"The marvelous richness of human experience would lose
something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to
overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if
there were no dark valleys to traverse."
-- Helen Keller
"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you
will help them become what they are capable of becoming."
-- J.W Von Goethe
"When you are through changing, you are through."
-- Bruce Barton
"Look, I'm not the one with the problem, okay? It's the world
that seems to have a problem with *me*! People take one look
at me and go Aargh! Help! Run! A big stupid ugly ogre! They
judge me before they even know me."
-- Shrek
"You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event --
it is a habit."
-- Aristotle
"A lot of people like to do certain things, but they're not
that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like
to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be
extremely good at. It can be anything."
-- George Lucas
"You can't base your life on other people's expectations."
-- Stevie Wonder
"I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any
excuse."
-- Florence Nightingale
"The difference between false memories and true ones is the
same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the
most real, the most brilliant."
-- Salvador Dali
"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every
experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face."
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
"To teach is to learn twice."
-- Joseph Joubert
"Sometimes your only available transportation is a leap of faith."
-- Margaret Shepard
"If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where
you stop your story."
-- Orson Welles
"When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter
hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as
much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first
blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that last
blow that did it, but all that had gone before."
-- Jacob A. Riis
"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for
beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise,
walk with the knowledge that you are never alone."
-- Audrey Hepburn
"There's no secret to getting started. You simply decide and
then take your first step. With each subsequent step, the next
one becomes easier..."
-- Tom Venuto, fitness expert
"When you grow up and you're different, all you want to do is
find a way to be the same. And then as a more mature adult you
realize the beauty of thinking on your own."
-- Sarah Jessica Parker
"Everybody has to look at his or her own footprint and do the
best they can. It's not about being perfect, it's about doing
something. If we're looking for perfection, we'll never, ever
get there."
-- Laurie David
"It is the responsibility of every adult to make sure that
children hear what we have learned from the lessons of life
and to hear over and over that we love them."
-- Marian W. Edelman
"A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is
not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children."
-- John James Audubon
"Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to
their jobs."
-- Malcolm Forbes
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be."
-- John Wooden
"One has to handle these negative experiences alone. You can't
get help from your friends or family. You're finally alone
with it, and you have to come to grips with misfortune and go
on."
-- Shirley Temple Black
"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being
wrong."
-- Joseph Chilton Pearce
"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our
life, the clearer we should see through it."
-- Jean Paul
