The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be. Because of all I may become, I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin
Let today be a day of awareness. Consciously pay attention to what is going on around you as drive, walk, do your business, or relax. Consider the world from the perspective of those you pass - the small child, the elderly lady trying to cross the street, the homeless person, the truck driver, the policeman, the executive in the big limo.
We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of.
- Phil McGraw
Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.
- Lao Tzu
If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.
-Andy Rooney
Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.
- George Eliot
ABCD of Achievement
Avoid negative sources, people, things and habits.
Believe in yourself.
Consider things from every angle.
Don't give up and don't give in.
Enjoy life today, yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come.
Family and Friends are hidden treasures. Seek them and enjoy their riches.
Give more than you planned to give.
Hang on to your dreams.
Ignore those who try to discourage you.
Just do it!
Keep on trying, no matter how hard it seems.
It will get better.
Love yourself first and foremost.
Make it happen.
Never lie, cheat or steal. Always strike a fair deal.
Open your eyes and see things as they really are.
Practice makes perfect.
Quitters never win and winners never quit.
Read, study and learn about everything important in life.
Stop Procrastination.
Take control of your own destiny.
Understand yourself in order to understand others.
Visualize it.
Want it more than anything.
Xccelerate your efforts.
You are unique, nothing can replace you.
Zero in on your target, and go for it!!
Confidence is half of victory.
- Yiddish Proverb
May you taste, smell, and touch your dreams of a beautiful tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion.
You must set yourself on fire.
- Reggie Leach
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
- Mother Teresa
He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
- Harold Wilson
Giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou
A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
“We were frightened of being left alone for the rest of our lives. Only people of a certain disposition are frightened of being alone for the rest of their lives, at the age of 26…we were of that disposition.”
- High Fidelity
There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment, food, and affection. It is customary to begin a series of dates with a great deal of entertainment, a moderate amount of food, and the merest suggestion of affection. As the amount of affection increases, the entertainment can be reduced proportionately. When the affection is the entertainment, we no longer call it dating. Under no circumstances can the food be omitted.
~Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behaviour
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
- George Eliot
Death is God's way of telling you not to be such a wise guy.
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.
- Jack Welch
Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
- Khalil Gibran
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
- George Eliot
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.
- Bob Newhart
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
You must not lose faith in humanity.
Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty,
the ocean does not become dirty.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
- Abraham Maslow
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
- James Joyce
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?
- George Eliot
Doing nothing for your friends results in having no friends to do for.
Nothing I say can explain to you Divine Love
Yet all of creation cannot seem to stop talking about it.
- Rumi
Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish Proverb
Your life within God's arms,
Your dance within God's arms,
Is already Perfect!
- Hafiz
There are nine requisites for contented living:
HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure;
WEALTH enough to support your needs;
STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them;
GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them;
PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished;
CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor;
LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others;
FAITH enough to make real the things of God;
HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Society is a masked ball,
where every one hides his real character,
and reveals it by hiding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
- Herbert Kaufman