I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened. - Mark Twain
Everyone has his burden;what counts is how you carry it.- Joe and David Brown
The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses. - Erica Jong
It was on my 5th birthday that papa put his hand on my shoulder and said,"Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. - Sam Levenson
Even on the most exalted throne in the world, we are only sitting on our own bottom. -Michel Eyquem de Montaigne.
The eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine houses, nor fine furniture. - Ben Franklin
I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one. - Thomas Jefferson
The distance doesn't matter;it is only the first step that is difficult. - Marquise du Deffand
When we cannot find contentment in ourselves it is useless to seek it elsewhere. - La Fochefoucauld
We are rich only through what we give; and poor only through what we refuse and keep. - Annie Sophie Swetchine
I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done. - Henry Ford
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless, of the chosen field of endeavor. - Vince Lombardi
You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you. - Ruth Smelter
Nature hath bestowed upon un two ears, and two eyes, yet but one tongue, which is an emblem unto us that though we hear and see much, yet ought to speak but very little. - Mary Tattlewell
Endurance is the corwning quality, and patience all the passion of great hearts. - James Russell Lowell
A problem well stated is a problem half solved - Charles F. Kettering
Do not wait for ideal circumstances;they never come. Janet Erskine Stuart
Circumstance has no power over you. Your inner weather is always and forever at your command. - Olga Rosmanith
Not in rewards, but in the strength to strive, the blessing lies. - JT Trowbridge
For myself I am an Optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else. - Winston Churchill.
