"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

"The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't." -- Henry Ward Beecher

"If money is your hope for independence you will never have
it. The only real security that a man will have in this world
is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability."

-- Henry Ford

"Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain."

-- Charlie Chaplin

"I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather
strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the
business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is
firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue
their principles unto death."

-- Leonardo da Vinci