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We realize that what we are accomplishing is a drop in the ocean. But if this drop were not in the ocean, it would be missed.
-- Mother Teresa
At some point your heart will tell itself what to do.
-- Achaan Chah
In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.
-- Sheldon Kopp
With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.
-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.
-- Pablo Picasso
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
The ocean, king of mountains and the mighty continents
Are not heavy burdens to bear when compared
To the burden of not repaying the world's kindness.

-- The Buddha
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
-- Edward Everett Hale
"Well," said Pooh, "what I like best--" and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.
-- A.A. Milne, from The House at Pooh Corner
In nothing do men more nearly approach the Gods than by doing good to their fellow man.
-- Cicero
Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most.
-- Pablo Casals
Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.
-- Gretta Brooker Palmer
One must never be in haste to end a day. There are too few of them in a lifetime.
-- Dale Coleman
Advice would be more acceptable if it didn't always conflict with our plans.
-- Anonymous
Travelling in the company of those we love is home in motion.
-- Leigh Hunt
Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tries, and a touch that never hurts.
-- Charles Dickens
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
-- Ursula K. LeGuin
If you want happiness for an hour take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing.
If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.
-- Chinese Proverb
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
-- The Dalai Lama
Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
-- Shirley Lord
You teach best what you most need to learn.
-- Richard Bach, from Illusions
With songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
-- Isaiah 35:10
Past the seeker as he prayed, came the crippled and the beggar and the beaten. And seeing them . . . he cried, "Great God, how is it that a loving creator can see such things and yet do nothing about them?" . . . God said, "I did do something. I made you."
-- Sufi teaching story
We serve best when we hold dearly in mind the goal and purpose rather than our place in the process.
Live never to be ashamed if anything you do or say is published around the world - even if what is published is not true.
-- Richard Bach, from Illusions
My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.
-- Faye Wattleton
Only a life lived for others is worth living.
-- Albert Einstein
When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.
-- A.A. Milne, from The House at Pooh Corner
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
-- Mohammed
Life's most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others?
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
Sympathy: Two hearts tugging at one load.
-- Charles H. Parkhurst
After the verb 'to love', the verb 'to help' is the most beautiful verb in the world.
-- Bertha von Suttner
"Is anybody home?" called out Pooh very loudly. "No!" said a voice; and then added, "you needn't shout so loud. I heard you quite well the first time."
-- A.A. Milne, from Winnie-the-Pooh
When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
A person who seeks help for a friend, while needy himself, will be answered first.
-- The Talmud
Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.
-- Hugh Prather
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential -- for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.
-- Soren Kierkegaard
While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.
-- Angela Schwindt
You can delegate authority, but not responsibility.
-- Stephen W. Comiskey
There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.
-- Bern Williams
None of us is a smart as all of us.
-- Phil Condit
The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes of it.
-- John Ruskin
Believe in miracles but don't depend on them. When you hear a kind word spoken about a friend, tell him so. Spoil your spouse, not your children. Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language. To help your children turn out well, spend twice as much time with them and half as much money.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., from Life's Little Instruction Book
He lives long that lives well; and time misspent is not lived, but lost.
-- Thomas Fuller
Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.
-- George Sewell
The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream.
-- Kemp
Shared joy is joy doubled. Shared sorrow is sorrow halved.
-- Anonymous
Life is too short to be little.
-- Disraeli
The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.
-- John Holt
A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.
-- C. S. Lewis
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.
-- Edwin Hubbell Chapin
The less you have, the less you have to worry about.
-- Buddha
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.
-- Henry Van Dyke
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
-- George Eliot
You can do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
-- Colette
Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other -- it doesn't matter who it is -- and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.
-- Mother Teresa
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
If there is light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person
If there is beauty in the person, there will be harmony in the house
If there is harmony in the house, there will be order in the nation
If there is order in the nation, there will be Peace in the World.
-- Chinese Proverb
I claim to be no more than an average man with less than average abilities. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be, all you need is love.
-- The Beatles
Be Not Bumptious!
-- Stan Buchanan
You give little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
-- Kahlil Gibran, from The Prophet
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
-- Kahlil Gibran, from The Prophet
Be ye lamps unto yourselves - hold ye fast to the truth as to a lamp.
