"Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits." - Author Unknown

"Do not get angry because others question what you believe, be calm and loving, for anger is the root of a faulty belief." - Leon Brown

"True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment." - William Penn

"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books." - Thomas Carlyle

"Watch your thoughts, they become words.  Watch your words, they become actions.  Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become your character.  Watch your character, it becomes your destiny." - Frank Outlaw

"A hug is a wonderful thing. It makes you feel wanted, needed, and loved all at the same time." - Gregory Garcia and Dan Coscino, Raising Hope

"Roses are reddish, Violets are bluish, If it weren't for Christmas, We'd all be Jewish." - Benny Hill

"When the devil reminds you of your past, remind him of his future!" - St. Teresa of Avila

"A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities." - William Arthur Ward

"The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith." - Bertrand Russell V. Delong

"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia." - Charles Schulz

"If an egg is broken by outside force, Life ends. If broken by inside force, Life begins. Great things always begin from inside." - Jim Kwik

"He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter." - Henry Fielding

"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out." - James Bryant Conant

"Don't count every day of the week; make every day of the week count." - Mark Amend

"It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him." - Sydney Smith

"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

"I do not want to die ... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown." - Kathe Kollwitz

"Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today." - Meredith Willson

"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

"Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance." - William Wirt

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

"Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that money cannot buy; therefore value it, and be thankful for it." - Izaak Walton

"Everything in life comes to you as a teacher. Pay attention. Learn quickly." - Cherokee Saying

"Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time." - Steven Wright

"Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities." - Aldous Huxley

"We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery." - H. G. Wells

"A false conclusion once arrived at and widely accepted is not easily dislodged and the less it is understood the more tenaciously it is held." - Georg Cantor

"I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk." - Anthony Robbins

"At least three times every day take a moment and ask yourself what is really important. Have the wisdom and the courage to build your life around your answer." - Lee Jampolsky

"When you get right down to it, what we all need is a place to go... A place where we can escape the noise of our lives and just relax." - Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005

"The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be." - Leo Buscaglia

"Every day holds the possibility of a miracle." - Elizabeth David

"Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion." - Jack Kerouac

"One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer." - G. E. Lessing

"Television - a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done." - Ernie Kovacs

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." - Dorothy Parker

"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

"No matter where you live, brothers are brothers and sisters are sisters. The bonds that keep family close are the same no matter where you are." - Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005

"Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds." - Theodore Roosevelt

"God has two dwellings: one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart." - Izaak Walton

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

"We are not on this earth to accumulate victories, things, and experiences, but to be whittled and sandpapered until what's left is who we truly are." - Arianna Huffington

"Call home at least once a week. It's a proven fact that we call home less the older we get. And that's wrong. It should be the other way around. As we get older, our parents get older." - Randy Pausch

"To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself." - Sophy Burnham

"The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change." - Carl Rogers

"If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it." - John Mayer

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

"When a person becomes crystal clear as to exactly what they want to accomplish, and focuses their time and energy on this one goal, any person can move mountains." - Jimmy Sweeney

"Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply." - Stephen R. Covey

"Our heroes are those... who... act above and beyond the call of duty and in so doing give definition to patriotism and elevate all of us... America is the land of the free because we are the home of the brave." - David Mahoney

"Real strength is not just a condition of one's muscle, but a tenderness in one's spirit." - McCallister Dodds

"There's no limit to how much you'll know, depending how far beyond zebra you go." - Dr. Seuss

"Character is forged in the smallest of struggles. Then, when the big challenges come, we're ready." - Waiter Rant

"Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car." - Evan Davis

"We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God." - James Madison

"If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going." - Professor Irwin Corey

"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed." - Alexander Pope

"I believe in the immeasurable power of love; that true love can endure any circumstance and reach across any distance." - Steve Maraboli

"I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty...This is my highest and best use as a human." - Ben Stein

"If you wish in this world to advance, your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or trust me, you haven't a chance." - W. S. Gilbert

"After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer." - William R. Alger

"Storms make oaks take deeper root." - George Herbert

"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship." - Aeschylus

"Whenever you're tempted to dwell in the past, repeat this single word: forward. Brainstorm one positive thought and action to use to keep you moving forward. When you're tempted to indulge in a negative, regressive behavior, swap it for one that will move you forward." - Karen Salmansohn

