Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things,
in which smiles and kindness and small obligations, given habitually,
are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort. -Sir Humphrey Davy
His science was simply human and human science, I soon convinced myself,
could never conquer nature's laws so far as to imprison the soul. -Mary Shelley, The Last Man
If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds
and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them.
But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.
And who is willing to destroy a piece of their own heart? -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between political parties
either -- but right through every human heart. -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit -- and man is his own gardener."
-James Allen
Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-James Baldwin
Your body is the baggage you must carry through life. The more excess baggage, the shorter the trip." -Arnold H. Glasow
It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what
is charming, they give up thinking what is charming. -Oscar Wilde
"Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle
of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best." -Harry Emerson Fosdick
"The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention." -Richard Moss
"All things that a man owns hold him far more than he holds them." -Sigrid Undset
No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year -- ever since the day when the great liberator came to me: the idea that life could be an experiment of the seeker for knowledge -- and not a duty, not a calamity, not trickery."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving. Make everyday a holiday and celebrate
just living!" -Amanda Bradley
