Life is lost in dreaming...
Dreaming is lost in becoming...
Sometimes it seems
We'll touch that dream
But things come slow or not at all
And the ones on top, won't make it stop
So convinced that they might fall
Let's love ourselves then we can't fail
To make a better situation
Tomorrow, our seeds will grow
All we need is dedication.
~Lauryn Hill, Everything is Everything.
It is only with the heart that one sees clearly. The essential is invisible to the eyes.
~The Little Prince.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
~Ghandi.
To believe yourself to be brave is to be brave; it is the only essential thing.
~Mark Twain.
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
~Sandra Carey.
Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words.
~Unknown.
The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.
~Larry Flynt.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.
~Satchel Paige.
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not. ~Andre Gide.
� � �"So you think I'm courageous?" she asked.
� � �"Yes, I do."
� � �"Perhaps I am. But that's because I've had some inspiring teachers. I'll tell you about one of them. Many years ago, when I worked as a volunteer at Stanford Hospital, I got to know a little girl named Liza who was suffering from a rare and serious disease. Her only chance of recovery appeared to be a blood transfusion from her five-year-old brother, who had miraculously survived the same disease and had developed the antibodies needed to combat the illness. The doctor explained the situation to her little brother, and asked the boy if he would be willing to give his blood to his sister. I saw him hesitate for only a moment before taking a deep breath and saying, 'Yes, I'll do it if it will save Liza.'
� � �"As the transfusion progressed, he lay in bed next to his sister and smiled, as we all did, seeing the color returning to her cheeks. Then his face grew pale and his smile faded. He looked up at the doctor and asked with a trembling voice, 'Will I start to die right away?'
� � �"Being young, the boy had misunderstood the doctor; he thought he was going to have to give her all his blood.
� � �"Yes, I've learned courage," she added. "Because I've had inspiring teachers."
Dan Millman
"On Courage" Chicken Soup for the Soul.
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not be false to any man,
Farewell. My blessing season this in thee.
~Shakespeare, Hamlet.
More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.
~Amy Grant.
Funny how just when you think life can't possibly get any worse it suddenly does.
~Douglas Noel Adams.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
~James Truslow Adams.
Tomorrow tomorrow and tomorrow
Creeps in this pety pace, From day to day
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools,
A way to a dusty death; Out out brief candle,
Life's but a walking shadow,
A poor player that struts and frets his
Hour upon the stage, then is heard from no more.
It is a tale told by an idiot,
Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
~Shakespeare, MacBeth.
The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.
~Anne Rice.
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection � that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals.
~George Orwell.
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
~Jane Austen.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
~Confucius.
In a hundred years, it won't matter what my bank account was, how big my house was or what type of car I drove... But that the world may be better because I made a difference in the life of a child.
~Kathy Davis.
The entire world is driven by a will... blind and ruthless. In order to transend the limitations of that world, you need to stop willing, stop desiring, stop hating. To conquer others is to have power... To conquer yourself is to know the way.
~From an episode of Xena.
Thank you Lord for dirty little hands,
That touch my stove and fridge;
For sticky little fingers that
Try to build a bridge
For precious little hands in which
Great faith so abounds;
For silly little hands that reach
To touch a mother's frown.
For careless hands that go astray
In search of something new;
For hands to hold and show the way
As mothers often do.
And thank you for your guiding hand
That leads me to the light
That lifts me when I stumble
And points me to the right.
~Judith Peitsch Chicken Soup For the Soul
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
~Buddha.
You can't stay in your corner of the forest, waiting for others to come to you; you have to go to them sometimes.
~Winnie the Pooh.
The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other.
~Ashleigh Brilliant.
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
~Dr. Seuss.
No pessimest ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
~Helen Keller.
It's not very pleasant in my corner of the world at three o'clock in the morning. But for people who like cold, wet, ugly bits it is something rather special.
~Eeyore
All the Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas
Layin' in the sun,
Talkin' bout the things
They woulda-coulda-shoulda done...
