It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well - Rene Descartes Live out of your imagination, not your history -Stephen Covey Shoot for the moon. If you miss, you'll land among the stars - Les Brown The empires of the future are the empires of the mind - Winston Churchill Experience is not what happens to you, its what you do with what happens to you. - Aldous Huxley The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain - Lord Byron If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us. -Francis Bacon Nobody ever died of laughter. -Max Beerbohm Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. -Samuel Johnson If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. -Maya Angelou Knowledge is power. -Francis Bacon Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the doorbell The journey is the reward. -Taoist Saying We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. -English Proverb A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune. -unknown Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. -Unknown Love is a chance to change a piece of the dream-world into reality. -Theodor Reik It is never too late to be what you might have been. -George Elliot The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. -Hariter Lee Don't be afraid your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin. -Grace Hansen All that is gold does not glitter; not all those who wander are lost. -J.R.R. Tolkien A weed is no more than a flower in disguise. -James Lowel You may be dissappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. -Beverly Sills "Miracles are spontaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves" -Katherine Anne Porter. I didn't know what I couldn't do. so I decided to try anything to find out what I could do. - Walt Disney To be successful you've got to be willing to fail. - Frank Tyger Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. -Erich Fromm It doesn't matter where you go in life, it's who you have beside you. -A. Ferrera In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life; it goes on. -Robert Frost Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. -G.K. Chesterton Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. -Pablo Picasso One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again. - Henry Ford To love what you do and think that it matters -- how could anything be more fun! - ? Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun. -Don Marquis Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. -Jonathan Larson You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. -Abraham Lincoln When all men think alike, no one thinks very much. -Walter Lipmann Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes . . . just be an illusion. -Jovan Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. -Eugene Lonesco Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken bird that cannot fly. -Langston Hughes A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. -Elbert Hubbard Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. -Albert Einstein Happiness is not a destination, it is a way of life. -Burton Hills The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. -Theodore Hesburgh The brighter you are, the more you have to learn. -Don Herold Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion. -G.W. F. Heel Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater. -William Hazlit We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. -Kahlil Gibran Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else. -Andr Gide Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality. -Jules de Gautier You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note. -Doug Floyd Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. -William Feather One is easily fooled by that which one loves. -Jean Baptists Moliere Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open.-Lord Thomas Dewar The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. -Albert Einstein You must do the thing you think you cannot do. -Eleanor Roosevelt Education is a vaccine for violence. -Edward James Olmos Life, the gift of nature, Love, the gift of life, a Kiss. the gift of love. -Anonymous The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. -Winston Chirchill Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. -James Stephens Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life. -Alvin Toffler A true gentleman is one who is never intentionally rude. -Oscar Wilde We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles. -Jimmy Carter What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail? -Dr. Robert Schuller If you wish to please people, you must start by understanding them. -Charles Reade A man is the origins of his actions. -Aristotle Civility costs nothing and buys everything. -Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. -Jonathan Kozol Life consists not of holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. -Josh Billings Books and ideas are the greatest weapons against intolerance and ignorance. -Lyndon B. Johnson You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. -Unknown Learning is the only thing that never dissapoints us. - Leonardo da Vinci The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. -John Powell The mind is not a vessel to be filled. but a fire to be kindled. -Plutarch We aim above the mark to hit the mark. -Ralph Waldo Emerson Happiness is having a scratch for every itch. -Ogden Nash You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories. -Stanislaw J. Lem Love is like lightning, no one knows where it will strike until it has struck. -Henri Lacordaire Everything starts as somebody's daydream. -Larry Niven A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives. -Jackie Robinson One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats. -Iris Murdoch A person who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit. -Richard Chou Hope is putting faith to work, when doubting would be easier. -C. Neil Strait Work like you don't need the money, Love like you've never been hurt, & dance like no one is watching. -Unknown The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn. -David Russel Lust is when you love what you see. Love is when you love what's inside. -Renee Conkle Today equals the sum of yesterday's dreams and tomorrows memories. -William Shubin Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings. -Danielson Never cut loose from your longings. -Amos Oz We come, we go, and in between, we try to understand. -unknown To be a winner is to give everything you have. -unknown Love is what keeps us here, and love is what takes us away. -unknown Live your life as an exclamation. not an explanation. -H. Jackson Brown Jr. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive, just being missed when you leave. -unknown If you can imagine it, you can dream it; if you can dream it, you can become it. -William A. Ward Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. -Franklyn P. Jones If you want it, you have to believe in yourself. -Lenny Kravitz Don't look back, something may be gaining on you. -Satchell Paige Love cures people. Both the ones who give it and the ones who recieve it. -Dr. Karl Meninger Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends. -Jacques Belille Truth has to fall on fertile soil. -Paulla D'Arcy Nothing levels a playing fiield like a new idea. -Stanley I. Mason Jr. Humor can be an incredible, lacerating, and effective weapon. -Carl Hiaasen We learn the rope of life by untying its knots. -Jean Toomerr The only disability in life is a bad attitude. -Scott Hamilton Keep your head up; without struggle, there is no progress. -Fredrick Douglass One looses so many laughs by not laughing at oneself. -Sarah Jeannette Duncan Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. -D.H. Lawrence Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. -Lauren Bacall Whoever is happy will make others happy too. -Anne Frank We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge. -John Naisbilt Mistakes are the portals of discovery. -James Joyce Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions. -John Randolph It's not wether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up. -Vince Lombardi The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth. -Erasmus If you want a place in the sun, you've got to be able to put up with a few blisters. -Abigail Van Buren It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned. -Leslie Jeanne Sahler Remember your dreams. -Maryanne Hershey And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be. -Grandma Moses Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mrror. -Byrd Baggett Every flower must grow through dirt. -Unknown The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. -Franklyn D. Roosevelt Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. -George Bernard Shaw Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible. -Mao Tse-tung Laughter is the closest distance between two people. -Victor Borge Value your words. Each one may be the last. -Stanislaw J. Lec Know her mind and you can have her body, know her heart and you can have her soul. -Unknown In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. -Charlie Brown One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love. -Sophocles But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated. -Ernest Hemingway Every exit is an entry somewhere. -Tom Stoppard Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. -H. Jackson Brown Jr. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. -Mahatma Gandhi People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be. -Abraham Lincoln It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. -William Shakespeare knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. -Goethe There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. -Unknown Whatever you do, you get in return. The difference between insanity and genius is only measured in success. -Unknown It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well - Rene Descartes Live out of your imaginatioa, not your history - Stephen Covey Shoot for the moon. If you miss, you'll land among the stars - Les Brown The empires of the future are the empires of the mind - Winston Churchill Experience is not what happens to you, its what you do with what happens to you. - The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain - Lord Byron A friend is a gift you give yourself. -Robert Louis If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us. -Francis Bacon Nobody ever died of laughter. -Max Beerbohm Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. -Samuel Johnson If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. -Maya Knowledge is power. -Francis Bacon Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the doorbell The journey is the reward. -Taoist Saying We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. -English Proverb A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune. -unknown Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. -Unknown Love is a chance to change a piece of the dream-world into reality. -Theodor Reik It is never too late to be what you might have been. -George Elliot Don't be afraid your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin. -Grace Hansen All that is gold does not glitter; not all those who wander are lost. -J.R.R. Tolkien A weed is no more than a flower in disguise. -James Lowel You may be dissappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. -Beverly Sills I didn't know what I couldn't do. so I decided to try anything to find out what I could do. -Unknown To be successful you've got to be willing to fail. - Frank Tyger Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. -? IT DOESN'T MATTER WHERE YOU GO IN LIFE, IT'S WHO YOU HAVE BESIDE YOU In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life; it goes on. -Robert Frost Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. -G.K. Chesterton Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. -Pablo Picasso One who fears failure limits his.activities. Failure is only the opporthnity to more To love what you do and think that it matters -- how could anything be more fun! - ? Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun. -Don Marquis Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. -Jonathan Larson You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. -Abraham Lincoln When all men think alike, no one thinks very much. -Walter Lipmann Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes . . . just be an illusion. -Jovan Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. -Eugene Lonesco Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken bird that cannot fly. -Langston A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. -Elbert Hubbard Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. -Albert The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. -Theodore Hesburgh The brighter you are, the more you have to learn. -Don Herold Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion. -G.W. F. Heel Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater. -William Hazlit We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. -Kahlil Gibran Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else. -Andr Gide Imaginatoin is the only wepon in the war against reality. -Jules de Gautier You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note. -Doug Floyd Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have et go. -William One is easily fooled by that which one loves. -Jean Baptists Moliere Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open.-Lord Thomas Dewar The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. -Albert Einstein You must do the thing you think you cannot do. -Eleanor Roosevelt Education is a vaccine for violence. -Edward James Olmos The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. -Winston Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. -James Stephens Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life. -Alvin Toffler A true gentleman is one who is never intentionally rude. -Oscar Wilde We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles. -Jimmy Carter If you wish to please people, you must start by understanding them. -Charles Reade A man is the origins of his actions. -Aristotle Civility costs nothing and buys everything. -Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. -Jonathan Kozol Life consists not of holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. -Josh Billings Books and ideas are the greatest weapons against intolerance and ignorance. -Lyndon B. You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love Learning is the only thing that never dissapoints us. - Leonardo da Vinci The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. -John Powell The mind is not a vessel to be filled. but a fire to be kindled. -Plutarch We aim above the mark to hit the mark. -Ralph Waldo Emerson You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories. -Stanislaw J. Lem Love is like lightning, no one knows where it will strike until it has struck. -Henri Everything starts as somebody's daydream. -Larry Niven A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives. -Jackie Robinson A person who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit. -Richard Chou Hope is putting faith to work, when doubting would be easier. -C. Neil Strait The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn. -David Lust is when you love what you see. Love is when you love what's inside. -Renee Today equals the sum of yesterday's dreams and tomorrows memories. -William Shubin Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings. -Danielson Never cut loose from your longings. -Amos Oz We come, we go, and in between, we try to understand. -unknown To be a winner is to give everything you have. -unknown Love is what keeps us here, and love is what takes us away. -unknown Live your life as an exclamation. not an explanation. -H. Jackson Brown Jr. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive, just being missed when you leave. - If you can imagine it, you can dream it; if you can dream it, you can become it. -William Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. -Unknown If you want it, you have to believe in yourself. -Lenny Kravitz Don't look back, something may be gaining on you. -Satchell Paige Love cures people. Both the ones who give it and the ones who recieve it. -Dr. Karl Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends. -Jacques Belille Truth has to fall on fertile soil. -Paulla D'Arcy Nothing levels a playing fiield like a new idea. -Stanley I. Mason Jr. Humor can be an incredible, lacerating, and effective weapon. -Carl Hiaasen We learn the rope of life by untying its knots. -Jean Toomerr The only disability in life is a bad attitude. -Scott Hamilton Keep your head up; without struggle, there is no progress. -Fredrick Douglass One looses so many laughs by not laughing at oneself. -Sarah Jeannette Duncan Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. -D.H. Lawrence Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. -Lauren Bacall Whoever is happy will make others happy too. -Anne Frank We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge. -John Naisbilt Mistakes are the portals of discovery. -James Joyce Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions. -John It's not wether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up. -Vince Lombardi The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth. -Erasmus If you want a place in the sun, you've got to be able to put up with a few blisters. -Abigail It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned. -Leslie Jeanne Sahler Remember your dreams. -Maryanne Hershey And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be. -Grandma Moses Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mrror. -Byrd Baggett Every flower must grow through dirt. -Unknown The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. -Franklyn D. Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. -George Bernard Shaw Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible. -Mao Tse-tung Laughter is the closest distance between two people. -Victor Borge Value your words. Each one may be the last. -Stanislaw J. Lec Know her mind and you can have her body, know her heart and you can have her soul. - In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. -Charlie Brown One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love. -Sophocles But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated. -Ernest Every exit is an entry somewhere. -Tom Stoppard Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. -H. Jackson Brown Jr. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. -Mahatma Ghandi People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be. -Abraham Lincoln It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. -William Shakespeare knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. -Goethe There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. -Unknown Whatever you do, you get in return. -something a guy said in a kickfighting movie The difference between insanity and genius is only measured in success. -Infected Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy & wise. -Ben Franklyn? How long a minute is, depends on which side of the bathroom door you`re on. Consciousness: That annoying time between naps. If your dog is fat, you aren't getting enough exercise. How do you know when you run out of invisible ink? Male zebras have white stripes, but female zebras have black stripes. No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does. We don't make mistakes, we have happy little accidents. You know, the more I see of people, the more I like pigs. The first myth of management is that it exists. The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think. Insanity is hereditary. You get it from your kids. A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell and make you feel happy to be on your way. I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure. If you think nobody cares you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments. All I ask is a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. -Spike Milligan When you are in it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut. Eighty percent of all people consider themselves to be above average drivers. A truly wise man never plays leapfrog with a unicorn. There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, hire someone, or forbid your kids to do it. The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was. Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. Just because your doctor has a name for your condition doesn't mean he knows what it is. Drive defensively. Buy a tank. Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it. "Mr Gandhi, what do you think of Western Civilization?" "I think it would be a good idea." If you have a difficult task, give it to someone lazy ... that person will find an easier way to do it. The sooner you fall behind, the more time you will have to catch up. Schizophrenia beats dining alone. There will always be a battle between the sexes because men and women want different things. Men want women and women want men. The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well. I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder. Ever stop to think, and forget to start again? Me a skeptic? I hope you have proof. Everyone has a right to be stupid. Some just abuse the privilege. My wife said I never listen to her. At least I think that's what she said. I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain. I don't suffer from stress. I'm a carrier. If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you. Take my advice, I don't use it anyway. I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it... I intend to live forever - so far, so good. Life is a sexually transmitted, fatal disease... If it wasn't for C, we'd be writing programs in BASI, PASAL, and OBOL. Booting error, no keyboard detected: press F1 to continue, press F2 to abort. Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot. My software never has bugs. It just develops random features. A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men. "When the choice is to be right or to be kind, always make the choice that brings peace." -Dr. Wayne Dyer "Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing." -William Butler Yeats "If you have it, you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter what else you have." -Sir James M. Barrie "He that walketh with wise men shall be wise…." -Proverbs 13:20 "Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure." -Norman Vincent Peale "You are the sum total of all of your choices up to now." -Dr. Wayne Dyer "Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead." -Louisa May Alcott "Goals are dreams we convert to plans and take action to fulfill." -Zig Ziglar "People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them." -George Bernard Shaw "Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent." -Calvin Coolidge "If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." -Henry David Thoreau "One man gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want." -Proverbs 11:24 "The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule" -Albert Einstein "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles." -Ralph Waldo Emerson "Five enemies of peace inhabit with us—avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace." -Petrarch "Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have." -Doris Mortman "There is no stress in the world, only people thinking stressful thoughts." -Dr. Wayne Dyer "Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace." -Albert Schweitzer "Peace starts with a smile" -Mother Teresa "Peace of mind is not the absence of conflict from life, but the ability to cope with it." -Anonymous "There is no way to peace. Peace is the way." -A.J. Muste "Those for whom peace is no more than a dream are asleep to the future." -Jack DuVall "A mind at peace, a mind focused on not harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe." -Dr. Wayne Dyer "You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments that stand out, the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a sprit of love." -Henry Drummond "When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace." -J. Lubbock "Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." -Nathaniel Hawthorne "Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself." -Og Mandino "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 "The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love and something to hope for." -Allan K. Chalmers "Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, Not because they never found it, But because they didn't stop to enjoy it." -William Faulkner "Most people are searching for happiness. They're looking for it. They're trying to find it in someone or something outside of themselves. That's a fundamental mistake. Happiness is something that you are, and it comes from the way you think." -Dr. Wayne Dyer "Life's truest happiness is found in friendships we make along the way." -Unknown "Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy." -Anne Frank "Happiness consists in activity. It is a running stream not a stagnant pool." -John Mason Good "If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved." -Maurice Chevalier "Happiness… it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort." -Franklin Delano Roosevelt "The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved – loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves." -Victor Hugo "Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think." -Dale Carnegie "Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible – it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could." -Barbara DeAngelis "Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude." -I Corinthians "Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence." -Vincent Van Gogh "Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness." -Oliver Wendell Holmes "Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished." -Og Mandino "The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love." -William Wordsworth "Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." -Alfred Lord Tennyson "You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments that stand out, the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love." -Henry Drummond "There is no remedy for love but to love more." -Henry David Thoreau "Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world." -Ralph Waldo Trine "Where there is love there is life." -Mohandas Gandhi "The important thing was to love rather than to be loved." -W. Somerset Maugham "Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit." -Peter Ustinov "Love is giving and it has nothing to do with what you receive." -Dr. Wayne Dyer "Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy." -Norman Vincent Peale "He who loses money losses much. He who loses a friend loses more. But he who loses faith loses all." -Henry H. Haskins "It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living." -Oliver Wendell Holmes "If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory." -William Hazlitt "Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith." -Author Unknown "In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith." -Friedrich Von Schlegel "If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live." -Alec Bourne "On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions; it is the best refreshment on the journey; and it is the greatest property." -Buddha "It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you've got to have is faith and discipline when you're not yet a winner." -Vincent Lombardi "In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith." -Friedrich von Schlegel "Faith is the force of life." -Leo Tostoy "Faith is simultaneously long perseverance and unwavering confidence." -Pierre-Yves Emery "Belief is truth held in the mind; faith is a fire in the heart." -Joseph Newton "True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by." -E. S. Bouton "We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take us or spare us." -Marcel Proust "To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe." -Marilyn vos Savant "By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest." -Confucius "The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning: whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom…." -Samuel Smiles "My past is my wisdom to use today. . . my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides." -Gene Oliver "Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child." -Ron Wild "These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future." -Vernon Cooper "Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know… One who doesn't try cannot fail and become wise." -William Saroyan "Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being…." -Orison Swett Marden "Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood." -Ralph Waldo Emerson "Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship." -Epicurus "Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use." -Thomas J. Watson "Whether you think you can or think you can't, you are right." -Henry Ford "We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world." -Buddha "There is no stress in the world, only people thinking stressful thoughts." -Dr. Wayne Dyer "Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal. Nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong attitude." -Thomas Jefferson "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." -Eleanor Roosevelt "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." -William Shakespeare "Never let the fear of striking out get in your way." -Babe Ruth "You can have everything you want in life you want, if you will just help enough other people get what they want." -Zig Ziglar "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream." -Mark Twain "Positive thoughts keep you in harmony with the universe." -Dr. Wayne Dyer "Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure." -Norman Vincent Peale "There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornados, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters. Over that I have complete control." -Leo Buscaglia "Our self image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other." -Maxwell Maltz "You are the sum total of all of your choices up to now." -Dr. Wayne Dyer "I am super good, but I will get better." -Zig Ziglar "You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside; You are the person who makes up your mind. Whether you'll lead or will linger behind. Whether you'll try for the goal that's afar. Or just be contented to stay where you are." -Edgar A. Guest "You are everything that is, your thoughts, your life, your dreams come true. You are everything you choose to be. You are as unlimited as the endless universe." -Shad Helmstetter "You are now at a crossroads. This is your opportunity to make the most important decision you will ever make. Forget your past. Who are you now? Who have you decided you really are now? Don't think about who you have been. Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully." -Anthony Robbins "You can do what you want to do. You can be what you want to be." -David Thomas "When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live." -Dr. Samuel Johnson "It is by chance we met by choice we became friends." -Unknown "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 Jenning Bryan "The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice." -George Eliot "It's choice – not chance – that determines your destiny." -Jean Nidetch "If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise." -Robert Fritz "Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice." -Dr. Wayne Dyer "Every choice you make has an end result." -Zig Ziglar "Live your dream by making deliberate choices, not just responding to whatever life throws your way." -Marcia Wieder "You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices." -Deepak Chopra "Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made." -Dr. Wayne Dyer "Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it." -Pat Riley "Yesterday is a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore to this day." -Sanskrit Proverb "Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." -Carl Gustav Jung "Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such." -Henry Miller "Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world." -Joel Barker "Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality." -Warren G. Bennis "Vision – It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own." -Robert Collier "Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate achievements." -Napoleon Hill "A vision without a task is but a dream. A task without a vision is drudgery. A vision with a task is the hope of the world." -Unknown "Vision looks inwards and becomes duty. Vision looks outwards and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upwards and becomes faith." -Stephen S. Wise "The world of tomorrow belongs to the person who has the vision today." -Robert Schuller "The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind." -Harriet Rubin "Nothing you imagine in your mind is impossible." -Dr. Wayne Dyer "Whether or not you reach your goals in life depends entirely on how well you prepare for them and how badly you want them. You're eagles! Stretch your wings and fly to the sky." -Ronald McNair "Choosing goals that are important to you is one of the most essential things you can do in order to live your dreams." -Les Brown "Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy." -Denis Waitley "You may not accomplish every goal you set – no one does – but what really matters is having goals and going after them wholeheartedly." -Les Brown "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment." -John Rohn "Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success." -David Joseph Schwartz "The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them." -Denis Waitley "Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment." -Anthony Robbins "Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life." -Les Brown "A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder." -Thomas Carlyle "People with goals succeed because they know where they're going." -Earl Nightingale "What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals." -Zig Ziglar "Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly." -Stephen Covey "You can motivate by fear. And you can