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Life is short and we never have too much time for gladdening

the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us.

Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

-Henri Frederick Amiel

"Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has
succeeded. They are not extraordinary -- they are in the
true order. It is the other species of men who are not what
they ought to be."

-Henri Frederic Amiel

"I know of no more encouraging fact than the
unquestionable ability of man to elevate
his life by conscious endeavor."

-Henry David Thoreau

"The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible 
and indescribably as the tints of morning or evening. 
It is a little star-dust caught, 
a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched. "


-Henry David Thoreau

"Without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue.
You have to have courage - courage of different kinds:
first, intellectual courage, to sort out different values and make
up your mind about which is the one which is right for you to follow.
You have to have moral courage to stick up to that -
no matter what comes in your way, no matter
what the obstacle and the opposition is."

-Indira Gandhi

"Work can provide the opportunity for spiritual as well as financial
growth. If it doesn't, we are wasting too much of our lives on it."

-James Autry

Let us not look back in anger,

nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

-James Thurber

We all need lots of powerful long range goals to help us

past the short term obstacles.

-Jim Rohn

"The world of reality has limits; 
the world of imagination is boundless."

-Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"Courageous risks are life giving.
They help you grow, make you brave and 
better than you think you are. "

-Joan L. Curcio

"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before
which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."

-John Quincy Adams

"You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where
you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning...
a place where you can simply experience and bring forth
what you are and what you might be."

-Joseph Campbell

"Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but not easy to take."
-Josh Billings

"Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry,
the philosophy which does not laugh and the
greatness which does not bow before children."

-Khalil Gibran

"We want....another shrubbery!"

-Knights of Nee

"Reality is the hell we all fear, but that is simply because we make it that way,"
Kyle P. McGann

"If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never truly be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you." -Lao Tzu

"The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues." -Marcus Aureleus (121-180) Roman emperor (161-180)

"The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are." -Marcus Aurelius

"Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand-- and melting like a snowflake. " -Marie Beyon Ray

"We all experience "soul moments" in life- when we see a magnificent sunrise, hear the call of the loon, see the wrinkles in our mother's hands, or smell the sweetness of a baby. During these moments, our body, as well as our brain, resonates as we experience the glory of being a human being." -Marion Woodman

"Confusion is always the most honest response'"

-Marty Indik

"It is not the easy or convenient life for which I search...
but life lived to the edge of all my possibility."

-Mary Anne Radmacher-Hershey

"Courage is resistance to fear,
mastery of fear, not absence of fear".

-Mark Twain

"The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness."

-Max Eastman

"Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about
dealing with the consequences."
-Midori Koto (b. 1971) Japanese violinist

I'm very determined and stubborn.

There's a desire in me that makes me

want to do more and more, and to do it right.

Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something.

It's our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit.

-Mary Lou Retton

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."-Mother Teresa

"How to defend yourself against a man armed with a banana. Now you, come at me with this banana. Catch! Now, it's quite simple to defend yourself against a man armed with a banana. First of all you force him to drop the banana; then, second, you eat the banana, thus disarming him. You have now rendered him 'elpless."

-Monty Python

"NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Our three weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.... Our four...no... Amongst our weapons.... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise.... I'll come in again."

-Monty Python

"In the face of uncertainty, there is nothing wrong with hope."

-O. Carl Simonton

"Conscience is the chamber of justice." -Origen

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