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Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

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The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.

(Stephen Nachmanovitch, American musician)

Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
Josh Billings

With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.
Thomas Foxwell Buxton

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
William Feather

Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.
Buddha

We have to take the whole universe as the expression of the one Self. Then only our love flows to all beings and creatures in the world equally.
Swami Ramdas

The way you speak to others can offer them joy, happiness, self-confidence, hope, trust, and enlightenment. Mindful speaking is a deep practice.
Thich Nhat Hanh

"I wasted time, and now doth time waste me."
~William Shakespeare

"Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it. "
~Lily Tomlin

"Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket."
~Robert Orben

Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.

"I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true."
~Dorothy Parker

"My school days were the happiest days of my life, which should give you some indication of the misery I've endured over the past twenty-five years."
~Paul Merton

Bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy,
for he may one day become your friend

(Saadi, Persian poet, 1184-1291)

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.

I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It's so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just checking things out for awhile until I decide to take them back.

Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's ideas.
But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.

(Oprah Winfrey, American TV host, born 1954)

“Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment, can you grow more surely toward the stars.”
~Brian Tracy

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?

Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.

A zebra does not change its spots."
~Al Gore

"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."
~Mark Twain.

If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
~Unknown

"When you see what you're here for, the world begins to mirror your purpose in a magical way. It's almost as if you suddenly find yourself on a stage in a play that was written expressly for you." --Betty Sue Flowers

"Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that a son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become the president of a nation." --Nelson Mandela

"Those of us who have transcended mythical belief systems know without any doubt that there is no God up in the sky. But when we awaken to what I call the evolutionary impulse - the mysterious passion to evolve, to become, to develop on every level--we rediscover who God is." --Andrew Cohen

"When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays."
~Henny Youngman

"One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him."
~Karl A. Menninger

"When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail."
~Abraham Maslow

"Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got."
~Josh Billings

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.

(Pythagoras, Greek philosopher and mathematician, 582 BC - 507 BC)

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.

It is a sadness of growing older that we lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult.

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

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?

It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

"Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac."
~George Carlin.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

(Judith Martin, American journalist, born 1938)

For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little.

The only way to last a really long time is to build something useful enough that people will want to keep it going after you die, and to cultivate a sense of ownership in other people. In short: make good shit and give it away as fast as you can.

An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear;
not absence of fear.

(Mark Twain, American author, 1835 - 1910)

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others."
~Mark Twain

"I just got back from the hospital. My girlfriend had to get her stomach pumped because i fed her what i thought was cotton candy and turned out to be insulation on a stick."
~Steven Wright

"The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work."
~Robert Frost

How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.

Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys.

Do not fear death so much, but rather an inadequate life.

(Bertolt Brecht, German poet and playwright, 1898-1956)

We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility." --Albert Einstein

"Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not." --George Bernard Shaw

"Freedom is actually a bigger game than power. Power is about what you can control. Freedom is about what you can unleash." --Harriet Rubin

"Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is."
~ Gary Zukav ...

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today
William Allen White

Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.

You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

(Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish author, 1850 - 1894

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

(Robert Tree Cody, Native American musician)

A jury consists of twelve people chosen to decide who has the best lawyer."
~Robert Frost

"Doubt is the father of invention."
~ Galileo Galilei

"Well, if you can't believe what you read in a comic book, what can you believe?"
~Bullwinkle J. Moose

"A married man should forget his mistakes; no use two people remembering the same thing."
~Duane Dewel.

"All men are not homeless, but some men are home less than others."
~Henry Youngman

Pay no attention to what the critics say.
Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic.

(Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer, 1865 - 1957)

Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, without guilt, without evil, without a witness against me, without one whom I have wronged. I am one pure of mouth, pure of hands.

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.

True peace is not merely the absence of tension;
It is the presence of justice.

(Martin Luther King, American civil rights activist, 1929-1968)

"The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world."
~Leonard Cohen

"Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects."
~ Lester B. Pearson, Prime Minister of Canada (1963-68)

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet."
~Stanislaw J. Lec

"I've got a very poor sense of direction. I keep forgetting which way is forwards."
~Geoffrey Parfitt

"Two boys arrived yesterday with a pebble they said was the head of a dog until I pointed out that it was really a typewriter."
~Pablo Picasso

One of the sanest, surest and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

(Archibald Hamilton Rutledge, American poet, 1883-1973)

"The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work."
~Robert Frost

Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice;
but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

(Elie Wiesel, 1986 Nobel Peace Prize, born 1928)

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for." --Maureen Dowd

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly." --Buddha

"When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?" --John Maynard Keynes

A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.

I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

Every action of our lives touches on some cord that will vibrate in eternity.

(Edwin Hubbell Chapin, American author, 1814-1880)

Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain."
~Martin Mull

"According to a recent study, the most popular fitness sport among Americans is bowling. Is this really a 'fitness' sport? Any sport where you can drink beer and eat pizza while you're doing the sport is not a sport."
~Jay Leno

"Every decade or so, I attempted to play tennis, and it always consists of thirty-seven seconds of actually hitting the ball and two hours of yelling, 'Where did the ball go?' 'Over that condominium!' With bowling, once you let go of the ball, it's no longer your legal responsibility. They have these wonderful machines that find it for you and send it right back."
~Dave Barry

“The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."
~ Eden Phillpotts, British Novelist, Poet and Dramatist...

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin."
~H. L. Mencken

"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable." ~Joseph Addison

A gift - be it a present, a kind word or a job done with care and love - explains itself!... and if receivin' it embarrasses you, it's because your 'thanks box' is warped.

There is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

I learned an important lesson in the art of debate. Present your argument clearly, arm yourself with cutting wit and of course, bob and weave!

Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of men.

(Helen Keller, deaf/blind American author and educator, 1880-1968)

"A man running for office puts me in mind of a dog that's lost—he smells everybody he meets, and wags himself all over."
~Josh Billings

"You can say any fool thing to a dog, and the dog will give you this look that says, `My God, you're RIGHT! I NEVER would've thought of that!'"
~Dave Barry

"The dog was created especially for children. He is the god of frolic."
~Henry Ward Beecher

Our thoughts create our reality -- where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.
Peter McWilliams

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
Denis Waitley

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.
Marianne Williamson

Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll be halfway there.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

(Ken Carey, American author )

Meditation depends upon the strength of mind. It must be unceasing even when one is engaged in work. Particular time for it is meant for novices.
Ramana Maharshi

More important than what is Behind you and what is Ahead of you is what is In you. Seek IT. Centered in it, act and live.
Swami Chinmayananda Saraswati

All the things that truly matter -- beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace -- arise from beyond the mind.
Eckhart Tolle

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

A pessimist is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

(Henry Louis Mencken, American journalist, 1880 - 1956)

We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.

Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.

Holding onto anger is like grasping onto a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else. You are the one who gets burned.

If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.

(Donald H. Rumsfeld, American secretary of Defense, born 1932

"There are still places where people think that the function of the media is to provide information."
~Don Rottenberg

"Did you ever walk in a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives."
~Sue Murphy.

A holy person is someone who is whole; who has, as it were, reconciled his opposites." --Alan Watts

"A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down." --Robert Benchley

"Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame." --Alexander the Great

The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
~Albert Einstein.

"If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes."
~Bob Edwards

"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats."
~Howard Aiken

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

(Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian writer, 1830-1916)

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future.
You must break out of your current comfort zone and
be comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown."
~Denis Waitley ...

The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it."
~Franklin P. Jones

"The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be."
~Paul Valley

If you concentrate too hard on your own vision, you will lose sight.

(Thomas Erskine, British lawyer and politician, 1750-1823)

"Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds."
-Shakespeare

"If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand."
-Unknown

"You don't marry someone you can live with - you marry the person who you cannot live without."
-Unknown

"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction."
-Saint-Exupery

"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."
-Ingrid Bergman

"I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love."
-Henry Ward Beecher

"True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen."
-La Rochefoucauld

"Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all."
-St. Augustine

"To love another person is to see the face of God."
-Les Miserables

"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition."
-Alexander Smith

"Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole."
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time."
-Lawrence Durrell

“Very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love."
-Stendhal

"There is no remedy for love but to love more."
-Thoreau

"Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it."
-Dr. Karl Menninger

"To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best."
-William M. Thackeray

"If you love someone, let them go. If they return to you, it was meant to be. If they don't, their love was never yours to begin with..."
-Unknown

"True love never dies for it is lust that fades away. Love bonds for a lifetime but lust just pushes away."
-Alicia Barnhart

"Who says love never lives? Maybe we've never lived."
-Unknown

"Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever."
-Unknown

"If love is great, and there are no greater things, then what I feel for you must be the greatest."
-Unknown

"The Eskimos have 52 words for snow because it is so special to them; there ought to be as many for love!"
-Margaret Atwood

"Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart."
-Unknown

"Within you, I lose myself. Without you, I find myself wanting to be lost again."
-Unknown

If you are single, then Valentine's Day may not be greatest time of the year for you. Seeing other people celebrating their love can make one a tad envious. However, don't be let down. Lift your sagging spirits by reading these valentine's quotes and by dreaming of your own happily-ever-after.

