"When you follow your bliss...
doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors;
and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else. "
Joseph Campbell

"Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannot congeal in winter."
James Fennimore Cooper

"The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong.
The Smart Take from the Strong: The Basketball Philosophy of Pete Carril
Note: Sourced and sent by Blake Toll aka MVP

"You will be much better served if you use  your head for more than a hat rack"
Sol Mahr
Note: One off his favorite sayings

New years are a chance for a beginning
Even when there hasn't been an end.
Wheels turn in an interminable bend,
Yet, marked in one spot, seem to wobble spinning.
Each year we hope to do a little better
Although we know that really nothing's changed.
Reason thinks that everything's arranged,
So we must dream if we would fate unfetter.
By William Byrd and Nicholas Gordon

"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

December 25th, 2005 Christmas Day and Chanukah as well
"In the quiet of this day may you know the greatness of your spirit
may your hopes fly on the wings of possibility!"
Mary Anne Rodmacher
The Happiest of Holiday Seasons to your and yours
May 2006 bring us all re-creation of our spirits
blessings in abundance
and powerful intentions to face whatever comes our way!
Note: Sent from Lori Antoniou Sherrill

"These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves
--Gilbert Highet writer (1906-1978)
From Donna Dickinson

'I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'It is the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.'
Leonardo da Vinci

"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle."
Sun Tzu The Art Of War

For the more limited, if adequate, is always preferable
Aristotle

"Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity - these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them. They hide nothing. They are not ashamed."
Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth

"And since you know you cannot see yourself,
so well as by reflection, I, your glass,
will modestly discover to yourself,
that of yourself which you yet know not of.
William Shakespeare

"Change your attitude and you change your life."
Neil J. Cantor

'I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'It is the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.'
Leonardo da Vinci

"Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate accomplishments.
Napoleon Hill

"Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth."
Aesop

"Silence is argument carried out by other means."
Ernesto "Che" Guevara

"Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out
John Wooden

"Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once."
Stephen Hawking's
Note: Sent By Robert Clay

"Every religion is true one way or another. Especially true when understood metaphorically. But when stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then trouble invariably evolves
Joseph Campbell

"I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult.... I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking
Og Mandino

"Interpersonal relations with people and all living things is THE spiritual way of being and connection. Religions so often seem to divide people. Belief in something however, unites them. Spirituality then transcends religion
Paraphrased from the movie, Flight of The Phoenix as follows
"I thought you weren't religious Rady." Rady replies, " Spirituality is not religion. Religions divide people, Belief in something unites them"

"The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers.  But above all, the world needs dreamers who do
Sarah Ban Breathnach, Simple Abundance
Note: Sent by my Cousin Susan Einhorn

"Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
Aldous Huxley

"There will always be dirty dishes in the sink
Not sure of the original source. First introduced to me by Neil Cantor. Does anyone know the original source