Kathzoofus

"It is not hard to live through a day if you can live through a moment. What creates despair is the imagination, which pretends there is a future, and insists on predicting millions of moments, thousands of days, and so drains you that you cannot live the moment at hand." ~Andre Dubus

"Fairy tales are more than true; not because the tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten." ~G.K. Chesterton

"Life loves to be taken by the lapel & told, 'I'm with you, kid.  Let's go!" ~Maya Angelou

"Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine." ~Robert c. Gallagher

"The marksman hitteth the mark partly by pulling, partly by letting go." ~Egyptian Proverb

"Enter tomorrow with no regrets." From a long time friend and confidant (PCB)

"I did it my way." ~Frank Sinatra

"All I can say about life is, oh God, enjoy it!" ~Bob Newhart

“Why are  you unhappy ? Because 99.9 percent of everything  you  think, and of everything  you  do, is for yourself—and there isn't one.” ~Wei Wu Wei

"A fear avoided lingers for eternity.  A fear confronted dies in a second." ~Walt Goodridge

"You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart." ~Thomas J. Watson Sr.

"If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be." ~Yogi Berra

"The 'if' thinker broods over a difficulty or a setback.  The 'how' thinker wastes no energy on postmortem's when trouble or even disaster hits him. He immediately starts looking for the best solution." ~Norman Vincent Peale

"True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation." ~George Washington

"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

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult." ~Seneca

"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude." ~Thomas Jefferson

"I don't need a man to rectify my existence.  The most profound relationship we'll ever have is the one with ourselves." ~Shirley MacLaine

"I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we're not wise enough to see it." ~Oprah

"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely." ~Auguste Rodin

"I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever." ~Amy Tan

"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishing's." Anais Nin

"Don't let go of the vine." ~John Weissmuller (Tarzan)

"It is only with the heart that one can see clearly, for the most essential things are invisible to the eye." ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you." ~Frank Tyger

"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced." ~Soren Kierkegaard

"How does one become a butterfly?" she asked pensively. "You have to want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar." ~Trina Paulus, Hope for the Flowers

"Be very careful what you set your heart upon, for you will surely have it." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"On no account brood over your wrongdoing.  Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean." ~Aldous Huxley

"Be glad you had the moment." ~Steve Shagan

"A man with no trace of feminine in him, with no duality at all, is a man without tenderness, sympathy, gentleness, kindness or responsiveness." ~John D. McDonald, Bright Orange for the Shroud

"Adversity is another way to measure greatness of individuals.  I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger." ~Lou Holtz

"For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe." ~Unknown

"Maybe this world is another planet's Hell." ~Aldous Huxley

"We don't receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us." ~Marcel Proust

"Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality." ~Les Brown

"It's so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it." ~Robert M. Pirsig

"If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought." ~Peace Pilgrim

"Solitude, if rightly used, becomes not only a privilege but a necessity.  Only a superficial soul fears to fraternize with itself." ~Alice H. Rice

"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to lose it." ~Warren Buffet

"Confidence is contagious.   So is lack of confidence." ~Vince Lombardi

"Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings." ~C.D. Jackson

"There is a crack in everything.  That's how the light gets in." ~Leonard Cohen

"Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness.  Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness." ~George Sand

"When we are busy theorizing, we are not present." ~Jessica Dore "Intellectual understanding blocks empathy." ~Marshall Rosenberg

“You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.“ Epicurus

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” Epicurus 

“Happiness is a living thing. You need to feed your happiness in order to have happiness last. It’s like love. If you don’t feed your love, it will die. Understanding and compassion are the foundation to happiness.” Thich Nhat Hanh