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Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. Winston Churchill It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post. Cicero He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day... Sign in to see full entry.

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the... Sign in to see full entry.

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. W. W. Ziege The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the... Sign in to see full entry.

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another, and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it. James M. Barrie If you can DREAM it, you can DO it. AND All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to... Sign in to see full entry.

A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner. English proverb Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. Auguste Rodin Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them. Edward R. Murrow Forgiveness does not change the past, but it... Sign in to see full entry.

One must wait until evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death. Charles de Gaulle We come into the world crying while all around us are smiling. May we live that we go out of this world smiling while everybody around us is weeping. Persian proverb No one's death comes... Sign in to see full entry.

The search for truth is more precious than its possession. AND Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. Albert Einstein No matter how difficult the challenge, when we spread our wings of faith and allow the winds of God's spirit to lift us,... Sign in to see full entry.

St. Francis of Assisi was hoeing his garden when someone asked what he would do if he were suddenly to learn that he would die before sunset that very day. "I would finish hoeing my garden," he replied. Louis Fischer When a mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby. Nigerian proverb The first... Sign in to see full entry.

things. Courage is the resistance to fear, the mastery of fear - not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say it is brave. Mark Twain In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. AND Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. Albert Einstein... Sign in to see full entry.

I was driving home last night, listening to the radio. Now, I don't usually listen TOO closely, but some of the details of a story caught my attention. Several different people, from different parts of the U.S. came up with different ideas about contributing in a POSITIVE way to the... Sign in to see full entry.