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“Within sorrow is grace. When we come close to those things that break us down, we touch those things that also break us open. And in that breaking open, we uncover our true nature.”

WAYNE MULLER
AUTHOR, THERAPIST, MINISTER
UNITY

“Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.”

WILLIAM HAZLITT
ESSAYIST, LITERARY CRITIC
CIVILITY

“If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.”

FLAVIA WEEDN
AUTHOR, ARTIST
KINDNESS

“Dreams come in a size too big so that we may grow into them.”

JOSIE BISSET
TELEVISION ACTRESS
UNITY

“Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.”

FRANK TYGER
STEWARDSHIP

“Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.”

ASHLEY SMITH
AUTHOR, SPEAKER
GENEROSITY

“Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.”

POPE JOHN XXIII
261ST POPE OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH
DRIVE

“Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.”

FREDERICK BUECHNER
EDUCATOR, WRITER, THEOLOGIAN
HONESTY

“The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater burden can be borne by an individual than to know no one cares or understands.”

ARTHUR H. STAINBACK
AUTHOR
OPPORTUNITY

“No one's head aches when he is comforting another.”

INDIAN PROVERB
PASSION

“No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another.”

UNKNOWN
PERSEVERANCE

“Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.”

ANTOINE DE SAINTE-EXUPERY
(1900-1944); AVIATOR, WRITER
STRENGTH

“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. ”

RALPH WALDO EMERSON
PHILOSOPHER, POET, AUTHOR, ESSAYIST
LOYALTY

“To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that, that fulfillment will come, is quite possibly one of the most powerful "magic skills" that human beings are capable of. It has been noted by almost every ancient wisdom tradition.”

ELIZABETH GILBERT
AUTHOR
PERSISTENCE

“The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.”

RALPH W. SOCKMAN
PASTOR, SPEAKER, AUTHOR
MENTORING

“The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love, do not require coupons.”

GEORGE T. HEWITT
HISTORIAN
PURPOSE

“It is better to be faithful than famous.”

THEODORE ROOSEVELT
26TH U.S. PRESIDENT
LOYALTY

“We are all in the same boat in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.”

G. K. CHESTERTON
WRITER, POET, ESSAYIST, NOVELIST
HONOR

“Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. ”

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
NOVELIST
BELIEVE IN YOURSELF

“ 'Stay' is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary. ”

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
NOVELIST
PATIENCE

“There is nothing we like to see so much as the gleam of pleasure in a person's eye when he feels that we have sympathized with him, understood him. At these moments something fine and spiritual passes between two friends. These are the moments worth living. ”

DON MARQUIS
AUTHOR, HUMORIST
INNOVATION

“All the so-called "secrets of success" will not work unless you do.”

UNKNOWN
BELIEVE IN YOURSELF

“Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.”

COLLEEN C. BARRETT
PRESIDENT AND CEO, SOUTHWEST AIRLINES COMPANY
INSPIRATION

“I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. ”

THOMAS JEFFERSON
3RD U.S. PRESIDENT
FORESIGHT

“Strive to be first: first to nod, first to smile, first to compliment, and first to forgive.”

ANONYMOUS
INNOVATION

“Open your heart - open it wide; someone is standing outside.”

MARY ENGELBREIT
ARTIST, ENTREPRENEUR
FITNESS

“Were it not for hope the heart would break.”

SCOTTISH PROVERB
HOPE

“We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”

CARLOS CASTENEDA
AUTHOR, PHILOSPHER
REACHING OUT

“The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.”

THOMAS PAINE
SCHOLAR, INTELLECTUAL, WRITER
RIGHT CHOICES

“Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength.”

SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES
ROMAN CATHOLIC SAINT
LEADERSHIP

“Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate. ”

J.R.R. TOLKIEN
WRITER, POET, PHILOLOGIST, UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR
PATIENCE

“That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved. ”

RALPH WALDO EMERSON
PHILOSOPHER, POET, AUTHOR, ESSAYIST
RESPECT

“Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.”

PLATO
CLASSICAL GREEK PHILOSOPHER, MATHEMATICIAN
GENEROSITY
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