"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."
~ Carl Jung ~

"We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory."
~ Bern Williams ~

"Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
~ Mark Twain ~

"A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us
to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change."
~ Earl Nightingale ~

"Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other
-- it doesn't matter who it is -- and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other. "
~ Mother Teresa ~


"To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty;
to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless;
to forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?"
~ William Makepeace Thackeray ~

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. "
~ Robert Frost ~

"The heart has reasons which reason knows nothing of.
~ Blaise Pascal ~

"Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured,
yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could."
~ Barbara De Angelis ~

"This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

"What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when
a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and
is fully determined not to quit until he finds it."
~ Alexander Graham Bell ~

"To me, fair friend, you never can be old
For as you were when first your eye I eyed,
Such seems your beauty still. "
~ William Shakespeare ~

"Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. "
~ Aristotle ~

INNER FIRE
"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out.
It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being.
We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit."
~ Albert Schweitzer ~

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
~ Eleanor Roosevelt ~

"The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and
is willing to trust him with his friendship."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the
strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them
better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena;
whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives
valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the
great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a
worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high
achievement; and who at the worst, at least fails while daring
greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid
souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
- Teddy Roosevelt

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations.
- Disraeli

"To laugh often and much,
to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children,
to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends,
to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better,
whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition;
to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded!"
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself'
- Erasmus

"Slight not what's near, when aiming at what's far."
- Euripides

"No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive."
- Mahatma Gandhi

"Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it."
- Baltasar Gracian

"There is nothing permanent except change."
- Heraclitus

"The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.
These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur. "
- Vince Lombardi

"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression;
for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."
- Thomas Paine

"The best way to chear yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. "
- Mark Twain

"Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must outrun
the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up.
It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve.
It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle -
when the sun comes up, you'd better be running."
- Unknown

"If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off
than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded."
- Unknown

"A race is just a race, but a friend who paces you is a friend for life."
- Joseph Franko

"Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it.
Action has magic, grace and power in it."
- Goethe

"The endurance athlete is the ultimate realist."
- Marty Liquori

"That which does not destroy me makes me stronger"
- Nietzsche

"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we
obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that
gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble,
that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection."
- Thomas Paine

"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the
strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them
better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena;
whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives
valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the
great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a
worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high
achievement; and who at the worst, at least fails while daring
greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid
souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
- Teddy Roosevelt

"I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line,
we're all cowards."
- Alberto Salazar

"The will to do, the soul to dare."
- Sir Walter Scott

"Above all, train hard, eat light, and avoid TV and people with negative attitudes."
- Scott Tinley

"Your biggest challenge isn't someone else. It's the ache in your lungs
and the burning in your legs, and the voice inside you that yells
'CAN'T", but you don't listen. You just push harder. And then you hear
the voice whisper 'can'. And you discover that the person you thought
you were is no match for the one you really are."
- Unknown

"We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves.
The more restricted our society and work become, the more necessary it will be to find some outlet for this craving for freedom.
No one can say, 'You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that.'
The human spirit is indomitable."
Sir Roger Bannister (First sub four minute miler)

"It is one of the strange ironies of this strange life that those who work the hardest, who subject themselves to the strictest
discipline, who give up certain pleasurable things in order to achieve a goal, are the happiest men.
When you see 20 or 30 men line up for a distance race in some meet, don't pity them, don't feel sorry for them.
Better envy them instead."
--- Brutus Hamilton (Quoted by Doherty, 1964)

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers,
for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
(Hebrews 13:2)

"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments"
--- Jim Rohn

"our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good
we oft might win, by fearing to attempt"
--- W. Shakespeare

"Allow yourself to be inspired. Allow yourself to succeed.
Dare to excel."
--- Vince Dente

"A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and
nothing can stop him"
--- Alexander Solzenitsyn

"Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple
determination to be happy under all outward circumstances."
--- J. Donald Walters

"To win without risk is to triumph without glory. "
--- Pierre Corneille

"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining."
--- John F. Kennedy

"If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets
even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played 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.

"Your childen need your presence more than your presents."
--- Jesse Jackson

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the
things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off
the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds
in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. "
--- Mark Twain

"So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot
to the town gossip. "
--- Will Rogers

"There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are
strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary. "
--- Emmanuel

"Vision without action is a daydream.
Action without vision is a nightmare. "
--- Japanese Proverb

"Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life. "
--- Burton Hills

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can
do him absolutely no good. "
--- Ann Landers

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs,
even though checkered by failure...than to rank with those poor
spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live
in a grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. "
--- Theodore Roosevelt

"When one door closes, another opens. But we often look
so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the
one that has opened for us. "
--- Alexander Graham Bell

"For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these,
'It might have been'. "
--- John Greenleaf Whittier's poem, 'Maud Muller'

"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what
he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to. "
--- Kahlil Gibran


"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us
with our fellow men; and along these fibers, as sympathetic threads,
our actions run as causes, and they come back as effects."
--- Herman Melville (1819-1891)
American writer

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