Monday, December 27, 2010

God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain”

Sunday, December 26, 2010

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.”
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

Saturday, December 25, 2010

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have”
When you educate a man you educate an individual when you educate a woman you educate a whole family”
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”
No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?”
Treat your family like friends and your friends like family.”
Family faces are magic mirrors looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future”
We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents.”
In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.”
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.”
Other things may change us, but we start and end with family”
He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.”
Remember, if Christmas isn't found in your heart, you won't find it under the tree”

Friday, December 24, 2010

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.”
Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.”
Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.”

Thursday, December 23, 2010

“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.”
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.”
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.”
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”
“I’ve learned that making a "living" is not the same thing as making a "life."”

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men”
Take a second out to think about this: in your life you search and search for the right person for you. Every time you break up with someone you get one step closer to that person. You should look at moving on as getting closer to meeting the one.”
You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right, it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and it's good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.”
“If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.”

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
“We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.”
Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.”
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”
Don't rely on someone else for your happiness and self worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can't love and respect yourself - no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are - completely; the good and the bad - and make changes as YOU see fit - not because you think someone else wants you to be different.”
The heart is the only broken instrument that works.”

Monday, December 20, 2010

“The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.”
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.”

Sunday, December 19, 2010

Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed.”
“The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous”
Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.”
“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't
own it, but you can use it. You can't keep
it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it
you can never get it back.”
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.”

Saturday, December 18, 2010

Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.”
The lack of money is the root of all evil.”
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.”
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.”
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”
The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.”
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.”
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.”
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul”
“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

Friday, December 17, 2010

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them”
Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.”
Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning.”

Thursday, December 9, 2010

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
Men are what their mothers made them”
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary”
A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.”

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law.”
A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.”
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother”
When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.”
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.”
Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.”
Your children need your presence more than your presents.”
Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.”

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

The best thing to spend on your children is your time.”
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: One is roots, the other is wings.”
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.”
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.”
The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but deliverance from fear”
“A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.”
Always do what you are afraid to do.”
You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.”
This life we live is not for the faint of heart, each move we make affects the next and backtracking isn't allowed. So with each step we plant it must be firm and confident even with the uncertaintanties that lie ahead.”
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly”
To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.”
Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it.”
“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.”
You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”

Monday, December 6, 2010

“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.”

Friday, December 3, 2010

“Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.”
“Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.”
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.”
“Since I cannot govern my own tongue, tho' within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongues of others?”
“One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.”
“Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.”
“One today is worth two tomorrows.”
“When the well is dry, they know the worth of water”

Thursday, December 2, 2010

“While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.”
“Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him.”
“Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.”
“It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.”
“Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.”
“Never confuse motion with action.”
“Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage”
“God helps those who help themselves.”
“Well done is better than well said.”
“A lie stands on one leg, truth on two”
“The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.”
“When you're finished changing, you're finished.”
“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest”
“Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security”
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.”
“The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance.”
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”
“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.”
“Responsibility is the price of greatness.”
“Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.”
“We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out”
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
“The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.”
There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.”

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

“Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.”
“If You Are On Your Own Path Things Are Going To Come To You. Since It Is Your Own Path & No One Has Ever Been On It Before, there’s No Precedent, So Everything That Happens Is A Surprise & Is Timely.”
“Our demons are own limitations, which shut us off from the realization of the ubiquity of the spirit...each of these demons is conquered in a vision quest.”
“Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up.”
“Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends”
“Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.”
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”
“If you can see your path laid out
in front of you step by step, you know
it's not your path. Your own path you
make with every step you take. That's
why it's your path.”
“God is Within You! You yourself are the creator. If you find that place within you from which you brought this thing about, you will be able to live with it and affirm it, perhaps even enjoy it, as your life.”
When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.”
“We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.”

Monday, November 29, 2010

“I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.”
“Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is Whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.”
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.”
“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.”
Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.”
“It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.”
“Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.”
“Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one”
“The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make / not just on your wedding day, but over and over again / and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.”
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person”
Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.”
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”

Sunday, November 28, 2010

“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart”
“A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.”
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.”
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
“Don't forget to pack your courage for your journey to greatness.”
“The tricky part of the human journey is to transform ourselves continually as our life directions change.”
“Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.
“Let your mind start a journey thru a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be...Close your eyes let your spirit start to soar, and you'll live as you've never lived before.”
“The longest journey of any person is the journey inward”
“Your journey never ends. Life has a way of changing things in incredible ways.”
“We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.”
“The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.”
The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.”

