The Little Book of Bumper Sticker Wisdom

In the tapestry of life, universal truths emerge like vibrant threads, weaving patterns of meaning and wisdom. 

These timeless insights, often expressed in deceptively simple phrases, hold the power to illuminate our path, guide our choices, and inspire us to live with greater intention. Let us explore a collection of copybook maxims, each a capsule of profound simplicity, encapsulating the essence of human experience and the enduring lessons of life.

All is Light.

All is Love.

All is Unity.

As above, so below.

As within, so without.

Always the trials precede the attainment.

As a door shuts, another door opens immediately.

As the twig is bent, the tree inclines.

Avoid negative thinking―it shuts off your good.

Be free.

By attacking a thing, you give it power.

Call spades, spades.

Caring creates communication.

Choose Love for your standard.

Desire a thing intensely enough and you are on the way to it.

Do not be afraid to give rein to your imagination.

Do not leave for tomorrow what can be done today.

Do not let other people rock your boat.

Do not let others do your thinking for you.

Do what is naturally right.

Each for all and all for each.

Even your failures are a valuable part of your experience.

Every action has a reaction.

You have made yourself just what you are.

Examine your motives always.

Experience is an asset.

You grow by pain as well as pleasure.

Facts are facts.

It is unwise to shut your eyes to simple facts.

The farmer knows when to let a field lie fallow.

Find a little more time each day for doing nothing at all.

For everything give thanks.

A frightened dog will never scare away a robber.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

The greatest law we have is love.

The hardest road leads to the quickest and best results.

Honesty is the best policy.

The husk of the seed must be broken before the sprout can appear.

You can do all things.

An ideal is a tendency.

An idle brain is the devil’s workshop.

If you get true knowledge, you will have power enough.

If you go fast and high enough, you may behold the inconceivable.

If you want nothing, you have everything.

I like to pay my debts.

Imagination is potent.

It is the traveller with an open mind who makes discoveries.

A joyous heart attracts joyous events.

Knowledge is the forerunner of power.

The law of life is the law of belief.

Learn to relax.

Let go―

Seek for nothing.

Let go of urgency.

Life is so short.

Live simply.

Listen to the voice of intuition.

Live a brave and clean life.

Live and let live.

Look up!

Love for all that lives!

Love is the law of your being!

Love your enemies―that is the surest way to overcome them.

Make love the sole law of your life.

Make sacrifices.

You seek what you desire.

Moderation in all things.

A new interest is a new lease on life.

No matter how bad it gets, remember it could have been worse.

Nothing can be achieved without time and patience.

The object of life is life.

Observe fully.

Communicate truthfully.

Observe, observe. Observe.

Only give.

Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

Your dreaming is a kind of building.

Your work is your own.

Perseverance pays.

Practice makes perfect.

Practice on moods.

Prove before accepting anything.

Respect brings respect.

Restraint, restraint!

Sacrifice for others, and give to others what you most want for yourself.

A seed sown today may bear fruit long hence.

See everything as it really is.

Serve if you hope to survive.

The surest way to attract disasters is to imagine them.

Surrender.

Give in.

Let go.

Let God.

Take it easy―one day at a time.

Take more time to think.

Tell and live your truth.

There is always a better way.

There is always more than one point of view on everything.

The thing you fear attacks you sooner or later.

Think carefully before acting.

To get, one must give. 

That is the law.

To posit is to create.

Trust your intuition―it points the way.

Unity is life.

Unlimitedness―that is the key.

Watch the changing colours of a cloud.

You make what you live in.

We are all in one common brotherhood.

You attract what you fear.

You can try harder.

You have a right to do about as you please.

You lose to gain again.

You work too much.

Have the leisure to dream and realise your dream.

Whatever you desire or love begins at once to travel toward you unless a stronger force from a different direction draws it away.

Whatever your strength, make the most of it in the challenge of life.

What you condemn in others, you attract to yourself.

What you give to another, you give to yourself.

What you resist, persists.

What you set your heart upon must come about.

Where Love is, God is.

Why worry?

It will probably never happen.

You can do practically anything you think you can do.

You can make something wonderful happen.

You can only receive what you see yourself receiving.

You get most by giving most.

Your greatest power is your capacity to choose.

Choose happiness and abundance.

How is it that all the great spiritual sayings can fit on a bumper sticker? The reason is that universal truth is simple and straightforward―Vaishali, Contributor, Huffington Post, 26 February 2011 (accessed 3 August 2024 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bumper-sticker-wisdom-by_b_826681)