new set ov qoutes

“Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.”

"If you focus on what you left behind, you'll never know what lies ahead. So go up and look around."

We have just enough religion to make us hate...
but not enough to make us love one another.
-Jonathan Swift

If you have love in your life, you have life

“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.”
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
author, playwright

"Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence."
~Erich Fromm~

never let you emotions handle your decisions...

Do your best shot in everything you do..

"if you take an eye for an eye - then the whole world will be blind"]

Responsibility is a virtue when you apply it on yourself...

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh

"the mind is the sword that pierces through every living soul, while the heart is the shield that gets hit for every single blow.."
-the war of hearts and minds

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

heartbreak is the greatest equilizer in this world...
it can bring the strongest person alive down to his/her knees....

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
26th U.S. President

"Most successful men have not achieved their distinction
by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them.
They have developed the opportunity that was at hand."
- Bruce Marton

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain.
It's not something you learn in school.
But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship,
you really haven't learned anything.
-Muhammad Ali-

We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box.
- Robert Fulghum
(b.1937) author, pastor

"Words don't have POWER OVER YOU...unless the PERSON who said it MEANS ALOT TO YOU"

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men. ”
- Herman Melville (1819-1891)
novelist, poet

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
- Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)
theologian, philosopher, physician

People spend a lifetime searching for HAPPINESS; looking for PEACE... They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people... hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them... The irony is, the only place they ever needed to search was WITHIN...

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

“ I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. ”

- William Faulkner (1897-1962),
novelist, Nobel Prize winner

“ The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. ”

- Nelson Henderson,
author

“ The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. ”

- William James (1842-1910)
psychologist, philosopher, author

“ Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
poet, essayist and lecturer