"Before you agree to do anything that might add even the smallest amount of stress to your life, ask yourself: What is my truest intention? Give yourself time to let a yes resound within you. When it's right, I guarantee that your entire body will feel it."
Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, October 2002

"Is there life before death?"
Graffito, in Belfast

"Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart."
Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996

"The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself."
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

"Getting there isn't half the fun - it's all the fun."
Robert Townsend

"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge."
Daniel J. Boorstin (1914 - )

"Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it."
Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)

"Desire, ask, believe, receive."
Stella Terrill Mann

"Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'"
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)

"Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade?"
Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)

"It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)

"The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them."
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), 'Notebook,' 1935

"I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business."
Michael J. Fox (1961 - ), quoted by Lorne A. Adrain in 'The Most Important Thing I Know'

"The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable."
Irving Howe (American literary and social Critic and Educator. 1920-1993)

"You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are."
J. Jacques, Questionable Content webcomic, #352, 05-04-05

"Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place."
Ice T, The Ice Opinion

"It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it."
Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Fish Story, 1994

"There is nothing greater than touching the shore after crossing some great body of water knowing that I've done it with my own two arms and legs."
Diana Nyad

"Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary."
Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948), 'Satyagraha Leaflet No. 13,' May 3, 1919

"Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything."
Mary Hemingway

"Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy."
Jim Hightower, The New York Times, March 9, 1986

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
Anais Nin (1903 - 1977), The Diary of Anais Nin, volume 3, 1939-1944

"I never feel age...If you have creative work, you don't have age or time."
Louise Nevelson (1900 - 1988), 1980

"It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God."
Mary Daly

"The world belongs to the energetic."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

"Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls."
Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)

"Calvin: If at first you don't succeed, call it version 1.0"
From the irresistible Calvin & Hobbes series

"There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us"
Orison Sweet Marden

"A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart."
Jonathan Swift (Irish author and satirist of prose, 1667-1745