Hal Borland

Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. 

~ Hal Borland

Rabindranath Tagore

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf. 

~ Rabindranath Tagore

Margaret J. Wheatley

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.

~ Margaret J. Wheatley

Menachem Begin

Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth. 

Menachem Begin

Winston Churchill

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

~ Winston Churchill

William Shakespeare

This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night of the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

~ William Shakespeare

Charles W. Chesnutt

The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image. 

~Charles W. Chesnutt

Lou Holtz

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care. 

~ Lou Holtz

Martin Luther

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

~ Martin Luther

Audrey Hepburn

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!

~ Audrey Hepburn

Henry David Thoreau

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. 

~ Henry David Thoreau

Mark Victor Hansen

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.

~ Mark Victor Hansen

Carl Sandburg

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. 

~Carl Sandburg

Epictetus

He is a wise man who does not grieve

for the things which he has not,

but rejoices for those which he has.

~ Epictetus

Albert Schweitzer

Seek always to do some good, somewhere.

Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth.

You must give some time to your fellow man.

For remember, you don't live in a world all your own.

Your brothers are here too.

~ Albert Schweitzer

Joseph Campbell

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.

~ Joseph Campbell

Thich Nhat Hanh

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing. 

~Thich Nhat Hanh

Alexander Graham Bell

“When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.” 

~ Alexander Graham Bell