WISE SAYINGS

"We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the place for the first time." -- T.S. Eliot

"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out." -- Vaclav Havel

"If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now -- when?" -- Hillel

"Come my friends, 'tis not too late to seek a newer world." -- Tennyson

"If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are." -- Zen proverb

"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice." -- Meister Eckhart

"There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." -- Albert Einstein

"We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." -- Victor Frankl

"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards." -- Unknown

"The shell must break before the bird can fly." -- Tennyson

"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes." -- Carl Jung

"The years teach much that the days never know." -- Emerson

"If you bring forth what is within you, it will heal you. And if you do not bring forth what is within you, it will destroy you." (from the Gospel of St. Thomas)

"Go to your bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know." -- William Shakespeare

"The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why." -- Albert Einstein

"The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve." -- Albert Schweitzer

"The difference between a smart person and a wise person is that a smart person knows what to say and a wise person knows whether or not to say it." -- Quote found on the wall of a recreation center office in Berkeley, California

"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get." -- Dave Gardner

"We do not see things as they are; we see things as we are." -- Talmud

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. " -- Helen Keller