Sunday, February 25, 2007

Batch 8

*Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we do not experience it. - Rollo May, The Cry for Myth

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later, this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces. - Carl Sagan

Authentic spiritual practice takes place in the core and context of our daily lives. Every day we are given opportunity after opportunity to make a choice for peace or a choice for conflict. Moment by moment we choose. This is your day. Choose well. - Mary Manin Morrissey

There are some people who are not safe to walk through the streets of our minds. You know who those persons are for you. Who is it that you have the most trouble thinking about with love in your heart? Practice bringing those people to mind and practice wishing them well. You don't have to love them. You don't even have to like them. Just wish them well. The healing will begin to happen in your heart. - Mary Manin Morrissey

We are at a point in history where a proper attention to space, and especially near space, may be absolutely crucial in bringing the world together. - Margaret Mead

Nothing endures but change. - Heraclitus, about 500 B.C.

If I could get one message to you it would be this: the future of this country and the welfare of the free world depends upon our success in space. There is no room in this country for any but a fully cooperative, urgently motivated all-out effort toward space leadership. No one person, no one company, no one government agency, has a monopoly on the competence, the missions, or the requirements for the space program. - Lyndon Baines Johnson

We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are known as panic. - Cullen Hightower

We are fragments of something whose size and shape we do not know, but as fragments of it, we are essential to its wholeness. This means that you and I have an assignment, an opportunity, a call to the light. There are dark places where love is not yet felt and known and expressed in our world and it is our opportunity to bring the light into those places. It is in this way that we begin to discover and feel God's presence and we begin to find a deeper relationship with God. - Mary Manin Morrissey

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

*There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion. - Lord John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton

Courage is the greatest of all the virtues. Because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others. - Samuel Johnson

Forgiveness is the energy that opens us to love; forgiveness transforms our whole lives. But we have to want that. We have to want to know God better, to know love better. The hard work of forgiveness heals not the other person, but ourselves. - Mary Manin Morrissey

*We need to acknowledge our own responsibility for the image of God that we are content to believe in. -Diana Eck

You have in you an upward call to God, to good. You are being called into your greatness, into your true being, into that which you came to be and do. It will not leave you contented with littleness or with settling for less. God's persistent call for love may come as a yearning or an impulse to kindness. Say yes to God's love. Ask, listen, and then follow the highest guidance you've got. - Mary Manin Morrissey

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds... In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most previous thought, and pour their souls into ours. - William Ellery Channing

Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept. - Carl Lotus Becker

*In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you. - Mortimer Adler

*A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity, and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon, and by moonlight. - Robertson Davies

*My wife gave me a nose hair clipper for my birthday. I guess she finally realized that wasn't a mustache. ~ Lee Entrekin

An absolute, fundamental New Thought belief is that God is bigger than any one religion. The core teachings of Jesus Christ can be found in every one of the world's great wisdom traditions. Those teachings are universal. The truth is universal. Jesus brought those teachings to us in a powerful, life-giving way and he said clearly to us, I am an example of a life lived from these truths, so follow me. That invitation calls us to a deeper, more profound partnership with God. - Mary Manin Morrissey

Socrates said, An unexamined life is not worth living. We might also say, An unlived life is not worth examining. We have been given this precious and beautiful life to live to its fullest. Sometimes it requires courage to step fully into the experience and expression of life. Today, take the risk to stand strong in all the opportunities life gives you. Ask the question: If God and I were really partners in life, what would I do here? - Mary Manin Morrissey

We have a direction that's right for us. Unfortunately, we miss the road signs because we are still looking over our shoulder at what we passed yesterday. The destiny we need, needs us too. Quietly focusing on our lives, one moment at a time, can assure us of fulfilling it. - unknown

*With one foot in the past and the other in the future, how can we possibly know what new path we might follow today? - Jan Pishok

Compassion operates at the same level as celebration because what is of most moment in compassion is not feelings of pity but feelings of togetherness. It is this awareness of togetherness that urges us to rejoice at another's joy (celebration) and to grieve at another's sorrow. Both dimensions, celebration and sorrow, are integral to true compassion. And this, above all, separates pity from compassion, for it is seldom that we would invite someone we had pity on to a common celebration ... There can be no compassion without celebration and there will be no authentic celebration that does not result in increased compassionate energies. -Matthew Fox

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. - Sir Francis Bacon

Righteous people have no sense of humor. - Bertolt Brecht

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it. - Frank A. Clark

You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face. It's nothing against you to fall down flat, But to lie there, that's disgrace. - Anonymous

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it. - Thomas Merton

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself. - Sir Thomas Browne

Solitude is the beginning of all freedom. - William Orville Douglas

*Only when one is connected to one's inner core is one connected to others. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be re-found through solitude. - Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh

When we are in pain and difficulty, we say we want our lives to be different. But sometimes we do not want to have to be any different ourselves. We want to partner with God in a way that gets us what we want but we don't want to really make any shifts. When we limit our experience of God's power, what we truly want cannot come into our experience. Our heart's deepest longing can only be fulfilled if we allow God's love to continually mold us and shape us and bend us and cause us to let go of the outdated and grab hold of a whole new way of life. - Mary Manin Morrissey

We're all going to have winds and waves in our lives but nothing that happens can destroy your life unless you allow it to destroy what's in you. Work on building conscious contact with God that is stronger than anything in the world, so you don't look to the world as your guidance. Look within and you will find the power and love of God. - Mary Manin Morrissey

*Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. - Dr. Leo Buscaglia

What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp. - Marjorie Holmes, writer

In the absence of touching and being touched, people of all ages can sicken and grow touch starved. - Diane Ackerman, author, A Natural History of The Senses

Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight. - Diane Ackerman, author, A Natural History of The Senses

Fine words and insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue. - Confucius, Chinese sage

*A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad, mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance. - Jean Iris Murdoch, Irish-born writer 

Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound why try to look like a Pekinese? - Edith Sitwell, British Poet

Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead. - Louisa May Alcott

Psychologists tell us that every one of us thinks an average of between 65,000 and 70,000 thoughts a day and 90 to 95% of those thoughts are repetitive. They're the same thoughts we've always thought and they become the patterns of our thinking. Thought patterns create the experiences of our lives. Listen to your thoughts today. Are they negative, self-limiting, self-diminishing? Or are they radiant with joy and life and creativity? We can change our thinking, and we can change the pattern of our lives. Herein lies the secret to authentic power. - Mary Manin Morrissey

We are awesomely and wonderfully made. Sons and daughters of the living God, we are created in God's image and likeness. As we align with this understanding, the windows of heaven open and pour upon us such a blessing we can't contain it because the life we have right now is too small. Our lives have to expand, and our lives get bigger because we open up to the greater flow of God's always available blessings. - Mary Manin Morrissey

As we begin a practice of living life excellently, we have to know, what does excellence look like? In your most meaningful relationships are you opening your heart, willing to really give? Or are you giving in a measured way, based on what someone else is giving? What if you just held the idea of what it meant to be an excellent partner and played to excellence instead of playing to how your partner is playing? What if you played to excellence at work? What would that be like? Excellence begets excellence. To have an excellent life, live life excellently. Beginning now. - Mary Manin Morrissey

Life beats down and crushes the soul, and art reminds you that you have one. - Stella Adler

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. ~ Fred Allen 

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy. - Robert Anthony, Think, Think On and Think Again

We are not promised that when we have a relationship with God, nothing bad will ever happen to us. That's a very immature kind of idea about God. A more mature relationship is, No matter what happens in my life, my relationship with You, God, is greater. Partnering with God gives us a strength and perception that tells us the kind of power within is greater than what's happening in the world and we know the truth, that we are not alone. - Mary Manin Morrissey

*Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of. - Benjamin Franklin

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: first, a dissatisfaction with self - a felt void or need; second, a decision to change - to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change - the willful act of making the change: doing something. - Dr. Leo Buscaglia

George Bush is the worst candidate. He is a corporation running for office, disguised as a person. - Ralph Nader

When we make a commitment to follow the voice for God in our lives and live accordingly, we seem to always fall short. But the key word is practice. When we drift away, our decision becomes a guiding mechanism to return to and over time, we live more and more the magnificent lives we were meant to have. - Mary Manin Morrissey

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star. Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are. - (Jean) Anthleme Brillant-Savarin, French author, chef, Physiology of Taste

Fish, to taste good, must swim three times: in water, in butter, and in wine. - Polish proverb

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one. - Mark Twain

If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others. - Baltasar Gracian

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence. - George Eliot

We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less. - Laertius Diogenes

*The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said. - Peter F Drucker

Every man ... should periodically be compelled to listen to opinions which are infuriating to him. To hear nothing but what is pleasing to one is to make a pillow of the mind. - John Ervine

*Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away. - Arthur Helps

In a human experience, the ego is the individual expression of the infinite soul. We are meant to have an ego, we are meant to have a personality; it is God's gift to us. It is the way our infinity expresses individuality. But when ego becomes our god, it leads us to separation. When it's tethered to that part of us from which we are guided by love, then it becomes the lens through which God's promise is made real, the promise for a life of greatness. - Mary Manin Morrissey

Mutuality, reciprocity and exchange are the marks of the fully human. In short, we are called to love and be loved. - Alan Jones

