'Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.'
Chinese Proverb

"I have loved many, the more and the few-
I have loved many that I might love you."
-Grace Fallow Norton

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to
look things in the face and know them for what they are.
~ Marcus Aurelius

".Be Who you are,
And do so with pride".
~Karen S.Magee

"The major value in life is not what you get. The major
value in life is what you become. That is why I wish to pay
fair price for every value. If I have to pay for it or earn
it, that makes something of me. If I get it for free, that
makes nothing of me."
Jim Rohn

"If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home
when trouble arrives, you can only win."
-- Shelley Long

"Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change
around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities
need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it.
Because the dream is within you, no one can take it
away."
-Tom Clancy

"There are two things I've learned: There is no
Cinderella. And, I'm not her Prince."
-- Anonymous

Spend some time alone every day.
- The Dalai Lama

Great change dominates the world, and unless we move with
change we will become its victims.
- Robert F. Kennedy

"When you judge another, you do not define them, you define
yourself." *******Wayne Dyer******

"My importance to the world is relatively small. On the other
hand, my importance to myself is tremendous. I am all I have
to work with, to play with, to suffer and to enjoy. It is not
the eyes of others that I am wary of, but of my own. I do not
intend to let myself down more than I can possibly help, and
I find that the fewer illusions I have about myself or the
world around me, the better company I am for myself."
******Noel Coward******

"Your chances in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief
in yourself."

--- Robert Collier, 1885-1950, The Secret of the Ages

"If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like
Michelangelo painted pictures, like Shakespeare wrote poetry, like
Beethoven composed music; sweep streets so well that all the host of
Heaven and Earth will have to pause and say, "Here lived a great
sweeper, who swept his job well."

--- Martin Luther King, Jr., Facing The Challenge Of A New Age In
Philosophy

" If you don't believe you can do it, then you won't.
If you believe you can, you will.
If you try and don't succeed, you can at least say you were there.
If you don't try, you missed out on life."
--- Copyright © 2000 Jackie Larsen

Have no fear of perfection--you'll never reach it.
~Salvador Dali~

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare;
it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
- Seneca (4 BC-65 AD)

Love is patient.
Love is kind.
It does not envy.
It does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking,
it is not easily angered.
It keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil
but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects,
always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
--1 Corinthians 13

"If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you
want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never
give up."
-- Norman Vincent Peale

"You never achieve real success unless you like
what you are doing."