But those Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas
All ran away and hid
From one little did.
~Shel Silverstein.
A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
~Nadine Gordimer.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself --nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
~Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
~Albert Camus.
To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction.
~Minna Antrim.
Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy - common clay, if you like - eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others - the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes.
~Jean Anouilh.
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
~Ursula K. Le Guin.
Sticks and stones are hard on bones.
Aimed with angry art,
Words can sting like anything.
But silence breaks the heart.
~Phyllis McGinley.
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
~Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
WORDS OF WITTY WISDOM
1. Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not
walk ahead of me, for I may not follow. Just leave me alone.
2. The journey of a thousand miles begins with a broken fan belt and a leaky tire.
3. It's always darkest before dawn. So if you're
going to steal the neighbor's newspaper that's the time to do it.
4. It's a small world. So you gotta use your elbows a lot.
5. Sex is like air; it's not important unless you aren't getting any.
6. We are born naked, wet, and hungry. Then things
get worse.
7. No one is listening until you make a mistake.
8. Always remember you're unique, just like everyone
else.
9. Never test the depth of the water with both feet.
10. It may be that your sole purpose in life is
simply to serve as a warning to others.
11. It is far more impressive when others discover
your good qualities without your help.
12. If you think nobody cares whether you're alive, try missing a couple of payments.
13. If you tell the truth, you don't have to
remember anything.
14. If you lend someone $20, and never see that
person again; it was probably worth it.
15. When someone says, "Do you want my opinion?" -
it's always a negative one.
16. When someone is having a bad day, be silent, sit
close by and then nuzzle them gently. (Be careful with this one!)
17. The word listen contains the same letters as the
word silent.
18. The trouble with work is - it's so daily.
19. Scientists say 1 out of every 4 people are crazy.
Check 3 friends. If they're OK, you're it.
20. Pain and suffering are inevitable but misery is optional.
Whatever you do or dream you can do - begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.
~Johann Wolfwang von Goethe.
Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir man's blood. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work.
~D.H Burnham.
Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together.
~Vesta M. Kelly.
When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses you should take - choose the bolder one.
~W.J. Shun.
What counts in not the number of hours you put in, but how much you put in the hours.
~Unknown.
In the unending landscape of time, the most important landmarks, fleeting as they may be, are the people we meet, know and love.
~Bicentennial Man.
Ever wonder how it happens that when people want something from you, they help you out of the dirt; but once they get that something they turn around and throw you back in?
~Alex Ludwinek.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
~Unknown.
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 harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
~Mark Twain.
� � �One day my young daughter was late coming home from school. I was both annoyed and worried. When she came through the door, I demanded in my upset tone that she explain why she was late.
� � �She said, "Mommy, I was walking home with Julie and halfway home Julie dropped her doll and it broke into lots of little pieces."
� � �"Oh, honey," I replied, "you were late because you helped Julie pick up the pieces to her doll to put them back together."
� � �In her young and innocent voice, my daughter said, "No, Mommy. I didn't know how to help fix the doll. I just stayed to help Julie cry."
~The Broken Doll Chicken Soup For The Mother's Soul.
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates too stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
~James Baldwin.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
~Robert Frost.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science.
~Albert Einstein.
Remember, kid, there are heroes and there are legends. Heroes get remembered, legends never die. Follow your heart, kid, and you can never go wrong.
~Babe Ruth, The Sandlot, Bennie's dream sequence.
Life has more imagination than we carry in our dreams.
~Unknown.
Mes compaignons cui j'amie et cui j'aim... me di, chanson. {Companions whom I loved, and still do... Tell them, my song.}
~Andr� Marek, Timeline.
Pledge allegiance to yourself. Believe in miracles. Leap before you look. Laugh a lot along the way. Dive in. Dare to make mistakes. Follow angel footprints. Listen to your own wise and gentle, knowing voice. Hug the little child in you. Breathe deep trusting breaths. See things from an upside-down-point-of-view. Live your dreams. Demand nothing less than everything.
