Famous Quotes

"Don't turn over the rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them."

"For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best."

"Act as if! Act as if you're a wealthy man, rich already, and then you'll surely become rich. Act as if you have unmatched confidence and then people will surely have confidence in you. Act as if you have unmatched experience and then people will follow your advice. And act as if you are already a tremendous success, and as sure as I stand here today - you will become successful."

"We humans do not understand compassion. In each moment of our lives, we betray it. Aye, we know of its worth, yet in knowing we then attach to it a value, we guard the giving of it, believing it must be earned, T’lan Imass. Compassion is priceless in the truest sense of the wold. It must be given freely. In abundance."

"Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourslef or to gossip about others. Use your power of your word in the direction of truth and love."

"It’s funny. I met a man once who did a lot of mountain climbing. I asked him which was harder, ascending or descending? He said without a doubt descending, because ascending you were so focused on reaching the top, you avoided mistakes.The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature,” he said. “You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up."

"We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences"

"And I think that's what our world is desperately in need of - lovers, people who are building deep, genuine relationships with fellow strugglers along the way, and who actually know the faces of the people behind the issues they are concerned about."

"May my heart be kind, my mind fierce, and my spirit brave."

"Not only is there often a right and wrong, but what goes around does come around, Karma exists, chickens do come home to roost, and as my mother, Phyllis, liked to say, “There is always a day of reckoning.” The good among the great understand that every choice we make adds to the strength or weakness of our spirits—ourselves, or to use an old fashioned word for the same idea, our souls. That is every human’s life work: to construct an identity bit by bit, to walk a path step by step, to live a life that is worthy of something higher, lighter, more fulfilling, and maybe even everlasting."

"A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger."

"Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in their jackets, lines of neat print on nicely bound pages. They look like such orderly, static things. Then you, the reader come along. You open the book jacket, and it can be like opening the gates to an unknown city, or opening the lid of a treasure chest. You read the first word and you're off on a journey of exploration and discovery."

"Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion."

"We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties."

"Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life. Libraries change lives for the better."

"I am fallen, flawed and imperfect. Yet drenched in the grace and mercy that is found in Jesus Christ, there is strength"

"If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going."

"I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself"

"You don't always have to kiss a lot of frogs to recognize a prince when you find one -Henrietta Barett"

"It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed."

"The best kind of humans are the ones who stay."

"Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution."