1. We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time. —T.S. Elliot [Jake's Favorite: Ah! The profound cycle of life]
2. A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received. —Albert Einstein
3. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. —Goethe
4. The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy. —Martin Luther King Jr. [Jake's Favorite]
5. I believe that children are the future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they posses inside. Give them a sense of pride. Let the children's laughter remind us of how we used to be. —Whitney Houston (The Greatest Love)
6. A day without laughing is a wasted day. —Pablo Picasso [Jake's Favorite]
7. Your best friends should be words because they will never leave you. —Anon [Jake's Favorite]
8. God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December. —James Barrie
9. A man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. —Mark Twain
10. A teacher affects eternity: he can never tell where his influence stops. —Henry Adams
11. Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor...Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting. —Mother Theresa[Jake's Favorite]
12. It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. —Albert Einstein
13. A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. —Chinese Proverb
14. How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. —George Washington Carver, American inventor and horticulturist [Jake's Favorite]
15. You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. —Wayne Gretsky [Jake's Favorite]
16. All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes to make it possible. —T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia)[Jake's Favorite]
17. Everything worthwhile is risky. —Clint Eastwood
18. When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. —Alexander Graham Bell, American inventor
19. A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood. —Chinese Proverb [Jake's Favorite]
20. To whom much is given, much is required. —The Bible
21. A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove... But the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child. —Anon
22. The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor. —Vince Lombardi
23. The word impossible is not in my dictionary. —Napoleon Bonaparte
24. Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known in the world. —Mathew Arnold [Jake's Favorite: This is the best defention of culture that I have ever come across]
25. It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong. —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
26. Service to others is the rent I pay for my room in Heaven. —Muhammad Ali
27. The Mothers heart is the classroom of the child. —Anon [Jake's Favorite: Very Deep]
28. The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever galling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls. —John Muir
29. Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart. —Martin Luther King Jr.
30. I'm a wonderful housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house. —Zsa Zsa Gabor [Jake's Favorite: This is funny...and you have to love those gorgeous Hungarian babes with the sexy accent...Darlink...]
31. Die when I may, I want it said of me that I plucked a weed and planted a flower where ever I thought a flower would grow. —Abraham Lincoln [Jake's Favorite: I love this quote and I live by these words]
32. A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. —Walter Winchell[Jake's Favorite]
33. I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity. —Gilda Radner
34. 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. [Jake's Favorite: So True!!!!]
35. A good conscience is a continual Christmas. —Benjamin Franklin
36. Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. —Confucius
37. The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity! —Albert Einstein
38. I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. —Shirley Temple Black (Actress, Singer, and US Ambassador)
39. If you examine a butterfly according to the laws of aerodynamics, it shouldn't be able to fly. But the butterfly doesn't know that, so it flies. —Anon
40. People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within. —Elizabeth Ross[Jake's Favorite]
41. I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut. —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [Jake's Favorite]
42. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding you can know a lot about something without understanding it. —Charles Kettering [Jake's Favorite: This is one of the most profound quotes I have ever come across]
43. If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle. —Vincent van Gogh
44. There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. —Albert Einstein [Jake's Favorite]
45. "The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company...a church...a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past...we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The one thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you...we are in charge of our attitudes." —Charles Swindoll [Jake's Favorite: Super deep and super profound!!!]
46. The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown. —Albert Einstein
47. "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible." —Albert Einstein
48. I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. —Albert Einstein
49. On Relativity: When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity. —Albert Einstein
50. We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day. —Edith Lovejoy Pierce
