quote of the day - what brings abundance

"Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger."
- Saint Basil

quote of the day - the more one laughs

"The more one worries, the older one gets; the more one laughs, the younger one feels."
- Chinese Proverb

quote of the day - risking everything

"If you risk nothing, then you risk everything."
- Geena Davis

quote of the day - past, future and present

"The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans.  The present is our only reality."
- Robert M. Pirsig

quote of the day - inner and outer peace

"Inner peace creates outer peace."
- Remez Sasson

quote of the day - luck happens when

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity"
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

quote of the day - be glad of life

"Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars."
- Henry Van Dyke

quote of the day - the most beautiful things

"The most beautiful things in the world are not seen nor touched. They are felt with the heart."


-- Helen Keller

quote of the day - beauty revealed

"People are like stained-glass windows.  They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

quote of the day - a house where love abides

"But every house where Love abides,

And Friendship is a guest,

Is surely home, and home-sweet-home,

For there the heart can rest."

- Henry Van Dyke

quote of the day - the only true happiness

"The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose."
- William Cowper

quote of the day - appreciating what we have

"We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have."
- Frederick Keonig

quote of the day - being a better friend

"One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession."

- Sophocles

quote of the day - the pleasantest thing to do

"How do you like to go up in a swing,
Up in the air so blue?
Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing
Ever a child can do!"
- Robert Louis Stevenson

quote of the day - we can do anything

"We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough."
- Helen Keller

Quote of the day - working at your best

"If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry.  He should sweep streets  so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

quote of the day - actions of a leader

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."
- John Quincy Adams

quote of the day - what makes a wise man

"Tis not knowing much, but what is useful, that makes a wise man."
- Thomas Fuller

Quote of the day - The poor rich man

"The poor rich man!  All he has is what he has bought.  What I see is mine."
- Henry David Thoreau

quote of the day - truth and love

"Between whom there is hearty truth there is love."
- Henry David Thoreau

quote of the day - sweet simplicity

"It is the sweet simple things of life which are the real ones after all."
- Laura Ingalls Wilder

Quote of the day - inner peace

"If there is to be any peace, it will come through being, not having."
- Henry Miller

Quote of the day - the inexpressible music

"After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."


- Aldous Huxley

Quote of the day - intrinsic worth

"To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything."
- Joan Didion

Quote of the day - emancipate yourself from mental slavery

"Emancipate yourself from mental slavery.  None but ourselves can free our minds."
- Bob Marley

Quote of the day - through humor

"Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers.  And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it."
- Bill Cosby

Quote of the day - living in the future

"If a man carefully examines his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future.  His well-being is always ahead."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote of the day - taking each day rightly

"Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly."
- James Russell Lowell