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Sunday, May 14th, 2006A careless word may kindle strife; a cruel word may wreck a life; a timely word may level stress; a loving word may heal and bless.
The beginning of love is to let those we love be just themselves and not twist them with our own image-otherwise, we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
The happiest of people don’t necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.
Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried, for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
– Marcus Aurelius
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
– Anne Frank
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
The true and nobel way to kill a foe is not to kill him. You, with kindness, may so change him, that he shall cease to be so, and then he’s slain.
– Alain
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
– Helen Keller
A heavy snowfall disappears into the sea. What silence!
– Folk ZEN Saying
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
– James Lowell
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
– Lord Byron
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
– Bagehot
There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.
– Elie Wiesel
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.
– T.S. Eliot
Fear is a part of everything you do … You have to take great risks to get big rewards.
– Greg Louganis
Security is mostly a superstition; it does not exist in nature. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
– Helen Keller
If you can’t fly, then run.
If you can’t run, then walk.
If you can’t walk, then crawl.
But whatever you do, keep moving.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
The only way to be who you want to be is by being what you haven’t yet been.
– Sally Edwards
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection.
– Thomas Paine
The longest hill must end in a valley.
– Henry C. Beeching
The race isn’t always to the swiftest, but to those who keep on running.
– Unknown
Vincit qui patitur: he conquers, who endures.
– Percy Cerutty
The only way to define your limits is by going beyond them.
– Arthur Clarke
The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.
– Pierre de Courbertin
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at the worst, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
– Teddy Roosevelt
Adversity is the diamond dust heaven polishes it’s jewels with.
– Leighton 
