We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
     - Joseph Campbell


Take risks;
if you win,
you will be happy;
if you lose,
you will be wise.
     - Anonymous


If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to
gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead,
teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
     - Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944)


"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who
face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other."
     - Douglas Everett


"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has
reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to
succeed."
     - Booker T. Washington


Nobody trips over mountains.
It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble.
Pass all the pebbles in your path and
you will find you have crossed the mountain.
     - Unknown


When you get to the end of all the light you know
and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown,
faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen:
either you will be given something solid to stand on,
or you will be taught how to fly. 
     -  Edward Teller

If you are going through hell, keep going.
 - Sir Winston Churchill


"People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are
doing it" - a sign posted at Michael Johnson's gym (first athlete ever
to break World and Olympic records for 200 and 400 Meter sprints)

"There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the
difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them." - Phyllis Bottome

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting
started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small
manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one." - Mark Twain

"There are no secrets to success.  It is the result of preparation,
hard work, learning from failure." - General Colin Powell


Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours.	--Richard Bach

Done is better than perfect.	--Anne Mollegen Smith

A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go
through the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain.	--Mildred Witte
Stouven

Anyone can count the seeds in an apple. No one can count the apples in a
seed.


Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a
thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. - William Jennings
Bryan

You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and
I say "Why not?" - George Bernard Shaw

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a
chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the
gravy. - Bette Davis

A goal is a dream that has an ending. -- Duke Ellington

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. - Thomas Fuller

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a
naughty world. - William Shakespeare

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you
are. - Anonymous

The full-grown modern human being is conscious of touching the highest
pinnacle of fulfillment when he is consumed in the service of an idea, in
the conquest of a goal pursued. -- R. Briffault

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute. What you can do, or think you
can, begin it. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be
too late. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Being defeated is often only a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes
it permanent. - Marlene vos Savant

It is never too late to be what you might have been. - George Eliot

If passion drives, let reason hold the reins. - Benjamin Franklin

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the
small ones. - Phillips Brooks

Be the change that you want to see in the world. - Gandhi

Mistakes are the portals for discovery. - James Joyce

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by
attacking, and getting well-hammered yourself. - George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes. - Henry J. Kaiser

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it
takes to sit down and listen. - Winston Churchill

You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's
happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone
who is lonely or discouraged. - Dale Carnegie


"The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The
second is to look things in the face and know them for
what they are."

-- Marcus Aurelius