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Featured Quotes

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​"Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it." — The Talmud

"...real meaning and happiness comes from being of service. When you start looking at your life from that perspective, you can start manifesting intention." — Dr James Doty

"A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion." — Washington Irving

"A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, because her trust is not on the branch but on its own wings."

"A caterpillar is not meant to die a caterpillar."

"A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory." — Deep Thoughts

"A day in the sanctuary is better than a thousand days anywhere else." — David

"A dream deferred dries up like a raisin in the sun." — Langston Hughes

"A good director must be a dreamer and at the same time thoroughly practical. It is a contradictory combination, I will grant, but absolutely necessary." — John Ford (from "Art and Perspiration," an essay in a 1928 issue of Columbia, the publication of Knights of Columbus

"A good mechanic takes care of his own tools."

"A great man is one that plants a tree knowing that he will never one day sit in its shade."

"A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future." — Albert Einstein

"A hero is someone who, in spite of weakness, doubt or not always knowing the answers, goes ahead and overcomes anyway." — Christopher Reeve

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to put its' pants on." — Winston Churchill

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing." — George Bernard Shaw

"A list of steps isn't helpful if you're facing the wrong way!"

"A list of steps isn't helpful if you're facing the wrong way!" — Jay Acunzo

"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle." — Kahlil Gibran

"A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back —— but they are gone.  We are it.  It is up to us. It is up to you." — Marian Wright Edelman

"A man who is a master of patience is a master of everything else." ~ George Savile

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." — Dwight Eisenhower

"A person with a clear purpose will make progress on even the roughest road. But, a person with no purpose will make no progress on even the smoothest road." — Thomas Carlyle

"A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results." — Wade Boggs

"A positive attitude is like a fire: unless you continue to add fuel, it goes out." — Alexander Lockheart

"A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor" — English proverb

"A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all." — Georges Bernanos

"A well-adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous." — Alexander Hamilton

"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." — Lou Holtz

"Action is eloquence." — William Shakespeare

"Action is the antidote to despair." — Joan Baez

"Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream." — Oscar Wilde

"Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action." — Benjamin Disraeli

"Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve." — Tehyi Hsieh

"After a while you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul. You learn that love doesn’t mean possession, and company doesn’t mean security. You begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts, and presents aren’t promises. With time you begin to accept your defeats with your head held high and your eyes open. And, most importantly, you learn to build your roads today because tomorrow’s ground is too uncertain for plans, and foreseeable futures have a way of falling mid—flight.  Even sunshine burns if you get too much. So you plant your own garden and decorate your own soul. Then you learn that you really CAN endure, that you really ARE strong, and you really DO have worth. And you learn and learn." "After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done." — Author Unknown

"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher."  — Ambrose Bierce

"All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them." — Magic Johnson

"All know the way; few actually walk it." — Bodhidharma

"All of us have wings. Some of us just don't what they're for." — Buckaroo Banzai

"All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them but confront them." — William F. Halsey

"All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing." — Edmund Burke

"All the adversity I've had in my life, has strengthened me. You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you." — Walt Disney

"An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied." — Arnold Glasow

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music" — Friedrich Nietzsche

"Animals are such agreeable friends — they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms." — George Elio

"Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent." — Miles Davis

"Anything human is mentionable, and anything mentionable is manageable." — Mr. Rogers

"Are the causes and conditions really what I want?" — Rick Hanson

"Are things truly not going well...or do I just need some food, water, and a short break?" — James Clear

"Are you going to be that reactive person that looks at everything in a negative way because of your own pain and suffering or are you going to be that person who tries to be non-judgmental and tries to understand that others are suffering and that their actions may not have anything to do with you." — Dr. James Doty

"Argue not concerning God,...re—examine all you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul..." — Walt Whitman, from preface to Leaves of Grass

"As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do." — Andrew Carnegie

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." — John Fitzgerald Kennedy

"Avoid all evil. Cultivate the good. Purify the mind." — Buddha

"Be content to act, and leave the talking to others." — Baltasar Gracian

"Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining — it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn't solve any problems." — Zig Ziglar

"Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness." — William E. Gladstone

"Be kind to one another. And that means everybody!" — Ellen Degeneres

"Be present, be accountable, and enjoy your life." — Recovery Ray

​"Be self-full. You have to have in order to give."

"Before you judge, check your strength of character. If you have it, then you won't." — Jonas Cain

"Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing." — Thomas Alva Edison

"Being wealthy makes my life much more comfortable, but not more fulfilling. For that, I need family, friends, and a job where I work on things that matter. I'm grateful to have all three.” — Bill Gates

"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

"Best friends are like mirrors who  help us see the best in ourselves, and inspire us to strive to live up to what we see." —  Jonas Cain

"Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out." — Italian Proverb

"Big words seldom accompany good deeds." — Charlotte Whitton

"Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it." — Ella Williams

"By the choices and acts of our lives, we create the person that we are and the faces that we wear. By the choices and acts of our lives we give to the world wherein our lives are lived, hoping that our neighbors will find our contributions to be of worth, and hoping that the world will be a little more gracious for our time in it." — Kenneth Patton (adapted)

"Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?" — Charles Bukowski.

"Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn." — John Wesley

"Certainty is an illusion. Perfect safety is a mirage. Zero is always unattainable, except in the case of absolute zero where, as you remember, all motion and life itself stop." — Mitch Daniels

"Change is hard because people overestimate the value of what they have and underestimate the value of what they may gain by giving that up.”

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." — Barack Obama

"Character is what you are in the dark." — Lord John Whorfin / Dr. Emilio Lizardo

"Comedians have a responsibility to speak recklessly. Sometimes the funniest thing to say is mean. Remember, I'm not saying it to be mean: I'm saying it because it's funny." — Dave Chappelle

"Consciously or unconsciously we all strive to make the kind of a world we like." — Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Consciousness is what it feels like to process information in complex ways."

"Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live." — Nicolas de Chamfort

"Count your lessons not your losses." — John Maxwell

"Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work." — Rita Mae Brown

"Curiosity is intelligence having fun." — John Maxwell

"Dear Optimist, Pessimist, and Realist: While you guys were busy arguing about the glass of water, I drank it. Sincerely, The Opportunist.”

"Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one." — Charles de Gaulle
War Memoirs

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well—armed lamb contesting the vote." — Benjamin Franklin

"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 Jennings Bryan

"Destiny is not only a destination, but a journey of life."

"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment." – Jim Rohn

"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment." — Jim Rohn

"Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can." — John Wesley

"Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Do not boast about tomorrow for you never know what a day may bring forth." — Proverbs 27:1

"Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Do not steal! Be yourself! Be kind to others! Smile! Have a good heart! Don't Lie! Listen to your elders! There's no place like home! Don't use violence to solve problems! Be a good neighbor! Take time to relax! Think with your head! Enjoy the smaller things in life!” — Bob Carroll, Things I learned from Andy Griffith!!

"Do—so is more important than "say—so."" — Pete Seeger

"Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." — Howard Thurman

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do it.  Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." — Harold Thurman Whitman

"Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin."

"Don't be afraid that your life will end; rather, be afraid that it will never begin."

"Don't bother trying to change the word. The world you see doesn't even exist." — Ramana Maharshi

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened." — Dr Seuss

"Don't find fault. Find a remedy." — Henry Ford

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." — Robert Louis Stevenson

"Don't spend time beating in a wall, hoping to transform it into a door." — Coco Chanel

"Don't try to get milk at the hardware store." — Meg Pier

"Don't try to steer the river." —  Deepak Chopra

"Don't wait. Initiate!" — Jonas Cain

"Don't worry about the world coming to an end. It is already tomorrow isn Australia." — Charles Shultz

"Don't worry about tomorrow.  God is already there."

"Done I'd better than perfect." — Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In

"Done is better than perfect, because perfect is never done." — Felicia Lin

"Dress how you want to be addressed." — Amanda Dau

"Drop the stuff you can no longer afford to lug around. At sea level, you can run with a brick in your backpack, but if you’re hiking on a mountain, that brick’s got to go." — Rick Hanson

"Each person must live their life as a model for others." — Rosa Parks

"Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students." — Solomon Ortiz

"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today." — Malcolm X

"Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction." — JFK

"Emotions are information, not directives." — Cynthia Barbadette

"Even suffering is part of the truth of our life. Thus, trying to shield the youngest from every difficulty and experience of suffering, we risk creating, despite our good intentions, fragile persons of little generosity: The capacity to love, in fact, corresponds to the capacity to suffer, and to suffer together." — Benedict XVI

"Eventually, all our graves go unattended.” — Conan O'Brien

"Every compliment, criticism, promotion, setback, good vibe, cough or really long line you have to wait in, Andy, is a gift that was meticulously designed to make possible your becoming more than who you were, and ultimately, happier than ever before, as we dance into forever." — Stacy Brown Pollard

"Every moment, sacred; Every trip, a pilgrimage; every day, an adventure." — Michael Mirth

"Everyone is there own beautiful unique snowflake. We all end up in the same place at some point, but we all take our own individual paths..."

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." — Leo Tolstoy

"Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other." — Edmund Burke

"Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof." — John Kenneth Galbraith

"Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently." — Henry Ford

"Fair is what you pay for a bus ride."

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it." — William Arthur Ward

"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation." — Robert F. Kennedy

"Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come." — Ellen DeGeneres

"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do." — Epictetus

"For every grace I made good use of, He gave me many more." — St. Therese of Lisieux

"For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate." — Romans 7:15

"For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business." — T.S. Eliot

"Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly."

"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." — Thomas Edison

"Give me a firm place to stand and I will move the Earth." — Archemedes

"God does not condemn us; it is the nature of our soul that speaks our judgment." — Jonas Cain

"God loves to bring good out of bad. He loves to turn crucifixions into resurrections. Every obstacle is an opportunity. Every problem has potential. Every crisis is an opportunity for ministry. Every hurt God wants to use for His glory."— Rick Warren

"Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it —— but sail we must and not drift, nor lie at anchor." — Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Grow through what you go through."

"Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is more painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong."

"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

"Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present." — Jim Rohn

"Harvest the good." — Paul Martinelli

"Hasten the day."

"He chose to give of himself, becoming our bread; broken, that we might live. Love beyond Love. Pain for our pain."

"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has." —Epictetus

"He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between." — John McPhee

"He that waits upon fortune is never sure of a dinner." — Benjamin Franklin

"He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something." — Antonio Porchia Voces

"He who prays well lives well; he who lives well dies well; and he who dies well, all is well.” — Saint Augustine

"He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had tried and failed." — William James

"He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all." — William Osler

"Hold on to what is good, even if it's a handful of earth. Hold on to what you believe, even if it's a tree that stands by itself. Hold on to what you must do, even if it's a long way from here. Hold on to your life, even if it's easier to let go." — Crowfoot

"Honoring the playful side of ourselves helps us embrace a spirit of joy and inquisitiveness that makes every moment seem magical. As a result, we can enjoy our life experiences on a more profound level and find awe in even mundane activities." January 4, 2008, Benefits Of Lightheartedness, Leo Daily Horoscope

"Hope has two beautiful daughters: Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are and Courage to step up and make a difference. Hope is not hype—it's not just saying that we can get better, it's showing that we can do better. It's entering the arena of action—it's rolling up our sleeves and saying, 'I not only have hope in my heart, I'm working hope in my life.'" — John Maxwell

"Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality." — Jonas Salk

"How can I tend to the causes to bring about what I want?" — Rick Hanson

"How people live their lives is a result of the story they believe about themselves!" — Les Brown

"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." — Annie Dillard

"How you imagine the world determines how you live in it." — David Suzuki

"How you respond to the issue is the issue." — Frankie Perez

"I always felt like yesterday’s cartoon was yesterday’s cartoon, and I was only as funny as today’s." — Gary Larson

"I am a modest man, with much to be modest about." — Anonymous

"I am always averse to the language of exclusion, when what we are called to is to love in the same way as Jesus Christ loves us." — Justin Welby

"I am not this hair. I am not this skin. I am the soul that lives within." — Rumi

"I am only one, But still I am one. I cannot do everything, But still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do." — Edward Everett Hale

"I am writing to tell you that your friend is just sleeping in hell." (An excerpt from a letter to me from a complete stranger meant to help me cope. I understand what this person is trying to say, but the way she chose to say it just sounds really bad)

"I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things." — William J. Lock

"I believe in Peace even while we’re in chaos; I believe in Love even when we experience loss; and I believe in Joy, even through the tears." — Jonas Cain

"I believe that life is just one big puzzle. At times oddly shaped pieces present themselves to you that appear to make no sense at all. You may even wonder, 'How could these things possibly fit into my life?' But then one day something happens. And all of a sudden those seemingly unimportant pieces from oh so long ago now make perfect sense; finding a perfect fit within your life, revealing a beautiful picture. A picture that is you." — Jonas Toutant

"I could have been anyone from anywhere. But I chose to be me from right here.”

"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on man unless they act." — G.K. Chesterton

"I don’t have any time to stay up all night worrying about what someone who doesn’t love me has to say about me." — Viola Davis

"I embrace emerging experience. I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.” —William Stafford

"I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care." — Lou Holtz

"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts." — John Locke

"I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant and kindness from the unkind. I should not be ungrateful to those teachers." — Kahlil Gibran

"I have one life and one chance to make it count for something . . . I'm free to choose what that something is, and the something I've chosen is my faith. Now, my faith goes beyond theology and religion and requires considerable work and effort. My faith demands—this is not optional—my faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference." — Jimmy Carter

"I heard that a man dies twice. Once when his heart stops, and again when his name is said for the last time."

"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much." — Mother Theresa

"I know this isn’t a satisfactory answer. I don’t think any words could be. I try to make my life a satisfactory answer, to this question and to others: What are people for? What is love, and what does it look like? How do we get past our own selfishness so we can love God and our neighbors and ourselves?" — Steve Gershom

"I made my life about words, reading them and writing them. I wish I had a more elegant way of telling you all that I love you. I had a good run, made wonderful friends, shared many laughs, and I learned a great many things. I learned that magic allows us to be so much bigger than we are.  I learned we should be kind to one another and forgive people for being flawed and prideful." — Max Maven, November 3, 2022

​"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be." — Douglas Adams

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be." Douglas Adams

"I picture my soul as a patch of bare ground and I beg the Blessed Virgin to clear it from all rubbish (my imperfections) and then build there a vast pavilion fit for heaven and adorn it with her own jewels." — St. Therese

"I pray that I may never meddle, interfere, dictate, give advice that is not wanted, or assist when my services are not needed. If I can help people, I'll do it by giving them a chance to help themselves; and
if I can uplift and inspire, let it be by example, inference and suggestion, rather than by injunction and dictation. That is to say, I desire to be Radiant. To Radiate Life!" — Elbert Hubbard

"I sought my soul, but soul I could not see. I sought my God, but my God eluded me. I sought my brother, and I found all three." — William Blake

"I think sometimes we are all lazy about the things that come naturally to us.  I am hitting the road to change that." — John Brandoli

"I tried to persuade each of you to care first not about any of his possessions, but about himself and how he'll become best and wisest; and not primarily about the city's possessions, but about the city itself; and to care about all other things in the same way." — Socrates

"I want to learn how to be the best receiver that I can ever be. Because I think that graceful receiving is one of the most wonders gifts we can give anybody. If we receive what somebody gives us in a graceful way we've given that person, I think, a wonderful gift." — Fred Rogers

"I was a fool, for only a fool would willingly go after temporary Joy.  The blame can only fall on myself.  Yet what is the source of eternal Joy?  Hence forth I shall seek first the Kingdom of God, and then all else that is good shall be added to me. I shall not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about it's own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble." — Jonas Cain

"I was born an angel and died an elephant. " (I don't get it either)

"I would rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I'm not."

