Wise Words: A bunny who waits for endless time and perfect conditions may never begin to hop. ღ One conscious hop colors and moves the entire universe. ღ Relax and hop your path as gracefully as you can. ღ The tastiest part of the carrot grows in darkness underground. ღ Let us give something, however small, for a small carrot is not small to the bunny who has none. ~Krista Lester, tweets from @BunnyBuddhism, www.bunnybuddhism.com Wise Words: A day is Eternity's seed, and we are its Gardeners. ~Erika Harris Wise Words: A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. ~Henry David Thoreau Wise Words: A man must have something to cling to. Without that he is as a pea vine sprawling in search of a trellis.... I was all asprawl, clinging to Beauty, which is a very restless trellis. ~E.B. White Wise Words: A philosopher runs on ahead of his troubles, while a foolish man lags behind in the shadow of his difficulties. ~James Lendall Basford Wise Words: A refusal to face reality allows it to stab you in the back. ~Dr. Idel Dreimer Wise Words: All philosophy in two words, - sustain and abstain. ~Epictetus Wise Words: Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake. ~, inspired by A.A. Milne Wise Words: Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? ~Abraham Lincoln Wise Words: An important corollary to the Golden Rule is to leave others be as you would have them leave you be. ~Robert Brault Wise Words: Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means. ~Robert Louis Stevenson Wise Words: Anything can happen; this is the very rule of this universe! The best defence against this rule is this: Don't panic! ~Mehmet Murat ildan Wise Words: Be deeply satisfied and ready for more. ~Abraham-Hicks Wise Words: Be kind to everyone on the way up; you'll meet the same people on the way down. ~Wilson Mizner Wise Words: Be kind to your shadow. ~Rebecca Lawless Wise Words: Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter. ~Edward Abbey Wise Words: Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. ~Thomas à Kempis Wise Words: Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself. ~Elbert Hubbard Wise Words: Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river. ~Lao Tzu Wise Words: Be true to your word and your work and your friend... ~John Boyle O'Reilly, from the poem "Rules of the Road" Wise Words: Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk. ~Joaquin de Setanti Wise Words: Begin, not from an imaginary past, to which you can never go back; not from an imaginary future which you have not reached. Begin from the present, with all its treasury of good-ay, and with all its treasury of evil. And, keeping the pathway unbroken from the past to the future, lead on to life, to larger life... upward, upward. ~Lyman Abbott Wise Words: Better to be furious at one thing, become radiant with purpose. Better to love links and rhythms than all-embracing answers. ~Stephen Dunn Wise Words: Beware of a man of one book. ~English Proverb Wise Words: Beware of letting your comforts become means of pain; nor make yourself miserable for the sake of being happy. ~William Benton Clulow Wise Words: Bloom where you are planted. ~Mother Jones Wise Words: Create each day anew by clothing yourself with heaven and earth, bathing yourself with wisdom and love, and placing yourself in the heart of Mother Nature. ~Morihei Ueshiba Wise Words: Dare to be imperfect and one day there will tug at your sleeve a soulmate. ~Robert Brault Wise Words: Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb Wise Words: Do it or don't. It's amazing how many things in life are that easy. ~Henry Rollins Wise Words: Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong. ~Dandemis Wise Words: Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity. ~Max Lerner Wise Words: Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb Wise Words: Do not sacrifice a large good for a little evil. ~Martin H. Fischer Wise Words: Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. ~Theodore Roosevelt Wise Words: Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got. ~Janis Joplin Wise Words: Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof. ~Martin H. Fischer Wise Words: Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. ~Robert Frost Wise Words: Don't get your knickers in a knot. Nothing is solved and it just makes you walk funny. ~Kathryn Carpenter Wise Words: Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. ~Robert Louis Stevenson Wise Words: Don't look for your dreams to come true; look to become true to your dreams. ~Michael Beckwith Wise Words: Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb Wise Words: Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day. ~Albert Camus Wise Words: Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Wise Words: Ever ask yourself what you would do if you had tomorrow to live over again? ~Robert Brault Wise Words: Every day is conquerable by its hours, and every hour by its minutes. ~Robert Brault Wise Words: Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it - torn up to irrecoverable tatters. ~Samuel Butler Wise Words: Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants. ~Edward Steichen Wise Words: Everyone should learn to do one thing supremely well because he likes it, and one thing supremely well because he detests it. ~Brigham Young Wise Words: Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. ~W. Somerset Maugham Wise Words: Face what you think you believe and you will be surprised. ~William Hale White Wise Words: Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. ~Swedish Proverb Wise Words: Follow the seasons. Follow your heart. Lead by example. Lead with love, alongside simplicity and courage, embracing duty, shunning fear. ~Terri Guillemets Wise Words: For visions come not to polluted eyes. ~Mary Howitt Wise Words: Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly. ~Benjamin Franklin Wise Words: Give thanks for what you are now, and keep fighting for what you want to be tomorrow. ~Fernanda Miramontes-Landeros, November 2009 winner of The Quote Garden create your own quote contest on Wise Words: Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak. Sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go. ~Author Unknown Wise Words: God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me. ~Author unknown, variation of an excerpt from "The Serenity Prayer" by Reinhold Neibuhr Wise Words: God is good, but never dance in a small boat. ~Irish Saying Wise Words: Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other. ~Henry David Thoreau Wise Words: Half the failures in life arise from pulling in the horse as he is leaping. