We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -Kurt Vonnegut

A Happiness Quote

In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.
-Horace Mann

A man can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days. -Goethe

A "no" uttered from deepest conviction is better & greater than a "yes" merely uttered 2 please, or what is worse, 2 avoid trouble. -Gandhi

A Good Reason to Lift People Up

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might. -Marian Anderson

No man who rises before dawn 365 days a year fails to make his family rich. -Chinese Proverb

Very Short Courage Quotes

Tiny courage quotes that make you laugh, inspire you and encourage you.What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.Ralph Waldo EmersonCourage is knowing what not to fear.PlatoIf we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.John MaxwellCourage is fear holding on a minute longer.George Smith PattonIt is easy to be brave from a safe distance.AesopSometimes even to

He who finds pleasure in vice and pain in virtue, is still a novice in both. -Chinese Proverb

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Inspirational Quotes Video

This is a video a made a couple years ago.

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There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit. -unknown

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 286

Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors that motivate action. The senses, work and doer comprise the threefold basis of action.

~ Bhagavad Gita 18.18

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 285

Friends are enemies sometimes, and enemies, friends.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 284

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

~ Goutama Buddha

Thoroughly Unacceptable Things

I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore, I must stop doing what I have been doing. -Alice Koller

Service to others is the rent you pay for living on this planet. -Marian Edelman

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 283

You cannot change your future... but , you can change your habits... And sure, your habits will change your future.

~ Bernard Shaw

Many of your fears are tissue-paper paper thin, and a single courageous step would carry us through them. -Brendan Francis