Donald Cargill
Belief creates the actual fact.
William James
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Rabindranath Tagore
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
Henry Ward Beecher
Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.
Thomas Merton
Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
William Ellery Channing
Give light and people will find the way.
Ella Baker
God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.
Jim Elliot
God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.
Arthur Young
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Henry Ward Beecher
Great hopes make great men.
Thomas Fuller
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Jim Rohn
Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
Democritus
Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
Lao Tzu
Hope is a waking dream.
Aristotle
Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.
Vincent McNabb
A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.
Joyce A. Myers
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
John Muir
I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.
Pope John XXIII
I pray God may preserve your health and life many years.
Junipero Serra
Ideas shape the course of history.
John Maynard Keynes
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
Thomas Fuller
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
Mohandas Gandhi
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
Aristotle Onassis
It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
Joseph Wood Krutch
Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.
Henry Norris Russell
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
Aristophanes
Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
Marcus Aurelius
Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
Albert Camus
Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.
Blaise Pascal
Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!
Audrey Hepburn
Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.
Pope Paul VI
Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.
Pope Paul VI
On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver.
William Bartram
Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Swami Sivananda
Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?
Fulton J. Sheen
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
Henry Ward Beecher
Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
Hosea Ballou
The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.
Mark Hopkins
The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.
Leo Buscaglia
The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.
Ray Manzarek
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
John Muir
There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.
Han Suyin
Think with your whole body.
Taisen Deshimaru
Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
Plato
We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
Henry Ward Beecher
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
Henry Ward Beecher
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
Robert H. Schuller
When deeds speak, words are nothing.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
You change your life by changing your heart.
Max Lucado
Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.
Nido Qubein
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