In order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow -- and that is likely to hurt.
-- Wei Wu Wei
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
–- Harry Truman
The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chance of disillusionment.
-- Art Spander
Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.
- -Albert Einstein
The dreamers are the saviors of the world.
-- James Allen
I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am in.
-- The Bible, Phillipians 4:11 (NASB)
Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
-- Howard Thurman
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot
He who cannot forgive others destroys a bridge over which he himself must pass.
-- George Herbert
It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
-- e.e. cummings
Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something.
-- H. Jackson Brown Jr.
What may be done at any time will be done at no time.
– Scottish Proverb
The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.
-- John E. Southard
How does one become a butterfly? You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.
-– Trina Paulus
In times like these it helps to recall there have always been times like these.
-- Paul Harvey
Say what you want to say when you have the feeling and the chance. My greatest regrets are the things I did not do, the opportunities missed and the things unsaid.
-- Jim Keller
We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.
--Rabindranth Tagore
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
--Carl Jung
You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can't have it.
--Robert Anthony
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
— Henry Ward Beecher
If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be too cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
--Annie Dillard
The true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
-- Ann Landers
Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy.
-- Tim Hansel
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
-- Henry David Thoreau
And one extra for good luck:
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t.
-- Richard Bach
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