Quotes to inspire and reflect

Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.

The first wealth is health.

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one.

To keep the body in good health is a duty otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

The secret of success is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force... If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war.

When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.

Daylight, in my mind, the night faded.

The most painful state of living is remembering the future.

I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better than the bad.

It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism. H. P.

This Rock has become an object of veneration in the United States. I have seen bits of it carefully preserved in several towns in the Union. Does this sufficiently show that all human power and greatness is in the soul of man? Here is a stone which the feet of a few outcasts pressed for an instant; and the stone becomes famous; it is treasured by a great nation; its very dust is shared as a relic.

He is a fool that cannot conceal his wisdom.

I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer. F.

When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence, and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.

Those who don’t build must burn. It’s as old as history and juvenile delinquency.

We shape our buildings and they shape us.

For the great mass of mankind, the only saving grace needed is a steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart for the short moment of each human effort.

If it can be dreamed, it can be done.

They will kill a great many of us. We will kill a few of them. They will tire of it first.

God creates men, but they choose each other.

Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.

The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.

Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it got even stronger.

Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

The wisest men follow their own direction.

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.

So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.

That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art. John A.

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do??

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.