"See the job. Do the job. Stay out of misery."

~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions not our circumstances”.

- Martha Washington

"There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows."

-- John Farrar (1945-) Australian Composer

We have an infinite number of reasons to be happy, and a serious responsibility not to be serious."

(Maharishi Mahesh Yogi)

"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."

~Voltaire

"I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amidst the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail."

-- C.A. Beard

"An inconvenience is an unrecognized opportunity."

~ Confucius

"Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule."

- Buddha

“If you understand,
things are just as
they are. If you
do not understand,
things are just as
they are.”

~ Zen saying

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”

~ Carl Sagan

"Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes."

-- Victor Hugo (1802-1885)

"When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder."

-- W.J. Slim

"Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing."

(William Shakespeare)

"In order to win, we pay with energy and effort and discipline. If we lose, we pay in disappointment, discontent, and lack of fulfillment."

(Maya Angelou)

"Power is the ability to do good things for others."

-- Brooke Astor