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| A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance. | Benjamin Disraeli | | |
| A good traveler has no fixed plan, and is not intent on arriving. | Lao Tzu | |  |
| A good traveler leaves no track. | Tao te Ching | | |
| All that we are is the result of what we have thought: It is founded on our thoughts and is made up of our thoughts. | Dhammapada | | |
| A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary. | Seneca | | |
| A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it. | Rabindranath Tagore | | |
| A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows. | William James | | |
| Argue for your limitations in your relationships, and you will produce a limited relationship. | Wayne Dyer, "Real Magic" | | |
| As a man abandons worn-out clothes and acquires new ones, so when the body is worn out a new one is acquired by the Self, who lives within. | Bhagavad Gita | | |
| As is the atom, so is the universe. | Upanishads | | |
| At birth we bring nothing with us; at death we take nothing away. | Chinese Proverb | | |
| A tree that is unbending is easily broken. | Lao-Tzu | | |
| Before enlightenment I chopped wood and carried water; after enlightenment I chopped wood and carried water. | Zen saying | | |
| Better to argue with a wise man than prattle with a fool. | Chinese Proverb | | |
| Beware what you think for they become your words. Beware what you say for they become your actions. Beware your actions as they become your habits. Beware your habits as they seal your fate. | Taoist saying | thoughts | |
| Be yourself, everyone else is already taken. | Oscar Wilde | | |
| Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought. | Napoleon Hill | Think and Grow Rich | |
| Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him. | James Allen, "As A Man Thinketh" | | |
| Concealing shortcomings while boasting virtues defines arrogrance. | Miao-lo | | |
| Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth -- that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | | |
| Control your emotion or it will control you. | Chinese Proverb | | |
| Day by day, in every way, I am getting better and better. | Emil Coue | | |
| ... decisions are made of kneaded feelings; they are more often a lump than a sum. | Tom Harris | | |
| Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action. | Orlson Swett Marden | | |
| Don't give others what they don't want. | Japanese Proverb | | |
| Drugs are not always necessary, [but] belief in recovery always is. | Norman Cousins | | |
| Enlightenment, or true happiness, is not a transcendental state. It is a condition of broad wisdom, boundless energy, and good fortune wherein we each shape our own destiny, find fulfillment in daily activities, and come to understand our ultimate purpose in life. | Josei Toda | | |
| Even our enemy is useful to us because, in order to practise compassion we need to practise tolerance, forgiveness, and patience, the antidotes to anger. | Dalai Lama | | |
| Every proverb, every book, every byword that belongs to thee for aid and comfort shall surely come home through open or winding passages. | Emerson | | |
| Every smile makes you a day younger; every sigh a day older. | Chinese Proverb | | |
| Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. | Napoleon Hill | Think and Grow Rich, p13 | |
| Fall seven times, stand up eight. | Japanese Proverb | | |
| Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate. | Chuang Tzu | | |
| Gaining enlightenment is like the moon reflected on the water. The moon doesn't get wet; the water isn't broken. Although its light is broad and great, the moon is reflected even in a puddle an inch wide. The whole moon and the whole sky are reflected in one dew-drop on the grass. | Dogen Zengi | | |
| Give thanks whenever you want more. | The Universe by tut.com | Gratitude | |
| God has no religion. | Mahatma Ghandi | religion, God | |
| God's blessings come in disguises. They keep coming nonetheless. Appreciation is in the art of recognition. | shCREDO | | |
| Guessing is cheap; guessing wrong is expensive. | Chinese Proverb | | |
| Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time. | unknown | | |
| Hatred never ceases through hatred. By compassion alone does it cease. | Shakyamuni | | |
| 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 Sthaviva Sangharakshita | | |
| He who grasps loses. | Tao te Ching | | |
| He who knows he has enough is rich. | Tao te Ching | | |
| He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened. | Lao-Tzu | | |
| How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these. | George Washington Carver | | |
| How you do anything is how you do everything. | Zen saying | | |
| I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward. | Thomas Edison | | |
| I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures. | Michel de Montaige | pain pleasure | |
