"For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek
out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the
hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through
it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge that you'll never
walk alone.
-- Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993)

"Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am
thankful that thorns have roses."
-- Allophones Karr

"Courage does not always roar. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the
end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow"."
-- Anonymous

"To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you
leave your mind to itself it will spiral down into ever increasing
unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is
one of the things that discipline - training - is about."
-- James Clavell, in his novel "Shogun"

"When we are mindful of every nuance of our natural world, we finally
get the picture: that we are only given one dazzling moment of life
here on Earth, and we must stand before that reality both humbled and
elevated, subject to every law of our universe and grateful for our
brief but intrinsic participation with it." (From her biography of
naturalist Eustace Conway.)
-- Elizabeth Gilbert

"Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face."
-- Anonymous

"There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down,
the other is pulling up."
-- Booker T. Washington