"A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it." - Chinese Proverb
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"If you can't beat them, join them. If you can't join them, it's probably because you just tried to beat them." - Author Unknown
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"When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur. When you improve conditioning a little each day, eventually you have a big improvement in conditioning. Not tomorrow, not the next day, but eventually a big gain is made. Don't look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time. That's the only way it happens -- and when it happens, it lasts." - John Wooden
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"The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin." - Heinrich Heine
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"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on." - Samuel Goldwyn
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"We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise." - Edward Sellner
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"We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction." - Malcolm Gladwell
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"Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can." - Douglas Pagels
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"Food is an important part of a balanced diet." - Fran Lebowitz
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"When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen." - Ernest Hemingway
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"If you pray for rain, be prepared to deal with some mud." - Mary Englebreit
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"Perhaps we are wiser, less foolish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfect in all these things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly as the need for both." - Joseph Wood Krutch
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"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"Sometimes a short walk down memory lane is all it takes to appreciate where you are today." - Susan Gale
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"Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm." - Pamela Ribon
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"Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one." - Jane Howard
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"The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O." - Martin Mull
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"To become acquainted with kindness one must be prepared to learn new things and feel new feelings. Kindness is more than a philosophy of the mind. It is a philosophy of the spirit." - Robert J. Furey
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"The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them." - Henry Bolingbroke
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"The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever." - Anatole France
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"A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?" - Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, All is Vanity, 1991
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"I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles." - Christopher Reeve
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"How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep Holidays than Commandments." - Benjamin Franklin
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"It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared." - Whitney Young Jr.
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"Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream." - Khalil Gibran
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"Tolerance is the virtue of a man that has no convictions." - C.S. Lewis
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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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"In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it." - Samuel Johnson
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"The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear." - Herbert Agar
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"Every pilot needs a co-pilot, and let me tell you, it is awful nice to have someone sitting there beside you, especially when you hit some bumpy air." - Eric Wald
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"There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
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"The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom." - John Locke
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"The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher." - Elbert Hubbard
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"Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will be many fruits, here in this world and the life to come." - Henri Nouwen
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"The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it! (It's rather like getting tenure.)" - Daniel Dennett
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"Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand." - Mark Twain
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"Strength of character isn't always about how much you can handle before you break, it's also about how much you can handle after you've broken." - Robert Tew
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"Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys." - Gail Pool
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"Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date." - Dale Carnegie
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"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
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"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
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"Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody." - Benjamin Franklin
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"For what I have received, may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received." - Storm Jameson
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"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
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"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.
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"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
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"'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
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"Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou will judge others with the judgment of charity." - John Mitchell Mason
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"Change starts with you but it doesn't start until you do." - Tom Ziglar
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"The only way to find your voice is to use it." - Austin Kleon
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"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
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"Toward no crime have men shown themselves so cold-bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief." - James Russell Lowell
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"There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on." - Robert Byrne
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"There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good." - Stephen Colbert
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"It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it." - Latin Proverb
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"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
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"With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing." - Catherine de Hueck
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"There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do." - Freya Madeline Stark
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"How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!" - Maya Angelou
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"Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light." - Author Unknown
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"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
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"No attempt should be made to cure the body without curing the soul." - Plato
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides." - Rita Mae Brown
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"I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there." - Richard Feynman
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"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
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"If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old." - Lord Chesterfield
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"Life is like an elevator. On your way up, sometimes you have to stop and let some people off." - Author Unknown
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"Instead of being ashamed of what you've been through, be proud of what you have overcome!" - Dr. Phil
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"The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them." - Robert Frost
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"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge." - Daniel J. Boorstin
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"Don't fall in love with someone who says the right things, fall in love with someone who does the right things." - Robert Tew
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"Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof." - Ashley Montague
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"God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home." - Joseph Roux
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"You don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened." - John Green
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"Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us." - John Scalzi
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"I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it." - Terry Pratchett
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"The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell." - Zora Neale Hurston
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"I sense an insatiable demand for connectivity. Maybe all these people have discovered important uses for the Internet. Perhaps some of them feel hungry for a community that our real neighborhoods don't deliver. At least a few must wonder what the big deal is." - Clifford Stoll
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"A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest." - Pearl Bailey
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"On a lazy Saturday morning when you're lying in bed, drifting in and out of sleep, there is a space where fantasy and reality become one. Are you awake, or are you dreaming? You see people and things; some are familiar; some are strange. You talk, you feel, but you move without walking; you fly without wings. Your mind and your body exist, but on separate planes. Time stands still. For me, this is the feeling I have when ideas come." - Lynn Johnston
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"Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair." - George Burns
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"There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer; no disease that enough love will not heal; no door that enough love will not open." - Emmet Fox
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"The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down." - Flip Wilson
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"October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February." - Mark Twain
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"Many things are worse than defeat, and compromise with evil is one of them." - Author Unknown
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"Oil prices have fallen lately. We include this news for the benefit of gas stations, which otherwise wouldn't learn of it for six months." - Bill Tammeus
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"Rest is the sweet sauce of labor." - Plutarch
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"Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness." - Hippocrates
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"Hoaxes are nothing new. News media isn't hard to fool. It's fun to fool and people like to mess with people. It all goes to show you that we're not all that hard to fool. I think we should just accept that and trust people anyway." - Hank Green
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"To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can." - Sydney Smith
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"There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls." - George Carlin
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"It is by giving our whole hearts to the Master and keeping His commandments that we come to know Him. In time, through the power of the Atonement, our hearts are changed, and we can become like Him." - Henry B. Eyring
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"We don't forgive people because they deserve it. We forgive them because they need it... because we need it. We all need it." - Janis Joplin
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"Our prayers are answered not when we are given what we ask but when we are challenged to be what we can be." - Morris Adler
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"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it." - Samuel Johnson
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"Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it." - Marian Anderson
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"You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you." - Heraclitus
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