Quotations from others

Every new beginning comes from some other beginnings end.
Anon

Listen to your intuition, it will tell you everything you need to know.
Anon

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Demosthenes

When you reach the top, keep climbing.
Anon

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
Guillaume Apollinaire

The human heart has hidden treasures.
The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures.
Charlotte Bronte

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

Allow the beauty of your soul to shine.
Anon

Imagination is more important then knowledge.
Albert Einstein

Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realise they were the big things.
Anon

Be thankful for everything that happens to you.
Anon

Live in the present and make it so beautiful it will be worth remembering.
Buddhist saying

The secret of health for both mind and body is to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Buddha

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts will take you.
James Lane Allen

The love we give away is the only love we keep.
Elbert Hubbard

If you are content to simply be yourself and don't compare and compete, everybody will respect you.
Lao Tzu

When you let go of what you are you become what you might be.
Anon

It makes absolutely no difference whatsoever what people think of you.
Rumi

The most effective way to achieve right relations with any living thing is to look for the best in it.
Anon

Nurture your mind with great thoughts.
Benjamin Disreali

If we go down deep inside ourselves we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
Simone Weil

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but rather make the right things happen.
Horace Mann

Quotations from others

Mirth is God's medicine.
Henry Ward Beecher

I have a new philosophy. I'm going to dread only one day at a time.
Charlie Brown

Humour is tragedy plus time.
Carol Burnett

Sometimes you just need to look reality in the eye, and deny it.
Garrison Keillor

Hope for miracles, but don't rely on one.
Yiddish proverb

If you want others to be happy, practise compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama

Humour is chaos, remembered in tranquillity.
James Thurber

When one door closes, another always opens - but these long hallways are a real drag.
Bumper Sticker

Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and you cry alone. Laugh alone and they lock you up!
Steve Kissel

Just because you're miserable, doesn't mean you can't enjoy life.
Annettte Goodheart, PhD

I think paranoid people are following me.
T-shirt

There are two things that everyone must face sooner or later: a camera and reality. A smile is a big help in both instances.
Anon

Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.
Jean Kerr

Laughter is a powerful tool in a powerless situation.
Allen Klein

The good news is that nothing icky lasts forever.
Deborah Norville

Genuine humour is always kindly and gracious. It points out the weakness of humanity, but shows no contempt and leaves no sting.
Anon

Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield.
Mark Knopfler

A nurse should be kind, speak gently, love much and laugh often.
L. Seaman

Laughter is a melody,
a concert from the heart,
a tickling by the angels,
creative living art.

Laughter heals and comforts,
sometimes gentle sometimes bold.
Laughter is a freeing dance,
performed within the soul.
Serene West

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible.
Anon

Don't sweat the small stuff. It's all small stuff.
Anon

It's been lovely but I have to scream now.
Anon

We helpers deserve to nurture ourselves as well as those we care for. Some caregivers think that to sacrifice and suffer is spiritual. I believe this might be called "spiritual anorexia".
Caryn Summers, nurse

Give yourself permission to take an intermission.
Helen Lerner

Humour does not diminish pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.
Allen Klein

Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, (don't) forget to laugh.
Katharine Hepburn.

Comedy is the main weapon we have against "The Horror". With it we can strike a blow at death itself. Or, at least, poke a hole in the pretentious notion that there is something dignified about it.
John Callahan, cartoonist and quadriplegic

Your ability to laugh and be silly can help you thrive in adversity by accessing joy in absurdity.
Donna Strickland

On his deathbed, Oscar Wilde looked around the room and said "This wallpaper is terrible. One of us has to go."
Oscar Wilde

If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance.
Jessie Winchester

A person without a sense of humour is like a wagon without springs - jolted by every pebble on the road.
Henry Ward Beecher

I got to be a little bit crazy, 'coz it keeps me from going insane.
C & W song

A sense of humour can help you overlook the unattractive, tolerate the unpleasant, cope with the unexpected, and smile through the unbearable.
Moshe Waldoks

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.
Mohammed

Peace starts with a smile.
Mother Teresa

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning of a friendship, and it is by far a the best ending for one.
Oscar Wilde

