| e are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and | | | | you want to be happy, practice compassion. |
| shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets | | | | -- Dalai Lama |
| in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light | | | | He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the |
| from within. | | | | place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end. |
| -- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M. D. | | | | -- Harry Emerson Fosdick |
| Some men see things as they are and say why. I | | | | Experience is what you get when you didn't get what |
| dream things that never were and say why not? | | | | you wanted. |
| -- Robert F. Kennedy | | | | -- John Lennon |
| Things do not change, we do. | | | | God does not comfort us to make us comfortable but |
| -- Henry David Thoreau | | | | to make us comforters. |
| The fact that our task is exactly as large as our life | | | | -- J. H. Jowett |
| makes it appear infinite. | | | | If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can |
| -- Franz Kafka | | | | take it away from him. An investment in knowledge |
| He who knows does not speak; | | | | always pays the best interest. |
| He who speaks does not know. Stop up the openings, | | | | -- Benjamin Franklin |
| Close down the doors, Rub off the sharp edges. | | | | Own only what you can always carry with you: know |
| Unravel all confusion. Harmonize the light, | | | | languages, know countries, know people. Let your |
| Give up contention: | | | | memory be your travel bag. |
| This is called finding the unity of life. | | | | -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn |
| When love and hatred cannot affect you, Profit and | | | | Truth and oil come to the surface. |
| loss cannot touch you, | | | | -- Portuguese Proverb |
| Praise and blame cannot ruffle you, You are honored | | | | When one door of happiness closes, another opens; |
| by all the world. | | | | but often we look so long at the closed door that we |
| -- Lao-tzu | | | | do not see the one which has been opened for us. |
| If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If | | | | |