"I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."  — Thomas Jefferson

"I'm an optimistic pessimist."

"I'm going to work like I don't need the money; I'm going to laugh like I'm not afraid to cry. I'm going to dance like nobody's watching; I'm going to Love while I still got the time." — Darius Rucker

"I'm human. I have a prepotency for stepping in shit." — Dave Sillars

"I'm like a genius who isn't smart..."

"I'm not afraid to fall; it means I climbed too high. Either way it shows at least I tried"

"I'm slowing learning that even if I react it won't change anything, it won't make people suddenly love and respect me, it won't magically change their minds. 

"I'm slowly learning that life is better lived when you don't center it on what's happening around you and center it on what's happening inside you instead."

"I've often seen people of this sort when they're on trial:  they're thought to be someone, yet they do astonishing things —— as if they imagined they'd suffer something terrible if they died and would be immortal if only you didn't kill them." — Socrates

"I’d estimate at least half of my frustrations with others are actually frustrations with myself for failing to set clear boundaries and stand by them." — James Clear

"If all wishes were granted, what would be left to dream?" — Buckaroo Banzai

"If I feel like my song is sung, then I don't care if it's short. And I feel like my song is sung." — Johnny Cash (after recording "You Are My Sunshine"

"If I had words to make a day for you, I'd sing you a morning golden and true. I would make this day last for all time, then fill the night deep with moonshine."

"If it doesn't challenge you, it won't change you."

"If one person's life is changed from what I go through, it will be worth it." — I Still Believe

"If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires." — Epicurus

"If we can be present to the moment with the person that we happen to be with at the moment, that's what's important." — Fred Rogers

"If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." — Thomas A. Edison

"If we will go with God upon the highway of love, we shall rest with Him eternally and without end: and thus we shall eternally go forth towards God and enter into Him and rest in Him." — Ruysbroeck



"If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much." — Jim Rohn

"If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time." — Marian Wright Edelman

"If you don't really mind if you are winning or losing, you enjoy the play ..." he says. "I learn most from my failures — that is the way to learn, that is the way to be successful." — Ernő Rubik

"If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sene of wonder." — Ray Bradbury

"If you have authority, they will follow." — Guy Bovili

"If you have time to chatter, read books. If you have time to read, walk into mountain, desert and ocean. If you have time to walk, sing songs and dance. If you have time to dance, sit quietly; you happy lucky idiot."

"If you lie, lie with style." — Guy Bovili

"If you live in fear, you get fired every day." — Andy DeCola

"If you really want to do something you will find a way. If you don't, you will find an excuse." — Jesse Boudion

"If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful."— William Morris

"If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." — Ben Downing

"If you want to make everyone happy, don’t be a leader, sell ice cream." — Steve Jobs

"If you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise." — Zen wisdom

"If your mind is a garden, you can witness it, weed it, or plant flowers in it."

"If your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt." — Henry J. Kaiser

"Imaginative does not mean imaginary...every true artist does feel, consciously or unconsciously, that he is touching transcendent truth; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil. In other words, the natural mystic does know that there is something there, something behind the clouds or within the trees; but he believes that the pursuit of beauty is the way to find it; that imagination is a sort of incantation that can call it up." — G. K. Chesterton from The Everlasting Man, page 78

"Imagine the courage you might have if you could see the Truth around you."

"Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing." — Quincy Jones

"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing is the wrong thing; and the worst thing you can do is nothing." — Theodore Roosevelt

"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit." — Albert Schweitzer

"In our love for what we can see with our eyes we sometimes lose patience for, and interest in, the world of darkness that nurtures and protects the seeds, bulbs, and babies of the world for such an important part of their life cycles."

"In the dark times, you can see bright people very well." — Oksana Galuga

"In the long—run (and often in the short—run), your willpower will never beat your environment."

"In the stillness, in—congruent, unraveling, shapeless, I take form. Form from nothing recognizable. Something like myself and yet a stranger. What rises from this wreckage is not the thing I was. It is the becoming; what comes after. And I have yet to meet me." — K. Day

"Information without discovery is like knowledge without context." — John Maxwell

"Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action." — Brendan Francis

"Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward." — Drew Houston

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live." — J. K. Rowling

"It is better to be liked for the true you, than to be loved for who people think you are..."

"It is better to light the candle than to curse the darkness." — Eleanor Roosevelt

"It is better to live 1 day as a lion than 1000 years as a sheep!” 

"It is easy to condemn those who have given in to temptations that do not tempt us, and it is far easier to show compassion to those who have succumbed to the very same shortcomings that we have struggled to overcome."

"It is no use going anywhere to preach, unless our walking is our preaching" — St. Francis of Assisi

"It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do." — Moliere

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." — Theodore Roosevelt

"It is the glory of God to conceal a matter; to search out a matter is the glory of kings." — Proverbs 25:2

"It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey." — Wendell Berry

"It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends." — J.K. Rowling

"It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.” — Hugh Laurie

"It's hard to detect good luck — it looks so much like something you've earned."  — Frank A. Clark

"It's important to know that words don't move mountains. Work, exacting work moves mountains." — Danilo Dolci

"It's true we're in the same room, but where not in the same planet." — Klara Novak

"It's your actions, not your attractions."

"It’s fear that drives almost every negative action in the world. It’s this fear narrative that leads to negative behaviour. The key for health and wellness is to decrease fear in society." — Dr. James Doty

"Judge the contents, not the bottle.” — Jewish Proverb

"Just focus on today. I got back to basics...and remembered what I came here to do." — Matthew Jeffers

"Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly." — Proverb

"Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly." —Proverb

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." — Mother Teresa

"Kindness is Love with its work boots on."

"Know one good thing well." Buckaroo Banzai

"Knowing who you are and why you came here....that you came here to heal and be healed — is more important than knowing what you want to do. What you want to do is not the important question. The question to ask is, "When I do anything, how should I do it?" — A Return to Love

"Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today." — Abraham Lincoln

"Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it." — Rabindranath Tagore

"Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth." — George Washington

"Life doesn't give you what you want; it gives you who you are." — Christian Simpson

"Life goes on long after the thrill of living is gone."

"Life is fragile. Handle with Prayer."

"Life is like a bicycle; to keep your balance you have to keep moving."

"Life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved. Except in memory." — Lenard Nimoy

"Life is like a magic trick...the more time you spend trying to figure it out the less time you have to enjoy it." — Daryl

"Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music." — Ronald Reagan

"Life is short, but life is also long. You have to live with your choices."

"Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're still here we may as well dance."

"Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them." — Jim Carrey

"Listening is wanting to hear." — David Williams

"Live fully. Love wastefully. Have the courage to be what you are called to be." — Steven Toutant

"Look, there was a period in my life when I had a single action Colt 45, loaded, in my desk drawer.  And every night I'd take it out and think about blowing my head off, and then decide not to and go on with my life.  Put it back in the drawer and open up the laptop and continue writing my autobiography or whatever.  But it was just to see." — David Carradine

"Lord, teach me to be generous, to serve you as you deserve, to give and not to count the cost, to fight and not to heed the wounds, to toil and not to seek for rest, to labor and not to look for any reward, save that of knowing that I do your holy will." — St. Ignatius

"Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being in love, which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Those that truly love have roots that grow towards each other underground, and, when all the pretty blossoms have fallen from their branches, they find that they are one tree and not two." — Louis de Bernières

"Love the things that I love, and I will love you; but hate the things I love and we will part company." — Robert Hubbard

"Luck is merely preparation meeting opportunity."

"Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent."  — Langston Coleman

"Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide." — Ben Okri

"Magic resides in the here and now, but only if you let it." — Dan Goldberg

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up" — Thomas Edison

"Mass movements don't start with a mass, they start with a few." — John Maxwell

"May you live as long as you want and never want as long as you live."

"Maybe he didn't know he knowed how until he had to do it." — Festus Haggen

"Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again." — D. H. Lawrence

"Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts." — Aristotle

"Most people don’t realise that the nature of our evolution means negative thoughts stick to us, because negatives are what have allowed us to survive as a species." — Dr. James Doty

"My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind.” — William James, from The Principles of Psychology Volume 1

"My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better." — Marlo Thomas

"My Heart Is A Place Of Prayer." — Rumi

"My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here." — Jim Henson

"My life is not full in spite of the disappointments. It's full because of them."

"My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness." — Dalai Lama

"Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand." — Neil Armstrong

"Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand." — Neil Armstrong

"Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction." — Goethe

"Nature takes away any faculty that is not used." — William R. Inge

"Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined." — Johnny Carson

"Never get lost in anything; good or bad, everything passes, so keep moving forward my friends!" — Paolo Catania

"Never let the fear of striking out get in your way." — Babe Ruth

"No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important." — Mary Kay Ash

"No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world." — Robin Williams

"No true fiasco ever began as a quest for mere adequacy. A motto of the British Special Air Force is: 'Those who risk, win.' A single green vine shoot is able to grow through cement. The Pacific Northwestern salmon beats itself bloody on it's quest to travel hundreds of miles upstream against the current, with a single purpose, sex of course, but also...life." — Dave Halfpenny

"No-one has ever changed the world by doing what the world has told them to do." — Eddy Zhong

"Nobody can say anything about you. Whatsoever people say is about themselves."

"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little." — Edmund Burke

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." — Albert Einstein

"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." — James Baldwin

"Not only did you find my card, you also found my Heart." — Jazmin Toutant

"Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action." — Walter Anderson

"Nothing is ever what it seems to be, but everything is exactly what it is." — Buckaroo Banzai

"Nothing is everything." — Recovery Ray

"Nothing presented to the soul is simple, and the soul never applies itself simply to any subject. That is why the same thing makes us laugh and cry."

"Oh, how well I know that happiness is not found in the things around us. It is found in the secrecy of the soul." — St. Therese, The Little Flower

"Once the toothpaste is out of the tube you can’t put it back in. So be careful how hard you squeeze." — Jan Wickline

"Once you have met a True Human Being, Let him not disappear from the horizon of your Heart." — Rumi

"Once you learn to read, you will forever be free." — Fredrick Douglass

"Once you've tasted significance, success will never never satisfy." — John Maxwell

"One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present." — Golda Meir

"One is wise who is peaceable, friendly, and fearless." — Buddha

"One often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it." — Master Oogway

"One ship sails East, And another West, By the self—same winds that blow, Tis the set of the sails And not the gales, That tells the way we go." — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"Only from the heart can we touch the sky." — Rumi

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go" — T.S. Eliot

"Open your mouth only if what you are going to say is more beautiful than silence."

"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional." — Buddhist Proverb

"Pain without acceptance is suffering." — J.J. Taylor

"Passageways abound while the passenger sits dreaming. In the blink of an eye the gifts are gone." — Bill Kelley

"Patience is not simply the ability to wait — it's how we behave while we're waiting." — Joyce Meyer

"Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing the rose, looking at the night and swing the day. Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full." — Shams Tabrizi

"Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding." — Albert Einstein

"People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within." — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"People fail to get along because they l fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other." — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do." — Lewis Cass

"People support what they help create, regardless of whether it is a political movement, a sports team, or even a live performance. When you get people involved and committed to helping create an experience, they feel invited and part of the experience. Participation is the key. It creates connection, community, and art."

"People will support that which they help to create.” — Mary Kay Ash

"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did." — Newt Gingrich

"Persistence and variety. These are the two primary ways to develop great ideas or to solve important problems." — James Clear

"Perspective is edited observation."

"Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted." — Percy Shelley

"Power is influence over external events. Peace is influence over internal events." — James Clear

"Qualities that lead to increasing intelligence: The curiosity to experiment and explore. The honesty to observe the world as it is, not as you wish it to be. The humility to kill your favorite ideas when you learn something new. The consistency to repeat this cycle for life."

"Quite often, as life goes on, when we feel completely secure as we go on our way, we suddenly notice that we are trapped in error, that we have allowed ourselves to be taken in by individuals, by objects, have dreamt up an affinity with them which immediately vanishes before our waking eye; and yet we cannot tear ourselves away, held fast by some power that seems incomprehensible to us. Sometimes, however, we become fully aware and realize that error as well as truth can move and spur us on to action. Now because action is always a decisive factor, something really good can result from an active error, because the effect of all that has been done reaches out into infinity. So although creative action is certainly always best, destroying what has been done is also not without happy consequence." — Goethe

"Real regrets only come from not doing your best. All else is out of your control. You’re measured by results only. Trade excuses and “trying” for results, and expect half—hearted results from half—hearted efforts. Do more than is expected of you. Life’s easy when you live it the hard way...and hard if you try to live it the easy way." — Greg Quimby

"Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy. If you behave in a certain way, you will be transformed." — Karen Armstrong

"Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold — but so does a hard—boiled egg." — Author Unknown

"Remove the branches of a thorn bush today and you'll avoid a scrape this year. But next year, you'll face the same problem again. Remove the root of the bush today, and the entire plant will die. Are you solving problems at the branch level or the root level?" — James Clear

"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory." — Mahatma Gandhi

"Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life." — Linus Pauling

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." — Helen Keller

"Seek in-the-body experiences with God, because that's precisely where He lives! Illuminated by the uncreated light. Made alive by the unfettered, eternal rhythms of the very same power that created the cosmos and raised Christ and us from the dead. Filled to overflowing with the sweet breath of the living Word. Every fiber of my being and yours, endowed and saturated with the very glory of God. Hahahahahaha" — Matthew Machnik

"Seek not after riches nor the vain things of this world; for behold, you can not carry them with you." — Alma 39:14

"Self—full. You have to have in order to give."

"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect."  — Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Skill to do comes of doing." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going to fast — you also miss the sense of where you are going and why." — Eddie Cantor

"Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned." — Peter Marshall

"So if you want to get things done, you positively have to understand at any given point in time what is the most important thing to get done right now and if you're not doing it, you're not making progress at the fastest possible rate." — Joel Spolsky Set Your Priorities

"So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun." — Chris McCandless, from Into the Wild (chapter 6)

"So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains and we never even know we have the key." — The Eagles

"So you failed. Alright you really failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You think I care about that? I do understand. You wanna be really great? Then have the courage to fail big and stick around. Make them wonder why you're still smiling." — Dave Halfpenny

"Someday everything will all make perfect sense. So for now, laugh at the confusion, smile through the tears, and keep reminding yourself that everything happens for a reason."

"Sometimes it is better to let things be, let people go, don't fight for closure, don't ask for explanations, don't chase answers and don't expect people to understand where you're coming from."

"Sometimes the right move is the one that scares us." — Stacey Shipman

"Sometimes you have to be a lion so you can be the lamb that you really are." — Dave Chapelle's Mom

"Sometimes, magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect." — Teller

"Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both." — John Andrew Holmes

"Stop chasing shadows. Just enjoy the ride." — Katana Catastrophy

"Stop making promises that aren't yours to make."

​"Striving to find meaning in life is healthier than trying to avoid problems."

"Striving to find meaning in life is healthier than trying to avoid problems." — Roddy Galbraith

"Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take." — Christopher Reeves

"Success is largely the failures you avoid. Health is the injuries you don't sustain. Wealth is the purchases you don't make. Happiness is the objects you don't desire. Peace of mind is the arguments you don't engage. Avoid the bad to protect the good." — James Clear

"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships." — Michael Jordan

"Talk doesn't cook rice." — Chinese Proverb

"Talk is cheap." — unknown

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." — Benjamin Franklin

"That which is creative must create itself." — Keats

"That's the magic of art and the magic of theatre: it has the power to transform an audience, an individual, or en masse, to transform them and give them an epiphanal experience that changes their life, opens their hearts and their minds and the way they think." — Brian Stokes Mitchell

"The ancestor of every action is a thought." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The attitude is very important. Because, your behavior radiates how you feel." — Lou Ferrigno

"The best and most beautiful things in life cannot be seen, not touched, but are felt in the heart." — Helen Keller

"The best way out of a problem is through it." — Author Unknown

"The best way to forgive is not to blame." —TUT

"The cosmos is neither moral or immoral; only people are. He who would move the world must first move himself." — Edward Ericson

"The dancers have changed, but the drums are the same.” — Rwandan Proverb

"The day you become a leader is the day you gave up the right to have bad days." —Kevin Ward

"The definition of an optimist is someone how believes the future is uncertain. A pessimist is always right, but they derive no pleasure from it." — Robert Downey Jr.

