" The greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising up every
time we fall."
-- Confucius (551-479 BC)

"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long
enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody."

-- Longfellow

"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many--not
on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."

-- Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

"Always keep several get well cards on the mantel.....so if
unexpected guests arrive, they will think you've been sick and unable
to clean."
~ 'Maxine', cartoon character

"Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come,
the opportunities for good deeds are renewed day by day. The thing for
us to long for is the goodness, not the glory."
-- F.W. Faber

"Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead."
-- Louisa May Alcott

"You may forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the
recipient will cherish them for a lifetime."
~ Dale Carnegie

"All mistakes happen in our lives to teach us who we really are."
~ Oprah Winfrey

"The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets
up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The
saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world,
himself a light."
-- Felix Adler

REMEMBER TO BE THANKFUL...

"If you woke up this morning with more health than illness, you are more
blessed than the million who will not survive this week.

If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of
imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation, you are
ahead of five hundred million people in the world.

If you can attend a church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest,
torture, or death, you are more blessed than three billion people in
the world.

If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof
overhead and a place to sleep, you are richer than 75% of this world.

If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a
dish someplace, you are among the top 8% of the world’s wealthy.

If you hold up your head with a smile on your face and are truly
thankful, you are blessed because the majority can, but most do not.

If you can hold someone’s hand, hug them, or even touch them on the
shoulder, you are blessed because you can offer healing touch.

If you can read this message you are more blessed than over two billion
people in the world that cannot read at all."

~ Anon.

Individuals can make a difference...make a difference.

“So you see, imagination needs noodling — long,inefficient, happy
idling, dawdling, and puttering.”
— Brenda Veland quoted in The Artist's Way by Julie Cameron

"Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions."
— Albert Einstein

"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for
complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the
philosophy is kindness."
~ Dalai Lama

"A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with
his freedom."
- Bob Dylan

"Education is the most powerful eapon which you can use to change the
world."
~ Nelson Mandela

"Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire."
~ William Yeats

"Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are... Let me not
pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. One day I
shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in my pillow, or
stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky and want, more than
all the world, your return."
-- Mary Jean Iron

"When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into
them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen."
-- Arland Gilbert

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty
to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."
-- Helen Keller (1880-1968)

"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write,
if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be,
he must be."
-- Abraham Maslow (1908-1970)

"The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to
extraordinary success."
-- Vauvenargues

"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they
are."
-- Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990)

"I wept because I had no shoes, until I saw a man who had no feet."
-- Persian saying, Ancient

"All big things in this world are done by people who are naive and
have an idea that is obviously impossible."
-- Dr. Frank Richards (1875-1961)

"Don't bother about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust to
hard work, perseverance and determination."
-- Sir Frederick Treves (1853-1923)

"I call intuition "cosmic fishing." You feel a nibble, then you've got
to hook the fish."
-----Buckminster Fuller

"The greatest wisdom is listening to the guidance of the heart."
----- Kabir Helminski

"For listening is the act of entering the skin of the other and
wearing it for a time as if it were our own. Listening is the gateway
to understanding."
----- David Spangler

"To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven
constitutes perfect virtue... gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity,
earnestness, and kindness.
-- Confucius (551-479 BC)

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of
improving, and that's your own self.
-- Aldous Huxley (1864-1963)

"When nothing is sure, everything is possible."
-- Margaret Drabble (1939-)

"True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but
through fidelity to a worthy purpose."
-- Helen Keller (1880-1968)

"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."
-- Mother Teresa (1910-1997)

"It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great
deal out of the little ones."
—Jean Webster

"If you have made mistakes...there is always another chance for
you...you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this
thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying
down."
-- Mary Pickford (1893-1979)

"The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small
stones."
-- Chinese proverb

"Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to "jump at the Sun." We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the
ground."
-- Zora Neale Hurston (1903-1960)

As you can see, I tend to like "meaningful" quotations, but I also have
a rather bizarre sense of humour, as those who know me will attest
to...here's a silly page of quotations at a great font site: Font Garden

J.

