May 10, 2005 16:23
The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.
- Kent Albrecht
This struggle of people against their conditions, this is where you find the meaning in life.
- Rose Chernin
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas A. Edison
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry.
- Maya Angelou
No winter lasts forever, no spring skips it’s turn.
- Hal Borland
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
- Charles Caleb Colton
If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.
- Jacques Cousteau
There will always be a sacrifice required for results. It is the early bird who gives up sleeping in to get the worm. To get what you want, right on the heels of deciding what that is, you must also decide what you will do in exchange for the results you desire.
- James R. Ball
It is only an error in judgement to make a mistake, but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
- John Christian Bovee
He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.
- Olympia Brown
Figure out what your purpose is in life, what you really and truly want to do with your time and your life then be willing to sacrifice everything and then some to achieve it. If you are not willing to make the sacrifice, then keep searching.
- Quintina Ragnacci