"The definition of an optimist is someone how believes the future is uncertain. A pessimist is always right, but they derive no pleasure from it." — Robert Downey Jr. 

"The destiny of man is in his own soul." — Herodotus

"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 first step binds one to the second." — French Proverb

"The funny thing about us musicians is we spend half our life tuning and the other half playing out of tune." — Jesse Beaudion

"The God of a trillion stars knows my name, and He has a destiny for me." — I Still Believe

"The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration." — Ernest Newman

"The greatest enemy of tomorrow's success is today's success." — Peter Druker

"The greatest enemy of tomorrow's success is today's success." — Peter Druker

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." — Nelson Mandela

"The greatness of any one does not depend upon his knowledge and position, nor by these alone can any one be great. A man is as great as he can be useful to others, and the usefulness of his life to others depends on his service to them. Hence, in so far as a man can serve others in love, just so far is he great. As the Lord said, "But whosoever will be great among you let him be your servant" — Matthew 20:26

"The happiest people don't have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything"

"The Holy Rosary is a powerful weapon.  Use it with confidence and you'll be amazed at the results."
— St. Josemaria Escriva

"The key is to trust your heart to move where your unique talents can flourish. This old world will really spin when work becomes a joyous expression of the soul." — Al Sacharov

"The last degree of caution is cowardice.” — Jacques Barzun

"The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have."  — Anna Quindlen

"The longest distance between two points is a shortcut!" — John C. Maxwell

"The merchant makes what he can sell.  The artist sells what he makes."

"The message in the waterfall: if you are flexible, falling won't hurt you." — Paul Martinelli

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is mere tenacity." — Amelia Earhart

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward." — Amelia Earhart

"The most effective networking strategy I’ve found has nothing to do with conferences, cocktail hours, cold emails, or any of the common ideas you hear.

"The most important battles must be fought anew each day. Exercising today does not render tomorrow's workout unnecessary. Supporting your spouse today does not mean you can mail it in tomorrow. Learn to love the endless nature of things and life gets easier." — James Clear

"The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth." — George Eliot

​"The one thing I know is that we can all do better, and I think we will." — Max Maven

"The one who watches the wind will not sow seed, and the one who looks at the clouds will not reap.”

"The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad" — Salvador Dali

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." — Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." — Edmund Burke

​"The only thing that I see that is distinctly different about me is I'm not afraid to die on a treadmill. I will not be out-worked, period. You might have more talent than me, you might be smarter than me, you might be sexier than me...you might be all of those things. You got it on me in nine categories. But if we get on the treadmill together, there's two things: You're getting off first, or I'm going to die." — Will Smith

"The only thing that keeps a man out of a storm is his own decision not to enter it." — Richard Bach

"The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work."  — Harry Golden

"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself." — Oscar Wilde

"The past is always present in the future." — James Baldwin

"The real seeker of truth never seeks truth. On the contrary, he tries to clean himself of all that is untrue, inauthentic, insincere; and when his heart is ready, purified, the guest comes. You cannot find the guest, you cannot go after him. He comes to you; you just have to be prepared. You have to be in a right attitude." — Osho

"The say you don't know what you have until it's gone. So I sold everything to see what I had." — Steven Wright

"The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains." — Josephine Bake

"The time is always right to do what is right." — Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it." — Norman Schwarzkop

"The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps — we must step up the stairs." — Vance Havner

"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing." — Albert Einstein

"The world is a tragedy for those who think. And tragedy for those who feel." — Horace Walpole

"The world is filled with willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them." — Robert Frost

"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible —— and achieve it, generation after generation." — Pearl S. Buck

"There are no throwaway moments. Not when it's easy. Not when it's hard. Not when it's boring. Not when you're waiting for something to happen. Throw those moments away at your own peril. Throw those moments away and you will look back someday bereft at what you missed. Because it's the good stuff. The best stuff. It's all there is." — Shauna Niequist

"There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today." — Mignon McLaughlin

"There are some things you can't learn from others. You have to pass through the fire." — Norman Douglas

"There are things you can do today that will improve all of your tomorrows... you just gotta do 'em!" — Buddhist Bootcamp

"There are times when dreams sustain us more than facts." — Helen Fagin (Holocaust survivor and teacher on the power of hope)

"There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought." — Laurence J. Peter

"There are two kinds of people who never amount to much those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else." — Cyrus Curtis

"There are two kinds of worries - those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter." — Duke Ellington

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it.” — Edith Wharton

"There is no greater gift one can give another than sincere appreciation." — Rick Forgay

"There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket...safe, dark, motionless, airless...it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable." — C.S.Lewis

"There is no such thing as bad person. People are just suffering and handling it poorly." — Michelle Becker

"There is nothing like a dream to create the future." — Victor Hugo

"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea of whose time has come." — Victor Hugo

"There is one think evil cannot stand. Forgiveness." — Fred Rogers

"There is only one who sleeps, though that one sleeps beneath five billion varying blankets of human illusion. And there is but one who awakens, and awakening, wears the blankets of former illusion as transformed robes of luminous biology.”

"There's a lot of stress out there, and to handle it, you just need to believe in yourself; always go back to the person that you know you are, and don't let anybody tell you any different, because everyone's special and everyone's awesome." — McKayla Marone

"There's magic in fighting battles beyond endurance, it's the magic of risking everything for a dream that nobody sees but you." — Morgan Freeman (Million Dollar Baby)

"There's no such thing as bad weather.  Only inappropriate clothing."

"These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world." — John 16:33

"Think about all the tomorrows of your life." — Andy DeCola

"Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will." — Frederick Douglass

"Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Time is extremely limited and goes by fast. Do what makes you happy and fulfilled—few people get remembered hundreds of years after they die anyway. Don’t do stuff that doesn’t make you happy (this happens most often when other people want you to do something). Don’t spend time trying to maintain relationships with people you don’t like, and cut negative people out of your life." — Sam Altman, The Days are Long but the Decades are Short

"To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act." — Anatole France

"To become something else, you have to stop being what you are now; to start doing things a new way, you have to end the way you are doing them now; and to develop a new attitude or outlook, you have to let go of the old one you have now. ..the first task is to let go." — Dr. William Bridges

"To become something else, you have to stop being what you are now; to start doing things a new way, you have to end the way you are doing them now; and to develop a new attitude or outlook, you have to let go of the old one you have now. ..the first task is to let go." — Dr. William Bridges 

"To change someone’s life you don’t have to be beautiful, brilliant or rich, you just have to CARE.” — Ross Johnson, Mentalist

"To forgive is to set a prisoner free...and discover that the prisoner was you." — Lewis B. Smede

"To gain perspective sometimes you just need to stand in a different place for a little while." — Jonas Cain

"To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them." — Hugh Prather

"To live in the midst of the world with no desire for its pleasures; to be a member of every family, yet belonging to none; to share all sufferings; to penetrate all secrets, to heal all wounds; to daily go from men to God to offer Him their homage and petitions; to return from God to men to bring them His pardon and hope; to have a heart of fire for charity and a heart of bronze for chastity; to bless and to be blest forever. O God, what a life, and it is yours, O Priest of Jesus Christ!" — Lacordaire

"To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action." — Michael Hanson

"Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it." — Kevyn Aucoin

"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around." — Leo Buscagli

"Tough decision are about adhering to your moral compass. It’s about setting your values and having the courage of your convictions." — Dr. Marjorie Hass

"True love doesn't come to you it has to be inside you." — Julia Roberts

"True wealth is found in relationships. Treat yours like gold and you will never spend a day in poverty." 

"Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement." — Alfred Adler

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value." — Albert Einstein

"Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing, and your attitude when you have everything." — Imam Ali, George Bernard Shaw, Unknown

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." —The Lorax

"Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great." — Cher

"Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others." — Jonathan Swift

"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral." — Paulo Freire

"We all have obstacles. The feeling of satisfaction comes by overcoming something." — Marta

"We all must suffer one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.” —Jim Rohn

"We are all faces with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations."

"We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts." — Harold Nicolson

"We are all products of our experiences, good and bad. Sometimes you learn as much from the negative experiences as you do from the positive." — Brad Garlinghous

"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die, because they are never going to be born. The number of people who could be here, in my place, out number the sand grains in the Sahara. If you think about all the different ways in which our genes could be permuted, you and I are quite grotesquely lucky to be here. The number of events that had to happen in order for you to exist, in order for me to exist... we are privileged to be alive and we should make the most of our time on this world." — Richard Dawkins

"We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future." — John F. Kennedy

"We are slowed down sound and light waves, a walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the cosmos. We are souls dressed up in sacred biochemical garments and our bodies are the instruments through which our souls play their music." — Albert Einstein

"We are the presence of God; this is our call. Now to become bread and wine: food for the hungry, life for the weary."

"We are waves of the same sea, leaves from the same tree, flowers from the same garden." — Seneca

"We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude." — Charles Swindoll

"We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once." — Calvin Coolidge

"We cannot think first and act afterward. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought." — Alfred North Whitehead

"We don't succeed because of our abilities, but because of our choices." — Professor Dumbledore

"We have different mountains and rivers, but we share the same sun, same moon and the same sky."

"We know that if it comes to a fight, you first have to decide, choose your barricade and stand on it until the end." — Oksana Galuga

"We live in a world that needs more magic but has too few magicians." — Marcie Chisum

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." — Winston Churchill

"We must become the change we wish to see in the world."— Mahatma Gandhi

"We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee." — Marian Wright Edelman

"We should be kind to one another and forgive people for being flawed and prideful" — Max Maven

"We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action." — Frank Tibolt

"We're here for such a short period of time. Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you." — Jeff Bridges

"We're trying to give children positive ways to deal with their feelings." — Mr. Rogers

"Welcome every experience the looms of fate may weave for you." —  Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius

"Welcome every experience the looms of fate may weave for you." — The Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius

"Well done is better than well said." — Benjamin Franklin

"What are the assumptions you’re making in your daily life?  What are you not looking at?  What have you taken for granted?"

"What can't you live without?"

"What do you want to give people?"

"What is a small, but courageous choice you can make today?" — James Clear https://jamesclear.com/3-2-1/april-7-2022

"What is essential is invisible to the eye." — Fred Rogers

"What is this Joy I feel? Who shall measure it? I know nothing but Joy, limitless, unbounded! The Treasure I have found there cannot be described in words." — From Philosophy of Religion by Louis P. Pojman

"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What really matters is what you do with what you have." — H.G. Wells

"What was said to the rose to make it open was said to me here in my chest." — Rumi

"What you nurture will grow."

"What's meant to break you makes you brave."

"Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious." — Letitia Landon

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now." — Goethe

"When deeds speak, words are nothing." — African Proverb

"When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail." — Pearl S. Buck

"When I tried to understand. I could not. But when I entered the sanctuary I understood." — David

"When I woke today, felt another way Everything was gonna be fine When my head rose up, then my legs came too Quarter past nine was the time Well I used to lose floating memories, found myself wishing I'd remember old times But I woke today Felt another way I’m free in my mind to fly."

"When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is such a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the he'll, leap."



"When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers." — Colleen C. Barrett

"When people nearby are not befriended, there is no use endeavoring to attract those at a distance." — Mozi

"When the gods want to punish us, they answer our prayers." — Oscar Wilde

"When the well is dry, we know the worth of water." — Benjamin Franklin

"When things go wrong, don't fo with them." — Paul Martinelli

"When times are good, be happy, but when times are bad, consider: God has made the one as well as the other. Therefore, a man cannot discover anything about his future." — Ecclesiastes 7:14

"When we are present and abiding in our True Nature, we do not cling to anything, inner or outer. What do you need to let go of to experience Nonattachment today?" — Enneagram Quote of the Day

"When we make the intolerable tolerable, we sow the seeds of our own future disaster." — Said by a Major in the Israeli army, as retold by Paul Martinelli in an email March 6, 2020

"When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about." — Haruki Murakami

"When you get into deep trouble, say nothing and try to look like you know what you're doing."

"When you offer yourself the luxury of your time to work on your own creative projects, you have gifted yourself with a present that is priceless. No one can buy this for you, no one can do this for you, the only road to completion is for you to give this time to yourself." — Lorraine Recchia

"When you're ready, pick up your guitar."

"When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there." — George Harrison

"When you’re in the fear mode, you’re in survival mode and you’re not thinking as clearly. I think this distinction is really key." — Dr. James Doty

"Whenever you cannot decide what you should do, choose the action that represents a change, rather than continuing the status quo.” — Daniel Pink

"Wherever You Stand, Be The Soul Of That Place." — Rumi

"Who's been pushing your swing?"

"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind." — Rudyard Kiplin

"Work is what you do when you'd rather be doing something else."

"Work on yourself and inner peace." — Anonymous

"Work until you no longer have to introduce yourself." — Harvey Spencer

"Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress. Working hard for something we care about is called passion." — Simon Sinek

"Working on a problem reduces the fear of it. It’s hard to fear a problem when you are making progress on it—even if progress is imperfect and slow. Action relieves anxiety." — James Clear

"Worry gives small things big shadows."

"Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work." — George Gershwin

"Yesterday's homerun won't win today's game." — Babe Run

"You are allowed to believe there is a man out there who will love you fully and wholly and give you all the things you need. You owe it to yourself to feel the special magic, let the inner beauty come out and shine, to be the whole woman you are and not hide you light beauty and magnificence. To let your moments of radiance colour and vivacity be. Be true and the goodness willl seek and embrace us with its fond appreciation, till the flowers we r open up fully and completely ant totally in purest joys and magnificent spleandour. Follow the great inner drumbeat to the inner circle, feel its calling in you to let go, so that u r a testament to embracive life, and the woman in u is free to live the dreams locked up for so long within your breast and radiant body. Ecstasy is ours if we let go to it fully and completely." — via David Haglund

"You are not here to sacrifice your joy or your life. You are here to live, to be happy and to love. If you can do your best in two hours of meditation, but spend eight hours instead, you will only grow tired, miss the point and you won't enjoy your life. Do your best, and perhaps you will learn that no matter how long you meditate, you can live, love and be happy." — don Miguel Ruiz in the Four Agreements

"You are only as good as you are prepared to be bad.” — Jack Nicholson or Robert Redford

"You can get totally messed up trying to please everyone with what you do, but ultimately, you have to please yourself.” — Pierce Brosnan

"You can throw in the towel, or you can use it to wipe the sweat off your face."

"You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you." — Mary Tyler Moore

"You can't change the people around you, but you can change the people around you." — Jesse Tevelow

"You can't change what you refuse to confront."

"You can't give to another what you don't have yourself." — Agathon, from Plato's Symposium

"You can't help anybody if you don't know the right story to tell." — Jack Cash, Walk The Line

"You can't lie down in the snow and die. You've got to keep moving." — Andy Buerger

"You can't lie down in the snow and die. You've got to keep moving." — Andy Buerger 

"You can't stop time, you can only speed it up, or involuntarily slow it down." — Andy DeCola

"You can't win if you're not at the table." — Harry Wyeth, Play it as It Lays by Joan Didion, page 88

"You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings." — Pearl S. Buck

"You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother." — Albert Einstein

"You don't have you survive your ego or ambition or pettiness. There's a bigger world out there. All of us have things that we hold onto and say that we've got to have it, but we probably don't, and if we let it go, potentially, we can get better. You don't have to survive...How do you kill a person who's already dead?" — John Maxwell, notes on Apostle Paul, "I don't count my life dear."

