Paulo Coelho

“We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It’s one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it’s another to think that yours is the only path.”

~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe.

It is easier to perceive error than
to find truth, for the former lies
on the surface and is easily seen,
while the latter lies in the depth,
where few are willing to search
for it.

~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe.

Mother Teresa.

If faith is lacking, it is because there is too much
selfishness, too much concern for personal gain. For
faith to be true, it has to be generous and loving. Love
and faith go together, they complete each other.

~Mother Teresa.

Dorothy Nevill

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the
right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

– Dorothy Nevill

Gilda Radner, 1946-1989

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity”.

 Gilda Radner, 1946-1989

Alfred D. Souza

For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin–real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.

Alfred D. Souza

Francis Thompson (1859-1907), from “The Hound of Heaven”

I fled Him, down the nights and down the days;
I fled Him, down the arches of the years;
I fled Him, down the labyrinthine ways
Of my own mind; and in the mist of tears
I hid from Him, and under running laughter.

Source: Francis Thompson (1859-1907), from “The Hound of Heaven”

Haneef Khan

I walked a mile with sorrow and never a word said she;
oh, the things i learned from her when sorrow walked with me.

Haneef Khan

– Albert Einstein

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

– Albert Einstein

– Herbert Rappaport

I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone
is taking the time to plant some.

– Herbert Rappaport

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

I am a woman above everything else.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis:

Allan K. Chalmers:

The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Allan K. Chalmers:

Carol Burnett

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

Jesus

Anyone who has had such an experience of God, who has felt such a profound sense of connection with reality, knows that there is only one truly significant work to do in life, and that is love; to love nature, to love people, to love animals, to love creation itself, just because it is. To serve God’s creation with a warm and loving hand of generosity and compassion – that is the only meaningful existence.

Jesus Christ

Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.

Buddha

Just as a tree, though cut down, sprouts up again if its roots remain uncut and firm..,
even so,
until the craving that lies dormant is rooted out,
suffering springs up again and again. . .

- Buddha

“Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience.”

Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)

A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.

Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Max Lerner, The Unfinished Country, 1950

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

~Max Lerner, The Unfinished Country, 1950

Sir James M. Barrie

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

 Sir James M. Barrie

James Anthony Froude

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

James Anthony Froude

Stephen Vincent Benet

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the 1000 small uncaring ways.

Stephen Vincent Benet

Jean de la Bryère

For a human there are but three great events: to be born, to live and to die.
She doesn’t know she is born, he suffers of dying and she forgets to live.

Jean de la Bryère

Martin Luther King, Jr.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience.”

Kent Nerburn, LETTERS TO MY SON

“Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance, and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun. Care for those around you. Look past your differences. Their dreams are no less than yours, their choices in life no more easily made.
And give. Give in any way you can, of whatever you possess. To give is to love. To withhold is to wither. Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared, and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.”

~Kent Nerburn, LETTERS TO MY SON

Linda Direzzi

Everything is alright in the END. If it is not alright, then it is not the END.

- Linda Direzzi

Oliver Pell

“Optimism is a psychological disorder exhibited by those out of touch with reality”

-Oliver Pell

And in the end, its not how far you go in life, but how close you are to your roots that matters.

Maya Angelou, African American poet,

Maya Angelou, African American poet,

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

Mary Wollstonecraft, writer, A Vindication of the Rights of Women

Mary Wollstonecraft, writer, A Vindication of the Rights of Women

“Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.”

“Men forget but never forgive. Women forgive but never forget.”

“I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I’m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.”

“Success will not lower its standard to us. We must raise our standard to success.”

Working women prefer plots and plans to pots and pans

 - Ambrose Bierce

“If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant’s life, she will choose to save the infant’s life without even considering if there are men on base.”

Dave Barry

“Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, good mother, good looking, good tempered, well groomed and unaggressive”

~ Leslie McIntyre

Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk, and laughter to transcend the gifts of Nature”

-Petronius

“There is in every true woman’s heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.”