Saturday, November 27, 2010

“A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.”
“You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself”

Friday, November 26, 2010

“You only lose what you cling to.”
“Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.”
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”
“Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.”
“You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.”
“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.”
“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”
“All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players.”
“The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.”
“When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.”
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”

Thursday, November 25, 2010

“A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.”
“The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off.”
“There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth...not going all the way, and not starting.”
“You never find yourself until you face the truth”
“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”
“If they can't swallow facts, let them eat fiction.”
“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”
“By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.”
“Everybody here knows what today is and everybody's giving thanks for that day. It's beautiful to see the people come out and see the sunrise.”
“We pray for our fallen heroes, our protectors and defenders, ... The men and women of the USA who made the ultimate sacrifice in the cause of duty, honor, country. We gather to remember and to honor them. To give thanks for their service and for their lives. And to comfort, uphold and support their families, who have lost so much.”
“Giving thanks are the concrete steps to happiness”
“Life is a series of thanks giving”

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

“Listen to many, speak to a few.”
People only see what they are prepared to see.”
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
“Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”
“It is not length of life, but depth of life.”
“When it is darkest, men see the stars.”
“Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself.”
“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.”
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.”
“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it's the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friend.”
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.”
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”
“Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be.”
“Always do what you are afraid to do.”
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
“Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.”
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
“Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.”

Monday, November 22, 2010

“You can't hire someone to practice for you.”
“Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.”
“Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love.”
“Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.”
“A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation”
“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the and the blind can see”
“Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first”
“There is a good side and a bad side to most people, and in accordance with your own character and disposition you will bring out one of them and the other will remain a sealed book to you”
“When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain”
“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”
“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
“Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.”
“God has put somrthing noble and good into every heart His hand created.”
“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”

Sunday, November 21, 2010

“Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods”
“You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.”
“Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.”
“Everything you can imagine is real.”
“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”
Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.”

Monday, November 15, 2010

“Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one”

Sunday, November 14, 2010

“Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.”
“Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.”
“Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success”
“I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.”
“Life is all about timing... the unreachable becomes reachable, the unavailable become available, the unattainable... attainable. Have the patience, wait it out It's all about timing.”
MAN DETERMINES YOUR SALARY, BUT GOD DETERMINES YOUR INCOME
YOU SEE WITH MIND AND NOT WITH YOUR EYES
YOUR FRIENDS ARE A RESUME OF WHAT YOU ARE BECOMING
ANYTHING THAT YOU BECOME A PART OF, IT BECOMES A PART OF YOU.
THE KEY TO YOUR FUTURE IS SEALED IN YOUR IMAGINATION
YOUR DREAMS COME WITH A PRICE TAG HOW MUCH ARE YOU WILLING TO PAY
YOUR FOCUS DETERMINES YOUR SUCCESS
EXPAND YOUR MIND AND YOU WILL EXPAND YOUR POSSIBILITIES
WORK YOUR MIND, NOT YOUR BEHIND
STEP OUT OF OLD MINDSETS AND LEAP INTO THE FUTURE
BEHIND EVERY "NO" IS A "YES"

Friday, November 12, 2010

“Spiritual beings do not allow their thoughts and feelings to flow from their actions, they understand that their thoughts create their physical world.”
There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.”

Thursday, November 11, 2010

“What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.”
“Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else.”
“There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.”
Once you become detached from "things", they don't own you any longer.”
“The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind.”
“Our intention creates our reality.”
“People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.”
“What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.”
“Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.”
“If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.”
“You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being -- not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money -- but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.”
“I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.”

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

“Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.”
“Self-worth comes from one thing -- thinking that you are worthy.”
“Conflict cannot survive without your participation.”
“You'll see it when you believe it.”
Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.”
“Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.”
“When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.”
“Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.”
“Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.”
“Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.”
“The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.”

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.”
“Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.”
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.”
“When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.”
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”
“Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.”
“Authentic empowerment is the knowing that you are on purpose, doing God's work, peacefully and harmoniously.”
We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility.”
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”
“We've gotten to the point where everybody's got a right and nobody's got a responsibility.”
“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”

Monday, November 8, 2010

A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.”
“Every goodbye is the birth of a memory.”

Friday, November 5, 2010

“Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.”
“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”
“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.”
“Reality is merely an illusion, although a very persistent one”
“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
“The folks you help won't remember it and the folks you hurt won't ever forget it.”
“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”
Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.”
“The only people without problems are those in cemeteries”
“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.”
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”
“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

Thursday, November 4, 2010

“After your death you will be what you were before your birth.”
“Never let a problem to be solved become more important than the person to be loved.”
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans”
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.”
“And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”
“I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.”
“The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.”
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.”
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person”
“The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.”
“Know where to find the information and how to use it - That's the secret of success”
“Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.”
“Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.”
“The only source of knowledge is experience”
“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.”
“If you think knowledge is dangerous, try ignorance”

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

“Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.”
“we can understand almost anything, but we can't understand how we understand”
“Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.”
“Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love.”
“The final mystery is oneself.”
“Information is not knowledge.”
“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest”
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”
“Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
“Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change.
Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding.”
“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”
“Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality”
“Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.”
“It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind. Therefore, it is foolish to guard against misfortunes from the external world and leave the inner mind uncontrolled.”
“Never solve a problem from its original perspective.”
“Insist upon yourself. Be original.”
Advancement only comes with habitually doing more than you are asked.”