Robert Burton
No cord or cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Alexandra Penney
The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands.

Mignon McLaughlin
No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it.

Anonymous
A kiss is something you cannot give without taking and cannot take without giving.

Theodor Reik
The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods.

Henny Youngman
A kiss is the shortest distance between two.

Mae West
I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them.

Marguerite de Valois
It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Todd Ruthman
It is the things in common that make relationships enjoyable, but it is the little differences that make them interesting.

William Shakespeare
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

Aerosmith
Falling in love is so hard on the knees.

Anonymous
True love is when you put someone on a pedestal, and they fall - but you are there to catch them.

Mignon McLaughlin
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

Jacques Benigne Bossuel
The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.

Philip Robinson
And when the future hinges on the next words that are said, don't let logic interfere, believe your heart instead.

Luciano de Crescenzo
We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another.

Julins Gordon
Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Aristotle
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
~Albert Einstein

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."
~J.R.R. Tolkien

"I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me. "
~Woody Allen

"The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man."
~John Ruskin

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

(Matthew Arnold, English poet, 1822 - 1888)

God creates men, but they choose each other.

(Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian philosopher and politician, 1469 - 1527)

"Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world." --Margaret Laurence

"If you really want to create peace on the earth, create peace in your heart, in your being. That is the right place to begin with... and then spread and radiate peace and love." --Osho

"I died from a mineral and plant became,
Died from the plant, took a sentient frame;
Died from the beast, donned a human dress -
When by my dying did I ever grow less..." --Jalaluddin Rumi

“If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track, which has been there all the while waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.”
~Joseph Campbell ...

"As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words."
~William Shakespeare

"Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you."
~Frank Lloyd Wright

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance;
Facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

(Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher, 1788-1860)

I have found the best way to give advice to someone is to find out what he wants and then advise him to do it.

(Harry Truman, 33th president of the U.S.A., 1884 - 1972)

"The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure."
~David Herbert Lawrence

Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.

(Swedish proverb)

"I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens."
~Woody Allen

"The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates."
~Dave Barry

"You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants."
~Stephen King

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort

(Herm Albright, American journalist, 1876-1944)

Don't ask so much what the world needs. Go out and do what makes you come alive, because what the world needs most are people who have come alive

(Howard Thurman, American philosopher, 1899-1981)

"A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace."
~Ovid

"I have often depended on the blindness of strangers."
~Adrienne E. Gusoff

"The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman."
~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.

(Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the USA, 1809-1865)

"We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving."
~Friedrich Nietzsche

"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." --Albert Einstein

"None of us can do great things. We can only do a small thing with great love every day!" --Mother Teresa

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence." --Helen Keller

Any human being who is becoming independent of conditionings, of religions, scriptures, prophets and messiahs, has arrived home. He has found the treasure which was hidden in his own being.
Osho

Love is seeing God in the person next to us, and meditation is seeing God within us.
Sri Sri Ravishankar

We see that the apparent contradictions and perplexities in every RELIGION mark but different stages of growth. The end of all religions is the realizing of God in the soul. That is the one universal religion.
Swami Vivekananda

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
John Quincy Adams

A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.
John C. Maxwell

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

(Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, philosopher and poet, 1803 – 1882)

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous.

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that
passing time to the best possible use."
~Earl Nightingale ...

A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go.

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything;
and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

(Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German philosopher and writer,1742-1799)

Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.

When you really trust someone, you have to be okay with not understanding some things.

The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.

Death comes to all/ But great achievements raise a monument/ Which shall endure until the sun grows old.

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.

A bone to the dog is not charity.
Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

(Jack London, American author, 1876-1916)

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.

The universe is change;
our life is what our thoughts make it.

(Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher, 121-180)

If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world.
Sri Chinmoy

The mind is a power, and when controlled and directed, its force and subtlety are apparently unlimited.
Mouni Sadhu

The world exists only when we think about it; creation stories are for children. In reality the world is created every moment.
Jean Klein

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

If the people who make the decisions are the people who will also bear the consequences of those decisions, perhaps better decisions will result.

A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.
Walter Winchell

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
James Allen

You are not responsible for the programming you picked up in childhood. However, as an adult, you are one hundred percent responsible for fixing it.
Ken Keyes, Jr.

You don't stop laughing because you grow old.
You grow old because you stop laughing.

(Maurice Chevalier, French actor and singer, 1888-1972)

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

(Galileo Galilei, Italian mathematician, astronomer and philosopher, 1564-1642)

Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.

It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.

(Jean Nidetch, founder of Weight Watchers, born 1923)

The thing always happens that you really believe in;
and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

(Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect, 1867-1959)

The less you can live on, the more chance your idea will succeed. This is true even after you’ve 'made it'.

People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.

Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance.

Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors.

It's just a ride and we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money, a choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your door, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one.

Character is the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life.

(Joan Didion, American author, born 1934)

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

A dog is the greatest gift a parent can give a child. OK, a good education, then a dog.

“There is more in us than we know.
If we can be made to see it, perhaps for the rest of our lives we will be unwilling to settle for less."
~ Kurt Hahn ...

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." --Philip K. Dick

"We've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope." --Barack Obama

"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials." --Chinese proverb

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

(Anne Frank, Jewish German holocaust victim, 1929-1945)

A positive attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.

(Patricia Neal, American actress, born 1926)

It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.

We are all born with wonderful gifts. We use these gifts to express ourselves, to amuse, to strengthen, and to communicate. We begin as children to explore and develop our talents, often unaware that we are unique, that not everyone can do what we're doing!

If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.

Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try.

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

(Georges Duhamel, French poet and writer, 1884-1966)

Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.

Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

(Ayn Rand, Russian author, 1905-1982)

"In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes." --John Ruskin

"It often takes more courage to change ones opinion than to keep it." --Willy Brandt

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." --William Wordsworth

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don't give up.

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world."
~Democritus ...

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.

(English proverb)

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.

If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.

Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

(Betty Friedan, Jewish-American social activist, 1921-2006)

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words,
they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.

(Florence Nightingale, English nurse and author, 1820-1910)

“One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this:
To rise above the little things.”
~John Burroughs ...

We have too many high sounding words,
and too few actions that correspond with them.

(Abigail Adams, first lady of the USA, 1744-1818)

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently." --Henry Ford

"The best portion of a good man's life is the little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love." --William Wordsworth

To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious.

(William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania, 1644-1718)

If you love the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the ocean of delusion.

(Lin-Chi Yixuan, Buddhist teacher, ? – 866 A.D.)

Never let your zeal outrun your charity.
The former is but human, the latter is divine.

(Hosea Ballou, American theologian, 1771-1852)

Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace.
It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man;
it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.

(Baudouin I, king of Belgium, 1930-1993)

A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.

(William Feather, American publisher and author, 1889-1981)

"You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality."

"When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion."

"I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better."

"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."

"We are all atheists about most of the gods humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."

"I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart."

- Heavyweight boxer Tony Galento, when asked what he thought of William Shakespeare

"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is."

"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems."

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."

"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense."

"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg."

"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."

"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."

"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it."

"The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'."

"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters."

"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."

"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world."

"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself."

"I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right."

"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."

"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."

"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true."

"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship."

"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher."

"You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it."

"An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered."

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."

"Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working."

"There's a limit to how many times you can read how great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I'm not there yet."

"It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."

"Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street."

"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life."

"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

"If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe."

"It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts."

"The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault."

"It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion."

"I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means."

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."

"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."

"The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head."

"Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together."

- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."

"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die."

"My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher."

"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."

"Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny."

"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains."

"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."

"When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."

"In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite."

"Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin."

- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position

- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep up with software demands

"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."

"There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult."

- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy

"I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon."

"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines."

"From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it."

"You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there."

"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."

"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them."

"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before."

- Robert J. Oppenheimer (1904-1967) (citing from the Bhagavad Gita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear explosion)

"You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone."

"Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work."

"There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem."

"And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him."

- Herb Kimmel, Behavioralist, Professor of Psychology, upon hearing the above quote (1981)

"Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure."

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying."

"Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives."

"A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually."

"A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar."

"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."

"The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time."

"Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd."

"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready."

- Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855), while working, when informed that his wife is dying

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), when asked what he thought of Western civilization

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity."

"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible."

- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)

"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one."

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog."

"There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole."

"God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time."

- Unibomber Theodore Kaczynski, when asked in court what his current profession was

"For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing."

"Pray, v.: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy."

"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."

- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan.

"If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?"

- Seymoure Cray (1925-1996) when asked what CAD tools he used to design the Cray I supercomputer; he also recommended using the back side of the pages so that the grid lines were not so dominant.