-- Buddhism
Suppose a thousand suns should rise together in the sky. Such is the splendor of the shape of the infinite God.
-- Hinduism
The Lord is my light and my salvation.
-- Judaism
He who is conscious of his own light is content to be obscure - he shall be the whole world's model.
-- Taoism
I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.
-- Christianity
God is the light of the heaven and the earth.
-- Islam
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
-- George Sand
Love is the ability to merge as a part of all things.
-- Taoism
You can stay young as long as you learn.
-- Emily Dickinson
We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.
-- Helen Keller
Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be.
-- Fannie Brice
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
We can not do great things -- only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa
The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire.
-- Tielhard de Chardin
Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor . . .Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.
-- Mother Teresa
What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly.
-- Carl Rogers
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
-- George Bernard Shaw
Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?
-- Stephen Levine
Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know it just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.
-- Richard Bach
People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
-- Anonymous
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
-- Henry Ford
It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.
-- Whitney Young, Jr.
The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
-- Joseph Campbell
Those of us who refuse to risk and grow get swallowed up by life.
-- Patty Hansen
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: The last of his freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
-- Viktor E. Frankl, from Man's Search for Meaning
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
-- Lao-tzu
The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge, while an ordinary man takes everything either as a blessing or a curse.
-- Don Juan
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
-- Aldous Huxley
That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
-- William Wordsworth
Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger
You gain strength, experience and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face . . . You must do the thing you cannot do.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, not touched . . . but are felt in the heart.
-- Helen Keller
If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.
-- Christopher Morley
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
-- Benjamin Franklin
Those who wish to sing always find a song.
-- Swedish proverb
Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
-- Abraham Lincoln
And life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
-- Hugh Downs
It is the habitual thought that frames itself into our life. It affects us even more than our intimate social relations do. Our confidential friends have not so much to do in shaping our lives as the thoughts which we harbor.
-- J.W. Teal
If you treat an individual as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
-- Goethe
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
-- Pablo Picasso
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think it [annoys God] if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
-- Alice Walker
Whoever performs only his duty is not doing his duty.
-- Bahya ibn Pakuda
"Why, what's happened to your tail?" Pooh said in surprise . . . . "Somebody must have taken it," said Eeyore. "How Like Them," he added, after a long silence.
-- A.A. Milne, from Winnie-the-Pooh
The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
-- Helen Keller
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
-- Napoleon Hill
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
-- B.C. Forbes
Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy-five and yet not ever truly to have lived.
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
The man who has no problems is out of the game.
-- Elbert Hubbard
We are all pencils in the hand of God.
-- Mother Teresa
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.
-- Helen Keller
Nothing in the world 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. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
-- Calvin Coolidge
Do not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
-- James Thurber
Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop pedaling.
-- Claude Pepper
God created man because he loves stories.
-- Elie Wiesel
A disciple once complained, "You tell us stories, but you never reveal their meaning to us." The master replied, "How would you like it if someone offered you fruit and chewed it up for you before giving it to you?"
-- Anonymous
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
-- Richard Bach, from Illusions
Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
-- Richard Bach, from Illusions
Here is a test to find out if your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.
-- Richard Bach, from Illusions
In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
-- Richard Bach, from Illusions
We really don't learn anything from our experience. We only learn from reflecting on our experience.
-- Robert Sinclair
Love conquers all.
-- Virgil
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou
You must give time to your fellow men -- even if it's a little thing, do something for others -- something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.
-- Albert Schweitzer
Teach only love, for that is what you are!
-- A Course in Miracles
The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski
Everyone needs recognition for his accomplishments, but few people make the need known quite as clearly as the little boy who said to his father: "Let's play darts. I'll throw and you say 'Wonderful!'"
-- The Best of Bits & Pieces
Teachers are those who use themselves as bridges, over which they invite their students to cross; then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own.
-- Nikos Kazantzakis
What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?
-- George Eliot
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while and leave footprints on our heart and we are never, ever the same.
-- Anonymous
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all.
-- Carlos Castaneda
To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.
-- W. Clement Stone
Our real blessings often appear to us in the shapes of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience, and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
-- Joseph Addison
I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.
