12/28/2008

"Failure is one of God's greatest teaching tools. Be thankful even for failures, for they make you stronger and wiser."

It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it. - Sophocles (496 BC-406 BC)

12/22/2008

"While you live ... you have a duty to life. ... The fey wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them. ... Otherwise they fade away." ~ Charles de Lint

"Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude" -Dale Carnegie

12/18/2008

Following Inner Guidance...

"I think we all have a little voice inside us that will guide us...if we shut out all the noise and clutter from our lives and listen to that voice, it will tell us the right thing to do."- Christopher Reeve (1952-2004)

"Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness." - Shakti Gawain

"The spirit is what guides my life, and I'm humbly on my knees in thanks for guidance and direction every day." - Ben Harper

"Deep inside us we know the feelings we need to guide us. Our task is to learn to trust our inner knowing." - Sonia Johnson

12/15/2008

"Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man." -Francis Bacon

"A lot of people pay zero for the cellphone ... That's what it's worth." -- Apple Chief Operating Officer Timothy Cook

12/11/2008

Peaceful Beginnings...

"Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me." - Seymour Miller and Jill Jackson

"We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange love for hate, thereby making the present comfortable and the future promising." - Maya Angelou

"The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason." - Hal Borland (1900-1978)

"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning." - Louis L'Amour (1908-1988)

12/04/2008

Journey of Determination...

"Let your mind start a journey through a strange new world....Let your soul take you where you long to be....Close your eyes let your spirit start to soar, and you'll live as you've never lived before." - Erich Fromm (1900-1980)

"Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be."- George Sheehan (1918 - 1993)

"We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history." - Sonia Johnson

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn." - Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)