- Seymoure Cray (1925-1996) when he was told that Apple Inc. had recently bought a Cray supercomputer to help them design the next Mac.

- Pierre Laplace (1749-1827), to Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God.

- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."

"There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it."

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved." Helen Keller

"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

"Fear God, and your enemies will fear you." Benjamin Franklin

"Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure." Benjamin Franklin

"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards." Benjamin Franklin

"We have the best Congress that money can buy." Will Rogers

"Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt." Dr. Samuel Johnson

"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts." Albert Einstein

"As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue." Albert Einstein

"No one gossips about other people's secret virtues." Bertrand Russell

"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people." G.K. Chesterton

"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence." H. L. Mencken

"It is hard to tell if a man is telling the truth when you know you would lie if you were in his place." H. L. Mencken

"Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation." Henry Ward Beecher

"To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while." Josh Billings

"There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together." Josh Billings

"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment." Jim Rohn

"We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment." Jim Rohn

"More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly." Woody Allen

"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." Winston Churchill

"We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." Winston Churchill

"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." Abraham Lincoln

"To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intellingent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest citizens and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give of one's self; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - this is to have succeeded." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped." Elbert Hubbard

"Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men." Dr. Samuel Johnson

"Would you live with ease, do what you ought, and not what you please." Benjamin Franklin

"If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen." I John 4:20

"The million little things that drop into your hands, the small opportunities each day brings, He leaves us free to use or abuse, and goes unchanging along His silent way." Helen Keller

"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul." Henry Ward Beecher

"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." Alexander Graham Bell

"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

"A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man keeps himself under control." Proverbs 29:11

"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up." Mark Twain

"When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?" G K Chesterton

"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

"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self." Aristotle

"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 you would be loved, love and be lovable." Benjamin Franklin

"Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, Only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence." Henry Wordsworth Longfellow

"The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence." Thomas Wolfe

"Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better." George Santayana

"A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book." Irish Proverb

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." Winston Churchill

"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never." Albert Camus

"I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose." Woody Allen

"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

"My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe." Jimmy Durante

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
- Charles Caleb Colton

If living conditions don't stop improving in this country, we're going to run out of humble beginnings for our great men.
- Russell P. Askue

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
- Kin Hubbard

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it,
and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

(Samuel Johnson, English writer, 1709-1784)

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

"Half of your power lies in your sameness with others. The other half lies in your uniqueness." --Alan Cohen

Spring comes with flowers, autumn with the moon, summer with the breeze, winter with snow.
When idle concerns don't fill your thoughts, that's your best season.

(Wu-Men Huikai, Chinese Zen master, 1183-1260)

The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year.
It is that we should have a new soul.

(Gilbert Keith Chesterton, English writer, 1874-1936)

"We will open the book. Its pages are blank.
We are going to put words on them ourselves.
The book is called Opportunity and its
first chapter is New Year's Day."
~Edith Lovejoy Pierce ...

New Year's Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.
Mark Twain

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things.
John Burroughs

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

Civilization is a way of living,
an attitude of equal respect for all men.

(Jane Addams, American sociologist, 1931 Nobel Peace Prize, 1860-1935)

True love does not come by finding the perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

(Jason Jordan, American singer-songwriter)

“If you approach each new person you meet in a spirit
of adventure, you will find yourself endlessly fascinated
by the new channels of thought and experience
and personality that you encounter."
~ Eleanor Roosevelt ...

"If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent." --Isaac Newton

"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." --Paul Boese

The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.

(Mark Twain, American author, 1835-1910)

Anything can be achieved in small, deliberate steps.
But there are times you need the courage to take a great leap;
you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

(David Lloyd George, Welsh politician, 1863-1945)

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.

(Robert Green Ingersoll, American lawyer, 1833-1899)

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men,
but from doing something worthwhile.

(Wilfred Grenfell, English physician and medical missionary, 1865-1940)

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

(Oprah Winfrey, American TV host, born 1954)

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

(Ayn Rand, Russian author, 1905-1982)

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
Pamela Vaull Starr

When the solution is simple, God is answering.
Albert Einstein

When anyone tells me I can't do anything. I'm just not listening any more.
Florence Griffith Joyner

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

Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.
Swami Sivananda

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, that is way great spiritual giants are produced.
Swami Vivekananda

The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
Swami Vivekananda

Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
Paramahansa Yogananda

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love."
~ Hamilton Wright Mabie (1845-1916), American author, essayist and critic.

I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month."
~ Harlan Miller

Christmas is the keeping-place for memories of our innocence."
~ Joan Mills

Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body."
~ Garry Moore

What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace."
~ Agnes M. Pahro

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful."
~ Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993), American Protestant religious leader, author.

I truly believe that if we keep telling the Christmas story, singing the Christmas songs, and living the Christmas spirit, we can bring joy and happiness and peace to this world."
~ Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993), American Protestant religious leader, author.

Mankind is a great, an immense family... This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas."
~ Pope John XXIII

One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly."
~ Andy Rooney (1919-), American writer, producer, humorist.

The best Christmas trees come very close to exceeding nature."
~ Andy Rooney (1919-), American writer, producer, humorist.

Christmas--that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance--a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved."
~ Augusta E. Rundell

Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone."
~ Charles Schulz (1922-2000), American cartoonist 'Peanuts'.

As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is."
~ Eric Sevareid (1912-1992), American newscaster.

Maybe Christmas," he thought, "doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas... perhaps... means a little bit more."
~ Dr. Seuss (1904-1991), American author of children's books. From 'How The Grinch Stole Christmas'.

Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves."
~ Eric Sevareid (1912-1992), American newscaster.

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion."
~ Ralph Sockman (1889-1970), American religious leader.

He who has no Christmas in his heart will never find Christmas under a tree."
~ Sunshine Magazine

Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends."
~ Margaret Thatcher (1925- ), English political leader.

At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year."
~ Thomas Tusser (c. 1515-1580), author 'The Farmer's Daily Diet'.

Christmas is for children. But it is for grownups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chill and hide-bound hearts."
~ Lenora Mattingly Weber (1895-1971), American author.

Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance - each beautiful, unique and too soon gone."
~ Deborah Whipp (1964-), web designer.

Christmas, in its final essence, is for grown people who have forgotten what children know. Christmas is for whoever is old enough to have denied the unquenchable spirit of man."
~ Margaret Cousins (1905- ), senior editor Doubleday Publishing Company.

Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'."
~ Bing Crosby (1904-1977), American singer and film actor.

It is the personal thoughtfulness, the warm human awareness, the reaching out of the self to one's fellow man that makes giving worthy of the Christmas spirit."
~ Isabel Currier.

I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year."
~ Charles Dickens (1812-1870), English author. From 'A Christmas Carol'.

Something about an old-fashioned Christmas is hard to forget."
~ Hugh Downs (1921- ), American newscaster.

They err who thinks Santa Claus comes down through the chimney; he really enters through the heart."
~ Mrs. Paul M. Ell.

It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air."

~ W. T. Ellis

Christmas, my child, is love in action."
~ Dale Evans (1912-2001), American film actress, singer and songwriter. Wife of Roy Rogers.

Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal."
~ Lenore Hershey

My first copies of Treasure Island and Huckleberry Finn still have some blue-spruce needles scattered in the pages. They smell of Christmas still."
~ Charlton Heston (1923- ), American film actor.

At Christmas, all roads lead home."
~ Marjorie Holmes, American writer.

It comes every year and will go on forever. And along with Christmas belong the keepsakes and the customs. Those humble, everyday things a mother clings to, and ponders, like Mary in the secret spaces of her heart."
~ Marjorie Holmes, American writer.

My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?"
~ Bob Hope, American film actor and comedian.

When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things - not the great occasions - give off the greatest glow of happiness."
~ Bob Hope, American film actor and comedian.

Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart."
~ Washington Irving (1783-1859), American short-story writer and essayist.

The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others' burdens, easing other's loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of Christmas."
~ W. C. Jones

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together."
~ Garrison Keillor (1942-), American author. 'Exiles,' Leaving Home (1987).

Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the few occasions on which men become entirely alive."
~ Robert Lynd (1892-1970), American sociologist.

Christmas! The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given--when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes."
~ Joan Winmill Brown, American author and editor.

This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone."
~ Taylor Caldwell (1900-1985), English novelist.

Remember, if Christmas isn't found in your heart, you won't find it under a tree."
~ Charlotte Carpenter.

There are no strangers on Christmas Eve."
~ Adele Comandini and Edward Sutherland. Michael O'Brien (Charles Winninger), Beyond Tomorrow, after proposing that the partners invite three strangers to dinner (1940).

To the American People: Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. If we think on these things, there will be born in us a Savior and over us will shine a star sending its gleam of hope to the world."
~ Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933), American president. Presidential message (December 25, 1927).

There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child."
~ Erma Bombeck (1927-1996), American author and humorist.

Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas."
~ Peg Bracken.

