| Be true to yourselves; cherish whatever talent you possess, and in using it faithfully for the good of others you will most assuredly find happiness for yourself, and make of life no failure, but a beautiful success. ~ Louisa May Alcott "Happy Women"
Better by far you should forget and smile, Than that you should remember and be sad. ~ Christina Rossetti "Goblin Market" Do I contradict myself? Very well then�I contradict myself. I am large�I contain multitudes. ~ Walt Whitman Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and every person a mission. ~ Mourning Dove Failure is impossible! ~ Susan B. Anthony "The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony" Forget the rules. Just be yourself, and you will have less trouble in life. ~ Terry Goodkind "Stone of Tears" Happiness is perfume: you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself. ~ James Van De Zeen He who plants a tree Plants a hope. ~ Lucy Larcom "Plant a Tree" I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room full of people, I would say to myself, "You're the cleverest member of one of the cleverest families in the cleverest class of the cleverest nation in the world, why should you be frightened?" ~ Beatrice Webb "Portraits from Memory" If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for you soul is alive� ~ Eleanora Duse "Actors on Acting" In a dream you are never eighty. ~ Anne Sexton "Old" Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut of bad habits. Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out�People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts. ~ Eleanor H. Porter "Polyanna" It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them. At least he who reaches will get a good stretch, a good view, and perhaps even a low-hanging apple for his effort! ~ R.S. Salvatore "Sojourn" Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can. ~ Jane Austen "Mansfield Park" Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. ~ Mother Teresa Life is a moveable feast...a tour in a post chaise, but who's to be considered as moving, it or you? The answer is -- quick over the abyss, and be damned to being. Start doing. ~ Hortense Calisher Life is short, and it's up to you to make it sweet. ~ Sarah Louise "Words to Make My Dream Our thoughts form the universe, they always matter. ~ J. Michael Strazcynski "Babylon 5 G'Kar" The darkest hour has only 60 minutes. ~ Morris Mandel The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt The molecules of your body are the same molecules that make up this station and the nebula outside, that burn inside the stars themselves. We are starstuff, we are the universe made manifest, trying to figure itself out. As we have both learned, sometimes the universe requires a change of perspective. ~ J. Michael Strazcynski "Babylon 5 Delenn" Trust thyself - every heart vibrates to that iron string. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson We are the universe, trying to understand itself. ~ J. Michael Strazcynski "Babylon 5 Delenn" We must educate the heart,--Teach it hatred of oppression. ~ Charlotte Forten Grimke "Poem" We need to be reminded sometimes that a sunrise lasts but a few minutes. But its beauty can burn in our hearts eternally. ~ R.A. Salvatore "Sea of Swords" What is beautiful is good and who is good will soon also be beautiful. ~ Sappho "Fragment" When one door of happiness closes another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. ~ Helen Keller "We Bereaved" You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe. ~ J. Michael Strazcynski "Babylon 5 Marcus" Embrace the moment. In the end, that's all we have. Trouble will come in its own time, it always does. But that's tomorrow. Give me today, and I will be happy. ~ J. Michael Strazcynski "Babylon 5 - Sheridan" Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. ~ George Eliot "Middlemarch" Fear is that little dark-room where negatives are developed. ~ Michael Pritchard Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn to see fear's path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. ~ Frank Herbert "Dune" Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities crept in. Forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you should begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Hate eats the hater. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin "The Telling" He who is sorrowful can force himself to smile, but he who is glad cannot weep. ~ Selma Lagerlof "The Story of Gosta Berling" How pleasant it is, at the end of the day, No follies to have to repent; But reflect on the past, and be able to say, That my time has been properly spent. ~ Ann and Jane Taylor "The Way to be Happy" I am never afraid of what I know. ~ Anna Sewell "Black Beauty" I didn't think so, but if I was wrong, I was wrong. I'd rather do something, and make a mistake than be frightened and be doing nothing. ~ J. Michael Strazcynski "Babylon 5 - Rev. Dexter" I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands. ~ Zora Neale Hurston I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift. ~ Septima Clark "I Dream a World" I won't get left back, admitting I just don't know what I've never yet learned. ~ Horace "The Art of Poetry" If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. ~ Maya Angelou It is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life. ~ Elizabeth Kenny "Sister Kenny: The Woman Who Challenged the Doctors" It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees! ~ Dolores Ibarruri "La Pasionaria" I'd rather do something, and make a mistake than be frightened and be doing nothing. ~ J. Michael Strazcynski "Babylon 5 - Rev. Dexter" Keep playing. ~ Ann Brasheres No pressure, no diamonds. ~ Mary Case Not all who wander are lost. ~ J.R.R. Tolkien Nothing is worth more than this day. ~ Goethe Nothing natural can be wholly unworthy. ~ Anna Julia Cooper "A Voice from the South" Once can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar. ~ Helen Keller "The Story of My Life" Only one koan matters: You. ~ Ikkyu People want so much. We want to be someone else. "I want to be stronger." "I want to be more directed." "I want to be superwoman." But it's not possible. You must accept your condition. But "accept" is active. Who you are is active. Possitive acceptance - that's the immobile, inanimate Zen. It's not the Zen I'm talking about. There's passion here. Spirit for the quest. This is important: the sincerity of our quest and how we go about it. It's a long path. Are you prepared? Do you want to walk on this path? Don't think about it too much. Just walk! C'mon let's go! That's Zen. ~ Jakusho Kwong The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own. ~ Benjamin Disraeli The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. ~ Henry Miller The real miracle is not to walk on water or thin air but to walk on the earth! ~ Thich Nhat Hanh There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life. ~ Frederico Fellini There is not a petal of a flower or a blade of grass that does not configure the Way. ~ Bassui We all work in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her light. ~ Earl Nightingale You are richer for doing things. ~ Jessica Tandy "New York Times" You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. ~ Indira Ghandi "The Last Word" You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. 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