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Wise Words: Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts. ~Charles Dickens Wise Words: Have a vision of excellence, a dream of success, and work like hell. ~Samuel DuBois Cook, advice to all black youth Wise Words: Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. ~Victor Hugo Wise Words: History is apt to judge harshly those who sacrifice tomorrow for today. ~Harold MacMillan Wise Words: I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.... In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. ~Henry David Thoreau Wise Words: I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes. ~Sara Teasdale Wise Words: I may be justifying my pockets of chaos, but I will always choose people over perfection and the heart over task and tidy. ~Betsy Canas Garmon, Wise Words: I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.... People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back. ~Alice Walker Wise Words: I thought growing up was something that happened automatically as you got older. But it turns out it's something you have to choose to do. ~From the television show Wise Words: I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous. ~Bill Veeck Wise Words: I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum. ~Frances Willard Wise Words: If a job's worth doing, it's worth getting someone better qualified to do it. ~Joseph D'Lacey Wise Words: If I had my life to live over, I'd have fewer meetings and more rendezvous. ~Robert Brault Wise Words: If one reads the ancients only, one is sure of always remaining modern. ~Marie Dubsky, Freifrau von Ebner-Eschenbach Wise Words: If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer. ~Dag Hammarskjold Wise Words: If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree. ~Jim Rohn Wise Words: If you don't understand the cause of the problem — your solution will become part of it. ~Dr. Idel Dreimer Wise Words: If you hate your lot but wouldn't trade it, it's not your lot you hate. ~Mignon McLaughlin Wise Words: If you have to do it every day, for God's sake learn to do it well. ~Mignon McLaughlin Wise Words: If you keep rephrasing the question, it gradually becomes the answer. ~Robert Brault Wise Words: If you must choose between a falsehood and a rudeness, choose the rudeness; if the choice lies between a falsehood and cruelty, choose the falsehood. ~Marie Dubsky, Freifrau von Ebner-Eschenbach Wise Words: If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it. ~Toni Morrison Wise Words: In the end the reason for anything is inseparable from the reason for everything. ~Robert Brault Wise Words: In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. ~Albert Schweitzer Wise Words: In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. ~Henry Miller Wise Words: In understanding freedom one understands also what discipline is.... Freedom and discipline go together, they are not two separate things.... Discipline does not mean suppression and control, nor is it adjustment to a pattern or an ideology; it means a mind that sees 'what is' and learns from 'what is'. ~Jiddu Krishnamurti Wise Words: In what you say of another, apply the test of kindness, necessity and truth, and let nothing pass your lips without a 2/3 majority. ~Liz Armbruster, on Wise Words: Is bread the better for kneading? so is the heart. Knead it then by spiritual exercises; or God must knead it by afflictions. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Wise Words: It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards. ~Baltasar Gracian, translated from Spanish Wise Words: It is better to stir up a question without deciding it, than to decide it without stirring it up. ~Joseph Joubert Wise Words: It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it. ~Albert Einstein Wise Words: It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about? ~Henry David Thoreau, letter to H.G.O. Blake, 16 November 1857 Wise Words: It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed. ~Horace Wise Words: It isn't what you know that counts, it's what you think of in time. ~Author Unknown Wise Words: It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark. ~Howard Ruff Wise Words: It's all right letting yourself go as long as you can let yourself back. ~Mick Jagger Wise Words: It's better to fight for something than against something. ~Author Unknown Wise Words: It's illegal to bore people. ~Mo Siegel Wise Words: Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water, and when you're tired, go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand. ~Bruce Lee Wise Words: Laziness will cause you pain. ~Slogan on T-shirt worn at the Vee Arnis Jitsu School of Self-Defense Wise Words: Leaves are light, and useless, and idle, and wavering, and changeable; they even dance; and yet God in his wisdom has made them a part of oaks. And in so doing he has given us a lesson, not to deny the stout-heartedness within because we see the lightsomeness without. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Wise Words: Lend, by your imperfections, self-esteem to others, and you will be invited everywhere. ~Robert Brault Wise Words: Let go or be dragged. ~Author Unknown Wise Words: Let your strongest muscle be the will. ~James Lendall Basford Wise Words: Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. ~Sarah Bernhardt Wise Words: Life is like riding a bicycle; we can keep from falling if we keep moving. Only a few trick-riders can stand still and not tumble. ~Author Unknown Wise Words: Life isn't fair, at least on the micro level. Deal with it. But don't deal with it by making it more unfair to others. ~David C. Hill Wise Words: Light tomorrow with today. ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning Wise Words: Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. ~Betty Smith Wise Words: Love many, trust few, always paddle your own canoe. ~Author Unknown Wise Words: Make somebody happy today. Mind your own business. ~Ann Landers Wise Words: Mind your own business. But love your neighbor as yourself. ~David C. Hill Wise Words: Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Wise Words: Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. ~George R. Kirkpatrick Wise Words: Never believe in mirrors or newspapers. ~Tom Stoppard