"'Where there is a will there is a way,' is an old and true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so - to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself." - Samuel Smiles
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"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly; and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature." - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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"Growing a beard is a habit most natural, Scriptural, manly and beneficial." - C.H. Spurgeon
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"Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations." - Jean Paul Richter
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"The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good." - Ruth Benedict
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"The choice before us is plain: Christ or chaos, conviction or compromise, discipline or disintegration. I am rather tired of hearing about our rights and privileges as American citizens. The time is come - it now is - when we ought to hear about the duties and responsibilities of our citizenship. America's future depends upon her accepting and demonstrating God's government." - Reverend Peter Marshall, on being elected Chaplain of the U. S. Senate in January 1947
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"Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it." - Richard Lamm
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"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers." - Charles W. Eliot
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"Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost." - Thomas J. Watson
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"Remember this. When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold. When people choose to withdraw far from light, the light continues to be bright in itself but they are in darkness. This is also the case when people withdraw from God." - Augustine
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"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars." - Og Mandino
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"We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?" - Ray Bradbury
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"Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath." - Jacob Braude
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"Nobody can tell you if what you're doing is good, meaningful or worthwhile. The more compelling the path, the more lonely it is." - Hugh Macleod
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"Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality." - Bertrand Russell
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"You find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy." - Lydia M. Child
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"The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed." - Gordon Parks
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"Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest." - Colleen Wainwright
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"When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another." - Helen Keller
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"An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run." - Sydney J. Harris
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"The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers." - Martin Luther King Jr.
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"My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people." - Orson Welles
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"Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief." - Sigmund Freud
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"One that would have the fruit must climb the tree." - Thomas Fuller
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"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." - Martin Luther King Jr.
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"We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything." - Thomas A. Edison
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"There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls." - George Carlin
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"A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation." - Cicero
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"It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear." - Dick Cavett
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"In this life we get only those things for which we hunt, for which we strive, and for which we are willing to sacrifice." - George Matthew Adams
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"There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures." - James Thurber
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"Your children need your presence more than your presents." - Jesse Jackson
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"Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence." - Erma Bombeck
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"Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned....That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions." - Walter Lippmann
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"Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you." - Cyril Connolly
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"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present." - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
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"A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand." - Bertrand Russell
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"The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings." - John F. Kennedy
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"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." - Galileo Galilei
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"Never place a period where God has placed a comma." - Gracie Allen
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"My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right." - Abraham Lincoln
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"If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain." - Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
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"We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts." - John Dewey
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"Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are." - Bertolt Brecht
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"It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge." - Enrico Fermi
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"A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name." - Evan Esar
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"All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen." - Sidney Lumet
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"There are fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is surely yours is the present, hence this is the time to speak the word of appreciation and sympathy, to do the generous deed, to forgive the fault of a thoughtless friend, to sacrifice self a little more for others. Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed, and to use your God-given abilities for the enrichment of someone less fortunate. Today you can make your life - significant and worthwhile. The present is yours to do with as you will." - Grenville Kleiser
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"The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage." - Thucydides
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"You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." - Mark Twain
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"It's the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter." - Marlene
Dietrich
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"People want to know how much you care before they care how much you know." - James F. Hind
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"Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving." - Albert Einstein
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"Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them." - Bill Vaughan
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"To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep." - Joan Klempner
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"Let us hope that we are all preceded in this world by a love story." - Don Snyder
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"The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been." - Madeleine L'Engle
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"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." - Chinese Proverb
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"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn." - John Muir
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"The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it." - Ayn Rand
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"Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up." - James Magary
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"Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. 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. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race." - Calvin Coolidge
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"Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship." - Alfred A. Montapert
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"He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the winds. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current... Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on toward ultimate success." - Albert Pike
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"There is no greater importance in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you." - Norman Mailer
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"If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor." Sebastien-Roch Nicolas
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"Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't." - Eleanor Roosevelt
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"If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it." - Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
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"Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny." - C.S. Lewis

"To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch ... to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark." - Barbara Hall
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"Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset." - Saint Francis de Sales
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"I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow." - Woodrow Wilson
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"Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please." - Pythagoras
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"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." - Martin Luther King Jr.
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"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful." - Samuel Johnson
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"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." - Martin Luther King Jr.
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"I already knew to eat clean and listen to my body, to only eat when I was in a calm mental state. Everyone knew. But when you're fat in the head, it's never about knowing the answers. It's about living them." - Stephanie Klein
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"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you." - Leo Tolstoy
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"By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self-denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?" - Jackie Mason
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"If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance." - Dale Carnegie
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"If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank." - Woody Allen
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"We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts." - Madeleine L'Engle
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"A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold." - Ogden Nash
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"Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition." - Sir William Osler
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"Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations that they become the only things that we can focus on. What we forget is that God's love and beauty are all around us, every day, if only we would take the time to look up and see them." - Matthias
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"It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship." - Colette
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"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire." - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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"Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home." - David Frost

"Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves." - Larry McMurtry
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"Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition." - Alexander Hodge
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"Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things." - Denis Diderot
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"Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts." - Clare Booth Luce
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"It is always the best policy to speak the truth--unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar." - Jerome K. Jerome
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"I wish you sunshine on your path and storms to season your journey. I wish you peace in the world in which you live... More I cannot wish you except perhaps love to make all the rest worthwhile." - Robert A. Ward
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"What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?" - Irv Kupcinet
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"Peace is not the absence of affliction, but the presence of God." - Author Unknown
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"It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help." - Judith Martin
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"It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation." - Dr. Rob Gilbert
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"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself." - Samuel Johnson
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"It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever." - Philip Adams
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"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." - Sir Winston Churchill
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"I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance." - Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
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"We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it." - Roald Dahl
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"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them." - Aristotle
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"A man may well bring a horse to the water but he cannot make him drink." - John Heywood
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"We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with high and resolute courage. For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out." - Theodore Roosevelt
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"Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt." - Graham Greene
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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead

"Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious." - Og Mandino
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"I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done." - Henry Ford
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"It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree." Charles Baudelaire
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"And then the moon, like to a silver bow, New-bent in heaven, shall behold the night, Of our solemnities." - William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
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"Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them." - John Ruskin
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"A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for." - Grace Murray Hopper
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"If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else." - Laurence J. Peter
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"I paint because it hurts not to. Pain is in the word painting." - Marta Gottfried
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"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence." - Martin Luther King Jr.
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"September tries its best to have us forget summer." - Bern Williams
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"Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right." - Laurens Van der Post
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"Let us, then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle." - Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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"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." - Robert Fulghum
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"Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence." - Carl Sandburg
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"If you think the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, start taking better care of your own yard." - Sydney Rogers
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"It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions." - Jim Rohn
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"Moderation? It's mediocrity, fear, and confusion in disguise. It's the devil's dilemma. It's neither doing nor not doing. It's the wobbling compromise that makes no one happy. Moderation is for the bland, the apologetic, for the fence-sitters of the world afraid to take a stand. It's for those afraid to laugh or cry, for those afraid to live or die. Moderation...is lukewarm tea, the devil's own brew." - Dan Millman
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"Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence." - Lemuel K Washburn
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"If you're sitting on a fence, it's the perfect perch to watch life pass you by." - John Morgan, Grasshopper Notes
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"If you strive for the moon, maybe you'll get over the fence." - James Wood
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"Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help." - Alex Haley
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"Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next." - Ben Carson
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"How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man." - Johnny Cash
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"Don't compromise. Once you know the Truth about something you are empowered and commanded to follow it. Now whether you choose to or not reveals who you have truly made Master of your life." - Terri Short Hill
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"To know the road ahead, ask those coming back." - Chinese Proverb
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"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers
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"We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over." - Aneurin Bevan
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"The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive." - Robert Frost
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"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference." - Robert Frost
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"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, My Speech to the Graduates
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"Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess." - Heinrich Heine
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"Swear not by the moon, th' inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circled orb, lest that thy love prove likewise variable." - William Shakespeare
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"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired." - Jules Renard
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"We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds." - Anton Chekhov
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"If you have accomplished all that you planned for yourself, you have not planned enough." - Edward Everett Hale
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"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise." - Benjamin Franklin
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"We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are." - Adelle Davis
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"I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently." - Ernest Hemingway
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"The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what bring you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn't just a fiction, it's part of our physical body, and our soul exists in space and is inside us, like teeth in our mouth. It can't be forever violated with impunity." - Boris Pasternak
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"Gaining control over your health and well-being is one of those times in your life that you get to be completely selfish and not feel bad about it. If you want to meet your goals, you have to make it about you. You have to make it work for you and you alone. Anything less is a setup for failure." - Jennifer Hudson
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"You just have to start putting one foot in front of the other, making an effort to get healthy every day." - Ali Vincent
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"We all have the power to choose how we are going to handle every situation we are faced with throughout our lives. We are in control of the decision we make whether it’s about work, relationships, parenting, or our health." - Jennifer Hudson
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"May we, in our dealings with all the peoples of the earth, ever speak the truth and serve justice." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
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"As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself." - Adelle Davis
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"Pain (any pain - emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories: "We would be more alive if we did more of this," and, "Life would be more lovely if we did less of that." Once we get the pain's message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away." - Peter McWilliams
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"Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?" - Philip G. Hamerton
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"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it." - Moliere
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"If you’re going through hell, keep going!" - Winston Churchill
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"The best time to plant an oak tree was twenty-five years ago. The second best time is today." - James Carville
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"I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours." - Jerome K. Jerome
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"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city." - George Burns
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"Of all the people on the planet, you talk to yourself more than anyone. Make sure you are saying the right things." - Martin Rooney
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"Destiny is no 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." - William Jennings Bryan