The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.
Sebastian Chamfort

Some pursue happiness - others create it.
Anon

I live in another dimension, but I have a summer home in reality.
Anon

Humour is a prelude to faith, and laughter is the beginning of prayer.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Our attitude is the crayons that colour our world.
Allen Klein

The way to maximise your creativity is to cultivate as much inner joy as possible and give yourself all the permission you need to enjoy yourself fully.
Harold Bloomfield, MD

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw

Beginning with the early dawn each day, I will radiate joy to everyone I meet. I will be mental sunshine for all who cross my path. I will burn candles of smiles in the bosoms of the joyless. Before the unfading light of my cheer, darkness will take flight.
Paramahansa Yoganandaj

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine, but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
Proverbs 17:22

The creator made man able to do everything - talk, run, look and hear. He was not satisfied, though, until man could do just one thing more - and that was: LAUGH.
And so man laughed and laughed. And the creator said, "Now you are fit to live."
Apache Myth

Warnings of terminal seriousness:
* Persistent soreness about almost everything.
* Frequent sudden changes of molehills into mountains
* Difficulty swallowing humour
* Emotional constipation
Paul E. McGhee, PhD

To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children... to leave the world a bit better... to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, that is to have succeeded.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A smile costs nothing, but gives much. It enriches those who receive, without making poorer those who give. It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None is so rich or mighty that he can get along without it, and none is so poor but that he can be made rich by it. A smile creates happiness in the home, fosters good will in business, and is the countersign of friendship. It brings rest to the weary, cheer to the discouraged, sunshine to the sad, and is natures best antidote to trouble. Yet it cannot be bought, begged, borrowed or stolen, for it is of no value to anyone until it is given away. Some people are too tired to give you a smile. Give them one of yours, as none needs a smile so much as he who has no more to give.
Anon

Humour can be a way to move from "grim and bear it" to "grin and share it".
Joel Goodman

If you can laugh at it, you can live with it.
Anon

Pointing out the comic elements of a situation can bring a sense of proportion and perspective to what might seem an overwhelming problem.
Harvey Mindess, PhD

THE BOOMERANG:
When a bit of sunshine hits ye,
After the passing of a cloud,
When a fit of laughter gets ye,
And Ye'r spine is feeling proud,
Don't forget to up and fling it,
At a soul that's feeling blue,
For the minit that ye sling it,
It's a boomerang to you.
Anon

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears.
Kahlil Gibran

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.
Mark Twain

I live by this credo: Have a little laugh a life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations. Even in your darkest moment, you usually can find something to laugh about if you try hard enough.
Red Skelton

An ability to laugh, the courage to smile, a propensity for optimism and a playful disposition are healthy frames of mind that accelerate healing and recovery from illness.
Robert Holden

Then I commanded mirth because a man hath no better thing under the sun then to eat, drink and be merry.
Ecclesiastes 8:15

No matter how grouchy you're feeling,
You'll find the smile more or less healing,
It grows in a wreath
Around the front teeth,
Thus preserving the face from congealing.
Anthony Euwer

There are no language barriers when you are smiling.
Allen Klein

Humour is contagious. Laughter is infectious. Both are good for your health.
William Fry, MD

I think the 11th commandment should have been:
Laugh and be merry.
Do not take thyself too seriously.
For he who laughs, lasts.
Vera Robinson, nurse

Laughing together can be a time of intimacy and communion, a time when we come forward, fully present and touch each other's humanness and vulnerability. By joining in humour and acknowledging our oneness, we can have a profound experience of unity and co-operation. That in itself maybe one of the most profound expressions of healing energy of which we are capable.
Barry Sultanhoff, MD

Your ulcers can't grow while you're laughing.
Anon

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Helen Keller

The head thinks, the hands labour, but it is the heart that laughs.
Liz Curtis-Higgs

Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, fear into respect for all beings. It allows us to extend warmth, sensitivity, and openness to the sorrows around us in a truthful and genuine way. The power of the compassionate heart, of genuine compassion, to transform the pain we encounter is extraordinary.
Jack Kornfield

There ain't any answer. There ain't going to be any answer. There never has been an answer... that is the answer.
Gertrude Stein