*I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me. - Abraham Lincoln

If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten. - George Carlin

Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way you're a mile away and you have their shoes, too. - Unknown

*The soul that has no established aim loses itself. - Montaigne

We take a risk when we open our hearts because the truth is, if we open our hearts, we will get hurt. You can't open your heart and not have some hurt because you're in a human experience. Even if it's the love of your life and you have many wonderful, deepening, growing, powerful years together, it's a human experience, and that person will pass over. Love takes courage. Be courageous. - Mary Manin Morrissey

*Being an ego is a full-time occupation. So many things are out to get you that there is no time for spontaneity and creativity. - Alan Jones

To find ways to love and care and support and encourage is what love would ask us to do, what the deepest part of ourselves asks our egos to find a way to do. Through commitment our personality aligns with our soul. As we guide our lives by this commitment, we become new and our lives are transformed. - Mary Manin Morrissey

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision. - Helen Adams Keller

*Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy, it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things. - Miyamoto Musashi, Japanese warrior and strategist

There's a term in biology known as homeostasis, the capacity to have an internal resilience to external forces. What if you had spiritual homeostasis where you had such strong, internal spiritual fortitude that no matter what the circumstance in your life, that internal fortitude would be stronger? To have that kind of homeostasis requires a kind of relationship with God that puts love first. To stay diligent in this practice deepens us in our spiritual strength. It's not something we do once and stop. It's a way of living life, beginning any time you choose. - Mary Manin Morrissey

Gratitude is one of the sweet shortcuts to finding peace of mind and happiness inside. No matter what's going on outside of us, there's always something we could be grateful for. - Barry Neil Kaufman

We all find time to do what we really want to do. - William Feather

Practice doesn't make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect. You have to attend to it right now - every detail, right now. Mistakes are a part of life, but your mindset should be one of trying to do it right, right now. - Philip Toshido Sudo

There's a part of us that wants to rise up and move into our full power and potential, and there is another part of us that says, Shh! Be quiet! You don't deserve this. You don't have the education. You're too old. You're too poor. Look what happened to you... Who are you to think you can have this fullness of being? You are a child of God, unique, beautiful and irreplaceable. We can choose, every day, which voice we will listen to. - Mary Manin Morrissey

Courtesy is simply doing unto others what you would like them to do unto you. - Anonymous

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about, that at their first appearance, innovators have always been divided as fools and madmen. - Aldous Huxley

I have lots of ideas. Trouble is, most of them suck. - George Carlin

If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning. - Catherine Aird

To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear. - Buddha

Health is the greatest possession. - The Dhammapada

In our depths is a capacity for unconditional, dynamic love. Love's presence is already within every one of us. The task is to uncover it, to touch it, to experience it, and then learn how to express it in such a way that we fulfill the purpose for which we have come into the world. We do this through practicing loving kindness and our relationships then become our spiritual practice. - Mary Manin Morrissey

Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is. - Barbara Bush

I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with 'Guess' on it. I said, Thyroid problem?' - Arnold Schwarzenegger

Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon- master. - Rev. Jesse Jackson

What would be your last thought if you knew you were going to die in a few minutes? Would it be about money, or about prestige, or about a promotion? For most of us, our last thoughts would be about the people we love. Take a moment right now to think about them, and then reach out to them and let them know how much you care. - Mary Manin Morrissey

Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is. - Mark Twain

Behold the turtle, He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out. - James Bryant Conant

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. – Longfellow

Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance. – Plato

Be careful of reading health books, you might die of a misprint. - Mark Twain

Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck - but, most of all, endurance. - James Arthur Baldwin

*Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes. - Buddha

Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a moron. - George Carlin

*Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information. - Mark Twain

*Embrace every opportunity to love. It is a unique and unrepeatable moment. - Mary Manin Morrissey

*Sometimes we like to think that we are victims of our circumstances. But be honest with yourself. Know that in every moment, we choose how we will experience this life. We can choose love. - Mary Manin Morrissey

*The first step is to find out what you love - and don't be practical about it. The second step is to start doing what you love immediately, in any small way possible. I've seen what happens to people when they get to do what they love. They light up. They glow. They have a kind of energy that's wonderful. - Barbara Sher

*We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil. - James Lane Allen

Don't try to teach a pig to sing, it can't be done and it only ticks off the pig. - Robert Heinlein

If passion drives, let reason hold the reins. - Benjamin Franklin

The real wit tells jokes to make others feel superior, while the half-wit tells them to make others feel small. - Elmer Wheeler

Before you can do something that you've never done before, you have to be able to imagine it's possible. -Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D.