motivate by reward. But both of theses methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self-motivation." -Homer Rice "Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek." -Mario Andretti "Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." -Lou Holtz "A sincere compliment is one of the most effective tools to teach and motivate others." -Unknown "You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him to discover it within himself." -Galileo Galilei "Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward." -Henry Ford "Who dares, wins." -Anonymous "I can't do it" never yet accomplished anything; 'I will try' has performed wonders" -George P. Burnham "Help people become more motivated by guiding them to the source of their own power." -Paul G. Thomas "You will live your life secure in that you are no longer manipulated by what other people want you to do and be, but are directed by your own inner desires." -H. Stanley Judd "In your hands you hold the seeds of failure or the potential for greatness." -Unknown "As long as we are persistent in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time." -Denis Waitley "The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will." -Vince Lombardi "The habit of persistence is the habit of victory." -Herbert Kaufman "Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak." -Thomas Carlyle "We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are." -Tobias Wolff "Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success." -Napolean Hill "The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit." -Mark Twain "There's only one way you can fail, and that's to quit." -Brian Hays "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." -Thomas A. Edison "The most essential factor is persistence – the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come." -James Whitcomb Riley "Where the determination is, the way can be found." -George S. Clason "If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again." -William E. Hickson "Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." -Albert Schweitzer "He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much." -Elbert Hubbard "If your children look up to you, you've made a success of life's biggest job." -Author Unknown "Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have." -Zig Ziglar "Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming." -John R. Wooden "The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed." -Nelson Boswell "The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top." -Dr. Joyce Brothers "The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams." -Og Mandino "We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond." -Marcel Proust "The path to success is to take massive, determined action." -Anthony Robbins "Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals." -John Rohn "Where you end up isn't the most important thing. It's the road you take to get you there. The road you take is what you'll look back on and call your life. Not reaching success isn't the end of the world. Not trying to reach it is." -Tim Wiley "Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life." -Dr. David M. Burns "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved." -Helen Keller "The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will." -Vince Lombardi "Everyone who achieves success in a great venture solved each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They kept going regardless of the obstacles they met." -Clement Stone "Seek joy in what you give not in what you get." -Unknown "No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning." -Barbara DeAngelis "It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live." -Ethel Percy Andrus "In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us." -Flora Edwards "You have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get." -Robert Collier "You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give." -Kahlil Gibran "There is no delight in owning anything unshared." -Seneca "It is more blessed to give than to receive." -Acts 20:35 "It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself." -Ralph Waldo Emerson "Deeds of giving are the very foundations of the world." -The Torah "It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it." -Albert Einstein "There never was a person who did anything worth doing that did not receive more than he gave." -Henry Ward Beecher "Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy." -Jim Rohn "Your purpose is always about giving, loving and serving in some capacity." -Dr. Wayne Dyer "What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal." -Albert Pike "Make service your first priority, not success and success will follow." -Unknown "Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness." -Count Leo Tolstoy "No one has learned the meaning of life until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow men." -Beran Wolfe "To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do to another." -Benjamin Jowett "The only certain means is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be." -Og Mandino "I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve." -Albert Schweitzer "To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity." -Douglas Adams "Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them." -Germaine De Stael "One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion. " -Simone DeBeauvoir "Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think." -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "He is great who confers the most benefits." -Ralph Waldo Emerson I am pleading for the future; I am pleading for a time when hatred and cruelty will not control the hearts of men; when we can learn by reason and judgement and understanding and faith that all life is worth saving, and that mercy is the highest attribute of man. -Clarence Darrow Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other options. -Abba Eban It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. -Albert Einstein "You are what you love. Not what loves you." -Charlie Kaufman Adaptation is a profound process. Means you figure out how to thrive in the world. -quote from the film "Adaptation" Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has. ~ Margaret Mead ~ "If we won't be better tomorrow than we were today, then what do we need tomorrow for?" -Rabbi Nahman To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world. -Heather Cortez "The joy is in the journey." -Frosty Westering The hero is no braver than an ordinary person, but his braver five minutes longer. -Emerson Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached as by the obstacles which have been overcome while trying to succeed. -Booker T. Washington Be bold with your dreams. Nurture the dreams that inspire you to go beyond your limits. -unknown Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. -John F. Kennedy The first key to wisdom is a constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrived at the truth. -Peter Abelard Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. -Oliver Wendell Holmes You must have courage, whatever the test, however many times you fall, stand up just once more. -unknown Remember that someone, somewhere, is practicing, and when you meet him he will win. -Edward Macauley Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. -John F. Kennedy Victory lies in overcoming obstacles every day. -unknown Pick your battles, then act with courage. -unknown Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. -Goethe There are two ways of meeting difficulties: alter the difficulties or alter the way you need them. -Phyllis Bottome The foundation of excellence lies in self-control. -H.L. Baugher The greatest hurdle is convincing yourself that what you want is possible. -unknown There is something that is much rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. -Robert Half The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make a mistake. -Elbert Hubbard Victory belongs to the most persistent. -unknown You must act as if it is impossible to fail. -Ashanti Proverb In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. -Einstein Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. -Confucius He who throws dirt, loses ground. -unknown Give me a firm place to stand, and I will move the earth. -Archimedes Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. -Jonathan Swift Many persons have the wrong idea about what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self gratification but through the fidelity to a worthy purpose. -Helen Keller Triumph lies in discipline. -unknown What you can become, you are already. -Freidrich Hebbel Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they are executed. -Emerson Great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great. -Mark Twain One who fears limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again. -Henry Ford Time cannot be recycled. -unknown Truth always resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and be guided by the truth as one sees it . -Ghandi Anyone who dares waste one hour of live has not discovered the value of life. -Charles Darwin To improve is to change, to succeed is to change often. -Churchill Nothing astonish as others so much as plain dealing and common sense. -Emerson It is a bad plan that allows no room for modification. -Pubilius Syrus Evaluate, improve, adjust. In these continual actions are the seeds of success. -unknown The best days come to those who don't wait . . . for the best days to come. -Andrew Ferrera Knowledge is refreshing. -Andrew Ferrera You may delay, but time will not. -Benjamin Franklyn Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration. -Thomas Edison Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. -Will Rogers Enlightnment is simplicity of life and elevation of purpose. -unknown History repeats itself, but each time the price goes up. -unknown Genius has its limits, stupidity has none. -unknown The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one who is doing it. -Ancient Chinese Proverb Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you won't have to worry about your feet. -unknown It may be that your whole purpose in life is to simply serve as a warning to others. -unknown You can't propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back. -unknown You often meet your destiny on the road you take to avoid it. -unknown Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but keeps you from all his joys. -unknown A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, only then should he worry about escaping the censures of the world. -unknown Have the courage to aspire to a better state of being. -unknown There is no substitute for hard work. -Thomas Edison The hardest thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing. -unknown What man is a man that does not make the world better?" -screenwriter Willing Monahan If you keep on doing what you've always done, you'll keep on getting what you've always gotten. -popular saying Insanity is continuing the same behavior & expecting a different result. Perseverence is the greatest element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you're sure to wake somebody up. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow If your assets are your people and you treat them well, you will bring more people and profits to your organization. -Ethan Burman, CEO of Matrix Asset Advisors Love is not finding a perfect person but is finding an imperfect person perfect! -unknown Do not hesitate to always do what you feel, the moment you feel it, or life will surely pass you by. -Andrew Ferrera Failure cannot cope with persistance. -Napolean Hill Anyone who uses the phrase "easy as taking candy from a baby" has never tried taking candy from a baby. -Robin Hood It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't. -unknown Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. -Jim Rohn No man is whipped until he quits in his own mind. -Napolean Hill A quitter never wins and a winner never quits. -Napoleon Hill Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down. -Ray Bradbury If we don't like what's happening to us in the world, all we have to do is change our consciousness . . . and the world out there changes for us! -Lester Levinson, "Keys to the ultimate freedom," 1993 Say what you mean and mean what you say. -GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON, JR. If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. -GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON, JR. Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men. -GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON, JR. Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little. -GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON, JR. Every calling is great when greatly pursued. -Oliver Wendel Homes Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. -Helen Keller Where there is an open mind, there is always a frontier. -Charles F. Kettering Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance. -Bruce Barton In the present, every day is a miracle. -James Gould Cozzens The future belongs to those who live intensely in the present. -Anon What does not destroy me, makes me stronger. -Friedrich Nietzsche What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him. -Louis L. Mann. There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is. -William George Jordan. The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul. -David O McKay. Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Don't waste a minute being unhappy. If one window closes - run to the next window - or break down a door. -Unknown The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. -Ashley Montagu You cannot be thankful and unhappy at the same time. -Amber L. Cece Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. -Margaret Lee Runbeck It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. -Lena Horne It's not brave if you're not scared. -quote from the film "Bounce" To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation. -Eckhart Tolle (Page 40) "The Power of Now" Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be. -Eckhart Tolle (Page 41) "The Power of Now" Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" — and find that there is no death. -Eckhart Tolle (Page 38) "The Power of Now" It’s difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on not understanding it. -Upton Sinclair It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn't matter who gets the credit. -unknown We all think we’re going to be great. And, we feel a little bit robbed when our expectations aren’t met. Sometimes, our expectations sell us short. Sometimes, the expected simply pales in comparison, to the unexpected. You gotta wonder why we cling to our expectations. Because, the expected is just what keeps us steady, standing, still. The expected, is just the beginning. The unexpected, is what changes our lives. -Colleen You must be the change you want to see in the world. - Mahatma Gandhi The best way to predict the future is to create it. - Peter F. Drucker Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions. - Albert Einstein Most of the things worth doing in the world have been declared impossible before they were done. - L. Brandeis Problems cannot be solved on the same level they were created. -Albert Einstein There are two ways of spreading light; To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. -Edith Wharton When the people lead, the leaders will follow. -Mahatma Gandhi We share the Earth not only with our fellow human beings, but with all the other creatures. -the Dalai Lama "Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." -Mark Twain Don't believe everything you think. -Thomas Kida The world is what you make of it, friend. If it doesn't fit, you make alterations. -from the film Silverado "To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge." -Benjamin Disraeli All appears to change when we change. -Henri-Frédéric Amiel Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses. -Confucius. "Treasure your relationships, not your possessions." -Anthony J. D'Angelo If you judge people, you have no time to love them. -Mother Theresa “Follow your dreams, for as you dream you shall become.” -Anonymous "Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves..." -Germaine Greer Love fails, only when we fail to love. -J. Franklin Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing. -Wayne Dyer What you focus on, you win, what you neglect escapes you. -Anna-Karin All that we are is the result of what we have thought. -Buddha Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. -Ann Frank This very moment springs a flower for the garden of tomorrow. -Anna-Karin To believe something and not live it is dishonest. -Gandhi Where there is great love there are always miracles. -Willa Cather To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. -Lao Tzu It’s always worthwhile to make others aware of their worth.” -M.Forb “Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.” -Ryunosuke Satoro Your mind is a garden, Pick out the weeds and plant flowers instead. -Anna-Karin "It is not how much you do, but how much love you put in the doing." -Mother Theresa. "Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another." -Jovenel Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat. -Ben Hecht Earth laughs in flowers.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson Energy and persistence conquer all things. -Benjamin Franklin “To understand everything is to forgive everything” -Buddha Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. -Zora Neale Hurst There is nothing like a dream to create the future. -Victor Hugo Change is the end result of all true learning. -Leo F. Buscaglia "Peace is not achieved by controlling nations, but mastering our thoughts." -John Harricharan “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” -Albert Einstein Let us dare to read, think, speak and write. -John Adams 1765 What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. -Timothy Ferriss Named must your fear be before banish it you can. -Yoda from Star Wars You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him. -Anonymous How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it. -Anonymous "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts" -Albert Einstien “I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.” -Mahatma Gandhi Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. -Yoda from Star Wars I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. -Socrates Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance. -Bruce Bartont Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have. -Doris Mortman "When The Power Of Love Overcomes The Love Of Power, The World Will Know Peace" -Jimy Hendrix If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might if they screamed all the time for no good reason. -Jack Handey Embrace Life . . . whatever happens, embrace it as if you chose it. -Andrew Ferrera We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open. -Harry Edwards To those who cling to power through corruption and deceipt and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history, but that we will extend our hand if you are ready to unclench your fist. -Barack Obama Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. -Martin Luther King Jr. We have 2 options in life to see the road ahead more clearly. We can either take the time to find and buy more efficient windshield wipers . . . or just create less rain to wipe away. -Andrew C. Ferrera People need to see that, far from being an obstacle, the world's diversity of languages, religions and traditions is a great treasure, affording us precious opportunities to recognize ourselves in others. -Youssou N'Dour Follow your intuition, fulfill your destiny. -Jay Lowry It's going to continue to get weirder and weirder faster and faster and its unsusatinable. -Barry Smith “I am working towards global change, through elevating the consciousness of humanity. This is what the Isha System© teaches: you are what you choose. Instead of choosing for fear, choose for love.” -Isha “Until we realize that there is no scarcity or lack – nothing to protect or fight for – we will struggle in fanatical defense of our belief systems and religions. Until we see that we are not our ideas, and that ultimately we are all unconditional love, this cycle will continue, eternally.” -Isha “The only way to experience world peace is to elevate consciousness. Until we realize that we are all one, the violence will continue.” -Isha If you want something different you've got to DO something different. -unknown "The wise man carries his possessions within him." -Bias When my heart is open, LOVE is my experience. When my heart is closed, FEAR is my experience. When I look into the eyes of a new born, LOVE is my experience. When I watch the news, FEAR is my experience. And when I allow ALL experiences to be exactly as they are, PEACE is my experience. And when I let go of ALL experiences, there is just this moment, exactly as it is. And that is more than enough... -Michael Jeffries You can have high intention for a goal, but be non-attached to the outcome. In other words, you’re emotions aren’t tied to what happens. You won’t be devastated if you don’t get the exact outcome you were after. -GoalTribe "Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine." -Ralph Waldo Emerson You haven't failed until you quit trying. -Anonymous “Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is a 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 life, fight for it!” -Mother Teresa "The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake." -Meister Eckhart, 13th-century German theologian The past is history; The future is a mystery; This moment is a gift; That is why this moment is called the present; Enjoy it. -Allan Johnson When love & skill work together expect a masterpiece. -John Ruskin Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. -Carl Jung Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get. -Dale Carnegie Only when the last tree has died, the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught, will we realize that we cannot eat money. -Cree Indian Proverb The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. -Henri Bergson “A laugh is a smile that bursts.” -Mary H. Waldrip “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln "What you believe to be true will control you, whether it's true or not." -Jeremy La Borde “Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.” -Dogen Outside of love, there are no achievements. -Beinsa Douno Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice, heart and intuition. -Steve Jobs “It isn’t what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it’s what we say to ourselves about what happens.” ~Pema Chodron "Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end." - Scott Adams The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work & his play, his labor & his leisure, his mind and his body, his information & his recreation, his love & his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he’s always doing both. -Judah Isvaran The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for." ~Maureen Dowd "If you've heard yourself saying the same thing 90 times, you begin to doubt the truth, even though you were well-intentioned the first time you said it. It's that old thing - the truth unspoken is the truth, the truth spoken is a lie." -Harrison Ford Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. -Hans Margolius "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." -Ralph Waldo Emerson "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." -Thomas Jefferson I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards. -Abraham Lincoln Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. -Dr. King Change is the only constant. -unknown "No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking." -Voltaire Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes. Even between the land and the ship." -Yoda from Star Wars "To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness." - Dr. Robert Muller "Some men see things as they are and ask 'Why?' I dream things that never were and ask, 'Why not?'" -Robert F. Kennedy, 1968 You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love. ~ Hendry Drummond "A tiger doesn't wake up in the morning and think, how can I be a good tiger? Only humans are stuck in the mind." -Sadhguru Jaggi Vasude "Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heal that has crushed it." - Mark Twain The best way out is always through. -Robert Frost A journey of a thousand miles starts with one step. - Laozi, (Taoist philosopher, China, 4th Century B.C.) “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” -Wayne Dyer The pain in your heart is the love you withhold. -Malena Gamboa There is a voice in the Universe urging us to remember our purpose for being on this great Earth. This is the voice of inspiration, which is within each and every one of us. -Dr. Wayne W. Dyer How beautiful it is to migrate away from a former land every day! How lovely it is to perch on a different branch every day! How nice it is to keep flowing uncontaminated, unfrozen! ~ Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi "Life is choice; you can choose to be a victim or anything else you want to be." -from the film Peaceful Warrior (2006) Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. -Herman Cain "Love is fire and I am wood." ~ Rumi It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting for in movement there is life, and in change there is power. ~Alan Cohen Only to the white man was nature a "wilderness" and only to him was the land "infested" with "wild" animals and "savage" people. To us, it was tame. Earth was bountiful and we were surrounded with the blessings of the Great Mystery. Not until the hairy man from the east came and with brutal frenzy heaped injustices upon us and the families we loved was it "wild" for us. When the very animals of the forest began fleeing from his approach, then it was for us that the "wild west" began. ~Luther Standing Bear, Chief of the Oglala Sioux Tribe (1868-1939) Land of the Spotted Eagle, 1933 Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better. ~Martin Luther King, Jr. You are not the victim. You are the creator. -Geoffrey Hoppe "You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you." -James Allen The eyes believe themselves; the ears believe other people. -German proverb I'll tell you a secret. Something they don't teach you in your temple. The Gods envy us. They envy us because we're mortal, because any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again. -Achilles from the film Troy "Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it." André Gide - French author and winner of the Nobel Prize - 22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951 "Don’t worry about the future; or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum." -Baz Luhrmann My heart, oh my heart. Don’t become discouraged so easily. Have faith in the hidden world; there are many mysteries, many wonders. Even if the whole planet threatens your life, don’t let go of the beloveds robe for even a breath. ~Rumi Real fearlessness is the product of tenderness. It comes from letting the world tickle your heart, your raw and beautiful heart. You are willing to open up, without resistance or shyness, and face the world. You are willing to share your heart with others. ~Chogyam Trungpa, Shambhala Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. ~Marianne Williamson For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. -Virgina Wolfe You are what you eat. Know the masculine. Keep to the feminine. ~ Lao Tzu The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it. The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth. -Morpheus, 'The Matrix' "We have to create culture, don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your universe, and if you're worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, then you are disempowered, you're giving it all away to icons, icons which are maintained by an electronic media so that you want to dress like X or have lips like Y. This is shit-brained, this kind of thinking. That is all cultural diversion, and what is real is you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, your fears. And we are told 'no', we're unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.' And then you're a player, you don't want to even play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world." — Terence McKenna A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up. ~Mae West It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change. -Charles Darwin Use all your energy in getting along with each other. Help others with encouraging words, don't drag them down by finding fault. -Romans 14 (the message) Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship. JUDGE THE DEED NOT THE BREED. One does not make friends. One recognizes them. ~Garth Henrichs A donkey with a load of holy books is still a donkey.~ Sufism It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self Reliance” "If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy... The loss of Liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad..." -James Madison The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it. -John Hay A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death. ~Martin Luther King Jr. Does the madman know he is mad? Or are the madmen those who insist on convincing him of his unreason in order to safeguard their own idea of reality? -"The Shadow of the Wind" by Carlos Ruiz Zafon Fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again. -G. Bush #2 In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets. -Jonas Mekas Let us declare nature to be legitimate. All plants should be declared legal, and all animals for that matter. The notion of illegal plants and animals is obnoxious and ridiculous. Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing...there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase each other doesn't make any sense. -Rumi If you want to know your past life, look into your present condition; if you want to know your future life, look at your present actions. I am present in front of anyone who has faith in me, just as the moon casts its reflection, effortlessly, in any vessel filled with water. -Orgyen Guru Rinpoche Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Oz never did give nothin' to the Tinman that he didn't already have. There are only four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same: only love. - Don Juan If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished? ~Rumi I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. ~Maya Angelou Worry is a complete cycle of inefficient thought revolving about a pivot of fear. Choose not to be harmed and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed and you haven’t been. -Marcus Aurelius I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. ~Gilda Radner If you know who you are & let your love shine through, then you'll find the life you need & it'll find you. When there is no wind... row. A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault. - John Henry Newman The art of life, of a poet’s life, is, not having anything to do, to do something. ~ Thoreau The work will teach you how to do it. ~ Estonian Proverb There is nothing that will not reveal its secrets to you if you love it enough. Take it easy, honey. It'll last longer. And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. ~ Anaïs Nin Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it ...and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness. -Robertson Davies You'll get mixed up, of course, as you already know. You'll get mixed up with many strange birds as you go. So be sure when you step. Step with care and great tact and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act. -Dr. Suess No explanation, no mix of words, or music, or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time in the world, whatever it meant. There was madness in any direction. At any hour you could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. And that, I think, was the handle, that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of old and evil. Not in any mean or military sense, we didn’t need that, our energy would simply prevail. We had all the momentum. We were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. So now, less than five years later you can go on a steep hill in Los Vegas and look west. And with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high water mark, that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back. -Hunter S. Thompson " Your mind is an instrument, a tool. It is there to be used for a specific task, and when the task is completed, you lay it down. As it is, I would say about 80 to 90 percent of most people's thinking is not only repetitive and useless, but because of its dysfunctional and often negative nature, much of it is also harmful. Observe your mind and you will find this to be true. It causes a serious leakage of vital energy." -Eckhart Tolle It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. - Samuel Johnson "It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed." -Ram Dass "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." -Mark Twain The world will be saved by western women. -The 14th Dalai Lama A Beautiful woman should break her mirror early. ~Baltasar Garcian "Frequently consider the connection of all things in the Universe. ... Reflect upon the multitude of bodily and mental events taking place in the same brief time, simultaneously in every one of us and so you will not be surprised that many more events, or rather all things that come to pass, exist simultaneously in the one and entire unity, which we call the Universe. ... We should not say ‘I am an Athenian’ or ‘I am a Roman’ but ‘I am a Citizen of the Universe'. -Marcus Aurelius, 170AD" You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfoldingas it should. - Max Ehrmann Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love. Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available. ~Jim Beggs Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos - the trees, the clouds, everything. -Thich Nhat Hanh The sun never says to the earth,'You owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that. It lights up the whole sky. - Hafiz "'Turn on' meant go within to activate your neural and genetic equipment. Become sensitive to the many and various levels of consciousness and the specific triggers that engage them. Drugs were one way to accomplish this end. 