Blaise Pascal

"All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone."

The Talmud

"Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, 'Grow, grow.'"

Golda Meir

"Don't be humble; you're not that great."

Emily Dickinson

"Life is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."

Francis Bacon

"He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator."

Albert Camus

"Freedom is not a reward or decoration that is celebrated with champagne...Oh, no! It's a long distance race, quite solitary and very exhausting."

Henry Miller

"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unprece-
dented act without the benefit of experience."

Anais Nin

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to our courage."

Simone Weil

"Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light, that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul."

Albert Einstein

"There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

e. e. cummings

"Be of love a little more careful than of anything."

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose ~ a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye."

Padre Pio

"Love is the first ingredient in the relief of suffering."

Theodore Roosevelt

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

Henry David Thoreau

"Things do not change; we change."

Bertrand Russell

"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."

Amelia Earhart

"Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace."

Albert Camus

"It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear, on the contrary, that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning."

Epictetus

"All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain."

Martin Luther King,, Jr.

"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."

Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty."

Cesar Chavez

"There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence."

Saint Teresa of Avila

"Be gentle with others and stern with yourself."

Sir Isaac Newton

"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants."

The Talmud

"Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it."

Michelangelo

"Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle."

Francis Bacon

"It is impossible to love and be wise."

William Shakespeare

"How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?"

Joseph Addison

"A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"A useless life is an early death."

Mahatma Gandhi

"Not to have control over the senses is like sailing on a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock."

St. Thomas Aquinas

"Love takes up where knowledge leaves off."

Thomas Merton

"What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?"

Abraham Maslow

"You will either step forward into growth, or you will step back into safety."

Vaclev Havel

"Hope is the deep orientation of the human soul that can be held at the darkest times."

Robert Burns

"Oh would some power the gift give us to see ourselves as others see us."

Robert Byrne

"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."

Blaise Pascal

"In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't."

Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."

William Wordsworth

"For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity."

Meister Eckhart

"God is not attained by a process of addition to anything in the soul, but by a process of subtrac-
tion."

Robert Browning

"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for?"

Barbara Jordan

"We must exchange the philosophy of excuse ~ what I am is beyond my control ~ for the philosophy of responsi-
bility."

William James

"There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true self."

Marc Chagall

"Great art picks up where nature ends."

Immanuel Kant

"So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world."

St. Augustine

"Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even from him in whom it is?"

James Boswell

"A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself."

Henry Ford

"Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice."

Erica Jong

"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer, but wish we didn't."