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from Rebecca
"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding."
- Khalil Gibran
from Gwendolyn
"It is better to build strong children then attempts to repair broken adults. "
- F. Douglas
from Dean
"So you can walk on water? You are no better than a twig floating on a puddle.
You can fly through the air? You are no better than this gnat buzzing around my head.
Master your own heart then maybe you can be somebody."
- Arabic wisdom from 500BC
from Tom
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence therefore, is not an act but a habit"
- Aristotle
from Karen
"I've learned that two people can look at the exact same thing and see something totally different.
I've learned that you cannot make someone love you, all you can do is be someone who can be loved ."
- Anon
from Janice
"There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth - we are all crew."
- Marshall McLuan
from Emma
"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
- Anon
from Sunshine B
"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us 'universe', a part limited in time and space.
He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.
This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
- Einstein
from Maria
"It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship.
Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment,
it will not be created for years or even generations."
- Khalil Gibran
from Sylvia
" Live by the 3 R's
R espect for self
R espect for others
R esponsibility for all your actions
When you lose, don't lose the lesson
Remember that not getting what you want in life can be a wonderful stroke of luck
Judge your success by what you had to give in order to get it
Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon ."
- Dalai Lama
from Fatima
"The purpose of man is to live, not to exist."
- Jack London
from Mary
"The measure of love is to love without measure."
- Saint Augustine
from Withanee
"There is more to life than increasing it's speed."
- Mahatma Gandhi
from Audrey
"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist."
- Dom Helder Camara
from M
"Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt, and dance like no one is watching."
- Satchel Paige
from Jenz
"The earth on which we live silently remembers the catastrophies of our history; but if we listen to the silence of the earth it will remind us of the fate of those who lived before us, and from whose suffering we may yet learn."
- Anon
from Jan's Dad
"Knows but doesn't know he knows... asleep, wake him up.
Knows he doesn't know... teach him, good man.
Doesn't know he doesn't know... a fool, avoid him.
Knows he knows... wise, follow him... "
- Anon
from Gary
"Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are."
- Chinese Proverb
from Daniel
"To be great, be whole; exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is you.
Be whole in everything. Put all you are into the smallest thing you do.
The whole moon gleams in every pool, it rides so high."
- Ricardo Reis, Fernando Pessoa
from Debra
"As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we must all be aware of changes in the air, however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness"
- Justice William O. Douglas
from Laura
"I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life, as by the obstacles overcome whilst trying to succeed"
- Booker T Washington
from Dianne
"To Speak or NOT to Speak
If it is not truthful and not helpful don't say it
If it is Truthful and not helpful don't say it.
If it is Not truthful and helpful don't say it
If it is both Truthful and Helpful ...Wait for the right time"
- Buddhist Quote
from Than
"Roots are the branches down in the earth. Branches are roots in the air."
"The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful."
- Stray Birds by Rabindranath Tagore
from Abby
"However great the hardship
Pursue with firmness the happy ending "
- The Tirukkural
from Gena
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong "
- Mahatma Gandhi
"Life must be understood backward. But it must be lived forward "
- Soren Kierkegaard
from Ashlyn
"The greatest freedom of all - is not having the fear of losing"
- Unknown
"Failure is not in falling down, it's in not getting up again"
- Unknown
from Janek Czekaj
"If you're going through hell, keep going!"
- Winston Churchill
from Anonymous
"Peace will come when we replace the love of power with the power of love."
- Sri Chinmoy
from Nina M
"The only thing necessary for evil to triumph.....is for good men to do nothing."
- Winston Churchill
from Isil Tinuviel
"You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him learn it within himself."
- Galileo
from Skip
"Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them."
- Albert Enstein
from Martin Sharpe
"The pioneers of peace are the young people who refuse to take up arms."
- Albert Enstein
from Marian Killoran
"People are illogical, unreasonable and self-centered. Love them anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Do good anyway.
If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.
The biggest persons with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest persons with the smallest minds. Think big anyway.
