Every man's life is a fairy tale, written by God's fingers. Hans Christian Anderson Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world. John Evelyn People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner of later to find time for illness. John Wanamaker Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should. Bertrand Russell Dig a well before you are thirsty. Chinese Proverb What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it. Isaac Basevis Singer All that we are is the result of what we have thought; it is founded on our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him. Buddha There is not a rainbow at the end of pot. Parts Pups Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you please. Franklin Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. James Matthew Barrie Once upon a time we had the good sense to realize that periodic despair is normal, that squabbles between husbands and wives or parents and children are unavoidable, that not everybody is intended to live in bliss unending. We even had enough horse sense to realize that anyone who is happy all the time must be mad. One indication of good health is precisely the capacity to be unhappy when reality warrants it - to be unhappy without anxiety, apology or defensiveness. Leo Rosten The world's a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and nature do with actors fill. John Heywood Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. Benjamin Franklin Malice swallows the greater part of its own venom. Publilius Syrus Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair. Terence Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, if he gets angry, he'll be a mile away--and barefoot. Sarah Jackson A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. Abraham Maslow When the heart is still agitated by the remains of a passion, we are more ready to receive a new one than when we are entirely cured. La Rochefoucauld Once upon a time--of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve--old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house. Charles Dickens A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell. George Bernard Shaw Prayer is a force as real as terrestrial gravity...It is not only worship; it is also an invisible emanation of man's worshipping spirit - the most powerful form of energy that one can generate. Alexis Carrel "A merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!" cried a cheerful voice. "Bah!" said Scrooge. "Humbug!" Charles Dickens The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; The Named is the mother of all things. Therefore let there always be non-being so we may see their subtlety, And let there always be being so we may see their outcome. The two are the same, But after they are produced, they have different names. They both may be called deep and profound. Deeper and more profound, The door of all subtleties! Lao-Tzu Smoking is nature's way of solving the Social Security funding crisis. Penny Harper It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. Charles Spurgeon Everything here, but the soul of man, is a passing shadow. The only enduring substance is within. Channing Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory. Harvey B. Mackay "Out upon merry Christmas! What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer..." Charles Dickens "But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely." Charles Charles He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. Burke That which cost little is less valued. Cervantes "At this festive season of the year, Mr Scrooge," said the gentleman, taking up a pen, "it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. ... We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices." Charles Dickens Empty pockets never held a man back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. Norman Vincent Peale We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority. Alfred Adler "Somehow he [Tim] gets thoughtful sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant for them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see." Charles Dickens Weakness is the only fault that is incorrigible. La Rochefoucauld Then Bob proposed: "A Merry Christmas to us all, my dears. God bless us!" Which all his family re-echoed. "God bless us every one!" said Tiny Tim, the last of all. Charles Dickens Money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and it's offspring can beget more. Benjamin Franklin The Prime Material of the Great Work, in the Superior World, is enthusiasm and activity; in the intermediate world, intelligence and industry; in the lower world, labor... The Great Work is, above all things, the creation of man by himself; that is to say, the full and entire conquest which he effects of his faculties and his future. Albert Pike There are offenses given and offenses not given but taken. Izaak Walton "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year." Charles Dickens The discipline of desire is the background of character. John Locke Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere. Shakespeare "A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world!" Charles Dickens A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure. Buddha Money is paper blood. Bob Hope ...it was always said of him [Scrooge] that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! Charles Dickens Credit cards - paying off minimum on a $3,300 balance with 17% rate takes 19 years. Money 95 Art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes it visible. Paul Klee If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability. Henry Ford The all knowing Self was never born, nor will it die. Beyond cause and effect, this self is eternal and immutable. When the body dies, the Self does not die. If the slayer believes that he can kill, And the slain believes that he can be killed, Neither knows the truth. The eternal Self slays not, nor is ever slain. Upanishads The avg. 50 year old has a net worth of $2,300. Merrill Lynch Our plans miscarry if they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. Seneca Indulge not thyself in the passion of Anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend. Akhenaton? We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him. James Lowell If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the mountains, you will have distant relatives. Chinese Proverb