"Something we were withholding made us weak until we found it was ourselves."

Robert Frost

"We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day."

-Edith Lovejoy Pierce

"Every minute past is a minute gone."

~  Henry Robert Tindale Haws

"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.”


 - Lao Tzu

"When we dismiss calling someone a 'fag' as kids being kids, what message are we sending the target and those who are saying it?"

- Brian Juchems

"If you have knowledge, let others light  their candles with it." 


- Margaret Fuller

"It is with music we pray twice" 


St. Augustine 

"I want to leave something behind when I go; some small legacy of truth, some word that will shine in a dark place."
                         —Nellie McClung

"Not a day passes over this earth but men and women of note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows."

-- Charles Reed

"The rich and the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant and the scandalous. I have contented these people with all the many bizarre things that come into my head. The less they understand, the more they admire it. By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous. I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time." 


(Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973)

"Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower."

Hans Christian Andersen

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." 


(Oscar Wilde) 

"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength
from distress, and grow brave by reflection."

-- Thomas Paine (1737-1809)

"The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly." 


— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

-- Herodotus (485 - 425BC) 

"Those who follow are always behind." 


~ A Y Jackson

"The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself." 


- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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)

"Life is a gift. It offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back." 


- Anthony Robbins

"We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers." 

-Seneca