"You don’t have to make anybody wrong to know that you are right." — David Jukulele

"You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give." — Eleanor Roosevelt

"You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning." — Billy Wilder

"You know how to put a man in his planet." — Alfred Kralik

"You know yourself mostly by your thoughts. Everyone else in the world knows you only by your actions. Remember this when you feel misunderstood. You have to do or say something for others to know how you feel." — James Clear, 3, 2, 1 Newsletter August 29, 2019

"You might as well be dead. Seriously, if you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it’ll spread over into the rest of your life. It’ll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. Man must constantly exceed his level." — Bruce Lee

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." — Gandhi

"You must do the things you think you cannot do." — Eleanor Roosevelt

"You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life." — Zig Zinglar

"You only grow when you are alone." — Paul Newman

"You really can change the world if you care enough." — Marian Wright Edelman

"You show your worth by what you seek." — Rumi

"You sit here for days saying, This is strange business. You're the strange business. You have the energy of the sun in you, but you keep knotting it up at the base of your spine. You're some weird kind of gold that wants to stay melted in the furnace, so you won't have to become coins." — Rumi

"You still wanna take me to prison just because I won't trade humanity for patriotism." — Immortal Technique

"You wanna be really great? Then have the courage to fail big and stick around. Make them wonder why you're still smiling."— Claire Colburn


"You'll never discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” — Damon Keith, speaking of Mike Ilitch

"Your dreams must be bigger than your fear. Embrace all opportunities and be all you are destined to be." — Michelle Cruz

"Your personal experiences make up maybe 0.00000001% of what’s happened in the world but maybe 80% of how you think the world works... We’re all biased to our own personal history.” — Morgan House
Source: Ideas That Changed My Life

"Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God." — Leo Buscaglia

“…if you can learn a simple trick …you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view…until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” — Atticus, from To Kill a Mockingbird

“…the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.” — Anne Frank

“…we are all responsible for how our energies are directed, whether we are conscious of it or not…” — John Nicholls

“’On with the dance, let joy be unconfined,’ is my motto, whether there’s any dance to dance  or any joy  to unconfined.” — Mark Twain

““That which is an obstacle on this road helps us on this road.” — Marcus Aurelius

“”In my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you also understand the most amusing.” — Winston Churchill

“”Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

“”To know that we know what we know, and that we do  not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.” — Henry David Thoreau

“7 Habits of Genuine People: 1) They speak their mind. 2) They respond to internal expectations, not just external ones. 3) They forge their now paths. 4) They view failure as an integral part of their journey. 5) They can admit their faults. 6) They are not judgemental of others. 7) They have solid self-esteem.” — Psychology Today

“A birth-date is a reminder to celebrate the life as well as to update the life.” — Amit Kalantri

“A book is a gift you can open again and again.” — Garrison Keillor

“A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.” — Fred Allen

“A certain degree of insanity can certainly be beneficial! How are you owning your brain? How are you accepting and expressing  the strengths of your extreme brain for the benefit of yourself and others while simultaneously learning to cope with its weaknesses? — Paraphrase of the last paragraph of an article of “The Surprising Benefits of Being (Slightly) Crazy” by Mark Manson, April 27, 2017, markmanson.net

“A child can have a bad day at school without any warning, But can be forgotten when a bus driver says, "Have a good evening, I'll see you in the morning" Ask any student, what heroes of theirs never received any fame, And I'll bet a bus driver will be among those that they name.” — Bob Carroll

“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”  ― C.S. Lewis

“A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.” ― John Wooden

“A friend is someone who makes me feel totally acceptable.” — Ene Riisna

“A game is a series of interesting choices.” — Sid Meier

“A great teacher never strives to explain his vision, he simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself.” — Rev. R. Inman

“A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.” — Kin Hubbard

“A guy don’t need no sense to be a nice fella.” — Slim (Of Mice and Men)

“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” — John Maxwell

“A little learning is a dang’rous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.” — Alexander Pope in An Essay on Criticism

“A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.” — Mark Twain

“A man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder.” — Thomas Carlyle

“A man’s real worth is determined by what does when he has nothing to do.” — Megiddo Message

“A person who has not done one half his day’s work by ten o’clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.” — Emily Bronte

“A problem is a chance for you to do your best.” — Duke Ellington

“A prune is just a plum that’s been in the bath too long.” — Joe Cartwright

“A seeker of knowledge and wisdom must consider him or her self already dead, so there is nothing to lose.” — Jonas Cain

“A small dream leads to a big idea and endless opportunity.” — M.H. Rakib

“A stranger is only a friend you haven’t met yet.”

“A way out of a financial mess is discovered as if by magic...” Lucky Numbers 10, 20, 25, 30, 40, 45

“A well—adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.” — Jane Heard

“Abiding Change In human years the world seems to move by slowly, but in truth mortal lights flicker and fade out. In one moment we are here then in another we are gone, while the earth moves on without us. To hold a belief that we can make a permanent change to the environment is an illusion. We may pull up dirt and rearrange a few stones, but in the end our attempts at change will fade. Just a mighty kingdom and it's treasure will be split when it's king is gone, so is the way of humanity. The best we can hope for is to make a positive difference in our limited sphere of influence, for the world upon which we live will only abide so much change before nature corrects the imbalance, so let what ever change we make, be for good and not ill.” — James M Vines, Abiding Change, 2016. https://hellopoetry.com/poem/1823607/abiding-change/

“Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.” July 2007

“Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.” — General George S. Patton

“Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.” — Michael J. Fox

“Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.”  — Erica Jong

“Advice to my younger self: Start where you are with what you have. Try not to hurt other people. Take more chances. If you fail, keep trying” ― Germany Kent

“After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him. The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.” — Will Rogers

“All events are neutral and unevaluable.  The ego judges and gets the contractions of its often negative judgments.  Since the ego is a tiny portion of the mind that is fear—based and created by man, it is best to realize the inadequacy of that perspective and see all things with allowance and curiosity as it is just a passing dream in the un—limitedness of dreaming.  It is best to reside in the only reality of love that is always perfect and increasingly more wonderful.”  — Michael Robins

“All of our dreams come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” February

“All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.” — North Dekalb

“All stories are made of both truths and lies, [...] What matters is the way that we believe in them.” ― Stephanie Garber (Once Upon a Broken Heart)

“All the darned fools in the world believe they are actually doing what they think they are doing.” — F.M. Alexander

“All voices are important to the chorus of the world, and we can learn something from everyone regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, background or history.” — Dane Grigas, on The Diary of a Young Girl

“All worldly joys are less than one joy of doing kindness.” — John Wesley

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.” — Abraham Lincoln

“Always do everything you ask of those you command.” — George S. Patton

“Always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” — Eli Wiesel

“America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America.”—  Jimmy Carter

“Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.” — W.H. Auden, “Notes on the Comic


“An artist respects the silence that serves the foundation of creativity.” — Douglas Levison

“An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.” — Edwin Land

“An honest heart being the first blessing, a knowing head is the second.” — Thomas Jefferson

“An old error is always more popular than a new truth.” — German Proverb

“An uninvited guest visited me last night; a visitor that sucks the light out of my might. But using every bit of energy available I pushed this intruder away, so that I may live to see another day.” — Jonas Cain

“And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.” Romans 5:5 June 2009

“And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know.” ― Adolf Hitler

“And therein lies the paradox: You will NEVER outperform what you believe you can achieve for any length of time. Raise your expectations, visualize yourself achieving it, and then take action to make it happen.”

“Any time you think you have influence, try ordering around someone else’s dog.” — The Cockle Bur

“Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly, until you can learn to do it well.” — Zig Ziglar

“Apatheia, in Stoicism, refers to a state of mind in which one is not disturbed by the passions. It might better be translated by the word equanimity than the word indifference. The meaning of the word apatheia is quite different from that of the modern English apathy, which has a distinctly negative connotation. According to the Stoics, apatheia was the quality that characterized the sage.”

“Armed with preparation and determination, you can get past obstacles.” — Ronald McNair

“Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings.” — Alan Moore

“As all entrepreneurs know, you live and die by your ability to prioritize. You must focus on the most important, mission-critical tasks each day and night, and then share, delegate, delay or skip the rest.” — Jessica Jackley

“As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy.” — Abraham Lincoln

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” — John F. Kennedy

“As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others." — Audrey Hepburn

“Ask ye of the Lord rain in the time of the latter rain: so the Lord shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field.” — Zechariah 10:1

“At some point in my life I decided, rightly or wrongly, that there are many situations in this life that I can’t do much about...So what I should do is concentrate on the situations that my energy can affect.” — Jim Henson

“At your highest moment, be careful... That's when the devil comes for you!" — Denzel Washington

“Attitude determines your direction. Gratitude determines your success.”

“August is the month when the collapsible wading pool you bought in Jun finally does.” — Changing Times

“Be always sure you are right — then go ahead.” — David Crockett

“Be an optimist; at least until they start moving animals in pairs to Cape Kennedy.” — Current Comedy

“Be brave when you are scared.  Be humble when you are successful. Be silent when you are angry. Be kind — always.” — Oleg Vishnepolsky

“Be careful for nothing; but in everything be prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.” Philippians 4:6,7 February 2009

“Be careful of your thought; they may become words at any moment.” — Iara Gassen

“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.” — George Washington

“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.” — Mother Teresa

“Be genuinely interested in the people you interact with. Forget your goals, your struggles, your mood, and yourself. Refuse to judge a message until it’s been delivered. Give people your undivided attention, your focus, and your interest.” — Tim David

“Be glad of life because  it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.” — Henry Van Dyke

“Be good. Tomorrow, be better.” — Reverend Bruce M. Siket, Pastor of Christ the Divine Mercy Parish, Millinocket, ME

“Be harsh, in the interest of being excellent." — Stewart Butterfield

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.” — Philo of Alexandria

“Be nice to people on your way up because you’ll meet ‘em on your way down.” — Wilson Mizner

“Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon ‘em.” — William Shakespeare

“Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.” — Abraham Lincoln

“Be the reason someone smiles today.” — Jonas

“Be the same person in your home as you are in the street, and be the same person in the street as you are in your home.” — Dane Grigas, on To Kill a Mockingbird

“Beauty is also found in a day’s work.” — Mamie Sypert Burns

“Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.” — John Adams

“Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.” — William Arthur Ward

“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.” — Sigmund Freud

“Belief without works is fruitless; yet works without belief is meaningless.” — Jonas Cain

“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will create it.” — William James

“Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create fact.” — William James

“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non—essentials.” — Lin Yutang

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” — Victor Frankl

“Beware of the man who won’t be bothered with the details.” — William Feather, Sr.

“Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.” Matthew 5:5 May 2009

“Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting.” — Elizabeth Bibesco

“Bow they heavens, O Lord, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.” — Psalm 144:5

“By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.” — George Carlin

“By making your own heart the object of your affection, you invite the truth of others to be recognized beyond the characters they’re imagined to be. With love as your guide, the uniqueness of all can be equally appreciated, without the pain of conflict dividing you from another.” — Matt Kahn

“By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.” — Eleanor Marx

“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

“Change brings freshness.”

“Change happens when you extend your reach. Your comfort zone is your enemy. As long as you play it safe, you will never become all that you are destined to be.” ― Germany Kent

“Change involves carrying out an activity against the habit of life.” — F.M. Alexander

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” — Barack Obama

“Change your life. Figure out the single most important thing you could do to enhance your life, work or relationships. Write it down. Now ask yourself the following four questions: Are you willing to take the next step? Are you able to make a change? Are you ready, or are you just getting ready? Are you committed, or are you just interested? Most people will easily answer "yes" to the first two.  The third one, if you're really honest with yourself, might not be as resoundingly affirmative as you might think.  Of course, it's the last one that makes all the difference. Are you committed to a better future for yourself and those around you?” — Bryce Kuhlman

“Chaos is not a mess, but rather it os the primal state of pure energy to which the person returns for every true beginning.” — William Bridges

“Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.” — Abraham Lincoln

“Character is what you know you are, not what others think you are.” — Marva Collins and Civia Tamarkin

“Coaching is the universal language of change and learning.” — CNN

“Coaching is unlocking a person’s potential to maximize their growth.” — John Whitmore

“Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.” — Peter Ustinov

“Coming together is a begging, staying together is progress, and working together is success.” — Henry Ford

“Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.” — Albert Einstein

“Constant grinding can turn even an iron rod into a needle...”

“Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.” — Constantin Brancusi

“Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.” — Donatella Versace

“Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.” — Edward de Bono

“Creativity is curiosity plus anticipation. When all I have is a 7-inch frying pan you’ll always have to throw the big fish away. Don’t throw back the big fish. Throw away the frying pan and get a bigger one.”

“Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.” — William Plomer

“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.” — Erich Fromm

“Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.” — James Stephens

“Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.” ― Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Death and taxes may always be with us, but death at least doesn’t get any worse.” — Los Angeles Times

“Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.” — H. L. Hunt

“Deep love and gratitude: It would not be so except for the seeds you have given me!” — Michael Mirth

“Delay is preferable to error.” — Thomas Jefferson

“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

“Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to  be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.” — William Jennings Bryan

“Detachment doesn’t mean you own nothing; it means nothings owns you.” — Bhagavad Gita

“Dig a well before you are thirsty.” — Chinese Proverb

“Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.” — Winston Churchill

“Diplomacy: The art of jumping into trouble waters without making a splash.” — Art Linkletter

“Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone's watching or not.” — Michael J. Fox

“Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.” — Robert Quillen

“Diseases always attack when exposed to change.” — Herodotus

“Do interesting things. Share them publicly. Repeat those two strategies and you'll become a magnet. Like—minded people will come to you."

“Do interesting things. Share them publicly. Repeat those two strategies and you'll become a magnet. Like—minded people will come to you.”

“Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.” ― Chet Atkins

“Do not let your hearts be troubled, trust in God still, and trust in me. there are many rooms in my Father’s house; if there were not, I should have told you. I am going now to prepare a place for you, and after I have gone and prepared you a place, I shall return to take you with me; so, that where I am you may be too.” John 14:1—3

“Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.” — African Proverb

“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one." - Bruce Lee

“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” ― Maya Angelou

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” — Theodore Roosevelt

“Do you know someone you would like to change… and improve? Good! I am all in favor of it. But why not begin with yourself?” — Dale Carnegie

“Do yourself a favor. Stop with the BUTs and give it a try!

“Doesn’t matter what it’s like outside, it can be a beautiful day, inside." — Mr. Rogers

“Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.”

“Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.”

“Don't mistake activity with achievement.” ― John Wooden

“Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.” ― Desmond Tutu (Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]

“Don't wait for better Investment options. Invest and then wait for better time.” ― Ankit Samrat

“Don’t ask for an easier life; ask to be a stronger person.” August 2007

“Don’t ask questions of fairy tales.” — Jewish  Proverb

“Don’t be afraid to go out on a limb, that’s where the fruit is.” January

“Don’t believe everything you see, read, or hear from others, whether of authority, religious teachers or texts. Find out for yourself what is truth, what is real. Discover that there are virtuous things and there are non—virtuous things. Once you have discovered for yourself, give up the bad and embrace the good.” — Buddha

“Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.” — Janis Joplin

“Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.” — Denis Waitley

“Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.” — Robert Frost

“Don’t judge others without fairly looking at their situation first.” — Dane Grigas, on To Kill a Mockingbird

“Don’t just count your years, make your years count.” — George Meredith

“Don’t look where you fell, but where you slipped.” — Chinese Proverb

“Don’t make people wrong. As long as you’re making people wrong, there can be no connected relationship.” — Penny Tremblay

“Drive all blames into one self.” — Buddhist Saying

“Dwelling on negative thinking is like fertilizing weeds.” — Norman Vincent Peale

“Each life needs its own quiet place.” January 2007

“Each person must live their life as a model for others.” — Rosa Parks

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self—confidence.” — Robert Frost

“Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. “ — John Kennedy

“Emotions are anticipations of outcomes." — Yann Lecun

“Encourage, lift and strengthen one another. For the positive energy spread to one will be felt by us all. For we are connected, one and all.” ― Deborah Day

“Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.” — Stephen King

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist one he grows up.” — Pablo Picasso

“Every day we leave a legacy.”

