/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// /* ponder.js Code was created by C. Eton. Statement author unknown. Only 1 item need to be edited: 1. The Statements array variable. */////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // List the statements to display. Add statements as necessary. var Statements = new Array( '""When companies ship Styrofoam what do they pack it in? "', '""Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night', '""Don\'t worry about what people think, they don\'t do it very often', '""Going to church doesn\'t make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car. ', '""Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity. ', '""If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you\'ve never tried before. ', '"My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance. ', '"Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious. ', '"It is easier to get forgiveness than permission. ', '"For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program. ', '"If you look like your passport picture, you probably need the trip"', '"Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks"', '"A conscience is what hurts when all of your other parts feel so good"', '"Eat well, stay fit, die anyway"', '"Men are from earth. Women are from earth. Deal with it"', '"No man has ever been shot while doing the dishes"', '"A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand"', '"Middle age is when broadness of the mind and the narrowness of the waist change places"', '"Opportunities always look bigger going than coming"', '"Junk is something you\'ve kept for years and throw away three weeks before you need it"', '"There is always one more imbecile than you counted on"', '"Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again"', '"By the time you can make ends meet, they move the ends"', '"Thou shalt not weigh more than thy refrigerator"', '"Someone who thinks logically provides a nice contrast to the real world"', '"It ain\'t the jeans that make your butt look fat"', '"If you had to identify, in 1 word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, & never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be \'meetings\'"', '"There is a very fine line between \'hobby\' and \'mental illness\'"', '"People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them', '"You should not confuse your career with your life"', '"Nobody cares if you can\'t dance well. Just get up and dance"', '"Never lick a steak knife"', '"The most destructive force in the universe is gossip"', '"You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight savings time"', '"You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that you think she\'s pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment"', '"There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to make a big deal about your birthday. That time is age eleven"', '"The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we ALL believe that we are above average drivers', '"A person, who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person. (This is very important. Pay attention. It never fails.)"', '"Your friends love you anyway"', '"Thought for the day: Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic"', '"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one\'s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way"
- Scottish Explorer W. H. Murray', '"Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights. But your ears thirst for the sound of your heart\'s knowledge "
- Kahlil Gibran The Prophet ', '"Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier "
- Charles F. Kettering', '"Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but the ability to start over "
- F. Scott Fitzgerald', '"Everything about business comes down to PEOPLE. Where in business can we escape the impact of human care, human creativity, human commitment, human frustration, and human despair? There is no reason for anything in business to exist if it does not serve the needs of people "
- Bruce Cryer, Re-Engineering the Human System (presentation)', '"Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can "
- Ralph Waldo Emerson', '"The only way to predict the future is to have the power to shape the future "
- Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind', '"You must be the change you wish to see in the world "
- Mahatma Gandhi', '"The more we truly care, the more we\'ll come to know ourselves and others. Care provides the key to unlocking our potential and making it real "
- Doc Childre and Howard Martin,The HeartMath Solution', '"True friends are those who, when you make a fool of yourself, don\'t believe that this condition is permanent "
- Erwin T. Randall', '"The world only exists in your eyes - your conception of it. You can make it as big or as small as you want to "
- F. Scott Fitzgerald', '"Do not judge and you will never be mistaken "
- Rousseau, Emile', '"Success means fulfilling your own dreams, singing your own song, dancing your own dance, creating from your heart and enjoying the journey, trusting that whatever happens, it will be OK. Creating your own adventure! "
- Elana Lindquist', '"As you make this journey, always remember that each day is a precious gift. If you can enjoy it for what it is and make the most of it, then believe it or not, there is another extraordinary gift waiting for you. Tomorrow "
- Bradley Trevor Greive Tomorrow', '"When you are aware that you are the force that is Life, anything is possible. Miracles happen all the time, because those miracles are performed by the heart. The heart is in direct communion with the human soul, and when the heart speaks, even with the resistance of the head, something inside you changes; your heart opens another heart, and true love is possible "
- Don Miguel Ruiz', '"Great trials seem to be necessary preparation for great duties "
- Thompson', '"When I\'m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong "
- Richard Buckminster Fuller', '"I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours "
- Henry David Thoreau', '"We are coming to understand health not as the absence of disease, but rather as the process by which individuals maintain their sense of coherence (i.e. sense that life is comprehensible, manageable, and meaningful) and ability to function in the face of changes in themselves and their relationships with their environment "
