Motivational Quotes of the Day

Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - December 07, 2014
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
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Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)  
Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
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Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)  
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.
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Erica Jong  
We can aspire to anything, but we don't get it just 'cause we want it. I would rather spend my life close to the birds than waste it wishing I had wings.
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Eli Attie, House M.D., Dying Changes Everything, 2008  

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