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- Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.
- Brenda Ueland
- There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.
- Martha Graham (1894 - 1991)
- The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.
- Robert Half
- Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
- If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
- In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.
- Meg Cabot, The Boy Next Door, 2002
- As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.
- Rodney Yee
- It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Every time we remember to say "thank you," we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.
- Sarah Ban Breathnach
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