- Aaron Antonovsky, Unraveling The Mystery of Health: How People Manage Stress and Stay Well.', '"The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves "
- Carl Jung', '"Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy "
- Richard Halloway', '"Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us "
- Stephen Covey', '"When you live in reaction, you give your power away. Then you get to experience what you gave your power to "
- N. Smith', '"It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time "
- Winston Churchill', '"Never let the odds keep you from pursuing what you know in your heart you were meant to do "
- Satchel Paige', '"From argument, there would be a quick resort to the sword, and the whole world would be full of fury and madness "
- Desiderius Erasmus (1466 - 1536)', '"Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind "
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)', '"Each of us is an impregnable fortress that can be laid waste only from within "
- Timothy J. Flynn', '"What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup "
- Boris Pasternak', '"A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led "
- Alexander Cannon', '"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will "
- Epictetus', '"Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth - that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too "
- W.H. Murray, The Story of Everest', '"Like the elephant, we are unconscious of our own strength. When it comes to understanding the power we have to make a difference in our own lives, we might as well be asleep. If you want to make your dreams come true, wake up. Wake up to your own strength. Wake up to the role you play in your own destiny. Wake up to the power you have to choose what you think, do, and say "
- Keith Ellis, Bootstraps', '"The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one\'s own—even more, one\'s own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being "
- Katherine Anne Porter', '"Life is a child playing around your feet, a tool you hold firmly in your grip, a bench you sit down upon in the evening, in your garden "
- Jean Anouilh, Antigone (1942)', '"Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves "
- Edwin Way Teale, Circle of Seasons (1953)', '"The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves but in our attitude towards them "
- Saint-Exupery, The Wisdom of the Sands', '"Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve "
- Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography (1791)', '"There\'s nothing worth the wear of winning. But laughter and the love of friends "
- Hilaire Belloc, Dedicatory Ode (1910)', '"The conclusion is always the same: love is the most powerful and still the most unknown energy in the world "
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin', '"Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind. Listen to the birds. And don\'t hate nobody "
- Eubie Blake', '"Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also "
- Robert Browning, One Word More, Men and Women (1855)', '"Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy "
- Jacques Maritain, Reflections on America (1958)', '"Go out into the world today and love the people you meet. Let your presence light new light in the hearts of people "
- Mother Teresa', '"The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are "
- Thomas Dreier, Author', '"When we focus on clarifying what is being observed, felt, and needed rather than on diagnosing and judging, we discover the depth of our own compassion "
- Marshall B. Rosenberg', '"Find something to be happy about every day, and every hour, even if only for a few minutes, and if possible moment-to-moment. This is the easiest and best protection you can have "
- Gregg Braden', '"As she thinketh in her heart, so is she "
- Bible, Proverbs 23:7
Original version is masculine', '"You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you "
- Brian Tracy', '"To dare is to lose one\'s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself "
- Soren Kierkegaard', '"Pessimism leads to weakness; optimism to power "
- William James', '"Let my heart be wise. / It is the gods\' best gift "
- Euripides, Medea (431 B.C.) ', '"Life isn\'t fair, but it\'s still good "
- Anonymous', '"When in doubt, just take the next small step "
- Anonymous', '"Life is too short to waste time hating anyone "
- Anonymous', '"Don\'t take yourself so seriously. No one else does "
- Anonymous', '"Pay off your credit cards every month "
- Anonymous', '"You don\'t have to win every argument. Agree to disagree "
- Anonymous', '"Cry with someone. It\'s more healing than crying alone "
- Anonymous', '"Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck "
- Anonymous', '"When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile "
- Anonymous', '"Make peace with your past so it won\'t screw up the present "
- Anonymous', '"It\'s OK to let your children see you cry "
- Anonymous', '"Don\'t compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about "
- Anonymous', '"If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn\'t be in it "
- Anonymous', '"Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don\'t worry; God never blinks "
- Anonymous', '"Life is too short for long pity parties. Get busy living, or get busy dying "
- Anonymous', '"You can get through anything if you stay put in today "
- Anonymous', '"A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write "
- Anonymous', '"It\'s never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else "
- Anonymous', '"When it comes to going after what you love in life, don\'t take no for an answer "
- Anonymous', '"Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don\'t save it for a special occasion. Today is special "
- Anonymous', '"Over prepare, then go with the flow "
- Anonymous', '"Be eccentric now. Don\'t wait for old age to wear purple "
- Anonymous', '"The most important sex organ is the brain "
- Anonymous', '"No one is in charge of your happiness except you "
- Anonymous', '"Frame every so-called disaster with these words: \'In five years, will this matter?\' "
