Friday, November 30, 2007

"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves."

William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)

Thursday, November 29, 2007

"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit."

e e cummings (1894 - 1962)

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."

William Ellery Channing (1780 - 1842)

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

"It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required."

Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

Monday, November 26, 2007

"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."

William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)

Sunday, November 25, 2007

"We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people."

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)

Saturday, November 24, 2007

"Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs."

Joan Didion (1934 - )

Friday, November 23, 2007

"One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child."

Randall Jarrell (1914 - 1965)

Thursday, November 22, 2007

“Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954 - )

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

"Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known."

Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - )

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

"Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble."

Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)

Monday, November 19, 2007

"We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us."

George Eliot
(1819 - 1880)

Sunday, November 18, 2007

"The greatest achievements were at first and for a time dreams. The oak sleeps in the acorn."

James Allen (1864-1912)

Saturday, November 17, 2007

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

Anne Frank (1929 - 1945)

Friday, November 16, 2007

"Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things."

T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)

Thursday, November 15, 2007

"I have failed many times, and that's why I am a success."

Michael Jordan (1963 - )

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

"We cannot fail to win unless we fail to try."

Tom Clancy (1947 - )

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

"Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose."

George Lucas (1944 - )

Monday, November 12, 2007

"The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it."

Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973)

Sunday, November 11, 2007

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be
fought, but World War IV will be fought with
sticks and stones."

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Saturday, November 10, 2007

"Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story."

John Barth (1930 - )

Friday, November 09, 2007

"Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens."

Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)

Thursday, November 08, 2007

"Dare to be yourself."

Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)

Wednesday, November 07, 2007

"Truth is the only safe ground to stand on."

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902)

Tuesday, November 06, 2007

"Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from."

Al Franken (1951- )

Monday, November 05, 2007

"We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them."

Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC)

Sunday, November 04, 2007

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith."

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)

Saturday, November 03, 2007

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."

George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

Friday, November 02, 2007

"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy."

Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)

Thursday, November 01, 2007

"Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such."

Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)