Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel.
--Anonymous
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life.
--Bette Davis
My future starts when I wake up every morning…Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
--Miles Davis
A good laugh is sunshine in a house.
--William Makepeace Thackeray
Life is overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.
--Eileen Caddy
Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching.--George Van Valkenburg...
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.--Albert Camus...
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.--Scott Adams...
Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.--Alice Mackenzie Swaim...
Change your thoughts, and you change your world.--Norman Vincent Peale...
Everyone's a star and deserves the right to twinkle.--Marilyn Monroe...
I've always felt it was not up to anyone else to make me give my best.--Hakeem Olajuwon...
The wishbone will never replace the backbone.--Will Henry...
The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind.--Dr. Wayne Dyer...
No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.--William Blake...
When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.--Rabbi Harold Kushner...
Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.--Voltaire...
Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.--Jennie Jerome Churchill...
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.--Herm Albright...
You can't keep blaming yourself. Just blame yourself once, and move on.--Homer Simpson...
To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.--Josh Jenkins...
Even God doesn't plan to judge a man till the end of his days, why should you and I?--Unknown...
More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.--Harold J. Smith...
If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.--Moshe Dayan...
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.--Calvin Coolidge...
Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket.--Doug Horton...
You cannot have everything. I mean, where would you put it?--Steven Wright...
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.--Thomas Carlyle...
Learn to pause ... or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you.--Doug King...
I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head.--Jack Nicklaus...
We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.--Ben Weininger...
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.--Rabindranath Tagore...
One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each other's stories.--Rebecca Falls...
Integrity is not a 90 percent thing, not a 95 percent thing; either you have it or you don't.--Peter Scotese...
We have a choice: to plow new ground or let the weeds grow.--Jonathan Westover...
Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.--German Proverb...
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.--Denis Waitley...
People who matter are most aware that everyone else does, too.--Malcolm Forbes...
Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.--Jean de la Bruyere...
God gave us memories that we might have roses in December.--James M. Barrie...
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.--John Barrymore...
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.--Dale Carnegie...
Sundays, quiet islands on the tossing seas of life.--S.W. Duffield...
Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.--Rabindranath Tagore...
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.--George Santayana...
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.--Harrold Hill...
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.--Robin Williams...
If you're not using your smile, you're like a man with a million dollars in the bank and no checkbook.--Les Giblin...
The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?--Margaret Gatty...
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.--Marcus Valerius Martial...
One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.--Edward B. Butler...
Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.--Swedish Proverb...
I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.--Lou Holtz...
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.--Anna Quindlen...
True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.--John Hay...
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.--Cullen Hightower...
Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.--Charles A. Dana...
The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.--Doug Larson...
First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.--Thomas a Kempis...
Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.--Philip K. Dick...
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.--Donald Laird...
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.--Erma Bombeck...
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.--Woodrow Wilson...
Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.--Annie Lennox...
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.--John Cage...
There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'--Carrie Fisher...
One kind word can warm three winter months.--Chinese Proverb...
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.--Aldous Huxley...
I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.--Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart...
Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.--Ralph Charell...
Do or do not. There is no try.--Yoda, 'The Empire Strikes Back'...
It may be that those who do most, dream most.--Stephen Leacock...
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...
Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.--Han Suyin...
Man’s heart away from nature becomes hard.--Standing Bear...
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.--Joseph Campbell...
Let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt.--Motto of the Special Olympics...
“Stay” is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.--Louisa May Alcott...
Do you know what the greatest test is? Do you still get excited about what you do when you get up in the morning?--David Halberstam...
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.--Benjamin Franklin...
A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.--William A. Ward...
You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.--Heraclitus...
I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.--Laura Ingalls Wilder...
The man who has no imagination has no wings.--Muhammad Ali...
To make the world a friendly place, one must show it a friendly face.--James Whitcomb Riley...
Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.--Stevie Wonder...
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.--Margaret Thatcher...
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.--Lucille Ball...
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence, but by oft falling.--Lucretius...
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.--Vince Lombardi...
He who is outside the door has already got a good part of his journey behind him.--Dutch Proverb...
Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you.--Frank Tyger...
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe...
On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.--Aldous Huxley...
When faced with a challenge, look for a way, not a way out.--David L. Weatherford...
Courage does not always roar. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ""I will try again tomorrow"".--Mary Anne Radmacher...
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just to enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.--Thornton Wilder...
If you aren’t going to go all the way, why go at all?--Joe Namath...
Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day.--Will Durant...
Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.--Lou Holtz...
When one teaches, two learn.--Robert Half...
Never miss a chance to keep your mouth shut.--Robert Newton Peck...
Keep a green tree alive in your heart and a songbird may come to sing there.--Chinese Proverb...
