SOUL SUSTENANCE -"You can have anything you want -2..

SOUL SUSTENANCE  -"You can have anything you want -2..
Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God." Ram Dass, Still Here : Embracing Aging, Changing, and Dying
"You can have anything you want - if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose." Abraham Lincoln
"All you have shall some day be given; Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors." Kahlil Gibran
"For a conscious person, to exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly." Henri Bergson
"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon,there is always someone to tell you 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 the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Now that the barn has burned down, I can see the moon." The Zen Cowboy
"All of man's problems stem from his inability to sit alone in a room for any length of time." Pascal
"The President in Washington sends word that he wishes to buy our land. But how can you buy or sell the sky, the land? The earth does not belong to man; man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself." Chief Seattle, 1852
"Reverence for life is the ethic of love expanded to embrace the universe." Albert Schweitzer
"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared." Chinese Proverb
"A little light in a dark room is still a great illumination." Ernest Holmes
"We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere." Tim McGraw
"The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success." Vauvenargues
"Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, "This is the real me," and when you have found that attribute, follow it." William James
"Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand," Thomas Carlyle
"Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity." Edwin Hubbel Chapin
"The sun and the moon are not mirrored in cloudy water. Thus the almighty cannot be mirrored in a heart that is obsessed by the idea of me and mine." Ramakrishna
"To love life through labor is to be intimate with life's inmost secret. All work is empty save when there is love, for work is love made visible." Kahlil Gibran
"We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind with a tender heart." Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality." John Quincy Adams
"There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough." Mother Teresa
"There are lessons to be learned in every place. The mark of spiritual mastery is the ability to remember God wherever we go, and through whatever weexperience." Alan Cohen, The Dragon Doesn't Live Here Anymore
"That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end." Lise Hand, describing Irish journalist Veronica Guerin, who died while fighting organized crime in Ireland.
"America is a land that is starving for love." Mother Teresa
"Happiness doesn't come from having things; it comes from being part of things." "Chris" on Northern Exposure
"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world." George Bernard Shaw
"In the galaxy, there's a mathematical probability of 3 million earth-type planets, and in all the universe, 3 million million galaxies like this. And in all of that, and perhaps more, only one of each of us." "Dr. McCoy" of "Star Trek"
"Fools look to tomorrow; wise men use tonight." Scottish Proverb
"We only do well the things we like doing." Colette
"To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind." William Hazlitt, "Characteristics", 1823
"You don't have to figure it all out; you just have to admit that you can't." From the movie "Courage Under Fire"
"The highest form of motion is to move freely in the place where one is, at last, at home." Alan Jones
"Distancing others does not bring detachment, but its opposite. Only when you let others into your heart do you become capable of releasing them." Paul Ferrini
“Every other beginning comes from some other beginning's end." Line from song “Closing Time”.
