Monday quotes

The people who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.
- Lloyd James

There are only two emotions: love - our natural inheritance, and fear - an invention of our minds which is illusory. Each instant of the day we choose between these two, and our choice determines the kind of day we have and how we will perceive the world.
- Gerald G. Jampolsky

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese proverb

We can only teach that which we are.
- Jean Jaurès

We always have enough to be happy if we are enjoying what we do have - and not worrying about what we don't have.
- Ken Keyes Jr.

Life can only be understood backward, yet, it has to be lived forward.
- Søren Kierkegaard

Never, if possible, lie down at night without being able to say: I have made one human being, at least, a little wiser, a little happier, or a little better this day.
- Charles Kingsley

The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
- Jack Kornfield

Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.
- J. Krishnamurti

The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
- Michelangelo

It is not what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.
- Molière