INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES "We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it -- and stop there;

lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again -- and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore."-- Mark Twain "Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive person." "Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance."-- C.S. Lewis "He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees."-- Benjamin Franklin "How long should you try? Until." "A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely." "A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew." "If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative."-- Woody Allen "He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law."-- Pablo Picasso "When you live for others' opinions, you are dead. I don't want to live thinking about how I'll be remembered." "If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves."-Carl Jung "Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned."-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. "If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble."-- Bob Hope "By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong."-- Charles Wadsworth "The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward."-- Amelia Earhart "Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right."-- Igor Stravinsky

"It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly. People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining."-- Stephen Hawking "There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier."-- Benjamin Franklin "I am not a has-been. I am a will be."-- Lauren Bacall "I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change."-- Jamie Lee Curtis "Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric."-- Bertrand Russell "After a time, you may find that 'having' is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as 'wanting.' It is not logical, but it is often true."-- Mr. Spock, Star Trek "Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you; they're supposed to help you discover who you are."-- Bernice Johnson Reagon "There are generations yet unborn, whose very lives will be shifted and shaped by the moves you make and the actions you take."-- Andy Andrews "One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered."-- Michael J. Fox "Three things that never come back: the spent arrow; the spoken word; the lost opportunity."-- Willam George Plunkett "Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away."-- Elvis Presley "Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform."-- Susan B. Anthony "You have to be focused on the things that make you a human and not a golden god. You have to focus on just living."-- Michael Kearney "What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are."-- George Eastman "Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches." (when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life.)-- Wallis Warfield Simpson, Duchess of Windsor "Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone."-- Jim Fiebig "It is books that are the key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can."-- Jane Hamilton "Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power."-- Clint Eastwood "I've always believed in the idea that each of us has a particular place in the universe where we belong, and that if we find it everything will fall into place and

we will flourish."-- Patrick O'Connell "Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress."-- Alfred A. Montapert "Square your shoulders to the world, be not the kind to quit. It's not the load that weighs you down but the way you carry it."-- Anonymous "Real beauty isn't about symmetry or weight or makeup; it's about looking life right in the face and seeing all its magnificence reflected in your own."-- Valerie Monroe "If you see failure as a monster stalking you, or one that has already ruined your life, take another look. That monster can become a benevolent teacher, opening your mind to successes you cannot now imagine."-- Martha Beck "You have to see every potential roadblock as an opportunity and a benefit."-- Suze Orman "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair."-- Dr Samuel Johnson "Happiness is the true beauty weapon."-- Susan Sarandon "You have to start by changing the story you tell yourself about getting older... The minute you say to yourself, 'Time is everything, and I'm going to make sure that time is used the way I dream it should be used,' then you've got a whole different story."-- Diane Sawyer "The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse."-- Helen Keller "Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you will help them become what they are capable of becoming."-- J.W Von Goethe "When you are through changing, you are through."-- Bruce Barton "Look, I'm not the one with the problem, okay? It's the world that seems to have a problem with *me*! People take one look at me and go Aargh! Help! Run! A big stupid ugly ogre! They judge me before they even know me."-- Shrek "Responsibility is the one thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us."-- Frank Crane "You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event -- it is a habit."-Aristotle "Every path hath a puddle."- George Herbert "It is infinitely more exciting to live a life of catastrophic failures than a life of could-haves, should-haves and would-haves."-- M.H Meng "A lot of people like to do certain things, but they're not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything."-- George Lucas

"You can't base your life on other people's expectations."-- Stevie Wonder "I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse."-- Florence Nightingale "The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant."-- Salvador Dali "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face."-- Eleanor Roosevelt "To teach is to learn twice."-- Joseph Joubert "Sometimes your only available transportation is a leap of faith."-- Margaret Shepard "Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them."-- Johannes Brahms "If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story."-- Orson Welles "When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that last blow that did it, but all that had gone before."-- Jacob A. Riis "For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone."-Audrey Hepburn "It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever."-- Jimmy Carter "There's no secret to getting started. You simply decide and then take your first step. With each subsequent step, the next one becomes easier..."-- Tom Venuto, fitness expert "When you grow up and you're different, all you want to do is find a way to be the same. And then as a more mature adult you realize the beauty of thinking on your own."-- Sarah Jessica Parker "It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business."-- Dolley Madison "Everybody has to look at his or her own footprint and do the best they can. It's not about being perfect, it's about doing something. If we're looking for perfection, we'll never, ever get there."-- Laurie David "The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore."-- Vincent Van Gogh "It is the responsibility of every adult to make sure that children hear what we have learned from the lessons of life and to hear over and over that we love them."-Marian W. Edelman

"A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children."-- John James Audubon "Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs."-- Malcolm Forbes "Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be."-- John Wooden "One has to handle these negative experiences alone. You can't get help from your friends or family. You're finally alone with it, and you have to come to grips with misfortune and go on."-- Shirley Temple Black "To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong."-- Joseph Chilton Pearce "The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."-- Jean Paul "Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can."-Danny Kaye "A nickel will get you on the subway, but garlic will get you a seat."-- Old New York Proverb "My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to 99 cents a can. That's almost $7.00 in dog money."-- Joe Weinstein "There is only one success -- to be able to live your life in your own way."-Christopher Morley "Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything."-- Mary Hemingway "Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing."-- Phyllis Diller "If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old."-- Edgar Watson Howe "There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen."-- Jim Lovell "Pain (any pain--emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories: We would be more alive if we did more of this and Life would be more lovely if we did less of that. Once we get the pain's message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away."-- Peter McWilliams "Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up."-- Robert Frost "People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly."-- Brendan Francis "Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."-- Truman Capote

"Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person."-- David M. Burns "I went to the brink many times. A couple of times I thought 'I'm gone. This is it.' But then you would just keep working. I think if you're close to the brink and just make sure that you work twice as hard and put twice as much effort into everything and the people around you and everything, you should come through."-- Gerry Harvey "If you don't know where you are going, how can you expect to get there?"-- Basil S. Walsh "Take a deep breath, count to ten, and tackle each task one step at a time."-- Linda Shalaway "I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet."-- Nadia Comaneci "There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will."Epictetus "I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others."-- Robert Southey "You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way."-- Marvin Minsky "You are the same today as you'll be in five years except for two things, the books you read and the people you meet."-- Charlie "Tremendous" Jones "Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk."-- Joyce Brothers "Minds are like flowers. If you let it sit there without soaking anything up, it will dry up."-- Ken Hill "To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."-- William Shakespeare "Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart."-- Mort Walker "Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together." -- Yo-Yo Ma "No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance." Confucius "Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next."-- Herbert Hoover "You only live once--but if you work it right, once is enough."-- Joe Lewis

"The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out."Macaulay "To do a common thing, uncommonly well, brings success."-- Henry John Heinz "The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either."-- Mick Jagger "Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made."-- Robert Browning "Decide whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying."-Amelia Earhart "Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."-- Raymond Chandler "Not everybody is perfect, and I don't think we should be looking for perfect people."-- Simon Cowell "The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it."-- Alan Saporta "The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes."-- William James "It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want."-- Franklin D. Roosevelt "Whatever acts a good or bad man may do, the fruits thereof follow him and will never stop pursuing him."-- Sri Sai Baba "The beginning is always today."-- Mary Wollstonecraf "The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation. Just do it. Exercise, lose weight, test your blood sugar, or whatever. Do it without motivation. And then, guess what? After you start doing the thing, that,s when the motivation comes and makes it easy for you to keep on doing it."-- John C. Maxwell "In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first."-- Jimi Hendrix "I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among the creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of kindness and compassion."-- William Falconer "I figured if you're going to do something, you should do it the best you can." -- John T. Walton "Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart."-- Mort Walker "How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom."-- Karl Rahner "If you want to be truly successful, invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere, your success will blossom."-- Sydney Madwed

"If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen."-- Desiderius Erasmus "Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending."-- Maria Robinson "It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help." -- Judith Martin "For every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go."-- Richard Bach "If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito."-- Betty Reese "Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."-- Melody Beattie "If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win."-- Carl Lewis "Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be."-- Grandma Moses "Live your life as an Exclamation, not an Explanation."-- Source unknown "All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!"-- Bob Newhart "A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and become swallowed up by the world of illusion."-- Sai Baba "If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere."-Frank A. Clark "It's not the critic that counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena."-- Theodore Roosevelt "We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path."-- Paulo Coelho, Brazilian novelist "Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve."-- J. K. Rowling "We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience."-- George Washington "There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows."-- George Eliot

"It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure." -- Bill Gates "Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made."-- Robert H. Schuller "Determine to do some thinking for yourself. Don't live entirely upon the thoughts of others. Don't be an automaton."-- James Cash Penney "Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person."-- David M. Burns "I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying." --Michael Jordan "Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence."Unknown "No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite."-- Nelson Mandela "The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others."-- Dag Hammarskjold "We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled."-- Bill Watterson "Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account."-- Euripides "If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it."-- Anthony J. D'Angelo "It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing." -- George MacDonald "Smooth seas do not make a skillful sailor."-- African proverb "The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but has no vision." -- Helen Keller "Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?"-- Babe Ruth "The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes."-- William James "Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking."-- Stephen Hawking

"You can buy a person's hands but you can't buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is."-- Stephen Covey "A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer."-Ralph Waldo Emerson "The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it." --Esther Williams "We must let go of the life we planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us." -- Joseph Campbell "The past does not define you, the present does."-- Jillian Michaels "Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody."-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "You can do so much in 10 minutes' time. Ten minutes, once gone, are gone for good. Divide your life into 10-minute units and sacrifice as few of them as possible in meaningless activity."-- Ingvar Kamprad, Founder of IKEA "The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you."B.B. King "If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach."-- Margaret Cho "Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are.When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you."-- Lao Tzu "Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place."-- Mark Twain "Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life."-- Arnold Schwarzenegger "What it comes down to, for me, is that people want to do what will make them happy, but in order to understand that they really have to understand their world and what is going on around them."-- Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook "It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more on a man than he can bear. But worry is rust upon the blade. It is not movement that destroys the machinery, but friction."-- Henry Ward Beecher "Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun dial in the shade?"-Benjamin Franklin "Only those who are asleep make no mistakes."-- Ingvar Kamprad "To control and sort young people for the sake of institutional efficiency is to crush the human spirit."-- Ron Miller