-- Jean Ingelow
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;
And all good things are yours.
-- Anonymous
If your house is on fire, warm yourself by it.
-- Spanish Proverb
Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve.
-- Leonardo da Vinci
Cherish your visions and you dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
-- Napolean Hill
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, But great actions speak to all mankind.
-- Emily P. Bissell
You don't get to choose how you're going to die or when. You can only decide how you're going to live.
-- Joan Baez
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
-- Anais Nin
We are not rich by what we possess but rather by what we can do without.
-- Immanuel Kant
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
-- Helen Keller
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa
Let a good person do good deeds with the same zeal that an evil person does bad ones.
-- Shalom Rokeach
My doctors told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.
-- Wilma Rudolph, 3 time Olympic gold medal runner
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and impossible to find it elsewhere.
-- Agnes Repplier
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
-- Zelda Fitzgerald
Kindness is wisdom.
-- Phillip J. Bailey
Being kind to others is a way of being good to yourself.
-- Rabbi Harold Kushner
And all the loveliest things there be come simply, so it seems to me.
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall
You gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how ya gonna make a dream come true?
-- Bloody Mary, in the movie South Pacific
Opportunities are usually disguised by hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
-- Ann Landers
Follow your bliss, and doors will open where there were no doors before.
-- Joseph Campbell
Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be . . .
-- Robert Browning
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau
You don't stop laughing because you grow old; you grow old because you stop laughing.
-- Michael Pritchard
Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time.
-- Anna Louise de Sta'l
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is . . . impossible.
-- Richard Bach, from Illusions
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
-- Richard Bach, from Illusions
There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.
-- Richard Bach, from Illusions
Argue for your limitations and sure enough they are yours.
-- Richard Bach, from Illusions
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-- Anonymous
They can because they think they can.
-- Virgil
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
-- Anonymous
In the depth of winter I finally learned there was in me invincible summer.
-- Albert Camus
The greater the obstacle, the more the glory in overcoming it.
-- Moliere
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
-- Charles A. Beard
Man - despite his artistic pretensions, his sophitication, and his many accomplishments - owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.
-- Anonymous
Character is doing what is right when no one is looking.
-- J.C. Watts
If you don't hear opportunity knocking, find another door.
-- Anonymous
Many things are lost for want of asking.
-- English Proverb
Every man has his own destiny; the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
-- Henry Miller
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.
-- Chinese Proverb
Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
-- Jean Sibelius
Age only matters when one is ageing. Now that I have arrived at a great age, I might just as well be twenty.
-- Pablo Picasso
We are what we repeatly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle
The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
-- Benjamin Franklin
It is not important what you believe, only that you believe.
-- Anonymous
There is no end to what you can accomplish if (or when) you don't care who gets the credit.
-- Florence Luscomb
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
-- Bernard Baruch
The difference between perseverace and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
-- Henry Ward Beecher
The reverse side also has a reverse side.
-- Japanese Proverb
Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
The limits of my language are the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
-- Erica Jong
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
-- Henry Ford
It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive.
-- C. W. Leadbeater
The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
-- Eden Phillpotts
Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
-- Chief Seattle
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
-- William Ellery Channing
I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means.
-- Joan Didion
Good writing is like a windowpane.
-- George Orwell
Nothing fails like success.
-- Gerald Nachman
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each to-morrow
Finds us further than to-day.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Spirit is the real and eternal;
matter is the unreal and temporal.
-- Mary Baker Eddy
Not every end is a goal. The end of a melody is not its goal; however, if the melody has not reached its end, it would also not have reached its goal. A parable.
-- Nietzsche
Children need models more than they need critics.
-- Joseph Joubert
I shut my eyes in order to see.
-- Paul Gaugin
No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve in quality as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing it is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them.
-- Alan Watts
We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein
Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart
I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it only finds us true children still.
-- Goethe
Where I was born and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.
-- Georgia O'Keefe
Try not. Do, or do not.
There is no try.
-- Yoda
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
-- Baltasar Gracian
Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.
-- Jassamyn West
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
-- William James
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
-- Albert Camus
Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.
-- Rose Lane
Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your body cannot heal without play.
Your mind cannot heal without laughter.
Your soul cannot heal without joy.
