"Today is not the day you quit. Nor is it the day you cry. Today you know that you have all the passion and wisdom to find that quiet center of solace, serenity, and strength nessecary to create and sustain an authentic life." - Sarah Ban Breathnach

"There will always be people who are against you whether you are right or wrong."

"It is far better to be than to know."

"A dead end street is a good place to turn around." - Naomi Judd

"One thought can change the world."

"It is better to be alone than to be found in bad company."

"In all things it is better to hope than to despair." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"If you are certain you are right, go straight ahead."

"About all you can do in life is be who you are."

"When you think you can't go on, you will be able to keep going."

"To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing it's best to make you somebody else is the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting." - e.e. cummings

"Look at all things as they are."

"Truth is not determined by majority vote." - Doug Gwyn

"Count each separate day as a separate life."

"Hatred is our only true enemy. Hatred has no other purpose bet to destroy us. Never give it the opportunity to conquer you." - Dalai Lama

"If you fall seven times, stand up eight."

"Sometimes we need to look at a person and remember that he is doing the best he can. He's just trying to find his way, that's all." - Ernest Thompson

"You can only go halfway into a dark forest, then you are coming out of the other side." - Chinese proverb

"Anything in life that we don't accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it." - Shakti Gawain

"You, yourself, as much as anyone else in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection." - Buddha

"To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are."

"Every exit is an entry somewhere else." - Tom Stoppard

"You must do the thing you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"Commitment is a line you must cross. It is the difference between dreaming and doing." - Bernie Fuche

"You can never do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Olive Wendell Holmes

"The cyclone derives it's powers from a calm center. So does a person." - Norman Vincent Peale

"Be kind. Remember, everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." - TH Thompson

"There is no way to peace; peace is the way." - AJ Muste

"There is beauty in everything. Find the best in other people. Leave the world a better place."

"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."

"When it's cold, shiver; when it's hot, sweat." - Nancy O'Hara

"Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset." - St Francis de Sales

"Conflict in inevitable, but combat is optional." - Max Lucade

"Don't be afraid of growing slowly, be afraid of standing still." - Chinese proverb

"Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them." - William Arthur Ward

"Pure love cannot exist where there is fear of retribution."

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." - Edith Wharton

"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you." - R.W. Emerson

"If you accept the expectations of others, especially the negative ones, the you will never change the outcome." -Michael Jordan

"The wise control the self to obtain strength. The person at one with Tao ignores the self and prefers to be weak."

"Walking away from wisdom is wise; rejecting wisdom, though, is stupid."

"The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts." - John Locke

"Silence is not the absence of thoughts and emotions, but the freedom from attachment."

"In three billion years, the sun will still burn out."

"If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it in the beginning." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Never use yourself as your own role model."

"The teachings of elegant sayings should be collected when one can. For the supreme gift of words of wisdom, any price will be paid." Nagarjuna

"Never let memories cast a shadow over your dreams."

"In seeking wisdom the first stage is silence; the second is listening; the third is rememberance; the fourth is practicing; and the fifth, teaching." - Solomon Ibn Gabrio

"A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child."

"Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has colour but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them and does them not." - The Dhammapada

"They are able because the think they are able." - Virgil

"When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine yourself." - Confucius

"Observation, not old age, brings wisdom." - Publilius Syrus