“Every man lives by exchanging.” ― Adam Smith

“Everybody wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change them self.” — Tolstoy

“Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.” ― Erica Jong

“Everyone is always teaching one what to do, leaving us still doing the things we shouldn’t do.” — F.M. Alexander

“Everyone wants to be right, but no one stops to consider if their idea of right is right.” — F.M. Alexander

“Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.” — Will Rogers

“Everything that has a front, has a back.”

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” ― Carl Jung

“Everything you want in life is a relationship away.” ― Idowu Koyenikan

“Experience is a master teacher, even when it’s not our own.” ― Gina Greenlee

“Experience is not the best teacher; evaluated experience is the best teacher. Reflective thinking is needed to turn experience into insight.” — John Maxwell

“Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.” — Aldous Huxley

“Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.” — Oscar Wilde

“Experience without knowledge is blind, but knowledge without experience is a mere intellectual play.” – Immanuel Kant

“Experiencing outstanding magic isn’t about being fooled—it’s about grateful surrender.” — Peter Marks

“Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.” — Henry Ford

“Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth.”

“Fame is not the measure of success. Creating magic that changes humanity is what we will use to measure success.” — Jonas Toutant (Journal Entry, November 6, 2006)

“Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.” — John Maxwell

“Fear and love do not dwell in the same place, so we have a choice to make. As we choose love, fear becomes a stranger. By realizing this we have experienced a miracle; that shift in perspective from fear to love.”  — Marianne Williamson

“Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.” — Winston Churchill

“Fear is an inquiry into what we are struggling with & why. Stop. Look the dragon of fear directly in the eye and ask it what it is trying to show you. You will see the dragons flames dissolve into tears of joy. The mighty beast now becomes your Teacher.” — Diana Harris

“Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.” — Doug Larson

“Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.” ― Criss Jami

“Find three hobbies you love: one to make you money, one to keep you in shape, and one to be creative.”

“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.” — Epictetus

“Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.” — Peter Drucker

“For a moment, put yourself in the bus driver's shoes, And I'm sure you will find that it's a job you might not want to choose. Just think what it would be like to baby sit for sixty kids or better, And remember you must chauffeur this bus load of kids regardless of the weather.”

“For a Stoic, always concerned with the distinction between the free man, master of himself and in control of his mind and actions, and the slave, conquered and overpowered by external circumstances, loved but wanted to make sure they were not driven to madness by this love.” — The Daily Stoic

“For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”  — Alexander Pope in An Essay on Criticism

“For he knows how we are formed, he remembers that we are dust. As for man, his days are like grass, he flourished like a flower in the field, the wind blows over it and it is gone, and it’s place remembers it no more. But from everlasting to everlasting the Lord’s love is with those who fear him, and his righteousness with their children’s children.” — Psalm 103:14-18

“For in this unfathomable abyss of the Simplicity, all things are wrapped in fruitive bliss; and the abyss itself may not be comprehended, unless by the Essential Unity. To this the Persons, and all that lives in God, must give place; for here there is naught else but an eternal rest in the fruitive embrace of an outpouring Love. And this is that wayless being which all interior spirits have chosen above all other things. This is the dark silence in which all lovers lose themselves. But if we would prepare ourselves for it by means of the virtues, we should strip ourselves of all but our very bodies, and should flee forth into the wild Sea, whence no created thing can draw us back again." — Jan van Ruysbroeck

“For it isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in  it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

“Friends will come in and out of your life, but a true friend will leave footprints on your heart.”

“From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.” — Luke 12:48

“Genius is initiative on fire.” — Holbrook Jackson

“Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.” — C.W. Ceram

“Get someone else to blow your horn and the  sound will carry twice as far.” — Will Rogers

“Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.” — Bob Marley

“Glory be to the Father, and the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.”

“God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.” — Voltaire

“God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily.” — Unknown

“Good friends are like stars...You don't always see them, but you know they are always there.”

“Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.” — Albert Einstein

“Great art reminds us that no matter what we are going through, someone else has been through something similar. It can give us strength when we feel weak, makes us feel less alone, guides us to act in profound ways, and helps us to use our pain to help make the world around us a better place.” — Dane Grigas

“Great teachers throughout time have enough knowledge to say without saying and can lead without trespassing on free will.” — Joseph Anthony

“Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.” — Henry Ward Beecher

“Grief can take care of itself: but to get the full value of joy, you must have somebody to share it with.” — Mark Twain

“Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears” ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb (The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms)

“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

“Happiness is a by—product of an effort to make someone else happy.” — Gretta Brooker Palmer

“Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.” — Jim Rohn

“Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.” — Anonymous

“Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.” October 2007

“Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.” — Haim Ginott

“He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.” — Abraham Lincoln

“He hath made everything beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.” Ecclesiastes 3:11 August 2009

“He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.” — Thomas Carlyle

“He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.” — Jean—Luc Godard

“He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love." — St. Basil (330—379)

“He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and walk  and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

“He’s just like most people. See’s things the way they want to, and not the way they really are.”

“Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.” — Matthew 24:35 November 2009

“Hide not your talents. They for use were made, What's a sundial in the shade?” ― Benjamin Franklin

“Holding anger is a poison...It eats you from inside...We think that by hating someone we hurt them...But hatred is a curved blade...and the harm we do to others...we also do to ourselves.” ― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.” — Buddha

“Hope and encouragement, especially hope, is probably one of the greatest things you can give another person.” — Becky Hammon

“How do you show someone special that you love them? Let them go.” — Dr. Martin Shaw

“How we remember is how we give meaning to a life lived.”

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” — Ann Frank

“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the result.” — Winston Churchill

“Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.” — Plato

“Human connection is as threatened by unhealthy peace as by unhealthy conflict.” — Priya Parker

“Humility and patience are both virtues necessary to make a good player of failure. If I tend to forget the second, people are unaware of the first.”

“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.” — Rick Warren

“I am blooming from the wound where I once bled.” ― Rune Lazuli

“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ― Winston S. Churchill

“I am not here to change the world. I am changing the world because I am here.” ― Marianne Williamson, from The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife

“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.” ― Carl Jung

“I am reminded daily that the essence of life lies in transition, where hope and creativity, insight, and possibility reside.” — Susan Bridges (from Managing Transitions, 4th Edition, Page x).

“I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.” — Joyce Meyer

“I belong to no religion.  My religion is Love.  Every heart is My temple.” — Rumi

“I can say with confidence that we are rarely as good as our successes would have us believe, yet at the same time we are also rarely as awful as our failures might lead us to believe. We are always in a constant state of flow as we learn, take risks, reflect, and evolve. The very fact that you're in this class is a clear indication that you take yourself and your mission seriously. There's boldness in your decision to be here, for we don't take master classes because we're masters, but rather because we're committed to the path of mastery—a path that truly has no finish line. I'm so happy you're here, Tracy! It's a joy to learn with others just as committed to this Journey of Discovery!” — Jonas Cain

“I do NOT believe we are all born equal. Created equal in the eyes of God, yes, but physical and emotional differences, parental guidelines, varying environments, being in the right place at the right time, all play a role in enhancing or limiting an individual's development. But I DO believe every man and woman, if given the opportunity and encouragement to recognize their potential, regardless of background, has the freedom to choose in our world. Will an individual be a taker or a giver in life? Will that person be satisfied merely to exist or seek a meaningful purpose? Will he or she dare to dream the impossible dream? I believe every person is created as the steward of his or her own destiny with great power for a specific purpose, to share with others, through service, a reverence for life in a spirit of love.” — Hugh O'Brian, The Freedom to Choose

“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” — Bill Cosby

“I had a great conversation with Albert Brooks once. When I met him for the first time, I was kind of stammering. I said, you make movies, they live on forever. I just do these late-night shows, they get lost, they’re never seen again and who cares? And he looked at me and he said, “What are you talking about? None of it matters.” None of it matters? “No, that’s the secret. In 1940, people said Clark Gable is the face of the 20th Century. Who [expletive] thinks about Clark Gable? It doesn’t matter. You’ll be forgotten. I’ll be forgotten. We’ll all be forgotten.” It’s so funny because you’d think that would depress me. I was walking on air after that.” — Conan O’Brien

“I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning." — J.B. Priestly

“I have had dreams and I have had nightmares — but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.” — Jonas Salk

“I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy with it.” — Groucho Marx

“I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.” — George Burns

“I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude. " — Michael Jordan

“I hope you do not end this story with a heart full of regrets. I hope you do not spend your years just waiting for your life to begin.” — Brianna Wiest

​“I hope you find the courage to change your life. In the small ways, in the big ways, in every way that matters.” — Brianna Wiest

“I hope you realize that this is not the practice run, this is not the preview. This is it. There is nothing to do but leap.” — Brianna Wiest

“I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you’ve never felt before. I hope you meet people who have a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start over again.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I implore you (I entreat you, and I challenge you) to speak with conviction—to say what you  believe in a manner that bespeaks the determination in with which you believe it. Because contrary to the wisdom of the bumper sticker, it is not enough these days to simply “question authority,” you gotta speak with it too.” — Taylor Mali

“I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it.” — Michael J. Fox

“I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.” — Willa Cather

“I look crazy but I'm not. And the funny thing is that other people don't look crazy but they are.” — Eden Ahbez

“I look forward to an American which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.” — John Kennedy

“I love when people are transparent with me, naturally, and don’t force me to rad them and use may intuition to see their true intentions. Be exactly who and what you say you are with me, save us both the time and energy, because that’s the time and energy we could spend truly connecting.” — Shams Tabrïz

“I must admit, to be in front of a classroom with 20—30 kids wouldn't be a picnic, But to drive 60 kids over icy roads would set my nerves on edge and make my stomach sick. A school bus driver is like a postman and must go regardless of rain, snow, gloom and darkest of night. But no postman ever had to have 60 kids, clean up their mess, or break up a fight.”

“I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench to my left and another to my right.” ― Duke Ellington

“I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.” — Bob Marley

“I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.” ― Frederick Douglass

“I realize that humor isn't for everyone. It's only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive." — Anne Wilson Schaef

“I shall pass this place but once, therefore any good that I can do, or kindness that I can show, let me do it now, for I shall not pass this way again.” — Etienne de Grellet

“I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days or great days.” December 2007

“I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do.” — Lucille Ball

“I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it. It’s called perseverance.” — Lee J. Iacocca

“I think that life is difficult. People have challenges. Family members get sick, people get older, you don't always get the job or the promotion that you want. You have conflicts in your life. And really, life is about your resilience and your ability to go through your life and all of the ups and downs with a positive attitude.” — Jennifer Hyman

“I try to feel whatever is stressful or painful without resistance — while also not ruminating about it. Don’t feed the weeds in the garden of the mind! Second, a few times a day, I slow down for a breath or longer to receive a useful or enjoyable experience into myself. Third, as part of my daily meditation, I’ll open to a sense of peace, contentment, and love that sinks into me. Last, I try to remember that simply being conscious in a human body in the 21st century on our precious little planet is an extraordinary gift all by itself." — Rick Hanson

“I want anybody who is ready to know it is not too late.” — Michelle Petties

“I watch a lot of speakers who have convinced themselves they are, but their audiences know otherwise. They know, because they’re not just speaking, they’re performing. And when we’re performing, we’re usually trying to overcompensate for an insecurity, rooted in a wound that hasn’t been healed.” — Harris III

“I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.” – Marshall McLuhan

“I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the climate. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess tremendous power to make a student's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a student humanized or de-humanized.” — Haim Ginott

“I’m a strong believer in stating your position and not wavering.” — Mitt Romney

“I’m always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.” — Diane Sawyer

“I’ve learned that a person’s degree of self—confidence greatly determines his success.” — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“I’ve learned that I don’t feel my age as long as I focus on my dreams instead of my regrets.” — H. Jackson Brown

“I’ve learned that success is more often the result of hard work than of talent.” — H. Jackson brown

“I’ve learned that you shouldn’t compare yourself to the best others can do, but to the best you can do.” — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life without a catcher’s mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back.” — H. Jackson Brown

“I’ve seen too many leaders misunderstand leadership for legacy. Even the most experienced leaders will divide instead of delegate and incite instead of unite to advance hidden personal agendas.” ― Richie Norton

“If a company offers you a free service over the internet, you are not the customer. You are the product.”

“If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no  island cut from the other lands, but a continent that joins them.” — Francis Bacon

“If a man finds himself with bread in both hands, he should exchange one loaf for some flowers of the narcissus, because the loaf feeds  the body, but the flowers feed the soul.” — Mohammed

“If all the cars in the United States were places end to end, it would probably be Labor day Weekend.” — Doug Larson

“If any vice rend your heart, cast it away from you; and if you cannot be rid of it in any other way, pluck out your heart also.” — Seneca

“If everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane!” — Bob Carroll

“If in my life I fail completely to heed others, solely out of a desire to be 'devout' and to perform my 'religious duties', then my relationship with God will also grow arid. It becomes merely 'proper', but loveless.” — Pope Francis

“If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.” — Johnny Carson

“If nothing changes, nothing changes.” June

“If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.” — Maya Angelou

“If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.” — Milton Berle

“If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.” — Toni Morrison

“If we cannot end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.” — John F. Kennedy

“If we could see down the road from the beginning what was waiting for us, I reckon a lot of us wouldn’t go on. Just the same, we owe a debt, boy. All of us. Just for the gift of livin’, and with the shining times we got to taste along the way. What you’ve got to do is stop looking back on that that hurt you, and you’ve got to start giving thanks that the sun’s still shining and the world’s still kick’. That you’re still a part of it. I’ll tell you something else, boy: no man ever looked ol’ Satan in the eye or walked through the valley of despair that didn’t come out a better man for having been through it.” — Zeb Macahan

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” — St. Mother Teresa

“If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.” — Haim Ginott

“If you are losing a tug—of—war with a tiger, give him the rope before he gets  your arm. You can always buy a new rope.” — Max Gunther

“If you are seeing something for the first time, one of your first reactions should be fascination.” — Sushant Singh Rajput

“If you command wisely, you’ll be obeyed cheerfully.” — Thomas Fuller

“If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded." — Maya Angelou

“If you get tired, learn to rest, not quit.” — Ricky Haro

“If you give someone too much too soon, they’ll fall in love with your hand and not your heart.”

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” — Mother Teresa

“If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously." — Cate Blanchett

“If you make a human connection with your future self, then you’ll make wiser decisions today.” — Hal Hershfield

“If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.” — Andy Rooney

“If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.” — Olin Miller

“If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self—respect will you compel others to respect you.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” — Antoine de Saint—Exupéry

“If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.” ― Paulo Coelho

“If you want to do a few small things right, do them yourself. If you want to do great things and make a big impact, learn to delegate.” — John C. Maxwell

“If you want to persuade, appeal to interest, not to reason.” — Benjamin Franklin

“If you want to reach your goal, you must shrink the size of your but. But it's probably too hard...it's simple. But it's probably too expensive...you're just reallocating the money you spend on groceries and take out for a healthier option...and I can show you how it can be free. But it probably won't work for me...it probably will. But I probably won't be able to stick with it...you fit it into your lifestyle any way you want (and again, it's simple). But I don't even have weight to lose...you probably have some toning up to do. And I bet you want to feel better and healthier. But maybe I'll just eat healthier and exercise...that will probably cost you more, take more time and more effort...and has that worked for you in the past?”

