Everything started as nothing.
"Principles have no real force except when one is well fed." ~~ Mark Twain
"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet." ~~ Plato
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." ~~Plato
"It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength." ~~ Maya Angelou
"Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold." ~~ Zelda Fitzgerald
"When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old." ~~ Mark Twain
"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated." ~~ Maya Angelou
"Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous." ~~ Bill Moyers
"In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy." ~~Karl Reiland
"There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing." ~~Maya Angelou
"I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver." ~~ Maya Angelou
"Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination." ~~ Voltaire
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." ~~ Dr. Seuss
"Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties." ~~ Erich Fromm
"It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another." ~~ George McDonald
"Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all." ~~ Mark Twain
"The decision to overlook the seeming inequities of life instead of reacting to them is a choice." ~~ David R. Hawkins
"The only gift is a portion of thyself." ~~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed." ~~ Irene Peter
"Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs." ~~ Pearl Strachan
"He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality." ~~Anwar Sadat
"I don't think I can have it all, but with a little luck I should be able to have more than my fair share." ~~George Carlin
"Wine is proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy." ~~Benjamin Franklin
"We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls." ~~ Winston Churchill
"The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization." ~~ Sigmund Freud
"It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has." ~~ Henry Ward Beecher
"The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention." ~~Oscar Wilde
"Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative." ~~Oscar Wilde
Though the lion and the antelope happen to live in the same forest, the antelope still has time to grow up.
"Know that it is the waves of Love that turn the wheels of Heaven." ~~ Rumi
"Opportunities multiply as they are seized." ~~ Sun Tzu
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way. ~ Buddha
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. ~ Albert Einstein
"Until you value yourself you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it." ~~ M Scott Peck
"Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want." ~~ Jim Rohn
"The more we sweat in peace, the less we bleed in war." ~~ Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
"When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others." ~~ Peace Pilgrim
"Nothing purchased can come close to the renewed sense of gratitude for having family and friends." ~~ Courtland Milloy
For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now. ~ James Allen
"It's never crowded along the extra mile." ~~ Wayne Dyer
"Rain does not fall on one roof alone." ~~ African Proverb, Cameroon
"It takes one to know one." ~~ American Proverb
"Sorrow is like a precious treasure, shown only to friends." ~~ African Proverb
"Be one in love." ~~ Hawaiian Proverb
"It is he who has no place to call at that moves fast through life." ~~ African Proverb
"A person on whose head lice are being removed, must be grateful." ~~ African Proverb, Nigeria
"Youth is wasted on the young."~~English proverbs
"A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing."~~ Jewish proverb
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry." ~~ Jewish Proverb "One step at a time is good walking." ~~ Chinese proverb
"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil." ~~ Socrates
"Govern a family as you would cook a small fish, very gently." ~~ Chinese Proverbs
"A man is not where he lives, but where he loves." ~~ Latin Proverb
"When we have nothing to worry about we are not doing much, & not doing much may supply us with plenty of future worries."~~Chinese Proverb
"Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty." ~~ Sicilian Proverb
"The journey is the reward." ~~ Chinese Proverbs
"The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour." ~~ Japanese proverb
"You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars." ~~ Henry Ford
"There's none so blind as those who will not see." ~~ English proverbs
"Keep a green tree in your heart & perhaps a singing bird will come." ~~Chinese Proverb
"Time in prayer is not time wasted. It's time invested!
"Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing useful service." ~~ Henry Ford
"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle." ~~ Khalil Gibran
"To love beauty is to see light." ~~ Victor Hugo
"Since love grows, so beauty grows. For love is beauty of the soul." ~~ St. Augustine
"Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.'' ~~ Mahalia Jackson
"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible." ~~ Tony Robbins
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." ~~ Anais Nin
"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough." ~~ Rabindranath Tagore
"If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought." ~~ Peace Pilgrim
"Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship" ~~ Buddha
Withdraw yourself from the never ending masquerade of life. Go within, there you will find your treasure
"We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race." ~~ Kofi Annan
"A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity." ~~ The Buddha
"We are most like God when we forgive." ~~ Unknown
"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy." ~~ Rabindranath Tagore
"The brightest stars are those who shine for the benefit of others." ~~ Anonymous
"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop." ~~ Mother Teresa
"Life is like an onion;you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep." ~~ Carl sandburg
"God is the ultimate fragrance of your consciousness." ~~ Osho
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled." ~~ Plutarch
"If you have found your truth within yourself there is nothing more in this whole existence to find." ~~ Osho
''If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.'' ~~ Seneca
"True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose." ~~ Helen Keller "Of course, it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story." ~~ Margaret Thatcher
Things in life is difficult but if you never give up, success comes. I will learn my lesson from now.
"Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you and in the end you are sure to succeed." ~~ Abraham Lincoln
"A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them." ~~Henry Kravis. "Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you and in the end you are sure to succeed." ~~ Abraham Lincoln
It isn't always necessary to achieve great things. Sometimes, just surviving is a great achievement.
Granted, imperfection is beauty, but what is more beautiful is the relentless effort put in the desire to be perfect.
"I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be." ~~ Groucho Marx
Commitment is a powerful thing. It removes obstacles and puts us in Alignment to where we are going." ~~ Cindy Santi
"I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution." ~~ Wernher von Braun
It doesn't matter if the glass is half empty or half full, be grateful you have a glass and grateful you have something in it.
"Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure." ~~ Paulo Coelho
"Your soul - that inner quiet space - is yours to consult. It will always guide you in the right direction." ~~ Dr. Wayne Dyer
Life is fragile. Handle with prayer.
"The only disability in life is a bad attitude." ~~ Scott Hamilton
A smile is a curved line that sets everything straight.
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." ~~Martin Luther King, Jr.
If it's not the truth it's a lie, not matter how much you want it to be true.
Oftentimes when you take things for granted ,, the things you are granted gets taken.
He who questions nothing learns nothing.
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
"The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives." ~~ Albert Einstein.
You are never fully dressed without a smile.
The power of the angels lies in their love of God.
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present. ~ Machiavelli
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
"God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk." ~~ Meister Eckhar
"Don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, you can't go wrong." ~~ Ella Fitzgerald
"Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?" ~~ Jimmy Johnson
Find your authentic self, express it fearlessly, charge a premium for it. Give back. Repeat.
"Faith can move mountains, but don't be surprised if God hands you a shovel." ~~Author Unknown
"Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is its twin brother." ~~ Kahlil Gibran
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