If criticism had any real power to destroy, the skunk would have been extinct a long time ago.

Mark Twain

The will of God will not take us where the Grace of God cannot keep us

Anonymous

When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take the step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for us to stand on or we will be taught to fly.

Patrick Overton

Two roads diverged in a wood and I Took the one less traveled by And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

Let go into the mystery.

Van Morrison, songwriter

The real voyage of dicovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth and good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We make a living by what by get - We make a life by what we give.

Anonymous

You must risk going too far to discover how far you can go.

Anonmous

One thing that comes out in myths is that at the bottom of the abyss comes the voice of salvation. The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.

Joseph Campbell

Passion is holy, to be embraced, even as we tremble with fear that love will hurt us. (As of course it will.) We are conceived in passion, born in passion and often die in passion. Passion is color; most of us live in black and white.

Anonymous

Let us remember that we do not have our children in order for us to correct all the things our parents did wrong or in order for us to have extensions on which to project all our fantasies. When we treat our children this way, we never can see the beautiful, unique faces of God who they are.

Anonymous

Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

Anonymous

What stops you in life is not so much who you think you are but who you think you are not.

Anonymous

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

Buckminster Fuller

It is more important to BE the right person that it is to FIND the right person.

Anonymous

One hundred percent (100%) of the shots you don't take don't go in.

Wayne Gretzky

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.    

Theodore Roosevelt

Half the failures of this world arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. 

Augustus Hare

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live, taking the form of readiness to die.

G.K. Chesterton

We don't stop playing when we grow old, we grow old when we stop playing.

Anonymous

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. 

Pablo Picasso

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trial.

Confucius