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"This world is an immense treasure box, filled with blinding beauty, with mouth-watering, knee-bending, tongue-twisting delights. Your body is a divine energy field pulsing with unremitting madness, unspoken joy. And what do you do? Worry whether or not you've shaved your legs. You are meant to rule kingdoms. To ride stallions. To dance with lions and sing for the stars. The dewdrops that glitter on the morning's clover are diamonds for your pleasure. The honey that bees spin in hives is a holy banquet for your nourishment....Say hallelujiah!...You are a prince. A princess. A king. This green and growing earth is your playground, a never-ending slippery slide that rushes into ecstacy. Say yes. Say it again. Say it 40 times 40....Until the very marrow of your bones knows it like a holy chant..." Art and Soul by Pam Grout The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars...Jack Kerouac "That's life, Sidda. You just climb on the beast and ride."...Divine Secrets Of The Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses...Ziggy You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down...Mary Pickford Everybody wants to know what I'm on. What am I on? I'm on my bike, busting my ass six hours a day. What are you on?...Lance Armstrong The doctors told me I would never walk again, but my mother told me I would, so I believed my mother...Wilma Rudolph, three-time gold medalist, 1960 Olympics If I could wish for my life to be perfect, it would be tempting, but I would have to decline, for life would no longer teach me anything...Alyson Jones There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm...Willa Cather He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes, but he who never asks a question remains a fool forever... Tom J. Connelly A smile is a curve that sets everything straight...unknown Do not believe in a thing because you have read about it in a book. Do not believe in a thing because another man has said it was true. Do not believe in words because they are hallowed by tradition. Find out the truth for yourself. Reason it out. That is realization... Swami Vivekananda Many years ago, a large American shoe company sent two sales representatives out to different parts of the jungle to see if they could drum up some business among the locals. Some time later, the company received telegrams from both agents. The first said, "No business here . . they don't wear shoes." The second one said, "Great opportunity here . . . they don't wear shoes!"... John M. Capozzi To get to nowhere, follow the crowd...Charlie Brown Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it, you'll land among the stars...Les Brown If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants... Sir Isaac Newton Why should we worry about what others think of us? Do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do in our own? ...Brigham Young Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too, can become great... Mark Twain Never, never, never give up... Winston Churchill I am only one, but still I am one; I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do...Edward Everett Hale How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world...William Shakespeare No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted...Aesop How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single minute before starting to improve the world...Anne Frank There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come...Victor Hugo Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way...Abraham Lincoln Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover...Mark Twain Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail...Ralph Waldo Emerson Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for...David Starr Jordan Man is free at the moment he wishes to be...Voltaire The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want...Ben Stein You got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there...Yogi Berra I wasn't lucky. I deserved it...Margaret Thatcher We are the people our parents warned us about...Jimmy Buffet We will all become adults, but only some of us will become grown-ups...Beth Booth You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"...George Bernard Shaw 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 Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly...Langston Hughes Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right...Henry Ford We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit...Aristotle All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why...James Thurber Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly...Robert Francis Kennedy If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks...H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles, but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles or a string of mould candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion? The frost never paints my windows twice alike... Lydia Maria Child The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused...Shirley Maclaine This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it...William James Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in...Leonard Cohen I am not a has-been. I am a will be... Lauren Bacall In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins - not through strength but by perseverance...H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Somewhere in the world someone is training when you are not. When you race him, he will win...Tom Fleming's Boston Marathon training sign on his wall Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today, To-morrow will be dying. ...Robert Herrick