“The best mind-altering drug is truth.” Lily Tomlin
“The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything.” Lee Iacocca
"The struggle is in finding life is not a struggle." Shirley McClaine
“Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.” Lady Bird Johnson
“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” Theodore Roosevelt
“Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.” Christopher Morley
“Men can be stimulated to show off their good qualities to the leader who seems to think they have good qualities.” John Richelsen
“If you want to catch a fish, you must think like a fish.” From Northern Exposure
"Compare and despair.” 12 step program slogan
“There’s always tomorrow.” song sung by Gloria Estefan
"Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt." - Stewart L. Udall
“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; there is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.” Henry David Thoreau
“Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.” - Howard W. Newton
"You cannot tell which way the train went by looking at the track." --Anonymous
"Because I could not stop for death, he kindly stopped for me." Emily Dickenson
“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.” Aldous Huxley
"The world is no longer a romantic place. But some people still are. Don't let the world win, Ali McBeal." Character John Cage on TV show "Ali McBeal"
"Make It Count." from "Titanic"
"Sometimes on the way to your dreams, you get lost and find a better one." Unknown
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." Eleanor Roosevelt
"A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than he was yesterday." Alexander Pope, "Miscellanies"
"The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself." Wang Yang-Ming
"It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them." John J. McCloy
“Psychological courage entails a cleansing of the doors of perception, allowing us to see things as they really are rather than through the distorted lens of the past. The more we are cleansed of expectations, the more we see what is and the more we can respond to it creatively.” Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., Fire In The Soul
“The world is good-natured to people who are good-natured.” William Makepeace Thackeray
"The good, the bad, hardship, joy, tragedy, love, and happiness are all interwoven into one indescribable whole that one calls life. You cannot separate the good from the bad, and perhaps there is no need to do so." Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
“When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. . . . And what is it to work with love? It is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your heart, even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth.“ Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
"Spiritual courage grows through our willingness to keep on remembering, to keep on searching for the sacred behind all the seemingly mundane and even terrible facets of life." Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., Fire In The Soul
“Every destructive emotion is a wasteful emotion. They always waste your energy and make you less able to meet a situation, whatever it may be...encourage and develop your capacity to express love, happiness, contentment.” Venice Bloodworth, “Key To Yourself”
“The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.” Abraham Lincoln
“The most damaging phrase in the language is ‘We’ve always done it this way.’” Grace Hopper
“Nothing in life is to be feared. It’s only to be understood.” Marie Curie
“...everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.” Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search For Meaning
“When you're following your energy and doing what you want all the time, the distinction between work and play dissolves.” Shakti Gawain
“Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.” George Elliot
“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have.” Abraham Lincoln
“There are lessons to be learned in every place. The mark of spiritual mastery is the ability to remember God wherever we go, and through whatever weexperience.” Alan Cohen, The Dragon Doesn't Live Here Anymore
“One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: "To rise above the little things." John Burroughs
“The one resolution, which was in my mind long before it took the form of a resolution, is the key-note of my life. It is this, always to regard as mere impertinences of fate the handicaps which were placed upon my life almost at the beginning. I resolved that they should not crush or dwarf my soul, but rather be made to blossom, like Aaron's rod, with flowers.” Helen Keller
“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There are moments when one feels free from one's own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments one imagines that one stands on some spot of a small planet, gazing in amazement at the cold yet profoundly moving beauty of the eternal, the unfathomable; life and death flow into one, and there is neither evolution nor destiny; only Being." Albert Einstein
“ What did Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. possess that was capable of transforming nations? They had "soul force"-a belief that no force can overpower love in action. Your soul, too, can be trained as an agent for change.” Rev. Mary Manin Morrissey
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” Helen Adams Keller
In the path of your happiness shall you find the learning for which you have chosen this lifetime.” Richard Bach
“What you do may not seem important, but it is very important that you do it.” Mohatma Gandhi
The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady resolution and persistence toward a predetermined goal. Those who succeed are those who have thoroughly learned the immense importance of plan in life, and the tragic brevity of time.” --W.J. Davison
“I am learning to patient and compassionate with myself as I gain the courage to be true to myself.” Shakti Gawain, Living in the Light
"Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand." Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good [people] to do nothing.” Edmund Burke
“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