| If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand. | Confucius | | |
| If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. | Henry David Thoreau | | |
| If that which is within is not right, it is futile to pray for that which is without. | Japanese Proverb | | |
| If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. | Bible, Mark 9:23 | belief | |
| If you are distessed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. | Marcus Aurelius | | |
| If you befriend another person but lack the mercy to correct him, you are in fact his enemy. | Chang-an | | |
| If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? | Dogen | | |
| If you hate those who hate you, you become like them. | Gary Zukav | | |
| If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few. | Shunryu Suzuki | | |
| If you want one year of prosperity, plant corn. If you want ten years of prosperity, plant trees. If you want one hundred years of prosperity, educate people. | Chinese Proverb | | |
| I have been all things unholy; if God can work through me, he can work through anyone. | St Francis of Assisi | | |
| I know of no more encouraging fact then the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor. | Henry David Thoreau | | |
| I maintain that cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest incitement to scientific research. | Albert Einstein | religion | |
| I neither follow the Way nor depart from it. I neither worship the Buddha nor have contempt for him. I neither sit long hours in meditation nor sit idle. I neither eat just one meal a day nor am I greedy for more. I desire nothing, and that is what I call the Way. | Vasubandhu | | |
| In our dark hours, we tend to ponder. And what we ponder, determines what comes after. | shCREDO | | |
| In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. | Lao-Tzu | | |
| It is easy to shield our bodies against poisoned arrows from without but difficult to shield our minds against poisoned darts from within. | Shakyamuni | | |
| It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. | Anthony Robbins | | |
| Joy, sorrow, care, courage, and tenderness are real. Kindness is real. Tears are real, and so is laughter. These are the currency of the heart. They are meant to be exchanged. | Gary Zukav | | |
| Just as the night is darkest, the seed of Light is already awakening. | shCREDO | | |
| Learning that does not daily increase will daily decrease. | Chinese Proverb | | |
| Let a Christian follow the precepts of his faith, let a Hindu and a Jew follow theirs. If they strive long enough, they will ultimately discover God, who runs like a seam under the crusts of rituals and forms. | Swami Nikhilananda | God | |
| Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands. | Seneca | | |
| Life is but a journey; death is returning home. | Chinese Proverb | | |
| Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play is free will. | Jawaharlal Nehru | | |
| Life is more accurately measured by the lives you touch than by the things you acquire. | anonymous | | |
| Man is born to live and not to prepare to live. | Boris Pasternak | | |
| Man is not the creature of circumstances; circumstances are the creatures of men. | Benjamin Disraeli | | |
| Man's happiness in life is the result of man's own effort and is neither the gift of God nor a spontaneous natural product. | Chen Tu-hsiu | | |
| Meditation is not the means to an end. It is both the means and the end. | J. Krishnamurti | | |
| Men are suffering from the fever of violent emotion, and so they make a philosophy of it. | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan | | |
| Men, as well as women, are much oftener lead by their hearts than by their understandings. | Lord Chesterfield | | |
| Miracles do not happen in contradiction to nature, but only in contradiction to that which is known to us in nature. | St. Augustine | | |
| Mischief all comes from much opening of the mouth. | Chinese Proverb | | |
| Misfortune comes from one's mouth and ruins him, but fortune comes from one's mind and makes him worthy of respect. | Nichiren | | |
| Muddy water, let stand, becomes clear. | Lao-Tzu | | |
| Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure ... they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it. | Jeremy Bentham | | |
| No matter what road I travel, I'm going home. | Shinso | | |
| Nonviolence requires much more courage than violence. | Mahatma Ghandi | peace | |
| No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. | Zen saying | | |
| No suffering befalls the man who calls nothing his own. | Dhammapada | | |
| Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose. | Benjamin Disraeli | | |
| Nothing is more likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life. | Victor Frankl | | |
| Not only can I not recall my experiences in my previous lives, sometimes I can't even remember what I did yesterday. | Dalai Lama | | |
