Quotes by various people
------------------------

" One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks,
is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, 
like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation."
--- Sir Walter Scott


" When you meet anyone, remember its a holy encounter. 
As you see him, you will see yourself. 
As you treat him, you will treat yourself. 
Never forget this, for in him, you will find or lose yourself."
--- From 'A Course in Miracles' 


" May the road rise to meet you
May the wind always be at your back
May the sunshine warm upon your face
The rains falls soft upon your fields and until we meet again
May GOD hold you in the palm of his hand."
--- An Old Irish Blessing 


" Treat today as if, you won't exist tomorrow."
--- Author Unknown 


A Creed to Live By

" Don't undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others:
It is because we are different that each of us is special.
Don't set your goals by what other people deem important:
Only you know what is best for you.

Don't take for granted the things closest to your heart 
Cling to that as you would your life, for without them life is meaningless.
Don't let your life slip through your fingers by living in the past or the future.
By living your life one day at a time, you live all the days of your life.
Don't give up when you still have something to give
Nothing is really over … until the moment you stop trying.

Don't be afraid to admit that you are less than perfect:
It is the fragile thread that binds us to each other.
Don't be Afraid to encounter risks:
It is by taking chances that we learn how to be brave.

Don't shut love out of your life by saying it's impossible to find.
The quickest way to receive love is to give love:
The fastest way to lose love is to hold on too tightly;
And the best way to keep love is; to give it wings.

Don't dismiss your Dreams; to be without dreams is to be without hope.
To be without hope is to be without purpose.
Don't run through life so fast that you forget where you've been,
But also where you're going. 
Life is not a race, but a journey to be savored every step of the way."
--- Author Unknown


Experience is often what you get when you were expecting something else. 
--- Anon


It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. 
--- Alfred Adler


All that is essential is direct experience.
--- Kabir



" Far better it is to dare mighty things
To win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure,
Than to rank with those poor spirits
Who neither enjoy much nor suffer much
Because they live in the gray twilight 
That knows neither victory nor defeat."
--- Theodore Roosevelt


See clearly

" Focusing on the positive does not mean ignoring the negative. It is unrealistic 
and detrimental to deny that negative things exist.

Positive focus is determined more by how you respond than by how you perceive. 
There is no positive value in refusing to see or acknowledge your problems. In fact, 
that could be very harmful.

A positive attitude is not achieved by turning a blind eye to the negative, but 
rather by responding to every situation in the most positive way possible.

See negative things for what they are, and then respond with positive action. 
Acknowledge and accept the problems, the difficulties, the shortcomings, the abuses, 
and then do something positive about them. Denial and evasion will do nothing to 
address your problems. Positive action will."
--- Major Michael Q. Wade


At Day's End

" Is anybody happier because you passed his way?
Does anyone remember that you spoke to him today?
The day is almost over, and its toiling time is through;
Is there anyone to utter now a kindly word of you?
Can you say tonight, in parting with the day that's slipping fast,
That you helped a single brother of the many that you passed?
Is a single heart rejoicing over what you did or said;
Does the man whose hopes were fading,
Now with courage look ahead?
Did you waste the day, or lose it? Was it well or sorely spent?
Did you leave a trail of kindness, or a scar of discontent?
As you close your eyes in slumber, do you think that God will say,
You have earned one more tomorrow by the work you did today?"
--- John Hall


ALWAYS HAVE FAITH IN YOURSELF

" It is not easy to live life sometimes
And face the world with a smile when you're crying inside. 
It takes a lot of courage to reach down inside yourself,
Hold on to that strength that's still there,
And know that tomorrow is a new day-with new possibilities. 

But if you can just hold on long enough to see this through,
You'll come out a new person-stronger, 
With more understanding and with a new pride in yourself
From knowing you made it."
--- By Kathy Obara 



" You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, 
find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island 
opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other 
land, this is no other life but this."
--- Henry David Thoreau



" Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. 
Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere.
But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, 
You can rise above doubt and judgement.......
And you can see forever. "
--- Nancy Kerrigan 


" I expect to pass through this world but once. 
Any good that I can do 
Or any kindness that I can show 
Any human being, let me do it now,and not defer it.
For I shall not pass this way again."


If Today

" If you planted hope today
In any hopeless heart
If someone's burden was lighter
Because you did your part,
If you caused a laugh
That chased some tears away
If tonight your name is named
When someone kneels to pray
Then your day has been well spent."



" Where you end up isn't the most important thing. 
It's the road you take to get you there. 
The road you take is what you'll look back on 
And call your life.
Not reaching success isn't the end of the world.
Not trying to reach it is."
--- Tim Wiley


" These two truths are the same in weight and importance.
Accept and love WHO and WHERE you are now, 
and all good things shall find you there."
--- Lori Hard 


"Fear not that thy life shall come to an end,
But rather that it shall never have a beginning." 
--- Cardinal Newman 



" Climb high,
Climb far.
Your goal the sky,
Your aim the star!"


"True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable."
--- David T. Gentry


"All men have fears, 
But the Brave put down their fears and go forward. 
Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory." 
--- The Kings Guard in Ancient Greece


"If you play it safe in life,
You've decided that you don't want to grow anymore."
--- Shirley Hufstedler


"A careful inventory of all your past experiences
may disclose the startling fact that everything has happened for the best." 


"When we die and go to Heaven, our Maker is not going to say, 
"Why didn't you discover the cure for such and such?" 
The only thing we're going to be asked at that precious moment is
"Why didn't you become you? "
--- Wiesel


RISK IT

"To laugh is to risk being a fool.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out to another is to risk involvement.
To express feelings is to risk exposing your true self.
To place your ideas, your dreams, before the crowd
Is to risk their loss.

To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To live is to risk dying.
To hope is to risk despair.
To try is to risk failure.

The person who risks nothing, 
Does nothing,
Has nothing and is nothing.

They may avoid suffering and sorrow, 
But they simply cannot learn,
Feel, change, grow, love or live.

Risks must be taken because, 
The greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
Only a person who risks is free."
--- Leo Buscalia 



" The effects of kindness are not always seen immediately, 
Sometimes it takes years until your kindness will pay off, 
And is returned to you.
And sometimes you never see the fruits of your labors,
But they are there,
Deep inside of the soul of the one you touched."
--- Written/Submitted by Dan Kelly and all his friends --- Illinois 


" Look to this day,
For yesterday is but a dream,
And tomorrow is only a vision,
But today, well lived,
Makes every yesterday a,
Dream of happiness,
And every tomorrow a,
Vision of hope.
Look well,
Therefore to this day."
--- English translation of a Sanskrit Proverb


"Some people come into our lives and quickly go 
Some stay for a while and leave footprints on our hearts...
And we are never, ever the same.."



I rörelse
Den mätta dagen, den är aldrig störst.
Den bästa dagen är en dag av törst.

Nog finns det mål och mening i vår färd -
men det är vägen, som är mödan värd.

Det bästa målet är en nattlång rast,
där elden tänds och brödet bryts i hast.

På ställen, där man sover blott en gång,
blir sömnen trygg och drömmen full av sång.

Bryt upp, bryt upp! Den nya dagen gryr.
Oändligt är vårt stora äventyr.
--- Karin Boye


" Excellence is in the details. 
Give attention to the details in everything you do
And excellence will come."


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

" Our doubts are traitors, 
And make us lose the good that we oft may win,
By fearing to attempt."
--- William Shakespeare 


" Work like you don't need money, 
Love like you've never been hurt, 
And dance like no one's watching. 
Happiness is a journey, not a destination."
--- Author Unknown