Darwin, Charles Robert (1809-1882)
"If I had to live my life again, I would make a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept active through use."

Diana, Princess of Wales (1961-1997)
"I am always going to be true to myself."

Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)
"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else."

Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
"'Hope' is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul --
and sings the tune without words and never stops -- at all."

Disney, Walter Elias (1901-1966)
"You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."

"Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a person who knows the secret of making his dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C's. They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage and Constancy, and the greatest of these is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way."

Drummond, Henry (1851-1897)
"You will find, as you look back upon your life, the moments
that stand out, the moments when you have really lived,
are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love."

Dyer, Wayne(1940-)
"Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed."

"You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being - not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money - but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason."

Meister Eckhart (1260-1326)
"Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest to all of us."

Edison, Thomas Alva (1847-1931)
"I have not failed, I have only found 10,000 ways that will not work."

Ehrmann, Max
"With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy."

Einstein, Albert (1879-1955)
"If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would
literally astound ourselves."

"The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

"We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility."

Eliot, George (Mary Ann Evans) (1819-1880)
"Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right. Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it."

"You are never too old to be what you might have been."

Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965)
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)
"Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

"The only true gift is a portion of yourself."

Everett, Douglas
"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there
are some who face reality; and then there are those who
turn one into the other."

Fontey, Margaret
"The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous."

Forbes, Malcolm S.(1919-1990)
"The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy."

Frank, Anne (1929-1944)
"I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart."

Frost, Robert (1874-1963)
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference."
[The Road Not Taken]

Gawain, Shakti
"Work and play are the same. When you're following your energy and doing what you want all the time, the distinction between work and play dissolves."

Gandhi (1869-1948)
"Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

Geisel, Theodor S., aka Dr. Seuss (1904-1991)
"I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all of life's realities."

Goodman, Ellen
"I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced that they are about to change the world, I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another."

Grahame, Kenneth (1859-1932)
"'Beyond the wild wood comes the wide world,' said the rat."

Hayes, Helen (1900-1993)
[at age 73] "The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy."

Hepburn, Katharine (1907-2003)
"If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun."

Holt, Victoria (Eleanor Hibbert aka Jean Plaidy 1906-1993)
"Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience."

Hugo, Victor Marie (1802-1885)
"The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are
loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."

Huxley, Aldous (1894-1963)
"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him."

Jackson, Shirley (1916-1965)
"No living organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream."

Joel, Billy
"It's OK to mess up. You should give yourself a break."

Jones, James Earl (1931- )
"One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter."

Keller, Helen Adams (1880-1968)
"One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar."

"Sure, the world is full of trouble. But, as long as we have people undoing trouble, we have a pretty good world."

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."

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

Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)
"When written in Chinese the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity."

King Jr., Dr. Martin Luther (1929-1968)
"Everybody can be great . . . because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love."

"If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep
streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played
music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets
so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause
to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well."

"Only in the darkness can you see the stars."

Krishnamurti, J. (1895-1986)
"The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed."

Kubler-Ross, Elizabeth
"Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from."

"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 within."

"The ultimate lesson all of us have is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well."