Monthly Archives: September 2011

Don’t worry about what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. –Howard Thurman

Do you have patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself? –Lao Tzu

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the small uncaring ways. –Stephen Vincent Benet

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are. ~Arthur Golden

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. ~Kenji Miyazawa

Sometimes the littlest things in life are the hardest to take. You can sit on a mountain more comfortably than on a tack. ~Author Unknown

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere. ~Frank A. Clark

We acquire the strength we have overcome. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

We have no right to ask when sorrow comes, “Why did this happen to me?” unless we ask the same question for every moment of happiness that comes our way. ~Author Unknown

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience. ~Robert Fulghum

If you don’t get everything you want, think of the things you don’t get that you don’t want. ~Oscar Wilde

Learn to…Be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not. ~Henri Frederic Amiel

Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so. – Belva Davis

We Learn… 10% of what we read 20% of what we hear 30% of what we see 50% of what we see and hear 70% of what we discuss 80% of what we experience 95% of what we teach others. … Continue reading →

The difference between try and triumph is a little umph. ~Author Unknown

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move. – Robert Louis Stevenson

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. -Epicurus

We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. – Albert Einstein

Be not simply good; be good for something. – Henry David Thoreau

Character is defined by the actions you do and the decisions you make when no one is watching. -J.C. Watts