"Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort,
you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, you cannot
have an abundant crop without cultivation."
-- Plato
nobody understands
I don't understand anybody
the world of emptiness
"I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep
looking upward."
-- Charlotte Bronte
"Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing
something else."
-- James Matthew Barrie
"Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte
"Sing out loud in the car even, or especially, if it
embarrasses your children."
-- Marilyn Penland
"Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it
foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury."
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
"When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are
dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality."
-- Dom Helder Camara
"Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take
without forgetting."
-- Elizabeth Bibesco
"Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a
negative decision in the low time. Never make your most
important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be
patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come."
-- Robert H. Schuller
"Never look back unless you are planning to go that way."
-- Henry David Thoreau
"Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry
with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves
reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are
only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its
condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze
inward. Correct yourself and your world will change."
-- Kirsten Zambucka
"Everyone has special talents, and it is our duty to find ours
and use them well."
-- John Templeton
"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
