"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-