"Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else." - Les Brown

"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears." - Les Brown

"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." — Lou Holtz: Former football coach, author, motivational speaker

"The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind." - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self." - Napoleon Hill

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates. ~Thomas Szasz, "Personal Conduct," The Second Sin, 1973


I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of. ~Michel de Montaigne

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

Ali ibn-Abi-Talib (602 AD - 661 AD)

A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.

Arthur Brisbane, "The Book of Today"

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Maxims


The only thing that lasts longer than a friend's love is the stupidity that keeps us from knowing any better.

Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 09-07-06


“When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.”

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”

Mahatma Gandhi quotes


“Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time.”

Sara Paddison quotes

“Forgiveness is the oil of relationships”

Josh McDowell quotes