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"The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance." - Laurence J. Peter
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"A day without laughter is a day wasted." - Charles Chaplin
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"Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy." - Aristotle
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"Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all, By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall; In so righteous a cause let us hope to succeed, For heaven approves of each generous deed." - John Dickinson, The Liberty Song, 1768
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"Wish not so much to live long as to live well." - Benjamin Franklin
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"Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed." - Elbert Hubbard
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"I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it." - Thomas Jefferson
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"A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not." - Henry Fielding
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"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers." - Thomas Jefferson
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"To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter." - Aleister Crowley
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"For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not news." - Gloria Borger
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"Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it's glories." - Brigham Young
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"Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh." - Robert Cecil
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"Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes." - Benjamin Disraeli
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"This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave." - Elmer Davis
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"Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes." - Napoleon Bonaparte
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"We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home." - Edward R. Murrow
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"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them." - Alfred Adler
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"Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing." - William James
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"Tart words make no friends; a spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar." - Benjamin Franklin
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"The covers of this book are too far apart." - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
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"It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny." - Jean Nidetch
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"I pity the fool!" - Mr. T
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"The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children." - King Edward VIII
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"The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work." - Robert Frost
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"The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before." - Thorstein Veblen
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"During [these] periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight." - Fritjof Capra, physicist
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"When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it." - Carly Fiorina
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"To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person." - Bruce Lee
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"Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard." - Colin Powell
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"The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them." - Woodrow Wilson
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"If you cannot lift the load off another's back, do not walk away. Try to lighten it." - Frank Tyger
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"You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you." - Meryl Streep
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"About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends." - Herbert Hoover
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"Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way." - Eileen Caddy
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"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't." - Anatole France
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"As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people's ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life." - Amy Poehler
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"Over and over again, we lose site of what is important and what isn't. We crave things over which we have no control, and not satisfied by the things within our control. We need to regularly stop and take stock; to sit down and determine within ourselves which things are worth valuing and which things are not." - Epictetus
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"You attract what you are, not what you want. So if you want it then reflect it!" - Tony Gaskins
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"Those that will not read have no advantage over those that cannot read." - Mark Twain
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“The ultimate ignorance is the blind opinion charged rejection of any issue; coupled with the arrogant absence of correct knowledge which refuses to investigate what is known little or nothing about” - Dr. David L. Perry Th.D.
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"It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not." - James Gordon
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"Ask yourself: What grand goals would inspire me every minute of every day? What would I do with my life if I were playing full-out? If I were thinking big -- and even bigger than that! -- what dream would I commit to fulfilling?" - Dr. Gay Hendricks
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"Always show more kindness than you think is necessary because the receiver needs it more than you know." - Arthur Caliandro
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"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right." - Henry Ford
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"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy." - Norman Vincent Peale
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"I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone." - Henry Rollins
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"The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values." - Norman Thomas
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"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." - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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"Some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next." - Gilda Radner
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"The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles." - Ayn Rand
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"Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing." - Wernher von Braun
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear." - Ambrose Redmoon
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"If you want to change somebody, don't preach to him. Set an example and shut up." - Jack LaLanne
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"Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good." - Maya Angelou
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"On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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"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
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"There are powers inside of you, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become." - Orison Swett Marden
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"There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking." - Alfred Korzybski
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"Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some." - Charles Dickens
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"Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each." - Henry David Thoreau
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"The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth." - Chanakya
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"You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay?" - Jim Rohn
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"Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time." - James A. Baldwin
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"Every night before you go to bed write down three things good that happened to you that day. That's pretty much all it takes to get a happiness boost over time." - Eric Barker
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"Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily." - Epictetus
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"This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on." - Oswald Spengler
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"Motherly love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible." - Marion C. Garretty
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"I am not here to change the world. I am changing the world because I am here." - Lisa Wilson
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"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best." - Epictetus
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"With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice." - Oprah Winfrey
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"Figure out what you want. Focus on it. Find people who have achieved what you want and find out how they think and act, and then follow their lead." - Bill Harris
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"Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results." - Willie Nelson
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"When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest." - William Hazlitt

"Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal."- Louis K. Anspacher

"You can't hold a man down without staying down with him." - Booker T. Washington

"Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction." - Margaret Thatcher

"Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times." - Ben Jonson

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx

"You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it." - Malcolm X

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started." - Mark Twain

"If you really want something, and really work hard, and take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will find a way." - Jane Goodall