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"If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you."-- Calvin Coolidge "I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist."-- Paul Harvey "The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore."-- Dale Carnegie "I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it." -- Pablo Picasso "I am not a has-been. I am a will be."-- Lauren Bacall "There are generations yet unborn, whose very lives will be shifted and shaped by the moves you make and the actions you take." -- Andy Andrews "The meaning of life is to give life meaning."-- Ken Hudgins "The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same."-- Carlos Castaneda "Everyone experiences tough times; it is a measure of your determination and dedication how you deal with them and how you can come through them."-- Lakshmi Mittal "Many of our fears are tissue paper thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them."-- Brendan Francis "Take a deep breath, count to ten, and tackle each task one step at a time."-- Linda Shalaway "A dead end street is a good place to turn around."-- Naomi Judd "Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way."-- George Evans "The future may be made up of many factors but where it truly lies is in the hearts and minds of men. Your dedication should not be confined for your own gain, but unleashes your passion for our beloved country as well as for the integrity and humanity of mankind."-- Li Ka Shing "Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice."-- Wayne Dyer "Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think."Horace "You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it."-- Charles Buxton "Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world."-- Miguel de Cervantes "Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."-- Carl Jung

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"If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble."-- Bob Hope "A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug."-- Patricia Neal "Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work."-Mark Twain "I was thinking one day and I realized that if I just had somebody behind me all the way to motivate me I could make a big difference. Nobody came along like that so I just became that person for myself."Unknown "Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are."-- Bernice Johnson Reagon "Walking your talk is a great way to motivate yourself. No one likes to live a lie. Be honest with yourself, and you will find the motivation to do what you advise others to do."-- Vince Poscente "If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people."-- Chinese proverb "Harshness to me is giving somebody false hopes and not following through. That's harsh. Telling some guy or some girl who've got zero talent that they have zero talent actually is a kindness."-- Simon Cowell "Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric."-- Bertrand Russell "The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."-- E E. Cummings "Work is the basis of living. I'll never retire. A man'll rust out quicker than he'll wear out."-- Harland Sanders "Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted."-- Garrison Keillor "Life is something like a trumpet. If you don't put anything in, you won't get anything out."-- W.C. Handy "Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly."-- Robert H. Schuller "Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character." Heraclitus "Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society."-- Benjamin Franklin "What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered."-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others."-- Tony Robbins "When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps."Confucius "Over the years I have developed a picture of what a human being living humanely is like. She is a person who understands, values and develops her body, finding it beautiful and useful; a person who is real and is willing to take risks, to be creative, to manifest competence, to change when the situation calls for it, and to find ways to accommodate to what is new and different, keeping that part of the old that is still useful and discarding what is not."-- Virginia Satir "It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement."-- Mabel Newcomber "Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new."-- Brian Tracy "The one who asks questions doesn't lose his way."-- African Proverb "It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, just as much to stand up to our friends."Dumbledore "So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way."-- Will Rogers "Strength is happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, you might win or you might lose. But regardless of the short-term outcome, the very fact of your continuing to struggle is proof of your victory as a human being."-- Daisaku Ikeda "Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody."-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might-have-been has never been, but a has was once an are."-- Milton Berle "It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich."-- Henry Ward Beecher "Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing."-- Aristotle "Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."-- Carl Jung "The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge."-- Elbert Hubbard "Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset."-- Saint Francis de Sales

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Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky "Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, 'I have failed three times,' and what happens when he says, 'I am a failure.'-- S.I. Hayakawa "Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught." -- J.C. Watts "The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds. Think big anyway."-- Kent M. Keith "We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light."-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that appear, wherever they might be."-- Lakshmi Mittal "Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future."-- Jose Incenerios "The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths." -- Groucho Marx "Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed." -Bertrand Russell "Anything that we have to learn to do we learn by the actual doing of it... We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate ones, brave by doing brave ones." Aristotle "If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim."-- Richard Bach "Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth."-- Chuck Norris If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me. "You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round."-- James Corbett "It is in many people's best interest for you not to find yourself, but it only matters that it is in yours, and the whole world's, to proceed."-- Anne Lamott "Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it."-- James Truslow Adams

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"One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the essence of life."-- Anatole France "The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on."-- Elbert Hubbard "Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also -- if you love them enough."-- George Washington "To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while."-- Josh Billings "Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves."-- Helen Keller "A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book."-- Irish Proverb "The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble."-- James M. Barrie "Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good."-- Malcolm Gladwell "In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high."-- Henry David Thoreau "As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do." -- Andrew Carnegie "If we did all the things that we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves."-- Thomas Edison "You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you."-- James Allen "I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."-Nelson Mandela "Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test."-- William James "How long should you try? Until."-- Jim Rohn "You always pass failure on the way to success."-- Mickey Rooney "Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade."-- Dr Samuel Johnson

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"Eating words has never given me indigestion."-- Winston Churchill "Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean."-- Aldous Leonard Huxley "The way to succeed is to double your error rate."-- Thomas J. Watson "The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one."-- Mark Twain "As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency."-- Caroline Kennedy "Growing old is nothing more than mind over matter; If you don't mind, it doesn't matter." Anonymous "Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive."-- Scott Adams "Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with."-- Robert Frost "Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us."-- Orison Swett Marden "We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings."-- Abraham Maslow "Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact."-- George Eliot "We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free."Epictetus "I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship."-- Pietro Aretino "The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium."-- Norbet Platt "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose."-Michel de Montaigne "A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be."-- Abraham Maslow

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"Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind."-- Marva Collins "Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in that action."-- Mother Teresa "Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing."-- Thomas Jefferson "In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it."-- Elbert Hubbard "I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self."Aristotle Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.--Victor Hugo It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.--Louisa May Alcott "If you aren't fired up with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm."-- Vince Lombardi "An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it."-Bill Bernbach "If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it."-- George F. Burns "What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over what do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!"-Alfred Adler "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity."-- Albert Einstein "Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart."-- Alan Alda "Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart."-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball."-- Doug Larson "Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own."-- Arnold Bennett "It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that."-- J.K. Rowling

