...There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you 
lose, you win...

        -Elie Wiesel

...Some things have to be believed to be seen... 
        -Ralph Hodgson

...No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking...

        -Voltaire

...To live and let live, without clamor for distinction or recognition;
to wait on divine Love; to write truth first on the tablet of one's own
heart-this is the sanity and perfection of living...

        -Mary Eddy

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

        -Dr. Albert Einstein
   Pleasure is spread through the earth                                   
   In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.

        -William Wordsworth 1806 

...Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but to rise every 
time we fall...

        -Confucious

...Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all
external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature,
highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to change...

        -Arthur Schopenhauer
               
...Success is not so much achievement as achieving. Refuse to join the cautious
crowd that plays not to lose; play to win...

        -David Mahoney

...Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand
for-because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything...

        -Peter Marshall

...We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in
filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run
over. So in a series of kindnesses there is, at last, one which makes
the heart run over...

        -James Boswell

...Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time: effaces
all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end...

        -Madame de Stael
 
...Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and
love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that
you shall live...

        -Marcus Aurelius
                        
...The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice...

        -George Eliot

...There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your
business, know your men...

        -Randall James
      
...Every man who will not have softening of the heart must at least have
softening of the brain...

        -G.K. Chesterton

...The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions-the little, 
soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heart-felt
compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and
genial feeling...

        -Samuel Coleridge

   For you alone are such                                                  
   That by your loss you are regained...
 
        -Shirley Johnston

...Your words are the seed, your soul is the farmer, the world is your field...

        -Nasir Khusraw

...Out of action, action of any sort, there grows a peculiar, useful, 
everyday wisdom. Truth is rarely found by the idle. Nor is it the result
of deep and long study. It is a sort of essence that is secreted from a
concrete deed...

        -Dr. Frank Crane
           
...People are lucky and unlucky...according to the ratio between what
they get and what they have been led to expect...

        -Samuel Butler

   Love is like an artwork
   Held in an empty frame,
   Until strokes of color liven
   And visions make a name.

        -Beth Mahoney

...The secret of happiness...is to be in harmony with existence, to be
always calm, always lucid, always willing...to let each wave of life wash
us a little farther up the shore...

        -Cyril Connolly

...What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity...the good they do
is inconceivable...

        -Joseph Addison
   No action, whether foul or fair                 
   Is ever done, but it leaves somewhere
   A record, written by fingers ghostly,
   As a blessing or a curse, and mostly
   In the greater weakness or greater strengh
   Of the acts which follow it.

        -Henry Longfellow

...Everything that lives, lives not alone, nor for itself...

        -William Blake

...A true critic ought rather dwell upon excellencies than 
imperfections, to discern concealed beauties, and to communicate 
to the world such things as are worth their observations...

        -Addison

...There are no precedents: You are the first You that ever was...

        -Christopher Morley

...When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren't 
grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an event,
we take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude...

        -Cynthia Ozick
...There is no courage but in innocence...      

        -Thomas Southerne

...Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern 
or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow or a 
communicated sense of fineness...

        -D.H.Lawrence

... The conclusion of belief is not so much a conclusion as a 
resolution, and it is for that reason that belief excludes doubt...

        -Robert Adams

...It is enough that I am of value to somebody today...

        -Hugh Prather

...Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in 
prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant...

        -Horace

   When first we met we did not guess
   That love would prove so hard a master.

        -Robert Bridges