"Don't let the worst people get the best of you. Save it for the best people instead." - Doe Zantamata

"Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source." - Ron Nesen

"It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated." - Alec Bourne

"Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end." - Dr. Thomas Dooley

"Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth." - Horace

"There isn't a person anywhere who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can." - Henry Ford

"The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind." - Maya Angelou

"The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank." - Dante Gabriel Rossetti

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." - Sir Francis Bacon

"I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought, Damn. I am less nurturing than a desert." - Demetri Martin

"Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them." - Steve Maraboli

"Love and Hate cannot occupy the same space. So if Darkness fills the heart, Light will surely depart." - Chris W. Clark

"Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon." - Paul Brandt

"Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be." - Clementine Paddleford

"The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling." - Paula Poundstone

"The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive." - Robert Frost

"Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream." - Debby Boone

"Cherish each hour of this day for it can never return." - Og Mandino

"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make." - Jane Goodall

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind." - William James

"You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control." - Elizabeth Gilbert

"You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think." - Mortimer Adler

"A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them." - Leonard Louis Levinson

"Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak... Probably so we can think twice!" - Bill Watterson

"Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds." - Marian Evans

"And the Word was made flesh, and tabernacled among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father) full of grace and truth." - John 1:14

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning." - Albert Einstein

"No one rises above who he or she has been without first having fallen down. The best time -- in fact, the only time -- to make a real change in your life is in the moment of seeing the need for it. He who hesitates always gets lost in the hundred reasons why tomorrow is a better day to get started." - Guy Finley

"Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny." - Carl Schurz

"Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels. If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel, we can find something to be thankful for." - Terry Lynn Taylor

"Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read." - Mark Twain

"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

"Always Remember to take your Vitamins: Take your Vitamin A for ACTION, Vitamin B for Belief, Vitamin C for Confidence, Vitamin D for Discipline, Vitamin E for Enthusiasm!!" - Pablo

"It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding." - Kahlil Gibran

"Eat a live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day." - Unknown

"It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

"It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful." - Ann Landers

"If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside." - Robert X. Cringely

"If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Those who are unwilling or incapable of discerning or judging between good and evil are in this manner revealing either their disobedience or their immaturity." - E. L. Bynum

"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

"I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business." - Michael J. Fox, quoted by Lorne A. Adrain in 'The Most Important Thing I Know'

"Most men's awareness doesn't extend past their dinner plates." - Scott Westerfeld

"The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy." - Kalu Kalu

"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are." - John Wooden

"The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them." - Lois McMaster Bujold

"It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities." - Eric Hoffer

"It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life, it's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!" - Robert Kiyosaki

"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards." - Vernon Sanders Law

"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty."- Maya Angelou

"One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine." - Sir William Osler

"You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself." - Sam Levenson

"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong." - Joseph Chilton Pearce

"Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy." - Ralph Ransom

"I am sick and tired of being sick and tired." - Fannie Lou Hamer

"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." - Bertrand Russell

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." - Benjamin Franklin

"Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity." - Francis Bacon, Sr.

"Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good." - Thomas Sowell

"The best way to measure how much you've grown isn't by inches or the number of laps you can now run around the track, or even your grade point average -- though those things are important, to be sure. It's what you've done with your time, how you've chosen to spend your days, and whom you've touched this year. That, to me, is the greatest measure of success." - R.J. Palacio

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance." - Will Durant

"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it." - Sarah Dessen

"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail." - Benjamin Franklin

"I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff." - Jon Katz

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." - Soren Kierkegaard

"If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward." - Martin Luther King Jr.

"Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young." - Fred Astaire

"We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift." - Seneca

"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not quite, the not yet, and the not at all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists. It is real. It is possible. It is yours." - Ayn Rand

"Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in." - Leonardo da Vinci

"The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision." - Helen Keller

"The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp."  - John Berry

"I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on." - Beryl Pfizer

"A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying ... that he is wiser today than yesterday." - Jonathan Swift

"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." - Franklin P. Jones

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

"Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records." - William Arthur Ward

"It's not the will to win that matters...everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters." - Paul "Bear" Bryant

"The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it." - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means." - Sir Henry Taylor

"You're worried about how you're going to feel at the end of your life? What about right now? Live. Right this minute. That's where the joy's at." - Abigail Thomas

"The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests." - Epictetus

"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook

"In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

"And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same." - Marianne Williamson

"The best things happen at the exit ramp of your comfort zone." - Karen Salmansohn

"Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth." - Charles A. Dana

"Show kindness whenever possible. Show it to the people in front of you, the people coming up behind you, and the people with whom you are running neck and neck. It will vastly improve the quality of your own life, the lives of others, and the state of the world." - Ann Patchett

"Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results." - Narcotics Anonymous

"Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened." - Stanley Walker

"Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself." - A. H. Weiler

"As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless." - Rodney Yee

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young." - Henry Ford

"Sometimes it is the quiet observer who see the most." - Kathryn L. Nelson

"Never judge a book by its movie." - J. W. Eagan

"The first step to living the life you want is leaving the life you don't want. Taking that first step forward is always the hardest. But then each step forward gets easier and easier. And each step forward gets you closer and closer. Until eventually, what had once been invisible, starts to be visible. And what had once felt impossible, starts to feel possible." - Karen Salmansohn

"Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy." - Izaak Walton

"It's the little things you do that make the big things happen." - Mike Dooley

"Doing nothing is very hard to do ... you never know when you're finished." - Leslie Nielsen

"Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television." - David Letterman

"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction." - Blaise Pascal

"Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable." G. K. Chesterton

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." - Bill Cosby

"Each person has an ideal, a hope, a dream which represents the soul. We must give to it the warmth of love, the light of understanding and the essence of encouragement." - Colby Dorr Dam

"First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull your zipper up, then you forget to pull your zipper down." - Leo Rosenberg

"The willingness to forgive is a sign of spiritual and emotional maturity. It is one of the great virtues to which we all should aspire. Imagine a world filled with individuals willing both to apologize and to accept an apology. Is there any problem that could not be solved among people who possessed the humility and largeness of spirit and soul to do either -- or both -- when needed?" - Gordon B. Hinckley

"The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive." - John Sladek

"I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet." - Rodney Dangerfield

"Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up." - G. K. Chesterton

"Listen to your inner voice for it is a deep and powerful source of wisdom, beauty and truth, ever flowing through you. Learn to trust it, trust your intuition, and in good time, answers to all you seek to know will come, and the path will open before you." - Caroline Joy Adams

"Insist on yourself; never imitate... Every great man is unique." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Maybe the greatest challenge now is to find a way to keep independence while also committing ourselves to the ties that bind people, families, and ultimately societies together." - Jane O'Reilly

"That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way." - Doris Lessing

"Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten." - G.K. Chesterton

"The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides." - Audrey Hepburn

"Reprove thy friend privately; commend him publicly." - Solon

"Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place." - Abigail Van Buren

"Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise." - Bertrand Russell

"A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind." - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

"The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory." - Paul Fix

"There is no such thing as a weird human being. It's just that some people require more understanding than others." - Tom Robbins

"When the deepest part of you becomes engaged in what you are doing ... you are doing what you were meant to be doing." - Gary Zukav

"Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important." - Natalie Goldberg

"You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." - Zig Ziglar

"I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether." - Alfred North Whitehead

"It's the possibility that when you're dead you might still go on hurting that bothers me." - Keri Hulme

"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you... I could walk through my garden forever." - Alfred Tennyson

"Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work." - H. L. Hunt

This is the day OUR FATHER has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in HIM! - Psalm 118:24

"Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot." - D. H. Lawrence

"Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult." - Samuel Johnson

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye." - Miss Piggy

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go..." - Dr. Seuss

"Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one." - A. J. Liebling

"Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it." - Mother Teresa

"Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does." James Hilton

"Only by seeking challenges can we hope to find the best in ourselves." - Robert Rodriguez