People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs. Fight for a few underdogs anyway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.
People really need help, but may attack you if you do help them. Help them anyway.
Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you have anyway.."
- The Paradoxical Commandments! by Kent M. Keith
from Warbull
"Silence is the Mother of Truth, for the silent man was ever to be trusted, while the man ever ready with speech was never taken seriously."
- Chief Luther Standing Bear, (Teton Sioux)
from Luisa Mariana Correa Gomez
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
- Oscar
Wilde
from Andrea Carpenter
"I am not afraid of storms, for I have learned how to sail my ship."
- Louisa
May Alcott
from Joy Leigh
"The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities,
But to know someone who thinks and feels with us,
And who, though distant, is close to us in spirit,
This makes the earth for us, an inhabited garden."
- Goethe
from Samantha Gray
"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."
- Louisa May Alcott
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
- Mark Twain
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect."
- Mark Twain
from Tiffany Gainer
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
- Harold Wilson
from Don Smith
"The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states."
- Mahatma Gandhi
from DMS
"Be excellent to each other."
- Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
from Janice Timms
"Press On!
Nothing can take the place of perseverance.
Talent will not. Nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not. Unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not. The world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistance and determination alone are omnipotent.
This slogan "Press On" has solved, always will solve, the problems of the
human race."
- Calvin Coolidge, 30th U.S. President
from Belinda Spalding
"Making miracles is hard work, most people give up before they happen."
- Sheryl Crow
from Martha Buchanan
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
- W. B. Yeats
"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."
- Alvin Toffler
from Lori DiMattia
"I will be walking in the middle of your soul."
- Oklahoma Cherokee love incantation
from Deborah Dinzes
"Never underestimate the power of a few committed people to change the
world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
- Margaret Mead
from Sandi Hill
"Remember you were not put on this earth because you deserved to be here.
You were put on this earth to smell the roses."
- Anon
"I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either."
- Jack Benny
from Icon
"Let the beauty we love be what we do."
- Rumi
from Sandra Burke
"The past is fascinating but it's where to learn from, the future is where we
want to live."
- Unknown
from Chellie Price
"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful
servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten
the gift."
- Albert Einstein
"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love."
- Albert Einstein
from Virginia
"The greatness of a nation and it's moral progress can be judged by
the way it's animals are treated."
- Mahatma Gandhi
from Sophie B
"When elephants fight, ants get killed."
- Cambodian Proverb
from Serginso
"War what is it good for? It's good for business."
- Billy Bragg
from Henry Hernandez
"People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; be kind anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; be honest and frank anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God; it was never between you and them anyway."
- Mother Theresa
from Hunter
"Many things in life will catch your eye but few will catch your heart... Pursue those."
- Anon
from FSP
"A mind that has been stretched will never return to it's original dimension."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
from Ann Vallins
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."
- Aesop
from Maxine Wan
"I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud"
- Jung
from Anne Skelly
"Nothing is worth more than this day."
- Goethe
"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain."
- Kahlil Gibran
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
- Mahatma Gandhi
"Driving ambition is the last refuge of the failure."
- Oscar Wilde
from Lisa Anne Romano
"Words have wings... so speak good things."
- Anon
from bastgirl
"May you live a thousand years, and I a thousand less one day, that I might never know the world without you."
- Hungarian Proverb
from Michael Wade
"People only get lost in thought because it is unfamiliar territory."
- Paul Fix
"You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you."
- Dale Carnegie
"Character is doing the right thing when nobody is looking."
- J. C. Watts
"Love means to love that which is unloveable. Otherwise it is no virtue at all."
- G. K. Chesterton
"Sometimes nothing is so soothing as an uninterrupted whine, followed by a warm bath of sympathy."
- Unknown
from Pisces chic
"Dreams are essential to life."
- Anais Nin
"It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, than you are indeed a man of true wisdom."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"To revel in the wonders of life, to think, to remember, to dream - this is to know happiness."
