Inspirations - Fri., May 31, 2013

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

-- Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Writer

Inspirations - Thur., May 30, 2013

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

-- Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990) American Publisher

Inspirations - Wed., May 29, 2013

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.

-- Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) American Psychologist

Inspirations - Tue., May 28, 2013

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

-- Phillips Brooks (1835-1893) American Bishop

Inspirations - Mon., May 27, 2013

When you take a risk and step out of the norm, you run the risk and sometimes you fail. But you only fail if you give up.

-- J Peterman

Inspirations - Fri., May 24, 2013

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses.

-- Allophones Karr

Inspirations - Thur., May 23, 2013

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.

-- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish Playwright

Inspirations - Wed., May 22, 2013

A childlike man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle aged habit and convention.

-- Aldous Huxley

Inspirations / Thought - Tue., May 21, 2013

I've got to give my cousin Keisha Shinholster Taylor credit for this one:

"When you got a King or Queen don't reshuffle the deck..you may end up with the joker..

Inspirations - Mon., May 20, 2013

He who finds diamonds must grapple in mud and mire because diamonds are not found in polished stones.  They are made.

-- Henry B. Wilson

Inspirations - Fri., May 17, 2013

The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.

-Felix Adler

Author Comments - men/women, man/woman, himself/herself

Inspirations, Thur., May 16, 2013

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

-- Adam Smith (1723-1790)

Inspirations for Wed., May 15, 2013

Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunities for good deeds are renewed day by day. The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory.

-- F.W. Faber

Inspirations - Tue., May 14, 2013

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many--not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

-- Charles Dickens (1812-1870) English Novelist
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Inspirations for Mon., May 13, 2013

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

-- Pablo Picasso
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