Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
~Elizabeth Bowen

Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive. Cease to admire, and all her plumes Fall flat and shrink into a trivial toy, At every sudden slighting quite abashed.”
~John Milton

Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
~ Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-Abraham Lincoln-

To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.
-Friedrich Nietzsche-

He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
-Solon-

A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
-Mohammed-

Adversity it sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
-Thomas Carlyle-

Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
-Afghan Proverb-

The poor long for riches, the rich long for heaven, but the wise long for a state of tranquility.
-Swami Rama-

It's not the tragedies that kill us. It's the messes.
-Dorothy Parker-

If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away?
-Lord Chesterfield-

"I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."

-Jack London-
American Author

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
-Dr. Martin Luther King-

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

"Live simply that others might simply live."

-Elizabeth Seaton-

"Dream as if you'll live forever... live as if you'll die today." 
-James Dean-

"The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof." 

-Richard Bach-