If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission. Anonymous Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out. John Wooden To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. Anonymous If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to […]
A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop words when speech becomes superfluous. Ingrid Bergmen My night has become a sunny dawn because of you. Ibn Abbad Like music on the waters is they sweet voice to me. Lord Byron I love you, not only for what you are, But for what […]
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. Warren Bennis Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way. General George Patton The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground. Sir Winston Churchill People buy into the leader before they […]
I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose. Woody Allen What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh! Agnes Repplier So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate […]
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude. Proverb If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes. St. Clement of Alexandra We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided […]
All healing is first a healing of the heart. Carl Townsend Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity. Hippocrates There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with. Harry Crews The […]
I’d far rather be happy than right any day. Douglas Adams To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others. Albert Camus Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. Franklin D. Roosevelt It isn’t what you have, or […]
Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality. Alfred Painter As each day comes to us refreshed and anew, so does my gratitude renew itself daily. The breaking of the sun over the horizon is my grateful heart dawning upon a blessed world. Terri Guillemets When we were children we were […]
The state of your heart dictates whether you harbor a grudge or give grace, seek self-pity or seek Christ, drink human misery or taste God’s mercy. Max Lucado The more we love God the more we will obey. The more we obey the more we will be aware of the reality of Christ in our […]
One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it. Sidney Howard Goals are dreams with deadlines. Diana Scharf Hunt Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. T.S. Eliot Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished […]
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. John Churton Collins You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job. Laurence J. Peter Every friendship travels at sometime through the black valley of despair. This tests every aspect […]
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. George Washington The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission. John F. Kennedy […]
You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched. Edgar Watson Howe It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. William Blake Forgiving is rediscovering the shining path of peace that at first you thought others took away when they betrayed you. Dodinsky If you […]
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark. Francis Bacon The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear. H.P. Lovecraft A man who has been in danger, When he comes out of it forgets his fears, And sometimes he forgets his promises. Euripides Being frightened is an experience you can't buy. […]
If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We couldn’t even eat hash with safety. Josh Billings Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch. E.M. Forster Faith is spiritualized imagination. Henry Ward Beecher Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. J.R.R. […]
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.? Pearl Buck The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of […]
A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him. Man ray Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them. Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them. Anonymous If you do what you […]
You are destined for enlightenment. Cooperate with your destiny, Don’t go against it, Don’t thwart it. Allow it to fulfill itself. Nisargadatta Whether or not enlightenment is a plausible goal for us is a vital question for our lives. If it is possible for us to attain such perfect enlightenment ourselves, our whole sense of […]
A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last. Joseph Fort Newton Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical. John Fowles Duty. That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire. Ambrose […]
Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart. Lois McMaster Bujold One must desire something to be alive. Margaret Deland I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies. Aristotle […]
If I decide to be an idiot, then I’ll be an idiot on my own accord. Johann Sebastian Bach Be yourself — not your idea of what you think somebody else’s idea of yourself should be. Henry David Thoreau All I can be is me — whoever that is. Bob Dylan You are not in […]
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. André Gide Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. Maya Angelou Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear. Mark Twain When we […]
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. Edmund Hillary Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered — either by themselves or by others. Mark Twain Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable. Wendy Wasserstein Success comes in cans, not cant's. Author Unknown Put your future in good hands […]
Character is what you think in the dark. Dwight L. Moody Character is the real foundation of all worthwhile success. John Hays Hammond The way to overcome the angry man is with gentleness, the evil man with goodness, the miser with generosity and the liar with truth. Indian proverb When wealth is lost, nothing is […]
You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow. Unknown Source To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. Winston Churchill Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. George Bernard Shaw Even if […]