The earth has grown old with its burden of care But at Christmas it always is young, The heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair And its soul full of music breaks the air, When the song of angels is sung."
~ Phillips Brooks (1835-93), American Episcopal bishop, wrote 'O Little Town of Bethlehem'.

Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall."
~ Larry Wilde, author 'The Merry Book of Christmas'.

Which Christmas is the most vivid to me? It's always the next Christmas."
~ Joanne Woodward (1930- ), American film actress.

A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.

(Eric Hoffer, American writer and philosopher, 1902-1983)

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Carl Bard

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.
Ivy Baker Priest

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles.
Walter Cronkite

There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth...not going all the way, and not starting.
Buddha

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother Teresa

In deep meditation the flow of concentration is continuous like the flow of oil.
Patanjali

Those who eat too much or eat too little, who sleep too much or sleep too little, will not succeed in meditation. But those who are temperate in eating and sleeping, work and recreation, will come to the end of sorrow through meditation.
Bhagavad Gita

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

(Martin Luther King Jr., American civil rights activist, 1929-1968)

I used to think of all the billions of people in the world, and of all those people, how was I going to meet the right ones? The right ones to be my friends, the right one to be my husband. Now I just believe you meet the people you're supposed to meet.

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it;
never desert your line of talent.
Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.

(Sydney Smith, English writer, 1771-1845)

Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.

(Josephus Daniels, American newspaper editor,1862-1948)

Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them.

(Saint Francis de Sales, bishop of Geneva, 1567-1622)

Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.

When the bull's-eye becomes as big in your mind as an elephant, you are sure to hit it." --Alejandro Jodorowsky

"To be alive, to be able to see, to walk... it's all a miracle." --Arthur Rubinstein

"True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess." --Louis Nizer

Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.

(Deepak Chopra, Indian spiritual writer, born 1947)

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us

(Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French author and aviator, 1900-1944)

The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself - something that's in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered.

Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.

Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always;
this occupation ought to last as long as life.

(Kristina Wasa, Queen of Sweden, 1626-1689)

"One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful."
~Sigmund Freud ...

To exist is to change, to change is to mature,
to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

(Henri Bergson, French philosopher, 1859-1941)

Influencing people is dangerous.
Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children.
You can’t get away from them and Heaven knows what they mayn’t grow up into.

(Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco, English writer, 1897-1945)

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." --Mohandas K. Gandhi

"The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions." --William F. Scolavino

"I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all." --Leo C. Rosten

We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

In Kyudo philosophy, you don't aim--you become one with the target. Then, in fact, there's nothing to aim at. I find it works well with women, too. Give it a try.

A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.

Freedom is not a thing you can receive as a gift.
A man who thinks with his own mind and remains uncorrupted is a free man.
A man who struggles for what he believes to be right is a free man.

(Ignazio Silone, Italian writer, 1900-1978)

Simplicity is an acquired taste.
Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

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(Katherine Fullerton Gerould, American author, 1879-1944)

Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

Maya Angelou said this:
'I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.'

'I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.'

'I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life.'

'I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life.'

'I've learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance.'

'I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back....'

'I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.'

'I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.'

'I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.'

'I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.'

'I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.'

If a problem can be solved, there is no need to worry about it;
If a problem can’t be solved, there is no use to worry about it.

(Shantideva, Buddhist philosopher)

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

(Albert Einstein, Nobel Prize winning physicist, 1879-1955)

In seperateness lies the world's great misery, in compassion lies the world's true strength.
Buddha

Your mind is an instrument, a tool. It is there to be used for a specific task, and when the task is completed, you lay it down. As it is, I would say about 80 to 90 percent of most people's thinking is not only repetitive and useless, but because of its dysfunctional and often negative nature, much of it is also harmful. Observe your mind and you will find this to be true. It causes a serious leakage of vital energy.
Eckhart Tolle

Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry.. all forms of fear.. are cause by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.
Eckhart Tolle

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Albert Schweitzer

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
Denis Waitley

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt

If I make a record I love, then somebody will like it. Maybe not everybody, but that won't matter.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

(Thomas Carlyle, Scottish historian and essayist, 1795-1881)

Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated.

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.

Your idea doesn't have to be big. It just has to be yours alone. The more the idea is yours alone, the more freedom you have to do something really amazing. The more amazing, the more people will click with your idea. The more people click with your idea, the more it will change the world.

[The body is] a marvelous machine...a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels!

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

(Henry Ford, American entrepreneur, 1863-1947)

You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family,
not as many separate ones.

(Anwar El Sadat, president of Egypt, 1918-1981)

You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.

As we value our happiness let us not forget that one of the greatest lessons in life is learning to be happy without the things we cannot or should not have.

(Richard L. Evans, American writer and radio producer, 1906-1971)

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all the other virtues.

(Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman statesman and philosopher, 106 B.C. - 43 B.C.)

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
--Oscar Wilde

Peace cannot be achieved through violence,
it can only be attained through understanding.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does and about two years after he thinks he does."
~Lewis B. Hershey

"The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind."
~Unknown

"I don't like work, but I like what is in work. The chance to find yourself. Your own reality. For yourself, not for others. Which no other man can ever know."
~Joseph Conrad

"If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results."
— Tony Robbins: Self-help speaker and author

Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

The idea of perfect closes your mind to new standards.. When you drive hard toward one ideal, you miss opportunities and paths, not to mention hurting your confidence. Believe in your potential and then go out and explore it; don’t limit it.

“At least once a day, allow yourself the freedom to think and dream for yourself."
~ Albert Einstein

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.

"Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world." --Hans Margolius

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe." --Anatole France

"In every community there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart there is the power to do it." --Marianne Williamson

Envy is the ulcer of the soul.

(Socrates, Greek philiospher, 469 BC - 399 BC)

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

(Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French aviator and writer, 1900 - 1944)

If I make a record I love, then somebody will like it. Maybe not everybody, but that won't matter.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.

I live in the Land of Thankfulness ...
I love the Land of Thankfulness where blessings overflow;
I claim it as my native home, most charming land I know;
And if I've need of anything, no matter what it be,
I just give thanks with confidence and see it come to me;
I like to live in Thankfulness! Would live there all my days,
Would let its spirit stir my soul and fill my heart with praise;
I questioned once how I had found a place of such a kind,
Knew I'd discovered it because I'd thankful thoughts in mind;
Oh, come with me to Thankfulness! We ask this of you:
That you be always thankful, friend, this is all you do;
And if there's anything you need, no longer doubt or fear,
The thing you seek's awaiting you, it surely will appear.
© 2004 Frank B. Whitney - Unity "Daily Word"

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by
a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with
deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
~ Albert Schweitzer

Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there
be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song.
~Konrad von Gesner

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it ...
is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
~ William Arthur Ward

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

What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it ...
would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way.
In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer,
you must truly appreciate what you already have.
~Ralph Marston

Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion.
Hope without thankfulness is lacking in fine perception.
Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude.
Every virtue divorced from thankfulness
is maimed and limps along the spiritual road.
~John Henry Jowett

The hardest arithmetic to master
is that which enables us to count our blessings.
~Eric Hoffer

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

Make it a habit to tell people thank you ...
to express your appreciation, sincerely and without the
expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those
around you, and you'll soon find many others around you.
Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.
~ Ralph Marston

We can only be said to be alive in those moments
when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
~Thornton Wilder

Let's be grateful for those who give us happiness;
they are the charming gardeners who make our soul bloom.
~Marcel Proust

Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way,
but the recurring acknowledgment of what IS working in our lives
can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties.
~Sara Ban Breathnach

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the
thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds
the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
~Henry Ward Beecher

No longer forward nor behind
I look in hope or fear;
But, grateful, take the good I find,
The best of now and here.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier

If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is,
"thank you," that would suffice.
~Meister Eckhart

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always make you less than you are.

The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.

That's the thing about needs. Sometimes, when you get them met, you don't need them anymore.

"All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost."
~ J. R. R. Tolkien

"A wanderer is man from his birth. / He was born in a ship / On the breast of the river of Time."
~ Matthew Arnold

"The secret of being boring is to tell everything."
~ Voltaire

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life."
~Charles Darwin

"Art depends on luck and talent."
~Francis Ford Coppola

"Television is a medium because anything well done is rare."
~Fred Allen

"A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be
achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done."
— Ralph Lauren: Fashion designer and business executive

Religion in a family is at once its brightest ornament and its best security."
~ Samuel Adams

"Let no man pray that he know not sorrow. Let no soul ask to be free from pain. For the gall of today is the sweet of tomorrow and the moment's loss is the lifetime's gain."
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"Virus is a Latin word used by doctors to mean "your guess is as good as mine."
~ Bob Hope

How can they say my life is not a success?
Have I not for more than sixty years got
enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
--Logan P. Smith

"Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage without fear." --P. Hayes

"Entrepreneurship is a state of mind, a can-do attitude, a capacity to focus on a vision and work toward it." --Barry Rogstad

"In each of us are places where we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do we ever find them." --Dr. Joyce Brothers

“It's not what we SAY about our blessings,
but HOW WE USE them, that is the true
measure of our thanksgiving.”
~W. T. Parker

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.

