Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. 
--- Eleanor Roosevelt 

Even a clock that has stopped running is right at least 
twice a day! 

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow - It empties 
today of its strength. 

Don't burn bridges. You'll be surprised how many times 
you have to cross the same river. 

If we fill our hours with regrets of yesterday and with 
worries of tomorrow,we have no today in which to be thankful. 

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they 
try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more 
of what they want so that they will be happier. The way it 
actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really 
are, then, do what you need to do, in order to have what you want. 
--- Margaret Young 

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before 
how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way and that 
so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance 
whatsoever. 
--- Isak Dinesen 

You always teach best what you need to know the most.
--- Richard Sutphen 

Don't forget, a person's greatest emotional need is to feel 
appreciated. If I wait to be happy, I'll wait forever. If 
I'm happy now, I'll be happy forever. 

When you are born, you cry and the world rejoices. 
Live your life in such a way that when you die the world 
cries and you rejoice. 
--- Indian Proverb 

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow - It empties 
today of its strength. 

If we fill our hours with regrets of yesterday and with 
worries of tomorrow, we have no today in which to be thankful. 

Hope is the last to die. 

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. 
-- Goethe 

It you want a rose bush, do not plant a tomato seed. 
If you want kindness, do not plant indifference. 
Always know that you will harvest your own crop. 
-- Author Unknown 

Your words are a window to your heart. 
-- Author Unknown 

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, 
to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I 
could not learn what it had to teach, and not, 
when I came to die, discover that I had not lived... 
-- from Henry David Thoreau's WALDEN 

To Thyn Own Self Be True. 

It is easier to build a child than to repair an adult. 
-- Author Unknown 

I am no longer afraid of storms, for I am learning 
how to sail my own ship. 
--- Louisa May Alcott 

There is no such thing as a hopeless situation, 
only men who have grown hopeless about it. 
-- Author Unknown 

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen 
the friendship of those who are 
thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth. 
-- Robert Southey (1774-1843) 

Be kind; for everyone is having a hard battle. 
-- Plato 
 
Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire 
whether they are worthy. That is not our business. 
What we are asked to do is to LOVE and this love will 
render both ourselves and our neighbor worthy, if anything can. 
-- Thomas Merton 
 
Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. 
Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. 
--- Pamela Vaull Starr 

If we fill our hours with regrets of yesterday 
and with worries of tomorrow,we have no today 
in which to be thankful. 

The environment you fashion out of your thoughts ... 
your beliefs ... your ideals ... your philosophy ... 
is the only climate you will ever live in. 
-- Author Unknown 

Puttering is really a time to be alone, to dream and 
to get in touch with yourself....To putter is to discover. 
-- Alexandra Stoddard 

To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are. 
-- Author Unknown 

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. 
-- Goethe 

To enjoy a lifetime of romance, fall in love with yourself. 
--- Proverb 

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us, 
snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, 
only different kinds of good weather. 
-- John Ruskin 

Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only 
way to help yourself is to help others. 
--- Ebert Hubbard 

Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be 
made like bread, remade all the time, made new. 
-- Ursela K. Leguin 

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, 
for every dream precedes the goal. 
--- Pamela Vaull Starr 

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. 
Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul 
be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and 
success achieved. Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them, 
but do not let them master you. The marvelous richness of human 
experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there 
were no limitations to overcome. 
-- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968) 

The only place where success comes before work is in a dictionary. 
-- Vidal Sassoon 

Love begins when a person feels another person's need 
to be as important as his own. 
-- Author unknown