Anger has great strength, but no brains. Greed has a great appetite, but no heart.Pride has a great spirit, but no soul.

The mind dies, but its thoughts live on. The heart perishes, but its experiences live on. The body expires, but its spirit lives on.

A rainbow is not afraid of showing its true colors because it knows it is beautiful inside out.

Because no one is walking in your shoes, only you feel the sores on your feet.

It is not the size of a seed, but the size of what rises from it.

You are not honored for the fruit you pick, but for the trees you plant.

When you look at a rose try to focus on its beauty, not its thorns.

Wisdom is a great prophet, faith is a great warrior, knowledge is a great sage, and virtue is a great priest.

Trees generously share their fruit.Bees generously share their honey.Flowers generously share their perfume. Do likewise.

Use fear to become braver, pain to become stronger, trials to become wiser, and misfortune to become better.

If you rule the air, you are great; the waters, you are extraordinary; the lands, you are remarkable; but if you rule over yourself, you are remarkable.

The brave with all of their weaknesses are better than the cowardly with all of their strengths.

Planting a flower in the desert takes greater skill than growing a garden in a rain forest.

Joy gives you strength.Hope gives you fortitude.Faith gives you courage.Love gives you power.

The mind shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s wisdom; the heart, in proportion to one’s courage; and the soul, in proportion to one’s love.

Stars do not hide from darkness. Roses do not hide from thorns. Diamonds do not hide from pressure.

Wealth won’t make you happy. Power won’t make you remarkable. Fame won’t make you honorable. Education won’t make you wise.

In thoughts, be wise. In speech, be cautious. In sentiment, be positive. In actions, be prudent.

The loveliest roses sometimes bear the ugliest thorns.

The poor can dream. The weak can hope. The helpless can strive. The powerless can rise.

A single star shines brighter than a thousand moons.

A day in a storm strengthens you more than a thousand in sunshine.

It is in vain to hide a fruitful seed in fertile soil.

Though no one can backtrack and create a brand new start, Everyone is capable of taking their life in a brand new direction.

Learn more. Love more. Laugh more. Live more.

You can't be jealous of someone else's results. You don't know the prayer, process, sacrifice, and work they endured for it.

A flower’s beauty is birthed in a seed’s ugly struggles.

Stop giving people the power to control your smile, your worth, your attitude and your day. Don’t give anyone that much power over your life.

During my school years, I was never a brilliant student, but just an average one, with only above average level of curiosity.

Love in the rain is better than hate in the sunshine.

Divorce fear. Court courage. Pursue hope. Marry love.

Love in fools is better than hate in the wise.

For me I see the world as one big nation, where everyone in it is a citizen, so it is our responsibility to make it better.

Anger is loud, rage is deafening, and wrath is thunderous; only love can silence them.

Lips may lie, but the heart always tells the truth.

One who is wise is rich, one who is virtuous is wealthy, one who is happy is affluent, and one who is loving is prosperous.

Knowledge, teach. Wisdom, acquire. Understanding, share. Love, spread.

To appreciate pleasure, someone had to experience pain; to appreciate joy, some had to experience sorrow; to appreciate love, some had to experience heartache; to appreciate freedom, some had to experience fear.

Truth is straight like a line. Virtue is firm like a wall. Wisdom is tall like a mountain. Love is wide like an ocean.

A heart full of love is worth more than a purse full of coins.

Everyone should have a place in your heart, but only a special few should have a place in your life.

Love is your greatest asset, fear is your greatest liability, and joy is your greatest reward.

If you have no one, you are poor; if you have an acquaintance, you are fortunate; if you have a friend, you are privileged; if you have a lover, you are rich; if you have a soulmate, you are wealthy.

If you want to be strong, exercise; if you want to be wise, study; if you want to be happy, smile; and if you want to be invincible, love.

It is impossible for love to enter your heart without leaving footprints on your soul.

Knowledge offers you strength. Wisdom promises you influence. Understanding assures you wealth. Love guarantees you power.

Scars mean you fought. Wrinkles mean you lived. Heartache means you loved.

To achieve peace let go of: guilt, anger, and bitterness. To achieve happiness embrace: virtue, faith, and love.

