Year 2 Quotes

• Week 1: Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back. -- Diana, Princess of Wales
• Week 2: Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. -- Mother Theresa
• Week 3: Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear. -- Mark Twain
• Week 4: A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave for five minutes longer. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Week 5: Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. -- Aristotle
• Week 6: Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. -- Amelia Earhart
• Week 7: Let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. -- Judges 5:31
• Week 8: All that we are is the resultof what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become. -- Buddha
• Week 9: The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom. -- Matthew 13:38
• Week 10: I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potantate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution amd laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by law; that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God. -- United States of America Oath of Allegiance
• Week 11: I'm amazed that there's such misunderstanding of what our country is about, that people would hate us. I am like most Americans, I just can't believe. Because I know how good we are. -- President George W. Bush
• Week 12: ...Unlike one's birth, chosen nationality is an examined nationality. Like chosen religion, it is part of an examined life. The freedom to choose one's nationality, one's religious affiliation, political attachments, sexual orientation and partners; whether to have children or not, whether to abort a child; the freedom of women to vote, to be educated, to take careers; the freedom to choose what one reads, to say what one thinks; to choose one's own ethical standards, one's personal morality, are aspects of personal liberty that the United States has pioneered or greatly augmented in the last two centuries. They are precisely the freedoms abhorrent to religious fundamentalists here or abroad, Christian Jewish, or Muslim. -- from "Looking for My Country: Finding Myself in America" by Robert MacNeil
• Week 13: If you can dream it, you can do it! -- Dr. Robert H. Schuller
• Week 14: What dreams would you dream today if you knew you could not fail? -- Dr. Robert H. Schuller
• Week 15: I AM...I CAN...I WILL...I BELIEVE. -- Dr. Robert H. Schuller
• Week 16: You change reality by verbalizing the faith that you can achieve the changes that will surely bless you. -- Dr. Robert H. Schuller
• Week 17: ..."I see the American citizens as two kinds of people. Some are positive, some are negative. Some are Amer-I-CANS. The negative people are Amer-I-CAN'TS. All of us...I as a pastor, preacher, author...and you as an ambassador have the same job -- to inspire people to switch from `can't' people to `can' people. Ask this question: `Are you an Amer-I-CAN or an Amer-I-CAN'T?" -- Dr. Robert H. Schuller
• Week 18: Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; You are mine! -- Isaiah 43:1
• Week 19: I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail -- than attempt to do nothing and succeed. -- Anonymous
• Week 20: If you've got the faith, God's got the power. -- Corrie Ten Boom
• Week 21: If you can believe it -- you can achieve it. -- W. Clement Stone
• Week 22: The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt from "Unfinished Jefferson Day Address"
• Week 23: Great dreams of great dreamers are never fulfilled -- they are always transcended. -- Alfred North Whitehead
• Week 24: If you fail to plan you are planning to fail. -- Anonymous
• Week 25: Inch by inch anything's a cinch. -- Anonymous
• Week 26: If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there your hand shall lead me. -- Psalm 139: 9-10
• Week 27: Those who waiton the lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint. -- Isaiah 40:31
• Week 28: I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." -- Abraham Lincoln
• Week 29: He grew according to the need, so did his comprehension of it. -- Ralph Waldo Emmerson
• Week 30: It requires a direct dispensation from Heaven to become a walker. You must be born into the family of the Walkers. Ambulator nascitur, non fit. -- from "Walking" by Henry David Thoreau
• Week 31: I know a man whose school could never teach him patriotism, but who acquired that virtue when he felt in his bones the vastness of his land, and the greatness of those who founded it. -- The Honourable Pierre Elliot Trudeau from his 1944 Speech "Exhaustion and Fulfilment: The Ascetic in a Canoe"
• Week 32: Robin Knox-Johnson was only partially right when he said, ` a man would have to be inhumanly confident and self-reliant to make this sort of trip without faith in God' - but there are other kinds of faith. Faith is security, and I get my security from my background, from Rob and from my family and my friends. With these I am never alone. Whether I see them or not, they are a part of my mind and just as infallible a source of comfort and strength to me as God must be to a believer. Faith does not mean an expectation of miracles. I don't really believe that anyone in a storm-tossed boat would expect God to calm the waves. What he might ask for is help to fortify his mind and to endure. The strength of faith is in the believer; regardless of what his faith is based upon - and I imagine that there is very little difference between the attitudes of Chay, Chichester, Knox-Johnson or myself - we call upon our reserves of faith and willpower and hope that it will see us through. While struggling for two hours up the mast trying to undo the nut that had seized I had said to myself, `You'll just have to get that damm thing off!' And finally, using brute strength I don't know I had, the nut started to yield. My background provided me with the will to persevere, and it was the knowledge that it was up to me alone to free the nut that provided the strength. - from "At One with the Sea: Alone around the World" by Naomi James, the first woman to sail single-handed round the globe via Cape Horn - and in the fastest time ever.
• Week 33: ...I can't regard the sea as evil or unfriendly; after all it's just the same that one finds in a bath tub – more or less. - from "At One with the Sea: Alone around the World" by Naomi James, the first woman to sail single-handed round the globe via Cape Horn - and in the fastest time ever.
• Week 34:

