102. "Perfectionism. This is the desire to be perfect in all things. It sounds quite admirable...and no one would deny that it's smart to set high standards for yourself. However, perfectionism becomes dumb when the standards you set are so high you can never meet them. It's dumb when the desire to be 100 percent perfect leads to zero accomplishment." --- Dr. Arthur Freeman

103. "Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves." --- Sydney J. Harris

104. "We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we hoped to change because it was intolerable becomes unimportant. We have not managed to surmount the obstacle, as we were absolutely determined to do, but life
has taken us round it, led us past it, and then if we turn round to gaze at the remote past, we can barely catch sight of it, so imperceptible has it become. --- Marcel Proust

105. "Happiness in life is not measured by the things we achieve, the places we go, or the route that we take to get there. Happiness in life is measured by the people that we share all of our experiences with." --- Chris Needham

106. "Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another gets a full year's value out of a week. --- Charles Richards

107. "The man who is born with a talent which he is meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it. --- Johann von Goethe

108. "To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong."--- Joseph Chilton Pearce, author, renowned thinker.

109. "Make peace with the knowledge that you can't have everything you want. Why? Because it's more important for us to get everything we need. --- Sarah Ban Breathnach

110. "The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today."
--- Les Brown (Author, Trainer & Speaker)

111. "We hear about the birth of a child and ask questions like, "What did she have? How much did it weigh?" and "Does it have any hair?" The Athabaskan Indians hear of a birth and ask, "Who came?" From the beginning, there is a respect for the newborn as a full person. --- Lisa Delpit

112. "Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself." --- Harvey Fierstein

113. "Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said." --- Jim Rohn

114. "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. --- F. Scott Fitzgerald

115. "One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for who you are." --- Gail Godwin

116. "Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do when it has to be done, whether you like it or not." --- Aldous Huxley

117. "The brain is like an iceberg...it floats with one seventh of its bulk above water. So protect what you have still floating and stay cool." --- Hipster

118. "Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth unseen. In the day and in the night." ---unknown

119. "Remember...life is a bridge from birth to death. Try not to get stopped on it during rush hour." --- unknown

120. "Often, we don't see the pain we deliver unintentionally until it comes back and hits us in the face with a good slap awakening the memory of a careless word said in anger." --- Hipster

In order to lighten this place up a bit, I have added these humorous quotes....enjoy!

121. "Humor can be hazardous to your stress." --- Unknown

122. "Why be annoying, when with a little bit of effort, you can be completely impossible?" --- Carsten Dahlgaard

123. "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." ---Dennis Wholey

124. "Somedays even wearing my lucky rocketship underwear doesn't help. ---Calvin and Hobbes

125. "To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer." --- The Farmer's Almanac

126. "I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?" --- Calvin, Calvin and Hobbes

127. "I've had it with reality, I want a fairy godmother." --- unknown

128. "We don't devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks." --- Calvin & Hobbes

129. "Pain is part of the growing experience ... so go slam your head into the wall and mature a little." --- unknown and it's a good thing too.

130. "Stress: The confusion created when ones mind overrides the body's basic desire to choke the living daylights out of some jerk who desperately deserves it." --- same person no doubt

131. "Just because I'm moody doesn't mean you're not irritating." --- unknown

132. "I see you wish to leave. Here is a window. Let me help you." --- he/she is back

133. "I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves." --- a relative?

If that was indeed the lighter side, here we go back to the darker side.

134. "You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched." --- Phaedrus

135. "Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude" --- Thomas Jefferson

136. "This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off
your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men...re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem." --- Walt Whitman

137. "Once people learn something, they're reluctant to let it go." --- Robert Easton, Founder & President, Henry Higgins of Hollywood, Inc.

138. "I believe that holding young people solely responsible for inderage drinking is like holking the fish responsible for dying in a polluted stream." --- Laurie Leiber, director of the Center On Alcohol Advertising

139. "The seed of one caring person reaching out to another is a seed that can be planted wherever an act of hate or cruelty leaves an open wound in God's world..." --- vee

 140. "We always have enough to be happy if we are enjoying what we do have - and not worrying about what we don't have." --- Ken Keyes, Jr.

141. "Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best." --- Michael Johnson, 200 and 400 meter world record holder

142. "I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself." --- Aldous Huxley

143. "One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today." --- Dale Carnegie

144. "The way things get done is much more important than what things get done." --- Hipster

145. "Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it." --- Irving Berlin

146. "What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes." --- Samuel Beckett

147. "It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that truly makes him a man. Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man himself will not find peace." --- Albert Schweitzer

148. "If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep." --- Dale Carnegie

149. "The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them."
---Antoine de Saint-Exupery

150. "The real dividing line between things we call work and the things we call leisure is that in leisure, however active we may be, we make our own choices and our own decisions. We feel for the time being that our life is our own." --- Raymond Williams

151."I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown." --- Woody Allen

152. "Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." --- Berthold Auerbach, German Writer (1812-1882)

