Courage to start and willingness to keep everlasting at it are the requisites for success. - Alonzo Newton Benn
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Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see. - William Newton
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live. - Conte Vittorio Alfieri
This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends. - Euripides
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow talent to the dark place where it leads. - Erica Jong
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. - Albert Einstein
When we are hurt by someone's action, it's easy to react defensively. Learning to respond instead of react takes us from a childish what about me? attitude to one of love, not only for ourselves but for others. When we respond with a willingness to understand, we enter into a creative realm where we can build bridges of love with each other and the healing can begin. - Mary Manin Morrissey
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. - Oliver Wendall Holmes
Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery. - Matthew Arnold
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory. - Herbert Kaufman
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. - Abraham Lincoln
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot. - Clarence Thomas
There is a kind of spirituality that transcends the bounds of religion, that honors a God who is beyond the particular path you found to get to that God. Honoring differences is a spiritual practice that causes us to make major shifts in our lives but that can give us some of the greatest joy we will ever experience. When we learn to respect each other's uniqueness, we truly understand that in truth, we are all one. - Mary Manin Morrissey
Loving relationships, though necessary for life, health and growth, are among the most complicated skills. Before we can be successful at achieving relationships, it is necessary that we broaden our understanding of how they work, what they mean and how what we do and believe can enhance or destroy them ... Loving relationships cannot be taken lightly. - Dr. Leo Buscaglia
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. - Charles Caleb Colton
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend. - Albert Camus
Hold a true friend with both your hands. - Nigerian Proverb
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words. - unknown
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. - William Jennings
The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you. - Lady Nancy Astor
I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind. - George Bernard Shaw
Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get. - Dale Carnegie
Evil (ignorance) is like a shadow-it has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, stomp on it, by railing against it, or any other form of emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it. - Shakti Gawain
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. - Thomas Paine
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last you create what you will. - George Bernard Shaw
You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus. - Mark Twain
Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein
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*Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient. -
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. - Galileo Galilei
*One learns by doing a thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try. - Sophocles
Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. - Helen Keller
Tears are like rain. They loosen up our soil so we can grow in different directions. - Virginia Casey
Not a day passes over this earth but men and women of note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows. - Charles Reed
If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods. - Epictetus
When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear. - Mark Twain, American author and humorist
The best cure for anger is delay. - Seneca
Once you exercise fear and make it your practice, once you try resentment and make it your habit, once you employ aggression and make it routine, those actions will dominate your destiny. No matter how painfully you've been wronged, stand in love in the midst of a huge temptation to be vengeful, prideful or hold back. The real nature of love is that the person you think has betrayed you the most is actually an agent of the divine offering you the opportunity for grace. - Mary Manin Morrissey
*All you have shall some day be given; Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors - Kahlil Gibran
*That best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. - William Wordsworth
In the second Star Wars movie, The Empire Strikes Back, Luke Skywalker asks Yoda, the wise one, How am I to know the good from the bad?' Yoda answers: You will know through peace and calm. You know you are making the right decision how to deal with betrayal, because you will find peace and calm. - Mary Manin Morrissey
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genius begins great works; labour alone finishes them. - Joseph Joubert
A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad. -
Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels. - Hebrews 13:2
*Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. - Aristotle
*Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows. - Sir William Osler
The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage. - Joseph Conrad
*Life is like a trumpet. If you don’t put anything into it, you don’t get anything out. ~ W.C. Handy
What good is it for me if Mary gave birth to the Son of God 1400 years ago and I don't give birth to God's son in my person and my culture and my times? - Meister Eckhart quoted in Original Blessing by Matthew Fox
People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering. -
The Immaculate Conception is true for each of us. In the mind of God, we are conceived immaculately. We are a perfect and whole conception and there is nothing missing in the soul of any one of us. Our spiritual work, and our joy, is to awaken to that truth. - Mary Manin Morrissey
Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success. - Oscar Wilde
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Achieving success and personal glory in athletics has less to do with wins and losses than it does with learning how to prepare yourself, so that at the end of the day, whether on the track or in the office, you know that there was nothing more you could have done to reach your ultimate goal. - Jackie Joyner-Kersee
I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do. - Helen Keller
One way we can know that we are aligned with the Life Force that is God is that we feel more and more alive. Notice what gives you aliveness and what diminishes you, deadens and numbs you so that you only skim the surface of life. Begin to say yes to what quickens and energizes, to that which brings joy and gratitude. - Mary Manin Morrissey
When we make a commitment to a spiritual practice that brings growth, a compassionate universe sends us temptation. It is not in the absence, but in the face of temptation that we have the opportunity to say no to the lesser, so that we can say yes to the greater. We call forth the light, the strength and the healing that is God to lead us. - Mary Manin Morrissey
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. - Phillips Brooks
True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess. - Louis Nizer
Love, compassion, and tolerance are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive. If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it if you have love, compassion, and tolerance. - His Holiness the Dalai Lama, For the Love of God
Tell a trusted person of your commitment to your spiritual path. Ask them to simply hold you in consciousness as you walk through your challenges and face your temptations. Let the belief of another sustain you when you cannot believe in yourself. - Mary Manin Morrissey