To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again - this is the brave and happy life. - J.E. Buchrose

*Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite. - Thomas Carlyle

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music. - Billy Joel

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves. -Teilhard de Chardin

*Maintaining a complicated life is a great way to avoid changing it. ~ Elaine St. James

*The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding. - Francis Bacon

*Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment. - R. Buckminster Fuller

*Every generation thinks it has the answers, and every generation is humbled by nature. - Phillip Lubin

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. - Richard Feynman

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible...what wine is so sparkling, so fragrant, so intoxicating, as possibility! - Soren Kierkagaard

Reverence for life is the ethic of love expanded to embrace the universe. -Albert Schweitzer

To be fully human means to be able to take responsibility for something and to serve it unconditionally. -Alan Jones

*Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier. - Charles Franklin Kettering

*Adventure isn't hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to the day-to-day obstacles of life: facing new challenges, seizing new opportunities, testing our resources against the unknown and, in the process, discovering our own unique potential. - John Amatt

*Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle. - Annie Besant

You get a lot of tension? You get a lot of headaches? I do what it says on the aspirin bottle: Take two and keep away from children ~ Rosanne 

Scientists are the easiest to fool. They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be. Children and conjurors - they terrify me. Scientists are no problem; against them I feel quite confident. - James P. Hogan

Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to. - Alfred A. Montapert

*Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation. - Gail Sheehy

I searched through rebellion, drugs, diets, mysticism, religions, intellectualism and much more, only to begin to find...that truth is basically simple - and feels good, clean and right. - Chick Corea

Many of us believe we have full awareness of who we are as God's daughters and sons. But all of us see only a minor fraction of our potential. If we can stand in the wonder, awe and mystery of the yet unknown, we will know that for all the sense of the miracle that any of us have ever experienced, it's a fraction of what's possible. And if we stay true to our spiritual practice, our connection with God's power and God's presence will grow. Today is the day to stay in the practice. -Mary Manin Morrissey

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. - Aristotle

The self is not something that one finds. It is something that one creates. - Thomas Szasz

*When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations. - Joseph Addison

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative. - Woody Allen

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. - Thomas Paine

You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference. - Chris Everett

Man has never made any material as resilient as the human spirit. - Bern Williams

*Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed. - Eileen Caddy

*Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. - Thomas Carlyle

*The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it. - Marcus Aelius Aurelius, Roman Emperor

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe. - Thomas Carlyle

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. - Chinese proverb

*Motivation is an external, temporary high that pushes you forward. Inspiration is a sustainable internal glow which pulls you forward. - Thomas Leonard

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. - William Shakespeare

Affairs are now soul size. The enterprise is exploration into God. - Christopher Fry

In many other cultures, it is commonplace to retreat from everyday life for a prescribed time and get in touch with the aspect of ourselves that is not goal-directed and time-oriented, is not concerned with gaining or losing, but is boundless and infinite. I call this aspect The One Who Is Not Busy. -Darlene Cohen in Finding A Joyful Life in the Heart of Pain

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving. - St. Francis De Sales

None of us can decide not to be in a relationship. Try not being in relationship with your breath! Life is about relationship. We're going to be in relationship anyway so our task is to learn how to experience a deeper, more profound meaning in the relationships that we are in, the greatest of which is our relationship with God. -Mary Manin Morrissey

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. - Albert Einstein

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity. - Vera Brittain

Music is expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life. - Stephen Gaskin

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. - Bette Davis

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, or what he can do, nothing else. - Mahatma Gandhi

*If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse, you may be dead. - Frank Gelett Burgess

When a man you like switches from what he said a year ago, or 4 years ago, he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough to change his mind with changing conditions. When a man you don't like does it, he is a liar who has broken his promises. - Franklin P. Adams

*Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. - Mark Twain

*It is some fundamental certainty which a noble soul has about itself, something which is not to be sought, is not to be found, and perhaps, also, is not to be lost. The noble soul has reverence for itself. - Friedrich Nietzsche

No one on the planet will ever have exactly the mix of the people in their lives that you do. No one else has the assignment to touch those particular people with love. You have been given a divine purpose that no one else can fulfill. We can do a hundred other things but if we don't do this one thing, at the end, it will be as if we have done nothing at all. -Mary Manin Morrissey

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading. - Lao Tse

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities, and to make the most of one's resources. - Vauvenargues

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. - Lloyd Alexander

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. - Winston Churchill

When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. - Dale Carnegie

When we appreciate all the circumstances of our lives, even the challenging ones, then we begin to open to the growing and the loving that is available to us. If, even in the midst of a struggle, we can appreciate that every act is either love or a call for love, then we can always respond with love. -Mary Manin Morrissey

You see things; and you say, Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not? - George Bernard Shaw

Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues. - Maya Angelou

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. - Aristotle

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