"Every mile is two in winter" - George Herbert

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the one you did." - Mark Twain

"Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp" - John Donne

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. - Anne Frank

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. - William James

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. - Leo Tolstoy

The purpose of life is not to be happy - but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all. - Leo Rosten

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. - Dr. Seuss

It seems to me that any full grown, mature adult would have a desire to be responsible, to help where he can in a world that needs so very much, that threatens us so very much. - Norman Lear

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. - Edward Everett Hale

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. - Mother Teresa

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. - Buddha

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catchers mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back. - Maya Angelou

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. - Mahatma Ghandi

If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito. - Betty Reese

Improvement begins with I. - Arnold Glasow

“It takes a long time for the Puritan work ethic mind to discover that one is the most productive when the mind and the shoulders are at ease, that focusing outward in disciplined observation allows the mind the greatest inner opportunity to create and to play.” - Cathy Johnson, The Naturalist’s Path

"If you do not find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of
time looking for him further."  - Mohandas K. Gandhi

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

When people talk, listen completely. - Ernest Hemingway

There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication....Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing. - John Dewey

We are healed of a suffering only by expressing it to the full. - Marcel Proust

The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention....A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words. - Rachel Naomi Remen

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing. - Rollo May

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. - Rudyard Kipling

FAVORITE QUOTES:

"Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans."  - John Lennon

What you learn, teach. What you get, give. - Maya Angelou
(Dale Carlson)

"The body is the temple of the Spirit" - Saint Paul
(Maureen Goss)

"Inquire Within" - anonymous and/or shop sign
(Carol Nicklaus)

"Kid, I've been from one end of this galaxy to the other, and I've
never seen anything that made me believe in luck." - Han Solo, Star Wars
(Carol Nicklaus)

"Possessions are a trial to the soul, and a joy to the senses." - Henry David Thoreau
(Carol Nicklaus)

"It is never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot
(TJ Buckley)

"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.” - Sir Stephen Henry Roberts
(Greg Sammons)

“Good writers borrow, great writers steal.” - Bill Faulkner
(DeLinda Fox)

Imagination is more important than knowledge. --- Albert Einstein

We all have ability. The difference is in how we use it. -- Stevie Wonder

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. -- Robert Louis Stevenson

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. -- Joseph Chilton Pearce

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. -- Pablo Picasso

The most potent muse of all is our own inner child. -- Stephen Nachmanovitch