"In the hour of adversity be not without hope. For crystal rain falls from black clouds."
-- Persian Poem --
"Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have."
-- Doris Mortman --
"There is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings."
-- Arthur Rubinstein --
"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."
-- Seneca --
"They can cut all the flowers, but they cannot stop the coming of the spring."
-- Pablo Neruda --
"If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way."
-- J.F.Clarke --
Attentiveness is the path to true life;
Indifference is the path to death.
The attentive do not die;
The indifferent are as if they are dead already.
-- Dhammapada --
"Words are things; and a small drop of ink. Falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think."
-- Lord Byron, poet (1788-1824) --
(Sent in by Fairydust 24/10/2002)
"I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on earth. Whether I shall ever better, I cannot tellI awfully forbode i shall not. To remain as I am is impossible. I must die or be better it appears to me".. at a time in his life when he suffered depression.
-- Abraham Lincoln --
"He who loses faith, loses all"
-- Unknown --
Yesterday is history,
Tomorrow is a mystery,
And Today?
Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present!
-- Babatunde Olatunji --
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet, and the winds long to play with your hair.
-- Kahlrl Gibran - Lebanese Poet. --
I am only one, but I am still one.
I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.
And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
-- Helen Keller --
(Sent in by pixiepk 23/8/2001)
Live like there's no tomorrow,
Love like you've never been hurt
And dance like nobody's watching.
-- Sent in by Angel --
"You can run so far from sadness, that you're never at home for the fun."
-- You am I - 'Damage' --
It is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause. Who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
-- Theodore Roosevelt --
Don't be your own critic, the world will provide enough of them.
-- Trina Paulus --
How does one become a butterfly?" she asked pensively. "You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar."
-- Trina Paulus --
"The eye of beauty does not see the appearance, only the substance."
-- Anon --
The problem with most people is not that they aim too high and miss, but rather that they aim too low and are right on target.
-- Shaun Russell --
All to often the difference between a winner and a loser, is that the winner kept trying just that little bit longer.
-- Shaun Russell --
Not everyone who runs the race will win. But only those who bothered to enter, had a chance.
-- Shaun Russell --
To fail to try, is to try to fail.
-- Shaun Russell --
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
-- John Wooden
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you
-- Carl Jung
Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops
-- Cary Grant
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head
-- Sally Kempton
It's far harder to kill a phantom than a reality
-- Virginia Woolf
If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain, . . .
I shall not live in vain.
-- Emily Dickinson
The trouble is not that we are never happy
- it is that happiness is so episodical
-- Ruth Benedict
Razors pain you
Rivers are damp
Acids stain you
And drugs cause cramp
Guns aren't lawful
Nooses give
Gas smells awful
You might as well live
-- Dorothy Parker
