““The life given to us by nature is The life given to us by nature is short, but the memory of a life short, but the memory of a life

well spent is eternal.”well spent is eternal.”

Cicero Cicero

“The love we give away is the only love we keep.”

Elbert Hubbard

“The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.”

Chinese Proverb

“I know you’ve heard it a thousand time before. But it’s true—hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.”

Ray Bradbury

““You can’t You can’t turn back turn back the clock, the clock, but you but you can wind can wind it up it up again.”again.”

““This is an art of drawing This is an art of drawing without an eraser.”without an eraser.”

John GardnerJohn Gardner

““It’s not that It’s not that I’m so smart, I’m so smart, it’s just that I it’s just that I

stay with stay with problems problems longer.”longer.”-- Albert -- Albert EinsteinEinstein

““When the real music comes to me – When the real music comes to me – the music of the spheres, the music the music of the spheres, the music that surpasses understanding—that that surpasses understanding—that has nothing to do with me ‘cause I’m has nothing to do with me ‘cause I’m just the Channel. The only joy for me just the Channel. The only joy for me is for it to be given to me and is for it to be given to me and transcribe it. Like a medium. Those transcribe it. Like a medium. Those moments are what I live for.”moments are what I live for.”

-- John Lennon-- John Lennon

“The only thing you have to fear, is fear itself”

Teddy Roosevelt

““You only get out of life what You only get out of life what you put into it.”you put into it.”

““Someone’s opinion of you does not Someone’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.”have to become your reality.”

-- Les Brown-- Les Brown

““Someone’s Someone’s opinion of you opinion of you does not have does not have

to become your to become your reality.”reality.”

-- Aristotle -- Aristotle

““Do not worry about what Do not worry about what others think of you; just worry others think of you; just worry

about your own opinions.”about your own opinions.”

“Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans.”

““Nobody can go back and Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but start a new beginning, but

anyone can start today and anyone can start today and make a new ending.”make a new ending.”

-- Maria Robinson-- Maria Robinson

“No one is perfect; that’s why pencils have erasers.”

““Until you spread your wings, Until you spread your wings, you’ll have no idea how far you’ll have no idea how far

you can fly.”you can fly.”

““The future depends on The future depends on what we do in the what we do in the

present.”present.”

-- Gandhi -- Gandhi

“Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. It’s our goal in life to find it and keep it lit.”

-- May Lou Retton

““You can’t laugh in the face You can’t laugh in the face of fear, because when you of fear, because when you

laugh at it, it isn’t fear laugh at it, it isn’t fear anymore.”anymore.”

-- Stephen Colbert-- Stephen Colbert

“There is always time to make right what is wrong.”

-- Susan Griffin

“In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do next time.”

-- Anthony D’Angelo

““The greatest failure The greatest failure is the failure to try.”is the failure to try.”

“To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.”

-- George MacDonald

““In good times In good times rejoice,rejoice,

in bad, push in bad, push through.”through.”

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”

-- Dr. Seuss

“Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value.”

-- Albert Einstein

““Beauty in things exists only in Beauty in things exists only in the mind, which contemplates it.”the mind, which contemplates it.”

-- David Hume-- David Hume

“A successful person is the one who can lay a firm foundation

with the bricks that others throw at him or her.”

-- David Brinkley

““The best things in life are The best things in life are the things you have to wait the things you have to wait

for.”for.”

““Not all is lost when you Not all is lost when you have only lost once.”have only lost once.”

“I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself.”

-- Michel de Montaigne

““Education is the most Education is the most powerful weapon which you powerful weapon which you

can use to change the can use to change the world.”world.”

““Education is the most Education is the most powerful weapon which you powerful weapon which you

can use to change the can use to change the world.”world.”

-- Nelson Mandela-- Nelson Mandela

“The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live”

Elbert Hubbard

“The greatest thing you can ever learn is to love and be loved in return.”

--- “Moulin Rouge”

““When one door of When one door of happiness closes, another happiness closes, another opens, but often we look opens, but often we look

so long at the closed door so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that we do not see the one that has been opened for that has been opened for

us.”us.”

-- Helen Keller-- Helen Keller

““The best way The best way out is always out is always

through”through”-- Robert Frost-- Robert Frost

Let us not look back in Let us not look back in anger,anger,

nor forward in fear,nor forward in fear,

but around in awareness.but around in awareness.

--- James Thurber--- James Thurber

““Hold fast to dreams, for Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a if dreams die, life is a

broken winged bird that broken winged bird that cannot fly.”cannot fly.”

-- Langston Hughes-- Langston Hughes

““You cannot dream yourself You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself hammer and forge yourself

one.”one.”

-- Henry David Thoreau -- Henry David Thoreau

““Believing in yourself is Believing in yourself is living your life to the living your life to the

fullest and loving fullest and loving yourself for who you yourself for who you

are.”are.”

-- Abdi - Mohamed

“The past can hurt. You can either run from it, or learn from it.”

-- “The Lion King”

“Imma be livin’ that good life.”

-- the Black Eyed Peas