New clinical studies have shown there aren't any answers.
Anon

We must learn to accept life and to accept ourselves, not blindly and not with conceit, but with a shrug and a smile. To accept in the end existence, not because it's just or reasonable or even satisfactory, but simply and plainly because it's all we've got.
Harvey Mindess

Life itself cannot give you joy
Unless you really will it.
Life just gives you time and space,
It's up to you to fill it.
Chinese proverb

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Robert Frost

Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty.
Anon

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.
Mother Teresa

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humour and hurt. And how do you laughter if there is no pain to compare it with?
Erma Bombeck

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Phyllis Diller

We don't laugh laugh because we are happy - we are happy because we laugh.
William James

Joking about death - or anything else that oppresses us - makes it less frightening.
Allen Klein

Playfulness is a kind of mood or attitude that you bring to your daily life. Its a predisposition to be spontaneous, and have fun at whatever you're doing. You are better able to "be here now". A playful attitude infuses you with a sense of joy and positive emotions. It creates a frame of mind in which you naturally and automatically find more funny things going on around you. I am convinced that cultivating your sense of playfulness is the key to learning to lighten up in the midst of stress.
Paul McGhee, MD

Beyond jokes and even words, the laughing spirit is the essence of natural mirth that connects all human hearts in an unspoken universal language of gentle delight. Humour of the laughing spirit includes all human beings, is never at the expense of an individual or group, and does not depend on cleverness or wit to be understood.
We can see the laughing spirit in the eyes of each person when we say "hello", and we make the heart connection instantly. The pleasant release of tension, the relief that causes us to smile or chuckle when we feel the presence of the laughing spirit, comes from the sudden realisation that we are not separate from each other at all.
Lee Glickstein

I realise that humour isn't for everyone. It's only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive.
Anne Wilson Schaef

Its very inconvenient being mortal - you never know when everything might stop happening.
Ashleigh Brilliant
(I find a lot of presumptions there).

One of the best things people can have up their sleeve is a funny bone!
Richard L. Weaver II

Perhaps it is more important to know what kind of patient has the disease, than to know what kind of disease the patient has.
William Osler, MD

Humour can be found in Zen, in the Native American cultures, In the Jewish and Hindu traditions ... and in many others. In all of them, masters, holy fools, and sages are cherished as inexhaustible sources of sanity, healing, and wholeness. Their laughter, in the words of Yuan-Wo, is "like a cool, refreshing breeze passing through the source of all things".
Lorraine Kisly

From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.
Dr. Seuss

Give yourself to love if love is what you are after. Open up your heart to the tears and laughter and give yourself to love.
Kate Wolf

A path with heart will include our unique gifts and creativity. The outer expression of our heart may be to write books, to build buildings, to create ways for people to serve on another. It may be to teach or to garden, to serve food or play music. Whatever we choose, the creation of our life must be grounded in our hearts.
Jack Kornfeild

My life is but a weaving between my Lord and me,
I cannot choose the colours, He weaveth steadily.
Sometimes he weaveth sorrow, and I in foolish pride,
Forget he see the upper and I the underside.
Not 'til the loom is silent and the shuttles cease to fly,
Shall God unroll the canvas and explain the reason why
The dark threads are as needful in the weaver's skillful hands,
As the ones of gold and silver in the path that He has planned.
Anon

You can turn painful situations through laughter. If you can find humour in anything - even poverty - you can survive it.
Bill Crosby

To survive we need some dollars, but to really live we need some common sense:
Sense of humour, sense of purpose, sense of presence, sense of self and sense of joy.
Sandy Ritz, nurse

Humour is the great thing, the saving thing, after all the minute it crops up all our hardness's yield, all our irritations and resentments flit away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.
Mark Twain

Stress management techniques:
*Write a memo congratulating yourself for being so wonderful
*Answer a highly technical question in your best Donald Duck voice
*Take an eight hour lunch break
*For a quiet evening, play a blank cassette at full volume
*Pretend that you are someone else
*Eat gelatin with chopsticks
*Pretend that you are still in control
*Ring somebodies doorbell and run away.
Donna Strickland, nurse

