Monthly Archives: May 2011

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. – Henry David Thoreau

Doubt can only be removed by action. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. – Shakespeare

Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats. – Gandhi

On the stem of memory imaginations blossom. – Patrick Kavanagh

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times–Aeschylus

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity. – Louis Pasteur

Look deep into nature, and you will understand everything better. – Albert Einstein

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. – Auguste Rodin

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. – Helen Keller

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one. -Eleanor Roosevelt

Of course I am extra strong, but those who try know that strength and knowledge come with doing. –Elinore Pruitt Stewart

There is no such thing in anyone’s life as an unimportant day. – Alexander Woollcott

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. – Socrates

Live out of your imagination, not your history. -Stephen Covey

All along the untrodden paths of the future, I can see the footprints of an unseen hand. –Boyle Roche

A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or … Continue reading →

Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. –Langston Hughes

I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger. –Harriet Tubman

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked. –Anais Nin

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots. –Jean Toomer

Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall.–Fulton J. Sheen