"INSPIRATION"
"Even if I fall, I fall like a seed to germinate but not like a leaf to die."
Copyright © 2004 Sarveswara Bhamidi
"When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight."
Michael Bridge
"To develop true compassion, first we must know that suffering is real, and that sufferings hurt."
Thupten Rinpoche
"Being alive makes today the best day of your life."
Copyright © 2004 Timothy Shaak
"It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself."
Muhammed Ali
"Children's talent to endure, stems from their ignorance of alternatives."
Maya Angelou
"Faithless is he who says farewell when the road darkens."
J.R.R. Tolkien --- Submitted by L.K. --- Missouri
This was said by Gimli the dwarf in the Lord of the Rings (book). I've found it useful on many occasions.
"Every man has his secret sorrows, which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold when he is only sad."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back. There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price."
Elie Wiesel
"Nothing bad can happen to me cause there is always something worse."
Copyright © 2004 Karim Somji
"To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, every cubic inch of space is a miracle."
Walt Whitman
"Today is the day to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing that you have long postponed. Today you can make your life significant and worthwhile. The present is yours to do with, as you will."
Grenville Kleiser
"The definition of heaven is to look back on your life and be able to hold your head up high."
Copyright © 2004 Chad Summers
"Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand."
Baruch Spinoza
"The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it."
Seneca
"What you have right now means little compared to what you leave behind. Haveyou made a difference?"
Copyright © 2004 Joshua Brandsma
What is your legacy? How will you be remembered when you leave this world?
"In the face of uncertainty, there is nothing wrong with hope."
Dr. Bernie Siegel
"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice."
Meister Eckhart
"Faith is the strength of the spirit!!"
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Gabriela Ferrara --- Cd. Mante Tamaulipas, Mexico
If you don't have faith, you don't have anything in your life!!
"Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand."
Emily Kimbrough
"A person is a product of his own thoughts. Believe big and grow big."
David Schwartz
"Five words everyone needs to know: LET GO and LET GOD!"
Author Unknown --- Submitted by J.M. --- Texas
"He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen."
James Russell Lowell