"One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love." -Sophocles
Do not keep the alabaster box of your love & friendship sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness. Speak approving, cheering words while their ears can hear them, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier. The kind things you mean to say when they are gone, say before they go." --George William Childs
"When all is said and done; the unselfish acts of what we have done, without asking for anything in return, will have said it all!" --Brian Jett
"You will not grow if you sit in a beautiful flower garden, but you will grow if you are sick, if you are in pain, if you experience losses, and if you do not put your head in the sand. Take the pain as a gift to you with a very, very specific purpose." --Elizabeth Kubler Ross
"Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them." --Henry Steele Commager
"Superman isn't brave. You can't be brave if you are indestructible. It's every day people like me and you that are brave, Knowing we can easily be defeated but still continue forward. That's TRUE Bravery!" --Jesse Downs
"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation." --Robert F. Kennedy
"Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another." --AynRand
"Pick your friends like you would pick a diamond.They all start off unpolished, but with a little work,They can become a sparkle in your life." --Gary Harrington
"Put your troubles in a pocket with a hole in it." --Author unknown
"The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work."--Richard Bach
"It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else."--J. M. Barrie
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."--Henry Ward Beecher
"What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace." --Agnes M. Pharo
"Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things." --Antonio Smith
"He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree." --Unknown
"We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities."--Jacques Maritain
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." --Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction."--John F. Kennedy
"Do not follow where the path my lead.Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."--George Bernard Shaw
"The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens." --Thomas Jefferson
"You must love people and use money, not love money and use people."--Tom Luu
"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."--William Jennings Bryan
"The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were." --John F. Kennedy
"Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts." --Charles Dickens
"Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul.Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal."--Unknown
"If you are experiencing resistance, you must exert some persistence in order to improve your existence."--Malcolm X. Trotter
"The grass is always greener on the other side, until you jump the fence and see the weeds up close."--Albert Grashuis
"There are no secrets to success: Don't waste time looking for them. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty to those for who you work, and persistence."--General Colin Powell
"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit."--Albert Schweitzer
"A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside."--Author Unknown
"Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice." --Reinhold Niebuhr
"A happy family is but an earlier heaven."--John Bowring
"The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a kint when a hint isn't intended." --Robert Frost
"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction."--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Luck: when preparation and opportunity meet." --Pierre Trudeau
"Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have."--Harry Emerson Fosdick
"The minute you start talking about what you are going to do if you lose, you have lost." --George Schultz
"Hate is baggage. Life's too short to be pissed off all the time. It's just not worth it." --Danny, American History X
"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve." --Albert Schweitzer
"Time is a companion that goes with us on a journey. It remindsus to cherish each moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we have lived." --Captain Jean-Luc Picard
"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people." --Virginia Woolfe
"Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in."
--Amy Lowell
"Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness."
--George Jean Nathan
"You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims." --Harriet Woods"The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate
them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence
of inhumanity."
--George Bernard Shaw
"You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will
teach him all your art of war."
--Napoleon Bonaparte
"The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no
matter which side he's on."
--Joseph Heller
"Getters generally don't get happiness; givers get it.
You simply give to others a bit of yourself-a thoughtful
act, a helpful idea, a word of appreciation, a lift over a
rough spot, a sense of understanding, a timely suggestion.
You take something out of your mind, garnished in
kindness out of your heart, and put it into the other fellow's mind and heart."
--Charles H. Burr
"You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.""Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart."
"True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.--unknown
"When you hug someone, never be the first to let go."
"Smile all the time, even when you're sad. You never know when someone could be falling in love with your smile."
"It is said that if there were no darkness in the world, it would not be possible to see the light; if this is the case, starlight is all the more rich for its illumination of the night sky." --Scott Fowler
"Life is like a mine field, you must walk through it one step at a time, but with imagination. Once you shut down your imagination and step in the wrong direction, things blow up."--Ty Howard