Wisdom paints a rainbow in your mind, joy paints a rainbow in your heart, and love paints a rainbow in your soul.

Love hopes. Love helps. Love heals. Love hears.

Pleasure awakens the body, wisdom awakens the mind, joy awakens the heart, and love awakens the soul.

Love lost is better than hate found. True criticism is better than false praise. Genuine enemies are better than counterfeit friends.

The loudest preacher in the world is your conscience, the cleverest is wisdom, the rowdiest is passion, the surest is truth, the purest is love, and the highest is God.

Pleasure can turn the body into a slave.Desire can turn the mind into a fool.Passion can turn the heart into a beast.Love can turn the soul into an angel.

Plucking a rose only proves you desire it, but nurturing it proves you love it.

Love rewards you more in a moment than pleasure could in a lifetime.

The greatest profit you make in business is not money, but happiness. The greatest riches you give in life are not possessions, but love. The greatest treasures you acquire in life are not jewels, but joy.

Marry the one who laughs when you laugh, and you are clever; marry the one who cries when you cry, and you are intelligent, but marry the one who does both with you, and you are wise.

If you have money, you are affluent; if you have joy, you are wealthy; and if you have love, you are rich.

Love makes you strong when others are weak, brave when others are scared, hopeful when others are despairing and cheerful when others are sad.

Joy is the best companion, virtue is the noblest acquaintance, wisdom is the cleverest friend, and love is the kindest soul mate.

If you love and care enough, you will give a lot, you will forgive a lot.

Beauty catches your eye, joy seizes your heart, and love captures your soul.

There is no gem like virtue, no wealth like happiness, no treasure like faith, and no jewel like love.

Lust makes you weak, passion makes you strong, love makes you brave, and heartache makes you wise.

The universe offers you three things that money cannot buy: joy, love, and life.

Embrace all. Help some. Trust few. Harm none.

Joy is a loyal companion, love is a faithful friend, fear is a terrible adversary, and hatred is a merciless enemy.

Love does these three things effectively: multiplies joy, divides trouble, subtracts grief, and adds peace.

To live a little, love a little. To live a lot, love a lot.

Hate is strong, fear is mighty, jealousy is powerful, but love is invincible.

Be like the sun; bear with those in the dark, but keep shining your light.

If all you have is money, you are among the poorest people in the world.

If you want the most beautiful fish in the sea, make sure you have the most appealing bait.

Love treats its enemies better than hate treats its friends.

Love knows the way because love is the way.

One who cannot swim must not blame the water.

No matter how ugly a fruit is, worms will seek it out.

When the nest becomes too small a bird is ready to spread its wings and fly.

In calm waters you still find sharks.

Stand alone when it is to your benefit, with others when it is to your advantage, and with everyone when it is to your empowerment.

Behind you, leave your enemies. Beside you, keep your family. Around you, maintain your friends. Within you, cherish God.

Water is soft, but can maneuver any obstacle; be shrewd, and be gentle, and you too will be able to do likewise.

Pain teaches you more than pleasure. Failure teaches you more than success. Poverty teaches you more than prosperity. Adversity teaches you more than comfort.

A flower takes a while to grow, but can die in an instant; this is how it is with trust.

Charity is fortune, avarice is poverty, peace is treasure, and happiness is wealth.

Forgive those who hurt you yesterday.Reward those who help you today.Remember those who help you tomorrow.

Let them judge you, but remain virtuous.Let them criticize you, but remain wise.Let them misunderstand you, but remain kind. Let them hate you, but remain exceptional.

The wise are like a sprouting seed; they go forward and upward, never backward or downward.

It is wise to buy acquaintances, but foolish to buy friends.

Your feet may be small, but travel much. Your hands may be little, but conquer much. Your eyes may be tiny, but perceive much. Your ears may be modest, but heed much.

If you look to money for happiness, you will be disappointed; to power, you will be disillusioned; to honor, you will be dissatisfied; to others, you will be disenchanted; but if you look to God, you will be fulfilled.

A rose would be miserable if it was forced to be a daisy, no matter how much water it was fed.

You cannot fast-forward time, you cannot rewind it, and you cannot pause it; you can only waste or benefit from it.

Knowing what to say is sense, when to say it is intelligence, how to say it is wisdom, why and how to say it is enlightenment.

