"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life."

~ William Osler

"Sports is like a war without the killing."

~ Ted Turner

"The trouble with a kitten is that when it grows up, it's always a cat."

~ Ogden Nash

“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”

~ Jawaharlal Nehru

“Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.”

~ William Somerset Maugham

“We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character”

~ Henry David Thoreau

“Life is either a great adventure or nothing.”

~ Hellen Keller

"Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keep friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment."



Greenville Kleisser

"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false, which was not accompanied by at least one laugh."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew."



Saint Francis de Sales

"Prosperity is not without many fears and disasters; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes."

~ Francis Bacon

"We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey."

~ Kenji Miyazawa

"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials."

~ Chinese proverb

"The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."

~ Epictetus

"Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines."

~ Robert Schuller

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."

~ Japanese proverb

"The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind."
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting."

- William Arthur Ward

"There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle." - Albert Einstein

Happiness

"Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold, the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul." - Democritus

"Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving." - Kahlil Gibran

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan, "Press on," has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

~ Calvin Coolidge

You must have long range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short range failures.

—Charles Noble.

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says, “I'll try again tomorrow."

—Mary Anne Radmacher-Hershey

The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

~ Chinese proverb

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

~ Robertson Davies.

When things go wrong as they sometimes will,
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit
Rest if you must, but don't you quit.
Success is failure turned inside out,
The silver tint on the clouds of doubt,
And you can never tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems afar.
So, stick to the fight when you're hardest hit
It's when things go wrong that you mustn't quit.

~ Unknown

Don't get discouraged; it is often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.

~ Unknown