"Your identity and your success go hand in hand. Many people sacrifice their identities by not doing what they really want to do. And that's why they're not successful."
Lila Swell

"Life has loveliness to sell,
All beautiful and splendid things,
Blue waves whitened on a cliff,
Soaring fire that sways and sings
And children's faces looking up
Holding wonder like a cup."
Sara Teasdale

"When making a fire people like to join you, when cleaning the ashes you are often alone"
African Proverb

Better a thousand times careful than once dead.
Proverb

"If you can measure what you speak of and express it by a number, you know something about your subject; but if you cannot measure it, your knowledge is meager and unsatisfactory"
Kelvin

"Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth."
Ludwig Börne

"The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt."
Max Lerner(American Politician and Columnist, 1902-1992)

"The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there."
Robert M. Pirsig

"Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well."
Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)

"The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value."
Charles Dudley Warner (1829 - 1900), 'Eleventh Study,' Backlog Studies, 1873

"If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm."
Bruce Barton

"If I make a record I love, then somebody will like it. Maybe not everybody, but that won't matter."
Norah Jones, O Magazine, July 2003

"What you are is a question only you can answer."
Lois McMaster Bujold, The Warrior's Apprentice, 1986

"Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves."
Nathaniel Branden

"There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness."
Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)

"Help thy brother's boat across, and lo! thine own has reached the shore."
Hindu Proverb

"No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to."
Lynn Johnston (1947 - ), For Better or For Worse, 01-04-04