Quotes

"Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know it just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers."

~Richard Bach

"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth your effort."

~Shawn Zimmerman

"I'm not afraid of storms for I'm learning how to sail my ship."

~Louisa May Alcott

"Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace."

~Bhagavad Gita (circa 400 BC, Sanskrit Poem in the Mahabharata)

"Carpe Diem. Sieze the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary."

~Robin Williams

"You've got to get up every morning with a smile on your face and show the world all the love in your heart. Then people are going to treat you better. You're going to find, yes you will, that you're beautiful as you feel."

~Carole King

"Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right."

~Isaac Asimov

"What you love is as unique to you as your fingerprints. You need to know that because nothing will make you really happy but doing what you love."

~Barbara Sher

"We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams."

~ Jesse Jackson

"To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself."

~Soren Kierkegaard

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

~Albert Einstein

"There is only one success - To be able to spend your life in your own way."

~Christopher Morley

"Hold on to your dreams for if dreams die life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly."

~Langston Hughes

"Should you shield the valleys from the windstorms, you would never see the beauty of their canyons."

~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."

~Albert Einstein

"I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels."

~Pearl S. Buck

"Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."

~Warren Buffett

"The pen is mightier than the sword."

~Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

"Patience will achieve more than force."

~Edmund Burke

"I'd rather be a flop at show business than to be a success at something I didn't like."

~George Burns

"Your talent is God's gift to you; what you do with it is your gift to God."

~Leo Buscaglia

"Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves."

~Dale Carnegie

"Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day."

~Ching Ning Chu

"I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile."

~Walter Chrysler

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."

~T. S. Eliot

You Are Worthy!

Do not undermine your worth by
Comparing yourself with others.
It is because we are different
That each of us is special.
Do not set your goals by what
Other people deem important.
Only you know what is best for you.

Do not take for granted the things
Closest to your heart.
Cling to them as you would your life,
For without them, life is meaningless.
Do not let your life slip through your fingers
By living in the past nor for the future.

By living your life one day at a time,
You live all the days of your life.
Do not give up when you
Still have something to give.
Nothing is really over until the
Moment you stop trying.
It is a fragile thread that
Binds us to each other.

Do not be afraid to encounter risks.
It is by taking chances
That we learn how to be brave.
Do not shut love out of your life by
Saying it is impossible to find.
The quickest way to receive
Love is to give love;
The fastest way to lose love
Is too hold it too tightly;

In addition, the best way to keep
Love is to give it wings.
Do not dismiss your dreams.
To be without dreams
Is to be without hope;
To be without hope
Is to be without purpose.

Do not run through life
So fast that you forget
Not only where you have been,
But also where you are going.
Life is not a race,
But a journey to be savored
Each step of the way.

~anonymous

"The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition."

~Dwight Whitney Morrow

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours...If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them."

~Henry David Thoreau

"Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish."

~Ovid

RULES FOR BEING HUMAN

You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it's yours to keep for the entire period.

You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time, informal school called life.

There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial, error and experimentation. The "failed" experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiments that ultimately "work".

Lessons are repeated until they are learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can go on to the next lesson.

Learning lessons does not end. There is no part of life that doesn't. If you're alive, there are still lessons to be learned.

"There" is no better than "here". When your "there" has become "here", you will simply obtain another "there" that will again look better than "here".

Other people are merely mirrors of you. You can not love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.

What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.

~anonymous

"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You create your opportunities by asking for them."

~Patty Hansen

"You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle."

~Paulo Coelho

"If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference."

~Abraham Lincoln

"To be nobody but yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting."

~E. E. Cummings

"The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. To dig for treasures shows not only impatience and greed, but lack of faith. Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach -- waiting for a gift from the sea."

~Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light."

~Earl Nightingale

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."

~George Bernard Shaw

"This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Nothing is too good for you. You deserve the best. Take the power to make your life healthy, exciting, worthwhile, and very happy. Take the power to reach for your dreams."

~Susan Polis Schutz

"You only lose energy when life becomes dull in your mind. Your mind gets bored and therefore tired of doing nothing. Get interested in something! Get absolutely enthralled in something! Get out of yourself! Be somebody! Do something. The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have."

~Norman Vincent Peale

"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."

~Agatha Christie

"Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible."

~ Cherie Carter-Scott

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."

~Mahatma Gandhi

"Always hold firmly to the thought that each one of us can do something to bring some portion of misery to an end."

~anonymous

"Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still."

~Chinese Proverb

"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live."

~Norman Cousins

"Dream big dreams, then put on your overalls and go out and make the dreams come true."

~Fred Van Amburgh

"Expect problems and eat them for breakfast."

~Alfred A. Montapert

"One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love."

~Sophocles