What you get by achieving your goal is not as important as what you become by achieving your goal.
Go as far as you can see, and when you get there you will see farther.
An archer cannot hit the bullseye if he doesn’t know where the target is.
Shoot for the moon, even if you miss, you’ll […]
Life is what happens to you while you’re working for your future.
You only live once, but if you work it right, once is enough.
I love my past. I love my present. I’m not ashamed of what I’ve had, and I’m not sad because I have it no longer.
Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark […]
Find something you love to do and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
There are three words I like to repeat to myself: glass […]
A person can run for years but sooner or later he has to take a stand in the place which, for better or worse, he calls home, do what he can to change things there.
Paule Marshall
The Chosen Place, The Timeless People
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove […]
After a visit to the beach, it’s hard to believe that we live in a material world. ~Pam Shaw
The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money. ~Author Unknown
Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last […]
The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you. ~John E. Southard
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. ~G.K. Chesterton
I would thank you from the bottom of my heart, but for you my […]
“Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.”
– Horace
“The abundant life does not come to those who have had a lot of obstacles removed from their path by others. It develops from within and is rooted in strong mental and moral fiber.” — William Mather Lewis
“If we […]
Graduation is only a concept. In real life every day you graduate. Graduation is a process that goes on until the last day of your life. If you can grasp that, you’ll make a difference. ~Arie Pencovici
At commencement you wear your square-shaped mortarboards. My hope is that from time […]
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up. ~J.M. Power
Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings. ~C.D. Jackson
Life’s problems wouldn’t be called “hurdles” if there wasn’t a way to get over them. ~Author Unknown
Though no one can go back […]
Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. ~Mark Twain
Life is the game that must be played. ~Edwin Arlington Robinson
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if […]
The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others. ~Author Unknown
Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
We hate to have some people give us advice because we know […]