Sandra Anne Taylor

Life is an eternal array of opportunities. The difficulties are as fleeting as the joys, with life expressing itself in every common moment.

Mary Montagu

There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.

William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

The miserable have no other medicine
But only hope.

Paulo Coelho

“We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path."

Paulo Coelho

“If you’re brave enough to say “good bye,” life will reward you with a new “hello.”

Steve Jobs

"Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."

Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi

Out there, beside what is right and what is wrong, there is an enormous field. That is where we will meet.

Ghandi

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

Anonymous

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."

Abraham Lincoln

"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

Anonymous

"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it."

Benjamin Disraeli

"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth."

Anonymous

"The more significance you give the moment, the more the moment has the opportunity to be significant."

Kathleen Winsor

"Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, they never get around to do what they want to do."

William Boetcker

"You cannot raise a man up by calling him down."

Lao Tzu

"The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small."

Ray Bradbury

"We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out."

Norman Cousins

"The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started."

Patanjali

"Peace can be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart."

Marie Curie

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood."

Socrates

"Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing."

Marva Collins

"Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do the best."

George S. Patton

"Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash."

Anna Freud

"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time."

Frank A. Clark

"Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things."

Wally "Famous" Amos

"Believe that you can do it, under any circumstances. Because if you believe you can, then you really will. That belief just keeps you searching for the answers, then pretty soon you get it."

Saadi

"Were the diver to think on the jaws of the shark, he would never lay hands on the precious pearl."

Thomas Merton

"My God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me, I cannot know for certain where it will end … but I will not fear, for you are ever with me."

Nelson Mandela

"For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others."

Shunryu Suzuki

"In the beginners mind there are many possibilities, but in the experts there are few."

Lord Buddha

"The person should look for peace within and not depend on it in any other place. There are no waves in the depths of the ocean, it is still and unbroken."

Eddie Vedder

"If he's truly out of sight, is he truly out of mind?"

William Butler Yeats

"We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it."

Mary Catherine Bateson

"We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn."

Rabbi Hillel

"I get up. I walk. I fall down. Meanwhile, I keep dancing."

Kurt Vonnegut

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be."

Chinese Proverb

You can not prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building a nest in your hair.

Plutarch

"Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little."

Sarah Bernhardt

"Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich."

Robert Altman

"To play it safe is not to play."

Kierkegaard

"The thing is to understand myself, to see what God really wants me to do; the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live or die."

Unknown

"Love is the willingness to give up a part of yourself you think you know, to discover a part of yourself you never knew existed."

Jack Lemmon

"Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure."

Fay Weldon

"If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens."

Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you sit down quietly, may alight upon you."

George Bernard Shaw

"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.”

Steve Jobs

"Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."

George Sheehan

"Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing."

Leo Tolstoy

"Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold."

Carl Sandburg

"Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by."