"The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be common, nor the common heroic." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Whatever you can do or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it." The German philosopher Goethe
“It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.” Mohandas K. Gandhi, Non-violence in Peace and War, V.2,ch.248
“The paradox of control is simple. The more we try to control life, the less control we have.” Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., Minding The Body, Mending The Mind
“Truth never damages a cause that is just.” Mohandas K. Gandhi
“I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.” Mother Teresa
“May we pursue that right-without self-righteousness. May we know unity-without conformity. May we grow in strength-without pride of self. May we, in ourdealings with all people of the earth, ever speak the truth and serve justice. May the light of freedom, coming to all darkened lands, flame brightly-until at last the darkness is no more.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
“As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.” The Buddha
“To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.” Lao-Tzu
"I stand by the door...through which people walk when they find God...so I can show them the latch." Samuel Moor Shoemaker
“We are what our thoughts have made us: so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.” Swami Vivekananda
"Hate is baggage. Life's too short to be pissed off all the time. It's just not worth it." American History X
Spiritual hope is more likely to emerge when we let go of will and open”ourselves to trust.” Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., Fire In The Soul
“Once we know people's stories, we feel compassion instead of judgment. Today, practice remembering that everyone has a story.” Rev. Mary Manin Morrissey
"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." Teilhard de Chardin
"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." Lao Tzu
“The first love affair we need to consummate successfully is with ourselves, because only then will we be ready for relationships with others.” Nathaniel Branden
"I am learning to patient and compassionate with myself as I gain the courage to be true to myself." Shakti Gawain, Living in the Light
“War doesn’t enoble men. It turns them into dogs and poisons their souls.” from “The Thin Red Line”
“Unless someone truly has the power to say no, they never truly have the power to say yes.” Dan Millman
“We and God have business with each other, and in opening ourselves to God's influence our deepest destiny is fulfilled.” William James
“I am that part of the rain forest recently emerged into thinking.” John Seed
“The head does not know how to play the part of the heart for long.” La Rochefoucauld
“The energy with which the most elementary and subtle particles of matter are bound with each other is Divine. The individual separation of those energy particles is absolutely precise and cannot be altered by anyone. Any separation or merger would mean the nonexistence of Creation. The Divine Energy is God.” Sri Sathya Sai Baba
"All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen." Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.” William Hazlitt
“Moral courage is a virtue of higher cast and nobler origin than physical. It springs from a consciousness of virtue and renders a man, in the pursuit or defense of right, superior to the fear of reproach, opposition, or contempt.” Samuel Goodrich
“How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.“ William Shakespeare, "Merchant of Venice"
“Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances.” Bruce Barton
“Change is not only ineviatable, it is sometimes necessary.” Frank Zappa
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” George Eliot
"If you ever think you are too small to be effective, just remember the last time you were bitten by a mosquito." unknown
“He liked to like people, therefore people liked him.” Mark Twain
“The INNOVATION point is the pivotal moment when talented and motivated people seek the opportunity to act on their ideas and dreams.” W. Arthur Porter
“You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.” G.K. Chesterton
“Riches don’t make a man happy. They only make him busier.” the character of Christopher Columbus in the movie“1492”
"It is our duty - as men and women - to behave as though limits to our ability do not exist. We are co-creators of the Universe." Teilhard de Chardin
A prayer for all the difficult relationships in our lives: “God, grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the person I can, and the wisdom to know that the only person I can change is me.”
“Those who say there is only one road to Rome don't know Rome very well." Aristotle
“Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
“It is some fundamental certainty which a noble soul has about itself, something which is not to be sought, is not to be found, and perhaps, also, is not to be lost. The noble soul has reverence for itself. “ Friedreich Nietzsche, "Beyond Good and Evil"
“The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities, and to make the most of one's resources.” Vauvenargues
“Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.” Henry Ward Beecher
“To everyone is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell." Richard Feynman.
“You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?’" George Bernard Shaw
“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.” George Bernard Shaw
“One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than 50 preaching it.“ Knute Rockne
“To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.” Bette Davis
"Life is short, but art is eternal."
"Time has no meaning in the healing process." from Lou Diamond Phillips’ movie “Sioux City”
"Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting." from Henry V by William Shakespeare
“Courage is grace under pressure. Ernest Hemingway
"All I wanted was to walk in such a place with you, with friends, an earth without maps." from "The English Patient"
"They didn't listen, they're not listening still, perhaps they never will. . . I could have told you, Vincent, this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you." from the song "Vincent" by “Bread”
"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." Lao Tzu
"Don't use an ax to remove a fly from a friend's forehead." Chinese Philosopher.
