"57 Thoughts of the Day To Motivate "
"Veritas: The purpose in seeking truth, is liberation."
--- Eric Zhou --- Canada
"Endurance allows us to get where we're going. Higher the goal, longer and more arduous the path. More endurance we can muster, more we can achieve. Many things we can change, and some things we must endure. We grow by our endurance. Strength comes from adversity."
--- Contributed by Kiran Patel
"With science and money,people build their glory. No glory was ever built on ignorance and poverty."
--- An Arab Poet --- Contributed by Sahar Anwar --- Egypt
"The dignity of truth is lost in much protesting."
--- Ben Johnson --- Contributed by Fran Meier
"Kind words may be short and easy to speak, but the echoes are truly endless."
---Mother Teresa --- Contributed by Q.A. & Amy Rossi --- Ohio
"How many times have I stepped out on faith, and then stepped in mess, because the step of faith was a big tough step up, and the mess was an easy step down."
--- Robert Gary Lee --- Maryland
Excerpted from 'What Is It Called?'
"When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, it becomes less and less that I am afraid."
--- Audre Lorde --- Sent by SuanLoyd
"The friendship that can cease has never been real."
--- St. Jerome --- Contributed by Kristen Hope Rigsby
"Don't bore your friends with your troubles. Tell them to your enemies who will be delighted to hear about them."
--- Olin Miller --- Contributed by Beth Garvin --- Mississippi
"He drew a circle that shut me out heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win, we drew a circle that took him in."
--- Edwin Markham, Outwitted --- Contributed by Tiffani White
"While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior."
--- Henry C. Link --- Contributed by Kyle Looney
"Freedom, rights, liberation; call it what you will, it has never been just given to anyone. It has been taken, achieved, or created, but never just given."
--- Ed Howdershelt
"It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused."
--- Marcel Proust --- Contributed by Amanda Gier
"The flower which is single, need not envy the thorns that are numerous."
--- Rabindranath Tagore --- Contributed by Hazel Dudley --- Australia
"If you look too hard for a complex answer, you won't find it. Everything is simple. We just make it out to be difficult."
--- Contributed by Heather Kowalski
"None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm."
--- Henry David Thoreau --- Contributed by Corky Akins
"Taxes could be worse. Suppose we had to pay what we think we are worth."
--- Unknown --- Contributed by Beth Garvin --- Mississippi
" Earth is crammed with heaven."
--- Elizabeth Barrett Browning --- Contributed by Angela --- Canada
"Sometimes, if we're lucky, an eraser will do the trick, and we can rub it across the page, wipe away the dust, and all that's left of our careless mess is a hardly noticeable smudge. One of the toughest lessons to learn is that life doesn't come with erasers. You can't make something that has happened, not happen."
--- Ina Hughs --- Contributed by Amanda Gier
"The greater the struggle, the greater the victory."
--- Author Unknown --- Contributed by Gary Lee --- Maryland
"Friendship is a very beautiful gift to have, but unless a person is friends with himself, friends will be hard to find - yet harder to keep. "
--- Meighan Seigel
"Pain and suffering is inevitable; being miserable is optional."
--- Art Clanin --- Contributed by Angela --- B.C., Canada
"A child without courage is like a night without stars."
--- Punjab from the movie Annie --- Contributed by Laura K Gomez --- Nevada
"Do not look back and do not dream about the future. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward, your destiny, is in the present moment."
--- Dag Hammarskjold --- contributed by Fr. Brian Cavanaugh --- Ohio
"The most wasted of days are the ones without laughter."
--- Anonymous --- contributed by Q.A.
"Those who can't laugh at themselves leave the job to others."
--- Contributed by Darryl Bevan --- Perth, Western Australia
"Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional."
--- Author Unknown --- Contributed by James Sweeney
"A person without problems is like a man without a brain."
--- Gabriel Vergara
"Attitudes are contagious. Is yours worth catching?"
--- Contributed by Kristi Parker
"The world belongs to those who Dream Boldly, Care Deeply, and Work Diligently."
--- Unknown --- Contributed by Arthur Goggin --- Virginia
"Obstacles are those fearful things you see when you take your eyes off of your goal."
--- Henry Ford --- Contributed by John Trunk
"The Love I have for people far outweighs the hate I have for their actions."
--- Neill MacRae --- Australia
"If you continue to think the way you have always thought, you'll continue to get what you've always got. Is it enough?"
--- Paul Meyer --- Contributed by Westarbob --- Michigan
"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."
--- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross --- Contributed by Creta Washington --- Pennsylvania
"It is never too late to be what you might have become."
--- Contributed by James Sweeney
"Adolescence is the time in life when girls quit believing in fairy tales, and start to believe in love."
--- Contributed by VQueen
"The test of courage comes when we are in the minority."
--- Contributed by James Sweeney
"Knowledge is the antidote to fear."
--- Ralph Waldo Emerson --- Contributed by James Sweeney
"Loving is not just caring deeply, it's, above all, understanding."
--- Francoise Sagan
"It is more blessed to give than to receive."
--- Acts 20:35 --- Contributed by James Sweeney
"This is a day of unconditional loving. My heart sings. God has lifted all burdens from my shoulders."
--- contributed by Kathryn Verhoye --- Michigan
"They say a person needs 3 things to be truly happy in this world; someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for."
--- Tom Bodett --- Contributed by James Sweeney
"It does not have to glitter to be gold."
--- Arthur Ashe --- Contributed by Nadine Bent --- Pennsylvania
"I do not pray for a lighter load but for a stronger back."
--- Phillips --- Contributed by Lillian Robinson --- Connecticut
"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong, because someday in your life you will have been all of these."
--- George Washington Carver --- Contributed by VQueen
"Where we love is home. Home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts."
--- Oliver Wendell Holmes --- Contributed by Lynda L. Saracusa --- Maryland
"You have to shovel a lot of coal until you find a diamond in the rough."
--- Ed Zeitz
"Success is a reward in itself, but the greatest reward of success is knowing you achieved it with hard work and dedication."
--- Jenn H.
"Visions, without action are hallucinations."
--- Contributed by Sumax
"It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not."
--- Contributed by Alex
"Always knew I'd look back on the times I cried and laugh, but I never knew I'd look back on the times I laughed and cry."
--- Author Unknown --- Contributed by Randall A. Moritz , Applied Precision Inc.
"Every important achievement began with a dream in someone's Heart."
--- Contributed by: C.C.C.
"What most people need to learn in life, is how to love people and use things, instead of using people and loving things."
--- Author Unknown( I found this )
"We do not understand joy, until we have felt sorrow; faith, until we are tested; peace, until we are faced with conflict; trust, until we are betrayed; love until it is lost; hope, until we are faced with doubts."
--- Contributed by James Sweeney
"We cannot become what we need to become by remaining what we are."
--- Max DuPree --- Contributed by John Altomare
--- Author's name provided by Shelia L. --- Colorado --- 02/20/02
"By meditation upon light and upon radiance, knowledge of the spirit can be reached and thus peace can be achieved."
--- Patanjali (B.C. 500?) --- Contributed by David T.
"A spoken word is just like an acorn. When you sow it, it's not much, but in fertile ground it becomes a sapling. Continue to fertilize this word, and it becomes a full grown beautiful oak tree. The words that you speak now WILL grow into a beautiful tree, OR a non-blooming, thorn infested, ugly plant. Note: the words spoken today take years to fully manifest. Which kind of words are you sowing today?"
--- Gary Lee --- Maryland
"If you had 1 month left to live, who would you call? What would you say? And Why are you waiting?"
--- Contributed by James Sweeney