People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives. J. Michael Straczynski There are people who have money and people who are rich. Coco Chanel The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language. J. Michael Straczynski I have been poor and I have been rich. Rich is better. Sophie Tucker You see many stars at night in the sky but find them not when the sun rises; can you say that there are no stars in the heaven of day? So, O man! because you behold not God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God. Ramakrishna Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you *can* make a difference, if you choose to do so. J. Michael Straczynski If you have committed iniquity, you must expect to suffer; for vengeance with its sacred light shines upon you. Sophocles Facts are useless if you need advice on how to use them. Halla If you lose an hour in the morning, you have to hunt for it the rest of the day. Chinese Proverb I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. Diane Ackerman Listening, really listening, is tough and grinding work, often humbling, sometimes distasteful. It's a fairly sure bet that you won't like the lion's share of what you hear. Bob Waterman Some remedies are worse than the disease. Publilius Syrus In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. Thomas Jefferson Suspense in news is torture. John Milton Success is a result, not a goal. Gustave Flaubert Don't you wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked "Brightness", but it doesn't work. Gallagher A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark. Dante The ritual of marriage is not simply a social event; it is a crossing of threads in the fabric of fate. Many strands bring the couple and their families together and spin their lives into a fabric that is woven on their children. Portuguese-Jewish Wedding Ceremony Well done is better than well said. Benjamin Franklin If concepts and theoretical notions are weak, no measurement, however precise, will advance an explanatory science. Lewis A. Coser Do not be afraid of showing your affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy, than by service; love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present. Lubbock Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything. Mary Hemingway I am the taste in the water, the light of the sun and the moon, the sound in the ether, the ability in man, the fragrance of the earth, the heat in the fire, the life of all that lives, the strength of the strong, the intelligence of the intelligent, and the original seed of all existences. Bhagavad Gita 'Tis the taught already that profits by teaching. Browning No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions Charles P. Steinmetz Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?'. Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?'. Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?'. But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?'. And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right. Martin Luther King, Jr. Start slow, go slowly, grow slow, learn fast. "Start your own newsletter" pg. 77 All the world's a stage, and all the men and women in it merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts. Shakespeare Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King, Jr. But they are all, unmourned and unknown, covered by the long night, because they lack their sacred poet. Horace Mann The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life. Lucan If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well. Martin Luther King, Jr. "If criticism had any real power to destroy, the skunk would have been extinct along time ago." Mark Twain The spirit of man communes with Heaven; the omnipotence of Heaven resides in man. Is the distance between Heaven and man very great? Hung Tzu-ch'eng Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal. Martin Luther King, Jr. Those who would make us feel must feel themselves. Charles Churchill He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. Franklin Rarely do we find men who willingly to engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think. Martin Luther King, Jr. Absolute truth is indestructible. Being indestructible, it is eternal. Being eternal, it is self-existent. Being self-existent, it is infinite. Being infinite, it is vast and deep. Being vast and deep, it is transcendental and intelligent. Confucius Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving in words evidence of that fact. George Eiliot Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth. Thomas Huxley If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance. Samual Johnson For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast. Byron Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. Francis Bacon 'Tis in vain to speak reason where 'twill not be heard. Thomas Fuller Nothing is more common than for great thieves to ride in triumph when small ones are punished. Seneca Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. Sarah Bernhardt We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory. Bern Williams Things forbidden have a secret charm. Tacitus Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written. Thoreau The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Vengeance comes not openly, either upon you or any wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad. Euripides Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. Jasamyn West Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. James Baldwin There is no death! the stars go down To rise upon some other shore, And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, They shine for ever more. John McCreery One must have chaos in ones self in order to give birth to a dancing star. Fredrick Nietzsche A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed. Henrik Ibsen It is difficult to live in the present, riciculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago. Jim Bishop Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. Oliver Wendell Holmes Almost everyone has a posture; almost no one has an idea. Meg Greenfield I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. Socrates One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error. Bulwer-Lytton I know a lot of people without brains who do an awful lot of talking. The Scarecrow, Wizard of Oz Perseverance alone does not assure success. No amount of stalking will lead to game