A Moment's Thought

Why and How

"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how."

— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I Remain

"I must not fear. Fear is the mindkiller. Fear is the little death that brings obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.

Only I will remain."

- Frank Herbert

Knowing

"When the most important things in our life happen, we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on."                  - C. S. Lewis

Failure

"If you have made mistakes...there is always another chance for you... You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down."                           - Mary Pickford

The Inner Voice

" We are so many selves.  It's not just the long-ago child within us who needs tenderness and inclusion, but the person we were last year, wanted to be yesterday, tried to become.

What brings together these ever-shifting selves of infinite reactions and returnings is this: There is always one true inner voice."                                    

                                                       - Gloria Steinem

Thriving

"Surviving is important.

            Thriving is elegant."

                          - Maya Angelou

Extraordinary Possibilities

"Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people."

                                          - Harry Emerson Fosdick

Midnight

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life...

Comes to us at midnight very clean.  It's perfect when it arrives

and puts itself into our hands.

It hopes we've learned something from yesterday."

                                                                     -  John Wayne

Full of Promise

"Hope is not the closing of your eyes to the difficulty, the risk, or the failure.

It is a trust that - if I fail now - I shall not fail forever; and if I am hurt, I shall be healed.

It is a trust that life is good, love is powerful, and the future is full of promise."

                                                           - Anonymous

Loving

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu