"One doesn’t discover new lands
without consenting to lose sight
of the shore for a very long time."
- Andre Gide

"We all have exactly the same amount of time, whether we're a millionaire or a pauper. All of us have 24 hours, every single day." - Zig Ziglar

"Give me a stock clerk with a goal, and I'll give you a man who'll make history. But give me a man without a goal, and I will give you a stock clerk." - J.C. Penny

The Timing is Never Right

"For all of the most important things [in life], the timing always sucks...Conditions are never perfect. 'Someday' is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you...If it's important to you and you want to do it "eventually," just do it and correct course along the way."
- Timothy Ferris (The 4-Hour Workweek)

"The wise man ... rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains." - Cicero (de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum)

"Silently laughing at silly people is much more satisfying in the long run than rolling around with them in a dusty street, trying to knock out all their teeth. If nothing else, it's better on the clothes." - Belgarath (David Eddings)

"Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.”

Frederick Smith

This breakdown of social order - rules of dress, sexual controls, speech patterns, family structures - has been seen as a great victory for the individual ... These acts of personal freedom are irrelevant to the exercise of power. So in lieu of taking a real part in the evolution of society, the individual struggles to appear as if no one has power over his personal evolution. Thus victories won for these individual liberties may actually be an acceptance of defeat by the individual.

John Ralston Saul

'There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.' - Shakespeare

'We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.' - Winston Churchill

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. Henry David Thoreau

"Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, its a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and enables you to laugh at life's realities."
Dr. Seuss
(Theadore Seuss Geisel)

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go do that. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive." - Harold Whitman

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
~ Dr. Seuss

"...I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do..."
-from 'The Kite Runner'

"Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and wrong. Sometime in your life, you will have been all of these." - Robert H. Goddard

We must love them both, those with whom we agree and those with whom we disagree. For both have labored in the search of truth, and both have helped us in the finding of it." Thomas Aquinas

“Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.” - Ashley Smith

Chuck Norris can tie his shoes with his feet.

Happiness does not depend on what happens outside of you, but on what happens inside of you. It is measured by the spirit with which you meet the problems of life.

-Harold B. Lee