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"Cast your cares on
the Lord and he will sustain you." - The Bible, Psalm 55:22
"Twenty years from now you will be more
disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe
harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
- Mark Twain
"Many of life's failures are people who
did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
- Thomas Edison
"Hope is not the conviction that something
will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out."
- Barbara Johnson
"There is no point in being grown up, if you can't be childish sometimes"
- Doctorr Who
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. -Nelson Henderso
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we
can only fly by embracing one another. - Luciano de Crescenzo
Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll
understand. - Chinese Proverb
Don't
walk in front of me, I may not follow; don't walk behind me, I may not lead; walk beside me, and just be my friend. Albert
Camus
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but
in deserving them. - Aristotle
"Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to
try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have."
Imagination
is the one weapon in the war against reality.
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something
else is more important than fear."
When one door of happiness closes,
another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Helen
Keller
We are like tea bags - we don't know
our own strength until we're in hot water.
Sister Busche
"The best and most beautiful things in the
world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller
"When the night has been too lonely, and
the road has been too long, and you think that love is only for the lucky and the strong, just remember, in the winter, far
beneath the bitter snow, lies the seed that with the sun's love in the spring becomes the rose."
- Bette Midler
"Don't go through life, GROW through life" - Eric Butterworth
"I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my
career. I've lost more than 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed
over and over and over again in my life... And that is why I succeed." - Michael Jordan
"A careless word may kindle strife; a cruel
word may wreck a life; a timely word may level stress; a loving word may heal and bless."
When
there is a hill to climb, don't think that waiting will make it smaller. Motivation is what gets you started, Dedication is
what makes you decide, Determination is what gets you going.
Shoot
for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. Les Brown
"Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive." -
Jesse Jackson
"Let
your heart guide you...but listen closely because it whispers" - Land Before Time
There's
attraction...there's infatuation...& then there's "THE ONE."
-
Dr. Alexander Avila from his book "LoveTypes"
Some
people see things as they are and say "Why." I dream things that never were and say "Why not." -George Bernard Shaw
Better
to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly. -Robert H. Schuller
If
there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask! - W. Clement Stone
"Each
friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world
is born." -- Anais Nin
The
average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead. - Robert Brault
“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin
again, this time more intelligently." --Henry Ford
"Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple
determination to be happy under all outward circumstances." --J. Donald Walters
“What does not kill me makes me stronger.”
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
"I used to say, 'I sure hope things will change.'
Then I learned that the only way things are going to change for me is when I change." -- Jim Rohn
"Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities,
but to make them." –-Colton
“You have to do your own growing no matter how
tall your grandfather was.” --Abraham Lincoln
"The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them
from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their
rules whose would you use?" --Dale Carnegie
“What the mind of man can conceive and believe,
the mind of man can achieve.” --Napoleon Hill
"Failure is an opinion. It is either an educational
tool for starting over or an excuse breeding tool for saying it's over." - Doug Firebaugh
It is only with the heart that one can
see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his
opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties." - Harry Truman
"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the
thrill of creative effect." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
Your talent is God's gift to you. What
you do with it is your gift back to God. Leo Buscaglia
"Failing to plan means planning to fail. What are
your goals?" - Brian Tracy
"We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet
we forget that he is someone today." - Stacia Tauscher
“When one door of happiness closes,
another opens: but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
- Helen Keller
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human
soul on another. - George Eliot
Somewhere there is something incredible waiting to
be known. - Carl Sagan
Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege
of doing so too. - Voltaire
Our real blessings often appear to us in the shapes
of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience, and we soon shall see them in their proper figures. - Joseph
Addison
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming
it. - Moliere
Confidence, like art, never comes from having all
the answers;
it comes from being open to all the questions. - Earl Gray Stevens
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. Charles
A. Beard
This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of
dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still... Joseph Conrad
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is
what a man does with what happens to him. - Aldous Huxley
Life has taught us that love does not
consist in gazing at each other
but in looking outward together in the same direction. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The place to be happy is here, the time
to be happy is now. Robert Ingersoll
"Picture in your mind a sense of personal destiny." -- Wayne Oates
"One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self- confidence
is preparation." -- Arthur Ashe
"Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half." -- Coach
Paul "Bear" Bryant
"Play the smiling game in your daily life. See how many people you can get to
smile back at you. Keep score and tally the results at the end of each day." -- Josh S. Hinds
"Destiny is not a 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." -- Jeremy Kitson
"If you want your life to be a magnificent story,
then begin by realizing that you are the author and everyday you have the opportunity to write a new page" -- Mark Houlahan
"You can discover more about a person in an hour of
play, than in a year of conversation."
Why? Why Not? Why Not You? Why Not Now? -- Aslan
"What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the
world calls a butterfly." -- Lao Tsu
"Reflect upon your blessings, of which every man has
plenty, not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some." -- Charles Dickens
"Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes.
Art is knowing which ones to keep." -- Scott Adams
"Someone may have stolen your dream when it was young
and fresh and you were innocent. Anger is natural. Grief is appropriate. Healing is mandatory. Restoration is possible." --
Jane Rubietta
"When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard," I am always
tempted to ask, "Compared to what?" -- Sydney Harris
"Opportunity is missed by most people bacause
it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." -- Thomas Edison
"A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships
are built for." -- William Shed
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