| The first rule of holes:when you're in one, stop digging. | | | | is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What |
| -- Molly Ivins Arrange whatever pieces come your | | | | you do comes from what you think. -- A Course in |
| way. -- Virginia Woolf . . . you don't get to choose how | | | | Miracles Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you |
| you're going to die, or when.You can only decide how | | | | will land among the stars. -- Les Brown Knowing |
| you're going to live now. -- Joan Baez I choose not to | | | | others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. |
| be a common man. Me, it's my right to be uncommon if | | | | Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true |
| I can. I'll seek opportunity, not security. I do not wish to | | | | power. -- Lao-tzu Life can only be understood |
| be a kept citizen--humbled and dulled by having the | | | | backwards; it has to be lived forwards. -- Søren |
| state look after me. I want to take the calculated risk, | | | | Kierkegaard Listen to the exhortation of the dawn |
| to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed. I'll refuse | | | | Look to this day! For it is life, the very life of life. In its |
| to live from hand to mouth. I'll prefer the challenges of | | | | brief course lie all the Verities and realities of your |
| life to the guaranteed existence. The thrill of fulfillment | | | | existence; The bliss of growth, The glory of action, The |
| to the stale calm of Utopia. I will never cower before | | | | splendor of beauty; For yesterday is but a dream, And |
| any master nor bend to any friend. It is my heritage to | | | | tomorrow is only a vision; But today, well lived, makes |
| stand erect, proud and unafraid, to think and act for | | | | Every yesterday a dream of happiness, And every |
| myself and face the world boldly and say, "This I have | | | | tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this |
| done." -- Theodore Roosevelt The mistake we make | | | | day! -- Passage from the Sanskrit Life is a mission. |
| is to turn upon our past with angry wholesale negation . | | | | Every other definition is false, and leads all who accept |
| . . The way of wisdom is to treat it airily, lightly, | | | | it astray. -- Guiseppe Mazzini You ought to be afraid to |
| wantonly, and in a spirit of poetry; and above all to use | | | | die until you've contributed something great back to |
| its symbols, which are its spiritual essence, giving them | | | | humanity. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| a new connotation, a fresh meaning. -- John Cowper | | | | Lecturer, entrepreneur and MBA business consultant, |
| Powys You may believe that you are responsible for | | | | John Harricharan is the author of the award-winning |
| what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is | | | | book, "When You Can Walk on Water, Take the Boat. |
| that you are responsible for what you think, because it | | | | |