Esteem intelligence, cherish knowledge, and value understanding, but trust wisdom.

A rose, no matter how beautiful, still has to contend with thorns.

Life is temporal.Time is fleeting.God is permanent.Eternity is enduring.

A bird that sings too much will only lose its voice, but a bird that does not sing at all will lose its symphonies.

A flower does not diminish in beauty, no matter how many weeds envy it.

Do not curse the well that quenches your thirst.

A shrub that bears fruit deserves to be watered more than a tree that does not.

It is better to be a marble in a hut than a brick in a palace.

The ocean does not lose its splendor because it lost a few drops.

Be wise enough to learn from the past, shrewd enough to capitalize on the present, and clever enough to prepare for the future.

Knowledge is the eldest daughter of wisdom.

Time is your acquaintance, life is your friend, death is your enemy, and existence is your soulmate.

A wolf raised in a jungle is fiercer than a lion reared in a circus.

Don’t judge a tree by its size, but by its fruit.

It is better to help an enemy than to harm a friend.

Teach the ignorant. Study the wise. Avoid the foolish. Embrace the enlightened.

Learn from acquaintances, and you are clever; from friends, and you are intelligent; from enemies, and you are shrewd; but learn from all, and you are wise.

A rose started off a bud, a bird started off an egg, and a forest started off a seed.

You may be poor, but important; uneducated, but wise; lowly, but noble; simple, but insightful; and ordinary, but great.

At ten, you are foolish. At twenty, you are naive. At thirty, you are alert. At forty, you are experienced. At fifty, you are wise.

Planting your own garden is better than waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

An ounce of wisdom is worth more than a pound of knowledge.

A shrewd enemy will teach you more than a foolish friend.

Learn from a river; obstacles may force it to change its course, but never its destination.

One who is not afraid to die lives, and one who is afraid to live dies.

If you live in the desert, view the sun not as your enemy, but as your friend. If you live in the wilderness, view nature not as your adversary, but as your companion.

If the sky had no tears, the world would have no rainbows.

A bird will only fall from the sky when it stops believing in its ability to fly, and a fish will only drown in water when it stops believing in its ability to swim.

They know your face, but not your mind.They understand your words, but not your heart.They hear your name, but not your soul.They grasp your past, but not your future.

A kind stranger is better than an uncaring friend.

A flower in a desert still has no reason to envy a thorn in a rainforest.

The weak dread the storm, the foolish invite the storm, the wise avoid the storm,the strong battle the storm, and the great overcome the storm.

The past is your teacher. The present is your opportunity. The future is your reward.

What you think is a seed, what you say is the bud, and what you do is the fruit.

Only dead leaves allow the wind to blow them to and fro.

Wine had to be grapes first. Diamonds had to be rocks first. Butterflies had to be caterpillars first. Rainbows had to be storms first.

Three kinds of people achieve illumination: those who learn, those who teach, and those who do both continuously.

Stir the world with your skills, shake the world with your talents, move the world with your brilliance, change the world with your genius.

Knowledge gives you the world, intelligence gives you the sky, understanding gives you the stars, but wisdom gives you the universe.

Yesterday says, “Forget me, but learn from me.” Today says, “Embrace me, yet utilize me.”Tomorrow says, “Anticipate me, then prepare for me.

Life is short, death is long, days are narrow, and years are wide.

If roses tried to be sunflowers, they would lose their beauty; and if sunflowers tried to be roses, they would lose their strength.

Pain that results in success is better than pleasure that results in failure.

Teach yourself. Help yourself. Improve yourself. Enrich yourself.

If bees only gathered nectar from perfect flowers, they wouldn’t be able to make even a single drop of honey.

The ugliest storms paint the loveliest rainbows.

Water drops erode mountains not because of their size, but their persistence.

The tallest trees sometimes grow from the smallest seeds.

An archer must never blame a target for missing it.

If your greatest wish is to be happy, you are clever; if it is to make others happy, you are virtuous; but if it is to make yourself and others happy, you are wise.

The sun is intelligent because it never rises too early, and wise because it never sets too late.

If there is wisdom in your mind, prove it; joy in your heart, share it; love in your soul, show it; good in your life, impart it.