"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

"I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours." - Monica Baldwin

"People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one." - Leo J. Burke

"Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others." - Audrey Hepburn

"Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own." - Aesop

"Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing." - John Erskine

"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death." - Albert Einstein

"The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives." - Lois McMaster Bujold

"There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot." - Steven Wright

"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today." - H. G. Wells

"Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows." - David T. Wolf

"My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!" - Thomas Jefferson

"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

"Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science." - Gary Zukav

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean." - Christopher Reeve

"Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character." - George Santayana

"Courage is the power to let go of the familiar." - Raymond Lindquist

"Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend." - Theophrastus

"Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." - Mark Twain

"Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week." - Alice Walker

"Long term success is built on credibility and on establishing enduring loving relationships with quality people based on mutually earned trust. Cut all ties with dishonest, negative or lazy people, and associate with people who share your values. You become who you associate with." - Dave Kekich

"I am never afraid of what I know." - Anna Sewell

"Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind." - Leonardo da Vinci

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." - Aldous Huxley

"Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right." - Jane Goodall

"We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration." - Olive Schreiner

"Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them." - Bruce Lee

"One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything." - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

"The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear." - Herbert Agar

"A friend told me that each morning when we get up we have to decide whether we are going to save or savor the world. I don't think that is the decision. It's not an either-or, save or savor. We have to do both, save and savor the world." - Kate Clinton

"Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich." - Sarah Bernhardt

"We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys." - William Arthur Ward

"Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain." - John F. Kennedy

"I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person." - Audrey Hepburn

"We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over." - Aneurin Bevan

"The scientific name for an animal that doesn't either run from or fight its enemies is lunch." - Michael Friedman

"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." - Bertrand Russell

"It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well." - Rene Descartes

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." - Mark Twain

"Love the ones you can. Touch the ones you can reach. Let the others go." - Real Live Preacher

"I try to avoid looking backward and keep looking upward." - Charlotte Bronte

"Nothing is impossible; the word itself says I'm possible!" - Audrey Hepburn

"Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe." - Robert Service

"The saying 'Getting there is half the fun' became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines." - Henry J. Tillman

"My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing." - Jessica Alba

"If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there." - Lewis Carroll

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair

"The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth." - W. Somerset Maugham

"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled." - Matthew 5:6

"It always seems impossible until it's done." - Nelson Mandela

"To find fulfillment ... don't exist with life - embrace it." - Jim Beggs

"Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever." - Isak Dinesen

"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit." - E. E. Cummings

"Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing." - Thomas Paine

"Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power." - Henry George

"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

"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." - Eddie Rickenbacker

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

"God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest." - J. G. Holland

"Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up." - James Magary

"Miracles: You do not have to look for them. They are there, 24-7, beaming like radio waves all around you. Put up the antenna, turn up the volume - snap... crackle... this just in, every person you talk to is a chance to change the world." - Hugh Elliott

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." - Mae West

"There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age." - Sophia Loren

“One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop.” - G. Weilacher

"Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived." - Helen Keller

"Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century." - Dame Edna Everage

"It only takes a split second to smile and forget, yet to someone that needed it, it can last a lifetime." - Steve Maraboli

"What is it that we all believe in that we cannot see or hear or feel or taste or smell - this invisible thing that heals all sorrows, reveals all lies and renews all hope? What is it that has always been and always will be, from whose bosom we all came and to which we will all return? Most call it Time. A few realize that it is God." - Robert Brault

"Sometimes the most urgent thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest." - Ashleigh Brilliant

"Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, and toss them on the wheels of Chance." - Juvenal

"Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns." - John Clarke, Economist

"Real difficulties can be overcome. It is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable." - Theodore N. Vail

"If you control the oil you control the country; if you control food, you control the population." - Henry Kissinger

"Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed." - Baltasar Gracian

"People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed." - Samuel Johnson

"Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man." - Benjamin Franklin

"Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together." - Carl Zwanzig

"When our desire to change is strong enough all of our excuses lose their power." - Susan Sly

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now." - Chinese Proverb

"Eighty percent of success is showing up." - Woody Allen

"Why you? Because there's no one better. Why now? Because tomorrow isn't soon enough." - Donna Brazile

"May you have the hindsight to know where you've been, the foresight to know where you're going, and the insight to know when you're going too far." - Irish Blessing

