"There are three types of people in the world: those who  make things happen, those who watch what happens, and those who wonder what happened."
Nicholas Murray Butler
Note: Sourced by Rachael Mahr

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled.
No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined
Harry Emerson Fosdick

"A critic is a legless man who teaches running."

-- Channing Pollock

"It appears we have appointed our worst generals to command forces, and our most gifted and brilliant to edit newspapers! In fact, I discovered by reading newspapers that these journalists/geniuses plainly saw all my strategic defects from the start, yet failed to inform me until it was too late. Accordingly, I'm readily willing to yield my command to these obviously superior intellects, and I'll, in turn, do my best for the cause by writing editorials - after the fact."

- Robert E.Lee

"Hell is empty as all the devils are here."
Shakespeare- The Tempest

"Well, I - I think that it - it wasn't enough to just want to see Uncle Henry and Auntie Em - and it's that - if I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with! " Judy Garland (Dorothy) in Wizard of Oz

"There are only four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same: only love." Johnny Depp (Don Juan) in Don Juan De Marco(1995)

"The spirit is the true self."
Cicero
(106-43 BC

" Begin each day as if it were on purpose,"
   From the Movie Hitch ( Will Smith character Andrew Largeman

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
 Jack London

"Hope is a waking dream." Aristotle

"We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly."

"Human life has always been fraught with danger, and human minds have always been fraught with the fear that comes from knowing it. But we can develop the habit of nudging our attention toward things that inspire confidence rather than fear. … As much horror as we have always created, we are a species that keeps moving forward, seeing new sights in new ways, and enjoying the journey."

Every excess causes a defect; every defect an excess.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Ambition, confidence, enthusiasm and success are produced by courage, faith, pride, and hard work."
Harry F.Banks

"An amateur is someone who practices until they get it right. A professional practices until they can't play it wrong." ~Babbitt

Interview with God
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" Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character;and character fixes our destiny. "Tyron Edwards

Belief is like a guillotine - just as heavy and just as light
Franz Kafka

"Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny." -Charles Reade

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.

Jean Paul Richter
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.

Jennifer Yane

When it's dark enough you can see the stars.

You cannot have success without failure.
Any experience, even failure, can be transformed into something of value.
Everything depends on the way you look at things.

What are stumbling blocks and defeat before you
can be stepping stones to victory if you remain determined.

In all of your adversities lies the seeds of equivalent advantages.

In every defeat there is a lesson showing you how to win the next time.

View your problems as opportunities.
When it's dark enough you can see the stars.
Max Steingart

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."

Dr. Seuss