First a person should put his house together, then his town, then the world.--Rabbi Israel Salanter...
Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.--William Penn...
A gentle hand may lead an elephant with a single hair.--Persian Proverb...
Once a woman has forgiven a man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.--Marlene Dietrich...
Saints are sinners who kept going.--Robert Louis Stevenson...
Take time every day to do something silly.--Philipa Walker...
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.--Will Rogers...
It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices.--Professor Dumbledore to Harry in ""Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,"" by J.K. Rowling...
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.--George Bernard Shaw...
Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.--Lou Holtz...
When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves.--David Orr ...
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.--Eric Hoffer...
Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.--Alexander Solzhenitsyn...
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.--Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi...
All beginnings require that you unlock a new door.--Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav...
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.--Oscar Wilde...
What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience.--St. Francis de Sales...
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.--Ambrose Redmoon...
Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.--Henry Van Dyke...
Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.--Anonymous...
Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you hold well.--Josh Billings...
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.--Emily Dickinson...
It is never too late to give up your prejudices.--Henry David Thoreau...
I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.--Dr. Seuss...
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.--Robert Louis Stevenson...
It's never crowded along the extra mile.--Wayne Dyer...
Humility does not mean you think less of yourself. It means you think of yourself less.--Ken Blanchard...
One of the secrets of life is to make stepping-stones out of stumbling blocks.--Jack Penn...
Worrying is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.--Unknown...
Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up.--Jesse Jackson...
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.--Franklin D. Roosevelt...
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.--Indira Gandhi...
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.--Will Rogers...
Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.--Coach Paul ""Bear"" Bryant...
Without the rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.--Ralph Waldo Emerson...
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.--Sir Francis...
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.--T.S. Eliot...
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.--Martin Luther King, Jr....
Man can live for about forty days without food, and about three days without water, about eight minutes without air ... but only for one second without hope.--Hal Lindsey...
When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.--Ralph Waldo Emerson...
Every new day begins with possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace.--Ronald Reagan...
We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to.--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr....
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but moments.--Rose Kennedy...
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wing, and only character endures.--Horace Greeley...
Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe.--Tao Te Ching...
There are men who hate me; Let me love them. There are men I have wronged; Let them forgive me.--Saying of the Dinka Tribe...
Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.--Emily Dickinson...
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.--Mortimer J. Adler...
We either make ourselves happy or miserable. The amount of work is the same.--Carlos Castaneda...
Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.--Alphonse Karr...
We ask ourselves, ""Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?"" Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.--Marianne Williamson...
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.--Neil Armstrong...
If I have seen farther than other men it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.--Isaac Newton...
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.--Elvis Presley...
Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.--William Sloane Coffin, Jr....
They who give have all things; they who withhold have nothing.--Hindu Proverb...
Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn't be done.--Sam Ewing...
There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.--Ugo Betti...
Humility, like darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.--Henry David Thoreau...
Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.--Frank A. Clark...
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.--Sydney Smith...
I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on the way.--Carl Sandburg...
Anger or hatred is like a fisherman's hook. It is very important for us to ensure that we are not caught by it.--The Dalai Lama...
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.--Unknown...
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.--Confucius...
It's not how much you have that makes people look up to you, it's who you are.--Elvis Presley...
One without a friend is like the right hand without the left.--Bosnian Proverb...
When eating a fruit, think of the person who planted the tree.--Vietnamese saying...
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.--Douglas Jerrould...
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.--Margaret Lee Runbeck...
The person who is willing to say yes to experience is the person who discovers new frontiers.--John Marks Templeton...
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.--Robert M. Pirsig...
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.--George MacDonald...
The only way to find the limits of the possible is by going beyond them to the impossible.--Arthur C. Clarke...
If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.--Vincent Van Gogh...
Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.--Howard Thurman...
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or we grow weak, and at last some crisis shows us what we have...
You should not suffer the past. You should be able to wear it like a loose garment, take it off and let it drop.--Eva Jessye...
If you won't be better tomorrow than you were today, then what do you need tomorrow for?--Rebbe Nachman of Breslov...
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.--Oliver Goldsmith...
If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.--Mary Pickford...
When we look into our own hearts and begin to discover what is confused and what is brilliant, what is bitter and what is sweet, it isn't just ourselves that we're discovering. We're discovering the universe.--Pema Chodron...
Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.--Bruce Crampton...
People should be beautiful in every way--in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.--Anton Chekhov...
Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.--May Sarton...
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.--Henri Bergson...
Always aim for achievement, and forget about success.--Helen Hayes...
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.--Alexis Carrel...
Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?--Marcus Tullius Cicero...
Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.--R.E. Shay...
Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable are the kind who do nothing.--William Feather...
All comes at the proper time to him who knows how to wait.--Saint Vincent de Paul...