*To live at this time is an inestimable privilege, and a sacred obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities. - Grenville Kleiser
To truly find God, truth needs to be found independently from the opinions of others. The truth has to be found in our hearts. - A.H. Almaas, in For the Love of God
Raising kids is like being pecked to death by a duck! - Unknown
Because we choose our thoughts, we choose our lives. Thoughts that we energize and infuse and contemplate become real to us. We cannot choose the weather, or another's behavior, but we do choose our experience of any situation. Herein lies our point of power: How we choose to respond. Today, choose to recognize good (God) a the center of every situation. - Mary Manin Morrissey
Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself. - Mother Teresa
*Help your brother's boat across, and your own will reach the shore. - Hindu proverb
*He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices in what he has. - Epictetus
*We are given one life, and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind or whether to act, and in acting, to live. - Omar Bradley
*No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently. - Agnes George DeMille
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable. - Helen Keller
We bear the imprint of the Divine. We are created in the image and likeness of our Creator. When we hold on to resentment, bitterness or anger, we drain away the creative energy with which we are entrusted as co-creators with God. Today, turn your attention to what you want to create more of. - Mary Manin Morrissey
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. - Robert G. Ingersoll
*Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. - Mark Twain
*A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string. - George Prentice
We have probed the earth, excavated it, burned it, ripped things from it, buried things in it. ...That does not fit my definition of a good tenant. If we were here on a month-to-month basis, we would have been evicted long ago. - Rose Elizabeth Bird
*When you see the Earth from space, you don't see any divisions of nation-states there. This may be the symbol of the new mythology to come; this is the country we will celebrate, and these are the people we are one with. - Joseph Campbell
Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey. - Harold B. Melchart
*Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way...you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions. - Aristotle
Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience. - James Freeman Clarke
Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God. - William Law
The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions. - William F. Scolavino
The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues. - Marcus Aurelius
How often events, by chance, and quite unexpectedly, come to pass, which you had not dared even to hope for! - Terence, Roman playwright
The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper. - Aristotle
'Hope' is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul- And sings the tune without words And never stops- at all. - Emily Dickinson
What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it. - Johann von Goethe
Try working with this affirmation; repeat it several times today: I courageously walk in the truth of my real self, no matter how wonderful it is. - Mary Manin Morrissey
Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey. - Thomas A. Edison
When we witness, we share our personal experience of our spiritual lives, not to coerce somebody onto our path, but to simply share what is wonderful for us, through our relationship with God. - Mary Manin Morrissey
The highest qualities of character must be earned. - Lyman Abbott
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. - Aeschylus
Spirituality cannot be something a person toys with, a little compartment of their lives. It has to be at the core, in a way that affects every other part of their lives. - Stephen Covey
*When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it. - Alan Paton
*I doubt whether the world holds for anyone a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream. - Heywood C. Broun
The growth of the human mind is still high adventure, in many ways the highest adventure on earth. - Norman Cousins
The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back. - Marcus Annaeus Seneca
*People with high levels of personal mastery do not set out to integrate reason and intuition. Rather, they achieve it naturally-as a by-product of their commitment to use all the resources at their disposal. They cannot afford to choose between reason and intuition, or head and heart, any more than they would choose to walk on one leg or see with one eye. - Peter Senge
One day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but that it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means. - Martin Luther King Jr.
There is nothing in any of our pasts, nothing, that is greater than God. - Mary Manin Morrissey
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure. - General Colin Powell
It's funny how many of our problems result from our entirely unrealistic expectations of what Life is supposed to be Like. I don't see inscribed anywhere on my birth certificate a promise that life was going to be easy or simple-and yet a part of me deeply resents the fact that it isn't easy or simple, as though I had a right to that. - Molly Wolf in A Place Like Any Other
The essence of all religions is love, compassion, and tolerance. Kindness is my true religion. The clear proof of a person's love of God is if that person genuinely shows love to fellow human beings. - The Dalai Lama
Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. - Betty Smith
The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal. - Walter Lippmann
Without an understanding of myth or religion, without an understanding of the relationship between destruction and creation, death and rebirth, the individual suffers the mysteries of life as meaningless mayhem alone. - Marion Woodman
Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes a difference. - Nolan Bushnell
The energy of the mind is the essence of life. – Aristotle
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster children into strength and athletic proportion. - William C. Bryant
A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities. - Charles DeGaulle
Just turn toward God. That's all. Adjust your attention upward. Steer your heart's movement towards That which is Divine. That is enough. - Marsha Sinetar
No matter what we have done, God always offers us the chance to begin anew. Knowing that God grants us a new beginning, we, too, can look at our parents, our children, our partner or our friends, anyone with whom we've had some distance, and say, Let's have a new beginning. Love is greater than any of our mistakes. -Mary Manin Morrissey
Most people don't really need advice. They just need support and discipline in doing what they already know works. - Marianne Williamson
*The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does the reverse. – Confucius
To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions. - Benjamin Franklin
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. - Joseph Addison
[W]e must believe in ourselves or no one else will believe in us; we must match our aspirations with the competence, courage and determination to succeed. - Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
*A friend is one who sees through you and still enjoys the view. - Wilma Askinas
*Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be. - Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time. - Jean Cocteau
When we are unable to love and appreciate ourselves and our efforts, we run away from our mistakes and failures, rather than learning from them. - Meredith L. Young-Sowers
Progress in every age results only from the fact that there are some men and women who refuse to believe that what they know to be right cannot be done. - Russell W.