"If we must judge, let us first use the mirror on the wall for practice." unknown
"Be a good listener, but be careful who you listen to."
A baby is a perfect example of minority rule.
“Children are those who are always ready to give to those older than themselves the full benefit of their inexperience.” Oscar Wilde
"Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire." from the Talmud and "Schindler's List"
"There are no problems--only opportunities to be creative." Dorye Roettger
“I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.” Booker T. Washington
"Your children come through you, not from you. They are not yours to possess, but rather gifts from God." Kahlil Gibran in THE PROPHET
“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
“To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing.” Janet Erskine Stuart
“Once you familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage, you prepare your own limbs to wear them.” Abraham Lincoln
“It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.” John Steinbeck
“Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and them you destroy yourself.” unknown
"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones." Phillips Brooks
“Some creatures have the capacity to fill spaces in us we never knew were empty.” Jean Luc Picard in Star Trek, the Next Generation, referring to the horse.
“Lord, help me be as wonderful as my dog thinks I am.”
“If dogs don’t go to Heaven, I don’t want to go there either.”
"We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. " Sam Keen in "To Love and Be Loved"
“Love is a state of complete trust based on truth.” Gerald G. Jampolsky, MD, Teach Only Love
"Morality is truth in full bloom." Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
“Everyone does. Not everyone gets to really live.” from “Braveheart”
“We were moving mountains long before we knew we could.” song “There Can Be Miracles” sung by Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey
"What did Mahatma Gandhi have that transformed an empire? What did Martin Luther King, Jr. have that transformed a nation? And what is it you and I have that can transform the world? They had Soul Force, a belief that no force can overpower love in action. Your soul, too, can be trained as an agent for change." Mary Manin Morrissey
"If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed 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 street sweeper who did his job well." Martin Luther King, Jr.
"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. " Helen Keller
“The full-grown modern human being...is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment...when he is consumed in the service of an idea, in the conquest of a goal pursued.” R. Briffault
“We have two suns: the one outside in the sky, the other inside ourselves.” Zen saying.
“Laugh, Pagliaccio, though your love lies in pieces. Laugh through your pain, the pain that poisons your heart.” from the opera “Pagliaccio”
"The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth." Albert Einstein
"Religion is for those who believe in hell. Spirituality is for those who have been there." Anonymous
"Start wherever you are; do whatever you can. 
Just a little or a lot, just give what you got."
from the movie "The Future of Man"
"It's never too late to be what you might have been." George Eliot
"Here is a test to see if your mission on earth is finished. If you are alive, it isn't." Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The most beautiful rose is considered a weed in a field of corn. How sad that people forget it simply needs to be transplanted into a garden, or that they fail to do so because they are afraid of its thorns." A Vickie original.
"Your children come through you, not from you. They are not yours to possess, but rather gifts from God." Kahlil Gibran in THE PROPHET
"Wasn't life WONDERFUL . . . and AWFUL!" From the graveyard scene in "Our Town"
"Life is a one-way street. No matter how many detours you take, none of them leads back. Once you know and accept that, life becomes much simpler. Because then you know you must do the best you can with what you have and what you are and what you have become." Isabel Moore
"You can't plant a seed and pick the fruit the next morning." Jesse Jackson
"We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give." Winston Churchill
"For we are all bound together, and our touch upon one travels through all to return to us again." Frank Waters, The Man Who Killed the Deer
"When shall all men's good be each man's rule, and universal peace lie like a shaft of light across the land . . . " Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"I'd rather be subjected to injustice than to be the one who inflicts it on others. The price they pay is so much higher. They may survive, but they will never recover. . . And maybe the worst thing is that they won't know it; that they'll mistake what they are for being human." Referring to the Nazi's in "Stones From the River."
"Caring for things that don't care for us; that's what makes us human." from "L.A. Doctors"
"Genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum." Earl Charles Spencer at the funeral of his sister, Diana, Princess of Wales
"Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back, if only they had the chance." Diana, Princess of Wales, in a 1995 speech at a benefit for the homeless.
