Batch 22

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow". – Anonymous

Absence diminishes commonplace passions and enhances great ones. - French Proverb

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. - Kahlil Gibran

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. -Warren Buffet

If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back. - Lois McMaster Bujold

"Just living isn't enough," said the butterfly, "one must also have freedom, sunshine, and a little flower." -Hans Christian Anderson

To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral down into ever increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one of the things that discipline - training – is about. - James Clavell, in his novel "Shogun"

When we are mindful of every nuance of our natural world, we finally get the picture: that we are only given one dazzling moment of life here on Earth, and we must stand before that reality both humbled and elevated, subject to every law of our universe and grateful for our brief but intrinsic participation with it. (From her biography of naturalist Eustace Conway.) - Elizabeth Gilbert

The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever. - Anatole France

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine. -Morris West

Some people think it's holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it's letting go. -Sylvia Robinson

You cannot add to the peace and good will of the world if you fail to create an atmosphere of harmony and love right where you live and work. - Thomas Dreier

Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. -Howard Thurman

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. -Erin Majors

Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot. - The Hausa of Nigeria

God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them. - Aughey

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do. - Mother Teresa

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity. - Christopher Morley

There is a sense of exhilaration that comes from facing head-on the hard truths and saying, "We will never give up. We will never capitulate. It might take a long time, but we will find a way to prevail." - Jim Collins, from his book, Good to Great

Genuine security arises from actual, first-hand knowledge that one is both capable and worthy of achieving happiness (through conscious, responsible action) and, once having attained it, that he deserves it. - Michael J. Hurd

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change. - Euripides

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. - Michael Jordan

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day. - William James

It is better to wear out one's shoes than one's sheets. - Genoese Proverb

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. - Thich Nhat Hanh

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still. - Chinese Proverb

Wisdom comes alone through suffering. – Aeschylus

We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are. - The Talmud

Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity on the inside. - Brian Tracy

When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. - Helen Keller

There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day. - Alexander Woollcott

If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. - Buddhist Proverb

I am happy and content because I think I am. - Alain-Rene Lesage

If you are doing your best, you will not have time to worry about failure. - Robert Hillyer

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. - Anais Nin

There will be peace on earth when there is peace among the world religions. No future for the planet without world peace; no world peace without peace between the nations; no peace between the nations without peace between religions; no peace between religions without religious dialogue."- Hans Kung

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions. - Albert Einstein

Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe. - Tao Te Ching

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 proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself. - Thomas Szasz

I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate. - George Burns

Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. - Alphonse Karr

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation. - Corrie ten Boom

Beauty, truth, friendship, love, creation - these are the great values of life. We can't prove them, or explain them, yet they are the most stable things in our lives. - Jesse Herman Holmes

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory. - Betty Smith

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was. - Abraham Lincoln

It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier. - Thomas Robert Gaines

Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes. - Victor Hugo

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves. - William Shakespeare

Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it. - Winston Churchill

On with the dance; let joy be unconfined is my motto, whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfine. - Mark Twain

A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner. - English proverb

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test. - Elbert Hubbard

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit. - Nelson Henderson