in a field that has none. I Ching To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another. John Burroughs Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking. J.C. Watts It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. Winston Churchill Financial statements are like fine perfume; to be sniffed but not swallowed. Abraham Brilloff Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. Zelda Fitzgerald Our dreams are as real, while they last, as the occurrences of the daytime. We see, hear, feel, act, experience pleasure and suffer pain, as vividly and actually in a dream as when awake. The occurrences and transactions of a year are crowded into the limits of a second: and the dream remembered is as real as the past occurrences of life. Albert Pike A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. Harry Truman It is what we give up, not what we lay up, that adds to our lasting store. Hosea Ballou Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine persent perspiration. Thomas A. Edison Feelings are everywhere, be gentle. J. Masai Wealth may be an ancient thing, for it means power, it means leisure, it means liberty. James Lowell We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about 'unthinkable things' because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless. James W. Fulbright Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason. Pascal Everything in excess is opposed to nature. Hippocrates Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. Leo Tolstoy Technology is like a steamroller. If you're not on the steamroller, then you are destined to become part of the road. Bits & Pieces A man should endeavor to be as pliant as a reed, yet as hard as cedar-wood. The Talmud One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us. Michael Cibenko Statistics are no substitute for judgment. Henry Clay Serenity, simplicity, gravity, self-control and purity of thought are the austerities of the mind. Bhagavad Gita Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability. John Wooden The Universe should be deemed an immense Being, always living, always moved and always moving in an eternal activity inherent in itself, and which, subordinate to no foreign cause, is communicated to all its parts, connects them together, and makes the world of things a complete and perfect whole. Albert Pike He jests at scars that never felt a wound. Shakespeare The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have. Hazlitt "How often are we offended by not being offered something we do not really want." Eric Hoffer Pleasant fragrances of the breezes of love blow from the lovers even thought they might conceal it. The effects of these breezes bear witness to them even if they disguise it and are apparent even if they hide it. Abu Ali Katib Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. Abraham Lincoln If the human body recognized agony and frustration, people would never run marathons, have babies or play baseball. hicago White Sox catcher Carlton Fisk If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. Anatole France Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. Abraham Lincoln And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. Abraham Lincoln I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. Aristotle The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trial. Confucius Great minds have purposes; others have wishes. Washington Irving The process of creation never stops, although, on a plane- tary scale, growth proceeds so slowly that if we reckon it in our time planetary conditions can be regarded as permanent for us. Gurdjieff The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend. Abraham Lincoln Love is very patient and kind, never jealous or envious, never boastful or proud, never haughty or selfish or rude. Love does not demand its own way. It is not irritable or touchy. It does not hold grudges and will hardly even notice when others do it wrong. It is never glad about injustice, but rejoices whenever truth wins out. If you love someone you will be loyal to him no matter what the cost. You will always believe in him, always expect the best of him, and always stand your ground in defending him. There are three things that remain --faith, hope, and love--and the greatest of these is love. I Corinthians 13:4-7, 13 (Living Bible) At the dawning of that day all objects in manifestation stream forth from the Unmanifest, and when evening falls they are dissolved into It again. In truth, therefore, there is the Eternal Unmanifest, which is beyond and above the Unmanifest Spirit of Creation, which is never destroyed when all these beings perish. Bhagavad Gita I would help others, out of a fellow-feeling. Robert Burton In all thy undertakings, let a reasonable assurance animate thy endeavours; if thou despairest of success, thou shalt not succeed. Akhenaton Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. George Washington People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise. Somerset Maughan The secret of the magic of life consists in using action in order to attain non-action. One must not wish to leap over everything and penetrate directly. Lu Yen One reason God created time was so that there would be a place to bury the failures of the past. James Long No man is justified in doing evil on the grounds of expediency. Theodore Roosevelt There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof. Richter The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind. W. Somerset Maugham Only a mediocre person is always at his best. Somerset Maughan There is no little enemy. Franklin Life just isn't worth living unless you're willing to take some big chances and go for broke. Eliot Wiggington You can gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late, And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his gods? Macaulay I believe it is the nature of people to be heroes, given the chance. James A. Autry When the sun and the moon are set and the fire has sunk down, what is then the light of man? Voice then becomes his light; and by the voice as his light he rests, goes forth, does his work and returns. Therefore in truth when a man cannot see even his own hand, if he hears a voice after that he wends his way. Upanishads We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift. Senaca The secret of success is constancy of