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- Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words.
- Dr. Joyce Brothers (1928 - )
- I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978)
- May I forget what ought to be forgotten; and recall, unfailing, all that ought to be recalled, each kindly thing, forgetting what might sting.
- Mary Caroline Davies
- Work is not always required... there is such a thing as sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.
- George McDonald
- Who is wise? He that learns from every One.
Who is powerful? He that governs his Passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. - Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.
- Lin Yutang
- We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
- Olive Schreiner (1855 - 1920)
- Is life worth living?
Aye, with the best of us, Heights of us, depths of us - Life is the test of us! - Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
- Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
- Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616)
- We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.
- Edward Sellner
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