~Unknown.
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
~Martin Luther King Jr.
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
~Unknown.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
~Thomas Alva Edison.
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.
~James Branch Cabell.
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
~Antoine de Saint Exupery.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
~Isaac Asimov.
We are the music makers,
And we are the dreamer of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.
~Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy
When you come to the edge of all the light you have, and you must take a step into the darkness of the unknown, believe that one of two things will happen to you: either there will be something solid for you to stand on, or, you will be taught how to fly.
~Patrick Overton.
No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.
~Gerald W. Johnson.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
~Charles Dickens.
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
~Dr. Felice Leonardo Buscaglia.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
~Douglas Noel Adams.
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me."
~Erma Louise Bombeck.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
~S�ren Aaby Kierkegaard.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
~William Blake.
There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.
~Helen Adams Keller.
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.
~Ed Cunningham.
No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot.
~Scott Adams.
Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward; for there you have been, there you long to return.
~Leonardo da Vinci.
Close friends love you for who you are, not what they want you to be.
~Ted Rall.
When you follow your bliss... doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else.
~Joseph Campbell.
You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself.
~Harvey Samuel Firestone.
Life is not measured by the moments of breath you take but by the breath taking moments.
~Anonymous.
The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.
~Charles Langbridge Morgan.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
~Samuel Adams.
To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.
~Chinese Proverb.
Give to the world the best you have and the best will come
back to you.
~Madeline Bridges.
There is a very real relationship, both quantitatively and
qualitatively, between what you contribute and what you get
out of this world.
~Oscar Hammerstein II.
The love you take, Is equal to the love you make.
~John Lennon & Paul McCartney.
The value of life lies, not in the length of days, but in
the use we make of them: a man may live long, yet live very
little. Satisfaction in life depends not on the number of
your years, but on your will.
~Michel de Montaigne.
You can't turn back the clock, but you can wind it up again.
~Bonnie Prudden.
Don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars.
~Bette Davis.
The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.
~�schylus.
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
~Victor Hugo.
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.
~Richard David Bach.
Reach high, for stars hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for
every dream precedes the goal.
~Pamela Star.
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
~Carl Sandburg.
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent,
intolerable uncertainty, not knowing what comes next.
~Ursula K. Leguin.
Man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven
for?
~Robert Browning.
Far away in the sunshine are my highest inspirations. I may
not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe
in them and try to follow where they lead.
~Louisa May Alcott.
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
~Denis Waitley.
I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird, and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
~Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in,
continue firm and constant.
~Socrates.
Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.
~Eric Hoffer.
Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid
of a rat.
~Harry Emerson Fosdick.
Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you
don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy
yourself.
~Richard M. Nixon.
Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will
be stilled only by non-hatred-this is the law Eternal.
~Buddha.
The happy people are failures because they are on such good
terms with themselves that they don't give a damn.
~Agatha Christie.
Happiness comes uninvited: and the moment that you are
conscious that you are happy, you are no longer happy.
~J. Krishnamurti.
Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.
~Unknown.
Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
~Alan Alda.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not
born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that
this new world is born.
~Anais Nin.
Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people
how wonderful you are.
~Laurence Peter.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
~Albert Einstein.
It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does
to have tried and succeeded.
~Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
Everything is funny as long as it's happening to someone
else.
~Will Rogers.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing
can be done without hope and confidence.
~Helen Keller.
Indecision regarding the choice among pleasures temporarily robs a man of inner peace. After due reflection, he attains joy by turning away from the lower pleasures and seeking the higher ones.
~I Ching.
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their
power to harm us.
~Voltaire.
This--this was what made life: a moment of quiet, the water falling in the fountain, the girl's voice...a moment of captured beauty. He who is truly wise will never permit such moments to escape.
~Roger Bannister.
Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't
have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being
down, when we could use that same energy � if not less of it
� doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we
really want to do.
~Terry McMillan.
Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
~Marcus Aurelius Antoninus.
If you've never stared off in the distance, then your life is a shame.
~Counting Crows.
I have accepted fear as part of life � specifically the fear
of change.... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in
the heart that says: turn back....
~Erica Jong.
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
~Josephus Daniels.
Dreams are great. When they disappear you may still be
here, but you will have ceased to live.
~Lady Nancy Astor.
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in schoool. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you haven't really learned anything.
~Muhammad Ali.
I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but till I can do something; I will not refuse to do something I can do.
~Helen Keller.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
~Martin Luther King, Jr.
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to
yourself the most comforting words of all: This, too, shall
pass.
~Ann Landers
Happy the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind,
and has given up worrying, once and for all.
~Ovid.
Don't hurry, don't worry. You're only here for a short
visit. So be sure and stop to smell the flowers.
~Walter Hagen.
I'm not happy. I'm cheerful. There's a difference. A
happy woman has no cares at all. A cheerful woman has cares
but has learned how to deal with them.
~Beverly Sills.
Nothing can be done except little by little.
~Charles Baudelaire.
Life is a great bundle of little things.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Love builds bridges where there are none.
~R. H. Delaney.
Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be
afraid.
~Lady Bird Johnson.
Life just is. You have to flow with it. Give yourself to
the moment. Let it happen.
~Jerry Brown.
Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your
toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your
shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up
and pass a very comfortable night.
~Marion Howard.
Hope is a risk that must be run.
~Georges Bernanos.
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
~Thomas Henry Huxley.
I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm
afraid of it, then I must do it.
~Erica Jong.
That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
~Emily Elizabeth Dickinson.
When we hold back on life, life holds us back.
~Mary Manin Boggs.
Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us
to love and forgive each other.
~Judy Collins.
If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we
would all be millionaires.
~Abigail Van Buren.
All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but
confront them.
~William F. Halsey.
Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.
~Lady Bird Johnson.
However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves
in the image others have of us.
~Eric Hoffer.
Speak when you're angry � and you'll make the best speech
you'll ever regret.
~Laurence Peter.
To love for the sake of being loved is human, But to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
~Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine.
There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as
fear.
~Jawaharlal Nehru.
Walk away from it until you get stronger. All your troubles will be there when you get back, but you'll
be better able to cope.
~Lady Bird Johnson.
One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which
grows slowly endures.
~J. G. Hubbard.
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of
scene.
~Arthur Christopher Benson.
Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy.
~�schylus.
To them that ask, where have you seen the gods, or how do you know for certain there are gods, that you are so devout in their worship? I answer: Neither have I ever seen my own soul, and yet I respect and honor it.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius.
I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist!!!!
~Tammy Faye Baker.
(This one is for you, Bono!!)
The important thing is not that we can live on hope alone,
but that life is not worth living without it.
~Harvey Milk.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the
year.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson.
The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
~Muhammad Ali.
Seize today, and put as little trust as you can in the
morrow.
~Horace.
The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool
of yourself with him, and not only will he not scold you, but
he will make a fool of himself, too.
~Samuel Butler.
You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your
best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that
you tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you
don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try �
you don't take the risk.
~Rosalynn Carter.
The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner
in crime.
~Mignon McLaughlin.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is
trying to please everybody.
~Bill Cosby.
There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by
loving -- by paying attention and doing what one thereby
discovers has to be done.
~Aldous Huxley.
Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of
understanding and misunderstanding.
~Diane Arbus.
If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the
question?
~Lily Tomlin.
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I must face my fear. I must permit it to pass over me and threw me and when my fear has come to pass I shall turn the inner eye and see what is left. There will be nothing. Only I will remain.
~Dune.
If tears could build a stairway,
And memories a lane,
I'd walk right up to heaven
And bring you home again.
~Unknown.
Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again.
~Noel Coward.
