Quotations..

"Growing old is not pleasing, but adding years to your life is a great blessing."

--David A. Danio Jr.

"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who
conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self."

-- Aristotle

"Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our
works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest,
continue always the same? Change indeed is painful; yet ever
needful; and if Memory have its force and worth, so also has
Hope."

-- Thomas Carlyle

"In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite
apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it."

-- Elbert Hubbard

"Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your
mind is on parade."

-- Dr Samuel Johnson

"The way to succeed is to double your error rate."

-- Thomas J. Watson

"Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be
done if we are always doing."

-- Thomas Jefferson

"Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but how
much love we put in that action."

-- Mother Teresa

"Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow
their mind."

-- Marva Collins

"The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought,
this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which
helps us regain our equilibrium."

-- Norbet Platt

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold
two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain
the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to
see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make
them otherwise."

-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to
live to purpose."

-- Michel de Montaigne

"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must
write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What
one can be, one must be."

-- Abraham Maslow

"Do not look to the ground for your next step; greatness lies
with those who look to the horizon."

-- Norwegian Proverb

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live,
remember that."

-- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone

"The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It's doing
something that you appreciate, something you believe is
worthwhile. I think of my strawberry souffle. I did that at
least twenty-eight times before I finally conquered it."

-- Julia Child
"We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work
with. We already have capacities, talents, direction,
missions, callings."

-- Abraham Maslow

"If you aren't fired up with enthusiasm, you will be fired
with enthusiasm."

-- Vince Lombardi

"An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent
that rubs against it."

-- Bill Bernbach

"What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make
mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other
mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly
can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what
do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same
as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for
there is no other way of learning how to live!"

-- Alfred Adler

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has
its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe
when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of
the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries
merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never
lose a holy curiosity."

-- Albert Einstein

"Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better
to be wise than to be smart."

-- Alan Alda

"Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again.
Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the
shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart."

-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never
get the urge to throw a snowball."

-- Doug Larson

"Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with
quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature,
especially your own."

-- Arnold Bennett

"Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then... do
something. Don't just stand there, make it happen."

-- Lee Iacocca

"If you ask what is the single most important key to
longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress
and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say
it."

-- George F. Burns