purpose. Disraeli Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. Rumi Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. Socrates I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. Thomas Paine The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else. John W. Gardner There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. Buckminster Fuller What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered. Ralph Waldo Emerson All strangers and beggars are from God, and a gift, though small, is precious. Homer Dare to be naive. Buckminster Fuller Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. Lincoln And remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand. Emily Kimbrough IT IS NOT EASY To apologize, To begin over, To be unselfish, To take advice, To admit error, To face a sneer, To be charitable, To keep on trying, To be considerate, To avoid mistakes, To avoid mistakes, To endure success, To profit by mistakes, To forgive and forget, To think and then act, To keep out of the rut, To make the best of little, To subdue and unruly temper, To maintain a high standard, To shoulder a deserved blame, To recognize the silver lining- But it always pays. Unknown What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. Joseph Addison How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend! Longfellow If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart. Socrates Always at it wins the day. Thomas E. Watson I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. Pablo Picasso Defeat doesn't finish a man--quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits. Richard Nixon Half the failures of this world arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. Augustus Hare If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too. Somerset Maugham You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do. Norman Juster Failure is always a safe, familiar, no-risk refuge, a known experience; it focuses on new of testing responsibilities upon one. Success, on the other hand, is unknown territory and a high-risk business; the very life-style it imposes if full of relentless demands for even better performances and achievements. Alan H. Olmstead Presence of mind, and courage in distress, Are more than armies to procure success. Dryden It is not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game ever starts. Addison Walker It is better to earn a medal and not have one, then have a medal and not deserve it. C. N. O. The deed is everything, the glory is naught. Goethe Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. Choplin You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometime fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand? Robert Louis Stevenson The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool. The Hitopadesa Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against--not with--the wind. Hamilton Mabie The true perfection of man lies, not in what man has, but in what man is...Nothing should be able to harm a man but himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance. Oscar Wilde Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety. Plato The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution. Charles Kettering Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle. James Russel Lowell One of man's greatest failings is that he looks almost always for an excuse, in the misfortune that befalls him through his own fault, before looking for a remedy--which means he often finds the remedy too late. Cardinal de Retz He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas. John Ruskin An optimist thinks this is the best of all worlds. A pessimist fears the same may be true. Doug Larson Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect. Emerson Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it's not all mixed up. A.A. Milne If moral behavior were simply following rules, we could program a computer to be moral. Samuel P. Ginder The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. Eden Phillpots What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing. Aristotle Our task is not to fix the blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future. John F. Kennedy To thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. Shakespeare People who are resting on their laurels are wearing them on the wrong end. Malcome Kushner I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. Paine I leaped headlong into the sea, and thereby have become better acquainted with the soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and took tea and comfortable advice. John Keats Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. George Eliot Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it. Samuel Smiles Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So...get on your way. Dr. Seuss All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. Adlai E. Stevenson When you cease to dream you cease to live. Malcolm S. Forbes Every man's task is his life-preserver. Emerson Nothing is impossible to a willing heart. John Keywood Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will. Oliver Cromwell To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune: for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible. Franklin Success is a journey, not a destination. Ben Sweetland Getting your house in order and reducing the confusion gives you more control over your life. Personal organization some how releases or frees you to operate more effectively. Larry King All the talk of history is of nothing almost but fighting and killing, and the honor and renown which are bestowed on conquerors, who, for the most part, are mere butchers of mankind, mislead growing youth, who, by these means, come to think slaughter the most laudable business of mankind, and the most heroic of virtues. John Locke It's a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it. Somerset Maugham One may know the world without going out of doors. One may see the Way of Heaven without looking through the windows. The further one goes, the less one knows. Therefore the sage knows without going about, Understands without seeing, And accomplishes without any action. Lao-Tzu You have to go through the valley to reach the next mountaintop. Unknown Half obedience is still disobedience. Unknown A pessimist is one who is afraid there will not be enough misery to go around. Unknown If a man speaks in the woods, and there is no woman to hear him, is he still wrong? A Bewildered