Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. -Martin Luther King, Jr.

"One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more." Boiste

I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual by creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which, if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of man's pride.--William James

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." - Winston Churchill

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great becaue of their passion. -Martha Graham

So many gods, so many creeds;So many paths that wind and wind,While just the art of being kindIs all the sad world needs. ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"Embrace the moment. In the end, that's all we have. Trouble will come in its own time, it always does. But that's tomorrow. Give me today, and I will be happy."- Babylon 5

"We are all the sum of our tears. Too little and the ground is not fertile, and nothing can grow there. Too much, the best of us is washed away."- Babylon 5

"If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“People are so busy dreaming the American dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they’re all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the age of human error.” –Florence King.

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 Mrs. Warren's Profession, 1893

One day we'll say hello, and wish we never said goodbye. --unknown

"Nobody's last words have ever been, 'I wish I had eaten more rice cakes.'" --Amy Krouse Rosenthal

"If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased." --Katherine Hepburn

"If men knew what women laughed about, they would never sleep with us. --Erica Jong

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. -Mahfouz Naguib

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out – it's the grain of sand in your shoe.~Robert Service

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.~Henry Ward Beecher

Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television. Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit crushing game shows, stuffing junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourself. Choose a future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that? Renton, "Trainspotting"

"I'm astounded by people who want to 'know'
the universe when it's hard enough to find
your way around Chinatown."