Good People Are Scarce

The main facts in human life are five.
Birth, food, sleep, love and death.
( E.M.Forster )

If envy were a fever all the world would be ill.

We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks.
That’s what connects us.
That we’re all broken, all beautifully imperfect.
( Emilio Estevez )

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we often might win by fearing to attempt.

Let us never negotiate out of fear.
But let us never fear to negotiate.

Peace cannot be kept by force.
It can only be achieved by understanding.
( Albert Einstein )

Experience is good If not bought too dear.

Most of the fear that spoils our life comes from attacking difficulties before we get to them.

When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.
( Dalai Lama )

A weak man has doubts before a decision.
A strong man has them afterwards.

Avoid abusing others, live in peace with others.
Keep yourself free from idle talk.
Know the blessedness of sympathetic understanding.
Keep free from greed and know the peacefulness that will go with this freedom.
Respect each other and refrain from disputes.
Do not waste your mind and time in idleness and quarrelling.
Know the tranquillity of mind that would follow in speaking the truth.
Enjoy the blossoms of life.
( Buddha )

There is no greater waste of time than regret.

The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.
( Ronald Reagan )

The peacemakers, the troubleshooters and the mediators.
They shall never be unemployed.

Despair may give courage to a coward.

It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness.
We have no scar to show for happiness.
We learn so little from peace.
( Chuck Palahniuk )

Most men expect too much and do too little.

We need to educate some of our masters.

Your heart is alive.
Keep listening to what it has to say.
( Paulo Coelho )

Make peace with others and quarrel with yourself.

To seek and hunt after fame is a vain endeavour.

Perfect wisdom keeps away from extremes of prejudice and preserves a moderation that is beyond all words to describe.
Being all-wise is to know the thoughts and feelings of all men and realises everything in this world in a moment.
The mental function which enables one to perceive life without error and to distinguish between what is true and what is false, this is wisdom, distinct from ordinary human intelligence.
( Buddha )

Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty.

Long explanations deceive either the maker or the hearer, generally both.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
( Dalai Lama )

Envy eats nothing but its own heart.

If we succeed in giving the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to follow.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.
( John Lennon )

Though thy enemy seems like a mouse, watch him like a lion.

Nothing gives quite the satisfaction that doing good brings.

The world is afire with decrepitude and death.
There is suffering everywhere.
But people, engrossed in the vain search for worldly pleasure, are not wise enough to fully realise this.
( Buddha )

Experience is what you get looking for something else.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

If peace can only come through killing someone, then I don’t want it.
( Hiro Mashima )

When in doubt, either do nowt, or risk it.

In doing we learn.
They that do most at once, do least.

It is necessary to hope.
For hope itself is happiness.
( Samuel Johnson )

Do not all you can.
Spend not all you have.
Believe not all you hear.
Tell not all you know.

People cling obstinately to lives of wealth, comfort and pleasure, excitement and self-indulgence, ignorant of the fact that the desire for these very things is the source of human suffering.
( Buddha )

As we get wiser, we expect less, and probably get more than we expect.

If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.
( Marvin Gaye )

Make much of one, good people are very scarce.

The mob has many heads but no brains.

We’re all water from different rivers, that’s why it’s so easy to meet.
We’re all water in this vast, vast ocean.
Someday we’ll evaporate together.
( Yoko Ono )

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

There are two kinds of weakness.
That which breaks and that which bends.

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. 
( Andrew Davidson )

The years teach much which the days never knew.

One does evil enough when one does nothing good.

It’s a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken.
( Walter Dean Myers )

Cherish your emotions and never under-value them.

No one knows what is in them till they try.
And many would never try if they were not forced to.

The activities of the mind have no limit, they form the surroundings of life.
There is nothing in the world that is not mind-created.
( Buddha )

Peace is always beautiful.
( Walt Whitman )

One enemy can do more harm than ten friends can do good.

When someone talks about duty, they usually mean somebody else’s duty.

Imagine there’s no countries.
It isn’t hard to do.
Nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too.
Imagine all the people, living life in peace.
You may say that I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one.
I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one.
( John Lennon )

Talking about a problem is often the first step to solving it.

Good and beautiful things may easily be spoilt by suggestions of rights and duties.

Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.
( Albert Schweitzer )

Do what you can to do what you ought, and leave hoping and fearing alone.

In the times of trouble, be like the strong wall.
In the times of joy, be like the smiling sun.
(Santosh Kalwar)

Peace begins with a smile.
( Mother Teresa )

If a man speaks and acts with a good mind, happiness follows him like his shadow.
If the mind is pure, the path will be smooth and the journey peaceful.
The attainment of world peace is possible only upon the perfection of the human mind.
( Buddha )