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To complement Happy Cow's very own store of wise Cowish words, she often likes to borrow those of other sages who, throughout the years, have made the world a brighter place with their powerful use of language. On these pages you will find a selection of Happy Cow's favourite quotes. We hope that they inspire you as much as they do her.

"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."
Douglas Adams

"He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot."
Douglas Adams

"To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity."
Douglas Adams

"You live and learn. At any rate, you live."
Douglas Adams

"A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety."
Aesop

"The wise man will love; all others will desire."
Lucius Afranius

"A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life."
Muhammad Ali

"It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe."
Muhammad Ali

"Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil."
James Allen

"Humanity cannot forget its dreamers; it cannot let their ideals fade and die; it lives in them; it knows them as the realities which it shall one day see and know. Composer, sculptor, painter, poet, prophet, sage, these are the makers of the after-world, the architects of heaven. The world is beautiful because they have lived; without them, labouring humanity would perish."
James Allen

"The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom."
James Allen

"The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot."
James Allen

"You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you."
James Allen

"This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever; in its place is something that you have left behind...let it be something good."
Anonymous

"A student asked the Master during a meditation retreat, 'I am very discouraged. What should I do?' The Master replied, 'Encourage others.'"
Anonymous

"Unless we can hear each other singing and crying, unless we can comfort each other's failures and cheer each other's victories, we are missing out on the best that life has to offer. The only real action takes place on the bridge between people."
Anonymous

"It will cost you nothing to dream - and everything not to."
Anonymous

"No written word, no spoken plea can teach our youths what they should be, not all the books on all the shelves. It's what the teachers are themselves."
Anonymous

"The four hardest tasks on earth are neither physical nor intellectual feats, but spiritual ones: To return love for hate; to include the excluded; to forgive without apology, and to be able to say 'I was wrong.'"
Anonymous

"Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and just listen."
Anonymous

"Deep down inside we know that the best gifts don't come from catalogs or shopping malls. They don't come in brightly-colored packages or fancy envelopes and they're not sitting under a tree somewhere... The best gifts come from the heart. They come when we look at each other, REALLY look at each other and say 'You mean a lot to me' or 'I'm so glad you're a part of my life.' A gift like that will never go out of style or be forgotten or be returned for a different size. A gift like that can change the world."
Ron Atchison (Mayor of Inspiration Peak)

"All doubt, despair, and fear become insignificant once the intention of life becomes love, rather than dependence on love."
Sri da Avabhas

"You never see fault in anybody. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in you life...to take the good of everybody's character and make it still better, and say nothing of the bad, belongs to you alone."
Jane Austen

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