To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best night and day, to make you everybody else--means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

e. e. cummings
American Poet
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“All my life I've wanted to be somebody.
 But I see now I should have been more specific.” 
  
Jane Wagner 
From  The Search For Signs Of Intelligent Life In The Universe

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. 

Buddha   
The "Enlightened One"
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“We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. ”

Luciano de Crescenzo
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. 

Mark Twain
American Author
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Carpe Diem! Rejoice while you are alive; 
enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; 
make the most of what you have.
 It is later than you think.  

Horace
Latin Poet

To have striven, to have made an effort, to have been true to certain ideals -- this alone is worth the struggle. We are here to add what we can to, not to get what we can from, life.  

Sir William Osler
Canadian Physician and Teacher
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"You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love."

Henry Drummond
Scottish Author and Clergyman
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We are more than what we do...
much more than what we accomplish...
far more than what we possess.

William Arthur Ward 
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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever. 

Henry Van Dyke
American Author and Clergyman
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Life is not a 'brief candle'. It is a splendid torch that I want to make burn as brightly as possible before handing on to future generations. 

George Bernard Shaw  
Irish Playwright and Critic
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To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as...to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.

Og Mandino  
Author of Greatest Salesman In The World
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Time is too slow for those who wait,
too swift for those who fear,
too long for those who grieve, 
too short for those who rejoice,
but for those who love, 
time is eternity. 

Henry Van Dyke
American Author and Clergyman
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Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise. 

Phillips Brooks  
American Episcopal Bishop
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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Helen Keller
American Author and Lecturer
(Blind and deaf since age 2)
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Nothing should be prized more highly
 than the value of each day. 

Goethe  
German Poet
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One SONG can spark a moment
One FLOWER can wake the dream
One TREE can start a forest
One BIRD can herald spring
One SMILE begins a friendship
One HANDCLASP lifts a soul
One STAR can guide a ship at sea
One WORD can frame the goal
One VOTE can change a nation
One SUNBEAM lights a room
One CANDLE wipes out darkness
One LAUGH will conquer gloom
One STEP must start each journey
One WORD must start a prayer
One HOPE will raise our spirits
One TOUCH can show you care
One VOICE can speak with wisdom
One HEART can know what is true
One LIFE can make a difference.

Author Unknown

You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can 
do something about its width and depth.

Shira Tehrani   

“May you live all the days of your life.”

Jonathan Swift  
English Author
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After awhile you learn
the subtle difference between
holding a hand and chaining a soul
and you learn that love doesn't mean possession
and company doesn't mean security.
And you begin to learn that kisses aren't contracts
and presents aren't promises and you begin to accept
your defeats with your head up and your eyes ahead
with the grace of an adult not the grief of a child.
And you learn to build your roads today
because tomorrow's ground is too uncertain for plans
and futures have ways of falling down in mid-flight.
After awhile you learn that even sunshine
burns if you get too much so you plant your
own garden and decorate your own soul
instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
And you learn that you really can endure
that you really are strong
and you really do have worth
and you learn
and you learn...

Veronica A. Shoffstall      
 © Copyright 1971                    
  Spanish Version

“It is not length of life, but depth of life.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Poet 
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For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge you never walk alone.

We leave you a tradition of the future. The tender loving care of human beings will never become obsolete.

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, redeemed and redeemed and redeemed. Never throw anyone away.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.

As you grow older, you'll discover that you have two hands: One for helping yourself, the second for helping others.

You have great days still ahead of you. May there be many of them.

Beauty Secrets
As published in a recent "Dear Abby" column

“And in the end, it's not the years in your life 
that count. It's the life in your years.”

Abraham Lincoln
16th American President 
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Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.

Ron Wild

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory. 

Betty Smith
Author of A Tree Grows In Brooklyn   Other Books

“We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. 
We are spiritual beings on a human journey.”

Stephen Covey  
Author of 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People 
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The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. 

Buddha
The "Enlightened One" 
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Gather ye rose-buds while ye may,
old Time is still a-flying; 
And this same flower that smiles today,
tomorrow will be dying. 

Robert Herrick
American Novelist
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