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"The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It's doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile. I think of my strawberry souffl. I did that at least twenty-eight times before I finally conquered it."-- Julia Child "Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if Memory have its force and worth, so also has Hope."-- Thomas Carlyle "Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you can't get more time."-- Jim Rohn "It's not enough to be busy... the question is: what are we busy about?"-- Henry David Thoreau "Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."-- Harold R. McAlindon "May you live all the days of your life."-- Jonathan Swift "Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then... do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen."-- Lee Iacocca "Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." -- Nathaniel Hawthorne "Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't." -- Erica Jong "Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave." -- Mary Tyler Moore "If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed." -Chinese Proverb "That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong." -- William J.H. Boetcker "While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us." -- Benjamin Franklin "Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company."--George Washington "So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin."-- W. Clement Stone "What is a great love of books? It is something like a personal introduction to the great and good men of all past times. Books, it is true, are silent as you see them on their shelves; but, silent as they are, when I enter a library I feel as if almost the dead were present, and I know if I put questions to these books they will answer me with all the faithfulness and fullness which has been left in them by the great men who have left the books with us."-- John Bright "Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing." -- Venus Williams

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"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."-- Beverly Sills "Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained." -- Seamus Heaney "When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt "We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results." -- Herman Melville "To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."-- Elbert Hubbard "The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself -- the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us -- that's where it's at."-Jesse Owens "If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague." -- Jerry Seinfeld "The human brain is unique in that it is the only container of which it can be said that the more you put into it, the more it will hold."-- Glenn Doman "Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else."-- Mitch Albom "You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives." -- Clay P. Bedford "Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault."-- David M. Burns "Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold -- but so does a hard-boiled egg." "Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back." -- Chinese Proverb "A man who limits his interests, limits his life." -- Vincent Price "All the woulda-coulda-shouldas layin' in the sun, talkin' 'bout the things they woulda-coulda-shoulda done... But all those woulda-coulda-shouldas all ran away and hid from one little did." -- Shel Silverstein, Author "The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven." -- John Milton "An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots." -- Charles F. Kettering "It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back." -- Mick Jagger "Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths." -- Etty Hillesum

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"Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves." -- Walter Anderson "People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes." -- Abigail Van Buren "If time be of all things most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough always proves little enough." -- Benjamin Franklin "In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.-- Bill Cosby "The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else." -- Arnold Bennett "We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves." -Lynn Hall "There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who reflects it."-- Edith Wharton "All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt." -- Charles M. Schulz "Some people grumble because roses have thorns; I am thankful that the thorns have roses." -- Alphonse Karr "A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world." -- John le Carre "Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence." -Daniel Hudson Burnham "The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn." -David Russell "There are countless ways of achieving greatness, but any road to achieving one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity." -- Buck Rodgers "A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions." -Oliver Wendell Holmes "He who knows others is learned; He who knows himself is wise." -- Lao-tzu "A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us."-- John Steinbeck "I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense." -- Harold S. Kushner "Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh." -- W. H. Auden

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"Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify." -- Henry David Thoreau "May I never miss a sunset or a rainbow because I am looking down." -- Sara June Parker "If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms no logical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?" -- Margot Fonteyn "A bend in the road is not the end of the road... unless you fail to make the turn." "This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it." -- Al Capone "Goodness is the only investment that never fails." -- Henry David Thoreau "Time sets the stage; fate writes the script; but only we may choose our character." -- Liam Thomas Ryder "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be." -Kurt Vonnegut "Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow." -- Woody Guthrie "Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence." "Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands." -- Anne Frank "Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck." -- Dalai Lama "Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities." "Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him." -- James Allen "There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day." "I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities." -- Dr. Seuss "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." "When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice." -- Cherokee Expression "I am not confused, I'm just well mixed." -- Robert Frost

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"I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time." -- Jack London "Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love." -- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Women have to harness their power -- it's absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner." "The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer." -- Henry David Thoreau "An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field." -- Niels Bohr "Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it." -- Dennis P. Kimbro "A man may fail many times but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else." -- John Burroughs "Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement." -- C. S. Lewis It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. --George Bernard Shaw "I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which comes to me as seed goes to the next as blossom and that which comes to me as blossom, goes on as fruit." -- Dawna Markova "Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power." -- Clint Eastwood "This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this." -- Charlie Brown "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." -- Thomas Edison Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations. "You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again." "The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole." "Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you." "Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals."

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"People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering." "Happiness is inward and not outward; and so it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are." "Our lives improve only when we take chances and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves." "You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses." "Don't be afraid of showing your feelings; be afraid of regretting it when you didn't." "Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope." -- Bill Cosby "Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.-- Titus Livius "Just when you think that a person is just a backdrop for the rest of the universe, watch them and see that they laugh, they cry, they tell jokes... they're just friends waiting to be made." "Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful." "The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph!" "Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward." "Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success." The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live. If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. "Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories." "I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying." -Michael Jordan "There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots, the other is wings." "Take a deep breath, count to ten, and tackle each task one step at a time." "The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them." "In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." -- Thomas Jefferson

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"The present is a rope stretched over the past. The secret to walking it is, you never look down." "You don't have to be a person of influence to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me." "Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is." "The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office." -- Robert Frost "Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently." -Henry Ford "Love the earth and sun and animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others... And your very flesh shall be a great poem." -- Walt Whitman "If you think somebody cares about you and believes your life is worth saving, how can you give up?" "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity." -- Albert Einstein "My interest is in the future... because I'm going to spend the rest of my life there." "Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck." -- Dalai Lama "Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that crushed it." -- Mark Twain "Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence." "Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet." -- Tom Robbins "Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road." "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same." -- Ronald Reagan A smile is the chosen vehicle for all ambiguities. --Herman Melville "A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences." "Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all." -- John F. Kennedy "Although there may be nothing new under the sun, what is old is new to us and so rich and astonishing that we never tire of it. If we do tire of it, if we lose our

