Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. --Paul Boese
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. --William Blake
Le sens commun n'est pas si commun. [Common sense is not so common.]--Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. --Victor Hugo
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. --Marlene vos Savant
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. --Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915
Start by doing what's necessary, then do what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. --Saint Francis of Assisi
Happy people learn that happiness, like sweat, is a by-product of activity. You can only achieve happiness if you are too busy living your life to notice whether you are happy or not. --Frank Pittman III, MD, 62, psychiatrist, author of Grow Up!
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. --Martin Luther King Jr.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. --George Bernard Shaw, "Mrs. Warren's Profession," 1893
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. --Helen Keller
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. --James Baldwin
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our greatest battles are that with our own minds. --Jameson Frank
Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live. --Henry Van Dyke
The importance of humility. We need the humility to know that truth can be ephemeral, that this can be but one version of the truth. --Ken Auletta, journalist and author
Have confidence in your decisions. Make them expeditiously, and stay with them as long as you believe you are correct no matter what others say. However, when you conclude you were in error, do not hesitate to announce the error publicly and change course. --Edward J. Koch, former mayor of New York City
The purpose of life is not to win. The purpose of life is to grow and to share. When you come to look back on all that you have done in life, you will get more satisfaction from the pleasure you have brought into other people's lives than you will from the times that you outdid and defeated them. --Rabbi Harold Kushner, Massachusetts
Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray. --George Gordon Byron, 1788-1824
You have brains in your head. / You have feet in your shoes. / You can steer yourself / any direction you choose. / You're on your own. / And you know what you know. / And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go ... --Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. --Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991
Just a Thought. I have read a report that stated that last year 4,153,237 people got married. I don't want to start any trouble...but shouldn't that be an even number?
"I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once."
This is not out of the blue! This is right smack dab in the middle of the blue! --Chandler Bing
