"If G-d created something more beautiful than women he kept it to himself
Simone de Beauvoir

"Treat a man as he is, he will remain so. Treat a man the way he can be and ought to be, and he will become as he can be and should be
Goethe

"The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One’s stupefied by it. To get rid of it you try to daub some of it off on to people who come to see you, and they hate that. To be alone trains one for death
Louis-Ferdinand Céline

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy is when men are afraid of the light." Plato

"Tell the truth. Do your best no matter how trivial the task. Choose the difficult right over the easy wrong. Look out for the group before you look out for yourself. Don't whine or make excuses. Judge others by their actions and not by their race or other characteristics."

"Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

This Too Shall Pass Gam zeh ya'avo ring Solomon commissioned a ring to be designed that would always keep him in a proper frame of mind, a ring that would help ward off depression and at the same time also protect him from an excess of confidence in days when good fortune smiled. Could such a ring be designed? Absolutely! The words "Gam zeh ya`avor.." - "This too shall pass...." were engraved on the ring so that if days of darkness and sadness would descend, the king would be fortified by the knowledge that Gam zeh ya`avor - this too would pass. But if, on the other hand, the king had occasion to exult in good fortune, the ring would protect him from over exuberance, for in the end, that too would pass. Here's Lincoln's version of the tale: "'It is said an Eastern monarch (King Solomon) once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! -- how consoling in the depths of affliction!' -An Address by Abraham Lincoln Before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, September 30, 1859

'Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none."Benjamin Franklin

"The Brain—is wider than the Sky For—put them side by side...The one the other will contain With ease—and You—beside
Emily Dickinson

"I guess in the end, you start thinking about the beginning."
Brad Pitt character to Angelina Jolie in the movie Mr. and Mrs. Smith

The idea for creating a day for children to honor their fathers began in Spokane, Washington. A woman by the name of Sonora Smart Dodd thought of the idea for Father's Day while listening to a Mother's Day sermon in 1909.Having been raised by her father, William Jackson Smart, after her mother died, Sonora wanted her father to know how special he was to her. It was her father that made all the parental sacrifices and was, in the eyes of his daughter, a courageous, selfless, and loving man. Sonora's father was born in June, so she chose to hold the first Father's Day celebration in Spokane, Washington on the 19th of June, 1910. In 1926, a National Father's Day Committee was formed in New York City. Father's Day was recognized by a Joint Resolution of Congress in 1956. In 1972, President Richard Nixon established a permanent national observance of Father's Day to be held on the third Sunday of June. So Father's Day was born in memory and gratitude by a daughter who thought that her father and all good fathers should be honored with a special day just like we honor our mothers on Mother's Day.

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak,
but their echoes are truly endless."
Mother Theresa ~

"There are inalienable as well as inalienable rights; the first principle is,you must not fool yourself and are the easiest person to fool"
Richard Feynman
Note: Sent by my friend Allen Lewis from Jerusalem, Israel

"You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action"
Anthony Robbins

"He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down and without walls. "
Taylor Caldwell

"I believe in G-d, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call G-d is something in all of us.I believe that what Jesus and Moses and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong"
John Lennon

'If you think "education" is expensive try "ignorance". '
Neil J. Cantor

"One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks."
Jack Penn

Sell your cleverness.  Purchase your bewilderment."
Wayne W. Dyer
(paraphrased in Power of Intention
originally written by Victor Frankel, Holocaust Survivor
Note: sent from Lynda Goldman

"A saying I heard about the final 7th game in a series is that it doesn't build character, it reveals it
Iwould love to see which player and which team has the most character and I will bet the team that does will ultimately win
from Blake Toll regarding the NBA Playoffs
Blake is just finishing his sophomore year in high school

"Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights. It is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect. Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today."
Note: Ever notice the correlation of those groups of people, ( i.e. nations, cultures, societies etc.) that place an emphasis on education compared to those that do not ? It is obvious in current events in the Middle East as an example. Or among some of the cultures within our own great country today

"Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems. Anthony_J_DAngelo

"Lost love is still love just in a different form that's all. You can't hold their hand. Can't tousle their hair. But when those senses weaken another comes to light..... Memory....Memory becomes your partner.. You hold it. You dance with it. Life has to end Eddie, Love doesn't
From the movie, " The Five People I meet in Heaven"

"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you>"
Ralph Waldo Emerson

" A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though,awakens your expectations." Patrica Neal

"A good example is the best sermon."
Benjamin Franklin