  ...America must listen as well as lead. But don't ever apologise for your values.

  Tell the world why you're proud of America. Tell them that when the star-spangled banner starts, Americans get to their feet: Hispanics, Irish, Italians, Central Americans, Eastern Europeans, Jews; white, Asian, black, those who go back to the early settlers and those whose English is the same as some New York cabbies I've dealt with, but whose sons and daughters could run for this Congress.

  Tell them why they stand upright and respectful.

  Not because some state official told them to. But because whatever race, colour, class or creed they are, being American means being free. That's what makes them proud.

  As Britain knows, all predominant power seems for a time invincible; but in fact it is transient. The question is what do you leave behind?

  What you can bequeath to this anxious world is the light of liberty.

  - from the official transcript of the address given to the United States Congress by the UK Prime Minister, Tony Blair, on July 17, 2003.

• Week 34:

  After five months I still find it difficult to explain - even to myself - why I am making this trip. The fact that the opportunity to do so presented itself was obviously not the sole reason: there was a deeper motivation than that. Do I want fame and recognition? I don't think so, and, anyway, while that motive could have been strong enough to make me set out, alone it certainly wouldn't have been strong enough to sustain me this far.

  I have always been slightly afraid of other people, imagining that they are looking down at my faults and obvious inadequacies. I feel that I am out here to escape from this criticism, or perhaps it is the subconscious desire to prove to myself, and to the world, that such criticism is unjust. Yes, that must be it - to prove that I am a rational, self-dependent and capable human being, one who has consciously chosen to try and live at the upper levels of man's capabilities and at the same time survive. I think I also enjoy showing that it is not necessary to accept, as most people do, the way of life that is expected of them on account of their background and education. If you want to do something different you can.

  The beauty about my life at sea alone is that my limits are the extent of my physical and psychological make-up. I succeed or fail by my own endeavors without any influence from the outside world. I like being a free agent and an individual which is perhaps why I am against all religion and political doctrines which try and impose their will on mankind.

  - from "At One with the Sea: Alone around the World" by Naomi James, the first woman to sail single-handed round the globe via Cape Horn - and in the fastest time ever.

• Week 35:

  “in both the northern and southern hemispheres of the New World, Nature has not only outlined her works on a larger scale, but has painted the whole picture with brighter and more costly colors than she used in delineating and in beautifying the Old World…. The heavens of America appear infinitely higher, the sky is bluer, the air is fresher, the cold is intenser, the moon looks larger, the stars are brighter, the thunder is louder, the lightning is vivider, the wind is stronger, the rain is heavier, the mountains are higher, the rivers longer, the forests bigger, the plains broader.”