Every one has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend. - Marian Anderson
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained. - Marie Curie
It may be that each individual consciousness is a brain cell in a universal mind. - Sir James Jeans
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of. - Benjamin Franklin
*It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and injustice. - Senator Robert F. Kennedy
The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat. - A. J. Cronin
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. - Robert F. Kennedy
To achieve great things, we must live as though we were never going to die. - Luc de Clapiers Vauvenargues
Don't bother about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust to hard work, perseverance and determination. - Sir Frederick Treves
He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age. – Plato
*Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom. - Thomas Carlyle
The great end of life is not knowledge but action. - Thomas Henry Huxley
A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else. - Andre Malraux
Never mistake motion for action. - Ernest Hemingway
I had rather do and not promise than promise and not do. - Arthur Warwick
Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. - Joseph Addison
So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The highest wisdom is continual cheerfulness; such a state, like the region above the moon, is always clear and serene. - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Whilst there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness is not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful. - H. G. Wells
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. - Malcom Forbes
Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things. - Samuel M. Shoemaker
Albert Schweitzer said, I don't know what you will do in this life but I do know this one thing: Only those of you who have learned how to serve will be truly happy. When you feel disappointment, when life fails to meet your expectations, try making this shift: Look beyond yourself and say, Whose life can I touch right now? What difference can I make? How might I serve? There is great comfort for us in serving others. -Mary Manin Morrissey
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away. - Henry David Thoreau
When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before. - Mae West
Sometimes we think we will be able to extend more love and experience heaven on earth when earth gets different. When we get to have a little more money, when we get to have that right person in our lives, when we get to have the body shape we want, then we can be more loving. But Jesus didn't say, You will be the light of the world when... You are the light right now. - Mary Manin Morrissey
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. -
The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be. – Socrates
Love for God doesn't happen overnight. It's an approach and an approach and an approach. It happens fractionally, when we make the decision: I really do want to do God's will. I really do want to shift from a mediocre level of living to a higher kind of living. I really do want to learn to love well. We make that decision and then we go back to our day. We will remember, then we will forget. But over time, we begin to remember more, and our love, and lives, deepen. - Mary Manin Morrissey
If I penetrate to the depths of my own existence ... I pass into the infinite I AM, which is the very name of the Almighty. - Thomas Merton
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost. - Aristotle
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. - Irving Kristol
In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility. - Norman Cousins
*As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. - Abraham Lincoln
Every one of us is wired up to be a representative for God. We're here to be God. We're here to make a representation of God's love, God's wisdom, God's power, God's glory. To paraphrase Jesus: Let your light so shine that others see the glory of God through the activity, or the lens, of your life. Shining that light isn't something that will happen to us; it can only happen through us. - Mary Manin Morrissey
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. - William James
To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again - this is the brave and happy life. - J.E. Buchrose
He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. - John Milton
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. - Aristotle
Our breath is the bridge from our body to our mind. - Thich Nhat Hanh
There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause. - George Matthew Adams
*Correction does much, but encouragement does more. - Goethe
There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise. - Roger Ascham
We live by encouragement and die without it - slowly, sadly, angrily. - Celeste Holm
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. - Thomas Carlyle
I wanted a perfect ending... Now, I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment, and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. - Gilda Radner
Life is filled with suffering, but it is also filled with many wonders, like the blue sky, the sunshine, the eyes of a baby. To suffer is not enough. We must also be in touch with the wonders of life. They are within us and all around us, everywhere, any time. - Thich Nhat Hanh
Thus, ultimately to try to escape a distress merely perpetuates that distress. What is so upsetting is not the distress itself, but our attachment to that distress. We identify with it, and that alone is the real difficulty. - Ken Wilber
What is the definition of a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. – Oscar Wilde
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed. - Natalie Clifford Barney
In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see. - Elie Wiesel
Each of us has a divine assignment: to live in and express love. It is a task you are uniquely equipped to perform. Nobody else will ever know the exact mix of people that you do. Nobody else will ever have the opportunities you do to bless their lives. You have been designated to leave a loving impression on your partner, parents, children, neighbors, co-workers and a whole host of people you have yet to encounter. Like George Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life, you cannot begin to imagine how your loving influence can shape the world. - Mary Manin Morrissey
The truth is more important than the facts. - Frank Lloyd Wright
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth. - Maya Angelou
We are meant to learn a love that overcomes all challenges, difficulty and estrangement. Our task is not to try to get that love into us, because unconditional, dynamic love is already here. Our task is to uncover it, to touch and experience it, and then express this dynamic love in such a way that we fulfill the purpose for which we were born. - Mary Manin Morrissey
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