Don't sacrifice your life to work and ideals. The most important things in life are human relations. I found that out too late.
--Katharinde Susannah Prichard Australian Author

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.
--Rainer Maria Rilke

Life is just one damned thing after another.
--Elbert Hubbard

The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.
--Robert Louis Stevenson

Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.
--Kahlil Gibran

You should always learn, with life comes wisdom and with wisdom comes the courage to live your life selflessly. The more you learn about yourself and the experiences surrounding your life the more opportunities you have to make your life better and more fulfilling.
--Amy Candy

We are the hero of our own story.
--Mary McCarthy

Life in abundance comes only through great love.
--Elbert Hubbard

Life is pain, princess. . . anyone who says differently is selling something
--Wesley The Princess Bride

Many of life's circumstances are created by three basic choices: the disciplines you choose to keep, the people you choose to be with; and, the laws you choose to obey.
--Charles Millhuff

There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle The other is as though everything is a miracle.
--Albert Einstein

How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become -- to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
--Albert Einstein

All effort is in the last analysis sustained by the faith that it is worth making.
--Ordway Tead

Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest.
--Sarah Ban Breathnach Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy by Sarah Ban Breathnach

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
--Samuel Butler

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
--Helen Keller

Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
--Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day

He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses much more, He who loses faith, loses all.
--Eleanor Roosevelt

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
--Helen Keller

Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Minister, Civil Rights Leader

A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.
--Arthur C. Clarke

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
--B. C. Forbes

Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement
--George Adams

Courage is rarely reckless or foolish . . . courage usually involves a highly realistic estimate of the odds that must be faced.
--Margaret Truman

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.
--Corra Harris

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
--Mingnon McLaughlin

Not one of us knows what effect his life produces, and what he gives to others; that is hidden from us and must remain so, though we are often allowed to see some little fraction of it, so that we may not lose courage. The way in which power works is a mystery.
--Albert Schweitzer (01/14/1875-1965)

Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.
--Mark Twain

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
-- Florence Scovel Shinn

Courage consists of the power of self-recovery.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows
--Frances Rodman

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage - and act accordingly
--Corra May White Harris

Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
--Mary Tyler Moore

Don't let life discourage you, everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
--Richard L. Evans

Every child comes with a message that God is yet not discouraged by man
--Unknown

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
--Eleanor Roosevelt

Fear imprisons; faith liberates; fear paralyzes; faith empowers; fear disheartens; faith encourages; fear sickens; faith heals; fear makes useless faith makes serviceable.
--Harry Emerson Fosdick

Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living
--Douglas Malloch

We are not powerless specks of dust drifting around in the wind, blown by random destiny. We are, each of us, like beautiful snowflakes - unique, and born for a specific reason and purpose.
--Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.
--Jean Kerr

All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope.
--Alexander Dumas

Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again
--Sarah Ban Breathnach Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy by Sarah Ban Breathnach

Listen now to the gentle whispers of hope.
--Charles D. Brodhead

Hope has been and always will be safe. It's inside every one of us.
--Xena

Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all.
--Emily Dickinson

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
--Barbara Kingsolver (1955-___) US novelist

Hope is a waking dream.
--Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
--Samuel Johnson

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.
--Anne Lamott

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out.
--Vaclav Havel

Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them.
--William James

Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope; and the one unchangeable certanity is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.
--John Fitzgerald Kennedy

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
--Robert Louis Stevenson

If you're going through hell, keep going.
--Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) British Statesman, Prime Minister, Author

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
--Mahatma Gandhi

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
--Sir Winston Churchill

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
--Leonard Cohen

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
--Marcus Aurelius

Remember this -- very little is needed to make a happy life.
--Marcus Aurelius

It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable
--Maya Angelou

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan, 'Press on,' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race --Calvin Coolidge

Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today? --Mary Manin Morrissey author

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.
--Harriet Braiker

Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
--Frank Outlaw

In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him.
--Dereke Bruce

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
--Confucius

Every now and again take a good look at something not made with hands, a mountain, a star, the turn of a stream. There will come to you wisdom and patience and solace and, above all, the assurance that you are not alone in the world.
--Sidney Lovett

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right.
--Isaac Asimov

The road must be trod, but it will be very hard. And neither strength nor wisdom will carry us far upon it. This quest may be attempted by the weak with as much hope as the strong. Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.
--J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

He who knows others is learned. He who knows himself is wise
--Lao-Tzu

If we do not change our course, we will end up where we are headed.
--Chinese proverb