Male A man without principle doesn't draw much interest. Unknown God expects the stock in your warehouse to be as good as that in the showroom. Unknown Sin is the second largest thing in the world. Only the grace of God is greater. Billy Graham The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create. Leonard I. Sweet Neither trust, nor contend, nor lay wagers, nor lend, And you'll have peace to your life's end. Franklin If being wealthy is taken to mean having the means to satisfy one's every want, all but the very poor can become rich as thou at a single stroke of a magician's wand, simply by ceasing to want more than is really necessary for sustaining life. By being content with little and not giving a rap for what the neighbours think, one can attain a very large measure of freedom, shedding care and worry in a trice. John Blofeld It is an inexorable Law of Nature that bad must follow good, that decline must follow a rise. To feel that we can rest on our achievements is a dangerous fallacy. Inner strength can overcome anything that occurs outside. I Ching When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself. Issac Bashevis Singer, Tact is the art of building a fire under people without making their blood boil Unknown Tact is the ability to let the other man have your own way. Earl Lee Do not lead me, for I may not follow. Do not follow me, for I may not lead you. Walk beside me, and be my friend. Unknown If you aren't failing you're standards aren't high Tom Selleck Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return Josh Billings When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied, "Only stand out of my light." Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light. John W. Gardner Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things. Miyamoto Musahi Be not deceived with fair pretences, nor suppose that sorrow healeth misfortune. It is a poison under the colour of a remedy; while it pretendeth to draw the arrow from thy breast, lo, it plungeth it into thine heart. Akhenaton? It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on Earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here, forever. Jimmy Carter Success is the reward of toil. Sophocles A theory must be tempered with reality Jawaharlal Nehru The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive. O.A. Battista At the dawning of that day all objects in manifestation stream forth from the Unmanifest, and when evening falls they are dissolved into It again. The same multitude of beings, which have lived on earth so often, all are dissolved as the night of the universe approaches, to issue forth anew when morning breaks. Thus is it ordained. Bhagavad Gita People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure. Lao-Tzu This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. Dalai Lama The definition of success--To laugh much; to win respect of intelligent persons and the affections of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give one's self; to leave the world a little better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition.; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived--this is to have succeeded. Unknown Time is a created thing. To say, 'I don't have time' is like saying, 'I don't want to.' Betty Elliot The reason for doing the right thing today is tomorrow! Unknown God's love does not exempt us from trials, but sees us thru them. Unknown Make sure that the things you are living for are worth dying for. Unknown The man who walks with God will be out of step with the world. Unknown If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous. Jeremy Taylor In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing. Theodore Roosevelt If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God. George McDonald Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought! Longfellow If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done. Ludwig Wittgenstein Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth. William Faulkner The Heavens seemed to men to fulfill the functions of father, and the Earth of mother. The former impregnated the earth with its fertilizing rains, and the earth, receiving them, became fruitful and brought forth. Plutarch Josh Billings said, "It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too." Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems. John W. Gardner Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. Albert Einstein Nobody dies prematurely who dies in misery. Publilius Syrus If you pick up a starving dog and make him properous, he will not bit you. That is the difference between dog and man. Mark Twain As when rivers flowing towards the ocean find there final peace, their name and form disappear, and people speak only of the ocean, even so the different forms of the seer of all flows towards the Spirit and find there final peace, their name and form disappear and people speak only of Spirit. Upanishads We don't stop playing when we grow old, we grow old when we stop playing. Unknown To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent. Buddha The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of making others happy. C. C. Colton There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over--and to let go. It means leaving what's over without denying its validity of its past importance in our lives. It involves a sense of future, a belief that every exit line is an entry, that we are moving on, rather than out. The trick of retiring well may be the trick of living well. It's hard to learn that we don't leave the best parts of ourselves behind, back in the dugout of the office. We own what we learned back there. The experiences and the growth are grafted onto our lives. And when we exit, we can take ourselves along--quite gracefully. Columnist Ellen Goodman Love is the idler's occupation, the warrior's relaxation, and the sovereign's ruination. Napoleon Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness. Mother Teresa The best use of life is to invest it in something which will out last life. William James When flowers are full of heaven-descended dews, they always hang their heads; but men hold theirs the higher the more they receive, getting proud as they get full. Beecher The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions. Ellen Glasgow It may seem to your conceited to suppose that you can do anything important toward improving the lot of mankind. But this is a fallacy. You must believe that you can help bring about a better world. A good society is produced only by good individuals, just as truly as a majority in a presidential election is produced by the votes of single electors. Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than hysteria, happiness rather than misery. Bertrand Russell Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger. Cicero Everything proceeds as if of its own accord, and this can all too easily tempt us to relax and let things take their course without troubling over details. Such indifference is the root of all evil. I Ching All things change, nothing perishes. Ovid Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live, taking the form of readiness to die. G.K. Chesterton You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you. Ruth Smeltzer If a fool be associated with a wise man even all his life, he will perceive the truth as little as a spoon perceives the taste of soup. If an intelligent man be associated for only one minute with a wise man, he will soon perceive the truth, as the tongue perceives the taste of soup. The Dhammapada Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield. Franklin Fun is a word we once reserved for children. Adults did not have fun; they had pleasure. Today, in our national passion to be happy we are not only substituting childish pleasures for adult behavior, we subtly changing the very goals of that behavior. Relax has replaced try. Spend has replaced save. Be happy has replaced achieve something. Redbook For the believer, life on earth is the only hell they will know. For the non-believer, life on earth is the only heaven they will know. Unknown Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience. Unknown You cannot tell which way the train went by looking at the track. Unknown To know God's will is life's greatest treasure. To do His will is life's greatest privilege. Unknown "The will of God will not lead you where the grace of God cannot keep you. Unknown Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world, because you can't quit or rest. Unknown Worry is wasting today's time to clutter up tomorrow's opportunities with yesterday's troubles. Unknown Worry is the interest paid on tomorrow's troubles. Unknown Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. Abraham Lincoln For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. H.L. Mencken We expect our leaders to be better than we are... and they should be--or why are we following them? Paul Harvey It is bad to live under a prince who permits nothing, but much worse to live under one who permits everything. John Calvin The capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest meaning and significance. Pablo Casals A genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind. F. Scott Fitzgerald Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee. John Heywood The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. Theodore Rubin The richest endowments of the mind are temperance, prudence, and fortitude. Prudence is a universal virtue, which enters into the composition of all the rest; and where she is not, fortitude loses its name and nature. Vincent Voiture An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit. Unknown There are two aspects in Nature: the perishable and the imperishable. All life in this world belongs to the former, the unchanging element belongs to the latter. Bhagavad Gita One good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing. Gene Brown If matters go badly now, they will not always be so. Horace The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that the warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse. Don Juan Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exits. Richard Nixon Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. Einstein Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy. Samuel Johnson It is raining still... Maybe it is not one of those showers that is here one minute and gone the next, as I had so boldly assumed. Maybe none of them are. After all, life in itself is a chain of rainy days. But there are times when not all of us have umbrellas to walk under. Those are the times when we need people who are willing to lend their umbrellas to a wet stranger on a rainy day. I think I'll go for a walk with my umbrella. Sun-Young Park There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable. Bovee The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. Plutarch Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. Erica Jong Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. Langston Hughes That which is not allotted - the hand cannot reach, and what is allotted - will find you wherever you may be. Saadi An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men. Thomas Fuller Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. Cicero The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing--where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do. Phillips Brooks The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur. Vince Lombardi Secret forces are bringing compatible spirits together. If the man permits himself to be led by this ineffable attraction, good fortune will come his way. When deep friendships exist, formalities and elaborate preparations are not necessary. I Ching Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable. Aristotle Before the visible universe was formed its mold was cast. This mold was called the Archetype, and the Archetype was in the Supreme Mind long before the process of creation began. Beholding the Archetypes, the Supreme Mind become enamored with Its own thought; so, taking the Word as a mighty hammer, It gouged out caverns in primordial space and cast the form of the spheres in the Archetypical mold, at the same time sowing in the newly fashioned bodies the seeds of living things. The darkness below, receiving the hammer of the Word, was fashioned into an orderly universe. The Divine Pymander The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. T. B. Macaulay To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations--such is a pleasure beyond compare. Kenko Yoshida Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong. Ella Fitzgerald, A man can be destroyed but not defeated. Ernest Hemingway Heaven never helps the men who will not act. Sophocles There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it. John W. Raper