Interesting Quotes

[LAWRENCE]

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.

--Dr. Benjamin Spock

It is a glorious achievement to master one's own temper.

--Unknown

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

--George Bernard Shaw

[LAWRENCE]

Decide on what you think is right and stick to it.
George Eliot

Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal and obeys it.
Louis Pasteur

There is never time to do it right, but there is always time to do it over.
Carl W. Buechner

[LAWRENCE]

It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
Alfred Adler

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising up every time we fall.
Confucius

[LAWRENCE]

When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
Alan Paton

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use; of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.
Robert F. Kennedy

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Isaac Asimov

[LAWRENCE]

All things are difficult before they are easy.
Dr. Thomas Fuller
I look to the future, because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
George Burns
If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice how he acts when he loses money.
New England proverb

[LAWRENCE]

In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder.
Pearl S. Buck

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
Japanese proverb

Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Dylan Thomas

[LAWRENCE]

Forgive all who have offended you. Not for them, but for yourself.
Harriet Nelson

Learn to write your hurts in sand; learn to carve your blessings in stone.
Unknown

Movement is medicine for creating change in a person's physical, emotional and mental states.
Carol Welch

[LAWRENCE]

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Euripides

You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying over the future.
Unknown

In work, the greatest satisfaction lies. The satisfaction of stretching yourself, using your abilities and making them expand and knowing that you have accomplished something that could have been done only by your unique apparatus. This is really the center of life and those who never orient themselves in this direction are missing more than they ever know.
Kenneth Alsop

[LAWRENCE]

I never saw an ugly thing in my life, for let the form of an object be what it may: light, shade and perspective will always make it beautiful.
John Constable

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.
Colin Powell

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

[LAWRENCE]

It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
Alfred Adler

All high achievers plan their work and work their plan, for they are keenly aware that luck is most often being prepared to take advantage of a situation.
Unknown

The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
George Mueller