* WORDS OF WISDOM GALLERY II *

A hero is someone who has given his or her life
to something bigger than oneself.

- Joseph Campbell -
Spiritual Philosopher/Author

The wave of the future is coming
and there is no stopping it.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh -
Author of Gift From The Sea

You Can't Push The River -
It Just Keeps Flowing...& Flowing...& Flowing...

- Coleman Wheeler -

Miracles happen
only to those who believe in them.

- French Proverb -

I will speak ill of no one,
and speak all the good I know of everybody.

- Benjamin Franklin -
Statesman

When you judge others,
you are revealing
your own fears & prejudices.

All we have to fear - is fear itself.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt -
U.S. President

Love is patient, Love is kind and envies no one,
Love is never boastful, nor conceited,
nor rude; never selfish, not quick to take offense.
In a word, there are three things that last forever:
Faith, Hope, & Love;
but the greatest of them all is Love.

- 1 Corinthians 13 -
The Bible

Its not how far you fall, but how high you bounce.

GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER.

A hundred years from now...
it will not matter
what my bank account was,
the sort of house I lived in,
or the kind of car I drove...
but the world may be different
because I was important in the life of a child.

Wealth is not synonymous with happiness,
nor is poverty synonymous with not being happy.

- Tony Brown -
Television Commentator
"Tony Brown's Journal"

Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work
a day in your life.

- Confucius -
Spiritual Leader

Two stonecutters were asked what they were doing.
The first said "I'm cutting this stone into blocks",
The second replied, "I'm on a team
that's building a cathedral."

The words you choose will change your mood,
for better or worse.

A person's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimension.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes -
Author

CREATIVITY STIMULATES CREATIVITY
...Stimulates Creativity Stimulates Creativity...

- Coleman Wheeler -

If your dreams are bigger than most,
if your ideas are more creative,
there will be criticism.

- Robert H. Schuller -
Television Evangelist

If you don't stand for something,
you'll fall for anything.

A shortcut is often the quickest way
to someplace you weren't going.

- Classic Crossword Puzzles -

Don't hang out with people
who are abusive to themselves or others,
and don't go to places or get involved in activities
that will pull you down, get you in trouble,
or cause you pain.

Challenges
can be stepping stones or stumbling blocks.
Its all just a matter of how you view them.

We don't know One-Millionth of One-Percent
about anything.

- Thomas Edison -
Inventor - 1092 Patents

If your life is free of failures,
you're not taking enough risks.

Don't judge those who try & fail;
judge only those who fail to try.

Some goals are so worthy, its glorious even to fail.

When the Great Scorer comes to write
against your name,
S/He marks not that you won or lost,
but how you played the game.

- Grantland Rice -

You only live once...
but once is enough if you do it right.

Everything flows on & on like this river,
without pause, day and night.

- Confucius -
Spiritual Leader

Rain falls on every roof;
the sun shines upon all alike.

- African Proverb -

Whether we like it or not, we are all immigrants.

- A California Police Officer -

Things turn out best for the people
who make the best out of the way things turn out.

- Art Linkletter -
Television Host/Author

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad,
you have a good chance of being a prophet.

- Isaac Bashevis Singer -
Jewish Author

Though we travel the world over
to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Author

Don't let life discourage you;
everyone who got where s/he is
had to begin where s/he was.

Only those who will risk going too far,
can possibly find out how far one can go.

- T.S. Eliot -
Author

We must embrace the absurd
and go beyond everything we have ever known.

- Janie Gustafson -

If you want to succeed,
you have to GO FOR IT
and give it all you've got.
New powers are discovered
every time you push yourself
farther than you've ever gone before.
There are deeper layers of energy,
talent, & creativity within you,
waiting to be tapped.

Anybody whose life is static, is dead.

Enthusiasm is Energy!

Turn your scars into stars!

Believe in your own Brilliance!

- Robert H. Schuller -
Television Evangelist

S/He who sows sparingly
will also reap sparingly,
and s/he who sows bountifully
will also reap bountifully.

- 2 Corinthians 9:6 -
The Bible

Indulging our senses
and drinking salt water are alike;
the more we partake,
the more our desire & thirst grows.

- The Dalai Lama -
Spiritual Leader

It doesn't happen all at once...
you BECOME.
It takes a long time.

- Margery Williams -
Author of The Velveteen Rabbit

I saw of course the cliff,
I saw the turbulent ocean blue;
but everyone else was going that way,
so I thought I would too.

- Larry Lemming -

lemmings:
short-tailed, furry-footed rodents
noted for their recurrent mass migrations
which often continue into the sea
where vast numbers are drowned.

The greatest pleasure in life
is doing what people say you cannot do.

- Walter Bagehot -

When people say to me:
"How do you do so many things?"
I often answer them,
without meaning to sound cruel:
"How do you do so little?"
It seems to me that people have vast potential.
Most people can do extraordinary things
if they have the confidence or take the risks.
Yet most people don't.

- Philip Adams -

Work is Love made visible.
And if you can't work with Love,
but only with distaste,
it is better that you should leave your work
and sit at the gate of the temple
and take the alms of the people who work with Joy.

- Kahlil Gibran -
Author of The Prophet

All people should strive to learn before they die,
what they are running from, and to, and why.

- James Thurber -
Humorist Author

Be soft in your practice.
Think of the method as a fine silvery stream,
not a raging waterfall.
Follow the stream, have faith in its course.
It will go its own way,
meandering here, trickling there.
It will find the cracks, the crevices. Just follow it.
Never let it out of your sight. It will take you.

- Sheng-yen -

Happy Trails to you, Until we Meet again...
Happy Trails to you, Keep Smilin' until then...
Happy Trails to you, 'Til we Meet again.

- Roy Rodgers & Dale Evans, & Van Halen -

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