154. "The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette." --- Henry S. Haskins

155. "There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun." --- Pablo Picasso

156. "To make an apple pie from scratch, we must first invent the universe." --- Carl Sagan

157. "If we found out that we all had five minutes to live, every phone line in the world would be tied up with people calling other people to stumble about how much they love them. So don't wait until we only have five minutes to live--do it now." ---Trisha Wright

158. "Opposition is a natural part of life. Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity." --- Stephen Covey

159. "We should have no regrets. The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was something we had to know."
---Rebecca Beard

160. "Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage." --- Ralph Waldo Emerson

162. "Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today is a gift. That's why it's called 'the present'." --- Loretta LaRoche

163. "If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment." --- Marcus Aurelius

164. "As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit." --- Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.)

165. "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." --- Rodan of Alexandria

166. "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." --- Douglas Adams

167. "If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down." --- Ray Bradbury

168. "When I hear people say that they have not found the world and its life so agreeable or interesting as to be in love with it, or that they look with equanimity to its end, I am apt to think they have never been properly alive nor seen with clear vision the world they think so meanly of, or anything in it - not even a blade of grass." --- W.H. Hudson

169. "When I Die, I want to go like my grandfather did, peacefully in his sleep. Not yelling and screaming, like all the passengers in his car!" --- Kelly D Long Crow

170. "Don't waste your youth growing up!"

171. "Don't take the day off, take the day on!"

172. "Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending." --- Carl Bard

173. One thing is certain, an individual seems to "just know" when they feel love for a person. When [one person] was asked, "When is it love?" she answered, "It's love when you don't have to ask yourself that question." --- Mary Pat Michalek

174. "The top of the hill is but the bottom of another mountain." --- Ankit Jamwal, Powerquoter

175. "Every year I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing, and which shirking pain, misses happiness as well. No one ever yet was the poorer in the long run for having once in a lifetime "let out all the length of all the reins." --- Mary Cholomondeley

176. "Your mental attitude gives your entire personality a drawing power that attracts the circumstances, things and people you think about most!" --- Napoleon Hill, author

177. "Within this breast there beats an earthly heart...

Pounding with the rhythm of the natural world...

Yet, a being exists within this cocoon of frailty....

Exquisite in it's love, powerful in it's spirituality...

Look inside...discover where the strength of life is...

A child of God permeates this limited space...

--- Sequoyah

178. "Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless."
---Calvin

179. "Your mental attitude gives your entire personality a drawing power that attracts the circumstances, things and people you think about most!" --- Napoleon Hill, author

180. "The largest room in the world, is the room for Improvement." --- Unknown

181. "If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, -- it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil."
---James A. Garfield

182. "If you never change your mind, why have one?" --- Edward De Bono

183. "Carpe diem, quam minimum credula a postero. Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow." --- Horace

184. "The baby rises to its feet, takes a step, is overcome with triumph and joy - and falls flat on its face. It is a pattern for all that is to come! But learn from the bewildered baby. Lurch to your feet again. You'll make the sofa in the end." --- Pam Brown

185. "Out of clutter, find Simplicity. From discord, find Harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." --- Albert Einstein (Three Rules of Work)

186. "You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction." --- George Lorimer (1867-1937) Editor of the "Saturday Evening Post," he raised its circulation from 1,800 to 3 million between 1899-1936.

187. "Staying angry with you is how I protect myself from you. Refusing to forgive you is not only how I punish you: it is also how I keep you from getting close enough to hurt me again, and nine times out of ten it works - only there is a serious side effect. It is called bitterness, and it can
do terrible things to the human body and soul." --- Barbara Brown Taylor

188. "The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase." ---- Sir Hugh Walpole.

189. "An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field." --- Niels Bohr (1885-1962) Danish physicist

190. "The circumstances in life, the events in life, the people around me in life do not make me the I am but reveal the way I am." --- Jim St. John, Powerquoter

191. "I'm a firm believer in the power of change. But there's one thing I've learned. And that's that the hardest part of moving forward is not looking back. --- Sally, "Felicity"

192. "Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage." --- Ralph Waldo Emerson

193. "Age is of no importance unless you are a cheese." --- Billie Burke
(actress; best-remembered for her role as Glinda the Good Witch in "The Wizard of Oz")

194. "I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they will keep getting a busy signal and soon they'll forget my number." --- Edith Armstrong

195. "I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns." --- Winston Churchill

196. "Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take OFF! But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you. --- Amelia Earhart

197. "If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all." --- Adeline Virginia Stephen Woolf

198. "You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some with you." --- Joubert (1754-1824)

199. "There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants -- more than anything else -- to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are -- and have always been." --- Joseph Brooks

200. Sigmund Freud once said, "One is very crazy when in love." I say, "Let's get crazy in love with Jesus."

"...gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;..."
1 Peter 1:13

"To touch the soul of a human being is to walk on Holy ground." ~~~~Stephen R. Corey

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