- Giancarlo Di Gratsi
"This world is but a canvas to our imaginations."
- Henry David Thoreau
"I've dreamt dreams in my life that have stayed with me ever after."
- Emily Bronte
from SugarKane
"Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Whenever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe."
- Elie Wiesel (holocaust survivor)
from Tarah
"The only thing I know, is that I know nothing."
- Socrates
from Pete Duncan
"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?"
- Robert Browning
from Cynthia Gusman
"Do or do not there is no try."
- Yoda, Star Wars
from Tanya
"Life is a cycle, always in motion, if good times have moved on so will times of trouble!"
- Indian Proverb
from Eileen Day
"If you see someone without a smile... give them one of yours!"
- Author unknown
from Pam
"I love friends, I want more friends. I love smiles. That is a fact. How to develop smiles? There are a variety of smiles. Some smiles are sarcastic. Some smiles are artificial - diplomatic smiles. These smiles do not produce satisfaction, but rather fear or suspicion. But a genuine smile gives us hope, freshness. If we want a genuine smile, then first we must produce the basis for a smile to come."
- The Dalai Lama
from Steph Garner
"The best things in life are not things."
- Author unknown
from Mary
"Be good to yourself 'cause nobody else has the power to make you happy."
- George Michael
from Leon
"When you've seen beyond yourself - then you may find peace of mind, is waiting there - And the time will come when you see we're all one, and life flows on within you and without you." Within You Without You' by
- George Harrison (The Beatles)
from Melanie
"Peace is not a season... it is a way of life. When the spirit of Peace becomes a part of our lives, everyday will be Christmas and every night will hold the promise of dawn."
- An old Christmas card
from Jeep
"Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and stars; you have a right to be here, and whether or not it is clear to you; no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should."
- 'Desiderata', Max Ehrmann
from Melanie
"Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before."
- Mae West
"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness."
- The Dalai Lama
"If you cannot be kind, at least have the decency to be vague."
- Unknown
from Wanda Sommerfield
"Living on Earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around the sun every year."
- Unknown
from Mark
"To me it seems that to give happiness is a far nobler goal than to attain it: and that what we exist for is much more a matter of relations to others than a matter of individual progress: much more a matter of helping others to heaven than of getting there ourselves."
- Lewis Carroll
from Inderjit Singh Pungi
"Life is like a finger, pointing to the Moon. If you look at the finger... you will miss all the heavenly glory." Enter the Dragon,
- Bruce Lee tells his pupil
from Barbara Schmidt
"Humility is not a punishment. It is a Virtue."
- Anon
from Steve Cheshire
"Stand facing the sun and the shadows fall behind you."
- from a school blackboard in Whitby
from Angela Lambert
"Accept me as I am, so that I may learn what I become."
- Anonymous
from Suzie
"To the world you are someone, but to someone you are the world."
- Unknown
from Christine
"Hold on to what is good, even if it is a handful of earth. And hold on to what you believe, even if it is a tree which stands by itself. Hold on to what you must do, even if it is a long way from here. Hold on to life, even when it is easier to let go. Hold on to my hand, even when I have gone away from you."
- Pueblo Verse
from Donna
"It is a brave and honest person who can stand apart from the masses and openly challenge its most treasured beliefs."
- Donna Evans
from Susan Walsh
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall - think of it, ALWAYS."
- Mahatma Gandhi
from Stacy Demko
"Friendship with the upright, with the truthful and with the well informed is beneficial. Friendship with those who flatter, with those who are meek and who compromise with principles, and with those who talk cleverly is harmful."
- Confucius
from Kristy Emery
"It's OK to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation."
- Helen Keller
from Jeep Hammar
"Be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly, and listen to others; even the dull and ignorant. They, too, have their story."
- Author unknown - dated 1692.
from Becky
"The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we appear to be."
- Socrates
"The only true failure in life is to stop trying."
- Author Unknown
"The possibility that we may fail in the struggle should not deter us from supporting a cause we believe to be just."