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curiosity, we have lost something of infinite value, because to a high degree it is curiosity that gives meaning and savour to life."-- Robertson Davies "Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."-- Raymond Chandler "If you want to catch a trout, don't fish in a herring barrel." "If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else." -- Chinese Proverb "There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will." Epictetus "When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free." -- Catherine Ponder "If we all do one random act of kindness daily, we just might set the world in the right direction." -- Martin Kornfeld "Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks." -- Charles Dickens "Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality." -- Les Brown "If people did not do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done." -- Ludwig Wittgenstein "You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way." -- Marvin Minsky "All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us." -Ralph Waldo Emerson A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick. --Sophocles Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance, each carrying away some crumb of that belief in a few simple notions you must cling to if you want to live decently and would like to die easy! --Joseph Conrad "If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance." -George Bernard Shaw "Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together." "Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity." -- Elvis Presley "No man ever achieved worthwhile success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure." -- Napoleon Hill

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"There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me." -- John Erskine "If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it." -- Anthony J. D'Angelo "The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another." -- William James "A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop experiences. Only in losing himself does he find himself. Only then does he discover all the latent strengths he never knew he had and which otherwise would have remained dormant." -- Richard Nixon "Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old." -- Franz Kafka "All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent." -- John F. Kennedy "Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault." -- David M. Burns "There is no such thing as 'on the way out' as long as you are still doing something interesting and good; you're in the business because you're breathing." -- Louis Armstrong "Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won't think you're going gaga." -- David Ogilvy "Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived." -- Anna Quindlen "Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it." -- Joe Moore "It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference." -- Tom Brokaw "The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment." -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving." -- Albert Einstein "A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book." -- Irish Proverb "The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them." -- Jim Rohn No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. -- Charlotte Bronte I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. --Charlotte Bronte Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demanda business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no

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market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values. --Willa Cather "A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one would find fault with what he has done."-- Cardinal Newman "Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power." -- Lao-Tzu "Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby." -- Ruth Renkel "Vice may triumph for a time, crime may flaunt its victories in the face of honest toilers, but in the end the law will follow the wrong-doer to a bitter fate, and dishonor and punishment will be the portion of those who sin." -- Allan Pinkerton "I say to my child, I will explain to you as much of life as I can, but you must remember that there is a part of life for which you are the explanation." -- Robert Brault "A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle." -- Benjamin Franklin "Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia." -- Charles Schulz "Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people." -- Zig Ziglar "A youth becomes a man when the marks he wants to leave on the world have nothing to do with tires." "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." -- Walter Bagehot "Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are." -- Malcolm Forbes "It's always a pleasure to find something that matters." -- Don Cornelius "Make your life a mission --- not an intermission." -- Arnold Glasgow Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. --Aristotle War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always. --Sophocles There was never a genius without a tincture of madness. --Aristotle Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for. -- Bob Marley A man in pursuit of greatness feels no little wants. --Ralph Waldo Emerson Never do anything yourself that others can do for you. --Agatha Christie "I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief." -- Gerry Spence "The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." -- Samuel Johnson

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"This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men." -- Captain J. A. Hadfield "Life is part positive and part negative. Suppose you went to hear a symphony orchestra and all they played were the little happy high notes. Would you leave soon? Let me hear the rumble of the bass, the crash of the cymbals and the minor keys." -- Jim Rohn "Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at the very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive." -- Mel Brooks "Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind." -- F. Scott Fitzgerald "If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles." -- Doug Larson "Sometimes we must get hurt in order to grow. We must fail in order to know. Sometimes our vision is clear only after our eyes are washed away with tears." "The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us." -- Bill Watterson "No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut." -- Channing Pollack "There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life." -Frederico Fellini "You just can't beat the person who won't give up." -- Babe Ruth "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X+Y+Z, where X is work, Y is play, and Z is keep your mouth shut." -- Albert Einstein "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 "Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless." -- Thomas Alva Edison "To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity." -- William A. Ward "Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success." -- Diana Rankin "Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash." -- Rita Mae Brown "The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You don't blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the President. You realize that you control your own destiny." -- Albert Ellis "There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing." -- Oscar Wilde

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"If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself." -- Charles Schulz "The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self." -- Whitney Young Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen. -- Ambrose Bierce Self-love darkens the inner eye to the point where the man is often happy of the things that he should be sad about and consider useful, things that are nothing but hidden traps dangerous for the soul. "If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it." -- Jonathan Winters "Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own." -- Arnold Bennett "I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow." -- Woodrow Wilson "I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else." -- Dolly Parton "There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self-destruct. It never fails." -- Richard Rybolt "Failure is not reaching your goal, but in having no goal to reach." -- Benjamin Mays "The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love." -- Margaret Atwood "Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams." "In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds." Aristotle "Laughter is an instant vacation." -- Milton Berle "The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens." -- Arnold Schwarzenegger All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. --Ralph Waldo Emerson "It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that." "Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom." -- Mignon McLaughlin "Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star." -- W. Clement Stone "Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was." -- Robert Louis Stevenson

