Here are a few of my favorite quotations. This list is always changing...
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.
- Samuel Adams, 1776
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
- Dr. Seuss
I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.
- Jane Austen
Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.
- Ayn Rand
Ask youself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves--or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.
- Ayn Rand
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
-Mark Twain
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
- Anonymous
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us.
- Hamerton
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mahatma Ghandi
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each of us must start by challenging ourselves. It may seem like a simple thing, but if each of us does this, it will set in motion a momentous wave of change. Let us challenge ourselves anew now.
- Daisaku Ikeda
Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
