"There will always be dreams grander or humbler than your own, but there will never be a dream exactly like your own... for you are unique and more wondrous than you know!"
-Linda Staten-

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
-T. S. Eliot- American-British Poet

"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now."
-Goethe- German Poet, Novelist

“When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.”
-Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton-

“Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought.”
-Lin Yutang-

"Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born."
-Dale E. Turner-

“You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.”
-Robert H. Schuller-

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
-Confucius-

“Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.”
-Sir Winston Churchill-

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, It is the only thing that ever has.”
-Margaret Mead-

“Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought.”
-Lin Yutang-

"A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit."
-D. Elton Trueblood-

“One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”
-Andre Gide-

“It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice.”
-Eric Lindros-

“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.”
-Albert Einstein-

“Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.”
-Paul Boese-

“The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.”
-Vince Lombardi-

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson-

“A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.”
-William John Bennett-

“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.”
-Norman Vincent Peale-

“True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson-

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson-

"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.”
-Sam Ewing-

"Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers who don't.”
-Seth Godin-

"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.”
-Daniel J. Boorstin-

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals."
-Henry Ford-

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure...than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
-Theodore Roosevelt-
26th President Of The United States

"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle.The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours."
-Ayn Rand-
Russian born American Author

"A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit."
-D. Elton Trueblood-

"Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.-

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”
-The Dalai Lama-

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals."
-Henry Ford-

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure...than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
-Theodore Roosevelt- 26th President Of The United States

"The more you can put a voice to your fear, the more the fear will move through you. The more you can talk about this, the more the hidden shadows come out into the light where they can be examined and released."
-Robin Sharma-

"Feelings are like rainstorms, with a beginning, a middle and an end. If we stifle them, they will fester like wounds. If we pay attention to them and bring them into the light of our awareness, we will move through them and they will complete. And we will move to greater and greater health."
-Robin Sharma-

“It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.”
-Babe Ruth-

“Live simply that others might simply live.”
-Elizabeth Seaton-

“Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.”
-Sam Ewing-

“Be nice and smile to everyone you meet. You don't know what they are going through, and they may need that smile. And treasure it.”
-Christine M. Huppert-

“When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.”
-Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton"

Forgive My Fear
By:Ryan Chokureva

I walk on space,
On air so thin
I fear to fall.

Dear God forgive me
For my fear to love
For being so smallIn a world so big
Forgive me for not wanting painFor seeing it first before joy

I know I shouldn’t look first,
At how easily I bruise
Or harden my shell to outside touch,
Or hide within my self,
Or stare with dead eyes

Forgive my fear
Of reaching out over empty spaces,
For taking all the love you give
And giving nothing in turn

When next I shy, nudge me to try
When next I sigh, nudge me to smile
When next love needs, steady my feet
That I may be here,
To brave my fear.

"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.
But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all,then accept it and live up to it."
-Buddha-

"Sister, there were people who went to sleep last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. And those dead folks would give anything at all for just five minutes of this weather or ten minutes of plowing. So you watch yourself about complaining. What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it."
-Maya Angelou, (Quoting Her Grandmother)-

"You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth."
-Shira Tehrani-

"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift."
-Steve Prefontaine-

"Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is... impossible."
-Richard Bach-

"Always know in your heart that you are far bigger than anything that can happen to you."
-Dan Zadra-

"If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it."
-Edgar Watson Howe-

"If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else.If you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have."
-Sir James M. Barrie-

"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything ?"
-Vincent Van Gogh-

"Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly."
-St. Francis de Sales-

"The past does not equal the future. Because you may have failed a moment ago,all day today, or for the last six months,or for the last sixteen years,or for the last fifty years of your lifedoesn't mean anything.All that matters is what are you going to do now ?"
-Anthony Robbins-

"The price of anything is the amount of life you pay for it."
-Henry David Thoreau-

"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.-

"Money often costs too much."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson-

"The winds of grace are always blowing, but it is you that must raise your sails."
-Rabindranath Tagore -

"To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness."
-Eckhart Tolle-

"Sometimes life's shadows are caused by our standing in our own sunshine."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson-

"You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now."
-Joan Baez-

"Three fourths of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world will disappear if we step into the shoes of our adversaries and understand their standpoint."
-Gandhi-

"Reflection is the mother of wisdom. Carve out some time each day to ask ourselves why we are here, how we are living and whether we are making the highest use of the gifts that life has given us. Make the time to think. Daily."
-Robin Sharma-

"No hardship ever lasts. No setback is forever. No misery lasts an eternity. It may seem as though adversity will never go away as we experience it but that's not the truth. Life has its seasons, its chapters,
if you will. And the hard times are ultimately the times that sculpt us into something better."
-Robin Sharma-

"What you resist persists."
-Carl Jung (1875-1961)-

"The absolute truth is that the 'I' is perfect and complete; the real 'I' is spiritual and can therefore never be less than perfect; it can never have any lack, limitation, or disease."
-Charles Haanel-

"Whether you think you can or think you can't, either way you are right."
-Henry Ford (1863-1947)-

"All power is from within and therefore under our control."
-Robert Collier-

"Every thought of yours is a real thing-a force."
-Prentice Mulford (1834-1891)-

"Everyone visualizes whether he knows it or nor. Visualizing is the great secret of success."
-Genevieve Behrend (1881-1960)-

"The real secret of power is consciousness of power."
-Charles Haanel-

"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attraction."
-Albert Einstein (1879-1955)-