“If you've got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

“If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.” — Paulo Coelho

“If you’re looking for a superhero, have that awareness that you have something unique and valuable to give.”

“If you’re strong enough, there are no precedents.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

“If you’re suffering you just have to learn how to suffer best.” — Ricky Haro

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” — Albert Einstein

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” —Marilyn Monroe

“In a world where you can be anything, be kind.” — Jennifer Dukes Lee.

“In all chaos there is cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.” ― Carl Jung

“In each of us there is another whom we do not know.” ― Carl Jung

“In everyone's life — at some time — our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.” — Albert Schweitzer

“In life, what sometimes appears to be the end is really a beginning.” August

“In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.” — Thomas Jefferson

“In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you.” — Jesus Christ

“In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.” ― Robert Schumann

“In order to heal you have to feel.”

“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth…And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.” Genesis 1:1,2 March 2009

“In the long—run (and often in the short—run), your willpower will never beat your environment.”

“In this culture? Two years later, it’s going to be, who’s Conan? This is going to sound grim, but eventually, all our graves go unattended.” — Conan O’Brien

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life:  It goes on.” — Robert Frost

“Inflation is when the buck doesn’t stop anywhere.” — Orben’s Current Comedy

“Influence is the compass. Persuasion is the map.” — Joseph Wong

“Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.” — Victor Hugo

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.” — Pablo Picasso

“Inspiration is for amateurs — the rest of us just show up and get to work." — Chuck Close

“Instead of resenting your experience of the present moment, accept it the way it is. Drop all unnecessary baggage (irritation, anger, complaining, being the victim...). There is a beauty and aliveness to each moment. The good deepens, the unpleasant dissolves more quickly, and any action you take is more effective. And above all, there is a background of inner peace to whatever you are experiencing.” — Eckhart Tolle

“Intimidation doesn't last very long.” — Lenny Wilkens

“It all happens, and it happens quickly. You are not waiting on another person, or the right timing, or for everything to fall into place. You are waiting to feel ready enough to exist within the questions, to not need every answer, and to know that this life does not come to us to be perfectly understood, but to be fully experienced, in every direction we can possibly reach.” — Brianna Wiest

“It is a great thing to be intent on using power and position properly” ― Anuj Jasani

“It is a magnificent feeling to recognize the unity of complex phenomena which appear to be things quite apart from the direct visible truth.” — - Albert Einstein

“It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.” — John Bulwer

“It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.” — John Stuart Mill

“It is easier to fight for one’s principals than to live up to them.” — Alfred Adler

“It is in the shadow of each other that the people live.” — Irish Saying 

“It is in the shelter of each other that the people live.” — Irish Saying

“It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.” — François de La Rochefoucauld

“It is never what we do that truly matters, but what matters is how if affects others.” — Jonas Cain

“It is not as much about who you used to be, as it is about who you choose to be.” ― Sanhita Baruah

“It is not the absence of the fear but the courage to take action anyway that determines success. When we learn to face our fears, we learn to observe our thoughts and feelings but not be ruled by them. Instead we choose how to shape the lives we want.”

“It is not the degree of ‘willing’ or ‘trying’, but the way in which the energy is directed, that is going to make the ‘willing’ or ‘trying’ effective.” — F.M. Alexander

“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” — Charles Darwin

“It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!” — Adlai Stevenson

“It is self-defeating to try to overcome people’s resistance to change without addressing the threat the change poses to their world.” — William Bridges

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” — Aristotle

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.” ― Oscar Wilde

“It is when we are in transition that we are most completely alive.” — William Bridges

“It isn’t the load that bends us down, it’s the way we carry it.” January 2008

“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.” — J. K. Rowling

“It takes a long time to grow an old friend.” December

“It takes courage to feel awkward, goofy, and silly - all of the feelings that we experience when we're brave enough to try something new or risk being innovative…. My mantra when I'm trying something new and feeling awkward and goofy is ‘Effort + the courage to show up = enough.’” ~ Brené Brown

“it takes immense courage to stand up for what you know is right, even when the masses of others remain silent beside you.” — Dane Grigas, on The Diary of a Young Girl

“It took me three albums to get the confidence and to find out what I could do that made me different from other people. And the first record — really — was a process of trying.” — Peter Gabriel

“It's choice, not chance, that determines your destiny.” — Jean Nidetch

“It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.” ― Mark Twain

“It's easy to get discouraged when others don't understand the good that you are doing. But the encouraging part is that the people who most need your message will have access to it because you keep spreading Love. There's no telling how many lives you’ve transformed, saved, or positively influenced in some way, just by showing up every day. The presence you bring is beautiful.” — Jonas Cain

“It's easy to have faith when things are going well. But there are times in everyone's life when we have to fly on instruments, just like a pilot making a landing in low visibility. He knows the land is there, but he can't see it. He must trust his instruments to navigate for him. And so it is with us, when things aren't what we'd like them to be. We know that life is always in process, and always on its way to greater good. We just can't see that. During those times, we rely on our spiritual radar to navigate for us. We trust there's a happy ending. By our faith, through our trust, we invoke its proof.” — Excerpted from A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles

“It's much easier to quench your first wish. than to satisfy those who follow.” — Francois of La Rochefoucauld)

“It's my experience that folks who have no vices have generally very few virtues.” — According to author F. B. Carpenter, this was said to Abraham Lincoln by a fellow passenger in a stage coach

“It's the lyrics that makes a song a hit, although the tune, of course, is what makes it last.” — Irving Berlin

“It's your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don't take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver.” — Betty White

“It’s a very short trip. While alive, live.” — Malcolm Forbes

“It’s difficult when we get put in the position where we have to explain our humanity.” — Hannah Hickman, Junior @ Vanderbilt University

“it’s hard to speak from your heart if your heart is still broken.” — Harris III

“It’s impossible,” said pride. “It’s risky,” said experience. “It’s pointless,” said reason. “Give it a try,” whispered the heart.

“It’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit. Start whenever you want.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

“It’s not easy taking problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line.” — Ashleigh Brilliant

“It’s not enough to delegate a task. Give the person the responsibility and authority to get it done.” ― Frank Sonnenberg, Soul Food: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“It’s not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.” — Sir Edmund Hillary

“It’s not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts.” — Addison Walker

“It’s so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say, then say the opposite.” — Sam Levenson

“It’s the little moments that make life big.” March 2007

“Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.” — Karl Barth

“Just as you have the impulse to do something, stop.” — Early Zen scripture (anonymous)

“Just because everything has changed, doesn’t mean anything is different around here.”

“Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.” — Ella Fitzgerald

“Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.” — Ann Landers

“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.” — Lao Tzu

“Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom." — Theodore Isaac Rubi

“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” — Mark Twain

“Knowing how to do something never accomplished anything. You have to do it.”

“Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.” — Martin H. Fisher

“Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.” ― Carl Jung 

“Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy which, if it remained unused, might become negative—that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.” — George Gurdjef

“Learn to obey before you command.” — Olon

“Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.” — Luciano Pavoratti

“Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.” ― Igor Stravinsky

“Let the spirit of adventure set the tone.”

“Let us follow our destiny, ebb and flow. Whatever may happen, we master fortune by accepting it.” — Virgil

“Let’s climb up to the top of our ivory towers, right up to the last step, close to the heavens!” — Gustave Flaubert

“Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.” — John Adams

“Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can” — Danny Kaye

“Life is a process of learning to live with limits—limited resources, the limited attention spans of listeners, our limited time on this earth. Learn to pack the most into the least.” — Phil Sudo, Zen Guitar

“Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.” — Tennessee Williams

“Life is like riding a bicycle, to keep your balance, you must keep moving.” — Albert Einstein

“Like an amateur magician who moves their hands too quickly during the part where they do the “secret move,” when you try to hide insecurities from an audience, they get that “something’s up right now” feeling and it erodes their trust.” — Harris III

“Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.” — Joyce Brothers

“Live as if your are living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.”

“Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations." — Red Skelton

“Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.” — Romans 13:10

“Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.” — Peter Ustinov

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” — Aristotle

“Love is not a feeling, it’s a behavior."

“Love is not a feeling, it’s an ability.”

“Love is the energizing elixir of the Universe, the cause and effect of all Harmony.” — Rumi

“Love means giving selflessly, excluding none and including all.” — Rama

“Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that” — Michael Leunig

“Love people who hate you. Pray for people who have wronged you. It won’t just change their life, it’ll change yours.” — Mandy Hale

“Love the life you have, while you create the life of your dreams.” — Hal Elrod

“Love truth but pardon error...”

“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” — Lucille Ball

“Man was made for conflict, not for rest. In action is his power; not in his goals but in his transitions man is great.”  — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Many a false step is made by standing still...”

“Many of you do not know who I Am. What I Am is a man hiding in the light. It would be a paradox asking me who I Am. If you have to ask who I am then you already know who I am.”

“Masks reveal more than they hide.” — Jeff McBride

“May my mind match my heart and may my heart match my actions so that my actions may match my soul.” — Jonas Cain

“Memory is subjective; never an accurate replay of what actually transpired.  It’s about perspective.”

“Mindfulness evolves this way: You do something and then afterwards notice and think; oops I did that thing again—delayed awareness.  You start noticing while you're doing it; oh—oh, I'm doing that thing again—momentum exists, could be hard to stop, ride it out, go general and rebalance.  You recognize the impulse as it rises and you feel; interesting, there is that thing again—and a space is created. Maybe just a few seconds, but that's enough. Here's your freedom and power, use it wisely and joyfully.” — Viktor Egelund

“Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not top be aware  of it.” — Oliver Herford

“Most people are searching for happiness outside of themselves. That’s a fundamental mistake. Happiness is something you are, and it comes from the way you think.” — Dr. Wayne Dyer

“Most people don’t remember names, for the simple reason that they don’t take the time and energy necessary [for it].” — Dale Carnegie

“Most smiles are started by another smile.” — Frank A. Clark

“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” — Jim Ryun

“Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever." — Peabo Bryson

“Music should strike fire from the heart of man—and bring tears from the eyes of woman.” — Beethoven

“My father taught me that you can you read a hundred books on wisdom and write a hundred books on wisdom, but unless you apply what you learned then its only words on a page. Life is not lived with intentions, but action.” ― Shannon Alder

“My performance is not about my tricks. It's about the relationship between me and my audience, and my goal is to make them forget that there are secrets.” —Chris Walden

“Nature has given to men one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.” — Epictetus

“Negativity is an uninvited might, one which I refuse to accept during my night. In its place I visit with a positive light.”

“Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing — you'll like yourself — you'll have inner peace. And if you have that — along with physical health — you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.” — Johnny Carson

“Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.” — Robert H. Schuller

“Never dull your shine for somebody else.” — Tyra Banks

“Never insult an alligator until you have crossed the river.” — Cordell Hull

“Never learn to do something that you don’t want to do.” — Christopher Herrmann

“Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people.” — Barbara Bush

“Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.” — Sandra Carey

“Never quit, never lie, and never apologize.” — Zeb Macahan

“Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.” — Willie Nelson

“No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.” — Murray Kempton

“No man can reveal aught to you but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.” — Kahlil Gibran

“No matter how hard we may try, there may be times when we cannot keep darkness from finding its way into our lives, but we can always look for the light, the positive, the hope in every situation, as difficult as it may be.” — Dane Grigas 

“No matter how hard you push the envelope, it is still stationary.” — Clinton Combs

“No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear.” ― Greg Kincaid

“No one has ever become poor by giving.” ― Anne Frank

“No one has ever bet enough on a winning horse.” — Richard Sasuly

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.” ― Charles Dickens

“No one knows what he is able to do until he tries.” — Publilious Syrus (ca. 50 B.C.)

“No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.” ― Peter Drucker

“No one really knows enough to be a pessimist.” — Norman Cousins

“No problem can never be solved by the same consciousness that created it.” — Albert Einstein

“No weapon formed against you shall prosper.” — Isaiah 54:17

“Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.” — Theodore Roosevelt

“Nobody ever pulled a rabbit out of a hat without carefully putting one there in the first place.” — James H. "Dutch" Kindelberger

“Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.” — Henry Kissinger

“Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.” — Earl Wilson

“Nothing astonishes  men so much as common sense and plain dealing.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.” — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” — Marie Curie

“Nothing is difficult to those who have the will.” April 2007

“Nothing is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.” — Mark Van Doren

“Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” — Albert Einstein, in a 1955 letter of condolence to the family of his recently deceased friend Michele Besso

“Now I know why there are so many people who enjoy chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees the results.” — Albert Einstein

“O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!” Romans 11:33 September 2009

“Observe carefully what pleases you in others, and probably the same things in you will please others.” — Lord Chesterfield

“Of all lies, art is the least untrue.” — Gustave Flaubert, French Writer — wrote book called Madame Bovary

“Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.” — Rudyard Kipling

“Of what value are Blessings if we do not share?”

“Oh my God! I offer You all my actions of this day for the intentions and for the glory of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. I desire to sanctify every beat of my heart, my every thought, my simplest works, by uniting them to His infinite merits; and I wish to make reparation for my sins by casting them in the furnace of His merciful love. Oh my God! I ask of You for myself and for those dear to me the grace to fulfill perfectly Your holy will, to accept for love of You the joys and sorrows of this passing life, so that we may one day be united together in Heaven for all eternity. Amen.” St. Therese of Lisieux Daily Offering

“Once something is a passion, the motivation is there.” — Michael Schumacher

“Once you have that, you have unlimited capabilities,”  Legato

“One disadvantage of having nothing to do is you can’t stop and rest.” — Franklin P. Jones

“One love, one heart, one destiny.” — Bob Marley

“One love, one heart. Let’s get together and feel all right” — Bob Marley

“One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.” — A.A. Milne

“One of the great lessons I've learned from mountaineering that I apply to life and to business is: Be comfortable being uncomfortable." — Andrew Buerger

“One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone.” ― Shannon L. Alder

“One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.” — Bryant H. McGill

“One should not rely a great deal on one’s plans as fate has a way of her own.”

“One usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else, unless it is an enemy.” — Albert Einstein

“One way to prevent conversation from being boring is to say the wrong thing.” — Frank Sheed

“Only if a child feels right can he think right.” — Haim Ginott

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” — T.S. Eliot

“Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.” May 2007

“Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?” — Bob Marley

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” — Thomas A. Edison

“Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.” — James Stephens

“Our dreams are possible if we have the courage to pursue them and use the resources that we collectively hold in abundance to help us accomplish them together.” — Dane Grigas, on Of Mice and Men

“Our goal must be — not peace in our time, but peace for all time.” — Harry S. Truman

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” — Thomas A. Edison

“Our lower self becomes stronger when we stay in conflict. When conflict arises, move into peace allowing your spirit to insert its love. The lower self & spirit are like muscles; the more we use the one of choice, the stronger it gets. Seek peace from within. Nothing can give you the peace that you long for; it already... resides in you. Today, "The peace in me comes forward today. I choose peace, I am peace." — Kat Lovell

“Our true selves are revealed both in what we love and in what we hate. And these emotions are never outside of us. They are always Always ALWAYS found inside us. I love you because you reflect that which I love in myself. And if there is anyone I hate, it is because I see in them some aspect of myself that I hate.” — Jonas Cain

“Parenthood is an endless series of small events, periodic conflicts, and sudden crises which call for a response. The response is not without consequence: it affects personality for better or for worse.” — Haim Ginott

“Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.” — Oprah Winfrey

“Patience is not simply the ability to wait — it's how we behave while we're waiting.” — Joyce Meyer

“Peace begins with a smile.” — Mother Teresa

“People who aren't crushing it have lists without deadlines; ideas but no strategy; goals, but no plan."