"The greatest disease is the lack of love." Mother Teresa
"People die if you don't love them enough." Ursula Hegi in "Stones From the River"
"'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." Alfred Lord Tennyson, "In Memorium"
"Suffering itself does not do us in or sabotage the will to live, but rather living our lives in isolation. Without the comfort and love of other human beings, none of us is very strong. Aligned with others who accept us and support us, we can survive most anything." Ann Kaiser Stearns
"The only feelings that do not heal are the ones you hide." Henri Nouwen
"Someone who's already soaked doesn't fear the rain." Unknown
"We live our lives in chains, never knowing we already have the key." The Eagles
"We roll by like water, and I guess we never learn. We go through life parched and empty, 
Standing knee-deep in a river, yet dying of thirst."
Song sung by Trisha Yearwood
"When in doubt, tell the truth." Mark Twain
"A lie is most cleverly hidden between two truths." from "The X-Files"
"If liberty means anything, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." George Orwell
"Even walls fall down." Tom Petty
"Alcoholics and Addicts don't have relationships . . . they take hostages." unknown
"A good plan today is better than the perfect plan tomorrow." from the movie "The Edge"
"One man gathers what another man spills." The Grateful Dead
"You can't speak of ice to a summer insect." unknown
"For those who understand, no explanation is necessary; for those who do not understand, no explanation is possible." unknown
"The most incomprehensible part of the universe is that it's comprehensible." Albert Einstein
"Man builds no structure that outlives a book." unknown
"We need not so much to learn as to be reminded." Socrates
"If we do not learn from our past, we are doomed to relive it." unknown
"I still prefer the sound of the wind and the birds across the brook more than the tinkling of crystal." Anne in "Anne of Avonlea"
"There are no sides. Most problems are round." Unknown
"You can't move forward until you let go of where you are." unknown
"Let go of what you are and you might become what you could be." unknown
"You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf." unknown
"If something works, don't fix it." Unknown
"Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight." Thomas Carlyle
"Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things." Former Vice-President Dan Quayle
"'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt." Abraham Lincoln
"Listen to the song of life." Katherine Hepburn
"Life will find a way." from "Jurassic Park"
"The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook". Unknown
"The greatest cause for anger on the planet is unfulfilled expectations." Oliver North
“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere, Before him, I may think aloud.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friendship
"I know what I want to be when I grow up. I'm just not sure how or when I will achieve it. I'm 52 years old, but much of the time I still feel about 18." A Vickie Original
"A broken heart may die alone, but a broken mind will take someone with it." Jann Eller
"Sometimes there just aren't enough rocks." Forrest Gump
"When a person is wrapped up in himself, he makes a very small package." unknown
"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not." Walter Bagehot, "Physics and Politics," 1879
“Patriotism and philanthropy consist, not so much in altering laws and modifying institutions, as in helping and stimulating men to elevate and improve themselves by their own free and independent individual action.” Samuel Smiles (1812-1904) from the Victorian era best-selling book Self-Help.
“The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be.” Socrates
“Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means.” from Barnaby Rudge, by Charles Dickens, 1841.
“Good friendships are fragile things and require as much care as any other fragile and precious thing.” Randolph Bourne
"I've always considered chocolate one of the basic food groups." A Vickie original.
“True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess. “ Louis Nizer
Reporter, “What is your message?” Gandhi, “How I live my life, that is my teaching.”
“I’m not just the messenger; I am the message.” Dr. Angelo Pizelo
"A good person is one who exalts, by his example, all mankind." Ralph Waldo Emerson li> "Intelligence, when left to it's own devices, will act intelligently. It's in its nature." Ernest Holmes
"People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do." MacIntosh Commercial
"You only go around once in life, but if you work it right, once is enough." A Vickie original.
"Nature makes no provision for an ending, so life must be eternal." Werner Von Braun