  - Sir Francis Head, an English traveller and a Governor-General of Canada, quoted in "Walking" by Henry David Thoreau

• Week 36: Every morning when I wake up, I say a prayer - God, I'm going to trust today that you're going to be in charge just like I know you are evryday. I'm really going to focus on that and allow myself to ret in your hands." - Lisa Beamer, Wife of 9-11 Hero Todd Beamer
• Week 37: Gray skies are just clouds passing over. - Duke Ellington
• Week 38: How lovely to thin that no one need wait a moment, we can start now slowly, changing the world. - Anne Frank
• Week 39: Courage is fear that has said its prayers. - Dorothy Bernard
• Week 40: When you get to the end of your rope--tie a knot in it and hang on. - Eleanor Roosevelt
• Week 41: Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Alva Edison
• Week 42: Every 36 seconds in America a woman lays her body down, forced to choose abortion out of a lack of practical resources and emotional support. Abortion is a reflection that society has failed woman. - Patricia Heaton, Emmy Award Winning Actor and Feminists for Life Honorary Chair
• Week 43: If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. - Booker T. Washington
• Week 44: Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses. - Alphonse Karr
• Week 45: The wishbone will never replace the backbone. - Will Henry
• Week 46:

  "..."My husband, Robert, told me about God Breezes on our first date, " she says. "He explained that when you stop whining and pleading for what you want in life, and instead just put up your sails, God Breezes will take you where you're supposed to go. I was brought up in the church, but I had never heard that before. Now I think about God Breezes every day. I ask myself whether I am whining--and you know, plenty of time we're whining when we think we're praying--or I'm putting up my sails...."

  -Marla Cilley

• Week 47: Author Michelle Burford's "Words to Lose BY": A binge is like a banquet in a graveyard; Loose weight like you date; Take it to the Net; Failing to plan is planning to fail; Stay ahead-go to bed, and Yes out--then pounce.
• Week 48: We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it. - Seneca the Younger, Roman philosopher
• Week 49: Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners. - William Shakespeare
• Week 50: The longest road in the world is the road to redemption.
• Week 51: Abortion is a reflection that we have not met the needs of women. Women deserve better than abortion. - Feminists for Life Ad
• Week 52: "Women who are experiencing an unplanned pregnancy also deserve unplanned JOY." - Patricia Heaton, Emmy Award Winning Actor and Feminists for Life Honorary Chair

  Year 3:

• Week 1:

  Lord, take me where you want me to go;

  Let me meet who you want me to meet;

  Tell me what you want me to say

  And keep me out of your way.

  - The prayer of victim No. 00001 of the World Trade Center attack, New York City Fire Department chaplain Father Mychal Judge, who died ministering to members of his flock, our fallen heroes.

• Week 2: "When a man steals to satisfy hunger, we may safely conclude that there is something wrong in society - so when a woman destroys the life of her unborn child, it is an evidence that either by education or circumstances she has been greatly wronged." - Mattie Brinkerhoff, The Revolution, September 2, 1869
• Week 3:

  A lecturer at a well-known university asked his medical students what they recommend with the following pregnancy profile:

  - The alcoholic father had syphilis;

  - The abused mother had tuberculosis;

  - They already had four children;

  - The baby would be born into abject poverty, and

  - The baby's prognosis would include TB and eventual deafness.

  Almost, without exception, the medical students indicated that they would recommend ABORTION.

  "Congratulations," the lecturer stated...

  "You have just killed...Ludwig von Beethoven."

  - Anonymous

• Week 4: It is a very great poverty to decide that a child must die that you might live as you wish. - Mother Theresa of Calcutta
• Week 5: Each child is ent into this world by God with a unique message to deliver, a new song to sing, a personal act of love to bestow. - Father John Powell, S.J.
• Week 6: How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers. - Mother Teresa
• Week 7: One day at a time.
• Week 8: Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
• Week 9: Easy does it-but do it!
• Week 10: The only way out is through.
• Week 11: This too shall pass.
• Week 12: Right foot, left foot, breathe.
• Week 13: "God's work must truly be our own." - John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961
• Week 14: Service is the rent we pay to be living. It's the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time. - Marian Wright Edelman

  Marian Wright Edelman established a public interest law firm that evolved into the Children's Defense Fund (CDF), founded in 1973.

