Though you are as a drop in the ocean, without you, the universe would be empty.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A tree does not despair when a few of its leaves fall off because there is more room for greener ones to take their place.
The real strength of a man is not in the size of his muscles, but in the size of his heart.
When you have higher thoughts, rid yourself of anything that threatens to lower them.
Raise your thoughts. Ennoble your desires. Better your actions. Elevate your life.
There are many fish in the sea, but never let a good one swim away.
Justice is blind, but judges have eyes.
If our eyes could see everything, every man would see his own faults.
The ambitious strive to be well known, the enlightened strive to be worth knowing.
If you feed a child, you strengthen him for a day; if you educate him, you strengthen him for a lifetime.
My words are my thesis, my actions are my dissertation, and my life is my philosophy.
Even in silence a heart can scream.
If the heart had a brain kind people would rule the world.
A star never lets anything dull its sparkle, not even darkness.
An intelligent man only argues with his wife when she has lost her voice.
Turbulence breaks a tree’s branches, but only tickles an eagle’s wings.
If seeds saw dirt as their enemy, they would lose out on the opportunity to grow.
What others think of you doesn't matter as much as what you think of yourself.
There is no greater beast than envy, no greater thief than fear, no greater enemy than greed, no greater predator than wrath, and no greater poison than bitterness.
Your life is God's gift to you, what you do with it is your gift to Him.
You cannot lead an enemy to Heaven, but you can lead a friend even to Hell.
Empty pockets taught me a million lessons, full pockets gave me a million temptations.
If you cheat on reason with emotion you will go bankrupt.
But I knew a lot more than that; I knew exactly what sort of man he was in his old age, so it wasn't hard to guess what he must have been like as a young man--for a man's character doesn't change after he's thirty. It only becomes more firmly set, and is more deeply marked in his features.
~ Ralph Moody
