Grampa Ken

Grampa's T-Shirts about Life, Society, and a few Laffs

Sunday Morning Fix A good week lies ahead. For starters I will . . .
Life Values High intensity shrewd marketing influences society and family wrongly.
Life is Thought  How we think, is the kind of life we live.

Much has been translated and expressed in different words but with similar meanings. If these quotations were not important, truly wise and useful, why would they be so widely quoted as much as 2000 years later?
 

• "Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead." - Scottish Proverb
• "The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life, which is required to be exchanged for it immediately or in the long run." - Henry Thoreau
• "The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, not to anticipate troubles, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly." - Buddha
• "If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying?" - Shantideva
• "Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief." - Marcus Cicero
• "I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet." - Ancient Persian Saying
• "Do not look back on happiness or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated of it." - Henry Ward Beecher
• "He who seeks revenge should remember to dig two graves." - Chinese proverb
• "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." - AA Motto
• "When you are good to others, you are best to yourself." - Benjamin Franklin
• "For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death or hardship." - Epictetus
• "If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others." - Duc de Rochefoucauld
• "What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. They are but trifles, to be sure, but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable." - Joseph Addison
• "He will succeed if he remains firm in principle and goes beyond selfish considerations to mingle freely with those who do not share his feelings, as well as those who do." - I Ching
• "The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words." - Buddha
• "Life is mostly froth and bubble; Two things stand like stone: Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in our own." - Adam Gordon
• "Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." - Nathaniel Hawthorne
• "The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family." - Thomas Jefferson
• "Life, we learn too late, is in the living, in the tissue of every day and hour." - Stephen Leacock
• "There is however, a true music of nature - the song of the birds, the whisper of leaves, the ripple of waters upon a sandy shore, the wail of wind or sea." - John Lubbock
• "There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery." - Colonel Sanders
• "Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out." - Art Linkletter
• "The finest lives, in my opinion, are those who rank in the common model, and with the human race, but without miracle, without extravagance." - Michel de Montaigne
• "Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission." - Arnold Bennett
• "The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven." - John Milton