The wind of anger blows out the lamp of intelligence. - unknown

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were. - Cherie Carter-Scott

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life. - Joan Lunden

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude to me is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than success, than what other people think, say or do. It is more important than appearance, gift, or skill. It will make or break a company...a church...a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... The only thing we can do is play on the string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our attitudes. - Charles Swindoll

You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them. - unknown

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him. - unknown

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones. - Anwar el Sadat

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. - Anatole FranceIt is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. - Seneca

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Ann Landers

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life. - Burton Hills

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. - Dale Carnegie

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. - Storm Jameson

It is not length of life, but depth of life. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart. - Helen Keller

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Mead

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain

The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed. - Lloyd Jones

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. - Aldous Huxley

One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in. - Wayne Gretzky

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. - Mahatma Gandhi

Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. - Robert F. Kennedy

Tell me and I forget; show me and I remember; involve me and I understand. - unknown

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first. - unknown

It's kind of fun to do the impossible. - Walt Disney

It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable. – Maya Angelou

The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past. You can't go on well in life until you let go of all of your past failures and heartaches."Author Unknown

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only for wallowing in. Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923)

Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.Albert Einstein

"love life, engage in it, give it all you've got. love it with a passion, because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it"

Maya Angelou

I can be changed by what happens to me. I am not reduced by it - Maya Angelou

The most exciting, challenging and significant relationship of all is the one you have with yourself. And if you find someone to love the you you love, well, that’s just fabulous.- Carrie Bradshaw

"It's not what I say; it's the way that I say it. It's not what I do, it's the way that I do it."

- Mae West

Don't change yourself for someone else. You'll never really know who you are. -=- I'd rather be myself standing alone than being someone else standing next to you

The heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries.- Truman Capote

"One must always observe the niceties. Otherwise we are less than human." - Frank Herbert.

" . . . happy are they that hear their detractions, and can put them to mending.” William

It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour. Charles Dickens

So complex is the human spirit that it can itself scarce discern the deep springs which impel it to action. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"Come, Watson, come!" he cried. The game is afoot." Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"Liberty is worth paying for . . . "Jules Verne

Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. Mary Shelley

By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers; it would still be his were the Martians ten times as mighty as they are. For neither do men live nor die in vain. H. G. Wells

"Every day I tell myself: 'This is not a dress rehearsal. You only get one life.'"Nia Varadolos

John F. Kennedy said the courage of life is a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must, in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures, and that is the basis of all morality.

Stephen King once wrote: 'Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end...there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.

John Steinbeck once wrote “It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world."

"My advice, be healthy, reach your own goals and don't be afraid to impersonate a SNL star... ". Teri Hatcher

"How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man." Johnny Cash

"I wouldn't let anybody influence me into thinking I was doing the wrong thing by singing about death, hell and drugs. Beause I've always done that, and I always will." - in acknowledgment of his similarity to today's gangsta rappers

"I learn from my mistakes. It's a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, there's no gain."

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way.

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.Johnny Cash

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else. Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)

It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it. Robert E. Lee (1807 - 1870)

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse. Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Social Relations"

When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.

Albert Guinon (1863 - 1923)Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797 - 1851)

If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way. Lois McMaster Bujold, "Borders of Infinity", 1989

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

Mary Tyler Moore (1936 - )

Clinging to each other in their loneliness and alienation, George and his simple-minded friend Lennie dream, as drifters will, of a place to call their own. But after they come to work on a ranch in the Salinas Valley their hopes, like "the best laid schemes o' mice an' men," begin to go awry. John Steinback of mice and men

Well behaved women rarely make history. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

“love builds up the broken walland straigtens the crooked path.love keeps the stars in the firmament and imposes rhythm on the ocean tideseach of us is created of itand i suspecteach of us was created for it”

Maya Angelou

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing~ Edward Burke

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.  - Oscar Wilde

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.  - Jean Paul Richter

“In life we are often wiser for questioning our answers than answering our questions.”- Noah ben Shea

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.  - Oscar Levant

the Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle, wrote that "the history of the world is but the biography of great men."

Philosopher Khalil Gibran wrote, "Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls. The most massive characters are seared with scars."

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.~Drew Barrymore