“People will throw stones at you. Don’t throw them back. Collect them all and build an empire.”

“People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going.” — Earl Nightingale

“Persuasion can go through obstacles that force cannot.” — Yusuf A. Leinge

“Plan for the worst, hope for the best, and be ready for the best. And don’t be content with anything but the best. But let’s not let the great be the enemy of the good. Let’s roll with it!”— Jonas Toutant (Journal Entry, November 6, 2006)

“Plunge boldly into the thick of life!” — Johann Wolfgang Goethe

“Poetry is bad stand—up. It’s carefully chosen words that have no laugh at the end.” — Jerry Seinfeld

“Position yourself well enough and circumstances will do the rest.” — Mason Cooley

“Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.” — Willard Scott

“Practice non—doing, and everything will fall into place.” — Lao-tzu

“Prediction is the essence of intelligence.” — Yann Lecun

“Problems are like a block of ice:  shine Light on it and it will soon melt away.”

“Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.” — Don Marquis

“Rainbows apologize for angry skies.” — Sylvia A. Voirol

“Raise your expectations. You are capable of achieving far more than you currently are, and more than you think you can.”

“Reach out your hand and I will hold you near.”

“Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who’ll never find out.” — Frank A. Clark

“Real love stories never have endings.” — Richard Bach

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” — Albert Einstein

“Really, there are three main reasons why I sing. The first is to give thanks to God for the gift he gave me. Number two is to cheer people whether they are young or old, with a song of the past or present. And number three, and perhaps above all, is because of all the lovely women who with their beauty cause my heart to overflow with joy.” — Tiny Tim

“Remember that there is always more to a person when you dig deeper than what you can see on the surface.” — Dane Grigas, on Of Mice and Men

“Remember that what we think might be fair in life could be foul, and what we believe to be foul might really be fair.” — Dane Grigas, on Macbeth

“Remember to treat everyone with respect and honor each other’s unique backgrounds and differences.” — Dane Grigas, on All Summer in a Day

“Resilience isn't a single skill. It's a variety of skills and coping mechanisms. To bounce back from bumps in the road as well as failures, you should focus on emphasizing the positive.” — Jean Chatzky

“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.” ― Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina)

“Rock journalism is people who can’t write interviewing people who can’t talk in order to provide articles for people who can’t read.” ― Frank Zappa

“Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.” — Emily Dickinson

“See the path cut by the moon, for you to walk on...See the waves on distant shores, awaiting your arrival...Dream the dreams of other men, you'll be no one's rival.” — Pearl Jam

“Seek connection not attention. It last longer.” ― Wesam Fawzi

“Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference.” ― John Wooden

“Self awareness is the highest form of intelligence.”

“Self-compassion allows you to be with your story without buying onto it.” — Chris Britt

“She just told him the truth. The truth ends every conversation.” — Jerry Seinfeld

“Ships are safe in harbor.l, but that’s not what they’re built for.” — Roddy Galbraith

“Show [people] that you admire, value, and love them as individuals, rather than just as producers.” — Herb Kelleher (Founder, Southwest Airlines)

“Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I’ll show you somebody who has never achieved much.” — Joan Collins

“Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too." — Isabel Allende

“Since everything is in our hands, we had better not lose them.” — Coco Chanel

“Sing and rejoice, fortune is smiling on you...”

“Smart is when you believe only half of what you hear. Brilliant is when you know which half to believe.” — Orben’s Current Comedy

“So long as they don’t get violent, I want to let everyone say what they wish, for I myself have always said exactly what pleased me.” — Albert Einstein

“So many of our dreams at first seem impossible — then they seem improbable — and then — when we summon the will — they soon become inevitable.” — Christopher Reeve

“Some seek the truth, others confirmation of their beliefs.” — Arne Klingenberg

“Speak up, judge righteously, and defend the cause of the oppressed and needy.” — Proverbs 31:9

“Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn.” — Lewis Grizzard

“Start by doing what's necessary, then do what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” —  Francis of Assisi

“Stoic happiness (eudaimonia) is a life lived with apatheia, free from desire, pain, grief, or fear, without passion.”

“Stoic lover will prioritize the giving of love over the receiving of it. Attuned to the whole—the world, the universe, mankind—and in a sense “loved” by it, the lover can relinquish the love of the particular. Individualized love is not unimportant, far from it, but it is not the extent or essence of love.” — The Daily Stoic

“Stories are such a powerful driver of emotional value that their effect on any given object’s subjective value can actually be measured objectively.” — Joshua Glenn and Rob Walker

“Success consists of doing from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” — Winston Churchill

“Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.” November 2007

“Talk little; listen much.” — African Proverb

“Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.” ― Unknown

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” — Benjamin Franklin

“Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.” - Chinese Proverb

“Tell me and I’ll forget. Show me and I may not remember, Involve me, and I’ll understand.” — Native American Saying

“Thank you to our farmers for all you do to keep food on our tables.” — Elise Stefanik

“That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime — to set an example — and when he is dead—to be an inspiration for history.” — William McKinley

“The ability to delegate begins with believing in the potential of people.” — Paul J. Meyer

“The AI’s that wanted to protect us, date us, and end us were all the same AI, just with slightly different prompts.”

“The beauty of life comes through lovely time.”

“The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.” — Proverb

“The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation.” — Dale Carnegie

“The best birthdays of all are those that haven’t arrived yet.” — Robert Orben

“The best minute you spend is the one you invest in someone else.” October

“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” — Ernest Hemingway

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” September

“The best way to predict your future is to create it,“

“The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.” September 2007

“The biggest asset in the world is your mindset.” — Gary Vaynerchuk

“The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.” — Harper Lee

“The chains of habit are too weak to be left until they are too strong to be broken.” — Samuel Johnson

“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.”

“The Dragon Doesn't Live Here Anymore.” — Alan Cohen

“The dream is free. The hustle if sold separately.” — Steve Harvey

“The encounter with something truly admirable produces the instinct of awe…it’s a marker that you’re in the presence of something greater than yourself.” — Jordan Peterson

​“The failure to identify and get ready for endings and losses is the largest difficulty for people in transition. And the failure to provide help with endings and losses leads to more problems for organizations in transition than anything else.” — William Bridges

“The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.” — Arnold H. Glasow

“The final mystery is oneself.” — Oscar Wilde

“The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.” — William Lyon Phelps

“The future belongs to those  who  believe in the beauty of their dreams.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” March

“The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

“The greatest remedy for anger is delay.” — Lucius Anneus Seneca

“The grief felt for those we love is evidence that love exists at all.” — Jonas Cain

“The heart has arguments in which the logic of the mind  is not acquainted.” — Blaise Pascal

“The higher emotions go, the lower thinking gets.” — Conor Neill

“The idea is to win, you win the way you have to. Sometimes it’s a good idea to save all your energy for  really tough battles.” — Sugar Ray Robinson

“The important thing is not stop questioning.” — Albert Einstein

“The important thing is not to stop questioning.” — Albert Einstein

“The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.” — Charles Du Bos

“The joy of all those that dwell in heaven is found in this that they serve one another in love, and thus, fulfilling the object of their lives, they remain forever in the presence of God." — Sadhu Sundar Sing

“The key to victory lies more in manipulation and cooperation than in exceptional personal skills.” — Yuval Noah Harari

“The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen." — Ralph Marsto

“The life of the true individual only has meaning in so far as it aids in making the life of every living thing nobler and more beautiful. Life is scared, that is to say, it is the supreme value to which all other values are subordinate.” — Albert Einstein

“The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in love.” — Psalm 103:8

“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” — Confucius

“The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but rather it’s the same problem you had last year.” — John Foster Dulles

“The mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools." — Confucius

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." — William Ward

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” ― Carl Jung

“The mind is not a container to be filled...but a fire to be kindled.”

“The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribable magnificent world itself.” — Henry Miller

“The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity.” — Joshua Waitzkin

“The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them — but that they seize us.” — Ashley Montag

“The most  wasted of all our days are those in which we have not laughed.” — Nicolas Sebastien de Chamfort

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.” — Albert Einstein

“The most beguiling magicians draw you in with their hands but hook you with their brains.” — Peter Marks

“The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.” — Andy Warhol

“The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.” — Milton Friedman

“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.” — Reverend Hesburgh

“The most important thing is to identify the most important thing.” — Shizuki Roshi

“The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.” — Kobe Bryant

“The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.” — Ferdinand Foch

“The nicest thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.” — Anonymous

“The norm of politeness was blocking their progress.” — Priya Parker

“The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.” — Thomas Babington Macaulay

“The one thing I know is that we can all do better, and I think we will.” — Max Maven

“The one who watches the wind will not sow seed, and the one who looks at the clouds will not reap.” — Peroverb

“The one who watches the wind will not sow seed, and the one who looks at the clouds will not reap.” — Proverb

“The only mystery about the cat is why it ever decided to become a domesticated animal.” — Compton Mackenzie

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes ‘Awww!’” — Jack Kerouac (On The Road) NOTE: This piece inspired Katie Perry's song "Firework"

“The only thing better than singing is more singing.” — Ella Fitzgerald

“The only thing that gives me pleasure apart from my work, my violin, and my sailboat is the appreciation of my fellow workers.” — Albert Einstein

“The pain of regret is far worse than the pain of discipline.” — Nathan Whitley

“The past is but the beginning of a beginning.” — H.G. Wells

“The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it.” — Confucius

“The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.”

“The person with one watch knows what time it is. The person with two watches is never quite sure.”

“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.” — Henry David Thoreau

“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.” ― Carl Jung

“The proverb warns that, “You should not bite the hand that feeds you.” But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.” — Thomas Szasz

“The purpose of human life is to serve and show compassion and the will to help others.” — Albert Schweitzer

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose.” November

“The real art of conducting consists in transitions.” — Gustav Mahler

“The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there’s only one other choice.” — Doug Larson

“The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.” — Charles R. Swindoll

“The remedy is not to suppress negative experiences. Rather, it is to foster positive experiences, and in particular, to take them in so they become a permanent part of you.” — Rick Hanson

“The results you are seeking depend on getting people to stop doing things the old way and getting them to start doing things a new way.” — William Bridges

“The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.” — Jonas Salk

“The Right Books Will Help Keep Your Mind Up—To—Date Irrespective Of Your Location” ― Awolumate Samuel

“The secret of a long life is double careers. One to about age 60, then another for the next 30 years.” — David Ogilvy

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” — Mark Twain

“The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.” — Mark Twain

“The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but liking what one does.” — James M. Barrie

“The secret of patience: do something else in the meantime.” — Anonymous

“The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.” — Lucille Ball

“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.” — Unknown

“The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle.” ― Frederick Lewis Donaldson

“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.” ― Carl Jung

“The shortest answer is doing." — Lord Herbert

“The situations we find ourselves in are mirrors of who we are and lessons on what we most need to work on. There's a certain person in my life I've been getting frustrated with lately, and after the retreat I realized that the person I'm really frustrated with is myself. Not my whole self, but certain aspects of myself that I disrespect. It was a profound revelation.” — Jonas Cain

“The sound of laughter has always seemed to me the most civilized music in the universe.” — Peter Ustinov

“The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.” ― Ovid

“The spring, summer, is quite a hectic time for people in their lives, but then it comes to autumn, and to winter, and you can't but help think back to the year that was, and then hopefully looking forward to the year that is approaching.” — Enya

“The subtext of all magic is: that things aren’t always how they appear. And that means there is HOPE!” — Kim Silverman

“The successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.” — Don Marquis

“The things that don’t exist are the most difficult to get rid of.” — F.M. Alexander

“The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.” — Sydney J. Harris

“The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.” — Mark Skousen

“The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined  by praise than saved by criticism.” — Norman Vincent Peale

“The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so every one that is born of the Spirit.” — John 3:8 October 2009

“The world arose through the random combination of atoms, and both tragedies and comedies consist of the same atoms.” — Aristotle, (384 BC – 322 BC). On Generation and Corruption

“The world can change for the better, but somebody has to pay the price.” — Paula Stone Williams

“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” — W.B. Yeats

“The world is full of magical things waiting for our wits to grow sharper.” — Eden Phillpotts

“The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.” — Elbert Hubbard

“The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.” — David Starr Jordan

“The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that is the essence of inhumanity.” — George Bernard Shaw (The Devil's Disciple)

“There  are two kinds of people in the world: those that come into a room and say, ‘Here I am!’ and those who come in and say, ‘Ah, there you are!’” — Anonymous

“There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded." — Mark Twain

“There are heroes in our land today that never receive any recognition. Some of these are a child's first acquaintance with education. Now a teacher might be the first one who comes to our mind. But I speak of the bus driver for which the kids wait in line.”

“There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn’t give a damn what goes on in between.” ― Thomas Beecham

“There are two rules for success: 1) Never reveal everything you know.”

“There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.” — Henry A. Kissinger

“There comes a time that a piano realizes that it has not written a concerto.” — Lloyd Richards

“There is a time for departure, even when there’s no certain place to go.” — Tennessee Williams 

“There is always a bigger mountain to climb, and each peak is just resting place until you find your path to the next summit.” — Jonas Toutant (Journal entry, September 14, 2006)

“There is no coming to consciousness without pain.” ― Carl Jung

“There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.” — Henri Frederic Amiel

“There is no such thing as almost. You either make it or you don’t.” — Joshua Machnick

“There is no wisdom greater than kindness...”

“There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on.” — Rob Sterling

“There is nothing to do but allow yourself to exist as boldly and honestly as you can.” — Brianna Wiest

“There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.” — G.K. Chesterton

“There is the danger that everyone waits idly for others to act in his stead.” — Albert Einstein

“There might be a lot we don't know about each other. You know, people seldom go to the trouble of scratching the surface of things to find the inner truth.” — Alfred Kralik, from The Shop Around the Corner

“There's a big, wonderful world out there for you. It belongs to you. It's exciting and stimulating and rewarding. Don't cheat yourselves out of this promise.” — Nancy Reagan

“There's no love without loss. It's a package deal." — Brad Pitt

“There's only one thing you can do. More.” ― Pete Waterman

“There’s an old saying, “Life begins at 40.” That’s silly — life begins every morning you wake up.” — George Burns

“There’s nothing to match curling up with a good book when there’s a repair job to be done around the house.” — Joe Ryan

“There’s one four—letter word you don’t hear much anymore: cash.” — Bob Goddard

“Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.” — Anonymous

“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.” — Anne Frank

“This Day is yours; don’t throw it away!”

“Those times of transitions are great opportunities to look for recurring patterns in your life and make adjustments to build on the good and reduce the bad.” — Dan Miller

“Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.” — William Hazlitt

“Those who make a larger dent in the universe are those with the ability to view any situation from multiple perspectives.”

“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” — Buddha

“Three things in human life are important: The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind.” — Henry James

“Through careful manipulation and good storytelling, you can get everybody to clap at the same time, to hopefully laugh at the same time, and to be afraid at the same time.” — Steven Spielberg

“Throughout history, the most common debilitating human ailment has been cold feet.”

“Thus is one who apparently accomplishes the impossible in an entertainer manner. It naturally follows that the performer who demonstrates a number of tricks without playing the imagination of his audience is not strictly speaking a conjurer at all, but a trickster… Where the imagination is not stimulated there is no real mystery.” — S.H. Sharpe

“Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself; for the Lord shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.” Isaiah 60:20 December 2009

“Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.” — Thomas Hardy

“Time is a circus — always packing up and moving away.” — Ben Hecht

“Time is the most valuable thing one can spend.” — Theophrastus (ca. 300 B.C.)

