“The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behaviours affect the rights and well being of others.”
- Sharon Anthony Bower, author

"God is hiding in the world. Our task is to let the divine emerge from
our deeds."
- Abraham Joshua Heschel

"All creatures bring into this world the memory of justice."
- J. M. Coetzee

"First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do."
~ Epiticus

"Be proud to be a Size Hero, not a size zero!"
~ Gok Wan

"Time on your hands, your self on your mind."
~ English Saying

"Life is not holding a good hand; Life is playing a poor hand well."
-- Danish proverb

"Not the owner of many possessions will you be right to call happy: he
more rightly deserves the name of happy who knows how to use the Gods'
gifts wisely and to put up with rough poverty, and who fears dishonor
more than death."
-- Horace (65-8 BC)

"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the
winds long to play with your hair."
- Kahlil Gibran

"I must learn to love the fool in me - the one who feels too much,
talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often,
lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and
breaks promises, laughs and cries. It alone protects me against that
utterly self-controlled, masterful tyrant who I also harbor and who
would rob me of human aliveness, humility, and dignity but for my
fool."
~ Theodore I. Rubin

"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy that is translated
through you into action. And because there is only one you in all time,
this expression is unique. If you block it, it will never exist through
any other medium - the world will not have it. It is not your business
to determine how good it is, now how valuable, nor how it compares with
other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and
directly, to keep the channel open."
- Martha Graham

"Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky.
Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is
self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure footedness that comes
with having proved you can meet life."
-- Ann Landers

"Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame."
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) English Poet

"Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures,
costs nothing, and conveys much."
-- Erastus Wiman

"Judgement comes from experience, and great judgement comes from bad
experience."
-- Robert Packwood

"Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional
glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful
scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point."
-- Harold B. Melchart

"The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice
what we are for what we could become."
-- Charles Du Bos

"The world of achievement has always belonged to the optimist."
-- J. Harold Wilkins

"Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first
be overcome.
-- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

"If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have
neglected much, and most of all yourself.
-- A. Neilen

"May we see that we could have been born as each other."
~ Vickram Seth, in "Two Lives: a Memoir"

"If They Give You Lined Paper, Write Sideways"
- Daniel Quinn

"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to
blame someone else."
-- John Burroughs

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done
without hope and confidence."
-- Helen Keller

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."
-- Beverly Sills

"As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey."
-- Thomas A. Edison

"The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your
convictions."
-- William F. Scolavino

"I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be
honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to count,
to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at
all."
-- Leo C. Rosten (1908-1977) American Writer

"To be alive, to be able to see, to walk,...it's all a miracle."
-- Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982) Polish Pianist

"To live at this time is an inestimable privilege, and a sacred
obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities."
-- Grenville Kleiser

"The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost
all your money."
-- Bernard Meltzer

"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved with it as he who
helps to perpetuate it.  He who accepts evil without protesting against
it is really cooperating with it. "
~ Martin Luther King Jr.

"Courage to start and willingness to keep everlasting at it are the
requisites for success."
-- Alonzo Newton Benn

"I searched through rebellion, drugs, diets, mysticism, religions,
intellectualism and much more, only to begin to find...that truth is
basically simple - and feels good, clean and right."
-- Chick Corea

"Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock
of inertia."
-- Alexis Carrel

"It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject tohalf
the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for
fear of what might happen."
-- Herodotus (485 - 425BC) Greek Historian

"I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh
try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere
behind the morning."
-- J.B. Priestly (1894-1984) English Author

"Attitude determines altitude."
-- Unknown

"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship."
— Louisa May Alcott

"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

"Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to
keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want
things."
-Randy Pausch