- Abraham Lincoln
"The man who moved a mountain is the one who started taking away the small stones."
- Old Chinese Proverb
from F General
"Mistrust all in whom the desire to punish is imperative."
- Goethe
Maxine Wan
"I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud."
- Carl Jung
from Ben
"Follow your dreams and pursue them with courage."
- Unknown
from Clare
"And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now.Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, evolve some distant day into the answer."
- Rainer Maria Rilke
from Marnie Griffin
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
- Albert Einstein
"If you can't be a good example, you'll have to be a terrible warning."
- Catherine Aird
"Age and treachery will always win out over youth and skill."
- Fridge Magnet
Lisa Anne Romano
"Words have wings - so speak good things."
- Anonymous
from Winston Hazel
"If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got."
- Susan Jeffries
from Lisa Satchwell
"Laugh, share some happiness with the world. God knows we all have problems, believe that sometimes it pays to act like a fool to make someone else happy!"
- Anon
from Marie MacFarlane
"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it. This you have the power to revoke."
- Marcus Aurelius
from Jud Morrison
"Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup."
- Unknown
from Kendall C Ebert
"The rainbow would not be without first the rain."
- D Donche Jr
from Melissa Field
"Into every life a little rain must fall."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"You will never possess what you are unwilling to pursue."
- Mike Murdock
"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
- George Eliot
"We are each of us responsible for the evil we may have prevented."
- James Martineau
"Don't chase your dreams, catch them."
- Unknown
from Joanna Peake
"To live at all is miracle enough."
- Mervyn Peake
from Fred Decker
"The caterpillar does not understand the butterfly."
- Unknown
from Sheila Warnock
"The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat."
- Lily Tomlin
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
- Leo Tolstoy
"Experience is the toughest teacher because she gives the test first, and then the lesson."
- Unknown
"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."
- Somerset Maugham
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I never take counsel of my fears."
- General George Patton
"You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now."
- Joan Baez
"I always knew that one day I would take this road but yesterday I did not know today would be the day."
- Nagarjuna
"I am still learning."
- Michelangelo
"Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want."
- Margaret Young
from Nikhil Kulkarni
"Arise, awake and don't stop until the goal is achieved."
- Swami Vivekananda
from Kimberly Taylor
"I set my star so high that I would constantly be in motion toward it."
- Sidney Poitier
from Angela
"You can tell a great deal about a society by the way they treat their elderly, their prisoners and their pets."
- Unknown
from Alice Foulkes
"By perseverance the snail reached the Ark."
- Charles Spurgeon
from Laura L. Hirschfeld
"To life's simple pleasures, and its finer things: may we always have the wisdom to appreciate all of the former, and the means to afford a few of the latter."
- Laura L. Hirschfeld
from Melanie Porter
Muddy Water Days
"These are muddy water days, but upstream the brook runs clear and sparkles in the sunlight. So give me my oars and I shall paddle us there."
- Melanie Porter
from Michael Wade
"People only get lost in thought because it is unfamiliar territory."
- Paul Fix
"You can make more friends in 2 months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in 2 years by trying to get people interested in you."
- Dale Carnegie
"Character is doing the right thing when nobody is looking."
- J. C. Watts
"Love means to love that which is unloveable. Otherwise it is no virtue at all."
- G. K. Chesterton
"Sometimes nothing is so soothing as an uninterrupted whine, followed by a warm bath of sympathy."
- Unknown
from Caz
"Now is a rushing river. There are those who would hug the shore, but there is no shore. Push off into the stream. Hold your head above the frey. See who else is in the midst of
things, and celebrate."
- Native American saying
from Countrylands
"Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my concious thoughts."
- Anthony Robbins
"For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward."
- Jim Rohn
"He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is
mightier still"
- Lao-Tzu
from Lauren Macaulay
"Worry about the things you can control..."
- James R. Macaulay
from Eric Hobden
"Freedom is necessary for honesty, honesty for integrity, integrity for power, power for creativity, and all of them for intimacy."