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Willpower is essential to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile.
Brian Tracy

Willpower is not some mythical force that we either have or don't have. Willpower is our decision to use higher-mind thinking instead of lazing around in the clutches of our primal mind.
A.B. Curtiss

You can hear the footsteps of God when silence reigns in the mind.
Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet.It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there -buried under the 50,000 thoughtsthe average person thinks every day.
Deepak Chopra

Spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.
Susan Taylor

The more space you allow and encourage within a relationship,
the more the relationship will flourish.
--Dr. Wayne Dyer

All of the animals except man know that the
principal business of life is to enjoy it.
--Samuel Butler

"I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge
you to join the ranks of those people who live
what they teach, who walk their talk."
— Tony Robbins: Self-help speaker and author

There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
--Mother Teresa

We all get report cards in many different ways, but the real excitement of what you're doing is in the doing of it. It's not what you're going to get in the end. It's not the final curtain. It's really in the doing it and loving what you're doing.
--Ralph Lauren

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars or sailed to an unchartered land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
--Helen Keller

Each of us was born with wings and has the ability to go farther than we ever thought possible, to do things beyond our wildest imaginings
Barbara Stanny

"I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson ...

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.

That best portion of a good man's life, / His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.

"A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away."
Barry Goldwater

"I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order."
John Burroughs

"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant." --Albert Einstein

"Good friendships are fragile things and require as much care as any other fragile and precious thing." --Randolph S. Bourne

"We seek purpose when we are not in touch with who we really are. When an apple tree discovers who it is, the question 'what must I do?' disappears. When you discover who you are (at the deepest place of your being) you will find your purpose." --Colleen-Joy Page

"Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish
something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will
pass anyway; we might just as well put that
passing time to the best possible use."
— Earl Nightingale: Was a motivational author and speaker

All things are difficult before they are easy."
~Dr. Thomas Fuller

"I look to the future, because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life."
~George Burns

"If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice how he acts when he loses money."
~New England proverb

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.

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

"Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away."
— Earl Nightingale: Was a motivational author and speaker

"A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure."
— Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort: 18th century French playwright famous for his wit

Painting in watercolor is like walking a tight-rope; one must achieve a perfect balance between what the paint wants to do and what the artist wants to do, or all is lost.

"Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done."
~Louis D. Brandeis

"Never raise your hand to your children - it leaves your midsection unprotected."
~Robert Orben

"The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever."
~Jacques Yves Cousteau

"Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender."
~ Mary Lorraine Buckley

"Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it."
~ Lady Duff-Gordon

"To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girl friends."
~ Benjamin Franklin

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.

Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.

To get thine ends, lay bashfulness aside; Who fears to ask, doth teach to be deny'd.

The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

Painting in watercolor is like walking a tight-rope; one must achieve a perfect balance between what the paint wants to do and what the artist wants to do, or all is lost.

First is it necessary to stand on your own two feet.
But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms.

(Kristin Hunter, African American writer, born 1931)

"Only the mediocre are always at their best."
~Jean Giraudoux

"Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away."
~Donald Judd

"I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap."
~Bob Hope

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little.
Do what you can.

(Mother Teresa, 1979 Nobel Peace Prize, 1910-1997)

The future has a way of arriving unannounced."
~George Will

"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy."
~Ludwig van Beethoven

"What the world really needs is more love and less paper work."
~Pearl Bailey

You can complain because roses have thorns;
or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.

(Tom Wilson, American cartoonist, born 1931)

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided."
~Clarence Day

"Music is an art form. It is a way to wordlessly communicate."
~Ken Hill

"All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction."
~Marya Mannes

"Never forget: the secret of creating riches for
oneself is to create them for others."
— Sir John Templeton: Pioneer global investor and philanthropist

There is no end, there is no beginning.
There is only the passion of life.

(Federico Fellini, Italian Film Director, 1920-1993)

"The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them."
~Bill Vaughan

Cherish all your happy moments;
they make a fine cushion for old age.

(Christopher Morley, American journalist and poet, 1890-1957)

You know more than you think you do."
~Benjamin Spock

"Life is the art of drawing without an eraser."
~John W. Gardner

"I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so."
~Stephen Leacock

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

(Euripides, Greek tragedian, 484 BC - 406 BC)

"How am I going to live today in order to
create the tomorrow I'm committed to?"
— Tony Robbins: Self-help speaker and author

You are the unchangeable Awareness in which all activity takes place.
Papaji

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Buddha

Sagehood has nothing to do with governing others but is a matter of ordering oneself. Nobility has nothing to do with power and rank but is a matter of self realization. Attain self-realization, and the whole world is found in the self. Happiness has nothing to do with wealth and status, but is a matter of harmony.
Lao-tze

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl Gustav Jung

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Charles Schwab

"Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!"
~Oscar Wilde

"What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?"
~Henry David Thoreau

"Household tasks are easier and quicker when they are done by somebody else."
~James Thorpe

Minds are like parachutes;
they only function when open.

(Thomas Dewar, Scottish entrepreneur, 1864-1930)

"Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize
and repeat, over and over, is, 'what is the most
valuable use of my time right now?'"
— Brian Tracy: Author and speaker on personal and professional development

"A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one."
~ Mary Kay Ash

"An idea ran back and forward in his head like a blind man, knocking over the solid furniture."
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Colourless green ideas sleep furiously."
~Noam Chomsky

Treat the other man's faith gently;
it is all he has to believe with.
His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine.

(Henry S. Haskins, American educator, 1875-1957)

"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."
~B. F. Skinner

"Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise."
~George Washington Carver

"In the power to change yourself is the power to change the world around you."
~Anwar Sadat

I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

As long as we respond predictably to what feels good and what feels bad, it is easy for others to exploit our preferences for their own ends.

Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, a loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.

(Shakti Gawain, American author, born 1948)

"A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five."
~Groucho Marx

"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds."
~Franklin D. Roosevelt

"I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way."
~Carl Sandburg

"There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them."
~ Sylvia Plath

"Every thought you have makes up some segment of the world
you see. It is with your thoughts, then, that we must work,
if your perception of the world is to be changed."
— A Course in Miracles

And since, in our passage through this world, painful circumstances occur more frequently than pleasing ones, and since our sense of evil is, I fear, more acute than our sense of good, we become the victims of our feelings, unless we can in some degree command them.

It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him.

"Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute."
~Josh Billings

"Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth."
~Theodor Adorno

"Love is a better teacher than duty."
~Albert Einstein

They always say that time changes things,
but you actually have to change them yourself.

(Andy Warhol, American artist, 1928-1987)

"No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language."
~Theodore Bikel

"I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her."
~Rodney Dangerfield

Autumn is the eternal corrective ...
What man can stand with autumn on a hilltop
and fail to see the span of his world and the meaning
of the rolling hills that reach to the far horizon?”
~ Hal Borland...

The hatred you are carrying is a live coal in your heart;
far more damaging to yourself than to others.

(Lawana Blackwell, American author)

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

No matter where you live, brothers are brothers and sisters are sisters. The bonds that keep family close are the same no matter where you are.

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.

"Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use it!"
— Ram Dass: Author and spiritual teacher

Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.
Sri Ramana Maharshi

The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.
Ramana Maharshi

All truth is eternal. Truth is nobody's property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
Vivekananda

Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.
Swami Sivananda

"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."
~Muhammad Ali

"Music happens to be an art form that transcends language."
~Herbie Hancock

"You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you."
~Yogi Berra

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life - happiness, freedom, and peace of mind - are always attained by giving them to someone else.
Peyton Conway March

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.

(Anne Bradstreet, American writer, 1612-1672)

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.

What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?

"I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end."
~Margaret Thatcher

"Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes."
~Andy Warhol

"When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays."
~Henny Youngman

As we express our gratitude, we must not forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

(John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th president of the USA, 1917-1963)

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."
~Walt Disney

"A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet."
~Orson Welles

"Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown."
~Stephen Gardiner

"You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile."
— Brian Tracy: Personal and business development author, lecturer, consultant

"All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified."
~Thomas Huxley

"A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires."
~Hedy Lamarr

"We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves."
~Henry Ward Beecher

Grief can take care of itself,
but to get the full value of joy you must have someone to share it with.

(Mark Twain, American author, 1835-1910)

The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design.

"Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fibre of a character, but strengthen it. Every conquered temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before." --James Buckham

"Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, man cannot live without a spiritual life." --Buddha

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

(Gerry Spence, American lawyer, born 1929)

"It is one of the most beautiful compensations
in life that no man can sincerely try to
help another without helping himself."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny,
but what we put into it is ours.

(Dag Hammerskjold, secretary-general of the UN, 1905-1961)

Life's ups and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values.
Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want.