| Of all strategies, to know when to quit may be the best. | Chinese Proverb | | |
| Only a vessel that is half-full can be shaken. | Chinese Proverb | | |
| Only by learning do we discover how ignorant we are. | Chinese Proverb | | |
| Only distance tests the strength of horses; only time reveals the hearts of men. | Chinese Proverb | | |
| Only the Supreme Executioner kills. To kill in place of the Supreme Executioner is to hack in place of a great carpenter. Now if one hacks in place of a great carpenter one can scarcely avoid cutting one's hand. | Lao-Tzu | | |
| Only the supremely wise and the abysmally ignorant do not change. | Confucius | | |
| Our bodies are our gardens, to which our wills are gardeners. | William Shakespeare | | |
| Outside noisy, inside empty. | Chinese Proverb | | |
| Patience in one minute of anger can prevent one hundred days of sorrow. | Chinese Proverb | | |
| People become what they expect themselves to become. | Mahatma Ghandi | | |
| Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake. If material poverty is to be avoided, spiritual poverty is to be abhorred! For it is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering. | Paramhansa Yogananda | | |
| Since body and mind are indivisible, so are past and present. | Keizan | | |
| Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes and the grass grows by itself. | Zenrin | | |
| Tell me, I'll forget. Show me, I may remember. But involve me and I'll understand. | Chinese Proverb | | |
| The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life. | Samurai maxim | | |
| The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action. | André Gide | belief | |
| The evil life is really the thoughtless life. | Dhammapada | | |
| The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with purpose. | Michel de Montaige | | |
| The great man is sparing in words but prodigal in deeds. | Confucius | | |
| The mind is everything, what you think, you become. | Buddha | | |
| The mind is host, the body guest. | Japanese Proverb | | |
| The next message you need is right where you are. | Baba Ram Das | | |
| The pain is inevitable, but the misery is optional. | Gary Zukav | | |
| The peaches and plums of the poor houses also create shade. | Huguo | | |
| The person who confesses ignorance shows it once; the person who conceals it shows it many times. | Japanese Proverb | | |
| The quieter you become, the more you can hear. | Baba Ram Das | | |
| There are many things I know, that I don't know I know. | shCREDO | | |
| There are two ways of avoiding war: One is to satisfy everyone's desire, the other, to content oneself with the good. | Unto Tahtinen | | |
| There is always a piece of fortune in misfortune. | Japanese Proverb | | |
| There is a taint worse than all taints, and its name is ignorance. | Dhammapada | | |
| The remedy for suffering is not to inflict more suffering. | Gary Zukav | | |
| There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self. | Aldous Huxley | | |
| The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you. | Anthony Robbins | | |
| The superior man seeks what is right; the inferior one, what is profitable. | Confucius | | |
| The ultimate standpoint of Zen … is that we have been led astray through ignorance to find a split in our own being, that there was from the very beginning no need for a struggle between the finite and the infinite, that the peace we are seeking so eagerly has been there all the time. | D.T. Suzuki | | |
| The way of the sage is to act but not to compete. | Lao-Tzu | | |
| They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are. | Aldous Huxley | | |
| Those in a hurry do not arrive. | Zen saying | | |
| Those who remember that we must come to an end in this world, their quarrels cease at once. | Dhammapada | | |
| Though it has no thought of keeping watch, it's not for naught that the scarecrow stands in the grain field. | Dogen Zenji | | |
| Thoughts of a passing man could change your life. | shCREDO | | |
| To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. | Confucius | | |
| To know what we do not know is the beginning of wisdom. | Maha Sthaviva Sangharakshita | | |
| Tolerance and patience should not be read as sign of weakness. They are signs of strength. | Dalai Lama | | |
| To live in fear and falsehood is worse than death. | Zend-Avesta | | |
| To love is the most important thing in life. But what do we mean by love? When you love someone because that person loves you in return, surely that is not love. To love is to have that extraordinary feeling of affection without asking anything in return. You may be very clever, you may pass all your examinations, get a doctorate and achieve a high position, but if you have not this sensitivity, this feeling of simple love, your heart will be empty and you will be miserable for the rest of your life. | J. Krishnamurti | love | |