- Sonia Johnson
from Lee Calladine
"Think of all the beauty still left around us and be happy."
- Anne Frank
from Jane Rose
"History is dedicated to those who went before us, so that, upon reflection, we can learn from them, without repeating their mistakes, experiencing or inflicting their pain."
- Anon
from Derrick
"All of us are stars and deserve the right to twinkle."
- Marilyn Monroe
from Kristy Emery
"'Come to the edge', he said. They said, 'We are afraid.'
'Come to the edge', he said. They came. He pushed them. And they flew."
- Guillaume Appolinaire
"It's OK to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation."
- Helen Keller
"Man needs a little madness - Or else he never dare cut the rope and be free."
- Unknown
from Becky
"Only those who risk going too far can possibly know how far they can really go."
- T.S. Eliot
"The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we appear to be."
- Socrates
"The only true failure in life is to stop trying."
- Unknown
"The possibility that we may fail in the struggle should not deter us from supporting a cause we believe to be just."
- Abraham Lincoln
"The man who moved a mountain is the one who started taking away the small stones."
- Old Chinese Proverb
from Kate
"Fall down seven times, get up eight."
- Unknown
from Stacy Demko
"Friendship with the upright, with the truthful and with the well informed is beneficial. Friendship with those who flatter, with those who are meek and who compromise with principles, and with those who talk cleverly is harmful."
- Confucius
from Rebecca Donaldson
"An extraordinary person is just an ordinary person doing the right thing."
- Claud Moutray (Rebecca's Father)
from Satnam Hothi
"Opening one's heart can be accomplished either surgically or spiritually"
- Unknown
from Robyn Jackson
"To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground."
- Stephen R Covey
from Dixie-Lee Whiteman
"A hundred years from now it will not matter the sort of house I lived in, what my bank account was, or the car I drove...but the world may be a better place because I was important in the life of a child or one of God's creatures on this earth."
- Anon
"Be your name Buxbaum or Bixby or Bray or Mordecai Ali Van Allen O'Shea, you're off to great places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting - So...get on your way!"
- Dr Seuss
"It takes a special kind of person to fight back."
- Terry Pratchett
"If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."
- J K Rowling
from Kristen Orloski
"Teach love, for that is what you are."
- George Eliot
"What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?"
- George Eliot
"Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of thier passion."
- Martha Graham
"The meaning of life is to find your gift, the purpose of life is to give it away."
- Joy J. Golliver
"And you learn...That you really can endure..that you really do have strength..That you really can endure..and you learn... and you learn... and you learn....with every goodbye you learn."
- Hannah Price
"One touch is worth 10,000 words."
- Harold Bloomfield
from Corrin Halin
"The turtle only makes progress when it's neck is stuck out"
- Rollo May
"Now I become myself, it's taken many years and places, I have been dissolved and shaken, worn other peoples faces ..."
- Mary Sarton
from John Arnold
"To acknowledge, to accept, and to forgive one's parents - both what they gave and what they did not give, both one's dependence upon them and one's independence of them - is the ultimate hallmark of maturity: a perception as valid for institutions as for individuals."
- Ernest Kurtz
from Grace Wynne-Jones
"To be young, really young, takes a very long time."
- Pablo Picasso
from Gillian Graham
"If you live your life out of memory, you live out of your history.
That's what once was. If you live out of your imagination, you live out
of your potential. That's what can be."
- Unknown
"Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of others, but
from doing something worthwhile."
- Wilfred Grenfell
"We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You
can't just leave it in the cupboard and think it's going to get on by
itself. You've got to keep watering it, to really look after it and
nurture it."
- John Lennon
"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."
- e e cummings
"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -
loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
- Victor Hugo
"Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right."
- Isaac
Asimov
"The way to love anything is to realise it might be lost."
- G K Chesterton
"People do not lack strength; they lack will."
- Victor Hugo
"Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which
your laughter arises was often-times filled with your tears."