-- Catherine Rippenger Fenwick
There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
-- Gen. Douglas MacArthur
We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
-- Max DuPree
never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
-- Dag Hammarjskold
Life is a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.
-- Wilson Mizner
To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it, life will be valueless.
-- Marsha Sinetar
Saddle your dreams afore you ride 'em.
-- Mary Webb
Talk doesn't cook rice.
-- Chinese Proverb
When the eyes say one thing and the tongue another, the practiced person relies on the language of the first.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear is a darkroom for developing negatives.
-- Anonymous
Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War.
-- John Milton
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
-- Kahlil Gibran
I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind, yet, I'm ungrateful to those teachers.
-- Kahlil Gibran
You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?
-- Kahlil Gibran
Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
-- Kahlil Gibran
A moment is a lifetime.....but only for a moment.
-- Anonymous
Don't use time or words carelessly. Neither can be retrieved.
-- Anonymous
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence
Take pride in how far you have come, have faith in how far you can go.
-- Anonymous
Be brave. Even if you're not, pretend to be. No one can tell the difference.
-- Life's Little Instruction Book
There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear.
-- Anonymous
The things taught in school are not an education but a means to an education.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye
Spend each moment perfecting the next, not correcting the last.
-- Scott Michael Durski
A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.
-- Ancient Proverb
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
-- Socrates
So long as we love we serve;
So long as we are loved by others,
I would almost say that we are indispensible;
And no man is useless while he has a friend.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others, can not keep it from themselves.
-- Irish blessing
Come forth into the light of things and let nature be your teacher.
-- William Wordsworth
Dum spiro spero (While I breathe, I hope)
-- South Carolina state motto
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
-- Anonymous
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
-- Henry David Thoreau
Live your life as an exclamation, not an explanation.
-- Life's Little Instruction Book
The only gift is a portion of yourself.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no distance too far between friends,
for friendship gives wings to the heart.
-- Kathy Kay Benudiz
Think where man's glory most begins and ends.
And say my glory was I had such friends.
-- William Butler Yeats
Size matters not.
-- Yoda, from The Empire Strikes Back
Wisdom consists of knowing when to avoid perfection.
-- Anonymous
Write in the sand the flaws of your friend
-- Pythagoras
Wisdom: to live in the present, plan for the future, and profit from the past.
-- Anonymous
The soul would have no rainbow, had the eyes no tears.
-- Anonymous
True friendship is never serene
-- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal
We are such stuff as dreams are made of,
And our little life is rounded with a sleep.
-- William Shakespeare
Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.
-- Plato
Go as far as you can see, and when you get there, you will see farther.
Anonymous
To unparted waters, undreamed shores.
-- William Shakespeare
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
-- Plato, from The Republic
A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.
Jebodiah Springfield
When a man boasts about what he'll do tomorrow we like to find out what he did yesterday.
-- Anonymous
One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.
-- John Stuart Mill
Flowers are the poetry of earth, as stars are the poetry of heaven.
-- Anonymous
First say to yourself what you would be, then do what you have to do.
-- Epictetus
The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita
It is only through the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Draw in the breath of life, and as you breathe, smile.
-- Anonymous
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
-- Anna Louise Strong
I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
-- Anonymous
A drop of water has the tastes of the water of the seven seas: there is no need to experience all the ways of worldly life. The reflections of the moon on one thousand rivers are from the same moon: the mind must be full of light.
-- Hung Tzu-ch'eng
Some reckon time by stars,
And some by hours;
Some measure days by dreams
And some by flowers;
My heart alone records
My days and hours.
-- Madison J. Cawein,, from Some Reckon Time by Stars
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive--to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
-- Marcus Aurelius
If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.
-- Kurt Lewin
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
-- Virginia Satir
The world is your mirror and your mind is a magnet. What you perceive is in this world is largely a reflection of your own attitudes and beliefs. Life will give you what you attract with your thoughts think, act and talk negatively and your world will be negative. Think and act and talk with enthusiasm and you will attract positive results.
-- Michael LeBeuf
When you say Yes, say it quickly. But always take a half hour to say No, so you can understand the other fellow's side.
-- Frances Cardinal Spellman
The only conquests that are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves.
