You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. – Epictetus

A hostile person lives in a hostile world. A loving person lives in a loving world.

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

The measure of love is to love without measure. – Mother Teresa

We can’t stop the waves, but we can learn to surf. – Jonathan Kabat-Zinn

The wise seek wisdom, a fool has found it.

Nearly all men can stand adversity… but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love. – Bryant H. McGill

Look up and not down; look forward and not back; look out and not in; and lend a hand.

If you are going through hell, keep going. – Winston Churchill

It’s better to be silent and be considered a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.

Holding resentment is like eating poison and waiting for the other person to keel over.

What you love, you empower. And what you fear, you empower. And what you empower, you attract. – The Talmud

If you lend someone £20, and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.

Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use. – Wendell Johnson

Where there’s a will, there’s a way.

Remember you are unique, just like everybody else.

Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.

If you would be loved, love and be lovable. – Benjamin Franklin

The wealthiest of all are those who are pure hearted.

Once we have found the true path, destiny unfolds before us like a red carpet.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Good friends are like stars – you don’t always see them, but you know they are always there.

No one has ever hurt their eyes by looking at the brighter side of life.

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. – Chinese Proverb

Accept that some days you’re the pigeon, and some days you’re the statue.

No one outside myself can rule me inwardly. Knowing this I become wholly free.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. – Winston Churchill

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

The aim of education should be to teach us how to think, rather than what to think. – James Beattie

Leap and the net will appear. – Zen Saying

Don’t be discouraged. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.

We can’t stop the waves, but we can learn to surf. – Jonathan Kabat-Zinn

Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so. – William Shakespeare

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.

The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground.

We tend to live up to our expectations. – Earl Nightingale

You can’t shake hands with a clenched fist. – Indira Ghandi

Don’t find fault. Find a remedy.

You grow to heaven. You don’t go to heaven.

They can because they think they can.

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

I have not failed. I’ve just found ten thousand ways that won’t work. – Thomas Edison

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. – Winston Churchill

If you’re too open minded, your brains will fall out.

To err is human. To forgive, divine.

We are such little men when the stars come out. – Herman Hagedorn

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. – André Gide

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. – Thomas Jefferson

The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it. – Jonathan Winters

Insist on yourself. Never imitate. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Grace isn’t a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It’s a way to live. – Jackie Windspear

A wise man sometimes changes his mind, a fool never.

Conscience is God’s presence in man.

And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. – Abraham Lincoln

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. – Paul Boese

The mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work unless it’s open.

Best friends are the siblings God forgot to give us.

Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times… it’s the only time you’ve got.

Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

When we come face to face with God, we are going to be judged on how much we loved. – Mother Teresa

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. – William Ward

We each have a choice: to approach life as a creator or a critic, a lover or a hater, a giver or a taker.

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind. – Dr Seuss

Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.

When you help someone up a hill, you get that much closer to the top yourself.

Progress is like a wheelbarrow, if you stop pushing the wheelbarrow it stops.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. – Richard Bach

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. – J. Robert Oppenheimer

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.

There’s nothing wrong with drinking like a fish…providing you drink what a fish drinks.

Success doesn’t come to you… you go to it. – Marva Collins

There are two ways of spreading light… To be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it. – Saint Augustine

Do or do not. There is no try. – Yoda

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill

Always forgive your enemies, nothing annoys them more.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

The best things in life are not things.

Believe that you have it, and you have it.

Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about.

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. – Sicilian Proverb

Parenthood is the art of bringing up children without putting them down.

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. – Winston Churchill

The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart. – William Hazlitt

Gratitude makes a person modest. A sense of gratitude expands the heart.

Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present. – Bil Keane

Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child. – Ron Wild

Don’t let your victories go to your head, or your failures go to your heart.

We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are.

The soul is healed by being with children.

Fall seven times, stand up eight. – Japanese Proverb

The road to success is always under construction.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. – Marcel Proust

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

Positive attitudes create a chain reaction of positive thoughts

It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up. – Vince Lombardi