- Kahlil Gibran
"The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness
in another's keeping."
- Claudius Claudianus
"Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you."
- Frank Tyger
from Kaleb Sanders
"The longest day you'll ever have is only 24 hours long."
- Author unknown
from Anne
"Disappointment is simply a dream that doesn't want to become a reality."
- Richard Wilkins
"Miracles start to happen when you give as much energy to your dreams as you do to your fears."
- Richard Wilkins
"The imagination is a dream factory of which realities are a by-product."
- Richard Wilkins
"Wonderful things start to happen when you dream outside of your sleep."
- Richard Wilkins
from Ellya Hafidzah
"If you want to be happy, Be."
- Author unknown
from Dominique de Cruz
"A smile costs nothing, but gives much."
- Anon
"A moral sensible and well-bred man will not affront me, and no other can."
- Author unknown
"Were it not better to forget, than to remember and regret."
- Author unknown
"He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself."
- Author unknown
"Ignorance pardons nothing, but explains much."
- Author unknown
from Patricia Andersen
A very practical statement from a committed civil rights activist. When asked if he wasn't discouraged after thrity years of activism to make social change and nothing had yet changed he answered:
"What else should I have been doing, playing golf? Social activism is a way of life, not a project."
- Ralph Kricker
from Stacy Clark
"You cannot always be torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do."
- J R Tolkein
"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood
and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the
endless immensity of the sea."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what
the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be
replaced by something even more bizarrely inexeplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened."
- Douglas Adams
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their
lives by altering their attitudes of mind."
- William James
"Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow."
- Goethe
"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
abilities."
- J K Rowling
"A man is but a product of his thoughts; what he thinks, that he becomes."
- Mohandas K. Gandhi
"The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to
grow sharper."
- Eden Phillpotts
"Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground."
- Author unknown
from Timothy Le
"I ask God: 'How much time do I have left?' and God replies: 'Enough to
make a difference'."
- Author unknown
"You should not worry about whether you are going to live or die; you should
worry about whether you are doing right or wrong."
- Ernest Hemingway
from Julie Hull
"Happiness is a way of travelling, not a destination."
- Author unknown
from Elaine Rogers
"According to recognised aerotechnical tests, the bumblebee cannot fly because of the shape and weight of his body in relation to the total wing area. But the
bumblebee doesn't know this, so he goes ahead and flies anyway."
- Anon
"We are each of us angels with only one wing. And we can only fly embracing each other."
- Luciano de Crescenzo
"Learn to bend. It's better than breaking."
- Leo Buscaglia
"We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist, and forever will recreate each other."
- Teilhard de Chardin
from S. Reifer
"Because of the interconnectedness of all minds, affirming a positive vision may
be a bout the most sophisticated action any one of us can take."
- Willis Harman, President, The Institute of Noetic Sciences
from Efy Leonardi
"There is no love where there is no will"
- Mahatma Gandhi
from Margaret Valentine
"It is important to honour our beginings, to remember that we matter, and that we have a place in this world that no one else has."
- Anon
from Nickie Allen
"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it"
- Goethe
from Liz Beatty
"Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs from climbing it."
- Author unknown
"Life is tough, but I am tougher."
- Author unknown
from Amanda Nolan
"Never judge your sucess by how high up the ladder you get, judge it by how high you bounce when you fall off and hit the bottom."
- Anon
from Donna Shoemaker
"If you always do what you've always done
You'll always be where you are right now."
- Unknown
from Michelle Brown
"Listen to your heart. Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you'll find your treasure."
- Paulo Coelho
from Lynn Rockwell
"And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, then you risk even more."
- Erica Jong
from Debbie Evans
If throughout the unguarded moment of the evening
Sadness has crept into your heart,
Let it sail away with the setting sun,
Because tonight is gods night for peacemaking.
- Anon
from Winston Griffin
Backgrounds and circumstances my affect on who we are.
But we are responsible for who we become.
- Unknown
Japanese