• Week 15:

  Dear lord be good to me, the sea is so wide

  Dear lord be good to me, my boat is so small

  - From Song for Marian by July Collins

• Week 15: God does not call us to do great things but to do small things with great love. - Mother Teresa
• Week 16:

  "What I know for sure is that no matter where you stand right now--on a hilltop, in a gutter, at a crossroads, in a rut--you need to give yourself the best you have to offer in this moment. This is it. Rather than depleting yourself with judgments about what you haven't done, who you could have become, why you haven't moved faster, or what you should have changed, redirect that energy toward the next big push--the one that takes you from good enough to better. The one that takes you from adequate to extraordinary. The one that helps you rise up from a low moment and reach for your personal best."

  - Oprah Winfrey. "what I know for sure," Oprah, August 2003, p. 186.

• Week 17:

  "If we want less government, and many of us do, then we must work for strong families. For when the family structure is weak, our government will tend to fill the vacuum, often unsatisfactorily.

  ...

  ...The question is what our government is going to do to lessen--or perhaps worsen--the problem. The next question is what our government could be doing if the proper leadership existed."

  - Nobel Peace Prize-Winning President Jimmy Carter, in a Speech to the National Conference of Catholic Charities in Denver, Colorado on October 4, 1976

• Week 18:

  "The proper function of a government is to make it easy for people to do good and difficult for them to do evil....

  ...

  Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have a right to expect that these words will be provided for by this wisdom.

  The test of government is not how popular it is with the powerful and privileged but how honestly and fairly it deals with the many who must depend upon it.

  William Jennings Brown said, "Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

  ...In a democracy, no government can be stronger or wiser or more just than its people...."

  - Nobel Peace Prize-Winning President Jimmy Carter's Inaugural Address on January 12, 1971, in Atlanta, Georgia

• Week 19:

  "...In the Middle East, there was a saying that a quiet man should not be made angry because he will be hard to handle...."

  - Attributed to Prince Bandar bin Siltan by Bob Woodward in the Commanders.

• Week 20:

  There are no wasted years. You just have to live long enough to put them to use.

  - Toronto author Ward McBurney

• Week 21:

  "...He said he embraces his cultural backgound because it feels "like baklava - each layer of my personality loves the other.""

  - "...a remark made by a man interviewed in a recent documentary about Iraqi-born Israelis...."

