Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.


  -- Native American Proverb

"My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. "


  -- Clarence Budington Kelland

"Don't fix the blame, fix the problem."

 

Keith S. Pennington

 

"Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise. "

 

Thornton Wilder (1897-1975)
Playwright and novelist

 

"The best thing we can do for ourselves and the people in our lives is to love them unconditionally, forgive them without reservation and to accept them exactly as they are. "

 

Iyanla Vanzant
Writer
 
"Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained."

 

Arthur Somers Roche (1883-1935)
Novelist and playwright
 
"Our real values are expressed in our actions, in what we do and how we do it."

Robert Rabbin
Business Consultant and Writer

 
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

- George Eliot

 
Train a child in the way he should go, and walk there yourself once in a while.


  -- American Proverb

"Life is short and it's up to you to make it sweet."

Sarah Louise Delany (1889-1999)
Educator

 
"A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew."
 

Herb Caen (1916-1997)
Journalist

 

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see..." -�

 Henry David Thoreau

"To love is to stop comparing."

 

Bernard Grasset
Writer

"An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run."

-� Sydney J. Harris

"You never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him. "

 

Lou Holtz
College football coach

 

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

-� Martin Luther King, Jr.

"You can do anything in life you set your mind to, provided it is powered by your heart."

-� Doug Firebaugh

"The people who make a difference are not the ones with the credentials, but the ones with the concern."
 

Max Lucado
Minister and writer

"Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold."

Zelda Fitzgerald (1900-1948)
Writer

 
"We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs."

 

Philip James Bailey (1816-1902)
Poet

"Even the things you cannot imagine are possible."

 

Eloise V. Gary

 

"You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one."

 

James A. Froude (1818-1894)
Historian

 

"Sharing what you have is more important than what you have."

Albert M. Wells, Jr.

 

"A lady of forty-seven who has been married twenty-seven years and has six children knows what love really is and once described it for me like this: 'Love is what you've been through with somebody.'"

 
  -- James Thurber

We are all wanderers on this earth. Our hearts are full of wonder, and our souls are deep with dreams.

 

Gypsy proverb

 

"I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances."

-� Martha Washington

"Discovery of a solution consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different."

-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

"Reflect upon

your present blessings

 of which

every man has plenty,

 not on your past misfortunes,

 of which all men

have some."

 

Dickens

 

"Remember, Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,

but by the moments that take our breath away."

George Carlin

 

"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being.

Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."

Albert Schweitzer

 

"Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope; and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable."

 -- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

 
 

"We have but one life--whether we spend it laughing or weeping."

Author unknown

 

 

"Certain thoughts are prayers.  There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees. "


 
-- Victor Hugo

"Indecision is often worse than wrong action."

 

-- Gerald Ford

"We cannot restore integrity and morality to our society until each of us -
singly and individually - takes responsibility for our actions."

-- Harry
Emerson Fosdick 

"We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life."

-- James Freeman Clarke
"We all need encouragement. We can live without it just as a young tree can live without fertilizer, but unless we receive that warm nurturing, we never reach our full potential, and like the tree left to itself, we seldom bear fruit."

Florence Littauer
Inspirational speaker

"Man's biggest mistake is to believe that he's working for someone else."

Nashua Cavalier
 

"He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue."


  -- Benjamin Franklin

 

"Hold a true friend with both your hands."


  -- Nigerian Proverb

 
"Even duct tape can't fix stupidity."

-Source Unknown

"I'm going to live life or die trying."


  -- Joseph Heller