" Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stonesout of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a fewmore upon it."

---Albert Schweitzer


Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the workbefore you, well assured that the right performance of this hour'sduties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that willfollow it.

---Ralph Waldo Emerson

My will shall shape the future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be noman's doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstaclebefore me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice; my responsibility;win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny.

---Elaine Maxwell

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged childrenfor signs of improvement.

Scott Maxwell

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able toremake the world ... as in being able to remake ourselves.

--Mahatma Gandhi

I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happinessor misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

---Martha Washington

The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.

----Elain Heffner

Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future. In otherwords, if we're going to be more cheerful in the future, it's becauseof our aspiration and exertion to be cheerful in the present. What wedo accumulates; the future is the result of what we do right now.

---Pema Chodron

She was the archetypal selfless mother: living only for her children,sheltering them from the consequences of their actions -- and in theend doing them irreparable harm.

--Marcia Muller


If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishesfrom others without thinking evil of them.

---Mohandas K. Gandhi

We are all something, but none of us are everything.

--Blaise Pascal

Take time to accept responsibility. Your life is exactly that - It'syour life. It is created by you. You are constantly making choices,constantly creating new experiences. And although we an be affectedby circumstances which can seem to be completely out of our control.Essentially, we decide the direction in which we walk.

---Nicolas Watkins

To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that willbring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal isreached. The key is action.

---Michael Hanson

Instead of looking for a miracle in your life,look to see if you are the miracle in someone else's life.

----Nola Rohde Vollmer

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when weare feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it isonly in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likelyto step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways ortruer answers.

---M. Scott Peck


We should be careful and discriminating in all the advice we give. Weshould be especially careful in giving advice that we would not thinkof following ourselves. Most of all, we ought to avoid giving counselwhich we don't follow when it damages those who take us at our word.

----Adlai Stevenson

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles,it distracts, it excites, it gives you the knowledge of the world andexperience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

---Elizabeth Hardwick

The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at atime.

----Abraham Lincoln

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

---Ralph Waldo Emerson

The deepest human defeat suffered by human beings is constituted bythe difference between what one was capable of becoming and what onehas in fact become.

----Ashley Montagu