"The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just."
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

"Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box."
Italian Proverb

"Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness."
Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881), Past and Present, 1843

"If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees."
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)

"I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present."
W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Moon and Sixpencepresent.

"Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives. Unfortunately most of us are completely unaware of this fact and we do not monitor our thoughts with the care needed so that we can create in our lives the results we say we want. Since the great majority of people do not feel worthy and deserving of abundant good fortune, radiant good health and total success in all areas of their lives that overriding thought pattern controls the results people get. The first order of business of anyone who wants to enjoy success in all areas of his her life is to take charge of the internal dialogue they have and only think, say and behave in a manner consistent with the results they truly desire."
Sidney Madwed

"Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent."
Krishnamurti

"In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it."
John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), Pre-Raphaelitism, 1850

"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), The Conduct of Life, 'Fate,' 1860

"Time does not change us. It just unfolds us."
Max Frisch

"The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another."
George Eliot (1819 - 1880)

"Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong."
Baltasar Gracian

"When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time."
Saint Francis de Sales

"Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up."
Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973)

"Blessed is he who has reached the point of no return and knows it for he shall enjoy living."
Anonymous

"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something."
Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)