People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
- Elizabeth Kübler-Ross..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
-Samuel Ullman

He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.
-Chinese proverb

Fears over tomorrow and regrets over yesterday are twin thieves that rob us of the moment

-Unknown

We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are.
- The Talmud

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-Eleanor Roosevelt

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.
-Mary Pickford

Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.
-Alfred Lord Tennyson

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters when compared to what lies within us.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.
- Meister Eckhart

I try to remove my 'self' from everything I do. I try to have no ego whatsoever or the process will suffer.
-John Edward, June 9 2001, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Don't care what others think of what you do; but care very much about what you think you do.
-St. Frances DeSales

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometime you just might find, you get what you need.
-The Rolling Stones

Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
- Mark Twain

And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-The Beatles

All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don't take it away from yourself.
- Michael Chricton, 'The Lost World'

Life is sacred: Live on purpose.
-Terry Hershey in 'A Few Things That Matter'

Spirituality is like a medicine. To heal the illness, it is not sufficient to look at the medicine and talk about it. You have to ingest it.
-His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Please help me to surrender my ego and serve.
John Edward, January 2003, Australian Tour

Vision: the art of seeing things invisible.
- Jonathan Swift

So often in time it happens, we all live our life in chains, and we never even know we have the key.
-The Eagles

The greater danger is not that our hopes are too high and we fail to reach them, but that they are too low and we do.
-Michelangelo

To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
-Robert A. Heinlein

You rise as high as your dominant aspiration, you descend to the level of your lowest concept of yourself. Free your mind and the rest will follow.
-Funkadelic

Beware the man of one book.
-St. Thomas Aquinas

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
-Tao Te Ching

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
-G. B. Stern

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
-Anonymous (Greek Proverb)

Whatever our souls are made of...your and mine are the same...
-Emily Bronte

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.
-Comte de Buffon

Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
- Ovid

One has to try to develop one's inner feelings, which can be done simply by training one's mind. This is a priceless human asset, and one you don't have to pay income tax on!
-His Holiness the Dalai Lama

What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world.
- Albert Einstein

If you smile at me I will understand, cause that is something everybody everywhere does in the same language.
-Crosby, Stills, and Nash

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
-unknown

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
-Benjamin Franklin

...give the child in you a wide sky...understand that laughter is prayer.
-Terry Hershey in A Few Things That Matter

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.
-William Hazlitt

Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.
-Albert Szent-Gyorgi

Fear knocked at the door.Faith opened it to find no one there.
-Unknown

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes it's the tiny voice at the end of the road that says, 'I'll try again tomorrow.'
-unknown

Insanity is defined as doing the same thing or going about the same way and expecting different results.
- unknown

Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up.
-Job 4:15, Holy Bible, King James Version

It is ever true that he who does nothing for others does nothing for himself.
-Goethe