(Marsha Sinetar, American psychologist)

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination."
~John Lennon

"Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing."
~Norman Mailer

"Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home."
~Mother Teresa

"I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck,
take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often."
— Brian Tracy: Personal and business development author, lecturer, consultant

"Dreams are necessary to life."
~Anais Nin

"To begin, begin."
~William Wordsworth

"Indecision may or may not be my problem."
~Jimmy Buffett

"So many assume the truth is either black or white... It's all evolution or it's totally creation, for example. Reality creates consciousness; consciousness creates reality. Actually truth is inclusive, neither black nor white, nor a shade of grey. Indeed, truth is a multicolored spectrum, a beautiful hologram!" --Peter Shepherd

"Freedom is actually a bigger game than power. Power is about what you can control. Freedom is about what you can unleash." --Harriet Rubin

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life and don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. Most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become." --Steve Jobs

Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

“The most beautiful thing is to see a person smiling…
And even more beautiful is knowing that you are
the reason behind it! Be a reason for others to smile.”
~Author Unknown

Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment."
~Rita Mae Brown

"There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept."
~Ansel Adams

Let us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us.

All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power.

The soul is dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day.

(Heraclites, Greek Philosopher and author, 535-475 B.C.)

"Every man is the architect of his own fortune."
~Sallust

"I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize."
~Jodie Foster

"Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing."
~Robert Benchley

"When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place
on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way."
— Wayne Dyer: Self-development author and speaker

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you.
Let them teach you.

(Helen Keller, deaf/blind American educator and writer, 1880-1968)

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

(Mother Teresa, 1979 Nobel Peace Prize, 1910-1997)

If we want to know something about the story of this world we must think of all countries and all the people that have inhabited it. I hope you will think of the world as a whole, and other people in it as your brothers and sisters.

(Jawaharlal Nehru, 1889-1964, in a letter to his daughter Indira Gandhi, summer 1928)

"The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last."
— Evan Esar: Was an American Humorist (1899 - 1995)

Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity on the inside.

(Brian Tracy, American motivational speaker)

"The possible ranks higher than the actual."
~Martin Heidegger

"Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness."
~George Jean Nathan

"Forty for you, sixty for me. And equal partners we will be."
~Joan Rivers

"The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing."
— Stephen Covey: Author, organizational, leadership, and family expert

To laugh often and love much, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self ... this is to have succeeded
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Once there was a darkness, a deep and endless night, you gave me everything you had and oh, you gave me light.”
~Sarah Mclaughlan ...

"Be careful of your thoughts; they may become words at any moment."
~Ira Gassen

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."
~William James

Doing a job RIGHT the first time gets the job done. Doing the job WRONG fourteen times gives you job security.
~Unknown

"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do."
~ Unknown

"Wisdom is sweet to your soul. If you find it, you will have a bright future and your hopes will not be cut short."
~ Proverbs 24:14

"The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money."
~Unknown

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care."
~William Safire

"The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind."
~May Sarton

"What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams."
~Nikos Kazantzakis

"The very first step to building wealth is to spend less than you make."
— Brian Koslow: Author and entrepreneur

Don't borrow someone else's spectacles to view yourself with."
~Simon Travaglia

"Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects."
~Hans Hofmann

"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day."
~Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

"Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us."
— Stephen Covey: Personal development author and speaker

"When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out - because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside."
— Wayne Dyer: Self-development author and speaker

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

(Thomas B. Macaulay, English politician, essayist and poet, 1800-1859)

"The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions." - Alfred Lord Tennyson

"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

"People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them." - George Bernard Shaw

Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

(Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese mystic, painter and poet, 1883-1931)

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise."
~Paul Engle

"I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good."
~Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

"The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time."
~Willem de Kooning

Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.

"Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend."
~Plautus

"There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another."
~Edouard Manet

"A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money."
~Everett Dirksen

"We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility." --Albert Einstein

"Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not." --George Bernard Shaw

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." --T. S. Eliot

"Doing is a quantum leap from imagining."
~Barbara Sher

"There is a role and function for beauty in our time."
~Tadao Ando

"I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty."
~Imelda Marcos

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

We may be very busy, we may be very efficient, but we will
also be truly effective only when we begin with the end in mind."
— Stephen Covey: Personal development author and speaker

Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but you had to at least try to grow your own brain

Success is meaningless if you can't sleep at night because of harsh things said, petty secrets sharpened against hard and stony regret, just waiting to be plunged into the soft underbelly of a 'friendship.'

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
Ashley Smith

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
Anais Nin

It doesn't matter if you win or lose, until you lose... then it matters.
~Unknown

"It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether *I* win or lose."
~Darrin Weinberg

"Some women take up the law and become lawyers. Other women lay down the law and become wives."
~Joan Rivers

"The key to building wealth is to preserve capital and wait patiently for the right opportunity to make the extraordinary gains."
— Victor Sperandeo: Money manager and professional trader

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
Oscar Wilde

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.
Meister Eckhart

Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
Ramana Maharshi

Sometimes people get the mistaken notion that spirituality is a separate department of life, the penthouse of existence. But rightly understood, it is a vital awareness that pervades all realms of our being.
David Steindl-Rast

Death is not extinguishing the light;
it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

(Rabindranath Tagore, Indian poet, 1861-1941)

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory."
~Denis Diderot

"Every time one laughs a nail is removed from one's coffin."
~Honduran Proverb

"To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail."
~Abraham H. Maslow

I wish I would have a real tragic love affair and get so bummed out that I'd just quit my job and become a bum for a few years, because I was thinking about doing that anyway."
~Jack Handey

"Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died."
~Erma Louise Bombeck

"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines."
~Frank Lloyd Wright

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.

(Marcel Proust, French author, 1871-1922)

Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day.

Each failure to sell will increase your chances for success at your next attempt.

If the weak hand, that has recorded this tale, has, by its scenes, beguiled the mourner of one hour of sorrow, or, by its moral, taught him to sustain it - the effort, however humble, has not been vain, nor is the writer unrewarded.

“It is not death that a man should fear,
but he should fear never beginning to live.”
~ Marcus Aurelius...

There is no such thing as an inevitable war.
If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.

(Andrew Bonar Law, British statesman, 1858-1923)

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

Your mailbox is your window to your heart! Make sure you leave that window open!

"It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done."
~Oscar Wilde

"Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one."
~Charles Sykes

"I have never known a man who died from overwork, but many who died from doubt."
~Charles H. Mayo

True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose." --Helen Keller

"If you have made mistakes there is always another chance for you... you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down." --Mary Pickford

"The truth in you remains as radiant as a star, as pure as light, as innocent as love itself." --James Lane Allen

Giving frees us from the familiary territory of our own needs by opening our minds to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.

(Barbara Bush, American first lady, born 1925)

It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

(Mahatma Gandhi, Indian nationalist leader, 1869-1948)

"An enterprising person is one who comes across a pile of scrap
metal and sees the making of a wonderful sculpture. An
enterprising person is one who drives through an old,
decrepit part of town and sees a new housing development. An enterprising person is one who sees opportunity in all areas of life."
— Jim Rohn: Author and motivational speaker

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

(Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French aviator and writer, 1900-1944)

"Do what we can, summer will have its flies."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web."
~Pablo Picasso

"When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion."
~Ethiopian proverb

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

(John Robert Wooden, American basketball coach, born 1910)

"Success is not a secret — it never has been. There are only a
few really good ideas, and not one of them is a secret."
— Larry Winget: Personal success and business author and speaker

Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport."
~Duffy Daugherty

"If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you."
~Paul William "Bear" Bryant

"You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose."
~Lou Holtz

I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

"There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning."
— Christopher Morley: Was an editor and author

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit."
~Somerset Maugham

"A married man should forget his mistakes; no use two people remembering the same thing."
~Duane Dewel.

"All men are not homeless, but some men are home less than others."
~Henry Youngman

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old;
seek what they sought.

(Matsuo Basho, Japanese poet, 1644-1694)

"If your actions inspire others to do more, to learn more, to dream more or to become more, you are a leader." --John Quincy Adams

"When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen." --Arland Gilbert

"Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor." --James Lane Allen

"Golf is like a love affair: If you don't take it seriously, it's not fun; if you do take it seriously, it breaks your heart."
~Arnold Daly

"The only problem with golf is that the slow people are always in front of you and the fast people always end up behind you."
~Anonymous

""The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green."
~Ernest Hemingway

"If it were better, it wouldn't be as good."
~Brendan Gill

"My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted."
~Franz Kafka

"Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving."
~Erma Bombeck

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break.

(Herbert George Wells, British author, 1866-1946)

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes.

"Of all the things that can have an effect on your future,
I believe personal growth is the greatest. We can talk
about sales growth, profit growth, asset growth, but
all of this probably will not happen without personal growth."
— Jim Rohn: Author and motivational speaker

Virtue is a state of war;
to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

(Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher, writer and composer, 1712-1778)

Absence is to love what wind is to fire;
it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

(Comte Roger de Bussy-Rabutin, French writer, 1618-1693)

From the standpoint of daily life there is one thing we do know:
that man is here for the sake of other men.

