Positive Quote of the Day:

Updated: January 15, 2003

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. - Samuel Butler

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another! - Gail Sheehy

Downtime is where we become ourselves, looking into the middle distance, kicking at the curb, lying on the grass or sitting on the stoop and staring at the tedious blue of the summer sky. I don't believe you can write poetry, or compose music, or become an actor without downtime, and plenty of it, a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels inside that fuel creativity. - Anna Quindlen

Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world. - Grace Paley

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. - Dorothy Dix

What an interesting life I had. And how I wish I had realized it sooner! - Colette

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. - Pablo Picasso

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research. - Carl Jung

I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying. - Michael Jordan

Whether one has natural talent or not, any learning period requires the willingness to suffer uncertainty and embarrassment. - Gail Sheehy

Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are. - John Wooden

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events. - Winston Churchill

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton

If you limit your choices to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise. - Robert Fritz

My songs will pass and be forgotten. What counts, however, is that I sang them. - Andrew Greeley

In the school of life, difficult people are the faculty. They teach us our most important spiritual lessons, the lessons that we would be most unlikely to learn on our own. - Mark I. Rosen

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. - Harold B. Melchart

Every moment that you spend upset, in despair, in anguish, angry or hurt because of the behavior of anybody else in your life is a moment in which you have given up control of your life. - Dr. Wayne Dyer

There is not a truth existing which I fear or would wish unknown to the whole world. - Thomas Jefferson

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in. - Andrew Jackson

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden. - Goethe

One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful. - Sigmund Freud

No man is a failure who is enjoying life. - William Feather

Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. - William Durant, founder of General Motors

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. - William James

If you want to know what your true beliefs are, take a look at your actions. - Unknown

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or by emotional appeal. - Marilyn Ferguson

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted, but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known. - Garrison Keillor

Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends. - Richard Bach

It is easier to shed what you are not, than it is to try to become what you think you are. - Rinaldo S. Brutoco

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. - Unknown

The greatest understanding you can have, if you want to be enlightened, is that no one will ever understand you. - Unknown

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. - Helen Keller

No one person can love enough to make a relationship work. - Unknown

True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess. - Louis Nizer

Let go. When the horse is dead, get off. - Francis Reynolds

A grey rock, said Ruskin, is a good sitter. That is one type of behaviour. A darting dragon-fly is another type of behaviour. We call the one alive, the other not. But both are fundamentally balances of give and take of motion with their surround. To make "life" a distinction between them is at root to treat them both artificially. - Sir Charles Scott Sherrington

Use the talents you possess; for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except the best. - Unknown

Be kind; for everyone you meet is fighting a difficult battle. - Philo

Everything in the universe is subject to change and everything is right on schedule. - Unknown

When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book before; you see more in you than there was before. - Clifton Fadiman