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

“When you reach the top, keep climbing.”
“What you want to do, and what you can do, is limited only by what you can dream.”
“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”
“God makes three requests of his children: Do the best you can, where you are, with what you have, now”
Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.”
“You must do the thing you think you cannot do”
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.”
“Try and fail, but don't fail to try.”

Saturday, October 30, 2010

“The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.”
“Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.”
“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. ...You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.”
“The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.”
Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.”
You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear. Do it! Develop an appreciation for the present moment. Seize every second of your life and savor it. Value your present moments. Using them up in any self-defeating ways means you've lost them forever.”

Friday, October 29, 2010

“Experience is food for the brain.”
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
“The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.”
“I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.”
“To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.”
“My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.”
Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.”
“All life is an experiment.”
“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.”
“Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.”
“You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.”

Thursday, October 28, 2010

“Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.”
“Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.”
“Remember, our conduct is influenced not by our experience but by our expectations.”
We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.”
“A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access”
“Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best”
“Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.”
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.”
“We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.”
“In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.”

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

“The only source of knowledge is experience”
“The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.”
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.”
“Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.”
“If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.”
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.”
“Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.”
“There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them.”
“Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something”
“Love without demonstration is fake.”
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”
“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly”
“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.”
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.”
“Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.”
“Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.”

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

“No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.”
“Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.”
“Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.”
“Your friend is your needs answered.”
“Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death.”
“To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice”
“There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing”
“Your life is an island separated from all other islands and continents. Regardless of how many boats you send to other shores or how many ships arrive upon your shores, you yourself are an island separated by its own pains, secluded in its happiness”
“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were...”
“The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.”
Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality”
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.”
“If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.”
“It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.”
“Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.”
“We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.”

Monday, October 25, 2010

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.”
“You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept.”
“Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.”
“The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you, but what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says, but rather to what he does not say.”
“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”
“Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream.”
“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart”
“I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.”
“Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.”
Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love.”
“The best proof of love is trust.”
“Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.”
“To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.”
“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you”
“The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.”
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.”

Sunday, October 24, 2010

“I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish He didn't trust me so much.”
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
“It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.”
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
“The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.”
“You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.”
“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection”

Saturday, October 23, 2010

This time,like all times, is a good time, if we but know what to do with it.”
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”
“Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't
own it, but you can use it. You can't keep
it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it
you can never get it back.”
“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.”
“Any man can win when things go his way, it's the man who overcomes adversity that is the true champion.”
“Beware of the man whose God is in the skies”
The value of an idea has nothing to do with the success of the man who expresses it”
“The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.”
“A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.”
“The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.”
“A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.”
“True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it”
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.”
A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”

Friday, October 22, 2010

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
“Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.”
“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers”
“In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.”
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.”
“Don't keep a man guessing too long--he's sure to find the answer somewhere else.”
Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be.”
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
“Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.”
“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.”
“If you don't know where you are going. How can you expect to get there?”
“Always do what you are afraid to do.”
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”
“Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be.”
“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”

Thursday, October 21, 2010

“Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.”
“Our choices in life are made according to our sense of our own worth”
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise”
“Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.”
“Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.”
“We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”
“Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.”
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.”
“Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”
“If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.”
“You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.”
“The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.”
“Work like you don't need the money, love like your heart has never been broken, and dance like no one is watching”
I’ve learned that making a "living" is not the same thing as making a "life."”
“The first wealth is health.”
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.”

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

“Every choice you make has an end result.”
“Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.”
“Failure is not fatal. Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. It should challenge us to new heights of accomplishments, not pull us to new depths of despair. From honest failure can come valuable experience.”
“Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.”
“I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.”
“Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.”
“You must do the thing you think you cannot do”
“Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.”
“Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't
own it, but you can use it. You can't keep
it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it
you can never get it back.”
“The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.”
“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them.”

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

“The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask him which he finds it hard to answer”

Monday, October 18, 2010

“Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.”
“Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.”
“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”
“If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.”
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.”
“Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.”
“Life, love, and laughter - what priceless gifts to give our children”
“We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.”
“The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.”
“Your children need your presence more than your presents.”
“You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.”
“Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.”