'Tune in' meant interact harmoniously with the world around you—externalize, materialize, express your new internal perspectives. Drop out suggested an elective, selective, graceful process of detachment from involuntary or unconscious commitments. 'Drop Out' meant self-reliance, a discovery of one's singularity, a commitment to mobility, choice, and change. Unhappily my explanations of this sequence of personal development were often misinterpreted to mean 'Get stoned and abandon all constructive activity.'" —Timothy Leary, Flashbacks, 1983 "LSD burst over the dreary domain of the constipated bourgeoisie like the angelic herald of a new psychedelic millennium. We have never been the same since, nor will we ever be, for LSD demonstrated, even to skeptics, that the mansions of heaven and gardens of paradise lie within each and all of us." -Terence Mckenna No matter how grouchy you're feeling, You'll find the smile more or less healing. It grows in a wreath All around the front teeth - Thus preserving the face from congealing. ~Anthony Euwer "One who looks outside — dreams. Who looks inside — awakes." —Carl Gustav Jung Be a good listener. It makes the person who's speaking to you feel loved, cared for, and worthy of being heard. - Dr. Wayne Dyer Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free. ~Jim Morrison Our world is like a boomerang. If we throw anger, anger comes back; if we throw... love, love comes back. If we throw negativity, negativity comes back; if we throw positivity, positivity comes back. -Positively Positive In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti "The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one." - Mark Twain It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society. - J Krishnamurti The most violent element in society is ignorance. -Emma Goldman It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting for in movement there is life, and in change there is power. ~Alan Cohen "Earth does not belong to Man; Man belongs to the Earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites one family. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself." -Chief Seattle We have been given two ears and one mouth so that we can hear twice as much as we speak... ;) -Aurora Meadow Sosa A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. ~Lao Tzu Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe. ~Anatole France There is an almost sensual longing for communion with others who have a larger vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendships between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality almost impossible to describe. ~Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Any problem in the world can be solved by dancing. ~James Brown This is a time of growth and change. Trust what is occurring. Your doubts will only make the process more painful. Surrender to the flow, relax, and have fun with it. You are experiencing a rebirth, and that is intense, but it does not have to be painful. Refuse to believe anyone who tells you otherwise. You can handle this, and you can make it fun. Decide to make it fun. ~ Dorothy Mendoza Row "Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it." -Rumi Love. Here. Now. Light tomorrow with today. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Love the life you live. Live the life you love." -Bob Marley And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. - Anais Nin I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself. - Maya Angelou "Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us." - Marianne Williamson "Whether you like it or not it's raining now. It shouldn't be raining is just a thought. In reality there is no such thing as should or shouldn't. These are only thoughts that we impose on reality." - Byron Katie A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It's not our thoughts, but the attachment to our thoughts that causes suffering. -Byron Katie Who would you be without your should or shouldn't? -Byron Katie I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. ~Martin Luther King, Jr. As is our confidence, so is our capacity. -William Hazlitt If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. -Mario Andretti Your only limitations are those you set up in your own mind or permit others to set up for you. -Elizabeth Arden Only as high as I reach can I go. Only as far as I seek can I go. Only as deep as I look can I see, Only as much as I dream can I be. -Karen Ram Surrender means not giving into another but giving in to love. -Deepak Chopra "Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent." - Calvin Coolidge Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available. ~Jim Beggs “We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us” -Virginia Satir Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man will not find peace. -Albert Schweitzer If you bring forth what is within you - What you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you - what you do not bring forth, will destroy you. -Alexandria Barrett To be nobody but yourself, in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight . . . and never stop fighting. ~ E. E. Cummings If I can teach my daughter one thing, it will be the love of self unconditionally.' Unconditional love and peace are obtainable, but they are only obtainable if I can learn to move beyond the conditions that I placed on my life. When conditions are placed on my life and on the lives of others, they ensure that I will never experience the depths of love and happiness." Dr. Asa Don Brown, Waiting to Live “I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.” - Martin Luther King Jr. While I am worrying about what you think of me I am not open to you, I am not letting you in; in fact, I am not letting you exist as a person - I am making you my mirror. I choose to use my own mind. I do not need your mind. I want to experience you, listen to you - not to myself. I have heard everything I have to say. You are what is novel about this conversation. ~ Hugh Prather “Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.” -Carrie Fisher "I would rather have my mind opened to possibilities then closed by beliefs." -Ginger Robinson "Everyone who got to where they are had to begin where they were." - Richard Paul Evans You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves you too full to embrace the present. -Jan Glidewell "One should understand that if you do not put conditions, you would find that you are happy all the time." -Dr. Vijai Shankar "If you wish to find the Buddha, first you must look into your own mind, outside of the mind, there is no Buddha." -Hakuin "Worldly fools search for exotic masters, not realizing that their own mind is the master." -BODHIDHARMA When you love your job, you ain't gonna work a day in your life. -Natalia-Love Koteva We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. -Swami Vivekananda Your life is your garden, your thoughts are the seeds. If your life isn't awesome, you've been watering the weeds! - Terry Prince "Love is the greatest weapon there is, for it pierces the heart without wounding it." - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. -Ingrid Bergman "To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to." - Kahlil Gibran This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. - Dalai Lama "We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world." - Buddha I love people . There are no "Others" ... we are all Human. In everyone is a reflection, a mirror, of us ... it's as simple as the smile that comes back to us from random people we cross paths with each day. - A. Ferrera "Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person we become." - Jim Rohn Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction. -Albert Einstein "It takes no more effort to demand abundance and prosperity in your life than it does to accept misery and poverty" - Napoleon Hill He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye. -Buddha Realization is a progressive process. Spiritual progress is hastened by understanding the true nature of the ego. It is not an enemy to be attacked or defeated, nor is it an evil to be vanquished. It is dissolved by compassionate understanding. ~ quote from David R. Hawkins' book "I." "She left pieces of her life behind her everywhere she went. It's easier to feel the sunlight without them, she said." — Brian Andreas (Story People) When the last fish is caught, the last tree is cut down, when the last stream is poisoned will we finally hear the sound. It's a mighty simple fact that Money ... Can't Be Eaten. -Mike Chlers "Use Less" God is within you. It was, it is and it shall be. - Yogi Bhajan Destiny is not a matter of chance, it's a matter of choice; it's not a thing to be waited for, but a thing to be achieved. - William Jennings Bryan ”Be so happy that when others look at you, they become happy too.” – Yogi Tea We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. ~ Nietzsche "There is no medicine like HOPE, no incentive so great and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. ~ O.S. Marden Sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same. — The Fray "Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed." - Abraham Lincoln What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. -Lercy Melendez Every Moment, Every Breath ... is a chance to begin anew, without the burden of the past. - A.C. Ferrera True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness. - Albert Einstein When you are truly following your passion in life ... when you stop resisting your essence, life becomes miraculous! -A.C. Ferrera Even if we think we don't (or didn't) ... we Always have a choice. We are Rarely complete victims of circumstance. -A.C. Ferrera “I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” ? Marilyn Monroe "Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them." - Orison Swett Marden "Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success." - Dr. Joyce Brothers Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school. -Albert Einstein "The universe is the stage on which you dance, guided by your heart." - from Yogi Tea by Yogi Bhajan "The purpose of life is to enjoy every moment." - from Yogi Tea by Yogi Bhajan "Delight the world with compassion, kindness and grace." - from Yogi Tea by Yogi Bhajan "Laugh because that is your purpose in life." - from Yogi Tea by Yogi Bhajan Happiness is every human beings birthright." - from Yogi Tea by Yogi Bhajan "Be happy so long as breath is in you." - from Yogi Tea by Yogi Bhajan "Real happiness lies in that which never comes nor goes, but simply is." - from Yogi Tea by Yogi Bhajan "Travel light, live light, spread the light, be the light." - from Yogi Tea by Yogi Bhajan "Your greatness is not what you have, it's what you give." - from Yogi Tea by Yogi Bhajan "Practice kindness, mercy and forgiveness." - from Yogi Tea by Yogi Bhajan "Bliss cannot be disturbed by gain or loss." - from Yogi Tea by Yogi Bhajan "Compassion has no limit. Kindness has no enemy." - from Yogi Tea by Yogi Bhajan "There is no love without compassion." - from Yogi Tea by Yogi Bhajan "Appreciate yourself and honor your soul." "Love your soul." - from Yogi Tea by Yogi Bhajan "Grace brings trust, appreciation, love and compassion." - from Yogi Tea by Yogi Bhajan "Be proud of who you are." - from Yogi Tea by Yogi Bhajan "There is nothing more precious than the self." - from Yogi Tea by Yogi Bhajan "Love is where compassion prevails and kindness rules." - from Yogi Tea by Yogi Bhajan "An attitude of