In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Andre Gide (1869–1951)
French Writer

 

 

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.

John Quincy Adams

 

 

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

Mark Twain

 

 

It is better to add life to your years than to add years to your life.

Our Daily Bread, 4/25/01

 

 

A great attitude is not the result of success; success is the result of a great attitude.

Earl Nightingale

 

 

I slept and dreamt
that life was joy.
I awoke and saw
that life was duty.
I acted, and behold!
Duty was joy.

Rabindranath Tagore

 

 

Happiness is an inside job.

Wally Amos

 

 

If your resources can reach your dream, then your dream isn't big enough.

Ronnie Carlisle

 

 

If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got.

Anonymous

 

 

Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them.

Lord Chesterfield

 

 

Remember that lost time does not return.

Thomas à Kempis

 

 

Rules without relationship lead to rebellion.

Josh McDowell

 

 

You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.

Henry Ford

 

 

The greatest temptation of man is self-reliance.

 

 

Whatever makes a man a good Christian also makes a good citizen.

Daniel Webster

 

 

Before you give someone a piece of your mind, be sure you can spare it.

Bits & Pieces

 

 

 

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

J. K. Rowling

 

 

 

I have often regretted my speech, but never my silence.

Publius

 

 

If Christ be anything He must be everything.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

 

 

A lie can be halfway around the world before the truth has its boots on.

Jim Callaghan

 

 

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp—or what's a heaven for?

Robert Browning

 

 

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Edgar Allen Poe, Eleonora

 

 

Gravity is a harsh mistress.

The Tick

 

 

 

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment.

J.R.R. Tolkien, in The Lord of the Rings

 

 

 

Every word we speak, every action we take, has an effect on the totality of humanity. No one can escape that privilege—or that responsibility.

Laurie Beth Jones, in The Path

 

 

Many candles can be kindled from one candle without diminishing it.

The Midrash

 

 

It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world.  The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.

Og Mandino, Author

 

 

I dare to believe that I can start a chain reaction through acts of kindness and compassion.

Rachel Scott

 

 

Do not stir up nor awaken love
Until it pleases.

Song of Solomon, 2:7

 

 

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won’t taste good.

Joe Paterno

 

 

The yoke of my transgressions was bound;
They were woven together by His hands,
And thrust upon my neck.

Lamentations 1:14

 

 

Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.

Bruce Crampton Professional golfer

 

 

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Gail Sheehy, author of Passages

 

 

Happy is he who judges himself an unprofitable servant; miserable is he whom God pronounces such.

John Wesley

 

 

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Georges Bernanos, French Novelist & Political Writer

 

 

Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

Gil Bailie

 

 

 

As an end, the acquisition of wealth is ignoble in the extreme; I assume that you save and long for wealth only as a means of enabling you the better to do some good in your day and generation.

Andrew Carnegie

 

 

 

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.

Bernadette Devlin McAliskey Politician

 

 

Beyond this [$50,000 per year] never earn, make no effort to increase fortune, but spend the surplus each year for benevolent purposes.

Andrew Carnegie

 

 

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

George Patton

 

 

Friendship doubles our joy, and divides our grief

Unknown

 

 

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Mark Twain

 

 

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

Bertha Calloway

 

 

Worry is a misuse of the imagination.

Dan Zadra, Business executive

 

 

When faith ceases to pray, it ceases to live.

E. M. Bounds

 

 

 

 

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Charles Dickens, in A Tale of Two Cities

 

 

 

What you believe has no bearing on reality.

Bryan Jarrett

 

 

Sincerity without truth is deception.

Bryan Jarrett

 

 

 

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden

 

 

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