"When you come to a fork in the road, take it." - Yogi Berra

"Agree to these ground rules: Be curious, conversational and real. Don't persuade or interrupt. Listen, listen, listen." - Elizabeth Lesser

"It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing." - Michael Pritchard

"Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything." - George Lois

"When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves." - William Arthur Ward

"I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me." - William Blake

"Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work." - Ralph Marston

"I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me." - Simone de Beauvoir

"God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met." - Farrah Fawcett

"Having a dream is what keeps you alive. Overcoming the challenges make life worth living." - Mary Tyler Moore

"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." - Chinese Proverb

"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it." - Maya Angelou

"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

"Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience." - Dale Carnegie

"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home." - Ken Olsen, President, Digital Equipment, 1977

"We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released." - Jean Houston

"Thirty days hath September; April, June, and November; All the rest have thirty-one; Save February, with twenty-eight days clear; And twenty-nine each leap year." - Traditional English mnemonic rhyme

"Follow your passion. Stay true to yourself. Never follow someone else's path unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path. By all means, you should follow that." - Ellen DeGeneres

"Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will." - Vernon Howard

"The possibility for rich relationships exists all around you -- you simply have to open your eyes, open your mouth and most importantly, open your heart." - Cheryl Richardson

"A happy man marries the girl he loves; a happier man loves the girl he marries." - Author Unknown

"A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendships, all the enjoyment of sense and reason - and indeed all the sweets of life." - Joseph Addison

"Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner." - Amy Bloom

"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul." - Judy Garland

"Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation" - Author Unknown

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." - Dr. Seuss

"What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined... to strengthen each other... to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories." - George Eliot

"When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all." - Lois McMaster Bujold

"Give all to love; obey thy heart." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Remember, no matter where you go, there you are." - Earl Mac Rauch

"A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors." - Benjamin Franklin

"In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine." - Maya Angelou

"A bachelor's life is no life for a single man." - Samuel Goldwyn

"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present." - Bil Keane

"If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'" - Jeff Foxworthy

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein

"The two most important days of your life are the day you are born, and the day you find out why" - Mark Twain

"I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant." - Robert McCloskey

"People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done." - Cullen Hightower

"Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are." - Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

"To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward." - Margaret Fairless Barber

"All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others." - Danny Thomas

"When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained." - Edward R. Murrow

"Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions." - Evan Esar

"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past." - Thomas Jefferson

"A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary." - Dorothy C. Fisher

"Exercise alone provides psychological and physical benefits. However, if you also adopt a strategy that engages your mind while you exercise, you can get a whole host of psychological benefits fairly quickly." - James Rippe, M.D.

“You rose into my life like a promised sunrise, brightening my days with the light in your eyes. I've never been so strong. Now I'm where I belong.” - Maya Angelou

"We can throw stones, complain about them, stumble on them, climb over them, or build with them." - William Arthur Ward

"Communications without intelligence is noise; Intelligence without communications is irrelevant." - Gen Alfred Gray, USMC

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

"Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil." - James Allen

"Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind." - Evan Esar

"Sometimes it's good to contrast what you like with something else. It makes you appreciate it even more." - Darby Conley

"In reality, the most important things happen when you don't look for them." - Phil Donahue

"Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop." - Ovid

"If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you." - Muhammad Ali

"Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path." - Scandinavian Proverb

"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." - Benjamin Franklin

"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out." - James Bryant Conant

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Martin Luther King Jr.

"Do not think that what is hard for thee to master is impossible for man; but if a thing is possible and proper to man, deem it attainable by thee." - Marcus Aurelius

"We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery." - H. G. Wells

"Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them." - Francesco Guicciardini

"Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes." - Henry J. Kaiser

"When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong -- or absolutely right." - Albert Guinon

"When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure." - Peter Marshall

"When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it." - Bernard Bailey

"Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

"I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way." - Franklin P. Adams

"Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back." - Thomas Sowell

"The shortest distance between two points is under construction." - Noelie Altito

“Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.” - Dennis Prager

"To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge." - Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil, 1845

"What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal." - Albert Pine

"An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves." - Bill Vaughan