- Anonymous', '"Always choose life "
- Anonymous', '"Forgive everyone and everything "
- Anonymous', '"What other people think of you is none of your business "
- Anonymous', '"Time heals almost everything. Give time time "
- Anonymous', '"However good or bad a situation is, it will change "
- Anonymous', '"Your job won\'t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch "
- Anonymous', '"Believe in miracles "
- Anonymous', '"God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn\'t do "
- Anonymous', '"Whatever doesn\'t kill you really does make you stronger "
- Anonymous', '"Growing old beats the alternative -- dying young "
- Anonymous', '"Your children get only one childhood. Make it memorable "
- Anonymous', '"Read the Psalms. They cover every human emotion "
- Anonymous', '"Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere "
- Anonymous', '"If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else\'s, we\'d grab ours back "
- Anonymous', '"Don\'t audit life. Show up and make the most of it now "
- Anonymous', '"Get rid of anything that isn\'t useful, beautiful or joyful "
- Anonymous', '"All that truly matters in the end is that you loved "
- Anonymous', '"Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need "
- Anonymous', '"The best is yet to come "
- Anonymous', '"No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up "
- Anonymous', '"Take a deep breath. It calms the mind "
- Anonymous', '"If you don\'t ask, you don\'t get "
- Anonymous', '"Yield "
- Anonymous', '"Life isn\'t tied with a bow, but it\'s still a gift "
- Anonymous', '"The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things "
- Montaigne, Of Presumption ', '"We cannot achieve more in life than what we believe in our heart of hearts we deserve to have "
- James R. Ball', '"To know how to choose a path with heart is to learn how to follow intuitive feeling "
- Jean Shinoda Bolen', '"Are you aware of your body\’s wisdom? Our bodies usually know us better than our minds do. If you have a decision to make, consult your body before making a final choice "
- Osho', '"Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd "
- Edith Sitwell', '"The key is to not resist or rebel against emotions or to try to get around them by devising all sorts of tricks; but to accept them directly, as they are "
- Takahisa Kora', '"You create your opportunities by asking for them "
- Patty Hansen', '"The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us? "
- Dorothy Day', '"It is the eye which makes the horizon "
- Emerson, Experience, Essays: Second Series (1844)', '"We do what we must, and call it by the best names "
- Ralph Waldo Emerson', '"They\'re only truly great who are truly good "
- George Chapman', '"Hold a true friend with both your hands "
- Nigerian Proverb', '"The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind "
- Maurice Maeterlinck, Wisdom and Destiny (1898)', '"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart. And try to love the questions themselves "
- Rainer Maria Rilke', '"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered "
- Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1874-1936, British Author', '"Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself "
- Charles De Gaulle', '"The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind "
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox', '"Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity "
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)', '"He who cannot forgive others destroys the bridge over which he himself must pass "
- George Herbert', '"The price of greatness is responsibility "
- Winston Churchill', '"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world "
- Anne Frank', '"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment "
- Marcus Aurelius', '"Love is the best medicine, and there is more than enough to go around once you open your heart "
- Julie Marie', '"The happiest of people don\'t necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the best of everything that comes along their way "
- Author unknown', '"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe "
- Anatole France', '"A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror "
- Ken Keyes Jr., Handbook of Higher Consciousness', '"With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity "
- Keshavan Nair', '"Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart "
- Walter Savage Landor', '"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night "
- Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)', '"We have to become more conscious of our feeling-world. By learning to identify the ‘emotional baggage’ and manage our feeling-world reactions, we can view life based on current information instead of being held captive by our past "
- Doc Childre', '"Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm "
- Vauvenargues, Reflections and Maxims', '"Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty "
- Joseph Addison, 1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman', '"When we focus on clarifying what is being observed, felt, and needed rather than on diagnosing and judging, we discover the depth of our own compassion "
- Marshall B. Rosenberg', '"Find something to be happy about every day, and every hour, even if only for a few minutes, and if possible moment-to-moment. This is the easiest and best protection you can have "
- Gregg Braden', '"Have therefore first zeal to better thyself and then mayst thou have zeal to thy neighbour "
- Thomas A. Kempis', '"Endurance is the crowning quality, and patience all the passion of great hearts "
- James Russell Lowell, \'Columbus\' (1844)', '"You only hurt yourself when you\'re not expanding and growing. Many people can\'t stand the thought of aging, but it\'s the crystallized thought patterns and inflexible mind-sets that age people before their time. You can break through and challenge your crystallized patterns and mind-sets. That\'s what evolution and the expansion of love are really about "
- Sara Paddison, The Hidden Power of the Heart', '"We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery "
- H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946)', '"Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart "
- Khalil Gibran, (1883 - 1931)', '"The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves "
- Carl Jung', '"Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Choose your words, for they become actions. Understand your actions, for they become habits. Study your habits, for they will become your character. Develop your character, for it becomes your destiny', '"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared "
- Buddha', '"Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are "
- Chinese Proverb', '"We are one big family of people, trying to make our way through the unfolding puzzle of life. We are all connected to one another in the heart. Connecting with the ultimate source of love is possible through discovering the hidden power in your heart "
- Sara Paddison, Hidden Power of the Heart', '"A life without change is not a life; it is a stagnant pool. To change your mind frivolously is a cop-out. To change your mind under the direction of the wisdom of the heart is a brush stroke on the masterpiece you are delivering to the world "
- Alan Cohen, Dare to Be Yourself ', '"Gratitude is heaven itself "
- William Blake', '"Quality is not an act, it is a habit "
- Aristotle', '"The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue "
- Anonymous', '"Don\'t accept your dog\'s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful "
- Ann Landers', '"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went "
- Will Rogers', '"There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face "
- Ben Williams', '"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself "
- Josh Billings', '"We give dogs time we can spare, space we can spare and love we can spare and in return, dogs give us their all. It\'s the best deal man has ever made "
- M. Acklam', '"Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate "
- Sigmund Freud', '"I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult "
- Rita Rudner', '"A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down "
- Robert Benchley', '"Anybody who doesn\'t know what soap tastes like never washed a dog "
- Franklin P. Jones', '"If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons "
- James Thurber', '"If your dog is fat, you aren\'t getting enough exercise"
- Unknown', '"I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it"
- Pablo Picasso', '"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow them"
- Louisa May Alcott', '"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do"
- Epictetus', '"To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.""
- Oliver Wendell Holmes', '"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don\'t mind, it doesn\'t matter."
- Mark Twain', '"When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it happened or not."
- Mark Twain', '"Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.""
- Titus Maccius Plautus', '"There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents... and only one for birthday presents, you know.""
- Lewis Carroll', '"We don\'t receive wisdom. We must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."
- Marcel Proust', '"Preparation for old age should begin not later than one\'s teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement."
- Dwight I. Moody', '"I am not young enough to know everything."
- Oscar Wilde', '"Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor."
- Euripides', '"Men [and women of course] are born to succeed, not to fail."
- Henry David Thoreau', '"The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions."
- Alfred Lord Tennyson', '"Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself."
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus', '"A woman is always younger than a man of equal years."
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning', '"None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm."
- Henry David Thoreau', '"[S]He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of old age..."
- Plato', '"Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been."
- Mark Twain', '"[S]He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much."
- Bessie Stanley', 'Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson', '"Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away."
- Antoine De Saint-Exupery', '"Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece."
- Ralph Charell', '"Whenever God Closes One Door He Opens Another, Even Though Sometimes It\'s Hell in the Hallway."
- anonymous', '"Always remember....when life hands you Lemons, ask for tequila and salt and call me over!"
- anonymous', '"Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work."
- Rita Mae Brown', '"If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome."
- Michael Jordan, professional athlete', '"We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results."
- Herman Melville', '"I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars."
- Walt Whitman', '"A good heart is better than all the heads in the world."
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton', '"We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn."
- Henry David Thoreau', '"Joy, love and appreciation are powerful motivators. They are feelings that humans experience around the heart. Joy is a feeling of pleasure or delight that arises from the heart. Positive feelings are what make life worth living."
- Deborah Rozman, Find Your Joy by Following Your Heart', '"You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one."
- James A. Froude', '"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."
- Albert Einstein', '"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow them."
- Louisa May Alcott', '"You can\'t shake hands with a clenched fist."
- Indira Gandhi', '"Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be."
- Henry David Thoreau', '"Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men."
- Goethe', '"People love to win. If you\'re not totally clear about the purpose of what you\'re doing, you have no chance of winning."
- David Allen', '"If you\'re not sure why you are doing something, you can never do enough of it."
- David Allen', '"Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary."
- Margaret Cousins', '"If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them."