-- Napoleon
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
-- Dale Carnegie
Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
-- Reggie Leach
Knowledge is not what you can remember, but what you cannot forget.
-- Anonymous
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-- Irish saying
Before the world finds a place for you, find a place for yourself in the world.
-- Anonymous
No dream comes true until you wake up and go to work.
-- Anonymous
He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.
-- Harry Emerson Fosdick
To reach a great height a person needs to have great depth.
Anonymous
Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense. These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty.
-- James Q Wilson
As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
-- Seneca
You give but a little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of your heart that you truly give.
-- Kahlil Gibran
It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
-- Jessamyn West
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
-- Thomas Jefferson
Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.
-- Beryl Bainbridge
Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
-- La Rochefoucauld
We can do no great things, only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa
The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
-- John Vance Cheney
The trouble with parenthood is that by the time you're experienced you're unemployable.
-- Anonymous
It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young.
-- Harry Emerson Fosdick
To have striven, to have made an effort, to have been true to certain ideals--this alone is worth the struggle. We are here to add what we can to, not to get what we can from, life
-- William Osler
You may have tangible wealth untold;
Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.
Richer than I you can never be--
I had a mother who read to me.
-- Strickland Gillian
You are younger today than you ever will be again. make use of it.
-- Anonymous
There is no danger of developing eyestrain from looking on the bright side of things.
-- Anonymous
Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear great joys.
-- Christian Bovee
Home is not given, but made.
-- Anonymous
If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.
-- Marge Piercy
Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.
-- George MacDonald
Be an opener of doors for such as come afer thee, and do not try to make the universe a blind alley.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children learn best from example; the trouble is they don't know a good example from a bad one.
-- Anonymous
Long years you've kept the door ajar
To greet me, coming from afar.
Long years in my accustomed place
I've read my welcome in your face.
-- Robert Bridges
In matters of style, swim with the current;
In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
-- Thomas Jefferson
The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post.
-- L. Thomas Holcroft
The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
-- George Herbert
To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.
-- Whalt Whitman
Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.
-- Piercy
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa
Home is where the heart is.
-- Pliny the Elder
When saving for old age, be sure to put away a few pleasant thoughts.
-- Anonymous
Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.
-- David Starr Jordan
Nothing quite new is perfect.
-- Marcus Tullis Cicero
Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
-- Henry James
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
-- William Morris
Time makes more converts than reason.
-- Thomas Paine
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
-- George Bernard Shaw
Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also beleives to be true.
-- Demosthenes
We do good because it frees the heart.
It open us to a wellspring of happiness.
-- Sharon Salzberg
When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.
-- Whoopi Goldberg
He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.
-- Confucius
What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Dr. Robert Schuller
A step in the wrong direction us better than staying on the spot all your life.
-- Maxwell Maltz
No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.
-- Samuel Goldwyn
Words are the only things that last forever.
-- William Hazlitt
We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.
-- Menander
A promise is most given when least said.
-- George Chapman
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
-- Rabindranath Tagore
You are free to choose, but the choices you make today will determine what you will have, be, and do in the tomorrow of your life.
-- Zig Zigler
Straighten up your room first, then the world.
-- Jeff Jordan
Sit loosely in the saddle of life.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.
-- Anonymous
If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
-- Benjamin Franklin
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.
-- he Buddha
The rung of a ladder
was never meant to rest upon,
but only hold a man's foot
long enough to enable him
to put the other somewhat higher.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley
Nobody has measured, even poets, how much the heart can hold.
-- Zelda Fitzgerald
If not you, then who?
If not now, then when?
-- Hillel
Life is a great big canvas-Throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye
Do all the good you can,
in all the ways you can,
to all the souls you can,
in every place you can,
at all the times you can,
With all the zeal you can,
as long as ever you can.
-- John Wesley
Love people. Use things. Not vice-versa.
-- Kelly Rothaus
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
-- John D. Rockefeller Jr.
Leap Year
All nature is but art unknown to thee;
All chance, direction, which thou canst not see;
All discord, harmony not understood;
All partial evil, universal good;
And spite of pride, in erring reason's spite,
One truth is clear, whatever is, is right.
-- Alexander Pope

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