“Although we are in different boats you in your boat and we in our canoe we share the same river of life. ”
Chief Oren Lyons
(born 1930); Ona Ndaga Nation, Faithkeeper
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“Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.”
John R. Wooden
(born 1910); Basketball Coach, Author
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“You've got to have a dream, if you want to have a dream come true.”
Dennis Waitley
(born 1933); Writer
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“A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminatingly murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.”
Freeman Dyson
(born 1923); Physicist, Author
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“The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.”
E. M. Forster
(1879-1970); Novelist, Essayist
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“There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.”
Alfred Adler
(1870-1937); Psychiatrist
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“We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.”
Sir Winston Churchill
(1874-1965); British Statesman, Prime Minister, Author, Nobel Prize Winner
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“I want to live long enough see the day the people in this world put aside their differences and work hand in hand to achieve that state of acceptance of themselves and their surroundings, also known as PEACE.”
Nadia Kelifa
(born 1992);
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“Victory belongs to the most persevering.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
(1769-1821); Emporer Of France
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“Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.”
Henri-Frederic Amiel
(1821-1881); Philosopher, Poet, Critic
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“What does not kill me makes me stronger.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(1749-1832); Philosopher, Scientist, Author
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“I always prefer to believe the best of everybody-it saves so much trouble.”
Rudyard Kipling
(1865-1936); Poet, Author
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“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost: that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
Henry David Thoreau
(1817-1862); Naturalist, Author, Philosopher
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“Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.”
Victor Hugo
(1802-1885); Poet, Novelist, Playwright
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“Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm.”
Joseph Addison
(1672-1719); English Essayist, Poet, And Politician
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“Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.”
Sister Corita Kent
(1918-1986); Artist, Educator
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“The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition. Such intuitions give the appearance of miraculous flushes, or short-circuits of reasoning. In fact they may be likened to an immersed chain, of which only the beginning and the end are visible above the surface of consciousness. The diver vanishes at one end of the chain and comes up at the other end, guided by invisible links.”
Arthur Koestler
(1905-1983); Novelist, Essayist
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“Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community.”
Anthony J. D'Angelo
Founder Of The Collegiate Em Powerment Company
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“The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.”
Seneca 
(4-65); Roman Statesman, Philosopher
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“As for courage and will we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.”
Andre Norton
(1912-2005); Novelist
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“I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
(1867-1909); Architect
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“I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.”
William Penn
(1644-1718); Founder Of Pennsylvania, United States
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“... to a poet, the human community is like the community of birds to a bird, singing to each other. Love is one of the reasons we are singing to one another, love of language itself, love of sound, love of singing itself, and love of the other birds.”
Sharon Olds
(born 1942); Poet
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“In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.”
Ambrose Bierce
(1842-1914); Satirist, Poet, Journalist
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“In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(1906-1945); Pastor, Theologian, German Resistance Fighter In World War Ii
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“Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.”
Joseph Wood Krutch
(1893-1970); Writer, Naturalist
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“There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.”
Sydney Harris
(1917-1986); American Newspaper Columnist
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“Always accept good fortune with grace and humility.”
Mark L. Mika

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“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
Confucius 
(551-479); Philosopher
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“Stay where you are. Find your own Calcutta. Find the sick, the suffering, and the lonely right there where you are — in your own homes and in your own families, in your workplaces and in your schools. You can find Calcutta all over the world, if you have the eyes to see. Everywhere, wherever you go, you find people who are unwanted, unloved, uncared for, just rejected by society — completely forgotten, completely left alone.”
Mother Teresa
(1910-1997); Founder Of The Missionaries Of Charity
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“The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
Chinese Proverb

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“To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.”
Anne Sophie Swetchine
(born 1782); Author
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“The one thing that matters is the effort.”
Antoine de Sainte-Exupery
(1900-1944); Aviator, Writer
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“It's kind of fun to do the impossible.”
Walt Disney
(1901-1966); Film Producer, Director, Animator, Entreprenuer
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“Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.”
Eric Hoffer
(1902-1983); Philosopher
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“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.”
Elbert Hubbard
(1856-1915); Philosopher, Author, Publisher
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“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.”
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
(1922-2007); Writer
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“Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.”
Vincent "Vince" Lombardi
(1913-1970); Athletic Coach
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“Most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty”
J.K.  Rowling
(born 1965); Novelist
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“Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.”
Morihei Ueshiba
(1883-1969); Founder Of The Japanese Martial Art Akido
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