"Quotes To Encourage You"
"Treasure your soul searching, soul pruning, soul calming and soul nourishing moments; they bring clarity, focus, humility, peace and growth into your life."
Caroline Naoroji
"Real freedom comes from having peace of mind."
My mother in 1977 --- Submitted by David Pourreaux --- Quebec, Canada
This is a translation of - "La vraie liberte vient en ayant la conscience tranquille" from my French mother who added "that being able to go to sleep every night WITH your conscience at rest, THAT is the challenge my son."
"The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is to live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof."
Barbara Kingsolver
"Walk on with hope in your heart...and you'll never walk alone."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Kamila Yaakob --- Selangor, Malaysia
"My country is the world, and my religion is to do good."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You get in life what you have the courage to ask for."
Oprah Winfrey
"Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are."
Paulo Coelho --- Submitted by Ashley R. --- Florida
"Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrow is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow."
Dorothy Thompson
"There are two ways of meeting difficulties, you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them."
Phyllis Bottome
"Persisting resolutely to navigate life's rapids, scale it's mountains, move beyond its perceived limitations, and arrive at its finish line with faith and dignity shows the capacity for achievement."
Copyright © 2003 Steve Brunkhorst
"Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins."
Jim Rohn
"When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself."
Edgar Cayce
"For years I have endeavored to calm an impetuous tide--laboring to make my feelings take an orderly course--it was striving against the storm."
Mary Wollstonecraft --- Submitted by Gina Hamilton --- California
I have stuffed them, ignored them, and controlled them many times in my life. The end result is always the same: Ka-boom! Your feelings are your feelings. Your feelings are who you are; they are what make you human. Don't let anyone try to shape them or stomp on them. Hold onto them, no matter what.
"God does not keep us from life's storms-he walks us through them."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Edwin Mensah --- Kumasi, Ghana
"Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation."
Brian Tracy
"Don't be afraid to cry...it's in crying that our spirit is reborn!"
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Liz Rackowski --- Massachusetts
After my Father passed away, I was scared to cry, to show people my weakness. It wasn't weakness and it wasn't until I could cry that I could heal!
"Taste life: sometimes it's sweet, sometimes it's salty, but it's always delicious."
Copyright © 2003 Katie Graf
"There are no bad people, just bad decisions."
Copyright © 2003 Tracy Petitt