Quotes

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community... and as long as I live, it is my honour and privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
-- George Bernard Shaw, Irish Playwright

1. It aint as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.
2. Get mad, then get over it.
3. Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
4. It can be done!
5. Be careful what you choose. You may get it.
6. Dont let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.
7. You cant make someone elses choices. You shouldn't let someone else make yours.
8. Check small things.
9. Share credit.
10. Remain calm. Be kind.
11. Have a vision.
12. Don't take counsel of your fears or naysayers.
13. Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
-- General Colin Powell's Rules to Live By

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer-- Albert Camus, novelist

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
George Santayana

Let us not look back in anger, or forward with fear, but around in awareness.
-- James Thurber (1894- 1961)

Happy people learn that happiness, like sweat, is a by-product of activity. You can only achieve happiness if you are too busy living your life to notice whether you are happy or not-- Frank Pittman III, MD, 62, psychiatrist

Do the things that you've always dreamed of doing NOW. Don't postpone them. My dad loved to be in the outdoors, but he was always so busy as a school principal that he didn't give himself that pleasure very often. He was going to do all his fishing and hiking when he retired, but he never lived that long. He died of cancer at 63. It was pretty wrenching to not only see him suffer so badly but also to realize that he had been cheated out of his dream.
-- Fred Matheny, 53, writer, former English teacher

Dream lofty dreams and as you dream, so shall you become.- James Allen

Leap and the net will appear.-- Julia Cameron

We do not believe in immortality because we can't prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.-- Harriet Martineau

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.-- Martin Luther King Jr.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. 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, Mrs. Warren's Profession, 1893