"The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live."
--Joan Borysenko

"Before I knew the best part of my life had come, it had gone."
--Ashleigh Brilliant

"I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once."
--Ashleigh Brilliant

"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think."
--Jean De La Bruyre

"Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on."
--Samuel Butler

"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."
--Robert Byrne


"All life is an experiment."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is not length of life, but depth of life."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns."
--Charles Feidelson Jr.

"Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first."
--Benjamin Franklin

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on."
--Robert Frost

"People only see what they are prepared to see."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else."
--André Gide

"A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it."
--Anonymous

"We are told never to cross a bridge until we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have 'crossed bridges' in their imagination far ahead of the crowd."
--Anonymous

"You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do."
--Henry Ford

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."
--Anatole France

"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly."
--Langston Hughes

"An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition."
--Michael Korda

"If you can imagine it,
You can achieve it.
If you can dream it,
You can become it."
--William Arthur Ward


"The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings."
--Henri Frederic Amiel

"Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead."
--Anonymous

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."
--Anonymous

"Life is a handful of short stories, pretending to be a novel."
--Anonymous

"Life is a one-way street, and we are not coming back."
--Anonymous [

"Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up."
--Anonymous

"Life, like a mirror, never gives back more than we put into it."
--Anonymous

"Misery is Optional" ~Unknown~

"The nicest thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time" ~Anonymous~

"Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its strength" ~A.J. Cronin~

"What you are... So is your world" ~James Allen~

"Everyday is a birthday, for everyday we are born anew" ~ Ellen Browning Scripps~

"Probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery" ~ Samuel Smiles~

"Fear knocked at the door. Faith Answered. Nobody was there." ~Old English Legend~

ACRONYMNS

FINE = Fucked Up, Insecure, Neurotic, & Emotional

FEAR = False Evidence (or Events) Appearing Real

"Our Deepest Fear is Not that We Are Inadequate, Our Deepest Fear is that We are Powerful Beyond Measure. We Ask Ourselves, "Who am I to be So Brilliant, Talented, Gorgeous, and Fabulous?" Actually.. Who are You Not To Be?" ~Nelson Mandella~

"Every New Beginning is Some Other Beginning's End" ~Song Lyrics to "Closing Time" by Semisonic~

"What if the Questioon is Not Why am I So Infrequently the Person I Really Want To Be, but Why Do I So Infrequently Want to Be the Person I Really Am?" ~ Excerpt From "The Dance" by Oriah Mountain Dreamer~

"You Must Do the One thing You Think You Cannot Do" ~Eleanor Roosevelt~

"There are No Mistakes in Life, Only Lessons" ~Unknown~

"The Day Came When the Risk to Remain Tight Inside the Bud Was Greater then the Risk it Took to Bloom" ~Anais Nin~

"Life Shrinks or Expands in Proportion to Ones Courage" ~Anais Nin~

"No Matter How Many Times You Shatter a Mirror, it Will Always Reflect" ~Unknown~

"Trust Yourself. Your Perceptions are Often Far More Accurate than You are Willing to Believe" ~Claudia Black~

"Every Child is an Artist. The Problem is How to Remain an Artist When He/She Grows Up" ~Pablo Picasso~

"Everything in this World Has Beauty, Just Not Everyone Sees It" ~Unknown~

"The Only Failure is in Not Trying" ~Unknown~

"The Meaning of Life is to Give Life Meaning" ~Unknown~

"Merely Looking at the World Around Us is Immensely Different from Seeing It" ~Frederick France~

 

Failures are not those who make mistakes, but those who refuse to get back up after they've fallen.

 

"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."