A man who as a physical being is always turned 
toward the outside, thinking that
his happiness lies outside him, 
finally turns inward and discovers that the source
is within him. 
-- Soren Kierkegaard 

The journey of a thousand leagues begins from beneath your feet. --Lao-tzu 

To measure you by your smallest deed is 
to reckon the ocean by the frailty of its foam, 
To judge you by your failures is 
to cast blame upon the seasons for their
inconsistencies.
-- Kahlil Gibran 

Security is mostly a superstition. 
It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of
men as whole experience it. 
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than
outright exposure. 
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. 
-- Helen Keller

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled." 
-- Plutarch 

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things 
which escape those who dream only by night. 
-- Edgar Allen Poe 

“Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people
have is persistence. They're willing to spend more time accomplishing a task and to perservere in the face of many difficult odds. There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it”. 
-- Joyce Brothers

“Getting ahead in a difficult profession -- singing, acting,
writing, whatever -- requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able
to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and
yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in
myself and what I felt I could achieve.” 
-- Sophia Loren

“Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be
or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities --
always see them, for they're always there.” 
-- Norman Vincent Peale

"Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to
himself, "I have failed three times," and what happens when he says, "I'm a failure."
-- S. I. Hayakawa

"Success gravitates toward those who are perceived to be
successful. Regardless of how you feel within, you must emanate success if you want to attract people to your cause." 
-- Jeff Herman

It is better to try to light a candle
than to curse the dark
-- Ancient Chinese Proverb

From the state of a man's heart
proceed the conditions of his life;
his thoughts blossom into deeds,
and his deeds bear the fruitage 
of character and destiny
-- James Allen, "As The Man Thinketh"

"You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help
enough other people to get what they want!" 
-- Zig Ziglar

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up
and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find
them, make them.
-- George Bernard Shaw

The Flower says, "Well, I must endure the presence 
of two or three caterpillars
if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies"
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“To make the right choices in life, 
you have to get in touch with
your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, 
which most people are afraid of, because in the silence 
you hear the truth and know the solutions.” 
-- Deepak Chopra

“Whatever you do, you need courage. 
Whatever course you decide upon,
there is always someone 
to tell you that you are wrong. 
There are always difficulties arising, 
which tempt you to believe that your critics
are right. To map out a course of action 
and follow it to the end,
requires some of the same courage
which a soldier needs.” 
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Good timber does not grow with ease; 
the stronger the wind, the stronger
the trees.” 
-- J. Willard Marriott

“Looking back on my life, 
I wish I'd stepped forward and made a fool
of myself more often when I was younger 
-- because when you do, you
find out you can do it.” 
-- William Sessions, former FBI Director 

Life is like music; 
it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, 
not by rule. 
-- Samuel Butler 

Always dream and shoot higher than you know how to. 
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. 
Try to be better than yourself.
-- William Faulkner 

If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, 
it's your world for the moment. 
-- Georgia O'Keefe

In your heart, keep one still, secret spot where 
dreams may go and sheltered so may thrive and grow. 
-- Louise Driscoll 

The mediocre teacher tells.
The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires. 
-- William Arthur Ward

"It isn't what you have, or who you are, 
or where you are, or
what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. 
It is what you think about." 
-- Dale Carnegie

"Every achiever I have ever met says, 
"My life turned around
when I began to believe in me." 
-- Robert Schuller

"Every adversity, every failure and 
every heartache carries
with it the Seed of an equivalent 
or a greater Benefit." 
-- Napoleon Hill

"What we do today, right now, Will have an accumulated effect
on all our tomorrows." 
-- Alexandra  Stoddard 

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, 
you should put a good deal of
thought into the happiness that you 
are able to give. 
-- Eleanor Roosevelt 

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, 
to win glorious triumphs, 
even though checkered by failure...
than to rank with those poor spirits who 
neither enjoy much nor suffer much, 
because they live in a gray twilight
that knows not victory nor defeat."
-- Theodore Roosevelt 

Inspiration is a fragile thing...
Just a breeze, touching the green foliage of a city park.
Just a whisper from the soul of a friend.
Just a line of verse clipped from some book.
Inspiration...
Who can say where it is born, and why it leaves us?
Who can tell the reasons for its being or not being?
Only this... I can think inspiration 
comes from the Heart of Heaven...
To give the lift of wings, and the breath of divine music 
to those of us who are earthbound.
-- Margaret Sangster

How far that little candle throws its beams! 
So shines a good deed in a naughty world. 
-- William Shakespeare, "Merchant of Venice"

"There are many people 
who reach their conclusions about life
like schoolboys; 
they cheat their master by copying the answer out
of a book without having worked out 
the sum for themselves."
-- Soren Kierkegaard

“Necessity may be the mother of invention, 
but curiosity is the
mother of discovery.” 
-- Charles Handy

“We are not just our behavior, 
we are the person managing our
behavior.”
-- Kenneth Blanchard, Ph.D.

“Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; 
you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.” 
-- William Lloyd George

“When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.” 
-- John Greenleaf Whittier

“I always prefer to believe the best of everybody 
-it saves so much trouble. “ 
-- Rudyard Kipling 

"We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on
his or her own light." 
-- Earl Nightingale

"We get new ideas from God every hour of our day when we put
our trust in Him 
-- but we have to follow that inspiration up with
perspiration 
-- we have to work to prove our faith. 
Remember that the bee that hangs around
the hive never gets any honey." 
-- Albert E. Cliffe

"Success gravitates toward those who are perceived
to be successful. 
Regardless of how you feel within, 
you must emanate success if you want to
attract people to your cause." 
-- Jeff Herman

Like the elephant, we are unconscious of our own strength. 
When it comes to understanding the power 
we have to make a difference in our own lives, 
we might as well be asleep. 
If you want to make your dreams come true, wake up. 
Wake up to your own strength. 
Wake up to the role you play in your own destiny. 
-- Keith Ellis, "Bootstraps"

"If you're not surprised about your self,
your life,
what you perceived about yourself,
what you thought others think about you,
at twenty,
you'll be surprised at thirty,
if you're not surprised at thirty,
you'll be at forty,
if you're still not surprised at forty,
you will at fifty,
if you're still not surprised,
you're gonna commit suicide at sixty."
-- Woody Allen, actor and director

 "Success is peace of mind that can be
   obtained only from the self-satisfaction of
   knowing that you have made the effort to do
   the very best of which you are capable."
-- John Wooden

People are like stained-glass windows. 
They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, 
but when the darkness sets
in,  their true beauty is revealed only if 
there is a light from within. 
-- Elizabeth Kübler-Ross

"As far as we can discern, 
the sole purpose of human existence
is to kindle a light of meaning 
in the darkness of mere being." 
-- Carl Gustav Jung

There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of
self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with
respect, kindness, and generosity.
-- Nathaniel Branden, author and psychologist

"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is
constantly making exciting discoveries."
-- A. A. Milne

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. 
They see things in the soft haze of a spring day 
or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. 
Some of us let these great dreams die,
but others nourish and protect them; 
nurse them through bad days till they bring them 
to the sunshine and light which comes always 
to those who sincerely hope that
their dreams will come true. 
-- Woodrow Wilson

"Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to
convince a person who wants to live 
in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person
your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his or
her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, 
surround yourself with optimistic people." 
-- Zig Ziglar

The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance
must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but
to become different- to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit
he or she possesses.
-- John Fischer

Keep sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow-perhaps it all will.
-- Ecclesiastics 

"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and
the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared." 
-- Buddha

"It is one of the most beautiful compensations 
of this life that no man can sincerely 
try to help another without helping himself."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life isn't supposed to be an all or nothing 
battle between misery and bliss. 
Life isn't supposed to be a battle at all. 
And when it comes to happiness, well, 
sometimes life is just okay, sometimes it's
comfortable, sometimes wonderful, sometimes boring, 
sometimes unpleasant. When your
day's not perfect, it's not a failure or a terrible loss. 
It's just another day." 
-- Barbara Sher

"You don't have to be afraid of change. 
You don't have to worry
about what's being taken away. 
Just look to see what's been added."
-- Jackie Greer

"It's only when we truly know and understand 
that we have a limited time on earth
--and that we have no way of knowing when 
our time is up--that we will begin to live each day 
to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had." 
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Graduation Day

Today, 
you may not know all that 
the world has to offer... 
but we know that the world 
will be a better place 
because of what you have 
to offer it. 

Today, 
you may not know which path 
you should follow... 
but we know that you will 
listen to your own heart, 
for it will never lie. 

Today, 
you may question what you 
have already accomplished... 
but we know you will
never doubt what you can do. 

As all of your tomorrows 
open themselves to you, 
never forget how proud we are 
of you 
and how much we love you... 

yesterday, today, and always. 

-- Michael Coffey Tarbert 
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The crisis of yesterday is the joke of tomorrow. 
-- H. G. Wells 

"What the mind of man can conceive and believe, 
it can achieve." 
-- Napoleon Hill

"I will persist until I succeed.
Always will I take another step. 
If that is of no avail I will take another, 
and yet another. 
In truth, one step at
a time is not too difficult... 
I know that small attempts,
repeated, will
complete any undertaking." 
-- Og Mandino

"Courage changes things for the better ... 
[With courage you can] stay with something 
long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it
usually takes two, three or four times 
as long to succeed as you
thought or hoped." 
-- Earl Nightingale

View a negative experience in your life like 
you'd look at a photo negative. 
A single negative can create an unlimited number of
positive prints. 
--Gerhard Gschwandtner--

"A man would do nothing, if 
he waited until he could do it so
well that no one at all would find fault 
with what he has done." 
-- Cardinal Newman