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.--Ann Landers...
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?--Vincent Van Gogh...
We grow old as soon as we cease to love and trust.--Madame de Choiseul...
Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.--Comte de Buffon...
Every exit is an entry somewhere else.--Tom Stoppard...
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.--Edith Wharton...
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.--Hodding Carter...
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.--Lily Tomlin...
In our journey towards God, we proceed like those small birds whose flight is in loops. They always seem to be about to drop, but the drop in their flight seems to urge them forward.--Gerard W. Hughes...
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.--Beverly Sills...
There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.--Jules Renard...
Believe that none of the effort you put into coming closer to God is ever wasted--even if in the end you don't achieve what you are striving for.--Rebbe Nachman of Breslov...
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?--Yiddish Proverb...
If you were born lucky, even your rooster will lay eggs.--Russian Proverb...
I am always doing things I can't do; that's how I get to do them.--Pablo Picasso...
Everything that is worthwhile in life is scary. Choosing a school, choosing a career, getting married, having kids--all those things are scary. If it is not fearful, it is not worthwhile.--Paul Tornier...
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.--Albert Einstein...
When you dig another out of their troubles, you find a place to bury your own.--Anonymous...
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.--Richard Bach...
Creativity is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift to God.--Bob Moawad...
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.--Dolly Parton...
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, but in what direction we are moving.--Oliver Wendell Holmes...
Some people think it's holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it's letting go.--Sylvia Robinson...
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle...
The marksman hitteth the mark partly by pulling, partly by letting go.--Egyptian Proverb...
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.--Arnold Glasgow...
Hearing is one of the body's five senses. But listening is an art.--Frank Tyger...
You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out he hates all the same people you do.--Anne Lamott...
Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.--Gerry Sikorski...
Patience is also a form of action.--Auguste Rodin...
Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.--Mark Twain...
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.--Elbert Hubbard...
Life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.--Grandma Moses...
In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.--David Ben Gurion...
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.--Hugh Downs...
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.--Goethe...
Don’t postpone joy.--Bumper Sticker...
Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.--Marian Wright Edelman...
Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others.--Anonymous...
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.--Martin Luther King, Jr....
Every fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying.--Harry Anderson...
Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.--Harlan Miller...
"Why not" is a slogan for an interesting life.--Mason Cooley...
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.--Beverly Sills...
Never "for the sake of peace and quiet" deny your own experience or convictions.--Dag Hammarskjold...
I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.--Jean Ingelow...
Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.--Sydney J. Harris...
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.--Danny Kaye...
Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.--Dinah Shore...
Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money and power and influence.--Henry Chester...
Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But to be angry with the right person to the right degree at the right time for the right purpose and in the right way, that is not easy.--Aristotle...
In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.--Dietrich Bonhoeffer...
Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot.--The Hausa of Nigeria...
Whatever you do or dream you can do— begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.--Johann Goethe...
It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.--Andre Gide...
If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.--Katherine Hepburn's mother...
It is never too late to be what you might have been.--George Eliot...
It takes courage to show your dreams to someone else.--Erma Bombeck...
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.--Andre Gide...
Worry is as useless as a handle on a snowball.--Mitzi Chandler...
Speak when you're angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.--Lawrence J. Peter...
I’m not overweight, I’m just nine inches too short.--Shelley Winters...
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.--Goethe...
Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?--Carnegie Dale...
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.--A sister of Nil Nilson...
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.--Charles Spurgeon...
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.--Norman Vincent Peale...
We must not give only what we have; we must give what we are.--Cardinal Mercia...
When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies with yourself.--Tecumseh,...
The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between political parties either--but right through every human heart.--Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn...
When written in Chinese, the word ""crisis"" is composed of two characters--one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.--John F. Kennedy...
The whole worth of a kind deed is in the love that inspires it.--The Talmud...
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say to him, "What are you going through?"--Simone Weil...
Where there is great love, there are always miracles.--Willa Cather...
Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.--George Iles...
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.--Herm Albright...
God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.--German Proverb...
You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.--Christopher Robin to Pooh...
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened.--Billy Graham...
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.--Dwight D. Eisenhower...
On the heights it is warmer than those in the valley imagine.--Friedrich Nietzsche...
There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present.--Lillian Eichler Watson...
I don't know what the big deal is about old age. Old people who shine from the inside look 10 to 20 years younger.--Dolly Parton...
Don't cut your conscience to fit this year's fashions.--Lillian Hellman...
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.--Henri Bergson...
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.--Rabindranath Tagore...
After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.--Cynthia Ozick...
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.--Marie Curie...
"Mile by mile it's a trial; yard by yard it's hard; but inch by inch it's a cinch."--Anonymous...
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.--Gen. Norman Schwarzkoff...
