PERFECT PEACE

God did not make people perfect. He made them pilgrims after perfection.

Henry W Beecher

LIGHT A CANDLE

Don't curse the darkness - light a candle.

Chinese Proverb

THE FALL

All created things perish. He who knows and sees this is at peace in a world of pain.

Dhammapada

FILL THAT

The eternal problem of the human being is how to structure his/her waking hours.

Eric Berne

RENUNCIATION

Near renunciation, very near, dwells eternal peace.

Jon Gleur

ANGER

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.

New Testament

THOUGHTS

All thoughts will lead you home.

Al Fresco

STRUGGLE

Life gives nothing to mankind. Unless they strive mightily

Horace

YOUR NUTS

To get the kernel, you must crack the nut.

Plautus

EXAMPLE

Example is not the main thing in influencing others - it is the only thing.

Albert Schweitzer

NOW

People must pursue things which are just in present, and leave the future to the divine providence.

Francis Bacon

WILL

People do not lack strengh, they lack will.

Victor Hugo

TICKET TO RIDE

There may be many ways, but they are ways of illustrating the one mind.

Takuan

NOW IS THE TIME

The past and the future are our inveterate enemies.

Paul Valery

FORGIVENESS

Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hate. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.

Corrie Ten Boom

THE OPEN DOOR

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

Helen Keller

PRIME MOVER

All justice comes from God. He is its sole source.

Rousseau

LET NOTHING DISTURB THEE

Let nothing disturb thee: Nothing affright thee: All things are passing: God never changeth.

Saint Teresa of Avila

GOSSAMER

Everything mortal can be raised up or laid low in a single day.

Jon Gleur

CONTAINMENT

Time cannot stand still and never will.

Roy Harper

RECONCILER

Reconcilers show compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.

Jon Gleur

TRUTH

Truth is the only resting place of the soul.

William Law

TRUE PEACE

True peace consists in not separating ourselves from the will of God.

Thomas Aquinas

SACRIFICE

The good of the community is greater and more divine than the good of the individual.

Thomas Aquinas

THE TREMBLING REED

Man is nothing but a reed trembling in the wind.

B. Pascal

THEM

There is only us.

Al Fresco

NEW

There is nothing new under ths sun.

French proverb