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"Welcoming imperfection is the way to accomplish what perfectionism promises but never delivers. It gives us our best performance and genuine acceptance in the family of human -- and by that I mean imperfect -- beings." -- Martha Beck "Dance as though no one is watching. Love as though you've never been hurt. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth." Souza "Keep your chin up and you will see the clouds in the sky. Keep your chin down and all you will see is the dirt on the floor."-- Shelley L. Young "Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar." -- Bradley Miller "My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to 99 cents a can. That's almost $7.00 in dog money." -- Joe Weinstein "The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." -- William James "Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters." -- Margaret Peters "It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." -- Charles Darwin "It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say 'I don't know'." -W. Somerset Maugham "I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self." Aristotle "A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and sings it back to you when you have forgotten how it goes." "A smile is a curve that sets everything straight." -- Phyllis Diller "You already possess everything necessary to become great." "You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through." -- Rosalynn Carter "The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it. -- Alexandre Dumas I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it. --George Bernard Shaw "Think for a minute about what makes you fabulous and how you can celebrate it." -- Laura Mercier "Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom." -- Sandra Day O'Connor

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"Don't reserve your best behavior for special occasions. You can't have two sets of manners, two social codes -- one for those you admire and want to impress, another for those whom you consider unimportant. You must be the same to all people." -Lillian Eichler Watson "Do not be awestruck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can." -- Norman Vincent Peale "It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit." -Harry S. Truman "Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end." -- Scott Adams "Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth... Tame the dragon and the gift is yours." -- Noela Evans "Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from." -- Al Franken "Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back." -- Thomas Sowell "Although there may be nothing new under the sun, what is old is new to us and so rich and astonishing that we never tire of it. If we do tire of it, if we lose our curiosity, we have lost something of infinite value, because to a high degree it is curiosity that gives meaning and savour to life." -- Robertson Davies "No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit." -- Helen Keller "The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love." -- Tom Robbins "Yesterday is a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well-lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore to this day." -- Sanskrit Proverb "Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." -- Henry Van Dyk "Envy can be a positive motivator. Let it inspire you to work harder for what you want." -- Robert Bringle "May I never miss a sunset or a rainbow because I am looking down." -- Sara June Parker "It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it."-- Sam Levenson "You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another." "When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat."-- Nelson Mandela "Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday."-- Brian Tracy

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"All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move." -- Arabian Proverb "What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving." -- W. T. Purkiser "Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say." -- Charles Caleb Colton "An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field." -- Niels Bohr "In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time." -- Anthony J. D'Angelo "We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts." -Madeleine L'Engle "The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You don't blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the President. You realize that you control your own destiny."-- Albert Ellis "The sweetest two words are 'next time.' The sourest word is 'if.'" "Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece." -- Ralph Charell "Let it never be said by future generations that indifference, cynicism or selfishness made us fail to live up to the ideals of humanism which the Nobel Peace Prize encapsulates. Let the strivings of us all prove Martin Luther King Jr. to have been correct when he said that humanity can no longer be tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war."-- Nelson Mandela "Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching?" "Keep the other person's well being in mind when you feel an attack of soul-purging truth coming on." -- Betty White "The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action." -- John Dewey "The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what interests you and that you can do well, and put your whole soul into it -- every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have." -- John D. Rockefeller, III "As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." -- John Fitzgerald Kennedy "If we stop learning today, we stop teaching tomorrow." -- Howard Hendricks The only true equalisers in the world are books; the only treasure-house open to all comers is a library; the only wealth which will not decay is knowledge; the only jewel which you can carry beyond the grave is wisdom. -- J. A. Langford "If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything." -- Win Borden

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"Humor is mankind's greatest blessing." -- Mark Twain "Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds --- all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have." -- Edward Everett Hale "If you are truly flexible and go until... there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime." -- Anthony Robbins "The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbour as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves." -- Eric Hoffer "The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment." -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential. --Ralph Waldo Emerson "People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, they make them."-- George Bernard Shaw Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful. --Ralph Waldo Emerson "Good, better, best. Never rest until good be better and better best." -- Mother Goose rhyme "All you really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt." -- Lucy Van Pelt "Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children." -Sitting Bull "Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself." -- Doris Lessing "If all of our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart." Socrates "What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me." -- Helen Keller "It's when you treat people like freaks that you become one yourself." -- Dolly Parton "Every situation, every moment -- is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement." -- Florida Scott-Maxwell I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings. -Gustave Flaubert

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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings. -- Gustave Flaubert Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity. --Thomas Hardy Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them. Mark Twain "Art is the act of navigating without a map." -- Seth Godin "The spirited horse, which will of itself strive to win the race, will run still more swiftly if encouraged." Ovid "A problem well stated is a problem half solved." -- Charles F. Kettering "Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along." -- George Herbert "Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them." -- Napoleon Bonaparte "A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits." -- Richard M. Nixon "Failure is never final and success is never ending. Success is a journey, not a destination." -- Ben Sweetland "Then give to the world the best you have, and the best will come back to you." Madeline Bridges "I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free. Know what I'm saying? Move past the fear." -James Todd Smith "The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action." -- John Dewey "The happiest people don't have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything they have." "It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things." -Leonardo da Vinci "You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction." -- George Horace Lorimer "Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire." -- Arab proverb "He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination." -- Jose Rizal "When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it: admit it, learn from it, and do not repeat it." -- Paul "Bear" Bryant "If you see someone without a smile, give 'em yours!" -- Dolly Parton "To lead the people, walk behind them." -- Lao Tzu

