History is full of surprises. (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.)
People who are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful and feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Some psychologists call it a conflict between ego-orientation, or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation... but in all cases, what counts is whether attention is turned away from the task at hand and focused on the self and its future rewards, or whether it is instead trained on the task itself. The latter attitude seems the more fruitful. (Unknown)
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
A year from now you may wish you had started today. (Karen Lamb)
No medicine cures what happiness cannot. (Gabrid Garcia Marquez)
To love is nothing. To be loved is something. To love and be loved is everything. (Greek Proverb)
The only reason I always try to meet and know the parents better is because it helps me to forgive their children. (Louis Johannot)
The multitude of books is making us ignorant. (Voltaire)
It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him. (Miguel de Cervantes)
The only joy in the world is to begin. (Cesare Pavese)
Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings. (Homer)
It's funny, to me, the way people refer to childbirth as a miraculous event. A miracle is something that defies nature. Only, childbirth has got to be the most natural thing in the world. Top three anyway. But, on the other hand, when you think about it, there's really no other word that fits. Sperm. Egg. A coincidental meshing of genetic information that will grow something that could write an opera or cook up some Napalm. It blows my mind. (Barbara Hall)
I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage... What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom. The freedom that comes with the knowledge that no earthly think can break you. (Paula Giddings)
Consider that this day ne'er dawns again. (Alighieri Dante)
I believe in the incomprehensibility of God. (Honore' de Balzac)
Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out. (Art Linkletter)
Rhythm is the basis of life, not steady forward progress. The forces of creation, destruction, and preservation have a whirling, dynamic interaction. (Kabbalah)
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor. (Sren Kierkegaard)
Being on the tightrope is living everything else is waiting. (Karl Wallenda)
I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big success. I am for those tiny, invisible loving human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capil (William James)