"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." - Galileo Galilei

"There is only so much energy available to us in life. Spending it on solving problems is one possible way of living your life, but this may leave you empty-hearted; spending it on what excites you is a lot more fulfilling and fun -- and effortless; and usually, the previously experienced problems vanish on their own. We don't have to battle against the darkness when all we need to do is turn on the light." - Andrea Moritz

"The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things." - Rene Descartes

"Whatever is happening in your life, don't pre-occupy yourself with the question WHY? But rather ponder more on to WHERE these events will be bringing you. Know you are being led to somewhere beautiful, beyond your present harsh reality. Once you get to WHERE, then you'll know the WHY. Trust the process." - Author Unknown

"We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know." - W. H. Auden

"You can observe a lot just by watching." - Yogi Berra

"Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb." - Sir Winston Churchill

"When you become aware that you're judging or censoring yourself today, suspend that thought. Take a few deep breaths instead. Inhale slowly... exhale slowly. Then look around you with fresh eyes... listen with new ears." - Dr. Gay Hendricks

"Refuse to emotionally succumb to the negative events around you and tap your mental toughness to thrive in any environment. The good guy doesn't always win and justice doesn't always prevail, but where you direct your mental energy will always determine your attitude and it will always be controlled by you." - Steve Siebold

"Happiness comes in many forms -- in the company of good friends, in the feeling you get when you make someone else's dream come true, or in the promise of hope renewed. It's okay to let yourself be happy because you never know how fleeting that happiness might be." - One Tree Hill

"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant." - Martin Luther King Jr.

"Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost." - Thomas J. Watson

"If the person you're talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear." - Winnie the Pooh

"Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are." - Bertolt Brecht

"Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that." - Norman Vincent Peale

"Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it." - Cullen Hightower

"The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you." - Anita Roddick

"Authentic happiness isn't something we can go out and get, buy, beg, borrow or steal, it's only something we can be, and it's a choice we make with every breath we take." - Dennis Merritt Jones

"Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again." - Mike Myers

"Listen, can you hear it? Spring's sweet cantata. The strains of grass pushing through the snow. The song of buds swelling on the vine. The tender timpani of a baby robin's heart. Spring." - Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Wake Up Call, 1992

"My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee." - Proverbs 3:1-2

"Tough times don't last, but tough people do. Never give up!" - Robert Schuller

"Everybody in your situation has the same choice: you can rue your situation or you can dedicate yourself to changing it. Accept responsibility for your future. Refuse to complain, criticize, or condemn." - Mark Ford

"Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient." - Eugene S. Wilson

"You have only one life, and no one else will live it for you. Shouldn't you take the time right now to figure out what that life is all about?" - Harry Browne

 "When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness." - Nicole Kidman

"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." - Steve Prefontaine

"Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment." - Author Unknown

"Life is all about timing... the unreachable becomes reachable, the unavailable become available, the unattainable... attainable. Have the patience, wait it out. It's all about timing." - Stacey Charter

"Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow." - Denis Waitley

"The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become." - Charles DuBois

"The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." - Ronald Reagan

"First thing to do every morning is read or listen to something positive. Your mind is like a garden -- whatever you plant grows. Plant good stuff." - Alwyn Cosgrove

"The difference between what you were yesterday and what you will be tomorrow is what you do today." - Stephen Pierce

"Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Words have special powers. The power to create smiles or frowns. The power to generate laughs or tears. The power to lift up or put down. The power to motivate or de-motivate. The power to teach good or evil. The power to express love or hate. The power to give or take. The power to heal or harm. Choose your words carefully." - A.D. Williams

"Hope is wishing something would happen. Faith is believing something will happen. Courage is making something happen." - Unknown Author

"Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something." - Robert Heinlein

"A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure." - Segal's Law

"If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day." - John A. Wheeler

"Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk." - Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Three Doctors, 1993

"This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men." - Captain J. A. Hadfield

"The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question." - Stephen Jay Gould

"Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins." - Jim Rohn

"Those who seek consolation in existing churches often pay for their peace of mind with a tacit agreement to ignore a great deal of what is known about the way the world works." - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

"It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing." - D. H. Lawrence

"The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion." - Thomas Paine

"We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world." - Helen Keller

"The time to relax is -- when you don't have time for it." - Sidney J. Harris

"Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death." - James F. Byrnes

"What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens." - Benjamin Disraeli

"The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for." - Dan Millman

"I must govern the clock, not be governed by it." - Golda Meir

"The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own." - Susan Sontag

"Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive." - Lois McMaster Bujold

"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination." - Jimmy Dean

"First things first, but not necessarily in that order." - Doctor Who

"Committee ... a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done." - Fred Allen

"Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock." - Ben Hecht

"The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it." - John Ruskin

"Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door." - Kyle Chandler

"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy." - Guillaume Apollinaire

"You must learn a new way to think before you can master a new way to be." - Marianne Williamson

"It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and then we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey." - Wendell Berry