"The world is good-natured to people who are good natured."
-- William Makepeace Thackeray

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what
it takes to sit down and listen."
Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

"Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's
superiority to all that befalls him."
-- Romain Gary (1914-1980)

"Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in
the past."
-- Tyron Edwards

"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through
which you must see the world."
-- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

"Grief is grief and feels the same regardless."

"If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your
envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears."
-- Glenn Clark

"So great has been the endurance, so incredible the achievement, that,
as long as the sun keeps a set course in heaven, it would be foolish
to despair of the human race."
-- Ernest L. Woodward

"Seek respect mainly from thyself, for it comes first from within."
-- Steven H. Coogler

"The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and
to have it found out by accident."
-- Charles Lamb (1775-1834)

"Connections are made slowly, sometimes they grow underground."
— Marge Piercy

"The time is always right to do what is right"
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

"There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own
way."
-- Christopher Darlington Morley

"In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it
over, he is superior."
~Sir Francis Bacon

"Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind."
[Lat., Semper et infirmi est animi exiguique voluptas Ultio.]
~ Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)
Source: Satires (XIII, 189)

"Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age."
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

"Let everyone sweep in front of his own door and the whole world will
be clean."
--Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"The circles of women around us weave invisible nets of love that carry
us when we're weak and sing with us when we're strong."
~Sark

"It is wonderful to be in on the creation of something, see it used,
and then walk away and smile at it."
--Lady Bird Johnson

"Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course~because,
like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken
their hearts to get it for you. "
-- Alice Drue Miller

"You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this
world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere
appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged."
Dale Carnegie (1888 - 1955)

"The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing
hidden underground, secretly making the ground green."
Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)

"Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honor,
on the plausible pretense that he is justified by the goodness of his
end. All good ends can be worked out by good means."
Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)

"reality has a well known Liberal bias..."
~ Stephen Colbert

"I'm Frisbeeterian: when you die your soul goes up on the roof & gets
stuck there."

"It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is
mighty, but action with faith is mightier."
-- Thomas Robert Gaines

"Beauty, truth, friendship, love, creation – these are the great
values of life. We can’t prove them, or explain them, yet they are
the most stable things in our lives."
-- Jesse Herman Holmes

"What you think about me is none of my business"
~ Holly Cooper

"It is more important to know where you are going than to get there
quickly."
-- Mabel Newcomber

"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you will help
them become what they are capable of becoming."
-- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and
beauty in human behavior."
-- H. A. Overstreet

"There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and
lifting people up."
-- John Andrew Holmes

"There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true
nobility is in being superior to your previous self."
-- Hindu proverb

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. "
Mahatma Gandhi

"I took a long, deep breath and wondered as usual, where to start. You
start where you are, is the secret of life. You do the next right thing
you can see. Then the next."
~ Anne Lamott

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

"I'll play it first and tell you what it is later."
(Miles Davis)

"Only connect."
~ E.M.Forster

"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."
-Albert Einstein

"I wept because I had no shoes, until I saw a man who had no feet."
-- Persian saying, Ancient

"Encouragement is oxygen to the soul"
- George Adams

Why make yet another page with quotations?

I've been a collector of quotations since middle school; unfortunately I've lost many a piece of scrap paper with gems of wisdom scribbled upon them, and have lost two hard drives full of collections of wonderful quotations gathered over the past few decades.

I'm going to attempt to save some here, in no particular order (as there are many sites on the internet that already catalogue quotations by theme and author). It's basically for my own use, just as "back up" :o) It won't include those quotations that were written down in my hard cover books kept just for that purpose during my childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood.

There can be so much wisdom packed into a sentence or two... Perhaps my kids will peruse this page? I already send emails with quotations to my sixteen year old son, so who knows?!

J.