Monthly Archives: February 2012

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. –Khalil Gibran

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere. –Joyce A. Myers

Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. –Joseph Campbell

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment. –Jim Rohn

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. – Winston Churchill

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. –Anas Nin

To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking. – Johann von Goethe

You may have a fresh start at any moment, because this thing we can “failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down. –Mary Pickford

Life itself is the proper binge. –Julia Child

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. –Maya Angelou

If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough. –Oprah Winfrey

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. –Anna Quindlen

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not our circumstances. –Martha Washington

Life begets life. Energy begets energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. –Sarah Bernhardt

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done. –Marie Curie

To live is so startling it leaves time for anything else. –Emily Dickinson

I believe that every person is born with talent. –Maya Angelou

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. –Mother Teresa

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other. –Walter Elliot This electronic communication is governed by the terms and conditions at http://www.mun.ca/cc/policies/electronic_communications_disclaimer_2011.php

Expect problems and eat them for breakfast. –Alfred A. Montapert

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. –Aristotle

Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use. … Continue reading →

It is easy to see the faults of other. It is hard to see our own.- Buddha

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. –Matsuo Basho

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. –John Muir

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. –Nelson Mandela

The difference between a pebble and a mountain lies in whom you ask to move it. ― Marcus Buckingham