"Let your vision be world-embracing, rather than confined to your own self." - Bahá'u'lláh
"What man is he ultimately becomes through the cause which he has made his own."
- Karl Jaspers
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, 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; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
- Theodore Roosevelt
"If we take man as he is, we make him worse; if we take him as he ought to be, we help him become it."
- Goethe
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. "
- Mark Twain
"I am an instrument of the living God
My life a melody to His name
More than the songs I sing
Worship is everything
I live to glorify my King
Hear the song of my life
Let it be a sweet, sweet sound"
- Sarah Reeves
"Let us think of life as a process of choices, one after another. At each point there is a progression choice and a regression choice. There may be a movement toward defense, toward safety, toward being afraid; but over on the other side, there is the growth choice. To make the growth choice instead of the fear choice a dozen times a day is to move a dozen times a day toward self-actualization. Self-actualization is an ongoing process; it means making each of the many single choices about whether to lie or be honest, whether to steal or not to steal at a particular point, and it means to make each of these choices as a growth choice. This is movement toward self-actualization."
- Abraham Maslow (1908-1970)
Listen to the MUSTN'Ts, child,
Listen to the DON'Ts
Listen to the SHOULDN'Ts
The IMPOSSIBLEs, the WON'Ts
Listen to the NEVER HAVEs
Then listen close to me--
Anything can happen, child,
ANYTHING can be.
- Shel Silverstein
"And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him."
- Colossians 3:17
"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."
- Robert Byrne (1928-)
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
- Walt Emerson
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
- Oscar Wilde
"But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near."
- Andrew Marvell
"Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street."
Quien siembra vientos recoge tempestades.
"The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war."
- Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
“If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.”