A small sharp axe clears a forest quicker than a big blunt one.

The early bird gets the worm, and the early fox gets the bird.

The worm’s bad luck is the bird’s good fortune.

A dove struggling in a storm grows stronger than an eagle soaring in sunshine.

If you pour more water into a river, it will not drown the fish.

A tree is only as good as the seed it is stems from.

Faith moves mountains, intelligence goes over them, wisdom goes around them, but love levels them.

Be merry, because it confuses your enemies; happy, because it annoys them; cheerful, because it angers them; and joyful, because it kills them.

Follow your dreams with all of your mind. Chase your dreams with all of your heart. Accomplish your dreams with all of your soul.

Your clock cannot buy you more time, your bed cannot get you more sleep, your titles cannot acquire you more influence, your fame cannot gain you more honor, and your money cannot earn you more happiness.

Think before you speak. Question before you judge. Examine before you decide.

If you have the power to think, you have the power to change your world.

If birds sing without worrying about who is listening to them, and monkeys dance without worrying about who is watching them, and hyenas laugh without worrying about who is mocking them, then you too must do what you do best without worrying about who is ridiculing you.

A flower blooming in the desert proves to the world that adversity, no matter how great, can be overcome.

Reward those who help you. Forget those who use you. Ignore those who judge you. Forgive those who wrong you.

One good friend is better than a thousand acquaintances.

Listen to all, believe few, count on some, but trust none.

It is in vain to chase two birds at the same time, even if you have a thousand legs.

If you stop tending to flowers when they lose a few petals, you will never grow a garden.

Knowledge is the path, understanding is the way, wisdom is the highway, and enlightenment is the destination.

A beautiful rose with an ugly soul wilts quickly.

The sweeter the fruit a tree bears the greater the number of birds that eat from it.

A beautiful gift does not decrease in value because it is wrapped in ugly paper.

When hunting a lion it is wise to remind yourself that you too are being hunted.

If you have power, be just; wealth, be generous; knowledge, be wise; titles, be humble; and life, be grateful.

Thoughts can only hurt you with your permission, feelings can only wound you with your consent, experiences can only damage you with your authorization; life can only ruin you with your approval.

Opportunities, like roses, come with a beautiful fragrance, but also with thorns.

When perplexed, God appears to you in the form of wisdom; when troubled, in the form of peace; when sad, in the form of joy; when heartbroken, in the form of love.

One who thinks for himself is a threat to his enemies, a refuge to his acquaintances, a prize to his friends, and a gift to the world.

If a lion invites you home for dinner, it is you he wants to serve as a meal to his guests.

A rough diamond is still worth more than a polished pebble.

The greater the number of fish a river bears the greater the number of fishermen that patronize it.

The ignorant learn from none, the simple learn from some, the intelligent learn from many, but the enlightened learn from all.

Ignorance is your opponent, fear is your enemy, vice is your adversary, virtue is your friend, and wisdom is your helper.

A lion does not become king of the jungle hunting mice.

If you have a house but no home, you are homeless; knowledge but no wisdom, you are imprudent; acquaintances but no friends, you are lonely; money but no happiness, you are poor; and life but no joy, you are lifeless.

Be happy when you work, thankful when you earn, cautious when you spend, shrewd when you save, and charitable when you give.

If you shake a tree, fruit must fall, no matter how reluctant it is.

Your strength lies in knowledge, your power lies in wisdom, your treasure lies in understanding, and your wealth lies in life.

Don’t waste time watering a weed hoping to transform it into a flower.

If you want to shine, sit before a lamp; if you want to shine brighter, sit before a fire; but if you want to shine the brightest, sit before a sage.

A small sharp axe can cut down more trees than a big dull one.

To be happy: the simple pursue pleasure, the common pursue riches, the uncommon pursue knowledge, and the exceptional pursue wisdom.

A wolf can only mock a lion thousands of miles away.

Cheerfulness will help you draw strangers, cleverness will help gain acquaintances, faithfulness will help you keep companions, and kindness will help you multiply friends.

Make your wife happier, children wiser, yourself kinder, and you will make your life better.

If you tend to a flower, it will bloom, no matter how many weeds surround it.

Learn from roses; even when trampled they give off perfume, not despair.