gratitude brings opportunities." - from Yogi Tea by Yogi Bhajan "Recognize that the other is you." - from Yogi Tea by Yogi Bhajan "Life is a flow of love; your participation is requested." - from Yogi Tea by Yogi Bhajan "Where there is love there is no question." - from Yogi Tea by Yogi Bhajan "Your greatest strength is love." - from Yogi Tea by Yogi Bhajan "The best way to live is to be, simply be." - from Yogi Tea by Yogi Bhajan "When you know that all is light, you are enlightened." - from Yogi Tea by Yogi Bhajan "Your head must bow to your heart." - from Yogi Tea by Yogi Bhajan "Fall in love, stay in love, and it will decide everything." - from Yogi Tea by Yogi Bhajan "All that is needed is surrender and gratitude." - from Yogi Tea by Yogi Bhajan "To be calm is the highest achievement of the self." - from Yogi Tea by Yogi Bhajan "May this day bring you peace, tranquility and harmony." - from Yogi Tea by Yogi Bhajan "Old age needs wisdom and grace." - from Yogi Tea by Yogi Bhajan "Understanding is found through compassion." - from Yogi Tea by Yogi Bhajan "Love, compassion and kindness are anchors in life." - from Yogi Tea by Yogi Bhajan "Inspiring others towards happiness brings you happiness." - from Yogi Tea by Yogi Bhajan "Gratitude is the open door to abundance." - from Yogi Tea by Yogi Bhajan "Let love elevate your self to excellence." - from Yogi Tea by Yogi Bhajan "Uplift everybody and uplift yourself." - from Yogi Tea by Yogi Bhajan "The art of happiness is to serve." - from Yogi Tea by Yogi Bhajan "The body is a temple. Take care of it." - from Yogi Tea by Yogi Bhajan "Truth is everlasting." - from Yogi Tea by Yogi Bhajan "To learn, read. To know, write. To master, teach." - from Yogi Tea by Yogi Bhajan “You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action. Without action upon an idea, there will be no manifestation, no results, and no reward” ? Miguel Ruiz "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." - Franklin D. Roosevelt "Light begets light—at a certain point, there is no way to escape the inner beacon. Our calling begins to soak every aspect of our lives.." -Jeff Brown A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood. - Chinese Proverb "If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it is: infinite." - William Blake "Believe none of what you hear, and half of what you see" - Albert Einstein "Imagination is more important than knowledge" - Einstein The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams" - Eleanor Roosevelt "The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty!. Try to be more like the ground. " - Rumi We have more faith in what we imitate than in what we originate. We cannot derive a sense of absolute certitude from anything which has its roots in us. The most poignant sense of insecurity comes from standing alone and we are not alone when we imitate. It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay. - Bruce Lee When you discover yourself the world discovers YOU! - Susanna Lepianka "Only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core into the other person without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without creating "the other," reducing the other into a thing, and without becoming addicted with the other. They allow the other absolute freedom, because they know if the other leaves, they will be as happy as they are now. Their happiness cannot be taken by the other, because it is not given by the other." Osho "We spend our whole life waiting for something special ... waiting for a miracle to happen and what we fail to realize is that life IS the miracle ... ALL of it." -Lisa Cairns "You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself." - Jim Rohn We will only be as _________ as we Believe we can be. We each are the common denominator of every moment of our life. What precedence are you setting? What are you Believing? - A.C. Ferrera "you become this stupid lover, you're in love with everything for no reason. you're not in love with something because it gives you something, becuase it's done something for you. you're in love with something because it IS." -Lisa Cairns Judging a person does not define who they are. It defines who you are. -Unknown “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.” - Alice Walker "The word listen contains the same letters as the word silent." - Alfred Brendel Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination. - Albert Einstein “When you say 'yes' to others, make sure you are not saying 'no' to yourself.” ~ Paulo Coehlo Your intuition is speaking to you ... B R E A T H E into this moment so you can hear it ... it is the wisest teacher. -A.C. Ferrera "The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything." -Albert Einstein "The worth of a man stands in his capacity to give, and not in his capacity to take." -Albert Einstein "A person who never made any mistakes, never tried to go forward either." -Albert Einstein "What makes the true worth of a human being, is his capacity to have freed himself from his little sense of ego." -Albert Einstein The amount of LOVE & care you put into anyone, anything or any situation is the amount of LOVE and care you get in return. Ingredients for LOVE: Just add LOVE. - A.C. Ferrera You paint your reality every moment of every day with your choices. Choose wisely ... -A.C. Ferrera BE (( LOVE )) -A.C. Ferrera "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." - Dr. Martin Luther King "Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!" ~ Constanze "Whatever you fear most has no power... it is your fear that has the power."~ Oprah Winfrey "When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them." ~Martin Buber "Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it." ~ Mark Twain "Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free." ~ Eckhart Tolle "Gratitude is heaven itself." ~William Blake "If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice." ~ Meister Eckhart "Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here, we should Dance." -Annelise Balfour Couchman Joy is not in THINGS; it is in US. -Richard Wagner The future is bought with the present. - Samuel Johnson Money often costs too much. -Ralph Waldo Emerson The wisest mind has something yet to learn. -George Santayana Touch a tree today ... Take it in ... truly Feel the essence of the tree ... it just IS ... -A.C. Ferrer The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. - Lao-Tzu The best way out is always through. -Robert Frost “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” - W. Clement Stone Well done is better than well said. - Benjamin Franklin "You should make yourself so happy, that by looking at you, other people become happy!" -Yogi Bhajan Nature does nothing uselessly. - Aristotle Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be. - German Proverb The most vital thing in a man's life is his mental attitude. -unknown I wish to live because Life has with it that which is Good that which is Beautiful and that which is Love. - Lorraine Hansberry Determine that a thing can and shall be done, and then ... find the way. -Abraham Lincoln The purpose of life is to enjoy every moment. - from Yogi Tea by Yogi Bhaja THE BEGINNING IS always TODAY. - Mary Wollstonecraft A man is related to all nature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Live in the sunshine. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. -Sir James M. Barrie First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. -Epictetus The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that outlasts it. -William James If you are not failing at some things, you're not risking enough. -Gordon Wilson The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best which is within us. -Marianne Williamson Our lives are a continuing journey - and we must learn and grow at every bend as we make our way, sometimes stumbling but always moving toward the finest within us. -Capt. Gerald L. Coffee He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, therefore, make any progress. -Anwar Sadat A piece of us is in every person we can ever meet. -Stephen R. Covey 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 I firmly believe that any man's finest hour is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle, the victorious. -Vince Lombardi It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. -John Wooden Again, the key word is authenticity. No artificial flavors. No added sweeteners. Just 100% genuine authenticity. -James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras Learning to trust our intuition is an art form, and like all other art forms, it takes practice to perfect. -Shakti Gawain The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivator, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving. -Roberto Goizueta Everyone has a purpose in life - a unique gift or talent ... and when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of all goals. -Deepak Chopra Most of us have forgotten how to play, forgotten the joy of creativity. -Marion Woodman When you're in your nineties and looking back, it's not going to be how much money you made or how many awards you've won. It's really, what did you stand for. Did you make a positive difference for people? -Elizabeth Dole The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. -Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf The most exciting breakthrough of the 21st century will occur not because of technology, but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human. -John Naisbitt A hero is no braver than an ordinary person, but he is braver five minutes longer. -Emerson Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached as by the obstacles which have been overcome while trying to succeed. -Booker T. Washington Be bold with your dreams. Nurture the dreams that inspire you to go beyond your limits. -Unknown Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. -John F. Kennedy As you start to walk out on the way, the way appears. ~Rumi Before you lay down to sleep at the end of each day, take a second to think about all you are grateful for. Change is constant, therefore, we will Always have more to be grateful for ... - A.C. Ferrera The first key to wisdom is constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth. - Peter Abelard Each step we take in life allows us to see a step(s) ahead that we wouldn't have seen had we not taken that next step. More magic happens with each trusting step up that infinite staircase of (( LOVE )) -A.C. Ferrera You must have courage, whatever the test, however many times you fall, stand up just once more. -Unknown Knowlege speaks, but wisdom listens. -Oliver Wendell Holmes Remember someone, somewhere, is practicing, and when you meet him he will win. -Edward Macauley Leadership and learning are indespensible to eachother. -John F. Kennedy Victory lies in overcoming obstacles every day. -Unknown Pick your battles, then act with courage. -Unknown There are two ways of meeting difficulties; alter the difficulties or alter the way you meet them. -Phyllis Bottome The foundation of excellence lies in self-control. -H.L. Baugher The greatest hurdle is convincing yourself that what you want is possible. -Unknown There is something much greater than ablity. It is the ability to recognize ability. -Robert Half The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make a mistake. -Elbert Hubbard Victory belongs to the most persistent. -Unknown "Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better." ~ Albert Einstein ~ The mind that percieves the limitation, is the limitation. -Buddha