The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.--Aiden Nowlan...
If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.--Justice Arthur Goldberg...
Ultimately, it is through serving others that we become fully human.--Marsha Sinetar...
Every time I think I'm getting old, something else happens.--Lillian Carter...
Men may be divided almost any way we please, but I have found the most useful distinction to be made between those who devote their lives to conjugating the verb “to be” and those who spend their lives conjugating the...
The ultimate test of a man’s conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.--Gaylord Nelson...
Age is all imagination. Ignore years and they'll ignore you.--Ella Wheeler-Wilcox...
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.--Polish Proverb...
To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.--Georg Christoph Lichtenberg...
First of all, do not predefine understanding, and do not make a principle of non-understanding. --Ying-an From "Teachings of Zen," edited by Thomas Cleary, © 1998. By arrangement with Shambhala Publications, Inc., Boston, www.shambhala.com....
To be content with little is hard; to be content with much is impossible.--Marie Ebner-Eschenbach...
One of the oldest human needs is having someone wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.--Margaret Mead...
Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.--Betty Smith...
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.--Abraham Lincoln...
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.--Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr....
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.--Elizabeth Foley...
If you want happiness for an hour—take a nap. If you want happiness for a day—go fishing. If you want happiness for a month—get married. If you want happiness for a year—inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a...
What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?--George Eliot...
Making the decision to have a child--it’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.--Elizabeth Stone...
Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.--Socrates...
Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth thrown in. Aim at Earth and you get neither.--C.S. Lewis...
Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.--Thomas Carlyle...
Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.--Doug Larson...
Getting married is easy. Staying married is more difficult. Staying happily married for a lifetime should rank among the fine arts.--Roberta Flack...
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.--Anne Frank...
Memory is a child walking along the seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things.--Pierce Harris...
We aren’t what we ought to be. We aren’t what we’re going to be. We aren’t what we want to be. But, thank God, we aren’t what we were.--Anonymous...
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.--Maya Angelou...
Failure is a stepping-stone to greatness.--Oprah Winfrey...
Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.--John Masefield...
Money-giving is a good criterion of a person’s mental health. Generous people are rarely mentally ill people.--Dr. Karl Menninger...
Self-discipline is when your conscience tells you to do something and you don't talk back.--W.K. Hope...
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.--Robert Brault...
God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December.--James M. Barrie...
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.--Kahlil Gibran...
What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are.--Edgar Z. Friedenberg...
Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.--James Dean...
There is no one luckier than he who thinks himself so.--German Proverb...
Happiness is a way station between too little and too much.--Channing Pollock...
Are you humbly grateful? Or grumbly hateful?--Pastor Roland Smith...
When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it’s time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: Either you will be given something solid...
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world: everyone you meet is your mirror.--Ken Keyes Jr....
To pray is to change.--Richard Foster...
The aim of Life is to Live, and to Live means to be Aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely, Aware.--Henry James...
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.--Pierre Teilhard de Chardin...
Give, and it will be given to you.--Jesus...
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.--Edmund Burke...
Act like you expect to get into the end zone.--Joe Paterno...
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.--Frank Outlaw...
Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.--Ralph Waldo Emerson...
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; When health is lost, something is lost; When character is lost, all is lost!--German Proverb...
Whatever you are, be a good one.--Abraham Lincoln...
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.--The Dalai Lama...
Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.--Thomas a Kempis...
We see things as we are.--The Talmud...
The more a man knows, the more he forgives.--Confucius...
This is what the Lord asks of you: only this, to act justly, to love tenderly, and to walk humbly with your God.--Micah 6:8...
Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.--William Saroyan...
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.--Viktor E. Frankl...
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it.--Seneca...
There are two ways to look at life. One is as though nothing is a miracle; the other is as though everything is.--Albert Einstein...
When all is said and done, more is said than done.--Lou Holtz...
Those who want much, are always much in need.--Horace...
You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.--John Holcomb...
"Dance like no one is watching. Love like you'll never be hurt. Sing like no one is listening. Live like it's heaven on earth."--William Purkey...
"This above all: to thine own self be true. And it must follow, as the night the day. Thou canst not then be false to any man."--William Shakespeare...
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.--Socrates...
If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button...
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do with no thought of any reward. Your life will never...
Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.--Kathleen Norris...
We do not see things as they are.--The Talmud...
Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box.--Italian Proverb...
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.--Winston Churchill...
Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind. To be happy, rest like a giant tree in the midst of them all.--Buddha...
Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.--Babe Ruth...
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.--Eleanor Roosevelt...
I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.--Booker T. Washington...
I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.--Booker T. Washington...
He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.--Thomas Fuller...
You shall go out with joy and be led forth in peace. The mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.--Isaiah 55:12...