"The easiest thing to find is fault." -- Anonymous
Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume. -French proverb
"Act as if it were impossible to fail." -- Dorothea Brande
"You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do." -- Liz Smith
"Smooth seas do not make for a skillful sailor." -- African Proverb
"You have freedom of choice, but not freedom from choice." -- Wendell Jones
"Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness." -- Chinese Proverb
"When in doubt, tell the truth." -- Mark Twain
"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish He wouldn't trust me so much." -- Mother Teresa
"A critic is someone who knows the way, but can't drive the car." --Anonymous
"Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson." -- Vernon Law
"I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once." -- Ashleigh Brilliant
"Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines." -- Satchel Paige
"You don't have to be great to get started but you have to get started to be great." - Les Brown
"Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential." - Winston Churchill
"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies; for the hardest victory is victory over self." -- Aristotle
"The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time to plant a tree is today." --African Proverb
"Things are only impossible until they're not." -- Jean-Luc Picard
"The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness." -- Erich Fromm
"It is hard to believe a man is telling you the truth when you know you would lie if you were in his place."-- H. L. Mencken
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on." --Robert Frost
"Everything, I am profoundly convinced, is connected with everything else...a oneness, in which each part bears a relation to each other part. The great scientists, men like Einstein, are more than anyone else aware of this, because they see scientifically what we see intuitively-this fact that there is nothing which you can explore in the universe which is not related to everything else. It is inconceivable to me that there could be this oneness without a One." - Malcolm Muggeridge
Would it not be strange if a universe without a purpose accidentally created humans who are so obsessed with purpose?
-John Templeton
"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now." --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little. --Edmund Burke
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
-Dr. Suess
Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
-George Eliot-
How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.
-Victor Hugo-
I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me.
-Lewis Carroll-
Why, sometimes, I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. -Lewis Carroll-
For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.
-Lord Byron-
The burden we despise today may become the very thing we celebrate tomorrow.
-H. Michael Brewer, "Who Needs a Superhero"-
