“Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.”
BUDDHA“There comes a time in your life when you have to let go of all the pointless drama and the people who create it and surround yourself with people who make you laugh so hard that you forget the bad and focus solely on the good. After all, life is too short to be anything but happy.”
KARL MARX“My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.”
JOSEPH BROTHERTON“What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations...is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.”
HANNAH ARENDT“Home is not where, it is whom.”
CHRISTIANNE DETTMANN“Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.”
LOUISE HAY“Always accept good fortune with grace and humility.”
MARK L. MIKA“The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.”
PLUTARCH“Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.”
HANNAH ARENDT“I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.”
CHARLES DICKENS“Personally I do not resort to force - not even the force of law — to advance moral reforms. I prefer education, argument, persuasion, and above all the influence of example.”
RUTHERFORD HAYES“True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.”
HENRY MILLER“Listen to the Musn't's child, Listen to the Don't's. Listen to the Shouldn't's, the Impossibles, the Won't's. Listen to the Never Haves, then Listen close to me. ANYthing can happen, child, ANYthing can Be.”
SHEL SILVERSTEIN“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.”
SOCRATES“We do not remember days; we remember moments.”
CESARE PAVESE“Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.”
KATE DICAMILLO“Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.”
CHARLES DICKENS“Our strength is a contented and intelligent community.”
RUTHERFORD HAYES“Go out into the world and do good until there is too much good in the world.”
LARRY H. MILLER“The tears of faithfulness to your beliefs cleanse your spirit to envision the road ahead. Everything is possible for the person who believes.”
ADLIN SINCLAIR“A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.”
ARISTOPHANES“Trust each other again and again. When the trust level gets high enough, people transcend apparent limits, discovering new and awesome abilities for which they were previously unaware.”
DAVID ARMISTEAD“The world is not a dream, but a reality, of which we are the chief part, and in which we must be up and doing something...Come out into the world about you, be it either wide or limited. Sympathize, not in thought only, but in action, with all about you. Make yourself known and felt for something that would be loved and missed, in twenty thousand little ways, if you were to die; then your life will be a happy one, believe me.”
CHARLES DICKENS“The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.”
WILLIAM HAZLITT“Example moves the world more than doctrine.”
HENRY MILLER“Life's ups and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones.”
MARSHA SINETAR“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Up to his nest again, I shall not live in vain.”
EMILY DICKINSON“Prejudice is the child of ignorance.”
WILLIAM HAZLITT“What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.”
HENRY MILLER“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.”
LEWIS B. SMEDES“As long as you live, keep learning how to live.”
SEGOYEWATHA [RED JACKET]“There's only us, there's only this. Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other road, no other way, no day but today.”
JONATHAN LARSON