Favorite Quotes

• "Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't."
  - Pete Seeger
• "There are two ways to look at life. One is as though nothing is a miracle; the other is as though everything is."
  - Albert Einstein
• "A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."
  - Herm Albright
• "Justice - When you get what you deserve
  Mercy - When you don't get what you deserve
  Grace - When you get what you don't deserve"
  - Unknown
• "Children do come with an instruction manual.
  It is called the Bible."
  - John Reed
• "All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly."
  - Martin Luther King, Jr.
• "Be the change that you want to see in the world."
  - Mahatma Gandhi
• "Practicing doesn't guarantee you a win, but if you don't practice it will guarantee you a loss."
  - Pat Riley
• "The shortest distance between a problem and a solution is the distance between your knees and the floor"
  - Charles Stanley
• "The challenge today is to seek a unity that celebrates diversity, to unite the particular with the universal, to recognize the need for roots, but insisting that the point of roots is to put forth branches."
  - Unknown (taken from the Crossroads Global Handcrafts newsletter)
• "The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it."
  - General Norman Schwarzkopf
• "Life, like laughter and love, is best when shared."
  - Unknown
• "Sympathy sees, and says "I'm sorry",
  Compassion sees, and says "I will help"."
  - Unknown
• "It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding."
  - Kahlil Gibran
• "I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God."
  - Geronimo
• "The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it."
  - John Ruskin
• "Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today."
  - James Dean
• "To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves."
  - Mahatma Gandhi
• "Winning is nice if you don't lose your integrity in the process."
  - Arnold Horshak
• "If nothing ever changed there would be no butterflies."
  - Unknown
• "What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other."
  - George Elliot
• "Whatever befalls the earth befalls the children of the earth. We do not weave the web of life, we are merely a strand in it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves."
  - Chief Seattle
• "Right is right even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong even if everyone is for it."
  - Unknown
• "Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."
  - Henry Ford
• "Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves."
  - James Matthew Barrie
• "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act but a habit."
  - Unknown
• "Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time."
  -Stephen Wright
• "Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not."
  - Virgil Thomson
• "Live your life as an exclamation, not an explanation."
  - Unknown
• "The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra"
  - Zig Ziglar
• "Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia."
  - Charles Schultz
• "Attitudes are contagious... Is yours worth catching?"
  - Unknown
• "Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggy' until you can find a rock."
  - Unknown
• "A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time!"
  - Mark Twain
• "Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier; Be the living expression of Gods kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your greeting."
  - Mother Teresa
• "Along with the power of choice you received the most precious gift our creator can bestow: the spark of life. With it came the obligation to apply your own special talents, whatever they may be, to leave this world a better place than you found it."
  - Og Mandino
• "Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for a kindness."
  -Seneca
• "There are no such things as strangers, only friends that we have not yet met."
  -Anonymous
• "Friends are the leaves of the tree of life."
  -George Meredith
• "Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is."
  -Francis Bacon
• "Come deadline, a column - perhaps even a life - was forever fixed, for better or for worse."
  - from Deadline (Randy Alcorn)
• "For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."
  - (Jeremiah 29:11)
• "Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush."
  -Doug Larson
• "Find out what God would have you do And do your own part well, For what is great and what is small Only God can tell."
  - Steven Cullison
• "We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations."
  - Charles R. Swindoll
• "Ignorance provides no protection from the consequences of our actions."
  - From EarthDay Network
• "A Christian is a living sermon whether or not he preaches a word."
  - unknown
• "For yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision, but today, well lived, makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope."
  - a Sanskrit proverb
• "A man shows his character by what he laughs at."
  - German Proverb
• "We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give."
  - Sir Winston Churchill
• "If you were arrested for being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict you?"
  - unknown
• "We always did feel the same; we just saw it from a different point of view."
  - Bob Dylan
• It isn't your problems that are bothering you. It is the way you are looking at them.
  - Epictetus

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