It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all doing direct the other way--in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. - Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allen Poe: nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to posses a mind. I am invisible, simply because people refuse to see me. - Ralph Ellison
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. -
Leo Buscaglia
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.-
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
I'm not a teacher, but an awakener.-
Robert Frost
Shoot for the moon.
Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.-
Les Brown
Friends are those rare people
who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer.-
Ed Cunningham
If I could reach up and hold a star for every time
you've made me smile, the entire evening sky
would be in the palm of my hand. -
Author Unknown
To generalize is to be an idiot.-
William Blake
Do not go where the path may lead,
go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People only see what they are prepared to see.-
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A master can tell you what he expects of you.
A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.-
Patricia Neal
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.- David Viscott
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night,
and in between he does what he wants to do.-
Bob Dylan
At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.
It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.
You can love completely without complete understanding.-
Norman Maclean
There are two ways of spreading light --
to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.-
Edith Wharton
I was always looking outside myself for
strength and confidence but it comes from within.
It is there all the time. -
Anna Freud
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same. -
Anne Frank
The best things in life aren’t things.-
Art Buchwald
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.-
Confucius
I'll tell you how the sun rose -
one ribbon at a time.-
Emily Dickinson
You have given me a gift such as I never
even dreamt of finding in this life.-
Franz Kafka
"Remember to Live."-
GOETHE
You never really leave a place you love. Part of it you take with you, leaving a part of yourself behind.
Think like a man of action. Act like a man of thought
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. - Robert Frost
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. - John Cotton Dana
Sometimes the one thing you are looking for is the one thing you can't see.
Sometimes the heart sees what the eyes can't.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Others stay for a while and leave footprints on our hearts and we are never ever the same.
My wish is not to mean everything to everyone but to mean something to someone.
Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes.
I cannot show you I love you. Time will show you I love you.
Good art is not what it looks like, but what it does to us. - Roy Adzak
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities. - Janos Arnay
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. - Berthold Auerbach
Even a small star shines in the darkness. - Finnish proverb
Dreaming permits each and every one of to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. - Charles Fisher
The only reason some poeple get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar teritory. - Paul Fix
Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless. - Gustave Flaubert
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on. - Robert Frost
Poetry begins in delight and ends in wisdom. - Robert Frost
The smartest people in the world are those who know how dumb they are. - Socrates
Nothing is too difficult to understand for those who don't give up. - Terence
