All problems become smaller if you don’t dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble.
- William S. Halsey
One can acquire everything in solitude--except character.
- Henri Stendhal
Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love, and who love you. And remember that love is not leisure, it is work.
- Anna Quindlen
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
Always aim for achievement, and forget about success.
- Helen Hayes
Friendship is a promise of future loyalty, loyalty no matter what comes.
Promises are the bricks of life and trust is the mortar.
- Stephen Carter, "The Emperor of Ocean Park"
Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.
- May Sarton
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds along rocks.
- Charlotte Bronte
It's never the end of the world. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
- Charles M. Schultz
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus
The fire of anger only burns the angry.
- Chinese Proverb
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
- Henri Bergson
Enthusiasm finds the opportunities, and energy makes the most of them.
- Henry S. Haskins
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
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
- Cicero
There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.
- Katharine Butler Hathaway
We have not come into the world to be a number; we have been created for a purpose, for great things: To love and be loved.
- Mother Teresa
Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.
- Pete Seeger
Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable are the kind who do nothing.
- William Feather
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
- Beverly Sills
We know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today.
- Sydney Smith
Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
- Richard L Evans
Faith is the bird that feels the light
And sings when the dawn is still dark.
- Rabindranath Tagore
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
- Clarence Darrow
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.
- Jules Renard
Most persons would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The greatest carver does the least cutting.
- Tao Te Ching
Believe that none of the effort you put into coming closer to God is ever wasted--even if in the end you don't achieve what you are striving for.
- Rebbe Nachman of Breslov
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end in life.
- Baruch Spinoza
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
- Bertrand Russell
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Lives based on having are less free than lives based on doing or being.
- E.Y. Harburg
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo
Everything that is worthwhile in life is scary. Choosing a school, choosing a career, getting married, having kids--all those things are scary. If it is not fearful, it is not worthwhile.
- Paul Tornier
If you yourself are at peace, then there is at least some peace in the world.
- Thomas Merton
He who wants a rose must respect the thorn.
- Persian proverb
I can do all things through Christ which strenghtens me. Phillipians 4:13
The road to success is not straight. There is a cureve called Failure, a loop called Confusion, speed bumps called Friends, red lights called Enemies, caution lights called Family. You will have flats called Jobs. But, if you have a spare called Determination, an engine called Perseverance, insurance called Faith, A driver called Jesus, you will make it to a place called Success.
If God brings you to it, -He will bring you through it.
Every fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying.
-Harry Anderson
Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble. -Arabic Proverb
When you follow your bliss, doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else.
-Joseph Campbell
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
-George Eliot
Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.
-Marian Wright Edelman
If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.
-Arthur Koestler
I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work the more of it I seem to have. -Coleman Cox
I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.
-Anne Frank
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
-David Viscott
It is never too late to be what you might have been. -George Eliot
Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich. -Sir Thomas Browne
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
-Coco Chanel
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
-Goethe
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
-Jose Addison
Don’t postpone joy.
-Bumper Sticker
Grief can take care of itself: but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with. -Mark Twain
No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
-Charles Kettering
The world steps aside to let any man pass if he knows where he is going.
- David S. Jordan
Love has the innate ability to look past the human and see the godly.
- Colette Burnham
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.
- James Openheim
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
- Earl Wilson
Life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be. - Grandma Moses
Cowardice asks the question - is it safe? Expediency asks the question - is it politic? Vanity asks the question - is it popular? But conscience asks the question - is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it BECAUSE it is right.
- Dr. Martin Luther King
Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
Learn to write your hurts in sand. Learn to carve your blessings in stone!
- Unknown
The human race has one effective weapon--and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain
One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
The marksman hitteth the mark partly by pulling, partly by letting go.
- Egyptian proverb
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle
Embrace your uniqueness. Time is much too short to be living someone else's life.
- Kobi Yamada
In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
- Henry David Thoreau
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.
- Richard Bach
When you dig another out of their troubles, you find a place to bury your own.
- Anonymous
He who forgives ends the quarrel.
- African proverb
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
- Anais Nin
To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
- St. Francis de Sales
Never do anything desperate or be clingy. Guys are totally turned off by it, trust me.
--Pam Kellum-Crowder
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
- Lucy Larcom
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Growth in wisdom may be exactly measured by decrease in bitterness.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
- Ann Landers
All comes at the proper time to him who knows how to wait.
- Saint Vincent de Paul
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
- Erica Jong
Work and play are words used to describe the ame thing under differing conditions.
- Mark Twain
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.
- Benjamin Disraeli
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
- Edgar J. Mohn
Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.
- William Inge
Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.
- R.E. Shay
Making the decision to have a child--it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
- Elizabeth Stone
A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.
- James Dent
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
- Dorothy Nevill
Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee, and do not try to make the universe a blind alley.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.
- Woody Allen
"A successful lie is doubly a lie; an error which has to be corrected is a heavier burden than the truth."
-Dag Hammarskjold
After the verb 'to Love,' 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world.
- Bertha von Suttner
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