Washington Irving

Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

“Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, “She doesn’t have what it takes”;

They will say, “Women don’t have what it takes”

Clare Boothe Luce

“Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.”

 – Harvey Mackay

“If criticism is mistaken or mean-spirited, rise above it. Maintain the high ground when you’re under fire. No victory is worth winning at the expense of picking up the mud that has been slung at you and throwing it back.”

 – Rubel Shelly

“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.”

 – Edith Lovejoy Pierce

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love….

1 John 4:18.

Never a lip curved with pain can’t be kissed into smiles again….

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Lao Tzu

“When you have come to the edge of all light that you know and are about to drop off into the darkness of the unknown. Know that one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught how to fly”

~ Patrick Overton

“The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.”

~John Vance Cheney

If You Keep Waiting For Tommorrow You’ll Be Left With A Bunch Of Empty Yesterdays …

“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.”

~Kahlil Gibran

“Every moment of this strange and lovely life from dawn to dusk, is a miracle. Somewhere, always a rose is opening its petals to the dawn. Somewhere, always, a flower is fading in the dusk.”

~Beverly Nichols (“The Fool Hath Said”)

“Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.”

~Kahlil Gibran

“My soul is in the sky.”

 

 ~William Shakespeare, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”

“Dreams are illustrations . . . from the book your soul is writing about you.”

~Marsha Norman

Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.

-Golda Meir

It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.

~ Kahlil Gibran

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you’ve got to put up with the rain.

Dolly Parton

The nearer the dawn, the darker the night.

You lose nothing by giving. Rather…you are enriched by it!

Too many people miss the silver lining because they’re expecting gold.

-Maurice Setter

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the
right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

– Dorothy Nevill

“The Mile: People come into our lives and walk with us a mile, and then because of circumstance they only stay a while. They serve a need within the days that move so quickly by, and then are gone beyond our reach, we often wonder why. God only knows the reason that we meet and share a smile, why people come into our lives and walk with us a mile.”

When you worry and hurry through your day,
it is like an unopened gift – thrown away.
Life is not a race. Take it slower,
Hear the music before the song is over.

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

– Tom Clancy

LIFE means missing expected things and facing unexpected things. When you are right no one remembers, but when you are wrong, no one forgets…

When a confidence is betrayed, something fine and beautiful dies .

Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

-Alphonse Karr

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

-Francis H. Bradley(1846-1924, British philosopher)

Crisis refine life. In them you discover what you are.

Allan K. Chalmers

If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen.

Richard M. DeVos

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”

-Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

“Hope Floats”

“Beginnings are usually scary and endings are usually sad, but it’s everything in between that makes it all worth living.”

one tree hill

People are going to disappoint you, I get that… I kind of expect that, but I dont know, what if you wake up one day and realize that you’re the disappointment.

MOVIE-THE WIZARD OF OZ

There’s no place like home.

Movie-OLDBOY

“Laugh, and the world will laugh with you. Cry, and you’ll be alone”

Movie-Shawshank’s Redemption

Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies.

Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for – sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive or quite and calm…. One of the greatest sounds of them all – and to me it is a sound – is utter, complete silence.

–Andre Kostelanetz

Life is thickly sown with thorns,
and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them.
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes,
the greater is their power to harm us.

–Voltaire

Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day.

-Will Durant

It’s never crowded along the extra mile.

-Wayne Dyer

Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe.

Wisdom doesn’t automatically come with old age. Nothing does – except wrinkles.
It’s true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in
the first place.

– Abigail Van Buren, 1978

“If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.”

Nora Roberts

Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose.

George Lucas (1944 – ), Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

-Kahlil Gibran

“If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.”

Nora Roberts

Do or do not. There is no try.

-Yoda, ‘The Empire Strikes Back’

Anything can be done by two if one is the Lord and the other is you.

-Fern Nielsen