"Learning never exhausts the mind."
— Leonardo da Vinci

"Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears."
- Albert Camus

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand & walk & run & climb & dance; one cannot fly into flying. Friedrich Nietzsche

[Faith] alone is insufficient. To be vital, faith must be accompanied by self sacrifice and unselfish, constructive action. AA Big Book p.93

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
Jim Elliot, 1949

"Map out your future, but do it in pencil."
– Jon Bon Jovi

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
- Bern Williams

Let's roll. -- Todd Beamer
American hero (1968–2001)

"Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds. "
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Let each man exercise the art he knows. "
- Aristophanes

"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

"Man is free at the moment he wishes to be."
— Voltaire

"Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken."
– Frank Herbert

"Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant. "
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. Ferris Bueller

This is the baffling feature of alcoholism as we know it—this utter inability to leave it alone no matter how great the necessity or the wish. Big Book p34

"It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder. "
- Joseph Wood Krutch

"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought."
— Jonathan Swift

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Risks, I like to say, always pay off. You learn what to do, or what not to do. Jonas Salk

"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. "
- Aristotle Onassis

"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus."
– Alexander Graham Bell

They are restless, irritable and discontented, unless they can again experience the sense of ease and comfort which comes at once by taking a few drinks-drinks which they see others taking with impunity. Big Book

"This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men."
— Captain J. A. Hadfield

"It is by acts and not by ideas that people live."
- Harry Emerson Fosdick

"A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work."
– John Lubbock

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi

"Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible."
– St. Francis of Assisi

Our secret weapon is no alternative. Golda Meir

Frequent contact with newcomers and with each other is the bright spot of our lives —Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th ed., pg. 89

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If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
- Thomas Fuller

"Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule."
– Samuel Butler

One exercise that I practice is to try for a full inventory of my blessings. . . . AS BILL SEES IT, p. 37

"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them."
– Alfred Adler

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them. Vincent McNabb

"Hope is a waking dream. "
- Aristotle

"If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine."
– Morris West

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Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy. Lao Tzu

The difference between a successful person & others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will. Vince Lombardi

Many can argue that reality is as it is, but my experience is that the opposite is exactly true, reality is ours for the making. Asara Lovejoy

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"Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul. "
- Democritus

"Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present. "
- Jim Rohn

"Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise."
– Thomas J. Watson

Shun idleness. It is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals. Voltaire

"Great hopes make great men. "
- Thomas Fuller

"If we wait for the moment when everything is ready, we shall never begin."
– Ivan Turgenev

"Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you."
– Dr. Wayne Dyer

"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul. "
- Henry Ward Beecher

"God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him. "
- Jim Elliot

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"For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat. "
- Wallis Simpson

"Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle."
– James Russell Lowell

"To be successful, all you have to do is
give up everything you know."
— Asara Lovejoy

"Faith is love taking the form of aspiration. "
- William Ellery Channing

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. Harvey Fierstein

"Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul."
- Thomas Merton

"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven. "
- Henry Ward Beecher

"We must live as we think, otherwise we shall end up by thinking as we have lived."
– Paul Bourget

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Happy Mothers Day to all!

"Don't carry a grudge. While you're carrying a grudge, the other guy's out dancing."
– Buddy Hackett

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. "
- Robert Louis Stevenson

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"Believe you can and you're halfway there."
- Theodore Roosevelt

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"We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality."
– Iris Murdoch

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"You are much grander than you think you are."
— Asara Lovejoy

Life is an adventure, dare it. Mother Teresa

"A mistake is simply another way of doing things."
– Katharine Graham

"You can have brilliant ideas, but if you cannot get them across, your ideas will not get you anywhere."
— Lee Iacocca

"Reading is important — read between the lines. Don't swallow everything."
– Gwendolyn Brooks

"As we cultivate peace and happiness in ourselves, we also nourish peace and happiness in those we love."
- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value."
- Albert Einstein

Worry about being better;
bigger will take care of itself. Gary Comer

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