quotes

"Far away is only far away if you don't go there." O. Poro

"Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall." Ray Bradbury

"He who cannot dance claims the floor is uneven." Hindu saying

"Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends." Shirley MacLaine

"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice." Abraham Lincoln

"The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing." Larry James

"What is the use of running when we are not on the right road." German Proverb

"Simplicity is the key to brilliance." Bruce Lee

"When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world." Harold Kushner

"Our self image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other." Dr. Maxwell Maltz (1899-1975), American author

"Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status." Lawrence J. Peter (c. 1925-1990) American writer

"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts." Abraham Lincoln

"Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength." Blaise Pascal, philosopher and mathematician (1623-1662)

"You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements." Norman Douglas, novelist (1868-1952)

"Every gardener knows that under the cloak of winter lies a miracle ... a seed waiting to sprout, a bulb opening to the light, a bud straining to unfurl. And the anticipation nurtures our dream." Barbara Winkler

"No matter that we may mount on stilts, we still must walk on our own legs. And on the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom." Michel de Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592)

"The deeper and richer a personality is, the more full of paradox and contradiction. It's only a shallow character who offers us no problems of contrast." Madeliene L'Engle

"Working with metaphor involves the skill of transforming one thing into another that is more valuable. Metaphors are intimately connected to the concept of transformation; in ancient Greek, the word metaphor means a transformer. Children naturally transform so many things they encounter around them. With imaginative boldness, the turn bed pillows into mountains, a cardboard box into a ship, and a blanket into an ocean to sail across. Like children, we need to use the power of metaphor to touch the inner truths of the images we create, because metaphor is the authentic reflection of artistic creativity. Like art, it is dynamic, has not strict rules about meaning, and is by nature fluid and flexible." Cathy Malchiodi

"The key that unlocks energy is desire. It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited." Earl Nightengale

"You know what I like best about looking at the stars? Not the stars themselves, but all those empty spaces between the stars... that's where I can imagine infinity." T.A. Barron

"You can conquer almost any fear if you make up your mind
to do so...remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere
except in the mind." Dale Carnegie (1888-1955), American motivational speaker & author