| To see a world in a grain of sand, And heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour. | William Blake (1757-1827) | | |
| To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. | Lao-Tzu | | |
| To understand everything is to forgive everything. | Buddha | | |
| To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the highest skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the highest skill. | Sun Tzu | | |
| True luxury of a gift is not just in the receiving but also in having the means and ability to give. | shCREDO | | |
| True words are often not beautiful, just as beautiful words are often not true. | Japanese Proverb | | |
| Under all we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits. | Antonio Machado | belief | |
| Victory breeds hatred. He who has given up both victory and defeat, he is contented and happy. | Dhammapada | | |
| Watchfulness is the path to immortality, and thoughtlessness the path to death. The watchful do not die, but the thoughtless are already like the dead. | Dhammapada | | |
| We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free. | J. Krishnamurti | | |
| We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. | Buddha | | |
| We fail when we get distracted by tasks we don't have the guts to quit | Seth Godin, "The Dip" | | |
| We first make our habits, then our habits make us | John Dryden | habits, | |
| We will either find a way, or make one. | Hannibal | | |
| What the eye does not see the heart does not mourn. | Chinese Proverb | | |
| When drinking water, remember its source. | Chinese Proverb | | |
| When someone's character is not clear to you, look at that person's friends. | Japanese Proverb | | |
| When the mind is conflicted, the path is indecipherable. | shCREDO | mind | |
| When the student is ready, the teacher will appear. | Buddhist Proverb | | |
| When wealth is the reason for your activities, and the quality of your life is based on what you have accumulated compared with others, then prosperity is impossible. | Wayne Dyer, "Real Magic" | | |
| When you encounter someone greater than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you encounter someone lesser than you, look within and examine your own self. | Confucius | | |
| When you evaluate and judge others you do not define them, you define yourself. | Wayne Dyer, "Real Magic" | | |
| When you find the way others will find you. Passing by on the road they will be drawn to your door The way that cannot be heard will be echoed in your voice The way that cannot be seen will be reflected in your eyes. | Lao Tzu | The Way | |
| When you paint a dragon, you paint his scales, not his bones; when you see a man, you see his face, not his heart. | Chinese Proverb | | |
| When you recognize my insights, they become your insights... When you recognize wisdom, wherever or however that happens for you, it is your wisdom that is being reflected back to you. | Gary Zukav | | |
| When you strive for balance, be gentle with yourself. How can you recognize balance without recognizing imbalance? | Gary Zukav | | |
| Where there is fear there is no religion. | Mahatma Ghandi | | |
| Whosoever says to this mountain, "be removed and be cast into the sea" and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will come to pass he will have whatever he says ... whatever thing you ask whenever you pray believe that you receive them, and you will have them. | Bible, Mark 11:23-24 | | |
| Winter always turns to Spring. | Nichiren | | |
| .. you can determine in the winter what will be born in the summer. | Gary Zukav | | |
| You cannot do right in one department of life while occupied doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole. | Mahatma Ghandi | | |
| You cannot grow spiritually and remain the same. | Gary Zukav | | |
| You carry heaven and hell with you. | Sri Ramana Maharshi | | |
| You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. | Franz Kafka | meditation | |
| You don't have to start with the perfect topic. You just have to start. | Squidoo | | |
| You must be the change you wish to see in the world. | Mahatma Ghandi | change | |
| Your beliefs are yours, they originate with you, they are what you use (and all that you have to use) to carve out the circumstances of your physical reality. | Wayne Dyer | belief | |
| Your teacher can open the door, but you must enter by yourself. | Chinese Proverb | | |
| You should know now that a man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, not by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting. A man of knowledge chooses a path with heart and follows it. | Carlos Castaneda "A Separate Reality" | | |
| You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. | Albert Camus | irony | |
| Zen teaches nothing; it merely enables us to wake up and become aware. It does not teach, it points. | D.T. Suzuki | | |