(Albert Einstein, Swiss-American physicist, 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics, 1879-1955)

"You may delay, but time will not."
~Benjamin Franklin

"Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve."
~Tehyi Hsieh

"The future is no more uncertain than the present."
~Walt Whitman

“The new moon, in cool height above the blushes,
brings a fresh fragrance of heaven to our senses.”
~D.H. Lawrence ...

A man needs self-acceptance or he can't live with himself.
He needs self-criticism or others can't live with him.

(James Albert Pike, American Episcopal bishop, 1913-1969)

"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: Was a self-improvement and salesmanship writer and speaker

"If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything."

In order to find the edge, you must risk going over the edge."
~Dennis Dugan

"Behind every successful woman is a substantial amount of coffee."
~Stephanie Piro

Procrastination: The art of keeping up with yesterday.
~Author Unknown

True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
Albert Einstein

It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement.
Mabel Newcomber

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Buddha

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.
Mahatma Gandhi

Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
Paramahansa Yogananda

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition.
The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

(Herbert Kaufman, American writer and journalist, 1878-1947)

"Half a truth is better than no politics."
~G.K. Chesterton

"In politics I am growing indifferent—I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home."
~Francois Arouet

"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field."
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

"You are not paid to work hard. In fact, you are not
paid for effort at all. You are paid for results. It's
not what you do; it's what you get done."
— Larry Winget: Personal success and business author and speaker

"The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring." --Oscar Wilde

"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." --William Arthur Ward

"Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love." --Butch Hancock, Flatlanders

Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…?

"We must respect the other fellow's religion,but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart."
~H. L. Mencken

"I had lunch with a chess champion the other day. I knew he was a chess champion because it took him 20 minutes to pass the salt."
~Eric Sykes

"The most beautiful invention of man is bicarbonate of soda."
~Francis Picabia

Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…?

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,
to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I
could not learn what it had to teach, and not,
when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”
~Henry David Thoreau ...

Love and magic have a great deal in common.
They enrich the soul, delight the heart.
And they both take practice.

(Nora Roberts, aka J.D. Robb, American author)

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."
~Mark Twain

"If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happen if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?"
~Steven Wright

"Only the most foolish of mice would hide in a cat's ear, but only the wisest of cats would think to look there."
~Andrew Mercer

Always remember that problems contain values that have improvement potential.

(Norman Vincent Peale, American clergyman, 1898-1993)

Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can do, then do it.

You can be confident and secure and know that you do a good job at what you do. But you don't know to be arrogant about it.

"If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work
on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to
work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us."
— Jim Rohn: Author and motivational speaker

In every person who comes near you, look for what is good and strong.

(John Ruskin, English author, 1819-1900)

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.

(Martin Luther King, American human rights activist, 1929-1968)

"When a man feels throbbing within him the power to
do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly
be done, this is happiness, this is success."
— Orison Swett Marden: Was an author on positive thought

A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education."
~Smiley Blanton

"We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself."
~ Lloyd Alexander

"He who fails to question is asking for trouble."
~Paul Aubuchon

Why do the signs that say "Slow Children" have a picture of a running child?"
~Anonymous

"If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission."
~Grace Murray Hopper

"Never ruin an apology with an excuse."
~Kimberly Johnson

"Everything in your life gets better when you get better,
and nothing is ever going to get better until you get better."
— Larry Winget: Author and speaker on business and personal success

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.

(William Faulkner, American author, 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature, 1897-1962)

The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.

"First thoughts are not always the best."
~Vittorio Alfieri

"Entertainment is in art like color in pictures."
~Martin Kippenberger

"The internet is a great way to get on the net."
~Bob Dole

"Life's gift to you is your unique vantage point. Your gift to life is expressing from it." --Alan Cohen

"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are." --Malcolm Forbes

"The sign of intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason." --Marya Mannes

"Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy."
— Tony Robbins: Life-coaching author, adviser, and lecturer

The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.

"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."
~Douglas Adams

"It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it."
~Geoffrey F. Abert

"The smallest deed is better than the grandest intention."
~Roger Nash Baldwin

“A visionary is one who can find his way by moonlight,
and see the dawn before the rest of the world.”
~Oscar Wilde

"Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that is how dogs spend their lives."
~Sue Murphy

"Dogs have masters. Cats have staff."
~Author unknown

"A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion."
~Washington Irving

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush.
It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference and undernourishment.

(Robert Maynard Hutchins, American philosopher, 1899-1977)

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow.
The shadow is what we think of it;
the tree is the real thing.

(Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the U.S.A., 1809-1865)

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure."
~George Edward Woodberry

"Art is Art. Everything else is everything else."
~Ad Reinhardt

"Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations."
~David Gerrold

Only I can change my life.
No one can do it for me.

(Carol Burnett, American actress, born 1933)

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

(Anna Freud, Austrian psychologist, 1895-1982)

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

(Mother Teresa, 1979 Nobel Peace Prize, 1910-1997)

Giving frees us from the familiary territory of our own needs by opening our minds to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.

(Barbara Bush, American first lady, born 1925)

"I found that when you start thinking and saying what you really want, then your mind automatically shifts and pulls you in that direction. And sometimes it can be that simple, just a little twist in vocabulary that illustrates your attitude and philosophy."
— Jim Rohn: Business philosopher, author, speaker

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.

This fellow's wise enough to play the fool, And to do that well craves a kind of wit."
~William Shakespeare

"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."
~William Shakespeare

"The Possible's slow fuse is lit By the Imagination."
~William Shakespeare

"History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies."
~Alexis de Tocqueville

"The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand."
~Fred Allen

"The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love."
~Jean Racine

"We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers. Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong." --Carl Sagan

"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." --Jeremy Kitson

"It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier. Desiring is helpful, but work and desire are invincible." --Thomas Robert Gaines

“There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things
we crave most in life — happiness, freedom, and peace of mind —
are always attained by giving them to someone else."
~ Peyton Conway March...

As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give
other people permission to do the same."
— Marianne Williamson: Spiritual teacher, author, lecturer

Welcome anything that comes to you,
but do not long for anything else.

(André Gide, French writer, 1947 Nobel Prize for Literature, 1869-1951)

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

(H. Jackson Brown jr., American writer)

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life – happiness, freedom, and peace of mind - are always attained by giving them to someone else.

(Peyton Conway March, American general, 1864-1955

"We change the world not by what we say or do, but
as a consequence of what we have become."
— David R. Hawkins: Psychiatrist, spiritual author, and lecturer

As it is with a play, so it is with life.
What matters is not how long the activity lasts, but how good it is.

(Seneca, Roman Stoic philosopher, 5 B.C. – 65 A.D.)

What is important in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

(Johan Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet, 1749-1832)

"The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat,
can influence your life by 30 to 50 years."
— Deepak Chopra: a physician and author on spirituality and mind-body wellness

"The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that
which has made a deep impression on our minds."
— Tryon Edwards: was a 19th century theologian

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

(Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian statesman and philosopher, 1469-1527)

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgment of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it.

"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending." --Carl Bard

"You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need."

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

(Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian writer, 1830-1916)

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future.
You must break out of your current comfort zone and
be comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown."
~Denis Waitley ...

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

(Matthew Arnold, English poet, 1822 - 1888)

God creates men, but they choose each other.

(Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian philosopher and politician, 1469 - 1527)

“If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track, which has been there all the while waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.”
~Joseph Campbell ...

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance;
Facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

(Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher, 1788-1860)

I have found the best way to give advice to someone is to find out what he wants and then advise him to do it.

(Harry Truman, 33th president of the U.S.A., 1884 - 1972)

Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.

(Swedish proverb)

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words,
they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.

(Florence Nightingale, English nurse and author, 1820-1910)

Never let your zeal outrun your charity.
The former is but human, the latter is divine.

(Hosea Ballou, American theologian, 1771-1852)

Spring comes with flowers, autumn with the moon, summer with the breeze, winter with snow.
When idle concerns don't fill your thoughts, that's your best season.

(Wu-Men Huikai, Chinese Zen master, 1183-1260)

The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year.
It is that we should have a new soul.

(Gilbert Keith Chesterton, English writer, 1874-1936)

"We will open the book. Its pages are blank.
We are going to put words on them ourselves.
The book is called Opportunity and its
first chapter is New Year's Day."
~Edith Lovejoy Pierce ...

Civilization is a way of living,
an attitude of equal respect for all men.

(Jane Addams, American sociologist, 1931 Nobel Peace Prize, 1860-1935)

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.

(Robert Green Ingersoll, American lawyer, 1833-1899)

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men,
but from doing something worthwhile.

(Wilfred Grenfell, English physician and medical missionary, 1865-1940)

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

(Oprah Winfrey, American TV host, born 1954)

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

(Ayn Rand, Russian author, 1905-1982)

Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall."
~ Larry Wilde, author 'The Merry Book of Christmas'.

