| On Life and Living "Those who stare at the past have their backs turned to the future." --Unknown "Nothing is worth more than this day." --Goethe "My mother is a woman who speaks with her life as much as with her tongue." --Kesaaya E. Noda "In the long run, the pessimist may be proved to be right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip."--Daniel L. Reardon "The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century." --William Lyon Phelps "The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life." --Muhammed Ali "Every day is my best day; this is my life; I'm not going to have this moment again." --Bernie Siegel "Enjoy yourself. These are the 'good old days' you're going to miss in the years ahead." --Unknown "It is not length of life, but depth of life." --Ralph Waldo Emerson "Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy." -- Robert Anthony "Each day is a new life. Seize it. Live it." --David Guy Powers "No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it." --Grace Slick "Time isn't a commodity, something you pass around like cake. Time is the substance of life. When anyone asks you to give your time, they're really asking for a chunk of your life." --Antoinette Bosco "There are no little events in life; those we think of no consequence may be full of fate, and it is at our own risk if we neglect the acquaintances and opportunities that seem to be casually offered, and of small importance." - Amelia E. Barr "Every moment that I am centered in the future, I suffer a temporary loss of this life." --Hugh Prather "The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly." --Buddha "It's never too late to be what you might have been." -- George Eliot "The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials." --Lin Yutang "If you are not going to be better tomorrow than you were today, then what need do you have for tomorrow?" -- Rebbe Nachman of Bratslav "You will never "find" time for anything. If you want time you must make it." -- Charles Buxton "Try not to become a person of success. Try instead to be a person of value." --Albert Einstein "The future offers very little hope for those who expect that our new mechanical slaves will offer us a world in which we may rest from thinking." --Norbert Wiener "The life so short, the craft so long to learn." --Hippocrates "Let me tell thee, time is a very precious gift of God; so precious that it is only given to us moment by moment." --Amelia Barr "We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open." - Jawaharlal Nehru "You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, there is no other life but this." - Henry David Thoreau PRIORITIES: "A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove...but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child." Continue to page 2 |