"Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, 'Grow, grow.'"

The Talmud

The absence of evidence is not the evidnce of absence.

Ed wuncler(boondocks)

"Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today."

Stewart B. Johnson

Who told you that there is a human without challenges? Strive and work it out.

"Waiting to develop courage is just another form of procrastination. The most successful people take action while they're afraid."

Author Unknown

"Dreams do come true, ....... You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it."

-- J. M. Barrie, Dramatist

"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things."

Albert Einstein

"Love isn't blind, it just only sees what matters."

William Curry

"You will get what you want, when you stop making excuses on why you don't have it."

Author Unknown

"People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity."

-- Andrew Carnegie, Industrialist

"Don't be afraid to take a big step if needed. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps."

-- Anonymous

"Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things."

-- Denis Diderot, French Philosopher and Writer

“History shows us that the people who end up changing the world – the great political, social, scientific, technological, artistic, even sports revolutionaries – are always nuts, until they are right, and then they are geniuses.”

- John Eliot

"Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to everyone you can."

Ancient Advice

"Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small."

Lao Tzu

"Sometimes the best helping hand you can get is a good, firm push."

-- Joann Thomas

To Some BREAK Is A Time To Rest. To Many BREAK Is An Interface Between The Past And The Present. BUT ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT BREAK IS A TIME TO MOURN OUR YESTERDAY AND PREPARE FOR OUR TOMORROW BECAUSE LIFE IS NOT A PARKING SPACE BUT A RACE TRACK.

"The difference in winning and losing is most often... not quitting."

-- Walt Disney, Animator, Film Producer

"Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon."

Michael Jordan

"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises."

-- Demosthenes, statesman

The greatest threat to FREEDOM is lack of CRITICISM.

Kukere (Meaning don't worry)

Iyanya

"No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals."

-- Brian Tracy, Author

"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance."

-- Bruce Barton, Executive

"Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases."

Jeremy Collier

"I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been."

-- Wayne Gretzky, Hockey Player

"When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it - but all that had gone before."

-- Jacob Riis, Photographer and Journalist

"Many times the attacks and criticisms of others have much more to do with them than us. If we get caught up trying to adjust ourselves to other people's negative energy, we lose touch with our core. These slings and arrows offer us the opportunity to strengthen our core sense of self, and to learn to dodge and deflect other people's misdirected negativity. The more we do this, the more we are able to discern what belongs to us and what belongs to other people."

Natasha Dern




*Read it two days ago in the paper. Thought it was important and wanted to share.

"All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea."

-- Napoleon Hill, author

"You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks."

Winston Churchill

"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."

Epictetus

"The secret of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well."

Henry W. Longfellow