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"Men are alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they are different." -Jean Baptiste Moliere "Bowmen bend their bows when they wish to shoot: unbrace them when the shooting is over. Were they kept always strung they would break and fail the archer in time of need. So it is with men. If they give themselves constantly to serious work, and never indulge awhile in pastime or sport, they lose their senses and become mad." Herodotus "It is not who is right, but what is right, that is important." -- Thomas Henry Huxley "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt." -- Abraham Lincoln "Nature, time and patience are three great physicians." -- H.G. Bohn "This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live." -- Omar Bradley "It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked." -- Kahil Gibran Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone. --Jerome K. Jerome A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss. Gustave Flaubert An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather. -- Washington Irving God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages. "The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese." -- Jon Hammond "Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." -- Malcolm S. Forbes "Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of the friendship, you really haven't learned anything."-- Muhammad Ali "To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity." -- Irving Wallace "Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves." -- Phillip Dormer Stanhope "Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?" -Fanny Brice "If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people." -Virginia Woolf "I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more of it I have." -Thomas Jefferson

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"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless." -- Thomas A. Edison "If you've never run aground, you've never been anywhere!" "When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free." -- Catherine Ponder "It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are." -- e.e. cummings "Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it." -- W. Clement Stone "We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations." -- Charles R. Swindoll "Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen." -- Sir Winston Churchill "Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'" -- Charles M. Schulz "Have more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest." -- William Shakespeare It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importanceand I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process. --Henry James There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. --Robert Lynd Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise. --Tommy Douglas Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things. -- E. M. Forster As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. ~Henry David Thoreau As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others. ~Lord Byron But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of. ~ Lord Byron In solitude, where we are least alone. ~Lord Byron It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe - you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep. ~Lord Byron Teach us Delight in simple things, And Mirth that has no bitter springs; Forgiveness free of evil done, And Love to all men 'neath the sun! ~Rudyard Kipling "Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art. "- Leonardo da Vinci

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"Blessed are those that can give without remembering and receive without forgetting." ~ Elizabeth Bibesco "The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain." ~ Susan B. Anthony "Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart." -- Kay Knudsen "We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves." -Lynn Hall "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." -- A. A. Milne "There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere." -- Jane Austen "It's never too late to have a happy childhood." -- Tom Robbins "I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope... and that enables you to laugh at all of life's realities." -- Theodor S. Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss "Be life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for." -- David Starr Jordan "Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else." -- Mitch Albom "The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark." -- Barbara Hall "Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine." -- Lord Byron "Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." -- Samuel Beckett "Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be." --Clementine Paddleford "To get the rainbow, you've gotta put up with the rain." -- Dolly Parton "Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it." -- William Arthur Ward It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony. ~Benjamin Britten Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. ~Victor Hugo

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Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. ~Plato Music is the best means we have of digesting time. ~W. H. Auden Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune. ~Thomas Fuller Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue. ~Plato Music is the shorthand of emotion. ~Leo Tolstoy Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder. ~John Ruskin There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument. ~Aimee Mann Humankind cannot bear very much reality. ~T. S. Eliot We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. ~T. S. Eliot Stupidity is a talent for misconception. ~Edgar Allan Poe Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. ~Edgar Allan Poe Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it. ~Fyodor Dostoevsky If there is no God, everything is permitted. ~Fyodor Dostoevsky Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid. ~Fyodor Dostoevsky Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded. ~Fyodor Dostoevsky All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. ~Aristotle All men by nature desire knowledge. ~Aristotle All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. ~Aristotle Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy. ~Aristotle At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. ~Aristotle Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. ~Aristotle Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted

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rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. ~Aristotle He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god. ~Aristotle In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds. ~Aristotle Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. ~Aristotle The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. ~Aristotle Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. ~Aristotle Wit is educated insolence. ~Aristotle He not busy being born is busy dying. ~Bob Dylan Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid. ~Bob Dylan A song is anything that can walk by itself. ~Bob Dylan No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky. ~Bob Dylan People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent. ~Bob Dylan There is nothing so stable as change. ~Bob Dylan Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be. ~Bob Dylan You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance. ~ W. Somerset Maugham It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know." ~W. Somerset Maugham "Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th." -- Julie Andrews "The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous."-- Carl Sagan "Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged."-- Helen Keller "Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination." -- Mae Jemison, astronaut "Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances." -- Thomas Jefferson "I've always found that anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way and you've got to have that drive and determination to overcome those obstacles on route to whatever it is that you want to accomplish." -- Chuck Norris

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"If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent." -- Sir Isaac Newton "When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous." -- Wayne Dyer "You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime." -- Dale Carnegie "Mishaps are like knives that either serve or cut us as we grasp them by the blade or handle." -- James Russell Lowell "If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you." -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky "Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny." -- Carl Schurz "Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye." -Helen Keller "The shell must break before the bird can fly." -- Tennyson "My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there."-Charles F. Kettering "Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back."-- Harvey MacKay "I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code." "Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds -- all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have." -- Edward Everett Hale "Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece." -- Ralph Charell "All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them." -- Erma Bombeck Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around." -- Katharine Hepburn "Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you." -Walt Whitman "I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done." -Lucille Ball "Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement." -- Golda Meir

