A Separate Peace

Life isn't about the breaths we take,

it's about the moments that take our breath away.

In each of us are places where we have never gone. Only by pressing
the limits do you ever find them.

-Dr Joyce Brothers, 1927-, American Psychologist, Television and Radio
Personality

The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

- Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist,

Time never stops to rest, never hesitates, never looks forward or
backward. Life's raw material spends itself now, this moment - which is why how you spend your time is far more important than all the material possessions you may own or positions you may attain.

-Denis Waitley, 1933-, American Author, Speaker, Trainer, Peak Performance Expert

-The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -
loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

-Victor Hugo, 1802-1885, French Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse.

-Og Mandino, 1923-1996, American Motivational Author, Speaker

We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart. -

Martin Luther King, Jr., 1929-1968,
American Civil Rights Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

"We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then
leap in the dark to our success."

- Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

"On your tombstone, there will be two dates . . . the date you were born and the date you died. That little line between those two dates - that DASH - is Your Life! Your DASH matters to the people you love. It's your DASH that will be remembered."

- Eric J. Aronson, author of "DASH"

"Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it
yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe."

-Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister

You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live.

- Joan Baez, 1941-, American Singer, Songwriter

-Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a
dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

– John Lennon, 1940-1980, British Rock Musician

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

-Mahatma Gandhi ,1869-1948, Indian
Political and Spiritual Leader

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they
attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.

-Pearl S. Buck {1892-1973 American Novelist}

-There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.

-Nathaniel Branden, American Expert on Self-esteem, Author, Psychologist

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

-Carl Jung, 1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist

-Thinking is easy, acting difficult, and to put one's thoughts into
action, the most difficult thing in the world.

- Goethe, 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us."

-Flora Edwards

-A man would do nothing, if he waited until he could do it so well that no one at all would find fault with what he has done.

- John Henry Newman, 1801-1890, British Preacher

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, 1880-1968, American Blind/Deaf Author, Lecturer, Amorist

-Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

-Booker T. Washington, 1856-1915, American Leader and Educator

Hold on to your dreams for they are, in a sense, the stuff of which reality is made. It is through our dreams that we maintain the possibility of a better, more meaningful life.

-- Leo Buscaglia, American Expert on Love, Lecturer, Author

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach toward immortality.

Norman Cousins (1915-1990),Writer and editor

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives; where we focus our attention. The good news is that we can choose.

Greg Anderson,Wellness consultant

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

-William Faulkner, 1897-1962, American Novelist

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

It's good to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand.

Madeleine L'engle, Writer

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

-Leo Tolstoy 1828-1910, Russian Novelist, Philosopher

Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?

-Frank Scully, Author

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.

- Japanese Proverb

This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the
night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.

-William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

-A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and
licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

-Gene Roddenberry, American Producer, Director, Creator of Star Trek Series

"One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears - by listening to them."

-Dean Rusk, US Public Official and Educator

-There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

-John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963,
Thirty-fifth President of the USA

Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing

Socrates (c. 470-399 B.C.), Philosopher

-If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

-Vincent Van Gogh {1853-1890 Dutch Painter}

If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.

Earl Wilson (1907-1957), Columnist

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves

Edmund Hillary, Explorer

You must feed your mind even as you feed your body, and to make your mind healthy you must feed it good, nourishing, wholesome thoughts.

Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993), Clergyman

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of
progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a
failure.

- Thomas Edison, 1847-1931, American Inventor, Entrepreneur, Founder of GE

To Keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907), Writer and editor

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.

Nancy Friday, Writer

I don't believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.

Maya Angelou, Writer

Our small efforts at kindness can change people's lives more than we will ever know. Since it takes so little time and energy to change the world for the better why not make an effort to do it every day?

Pat Williams, Basketball executive

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

Henri Louis Bergson (1859-1941), Philosopher

The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.

Thomas Moore, Writer

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.

- Albert Camus, 1913-1960, French Existential Writer

Our deepest fear is NOT that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?" Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God; your playing small doesn't serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people feel insecure around you.

-Marianne Williamson 1952-, American Author, Lecturer on Spirituality