• Week 22: "...if history repeats itself, it's first as tragedy, then as farce." - Karl Maxim's maxim
• Week 23: Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. - Theodore Roosvelt
• Week 24: Whatever you are, be a good one. - Abraham Lincoln
• Week 25: I have been terrified every day of my life, but that has never stopped me from doing evrything I wanted to do. - Georgia O'Keefe
• Week 26: There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. - Buckminster Fuller
• Week 27: I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. - Louisa May Alcott
• Week 28: Never, never, never give up. - Winston Churchill
• Week 29: Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest. - Mark Twain
• Week 30: How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. - Anne Frank
• Week 31: No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt
• Week 32: What is a hero without a love for mankind. - Doris Lessing
• Week 33: I wept because I had no shoes, until I saw a man who had no feet. - Persian proverb
• Week 34: Appreciation is yeast, lifting ordinary to extraordinary - Mary-Ann Petro
• Week 35: The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have. - Woody Allen
• Week 36: Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold. - Maurice Setter
• Week 37: I make the most of all that comes and the least of ll that goes. - Sara Teasdale
• Week 38: When life's problems seem overwhlming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate. - Ann Landers
• Week 39: Every day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons. - Ruth Ann Schabacker
• Week 40: Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments. - Rose Kennedy
• Week 41: Earth's crammed with heaven. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• Week 42: Live life so you have no regret. Don't let fear, embarrassment, or anything else stand in your way. - Ron Clark, author of The Essential 55: An Award-Winning Educator's Rule for Discovering the Successful Student in Every Child
• Week 43: If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are are dead & rotten, either write things worth writing or do things worth the writing. - Benjamin Frnklin
• Week 44: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. - Horace Mann, address at Antioch College, 1859, on a campus plaque, quoted in the Globe & Mail obituary of Lanie Melamed, a Montreal Raging Grannies
• Week 45: Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago. - Horace Mann
• Week 46: Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year. - Horace Mann
• Week 47: "...when you stop whining and pleading for what you want in life, and instead just put up your sails, God Breezes will take you where you're supposed to go...." - Robert, wife of Mala Crilley, a.k.a. FlyLady, creator of FlyLady.net.
• Week 48: "Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship." - Benjamin Franklin
• Week 49: "Remember, a quantum leap is the minimum by which certain properties of a systm can change."
• Week 50: "If it's on my ass, it's not an asset."
• Week 51: "I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live." - Martin Luther King Jr., 6.23.63
• Week 52: "My death is not my own, but yours, and its significance depends upon what you do with it"." - from a Hebrew saying

  Year 4:

• Week 1:

  ""We in this country, in this generation, are, by destiny rather than choice, the watchmen on the walls of world freedom. We ask, therefore that we may be worthy of our strength with wisdom and restraint, and that we may achieve in our time the ancient vision of 'Peace on Earth, Good Will Toward Men.' That must always be our goal, and the righteousness of our cause must always underlie our strength. For as was written long ago: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain" -- Remarks prepared for delivery by JFK at the Trade Mart in Dallas, Texas, November 22, 1963"

• Week 2: Life is like a box of chocolates... you never know what you're gonna get. ~ Mrs. Gump (Saly Field) in Forrest Gump
• Week 3: I don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all just floatin' around accidental-like on a breeze. But I, I think maybe it's both, maybe both happening at the same time. ~ Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) in Forrest Gump
• Week 4: I happen to believe you make your own destiny. You have to do the best with what God gave you. ~ Mrs. Gump (Saly Field) in Forrest Gump
• Week 5: Don't you be afraid, sweetheart. Death is just a part of life, something we're all destined to do. ~ Mrs. Gump (Saly Field) in Forrest Gump
• Week 6: You are entering a place of horror and tragedy and the one who does not remember history is bound to repeat it. -- A Sign at the Entry to Auschwitz
• Week 7:

  When I'm worried

  And I can't sleep

  I count my blessings

  Instead of sheep

  And I fall asleep

  Counting my blessings

  When my bankroll

  Is getting small

  I think of when

  I had none at all

  And I fall asleep

  Counting my blessings

  I think about a nursery

  And I picture curly heads

  And one by one I count them

  As they slumber in their beds

  If you're worried

  And you can't sleep

  Just count your blessings

  Instead of sheep

  And you'll fall asleep

  Counting your blessings

  -- Irving Berlin

• Week 8: Blessings
• Week 9: All Through the Night - A Welsh Blessing

  You may recall this being sung in "A Child's Christmas in Wales."

