An array of quotes on man and life:

It is man’s indomitable nature to scare himself silly for no good reason!
- Calvin and Hobbes

Life’s disappointments are harder to take when you don’t know any swear words.
- Calvin and Hobbes

It is alright letting yourself go, as long as you can let yourself back.—Mick Jagger

Live your life in a manner that you would like your kids to live theirs. –Michael Levines

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.– Bernard Shaw

View life as a continuous learning experience.– Denis Waitley

We are always getting ready to live but never living.– Ralph Waldo Emerson

1. Develop a benevolent world view; look for the good in the people and circumstances around you – Brian Tracy.

2. Those who apply themselves too closely to little things, often become incapable of great things – La Rochefoucauld

3. A dream minus Action equals Fantasy. Dreams plus Action equals Reality – Unknown.

4. In each of us are places where we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them – Joyce Brothers

5. When building a team, I first look for people who love to win, if I can’t find any of those, then I look for people who hate to lose – H Ross Perot

6. If God had meant for us to be naked, we would have been born that way – Anonymous

7. Learning is the beginning of wealth, the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins – Jim Roth.

8. The history of progress is people challenging assumptions – Wilbur Wright.

9. A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn’t particularly feel like it – Alistair Cooke

10. Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere is the fact that none of it has tried to contact us – Anonymous.

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is bliss, taste it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.

Mother Teresa

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“If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall in the ditch.”

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“All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.”

Like the bee gathering honey from the different flowers, the wise person accepts the essence of the different scriptures and sees only the good in all religions.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Hate the sin and not the sinner is a precept which though easy enough to understand is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

Nonviolence is not a garment to be put on and off at will.
Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

No power on earth can subjugate you when you are armed with the sword of ahimsa. It ennobles both the victor and the vanquished.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering – and it’s all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen

Life is a question of one to answer the whole world around us.
Life is a reality of your true modes in life to get you the best.

Life a reason to live, smile bur not sadness affecting you once in a lifetime.

A smile per 80 % can spend reason to predict 20 % more out of it.

Life is not a heart broken moment to spell your smile with laughter for good.

Being full of patience is where you achieve your dreams with unwanted advantages taking you ahead.

Life is a sentence of its true feelings to judge your reality in front of others.

Where there is love there is life : ohandas K. Gandhi:

The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life’s plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life. : Robert Louis Stevenson:

Birth, life, and death — each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.- Toni Morrison:

Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night. ~Marion Howard

Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once. -Lillian Dickson

• If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.
• Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.
• Guts are important. Your guts are what digest things. But it is your brains that tell you which things to swallow and which not to swallow.
• Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”
• Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.”
• Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them,since you cannot even make yourself as you wish to be.
  - T. A. Kempkis
• If you don’t like something, change it. If you cannot change it,change your attitude. Don’t complain.
  -Maya Angelou
• You have a gift that only you can give the world – that’s the whole reason you’re on the planet. Use your precious energy to build a magnificent life that really is attainable.
• Don’t think you’re on the right road, just because it’s a well-beaten path.
  – Unknown.
• If you don’t like the road you’re walking, pave another one.
  – Dolly Parton.
• First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
  – Mahatma Gandhi.

If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient; love is kind; love is not self-seeking,envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.  Love never ends.

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
- Sir Winston Churchill

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don’t quit.
- Conrad Hilton

There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
- Mario Cuomo

The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
- Foster’s Law

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.”
- Robert Frost

 An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
- Bill Bernbach

An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
- Prescott

Life is “trying things to see if they work”
Ray Bradbury

If you worry about yesterday’s failures, then today’s successes will be few.
Anonymous

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.”
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
- Seneca

Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter Drucker.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In matters of style, swim with the current;
in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Thomas Jefferson

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Albert Einstein

 “Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.”
Booker T. Washington

“Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.”
- Elbert Hubbard

If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
- J.M. Power

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
- Robert Frost

“I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.”
- Maya Angelou

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
Machiavelli.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Mahatma Gandhi

“You are what you think about all day long.” — Dr. Robert Schuller

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say” — Ralph Waldo Emerson”

“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”
- William James

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
- Winston Churchill

Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
- Elbert Hubbard

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson 
 
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I can’t understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I’m frightened by old ones.
- John Cage

Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
- Japanese Proverb

In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing.
- Theodore Roosevelt

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
- Mark Twain

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
- Mark Twain

If a forest catches fire, both the dry and the wet will burn.
-Afghan Proverb

A fire should be extinguished when it is small; an enemy should be subdued while young.
-Bhutanese proverb