Play is essential for health. In this sense, play is defined as any activity which tends to produce the emotions of joy or the experience we call having fun. So each person must define play for himself. Our energy and our will to live are increased by play. Play improves the quality of life and makes it richer. It lifts us out of despair and increases our wish to live. It increase the energy needed to mobilise the will to live as well.
O. Carl Simonton, MD

Hope: Tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
Evan Esar

To tragedy belongs guilt and judgement; to comedy love and grace.
Conrad Hyers

I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.
Bob Hope

When people are smiling they are most receptive to almost anything you want to teach them.
Allen Funt

Humour is a rich and versatile source of power - a spiritual resource very like prayer.
Marilyn R. Chandler

Any day above ground is a good day.
Anon

For what, after all, is the laughter a good clown brings us but the giddiness that comes from suddenly seeing, as if from a cosmic viewpoint, the absurdity of what the mighty are up to?
For that moment, we taste the sanity in divine madness, and become, for as long as the joke lasts, fools of God.
Theodore Rozak

The more one suffers, the more, I believe, one has a sense of the comic. It is only by the deepest suffering that one acquires the authority in the art of the comic.
Soren Keirkegaard

By being frequently in the company of children, we may learn to recapture the will to laugh and the laughing at will.
Julius Gordan
(or simply allowing yourself to be young)

Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.
Anon

Everything can be taken from a man except one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given situation, even if only for a few seconds.
Victor Frankl

The witch doctor succeeds for the same reason all the rest of us succeed. Each patient carries his own doctor inside him. They come to us not knowing that truth. We are at our best when we give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work.
Albert Schweitzer, MD

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow.
Orion Swett Marden

Life is tragedy when seen close-up, but comedy in long shot.
Charles Chaplin

We are all here for a spell. Get all the good laughs while you can.
Will Rogers

Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it will elude you. But if you turn your attention to other things, it comes and softly sits on your shoulder.

Something special happens when people laugh together over something genuinely funny, and not hurtful to anyone, It's like a magic rain that showers down feelings of safety and belonging to a group.
Mary Jane Belfie

I believe play is the beginning of creativity. I believe that laughter is the only cure for grief and fear. I believe that humour is the bond that can unite us all.
Ellie Marek

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new Heaven to the human spirit.
Helen Keller

To laugh is to risk appearing a fool.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out to someone is to risk involvement.
To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self.
To place your ideas, your dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To live is to risk dispair.
To try is to risk failure.
But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
Anon (didn't risk putting their name to it!)

In spite of the cost of living it is still popular.
J.L. Peter

If we consider the frequent relief's we receive from laughter, and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure in life.
Joseph Addison

Inspired by "Heart Humour and Healing" edited by Patty Wooten.

Quotations from others

Lets play Guess-who-and-what this person is. Who are they and what is their story/contribution? I have left their occupations out to increase the mystery.

I always thought if I were popular I must be doing something wrong.

Suzanne Vega

To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honourable, brave is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane.

Jane Harrison

Unfortunately, sometimes people don't hear you until you scream.

Stefanie Powers

A man has to be Joe McCarthy to be called ruthless. All a woman has to do is put you on hold.

Marlo Thomas

The idea of strictly minding our own business is moldy rubbish. Who could be so selfish?

Myrtie Barker

When a man gets up to speak, people listen, then look. When a woman gets up, people look; then, if they like what they see, they listen.

Pauline Frederick

Let me listen to me and not to them.

Gertrude Stein

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, a medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Roumania.

Dorothy Parker

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

Gloria Steinem

Oh, I'm so inadequate - and I love myself.

Meg Ryan

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

Katharine Hepburn

Its the good girls who keep the diaries; the bad girls never have the time.

Tallulah Bankhead

Whenever you want to marry someone, go and have lunch with his ex-wife.

Shelley Winters

The important thing I have learnt over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.

Margot Fonteyn

Personally, I think if a woman hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky.

Deborah Kerr

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

Katharine Hepburn

Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

Erica Jong

Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own short-comings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other peoples characters.

Margaret Halsey

Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.

Elizabeth Cady Staton

I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

Diane Sawyer

The thing women have got to learn is that nobody gives you power. You just take it.

Roseanne Barr

Kids learn more from example than anything you say. I'm convinced they learn very early not to hear anything you say, but to watch what you do.