• Week 10: "...The richer we have become materially, the poorer we have become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers." -- Martin Luther King – Nobel Lecture
• Week 9: Simple Gifts
• Week 10: The philosopher Kierkegaard said, "The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly one you can never have." - Quoted in an episode of Joan of Acadia
• Week 11: If you are cold, tea will warm you; if you are too heated, it will cool you; if you are depressed, it will cheer you; if you are exhausted, it will calm you. ~William Gladstone~
• Week 12: "Doctor Marcia Fieldstone: People who truly loved once are far more likely to love again. Sam, do you think there's someone out there you could love as much as your wife? Sam Baldwin: Well, Dr. Marcia Fieldstone, that's hard to imagine. Doctor Marcia Fieldstone: What are you going to do? Sam Baldwin: Well, I'm gonna get out of bed every morning... breath in and out all day long. Then, after a while I won't have to remind myself to get out of bed every morning and breath in and out... and, then after a while, I won't have to think about how I had it great and perfect for a while. Doctor Marcia Fieldstone: Tell me what was so special about your wife? Sam Baldwin: Well, how long is your program? Well, it was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were suppose to be together... and I knew it. I knew it the very first time I touched her. It was like coming home... only to no home I'd ever known... I was just taking her hand to to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like... magic." - Tom Hanks as Sam Baldwin in "Sleepless in Seattle"
• Week 13: "Chuck Noland: One day logic was proven all wrong because the tide lifted, came in, and gave me a sail. And now, here I am. I'm back. In Memphis, talking to you. I have *ice* in my glass. And I've lost her all over again. I'm so sad that I don't have Kelly. But I'm so grateful that she was with me on that island. And I know what I have to do now. I have to keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?" - Tom Hanks as Chuck Noland in "Castaway"
• Week 14:

  What is the one thing that every American needs to do before the week is out?

  Ted Kennedy: "They need to be sure they're registered to vote, because voting is the very engine of democracy. And if you vote, public officials are much more likely to listen to your concerns and complaints. We learned from the last election that every vote is absolutely crucial--so thinking yours won't matter is no excuse. As citizens, the only civic responsibility we're asked to undertake is to vote. In exchange we're given the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. It's the best bargain in the world.

  Our great-grandmothers marched, were arrested, and suffered heroically in jail to obtain the vote for women. People walked the dusty back roads of the South, and sometimes died, to ensure African-Americans the right to vote. We should be humbled by that. We have progressed to where we are because we stand on all their shoulders, and we must never forget it. Voting says thank you."

  What do you know about life that you wish you'd known 40 years ago?

  Ted Kennedy:

  "That things take a lot longer to get done than one would hope. As a result, I've had to learn to be more patient and to keep taking incremental steps until a goal is finally reached....I've learned how important it is to keep plugging away, and I've learned not to ever give up."

  -- live your best life: three questions, "Paging Ted Kennedy" in Oprah, February 2004.

• Week 15:

  "High Flight"

  Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth

  And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;

  Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth

  Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things

  You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung

  High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,

  I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung

  My eager craft through footless halls of air.

  Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue

  I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace

  Where never lark, or even eagle flew -

  And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod

  The high untrespassed sanctity of space,

  Put out my hand and touched the face of God.

  -- John Gillespie Magee, Jr.

  "Ronald Reagan, addressing NASA employees following the tragic loss of the Challenger 7 crew on STS-51L, used the poem in a well-remembered line:

  "We shall never forget them nor the last time we saw them, as they prepared for their mission and waved good-bye and slipped the surly bonds of Earth to touch the face of God.""

• Week 16: "I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you." - Agatha Christie, An Autobiography, 1977
• Week 17: "With age comes the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?" - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, suffragist
• Week 18: Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
• Week 19: Ideally, couples need three lives: one for him, one for her, and one for them together. - Jaqueline Bisset
• Week 20: To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his right and left hand. He uses both. - St. Catherine of Siena
• Week 21: The love I feel is stronger than the hurt I feel. - Author unknown
• Week 22: Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. - William Arthur Ward
• Week 23: Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. - Henry Wordsworth Longfellow
• Week 24: The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do. - James M. Barrie
• Week 25: Never forget the power of the dream. - Rick Hansen
• Week 26:

  The bore chatters on,

  Never losing his breath;

  His way to kill time

  Is to talk it to death!