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"Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain." -- Doug Coupland There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. ~Washington Irving It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so. ~Jerome K. Jerome It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived. ~ Henry Fielding Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. ~Voltaire "I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death." ~Leonardo da Vinci "But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?" ~ Albert Camus "What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure." ~ Gene Perret "If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old." ~James A. Garfield "When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take the step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for us to stand on or we will be taught to fly." ~ Patrick Overton "You learn something every day if you pay attention." ~ Ray LeBlond "Before you can win, you have to believe you are worthy." ~ Mike Ditka "It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building systems and developing habits that depend on them. Like a man who has worn eyeglasses so long that he forgets he has them on, we forget that the world looks to us the way it does because we have become used to seeing it that way through a particular set of lenses. Today, however, we need new lenses. And we need to throw the old ones away." ~ Kenichi Ohmae "My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now andthen she stops to breathe." ~ Jimmy Durante "A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life." ~ John Hancock "I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be." -- Abraham Lincoln "Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity." -- Colin Powell "Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy." -- Thich Nhat Hanh

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"You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win." -- Zig Ziglar "If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one." -- Dolly Parton "From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength." -- Cesar Chavez "You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?" -- Robert Louis Stevenson "The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."-George Bernard Shaw "The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth.'" -- Dan Rather "There is no such thing as 'on the way out' as long as you are still doing something interesting and good; you're in the business because you're breathing." -- Louis Armstrong "Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives." -- William James "I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better." Plutarch "It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned." -Frank Howard Clark "There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud." -- Carl Sandburg "The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it." -- Bill Nye "Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase." -Martin Luther King, Jr. "Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will be powerless to vex your mind." -Leonardo Da Vinci "If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything."-- Win Borden "There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!"-- Edgar Cayce "Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers." -- Anthony Robbins

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer. ~Jerome K. Jerome God's creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none. ~Henry James I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell...their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ. ~W. Somerset Maugham Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less. ~W. Somerset Maugham "Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile." -- Arnold Toynbee "Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury." -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin "Goals. There's no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There's no telling what you can do when you believe in them. There's no telling what will happen when you act upon them." -- Jim Rohn "When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality." -- Dom Helder Camara "Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting." -- Elizabeth Bibesco "Never look back unless you are planning to go that way." -- Henry David Thoreau "If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome." -- Anne Bradstreet "Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come." -- Robert H. Schuller "Integrity is the essence of everything successful." -- Richard Buckminster Fuller "It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right." "The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best." Epictetus "Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending." -- Maria Robinson "Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change." -- Kirsten Zambucka

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"If it's sanity you're after, there's no recipe like laughter." -- Henry Rutherford Elliot "The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't." -- Henry Ward Beecher "Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars." -- Henry Van Dyke "Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."-- Michael Jordan "The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything." -- Edward Phelps "If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain." -- Andre Maurois "If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase." -- Epictetus "If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability." -- Henry Ford "Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain." -- Charlie Chaplin You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something. ~Richard Feynman Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be. ~Henry Fielding "A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe, and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage."-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld "The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear."-Aung San Suu Kyi "Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." -- George Bernard Shaw "Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. That's what I have to say. The second is only part of the first." -- Anna Quindlen "We could have bought a small yacht with what we spent on our dog and all the things he destroyed. Then again, how many yachts wait by the door all day for your return?" -- John Grogan "There is no kind of ultimate goal to do something twice as good as anyone else can. It's just to do the job as best you can. If it turns out good, fine. If it doesn't, that's the way it goes." -- Chuck Yeager

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"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power."-- LaoTzu "Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, you cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation." Plato

"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward." -Charlotte Bronte "Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else." -- James Matthew Barrie "I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came." -- James Garfield "Decision and determination are the engineer and fireman of our train to opportunity and success." -- Burt Lawlor "As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed." -- Vincent Van Gogh "For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in." -- Ian Thorpe "You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there." -- Yogi Berra "The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today." -- H. Jackson Brown "Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant." -Anthony J. D'Angelo "A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided." -- Tony Robbins "Man imposes his own limitations, don't set any." -- Anthony Baily "You must never feel badly about making mistakes," explained Reason quietly, "as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons." -- Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth "There is no such thing as a weird human being. It's just that some people require more understanding than others." -- Tom Robbins

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"Shared laughter creates a bond of friendships. When people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, teacher and pupils, worker and boss. They become a single group of human beings." -- W. Lee Grant "If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality." -- Norman Cousins "Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday." -- Wilma Rudolph "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." -- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight. When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another." -- Helen Keller

"If you can't change your fate, change your attitude." -- Amy Tan "A man's errors are his portals of discovery." -- James Joyce "The only difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is extraordinary determination." -- Mary Kay Ash "We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices." -- Richard M. Nixon "It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert." -- Jacques Yves Cousteau "If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be." -- John R. Miller "The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life." -Frank Lloyd Wright "The more you recognize and express gratitude for the things you have, the more things you will have to express gratitude for." -- Zig Ziglar "The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success." -- Denis Waitley "Work hard at your job and you can make a living. Work hard on yourself and you can make a fortune." -- Jim Rohn

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"I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind." -- Grover Cleveland "I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together." -- Marilyn Monroe "You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine." -- John C. Maxwell "The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck." -- Channing Pollock

Umbland pe drumul faurit de clipe, Pasesti in suflet si-n mister. Primesti raspuns ascuns din tine Ca ai o viata si-o traiesti! ~ EU BIRDS OF A FLIGHT, BIRDS OF A FEATHER SING OF AN IMPORTANT MATTER IVE HEARD THE OTHER DAY, THE SONG OF SOMEONES BIRTHDAY. THEY FLEW MOST ANXIOUSLY TO SEND TO YOU A SONG OF FEATHERS, A TOUCH OF GRACE, WHISPERS OF A WISH. MESSENGERS OF JOY, CARRIERS OF LOVE AND FREEDOM, THEY SOAR TO FLY THE SONG OF LIFE, FOR YOU! ~ EU

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