"Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness."
~ Seneca

"To accomplish great things we must not only dream, but act."
~ Bill Blackman

"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?"
-- Robert Browning

"Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great
temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the
real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being
decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you
shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made
except by a steady, long continued process."
-- Phillips Brooks (1835-1893) American Bishop

"If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read
some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week."
-- Charles Darwin

"Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them
master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight."
-- Helen Keller (1880-1968)

"Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or
architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."
-- Samuel Butler (1835-1902) English Writer

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared
to what lies within us."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

(on the purpose of art):
"... A human activity having for its purpose the transmission of the
highest and best feelings to which men have risen."
-- Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)

"Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in
your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of
life."
-- Sir William Osler (1849-1919) Canadian Physician

"Children need models rather than critics."
-- Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French Philosopher

"The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They
believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to
correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself.
-- Wang Yang-Ming (1472-1529) Chinese Philosopher

"Alone time is when I distance myself from the voices of the world so
I can hear my own."
—Oprah Winfre

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gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without
trials."

-- Chinese proverb

"Who else, if not you?"

"None will improve your lot If you yourself do not."
-- Bertolt Brecht, 1933

"In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong;
honour that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead
leaves when their time comes."
-- John Ruskin (1819-1900) English Art Critic

"The abundant life does not come to those who have had a lot of
obstacles removed from their path by others. It develops from within
and is rooted in strong mental and moral fiber."

-- William Mather Lewis

The best portion of a good man's life is the little, nameless,
unremembered acts of kindness and love.

-- William Wordsworth (1770-1850) English poet

"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."

-- Henry Ford (1863-1947)

"It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected
of him."

-- John Steinbeck (1902-1968)

"Lord, to those who hunger give bread; to those who have bread give them the hunger for justice."
~Latin American Prayer

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

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

"Every man stamps his value on himself... man is made great or small by
his own will."
-- J.C.F. von Schiller

"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

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