- Gandhi', '"It is no longer enough to be smart -- all the technological tools in the world add meaning and value only if they enhance our core values, the deepest part of our heart..."
- Doc Childre and Deborah Rozman', '"When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace."
- HH the Dalai Lama', '"Love is a choice you make from moment to moment."
- Barbara De Angelis', '"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts."
- Albert Einstein', '"Nothing happens unless first we dream."
- Carl Sandburg', '"The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas."
- Linus Pauling', '"I always try to believe the best of everybody -- it saves so much trouble."
- Rudyard Kipling', '"Just because you make a mistake doesn\'t mean you are a mistake."
- Georgette Mosbacher', '"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness, because it shows me the stars."
– Og Mandino', '"False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade."
- Christian N. Bovee', '"Don\'t look to become a person of success, look instead to become a person of value."
— Albert Einstein', '"There is nothing like a dream to create the future."
- Victor Hugo', '"Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver."
- Barbara De Angelis', '"To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart."
- Pearl S. Buck', '"Deep listening from the heart is one half of true communication. Speaking from the heart is the other half."
- Sara Paddison, Hidden Power of the Heart', '"To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee."
- William Walton', '"If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change."
- Buddha', '"If you get up one more time than you fall, you will make it through."
- Chinese Proverb', '"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."
- Mother Teresa', '"A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ."
- John Steinbeck', '"People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges."
- Joseph F. Newton', '"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."
- Leo Buscaglia', '"We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden."
- Goethe', '"Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate."
- Chuang Tzu', '"All serious daring starts from within."
- Harriet Beecher Stowe', '"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens."
- Carl Jung', '"He that does good to another does good also to himself."
- Seneca', '"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt."
- William Shakespeare', '"When we know love matters more than anything, and we know that nothing else really matters, we move into the state of surrender. Surrender does not diminish our power, it enhances it."
- Sarah Paddison, Hidden Power of the Heart', '"To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest."
- Pema Chodron', '"Love is the most powerful and still the most unknown energy in the world."
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin', '"Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough."
- Emily Dickinson', '"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
- Samuel Johnson', '"Look at life as an energy economy game. Each day, ask yourself, Are my energy expenditures (actions, reactions, thoughts, and feelings) productive or nonproductive? During the course of my day, have I accumulated more stress or more peace?"
- Doc Childre and Howard Martin, The HeartMath Solution', '"Don\'t let what you can\'t do stand in the way of what you can."
- John Wooden', '"Live out of your imagination, not your history."
- Stephen Covey', '"The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart; This you will build your life by, this you will become."
- James Allen', '"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don\'t matter and those who matter don\'t mind."
- Theodor Seuss Geisel, (Dr. Seuss)', '"Sit in reverie, and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow', '"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
- Eleanor Roosevelt', '"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you\'re scared to death."
- Earl Wilson', '"It is not how much you do, but how much love you put into the doing that matters."
- Mother Teresa', '"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."
- Marie Curie', '"A person\'s world is only as big as their heart."
- Tanya A. Moore', '"They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel."
- Carl W. Buechner', '"The heart that loves is always young."
- Greek Proverb', '"As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves."
- Mahatma Gandhi', '"Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you."
- Richard Bach', '"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
- William Jennings Bryan', '"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.', '"Making a mistake and then judging ourselves harshly is like paying compound interest on a bad investment."
- Doc Childre and Howard Martin, HeartMath Solution', '"I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That\'s where the fun is."
- Donald Trump', '"Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity."
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)', '"Out of love and care for yourself, send your love and compassion to your hurt, then forgive. It is the door to your freedom."
- David McArthur and Bruce McArthur, The Intelligent Heart', '"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy."
- Thich Nhat Hanh', '"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten we belong to each other."
- Mother Teresa', '"To dare is to lose one\'s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. "
- Soren Kierkegaard', '"Blessed is the leader who seeks the best for those he serves."
- Unknown', '"If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it."
- David Lloyd George', '"Don\'t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."
- William Faulkner', '"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
- Carl Jung', '"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your mind off your goals."
- Henry Ford', '"If you think you\'re too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room."
- Anita Roddick', '"A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself "
- Chinua Achebe', '"A good exercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up"
- Anonymous', '"For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson', '"Treasure the love you have received above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished."
- Og Mandino', '"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength."
- Corrie Ten Boom', '"If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing."
- Marc Chagall', '"Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace."
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