Lord, we know what we are, but know not what we may be.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE  (Hamlet)

Our life is what our thoughts make of it.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Two men looked out from prison bars, one saw mud the other stars.
UNKNOWN

Life can only be understood backwards; it has to be lived forwards.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Everything is so dangerous that nothing is really frightening.
GERTRUDE STEIN

Life does not consist mainly or even largely of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that are forever blowing through one's mind.
MARK TWAIN

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
SENECA

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read, and nobody wants to read
MARK TWAIN

The gases gather to the solid firmament; the chemic lump arrives at the plant and grows; arrives at the quadruped and walks; arrives at the man, and thinks.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

It were better to be of no church than to be bitter for any.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined.
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Nothing is better than simplicity.
WALT WHITMAN

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under any circumstances.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those we intend to commit.
JOSH BILLINGS

Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
RUDYARD KIPLING

Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
JAMES THURBER

Some of your griefs you have cured, and the sharpest you still have survived;
But what torments of pain you endured. From the evils that never arrived.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
MARK TWAIN

People travel to wonder at the mountains, at the huge waves of the sea,
at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.
ST AUGUSTINE

Change cannot be avoided.Change provides the opportunity for innovation.
It gives you the chance to demonstrate your creativity.
KESHAVAN NAIR
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
MARK TWAIN