Master-Gardener of the Soul
“A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.”
–James Allen (English Mystic and Author, 1864-1912)
The Value of Life
“A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.”
–Charles Darwin (English Naturalist, 1809-1882)
The Game of Life
“Life is the game that must be played.”
–Edwin Arlington Robinson (American Poet, 1869-1935)
Change Yourself, Change the World
“In the power to change yourself is the power to change the world around you.”
–Anwar al-Sadat (Egyptian Soldier and Politician, 1918-1981)
Cultivating Ourselves
“Our great object in time is not to waste our passions and gifts on the things external that we must leave behind, but that we cultivate within us all that we can carry into the eternal progress beyond.”
–Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (English Politician, Poet and Novelist, 1803-1873)
Meaning
“It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning.”
–Peter Demianovich Ouspensky (Russian Philosopher, 1878-1947)
Cultivate Your Own Garden
This is, I think, the last line in Candide:
“Learn to cultivate your own garden.”
–Voltaire (a.k.a. François-Marie Arouet, French Writer and Philosopher, 1694-1778)
First Reform Yourself!
“The world’s best reformers are those who start with themselves.”
–George Bernard Shaw (Irish Dramatist, Socialist and, in 1925, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1856-1950)
Surrendering Desire
“The Bhagavad-Gita : Krishna’s Counsel in Time of War (Bantam Classics)” (Bantam Classics)
“When a man surrenders all desires that come to the heart, and by the grace of God finds the joy of God in himself, then his soul has indeed found peace.”
–Bhagavad Gita (Ancient and Sacred Sanskrit Poem Incorporated into the Mahabharata)
Who Wins?
“Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.”
–Vince Lombardi (American Football Coach, 1913-1970)