“To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.” ― Leonard Bernstein

“To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be creditable; to be credible we must be truthful.” ― Edward R. Murrow

“To believe your own thoughts, to believe that what is true for you in your heart is true for all men, that’s genius.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.” — Soren Kierkegaard

“To err is human; to forgive, divine.” — Alexander Pope in An Essay on Criticism

“To know when we are wrong is all that we shall ever know in this world.” — F.M. Alexander

“To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.” ― Igor Stravinsky

“To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.” — Mary Oliver, In Blackwater Woods

“To make the soul grow, everything is needed—the loss more than anything else.” — Marina Cvetaeva

“To me, life is a gift, and it's a blessing to just be alive. And each person should learn what a gift it is to be alive no matter how tough things get.” — Tony Bennet

“To separate the winners from the whiners, as for commitment. Winners will rise to the challenge, whiners will leave the challenge.” — John Maxwell

“To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.” — Sidney Poitie

“To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards out of men.” — Abraham Lincoln

“To suppress free speech is a double wrong.  It violates the right of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.  It is just as criminal to rob a man of his right to speak and hear as it would be to rob him of his money.” … “When a man is allowed to speak because he is rich and powerful, it aggravates the crime of denying the right to the poor and humble.”  … “A man’s right to speak does not depend upon where he was born or upon his color. The simple quality of manhood is the solid basis of the right—and there let it rest forever.” — Frederick Douglass

“To truly know something means to know the theory, but also to live the practice.” — Bruno Boksic

“To win without risk is to triumph without glory.” — Pierre Corneille

“Today, I interviewed a woman who is terminally ill. ‘So,’ I tried to delicately ask, ‘What is it like to wake up every morning and know that you are dying?’ ‘Well,’ she responded, ‘What is it like to wake up every morning and pretend that you are not?’ — Juliet Schutte

“Today’s mighty oak is just yesterday’s nut that held its ground.” July

“Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.” — John Wayne

“Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.” ― Igor Stravinsky

“Too much of a good thing is wonderful.” — Mae West

“Transition begins with an ending and ends with a beginning.” — William Bridges 

“Transitions in life can offer opportunities for discovery.” — Robbie Shell

“Treat a child as though he already is the person he's capable of becoming.” — Haim Ginott

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“True words aren't eloquent; eloquent words aren't true. Wise men don't need to prove their point; men who need to prove their point aren't wise. The Master has no possessions. The more he does for others, the happier he is. The more he gives to others, the wealthier he is.” — Lao Tzu in the Tao Te Ching

“Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.” — James Dean

“Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.” Psalm 85:11 December 2008

“Trying is only emphasizing the thing we already know.” — F.M. Alexander

“Two sturdy asses bind the will of man; their names are Fear and Unbelief. When these are caught and turned aside, the will of man will know no bounds; then man has but to speak and it is done.” — Aquarian Gospel of Jesus Christ 92:12

“Understand this...how bad you want something is irrelevant. No matter how bad you want it, you still need the knowledge and the skills to accomplish it. You can be positive and motivated all day. But if you play a chess grandmaster in chess, you’re going to lose every single time...regardless of how bad you want it.” — Benji Bruce

“Unmanaged transition makes change unmanageable.” — William Bridges

“Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?" — Tim Burton

“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.” — Helen Keller

“Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.” — W. L. George

“Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong. Let all your things be done with charity.” 1 Corinthians 16:13,14 July 2009

“We aim above the mark to hit the mark.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon.” — Konrad Adenauer

“We all look at the same sunset.” — Dane Grigas, on The Outsiders

“We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.” — Oscar Osler

“We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.” — Albus Dumbledore

“We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.” — Martin Luther King Jr.

“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.” May

“We become self aware when we understand what is going on in other people’s minds. This requires a model, a mirror if you will, to observe our own experiences. This mirror is what we consciously experience—a simulation of reality.”

“We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do.” — Mahatma Gandhi

“We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.” — Joyce Meyer

“We can learn to overcome hardships, and sharing our negative experiences with the world in a positive way can have a positive impact on others.” — Dane Grigas, on Catcher in the Rye

“We can only teach what we know, and we can only know what we have lived.” — Larry Hass

“We can throw away the habit of a lifetime in a few minutes if we use our brains.”
— F.M. Alexander

“We can’t create lasting change by teaching precept alone, but by embodying the precepts. There is no more important work one can undertake than to raise human consciousness, and to do so requires us to start within. Are you ready to be the change?” — Reflections on Gandhi

“We delight in the beauty of a butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” — Maya Angelou

“We didn’t want to reach the peak but miss the point. Don’t step over a dying person to reach the goal.” — Chris Warner

“We get out what we put in, but so many of us want to get out before we’ve even put anything in.”

“We go to school everyday. We learn pointless things, but we are never taught how to love ourselves. We aren’t taught how to make moments last. But I think the most unfair thing, is that at the end of high school, we are tested on something we were never taught. We have to stand in front of each other and say GOODBYE.” — Hassan

“We have  no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.” — George Bernard Shaw

“We have the choice to put aside our egos, tribalism, and baser impulses. Instead, let us listen to our heads and our hearts and work together in this world to help each other survive and thrive by tapping into our combined humanity and skills.” — Dane Grigas, on Lord of the Flies

“We have two ears, but only one mouth, so that we may listen more and talk less.” — Zeno (3rd century B.C.)

“We judge ourselves by what we  feel we are capable of doing, while others judge us by what  we have already done.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” — Walt Disney

“We live very close together. So, our prime purpose in life is to help others. And if you can’t help them at least don’t hurt them.” — The Dalai Lama

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” — Norman MacEwan

“We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.” ― Carl Jung

“We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.” — Benjamin Franklin

“We must be the change we wish to see in the world.” — Gandhi

“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” ― Joseph Campbell

“We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.” ― Epicurus

“We need saints without veil or cassock. We need saints who wear jeans and sneakers, who go to the movies, drink Coke, eat hotdogs, listen to music, dance, and hang out with friends, and are internet-savvy—who put God first while living and are not afraid to live in it. We need saints who are social, open, normal, friendly, happy and who are good companions. We need saints who are in the world and know how to taste the pure and nice things of the world but who aren’t of the world.”

“We think in generalities, but we live in detail.” — Alfred North Whitehead

“We’re not here to take pictures. We’re here to make memories.” — Dave Chapelle

“Well done is better than well said; it is better to light the candle than to curse the darkness.”

“What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it’s the size of the fight in the dog.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

“What do you do if you've got everything?

“What do you sing about, cry about, and dream about?” — John Maxwell

“What does the trick say about me? What does the trick say about life?” — Rob Zebrecky."A list of steps isn't helpful if you're facing the wrong way!" — Jay Acunzo

“What has always resonated absolute truth for me is to Love one another as God so Loves us.  As Jesus taught us how to Love.  A Love in the true sense of the word Love.  This Great Commandment has helped me address so many issues in my personal and work life.  When in certainty or in doubt may we approach all things with God.” — Jonas Cain

“What is soul? It is electricity — we don’t really know what it is, but it’s a force that can light a room.” — Ray Charles

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared with what lies within us.” — Anonymous

“What we see depends mainly on what we look for.” June 2007

“What you cannot enforce, do not commend.” — Sophocles

“What you water, grows.”

“Whatever happens, just keep smiling and lose yourself in Love.” — Rumi

“Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.” — Earl of Chesterfield

“Whatever the ultimate nature of reality may turn out to be, it's completely different from how it seems.” — Max Tegmark

“When a child hits a child, we call it aggression. When a child hits an adult, we call it hostility. When an adult hits an adult, we call it assault. When an adult hits a child, we call it discipline.” — Haim Ginott

“When asked by a reporter what his secret was to gain such power over the ruling British empire, Gandhi responded: “I try to make myself zero.” The idea is to develop selfless love so that every thought, word and deed becomes motivated for the welfare and wellbeing of others, rather than for your own personal gratification.” — Reflections on Gandhi

“When I look At You I see forgiveness. I see the truth. You love me for who I am. Like the stars Hold the moon. Right there where they belong. And I Know I'm Not Alone.”

“When I was a little boy, I told my dad, ‘When I grow up, I want to be a musician.’ My dad said: ‘You can’t do both, Son’.” ― Chet Atkins

“When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.” — James H. Boren

“When one door of happiness  closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that w e do not see the one which has been opened for us.” — Helen Keller

“When people are finding meaning in things — beware.” — Edward Gorey

“When people are wrong, the thing which is right is bound to be wrong to them.” — F.M. Alexander

“When things are bad, when it seems like your entire world has turned gray, that one ought to be aware that sadness and disparity only make up a blanket that covers the truth of the life we live, the blue sky. And no matter how thick the blanket of gray may become, the blanket is always the temporary being in the scenario, the blue sky is what always exists, happiness is always what exists. One simply needs to know that sadness is something that can only cover happiness, it cannot replace it or change its past, present, or future existence." — Andy DeCola

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” — Victor Frankl

“When we are right, let’s try to win people gently… when we are wrong—and that will be surprisingly often—let’s admit our mistakes quickly and with enthusiasm.” — Dale Carnegie

“When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.” — Charles Evans Hughes

“When you are alone, mind your thoughts. When you are with friends, mind your tongue. When you are angry, mind your temper. When you are with a group, mind your behavior. When you are in trouble, mind your emotions. When God starts blessing you, mind your ego."

“When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.” — Lao Tzu

“When you believe in your dream and your vision, then it begins to attract its own resources. No one was born to be a failure.” — Myles Munroe

“When you decide to show up consistently as the best version of who you, it gives you your best opportunity to meet people where they are, and you never know when someone will need you to be your best.” — Ryan Estes

“When you encourage others, you boost their self-esteem, enhance their self-confidence, make them work harder, lift their spirits and make them successful in their endeavors. Encouragement goes straight to the heart and is always available.” ― Roy T. Bennett (The Light in the Heart)

“When you find yourself in a very busy life, you can be sure that you have strayed from your soul path.  The soul is not here to check off to—do lists. The soul is here to expand, and to understand, and to participate in the Now.  You can’t get to Now from a to—do list.  Now arrives, when you are brave enough to see what lies beyond distraction." — Messages from the Divine, Sara Wiseman

“When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

“When you return to your boyhood town, you find it wasn’t the town you longed for; it was your boyhood.” — Earl Wilson

“When you shoot an arrow of truth, dip its point in honey.” — Arab Proverb

“When you're focused on your enemy, then you are ignoring your allies.” — Stacey Abrams

“Whenever you do a thing — act as if all the world were watching.” — Thomas Jefferson

“Where I was born and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.” — Georgia O’Keeffe

“Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.” — Charles  F. Kettering

“Where your confidence comes from determines when it runs out. Don’t let the limitation of other people become your insecurity.” — Steve Furtick

“Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.” — Anthony J. D’Angel

“Whether planned or not, humor takes our mind off of our troubles.” — Allen Klein

“While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.” — Abigail Van Burden

“Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To their own master, servants stand or fall. And they will stand, for the Lord is able to make them stand.” — Romans 14:4

“Who ever would one day learn to fly must first learn to stand and walk, and run, and climb, and dance; one cannot fly into flying.” — Nietzche

“Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food...”

“Without control of our use of ourselves, our use of other things is blind; it may lead to anything.”
John Dewey

“Without humility there can be no humanity.” — Sir John Buchan

“Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.” — Bo Bennett

“Words can sometimes, in a moment of grace, attain the quality of deeds.” — Elie Wiesel

“Words have great power and Magic, of course. But words are symbols and all symbols point to something beyond them.” — Kenton Knepper

“Work for a cause David, not for applause. Remember to live your life to express, not to impress, don’t strive to make your presence noticed, just make your absence felt.” — Grace Lichtenstein, from Inside Real Estate: The Complete Guide to Buying and Selling Your Home, Co-Op, or Condominium by Sonny Bloch & Grace Lichtenstein

“Write it in your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety. Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.”  — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.” ― Roy T. Bennett

“You are never fully dressed  until you wear a smile.” — Charley Willey

“You are very expressive and positive in words, act and feeling...”

“You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.” ― Carl Jung

“You aren’t paid according to how hard you work, you are paid according to how hard you are to replace.” — Truth

“You can change or stay the same. There are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it (I hope you make the best of it).” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

“You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility.” — Byron Dorgan

“You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.” — President Jimmy Carter.

“You can either be a bee and look for honey, or a fly and look for poop.”

“You can fight gravity all you want, or move with it. But if you fight it, eventually you learn that you lose every time.” — Evan Plake

“You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.” ― J.M. Barrie

“You can never have a greater of lesser domination than that over yourself.” — Leonardo da Vinci (ca.  1500)

“You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.” — Jon Kabat-Zinn

“You can’t do something you don’t know, if you keep on doing what you do know.”
— F.M. Alexander

“You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?” — Steven Wright

“You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re—reading the last one.” — Anonymous

“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it's like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos.” — Tom Hanks

“You cannot open a book without learning something.” — Confucius

“You cannot shake hands with a clinched fist.” — Indira Gandhi

“You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can’t, you do the next best thing. You back up but don’t give up.” — Charles “Chuck” Yeager

“You don’t want it unless you’re willing to sacrifice for it; and if you don’t want it, you’re not going to get it—because you’re scattered. But if you do want it, and you make the proper sacrifices, then God only knows what might happen.” — Jordan Peterson

“You don’t want it unless you’re willing to sacrifice for it; and if you don’t want it, you’re not going to get it—because you’re scattered. But if you do want it, and you make the proper sacrifices, then God only knows what might happen.” — Jordan Peterson 

“You either do or you don’t, there is no try.” — Yoda

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

“You have buried someone you loved. Now look for someone to love. It is better to make good the loss of a friend than to cry over him.” — Seneca

“You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.” — John Bunyan

“You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself. You can’t do that with anyone else.” — Katharine Hepburn

“You look good when you build others up. When you give people hopes and reasons to smile. When you make a positive difference in someone's life.” — Oleg Vishnepolsky

“You make people realize that there exist other beauties in the world...”

“You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.” — Frank Crane

“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” — Beverly Sills

“You must have a good time meeting people if you expect them to have a good time meeting you.” — Dale Carnegie

“You translate everything, whether physical, mental or spiritual, into muscular tension.”
— F.M. Alexander

“You will be fortunate in the opportunities presented to you...”

“You will do well to expand your business...”

“You will make many changes before settling satisfactorily.” — (I found this fortune in an old fortune cookie that was in the refrigerator of an apartment that I was helping Tom Skowyra clean out. As soon as I saw the cookie I knew it had a nugget of a fortune inside. Turns out I was correct.)

“Your confidence will follow your focus. Don’t reach into tomorrow to borrow worry. Reach into your past to borrow faith.” — Steve Furtick

“Your happiness is intertwined with your outlook on life...”

“Your happy heart brings joy and peace where there is none...”

“Your new life is going to cost you your old one. It’s going to cost you your comfort zone and your sense of direction. It’s going to cost you relationships and friends. It’s going to cost you being liked and understood. It doesn’t matter. The people who are meant for you are going to meet you on the other side. You’re going to build a new comfort zone around the things that actually move you forward. Instead of being liked, you’re going to be loved. Instead of being understood, you’re going to be seen. All you’re going to lose is what was built for a person you no longer are.” — Brianna Wiest

“Your purpose is to be yourself. You don't have to run anywhere to become someone else.” ― Thích Nhất Hạnh

“Your silence is an act of violence.” — Jada Harrison, Sophomore @ Case Western Reserve University

“Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself.” — Frank Cone

“Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.” — Leo Buscaglia

“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

“Your vision will become clear only when you look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” ― Carl Jung

”Exploration is curiosity put into action." — Don Walsh

It is said, "Go not after your lusts, but keep your desires in check" (Sirach 18:30). And yet it is also said, "Deprive not yourself of present good things; let no choice portion escape you" (Sirach 14:14). What if these choice portions are your lusts? What, then, are we to do? I think we're in a pickle...

Q: What do you call a leader with no one following him? A: A man on a walk.