Show Them How

"Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how."  ~ Author Unknown

"Smiles Are Like Sunshine"

We Underestimate

"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."  ~ Leo Buscaglia

Like a Spring Day

"A kind word is like a Spring day."  ~ Russian Proverb

Good Character

"A good character is the best tombstone.  Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered.  Carve your name on hearts, not on marble."  ~ Charles H. Spurgeon

Something Small

"Sometimes someone says something really small, and it just fits right into this empty place in your heart."  ~ From the television show ~ My So-Called Life

I'm a Believer

"I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."  ~ Thomas Jefferson

When Opportunity Knocks

"Luck is when opportunity knocks and you answer."  ~ Author Unknown

Good Luck

"It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned."  ~ Frank A. Clark

Kidding Themselves

"Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves."  ~ Larry King

Searching and Discovery

"You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.  What you'll discover will be wonderful.  What you'll discover is yourself."  ~ Alan Alda


"Never mind searching for who you are.  Search for the person you aspire to be. " ~ Robert Brault

Self- Realization

"Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as... from a lack of bread."  ~ Richard Wright, Native Son, 1940

Becoming Yourself

"The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself."  ~ Anna Quindlen

Finding Yourself

"Like an old gold-panning prospector, you must resign yourself to digging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently wash out a few minute particles of gold ore.." ~ Dorothy Bryant 

So Old

"None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm."  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Growing Up

"Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional."  ~ Chili Davis

Beauty, Hope and Cheer

"In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber.  So long as it receives a message of beauty, hope, cheer, and courage - so long are you young.  When the wires are all down and our heart is covered with the snow of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, are you grown old."  ~ Douglas MacArthur

Your Heart

"Everyone is the age of their heart."  ~ Guatemalan Proverb

Good Question

"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were?"  ~ Satchel Paige

Attachment

"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world."  ~ John Muir

A Fragile Planet

"This is a beautiful planet and not at all fragile.  Earth can withstand significant volcanic eruptions, tectonic cataclysms, and ice ages.  But this canny, intelligent, prolific, and extremely self-centered human creature had proven himself capable of more destruction of life than Mother Nature herself.... We've got to be stopped."  ~ Michael L. Fischer, Harper's, July 1990

Nature

"Let us a little permit Nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we."  ~ Michel de Montaigne, translated