"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost." - Martha Graham
Posted via Composer

"Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them." - Benjamin Disraeli
Posted via Composer

"Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody." - Benjamin Franklin
Posted via Composer

"For what I have received, may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received." - Storm Jameson
Posted via Composer

"We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered." - Tom Stoppard
Posted via Composer

"I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law." - Martin Luther King Jr.
Posted via Composer

"View your life with kindsight. Stop beating yourself up about things from your past. Instead of slapping your forehead and asking, 'What was I thinking,' breathe and ask yourself the kinder question, 'What was I learning?'" - Karen Salmansohn
Posted via Composer

"'Know thyself,' said the old philosopher, 'improve thyself,' saith the new. Our great object in time is not to waste our passions and gifts on the things external that we must leave behind, but that we cultivate within us all that we can carry into the eternal progress beyond." - Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Posted via Composer

"Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou will judge others with the judgment of charity." - John Mitchell Mason
Posted via Composer

"Change starts with you but it doesn't start until you do." - Tom Ziglar
Posted via Composer

"The only way to find your voice is to use it." - Austin Kleon
Posted via Composer

"The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover." - Al Franken
Posted via Composer

"Toward no crime have men shown themselves so cold-bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief." - James Russell Lowell
Posted via Composer

"There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on." - Robert Byrne
Posted via Composer

"There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good." - Stephen Colbert
Posted via Composer

"It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it." - Latin Proverb
Posted via Composer

"When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and true maxim that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great highroad to his reason, and which, once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing him of the justice of your cause, if indeed that cause is really a good one." - Abraham Lincoln
Posted via Composer

"With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing." - Catherine de Hueck
Posted via Composer

"There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do." - Freya Madeline Stark
Posted via Composer

"How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!" - Maya Angelou
Posted via Composer

"Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light." - Author Unknown
Posted via Composer

"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." - Grenville Kleiser
Posted via Composer

"No attempt should be made to cure the body without curing the soul." - Plato
Posted via Composer

"Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?" - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Posted via Composer

"The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. That's nonsense in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born." - Warren Bennis
Posted via Composer

"Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language." - Cicero
Posted via Composer

"Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides." - Rita Mae Brown
Posted via Composer

"I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there." - Richard Feynman
Posted via Composer

"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
Posted via Composer

"If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old." - Lord Chesterfield
Posted via Composer