Which Christmas is the most vivid to me? It's always the next Christmas."
~ Joanne Woodward (1930- ), American film actress.

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us

(Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French author and aviator, 1900-1944)

Minds are like parachutes;
they only function when open.

(Thomas Dewar, Scottish entrepreneur, 1864-1930)

"A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one."
~ Mary Kay Ash

"An idea ran back and forward in his head like a blind man, knocking over the solid furniture."
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Colourless green ideas sleep furiously."
~Noam Chomsky

"In the power to change yourself is the power to change the world around you."
~Anwar Sadat

Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, a loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.

(Shakti Gawain, American author, born 1948)

Autumn is the eternal corrective ...
What man can stand with autumn on a hilltop
and fail to see the span of his world and the meaning
of the rolling hills that reach to the far horizon?”
~ Hal Borland...

The hatred you are carrying is a live coal in your heart;
far more damaging to yourself than to others.

(Lawana Blackwell, American author)

"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."
~Muhammad Ali

"Music happens to be an art form that transcends language."
~Herbie Hancock

"You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you."
~Yogi Berra

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.

(Anne Bradstreet, American writer, 1612-1672)

"I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end."
~Margaret Thatcher

"Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes."
~Andy Warhol

"When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays."
~Henny Youngman

As we express our gratitude, we must not forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

(John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th president of the USA, 1917-1963)

"It is one of the most beautiful compensations
in life that no man can sincerely try to
help another without helping himself."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny,
but what we put into it is ours.

(Dag Hammerskjold, secretary-general of the UN, 1905-1961)

Life's ups and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values.
Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want.

(Marsha Sinetar, American psychologist)

“The most beautiful thing is to see a person smiling…
And even more beautiful is knowing that you are
the reason behind it! Be a reason for others to smile.”
~Author Unknown

Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment."
~Rita Mae Brown

"There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept."
~Ansel Adams

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian writer, 1830-1916)

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and be comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown." ~Denis Waitley ...

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. (Matthew Arnold, English poet, 1822 - 1888)

God creates men, but they choose each other. (Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian philosopher and politician, 1469 - 1527)

“If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track, which has been there all the while waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.” ~Joseph Campbell ...

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; Facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you. (Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher, 1788-1860)

I have found the best way to give advice to someone is to find out what he wants and then advise him to do it. (Harry Truman, 33th president of the U.S.A., 1884 - 1972)

Worry gives a small thing a big shadow. (Swedish proverb)

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results. (Florence Nightingale, English nurse and author, 1820-1910)

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine. (Hosea Ballou, American theologian, 1771-1852)

Spring comes with flowers, autumn with the moon, summer with the breeze, winter with snow. When idle concerns don't fill your thoughts, that's your best season. (Wu-Men Huikai, Chinese Zen master, 1183-1260)

The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul. (Gilbert Keith Chesterton, English writer, 1874-1936)

"We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day." ~Edith Lovejoy Pierce ...

Civilization is a way of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men. (Jane Addams, American sociologist, 1931 Nobel Peace Prize, 1860-1935)

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself. (Robert Green Ingersoll, American lawyer, 1833-1899)

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile. (Wilfred Grenfell, English physician and medical missionary, 1865-1940)

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are. (Oprah Winfrey, American TV host, born 1954)

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. (Ayn Rand, Russian author, 1905-1982)

Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall." ~ Larry Wilde, author 'The Merry Book of Christmas'. Which Christmas is the most vivid to me? It's always the next Christmas." ~ Joanne Woodward (1930- ), American film actress.

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us (Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French author and aviator, 1900-1944)

Minds are like parachutes; they only function when open. (Thomas Dewar, Scottish entrepreneur, 1864-1930)

"A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one." ~ Mary Kay Ash "An idea ran back and forward in his head like a blind man, knocking over the solid furniture." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald "Colourless green ideas sleep furiously." ~Noam Chomsky

"In the power to change yourself is the power to change the world around you." ~Anwar Sadat

Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, a loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness. (Shakti Gawain, American author, born 1948)

Autumn is the eternal corrective ... What man can stand with autumn on a hilltop and fail to see the span of his world and the meaning of the rolling hills that reach to the far horizon?” ~ Hal Borland...

The hatred you are carrying is a live coal in your heart; far more damaging to yourself than to others. (Lawana Blackwell, American author)

"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life." ~Muhammad Ali "Music happens to be an art form that transcends language." ~Herbie Hancock "You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you." ~Yogi Berra

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant. (Anne Bradstreet, American writer, 1612-1672)

"I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end." ~Margaret Thatcher "Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes." ~Andy Warhol "When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays." ~Henny Youngman

As we express our gratitude, we must not forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. (John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th president of the USA, 1917-1963)

"It is one of the most beautiful compensations in life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny, but what we put into it is ours. (Dag Hammerskjold, secretary-general of the UN, 1905-1961)

Life's ups and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want. (Marsha Sinetar, American psychologist)

“The most beautiful thing is to see a person smiling… And even more beautiful is knowing that you are the reason behind it! Be a reason for others to smile.” ~Author Unknown

Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment." ~Rita Mae Brown "There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept." ~Ansel Adams

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

(Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian writer, 1830-1916)

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future.
You must break out of your current comfort zone and
be comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown."
~Denis Waitley ...

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

(Matthew Arnold, English poet, 1822 - 1888)

God creates men, but they choose each other.

(Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian philosopher and politician, 1469 - 1527)

“If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track, which has been there all the while waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.”
~Joseph Campbell ...

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance;
Facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

(Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher, 1788-1860)

I have found the best way to give advice to someone is to find out what he wants and then advise him to do it.

(Harry Truman, 33th president of the U.S.A., 1884 - 1972)

Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.

(Swedish proverb)

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words,
they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.

(Florence Nightingale, English nurse and author, 1820-1910)

Never let your zeal outrun your charity.
The former is but human, the latter is divine.

(Hosea Ballou, American theologian, 1771-1852)

Spring comes with flowers, autumn with the moon, summer with the breeze, winter with snow.
When idle concerns don't fill your thoughts, that's your best season.

(Wu-Men Huikai, Chinese Zen master, 1183-1260)

The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year.
It is that we should have a new soul.

(Gilbert Keith Chesterton, English writer, 1874-1936)

"We will open the book. Its pages are blank.
We are going to put words on them ourselves.
The book is called Opportunity and its
first chapter is New Year's Day."
~Edith Lovejoy Pierce ...

Civilization is a way of living,
an attitude of equal respect for all men.

(Jane Addams, American sociologist, 1931 Nobel Peace Prize, 1860-1935)

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.

(Robert Green Ingersoll, American lawyer, 1833-1899)

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men,
but from doing something worthwhile.

(Wilfred Grenfell, English physician and medical missionary, 1865-1940)

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

(Oprah Winfrey, American TV host, born 1954)

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

(Ayn Rand, Russian author, 1905-1982)

Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall."
~ Larry Wilde, author 'The Merry Book of Christmas'.

Which Christmas is the most vivid to me? It's always the next Christmas."
~ Joanne Woodward (1930- ), American film actress.

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us

(Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French author and aviator, 1900-1944)

Minds are like parachutes;
they only function when open.

(Thomas Dewar, Scottish entrepreneur, 1864-1930)

"A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one."
~ Mary Kay Ash

"An idea ran back and forward in his head like a blind man, knocking over the solid furniture."
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Colourless green ideas sleep furiously."
~Noam Chomsky

"In the power to change yourself is the power to change the world around you."
~Anwar Sadat

Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, a loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.

(Shakti Gawain, American author, born 1948)

Autumn is the eternal corrective ...
What man can stand with autumn on a hilltop
and fail to see the span of his world and the meaning
of the rolling hills that reach to the far horizon?”
~ Hal Borland...

The hatred you are carrying is a live coal in your heart;
far more damaging to yourself than to others.

(Lawana Blackwell, American author)

"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."
~Muhammad Ali

"Music happens to be an art form that transcends language."
~Herbie Hancock

"You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you."
~Yogi Berra

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.

(Anne Bradstreet, American writer, 1612-1672)

"I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end."
~Margaret Thatcher

"Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes."
~Andy Warhol

"When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays."
~Henny Youngman

As we express our gratitude, we must not forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

(John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th president of the USA, 1917-1963)

"It is one of the most beautiful compensations
in life that no man can sincerely try to
help another without helping himself."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny,
but what we put into it is ours.

(Dag Hammerskjold, secretary-general of the UN, 1905-1961)

Life's ups and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values.
Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want.

(Marsha Sinetar, American psychologist)

“The most beautiful thing is to see a person smiling…
And even more beautiful is knowing that you are
the reason behind it! Be a reason for others to smile.”
~Author Unknown

Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment."
~Rita Mae Brown

"There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept."
~Ansel Adams