Jane Pauley

I'm not denying the women are foolish; God Almighty made them to match the men.

Aka George Eliot

True strength is delicate.

Louise Nevelson

If I'm too strong for some people, that's their problem.

Glenda Jackson

A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside it is more often his nursery.

Clare Booth Luce

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

Dolores Ibarruri

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Oprah Winfrey

The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.

Susan Sontag

Men are taught to apologise for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.

Lois Wyse

You grow up the day you have you first real laugh at yourself.

Ethel Barrymore

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you got to put up with the rain.

Dolly Parton

I live by a man's code, designed to fit a man's world, yet at the same time I never forget that a woman's first job is to choose the right shade of lipstick.

Carole Lombard

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Coco Chanel

The ultimate lesson all of us has to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

Maya Angelou

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Lily Tomlin

Quotes

Here are some quotes from notables. I am better at practising some then others, but the ideas are nice.

Re-examine all you have been told and dismiss whatever insults your soul.
Walt Whitman

The future is wider then vision and has no end.
Donald G Mitchell

At the centre of your being you have the answer: you know who you are and what you want.
Lao Tzu

We all have our own life to pursue,
Our own kind of dream to be weaving,
And we all have the power
To make wishes come true,
As long as we keep believing.
Louisa May Alcott

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.
Desiderius Erasmus

You cannot discover new oceans until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
Lord Chesterfield

Blame no one, expect nothing, do something!
Anon

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
St Francis de Sales

One of the most important milestones we'll hit along the way is the moment when we finally find our own unique point of view and realise how priceless it is.
Sara Ban Breathnace

A garden is a great teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all, it teaches trust.
Gertrude Jekyll

Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are. When you realise there is nothing lacking the whole world belongs to you.
Lao Tzu

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
Anon

Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering.
Buddha

We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light.
Mary Dunbar

Water your dreams with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into a solution.
Lao Tzu

We do not receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us.
Marcel Proust

Keep company with those who make you better.
English saying

Make new friends,
But keep the old;
These are silver,
They are gold.
Joseph Parry

In order to have friends, you must first be one.
Elbert Hubbard

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done.
Antoine de Saint Exupery

The greatest thing anyone can do in this world is to make the most out of the stuff that has been given to them. This is success, and there is no other.
Orison Swett Marden

Keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life.
Kahlil Gibran

You are here to enrich the world.
Woodrow Wilson

Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never leave or lose.
To the questions of your life, you are the only answer.
To the problems of your life, you are the only solution.
Anon

The first step to getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.
Chauncey Depew

Be thankful for everything that happens to you.
Anon

Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us, but what attitude we bring to life.
Anon

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
Fredrich Nietzshe

Laugh a lot, and when you're older, the wrinkles will be in the right places.
Anon

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest event; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more reality and the world will go forth from it.
Rainer Maria Rilke

To be able to look back on one's life with satisfaction is to live twice.
Kahlil Gibran

Write your name on the face of life with big letters.
Kahlil Gibran

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Vincent van Gogh

Confidence never comes from having all the answers; it comes frm being open to all the questions.
Anon

To live you have to experiment,
to have the ability to experiment
You have to have confidence,
to have confidence
you have to be loved,
to be loved,
You have to love.
Anon

Reflect on your present blessings, of which everyone has many.
Charles Dickens

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Henry Ward Beecher.

Life is short and we never have enough time for gladdening the hearts of those who travel the way with us.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Measure yourself by your best moments, not your worst.
Robert Johnson

Far and away the best prize is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt

Much effort, much prosperity.
Euripides

Everyone who got where they are, had to begin where they were.
Robert Louis Stevenson

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

The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning.
Peter Abelard

Thought is the sculptor that can create the person you want to be.
Henry David Thoreau

If your real desire is to be good,
there is no need to wait,
you can do it now,
this very moment,
and where you are.
James Allen

Only as high as you reach can you grow,
Only as far as you seek can you go,
Only as deep as you look can you see,
Only as much as you dream can you be.
Karen Ravn

Give all you have, you may be poor but you will be content; Always forgive, your heart cannot afford not to; Teach what you know and learn what you don't.
Anon

Trust others and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson