Comfort

We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable. -Alexander Solzhenitsyn, novelist, Nobel laureate (1918-2008)

Saints & Communists

When I feed the hungry, they call me a saint. When I ask why people are hungry, they call me a communist. -Helder Camara, archbishop (1909-1999)

Self Image

Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.  ~Maxwell Maltz

Plan, Purpose, Idea

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought. - Napoleon Hill
(consider what television does to your thoughts)

Endurance

What is to give light must endure burning. -Viktor Frankl, author, neurologist and psychiatrist, Holocaust survivor (1905-1997)

Possessions

Since my house burned down / I now own a better view / of the rising moon. -Mizuta Masahide, poet and samurai (1657-1723)

Choices

We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong.  The amount of work is the same.  ~Carlos Castaneda

Desire

"The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit." —Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poet

Perseverance

"The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do." —Albert E.N. Gray, Author

Letting go

 Some people think it's holding on that makes one strong- sometimes it's letting go. ~Anon

Destiny

"Your habits become your values,  Your values become your destiny." —Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom

A hungry man is not a free man. -Adlai Stevenson, statesman (1900-1965)

Justice

The big thieves hang the little ones. -Czech proverb

Possessions

Every increased possession loads us with new weariness. -John Ruskin, author, art critic, and social reformer (1819-1900)

Conviction

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. -Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, philosopher (1844-1900)

Knowledge & Ignorance

The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge. -Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, professor, attorney, and writer (1914-2004)

Sanity

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. -Carl Jung, psychiatrist (1875-1961)

Writing

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good. -Thornton Wilder, writer (1897-1975)

Perseverence

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." Thomas Edison

Fatherhood

The words a father speaks to his children in the privacy of the home are not overheard at the time, but, as in whispering galleries, they will be clearly heard at the end and by posterity. -Jean Paul Richter, writer (1763-1825)

Change

Although the connections are not always obvious, personal change is inseparable from social and political change. -Harriet Lerner, psychologist

Destiny

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve. -Albert Schweitzer, philosopher, physician, musician, Nobel laureate (1875-1965)

Effort

Let us do our best, even if it gets us nowhere.  Henry Miller, author

Destination

The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.” Bill Watterson