  Anonymous

• Week 27: If you only live once, and if you play it right, once is all you need. - Joe E. Lewis
• Week 28: You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. - Colette
• Week 29: Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. - Carl Jung
• Week 30: One meets his destiny often on the road one takes to avoid it. - French proverb
• Week 31: We are given the ingredients to happiness, but the mixing is left to ourselves. - Ethel M. Dell
• Week 32: When it comes to eating, you can sometimes help yourself more by helping yourself less. - Richard Armour
• Week 33: Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. - Thomas A. Edison
• Week 34: A smile is the light in the window of your face that tells people that your heart is at home. - Author unknown
• Week 35: The good life starts when you stop looking for a better one.
• Week 36: The best thing to spend on children is your time. - Arnold Glasow
• Week 37: Fortune gives too much to many, enough to nobody. - Martail
• Week 38: It is a good idea to obey all rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old. - Mark Twain
• Week 39: Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it. - Tallulah Bankhead
• Week 40: The higher up you go, the more mistakes you're allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style. - Fred Astaire
• Week 41: There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth: not going all the way, and not starting. - Buddha
• Week 42: Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. - Erica Jong
• Week 43: None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. - Henry David Thoreau
• Week 44: Television is an invention whereby you can be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your house. - David Frost, quoted in Reader's Digest
• Week 45: All that is necessary to make this world a better place is to live in love. - Isadore Duncan
• Week 46: If the world is cold, build fires. - Horace Traubel
• Week 47: Laughter is the closest distance between two people. - Victor Borge
• Week 48: Better to ask twice than lose your way once. - Danish Proverb
• Week 49: Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one. - Elanor Roosevelt
• Week 50: It is not the mountains that make destiny, but the grains of sand and little pebbles. - B. Traven
• Week 51: In the eye of the deepest despair, you find love. - Touched by an Angel
• Week 52: A worry is like a rocking chair. You go back and forth and you don't get anywhere. - Source unknown

  Year 5

• Week 1: The nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string. - Lucy M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea
• Week 2: The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value. - Charles Dudley Warner
• Week 3: We see things not as they are, but as we are. - Good Reading
• Week 4: A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
• Week 5: Mistakes are doorways to discovery. - Sam Horn
• Week 6: Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. - Juvenal
• Week 7: In youth we learn; in age we understand. - Marie Ebner von Eschenbach
• Week 8: A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. - Victor Hugo
• Week 9: The secret to success is constancy to purpose. - Benjamin Disraeli
• Week 10:

  House Rules

  If you open it...close it.

  If you wear it...clean it up.

  If you sleep on it...make it up.

  If you drop it...pick it up.

  If you turn it on...turn it off.

  If you eat out of it put it in the sink.

  If you empty it...fill it up.

  If you borrow it...return it.

  If it rings...answer it.

  If it howls...feed it.

  and if it cries u LOVE IT!

  -author unknown

• Week 11: Man is the second creator. - Irving Layton
• Week 12: Whomsoever does not persecute them that persecuteth him, whomsoever takes an offense in silence, he who does good for its own sake, he who endures his sufferings cheerfully - they are the friends of God and of them scripture says, "They that love him shall be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might." - Rabbinical Teaching
• Week 13: It is the whole, not the detail, that matters. - German proverb
• Week 14: Look well, therefore, to this day. - Sanskrit proverb
• Week 15: A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man perfected without trials. - Chinese proverb
• Week 16: I have found that if you love life, life will love you back. - Arthur Rubinstein
• Week 17: Spring is God's way of saying, "One more time!"
• Week 18: Holding onto anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else - you are the one who gets burned. - Buddha
• Week 19: There is no waste of time like making explanations. - Benjamin Disraeli
• Week 20: The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. - Tolstoy
• Week 21: Our life is what our thoughts make it. - Marcus Aurelius Antonius
• Week 22: The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them. - Camillo Di Cavour
• Week 23: People cannot change truth - but truth can change people. - Author unknown
• Week 24: The true mirror of our words is the course of our lives. - Montaigne
• Week 25: Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. - Robert Louis Stevenson
• Week 26: Faults are thick where love is thin. - British Proverb
• Week 27: No situation is so bad that losing your temper won't make it worse. - Author unknown
• Week 28: It takes a whole village to raise a child. - African proverb
• Week 29: The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind. - William James
• Week 30: The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth. - Marilyn vos Savant
• Week 31: He who saves one life, it is as if he saved the world. - Yad Vashim
• Week 32: ...the young make the mistake of thinking that education can take the place of experience; the old that experience can take the place of education. - Source Unknown
• Week 33: God often needs the hands of man to accomplish His work. - Joseph Mata, father of Dr. David Mata
• Week 34: The dog was created for children. He is the god of frolic. - Henry Ward Beecher
• Week 35: A mother is only as happy as her child. - Author unknown
• Week 36: To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. - Robert Louis Stevenson
• Week 37: It's hard to lie when you are looking into your mother's eyes. - Author unknown
• Week 38: If you leave behind what you love, you'll be bound to return to it. - Wishbone
• Week 39: The value of a child's existence will always exceed any costs that may be incurred in bringing him up. - Judge Lord Gill
• Week 40: All children smile in the same language. - Anonymous
• Week 41: If I hadn't had children, I probably would have had more money and material things. I probably would have gone more places, got more sleep, pampered myself more. My life would have been much more predictable and boring. As a result of being a parent, I have laughed harder, cried more often. I have worried more and hurried more. I've had less sleep, but somehow I've had more fun. I've learned more, grown more. My heart has ached harder,and I've loved to a capacity beyond my imagination. I've given more of myself, but I've derived more meaning from life. - Marianne Neifert, M.D.
• Week 42: If there is no wind, row. - Latin proverb
• Week 43: Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly. - James Russell Lowell
• Week 44: We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. - Marcel Proust
• Week 27: Don't ever think you've got it made. - Source unknown
• Week 28: Through wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established. By knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches. - Proverbs 24:3-4
• Week 29: Perfect courage lies in doing without witnesses what we would be capable of doing in front of all the world. - Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucald
• Week 30: There is no key to happiness, only a ladder. - Hector Lara lahoz, Palabras sin tiempo (Talleres Graficos Lara, Argentia)
• Week 31: A coincidence is when God chooses to remain anonymous. - Touched by an Angel
• Week 32: Promise to do what others say is impossible. - President John F. Kennedy
• Week 33: Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. - Abraham Lincoln
• Week 34: When you're too busy for friends, you're too busy. - Author unknown
• Week 35: It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. - John Steinbeck
• Week 36: If it weren't for obstacles, we'd never know whether we really want something or merely think we do. - Author unknown
• Week 37: If you want a place in the sun, be prepared to put up with a few blisters. - Abraham Friedman, Father of Ann Landers and Abigail Van Buren (a.k.a. Dear Abby)
• Week 38: True faith "discovers through the mist of the present the sunshine of the future." - Kalisch
• Week 39: The distance is nothing. It's only the first step that's important. - Marquise du Deffand
• Week 40: It is terribly amusing how many different climates of feeling one can go through in one day. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
• Week 41: A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes-and it will come-may overwhelm the system, be it the immune or the belief system. - Jane Smiley, Chicago Tribune
• Week 42: An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out. - George Jean Nathan
• Week 43: To become mature we must recover the sense of earnestness which we had as a child in play. - Friedrich Nietzsche
• Week 44: The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time. - Alexander Smith
• Week 45: Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Week 46: A mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one. - Thomas Carlyle
• Week 47: Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one. - Elanor Roosevelt
• Week 48: There's an awful lot of people who accomplish a great deal who victimize other people, the people who love them. - Katherine Hepburn
• Week 49: Opportunities are never lost; someone will take the one you miss. - Author unknown
• Week 50: The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do. - James M. Barrie
• Week 51: Take time to laugh - it is the music of the soul. - Old English Proverb
• Week 52: Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. - Alfred Lord Tennyson